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. …
Akshaya Mukul & Nitin Sethi | TNN New Delhi:The HRD ministry wants the midday meal (MDM) scheme to become a part of the proposed National Food Security Bill. The National Advisory Council (NAC), which is to meet here on Wednesday, has been trying to walk a tightrope between the politically …
Has the Holy Grail of physics finally been found? The internet is abuzz with rumours that the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois, US, has found the Higgs boson
New Delhi: Even as the Centre constituted a team to make a preliminary assessment of the damage due to floods in Punjab and Haryana, it asked both the states on Tuesday to utilize the Rs 3,467 crore already given to them from the Calamity Relief Fund (CRF) for immediate flood …
New Delhi: The parliamentary committee studying the civil liability for nuclear damage bill will conduct a marathon four-day examination of the legislation from Tuesday with the panel expected to grill health and environment ministries on long-term liability in the event of a nuclear accident. In its deliberations, the standing committee …
Sriharikota: Isro will launch an unmanned space mission to orbit around the earth in 2013 as a prelude to its manned mission, to get an idea of the space environment and how the system behaves. Isro chairman K Radhakrishnan told after the successful launch of PSLVC15 on Monday,
PSLV Delivers 5 Satellites At One Go Chennai: In a flawless launch, five satellites, including the advanced high-resolution cartography satellite Cartosat-2B, were placed in orbit on Monday by India
Chandigarh: Fresh bouts of rain in already-inundated areas of Punjab and Haryana worsened the flood situation on Monday as 26 more breaches in the Ghaggar and smaller rivers like Sagarpada and Markanda left more areas marooned. The death toll in Punjab went up to 22 as two more bodies were …
New Delhi: The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) region registered its first ever recorded drop in permanent-type migration inflows in 2008, a trend that accelerated in 2009, the OECD
New Delhi: Several parts of southwest, west, northwest and north Delhi will have to go without water or get a reduced supply in the coming few days, after poor quality of raw water being supplied to the Nangloi and Haiderpur water treatment plants (WTP) reduced production in the WTPs by …
Jodhpur: At least 56 children suffering from thalassaemia tested positive for HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C after receiving blood transfusion at government-run Umaid hospital in Jodhpur. They are among the 130 thalassaemic children registered with Jodhpur
New Delhi: Strong winds that accompanied the torrential rain on Monday evening uprooted 35 trees fall, officially, though many more trees were seen lying uprooted in various parts of the city. One person was killed and two were injured when they were trapped under a tree at Mori Gate. At …
London: Eight Indian states, including Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal, together account for more poor people than the 26 poorest African nations combined, a new
New Delhi: Tata Motors has kickstarted a move to jointly develop engines and vehicles with its UK subsidiary, Jaguar Land Rover, over two years after its $2.3 billion acquisition of the British marques.
London: The Earth is much younger than previously thought, a new study has suggested. Geologists at Cambridge University have calculated that the planet could have taken far longer to form following the birth of the solar system 4.567 billion years ago than it was previously believed. By comparing chemical isotopes …
Gurgaon: A female leopard was illegally captured by forest officials near Gurgaon on Saturday night after it reportedly killed the pet dog of the owner of a farmhouse on the Gurgaon-Sohna Road. Sources said the incident took place at farmhouse number F-14 near Tikli village. The Haryana government later ordered …
Next Step: Around The World Powered Only By Sunlight Payerne (Switzerland): An experimental solar-powered plane landed safely on Thursday after completing its first 24-hour test flight, proving that the aircraft can collect enough energy from the sun during the day to stay aloft all night. Pilot Andre Borschberg eased the …
