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. …
Udaipur: At a time when Ashok Gehlot-led Congress government in Rajasthan is struggling to provide foodgrain to thousands of families living below the poverty line, hundreds of tonnes of wheat and peas continue to rot because of FCI
In the wake of runaway inflation and the ensuing food crisis, the prime minister constituted three high-powered committees of chief ministers and central ministers to recommend ways of containing inflation, improving PDS and boosting agricultural production. The Working Group on agricultural production was chaired by Haryana chief minister B S …
Even after a technical committee of the government put in a report stating that the 600MW Loharinag Pala dam can be shut down, the government has been unable to take a call on the hydel project on Bhagirathi river in Uttarakhand. The last meeting chaired by finance minister Pranab Mukherjee …
Nearly Six-And-A-Half-Years After Underpass Became Operational, PWD Started Laying Pipes Just Before This Monsoon New Delhi: The flooding of Dhaula Kuan underpass which led to long traffic jams on Wednesday evening, and threw traffic out of gear on several connecting roads has exposed how poor planning and shortsightedness are responsible …
Payrne (Switzerland): An experimental solar-powered aircraft took off from a Swiss airbase in the early hours of Wednesday in a bid to make history by flying round the clock and through the night. Solar Impulse whirred along the runway at Payerne in western Switzerland, reaching 35 kilometres per hour as …
Comes In From Arabian Sea Instead Of Bay Of Bengal Mumbai: The monsoon arrived on time. But weather experts have reported a new trend this year: instead of the usual Bay of Bengal route, most of the monsoon systems have hit the country from the Arabian Sea side. While monsoon …
City Stinks, Health Hazard Looms As Safai Karamcharis Protest Against Non-Payment Of Salaries New Delhi: Preparations for the Commonwealth Games have hit another hurdle with thousands of safai karmcharis employed with MCD and select contractors starting a non-cooperation movement due to delay in release of salaries and funds. The workers …
Chandigarh: Within two days of the first monsoon showers, northern India was reeling under the impact of sharp downpours, with parts of Haryana, Punjab and Himachal Pradesh flooded and arterial highways connecting Delhi to northern towns either blocked by swirling waters or threatened with inundation. Haryana
Kolkata: For all those worried over the impact of a possible hounding of The Dow Chemical Company on foreign investment flows to India, rest assured! Dow itself has no intention of scaling down its proposed expansion plans for the country in the wake of fresh pressure building up on the …
States Float Sub-Schemes With Funds From Flagship Programme Subodh Ghildiyal | TNN New Delhi: Congress chief Sonia Gandhi has a job at hand to save her imprimatur on the rural job scheme. After the Centre prefixed
SPUDS & SOCCER BALLS SET TO ELECTRIFY THE FUTURE An electric battery based on boiled potatoes could provide a cheap source of electricity in the developing world, according to the technology transfer company of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The treated potato battery generates energy that is five to 50 …
New Delhi: To reduce accumulation of construction and demolition waste on city streets, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi on Tuesday designated 168 sites for dumping such garbage. In the run-up to the Commonwealth Games, accumulation of construction waste had become a problem for Delhi as various agencies are undertaking infrastructure …
Rukmini Shrinivasan TIMES INSIGHT GROUP On Monday, industry associations were quick to put out figures estimating the loss suffered by India on account of the bandh, figures that were then repeated ad nauseum as talking points by UPA members. A closer look at the numbers, however, shows that they were …
