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: A team of Dutch researchers are planning to make an island the size of Hawaii entirely from 44 million kilogram of plastic waste. Recycled island, which is part of an environmental vision for the future, will be made from plastic waste currently bobbing around in the Pacific Ocean. Solar …
Rupali Mukherjee | TNN Mumbai: Long-suffering diabetics can find daily insulin jabs painful and cumbersome, so a new, once-a-week shot may soon revolutionize treatment for thousands suffering from the dreaded disease. Researchers have found that a long-acting medication, exenatide, if injected once a week, improves blood sugar control and induces …
Bhopal: A judicial commission of inquiry will be constituted to go into all aspects of the Bhopal gas tragedy, chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan announced on Wednesday. The terms of reference of the commission and the name of the retired high court judge who will head it, will be decided …
Tokyo: Japanese and US universities have jointly developed a medical technique that can quickly detect various cancers using a simple saliva test, researchers said on Tuesday. Japan
New Delhi: The India Meteorological department (IMD) is not ruling out possibility of rains during the Commonwealth Games. With monsoon in northwest India delayed and La Nina conditions developing fast over the central Pacific ocean
New Delhi: Indicating a new-found determination to stay the course on politically sensitive reforms, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh not only defended the recent decontrol of petrol prices but said diesel rates would also be freed of government control. In comments made while returning from the G20 summit in Toronto, the …
Its hydro-engineering projects suggest China is fashioning water as a card against India Brahma Chellaney New evidence from China indicates that, as part of its planned diversion of the waters of the Brahmaputra, preparations are afoot to start work on the world
Bangalore: The Election Commission has served notices to three Karnataka ministers, including Reddy brothers, on a petition seeking their disqualification as MLAs on grounds of alleged amassing of wealth and misuse of power. The notices were served on mining magnates
Paris: Dreams of braking global warming by storing carbon emissions from power plants could be undermined by the risk of leakage, according to a study published on Sunday. Rich countries have earmarked tens of billions of dollars of investment in carbon capture and storage (CCS), a technology that is still …
New Delhi: The finance ministry has mined data of Indian companies that have not been paying tax on the income earned by selling their carbon credits or certified emission reductions (CER). These entities are likely to face penal action once a case of tax evasion is established against them. They …
NEW DELHI: India's maverick environment minister is resisting pressure from some Cabinet colleagues to clear forests for mining and roads in a tussle that underlines the country's struggle for sustainable growth. Jairam Ramesh wants to protect and expand India's remaining forest land as part of a strategy to fight climate …
Mission To Help In Cutting Greenhouse Gas Emissions By 98m Tonnes/Yr New Delhi: The Union Cabinet on Thursday approved the ambitious National Mission for Enhanced Energy Efficiency
