Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
London: The world is on course for the hottest year since records began in 1880 after record-breaking temperatures in four of the first six months of the year, according to meteorologists. The first six months of 2010 brought a string of warmest-ever global temperatures
Beijing: More than 1,000 people have died or disappeared in severe flooding in China so far this year, and the heaviest rains are still to come, a senior official warned on Wednesday. This year
Kenner (Louisiana): Government investigators looking into the causes of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion are colliding with a frequent obstacle: witnesses canceling their scheduled testimonies. So far, nine witnesses have withheld or delayed testimony before a panel of government officials. Many were top-ranking officials aboard the rig, with critical …
Farnborough (England): A British team aiming to smash the current land speed record has unveiled the design of a pencil-shaped car that it hopes will travel at more than 1,609 km an hour. After three years of aerodynamic research, construction is about to begin on the Bloodhound Supersonic Car which …
Water in Pushkar lake after 2yrs Had Dried Up Completely Due To Depletion Of Groundwater Kshitiz Gaur | TNN Ajmer: After years of scanty rainfall, the rain gods finally smiled at the temple town of Pushkar, and with it on the Pushkar Lake in Rajasthan
Chennai: Encouraged by the zeal witnessed at the recent world classical Tamil conference, the state government has decided to fund an undersea expedition to excavate remains of a 2,000-year-old town, Poompuhar or Kaveripoompattinam, submerged under the sea off the Nagapattinam coast in Tamil Nadu. Goa-based National Institute of Oceanography
New Delhi: While people might be depending blindly on water purifiers for safe drinking water, they cannot be too sure that they are getting what the company promised. In a study on storage-based water purifiers carried out by NGO Healthy You Foundation, none of the seven major brands that were …
The government should realise non-transparent economics is bad politics Time and again we have been warned that someday we will be exposed to international oil prices and no one can take cover behind subsidies. That doomsday has apparently arrived. We have been told petrol prices are finally in tune with …
Sariska/Jaipur: Almost two years after three tigers were relocated to Sariska, a fourth big cat was moved from Ranthambore National Park by road on Tuesday. The male tiger, T-12, was tranquillised on Tuesday around 11 am, caged, and put on a truck to Sariska. This was the first relocation by …
New Delhi: An AIIMS doctor suspected to be suffering from H1N1 infection has been admitted to the intensive care unit at the hospital. Sources said that even though the swine flu was yet to be confirmed, Dr Aarul showed symptoms of the infection and was in a serious condition. Aarul, …
New Delhi: Some two years after it was first mooted, the Delhi cabinet on Tuesday approved the Rs 1,358 crore project for installation of interceptors in the three main drains emptying into the Yamuna. The cabinet approved it even though a senior minister who has been opposed to the project …
New Delhi: Four new nuclear power plants proposed by Nuclear Power Corporation of India have run into trouble with the environment and forests ministry rejecting their initial applications for statutory environmental clearances. NPCIL has proposed four power plants, one each at Fatehabad in Haryana (2,800mw), Mandla in Madhya Pradesh (1,400mw), …
New Delhi: With Commonwealth Games a litle more than two months away, when all efforts are on to project Delhi as the face of a resurgent India, the 30-metre-high garbage dump at Ghazipur growing every day in the absence of an alternative sanitary landfill (SLF) site, is making the city …
