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. …
Soon, dried-up lake in Ghata village will give way to Sec 58 a residential colony in Gurgaon. Work has already started Dipak Kumar Dash | TNN What was once a sprawling waterbody will now be a concrete jungle. Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) is developing a lake in Ghata village
New Delhi: Flagship refiner-marketer IndianOil Corporation is setting up a gridlinked solar power plant worth about Rs 100 crore at Barmer in Rajasthan, even as the state-run firm sharpens focus on non-conventional energy sources in an attempt to supplement fossil fuels earnings with carbon credits and move towards a green …
Hydrogen Fuel Cells Power Hybrid Cars, Homes In A Trial Project In Japan For Yosuke Ito, having a Toyota Prius on the driveway is not green enough. His house, as well as his car, is a hybrid.
New Delhi: Government has proposed to launch an urban employment guarantee scheme on the lines of NREGA and give statutory sanctions to minimum wages. The proposal, which focuses on generating employment and enhancing employability among less advantaged, is part of the shortterm strategies and targets of the government contained in …
Residents In Several Colonies Object To Design Of Toilet-Cum-Coffee Houses New Delhi: The toilet-cum-coffee houses being constructed by Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) before the Commonwealth Games are already courting controversy. Resident welfare associations (RWAs) and traders of various colonies have raised concerns about the tawdry design, location and the …
Nov Summit Will Hammer Out Contours Of A Deal On Green Tech Transfer New Delhi: India will host a two-day ministerial round on climate technology transfer and cooperation in November before the year
Bangalore: The BJP government has started singing a new tune in the wake of increasing opposition to the illegal mining controversy. Chief minister B S Yeddyurappa told the assembly on Friday that he will request Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to call a meeting of CMs for evolving a political consensus …
Fights 75,000 Union Carbide-Related Suits In US, But Denies Role In Bhopal Here is something for legal eagles of the government of India to chew on: while Dow Chemical Company denies any responsibility for damages caused by Union Carbide in Bhopal, it has taken over all liability of Carbide for …
New Delhi: The pretty earrings you pick up from the roadside stall or the innocuous charm bracelet sold at Janpath might actually be very dangerous. A Toxics Link report on artificial jewellery, specially for children, reported that all the samples tested by the NGO were found to contain very high …
MUMBAI: As 15 more people tested positive for H1N1 on Friday, the BMC cautioned that increased numbers could be because of random testing in private labs. Since the onset of monsoon this year, 123 people have tested positive and nine have died due to swine flu. The BMC said it …
LONDON: In a relief to the industrialised nations, a Dutch environment report has blamed high growth in China and India for the rise in carbon emissions, saying they have "completely nullified" the reductions achieved by rich nations. The global CO2 emissions have remained constant in 2009 despite the economic crisis …
Rain Is A Much-Awaited Boon And A Runoff Tragedy Rain is the modern-day tragedy in our cities: we desperately wait for the monsoons and when it rains, we weep because roads are flooded, life is disrupted. Mumbai, just a few months ago, was so thirsty for the monsoons that it …
Pinak Priya Bhattacharya | TNN Jalpaiguri: The government is going to make it compulsory for herds in the wild to use underpasses and overbridges rather than walk across railway tracks that snake through the Dooars forests. Talk of a wild idea. It
In an interview with the Times of India, the Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal, talks to Pallavee Dhaundiyal Panthry about the latest highlights of the coal industry. What are the latest highlights of the Indian coal industry? We are disinvesting 10 per cent of the Government's holding in Coal India Limited, …
New Delhi: Attending the seventh meeting of the Major Economies Forum (MEF) in Rome, environment minister Jairam Ramesh demanded that the principle of cumulative per capita emissions be embedded in the draft of the long-term deal. He invited the climate negotiators to a meet on the equity principle that he …
