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. …
Five condom vending machines were set up at different locations in New Delhi. The machines were installed at Laxmi Nagar, Preet Vihar, ITO, Sadanand Marg and Palika Bazar. The Union ministry of environment and forests is working on a new set of regulatory norms to prohibit the establishment of industries …
they are known to be destructive. They are known to damage crops and property. For this, they are harassed, trapped, hunted and even subjected to government-sponsored extermination campaigns. They are the commensal primates, species which live off humans without meaning to cause them harm (in the context of primates). In …
In its prolonged fight against the drug Mafia, Colombia has launched a political offensive in Washington to request us $500m anti-narcotics aid over the next two years. If approved the aid would deepen the us government's gradual involvement in Colombia's 35-year war with rebel groups and would significantly increase the …
The United Nations General Assembly is holding a special session to draw up a strategy for limiting the world population, keeping in view the sharp divisions that exist on issues such as abortion, family planning and sex education in schools. The session is being held to review the decisions and …
Iraq has agreed to allow a United Nations (UN) team of experts into the country to remove toxic substances left behind in Baghdad by disarmament inspectors. UN secretary-general Kofi Annan's special envoy to Iraq, Prakash Shah, said Iraq's deputy prime minister, Tariq Aziz, notified him of approval for the visit. …
The United Nations Education Science and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) and the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) will launch the first-ever planet-wide climate research programme involving nearly 70 countries. Under the programme CLIVAR (Climate Variability and Predictability) existing global data will be collected to study the complex interactions among the atmosphere, …
The rapid increase in small-mining in poor nations, often employing women and children, is taking a heavy toll by way of fatalities and diseases, said the International Labour Organisation (ILO). On an average, there has been a 20 per cent rise in the past five years in 35 countries studied …
Officials sources say about two lakh cattle and sheep in the area of Jammu are suffering because of the exodus. Most of them abandoned in villages on the border, they are falling victim to stray bullets from across and many have got maimed in mine explosions. With no one to …
more than a hundred cows have died in a span of four months in Rajasthan's Sar region, 23 km from Jodhpur. Though authorities have refused to give any reason for the deaths, it is said that the cows died after drinking contaminated water. According to the collector of Jodhpur, V …
the Gujarat government's move to de-reserve the West Mangrove Reserve Forest ( wmrf ) to facilitate setting up of cement industries has created panic among the fishing community in the Kutch district of Gujarat. A report published by the Thiruvananthapuram-based National Fishworkers' Forum ( nff ) says that the wmrf …
with the mercury already soaring high, there are unusual customers for desert cooler. To kill the heat, desert coolers fans and exhaust fans will be installed in cages housing monkeys and exotic birds in Delhi's National Zoological Park. The zoo staff is busy roofing the cages of these inmates with
the authorities in Gujarat have seized 19.2 lakh banned oxytocin injections which are illegally sold to the cattle owners to raise milk production. According to the state health minister, Ashok Bhatt, the seizure was made in a series of raids in Patan, Mehsana and Ahmedabad towns of the state. It …
climatologists believe it is unlikely that 1999 will be quite as warm as 1998. Figures released by the Australia's Bureau of Meteorology reveal that at 22.54
india has about 450 million livestock and only 10 million hectares (ha) of pastureland. This has resulted in overgrazing as well as pressure on forest lands for grazing. "The farmer breeds more cattle as a cash-reserve. But due to the unavailability of fodder or grain, farmers let their cattle graze …
russian scientists' attempt to reflect the Sun's light towards dark areas of the Earth floundered when the giant mirror failed. Astronauts aboard the Russian space station Mir were to bounce sunlight off a 25-metre (82 feet) fabric mirror and direct the rays toward the ground, producing beams up to 10 …
THE cost of complying with an environmental legislation in the European Union may have far reaching impacts. It could force medicines for animals to go off the market, say drug makers. According to the legislation, in order to gain a marketing licence, European manufacturers must conduct an environmental impact assessment …
take big, complex machines and make them small. That, in a nutshell, is the essence of nanotechnology. But not just small, so very small that nanoengineers need powerful microscopes to even see them. And since the mid 1980s, nanotechnologists have periodically astonished us with micrometer-sized turbines, gears and other pieces …
A prototype fuel cell that can turn every household into a mini power station has recently been developed at Keele University in Staffordshire, UK. Chemist Kevin Kendall and his colleagues have incorporated a ceramic battery into a conventional gas-powered water heater. Free electrons produced by the combustion of natural gas …
US regulators have approved thalidomlde, the drug which was banned for causing birth defects. The drug will be tested for cancer treatment. Celgenc, a New Jersey-based company, has been permitted to test Thslomid, the company's version of thabdomide, against multiple myeloma, the most common form of bone marrow cancer. The …
A new surgical technique may be useful in treating high blood pres- sure (BP) when it does not respond to treatment, claims H Geiger of the J W Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany. In the technique called ventrolateral medullary decompres- sion, a Teflon implant is used to reduce pressure on …
