First food: business of taste
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
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Centre prepares master plan
The Union Environment and Forest Ministry is preparing a master plan for conservation and commercialisation of medicinal plants of the north-eastern
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Helix secret
The discovery of the gene responsible for pancreatic damage may lead to early diagnosis and cure. Identified as SPINK 1, the vicious nibbler had chewed up many a pancreas and had turned into a killer
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Mass polio vaccination programme from July 27
An exclusive house-to-house mop up programme for polio vaccination has been taken up by the Health Department, Assam along with the WHO.The mop up programme will be held in two rounds from July 27 to
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A longing for boys leads to trafficking of girls in China
In southern China, the preference for sons over whelms all other impulses and family planning laws strictly limit how many children a farmer may have. In March, the police in Guangxi Province found
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Food firms on notice as the war on fat' goes global
The world economy may be slumping, but there is conspicuous growth in at least one area, waistlines. The War Against Fat has become a global conflict, and the rules of engagement appear to be
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Dysentery, viral fever and measles resurface; four killed
More than thousand people in Tripuga Municipality of Udayapur district has come under the grip of typhoid and viral fever. According to a member of the Hospital Development Committee, Uddav Dahal,
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Polluted air, unhygienic living condition cause cancer
About 120 persons out of 100000 are suffering from cancer and the total number of cancer patients at present is 40000 in Nepal, reveals a statistics made public. Although more than a dozen types of
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Some 248 people detected with HIV positive in country
Most of the HIV patients in Bangladesh do not always get proper medicare facilities or cannot discuss their problems they are often neglected by relatives and feel reduced in esteem to their
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'Working conditions affect children'
Adverse environmental conditions at the workplace put negative effects on the health of working children, a report published by the Society for Protection of the Rights of the Child (SPARC) has said.
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House wrangles over levels of global spending on AIDS
Two weeks after President Bush toured Africa with promises of vast increases in spending on global AIDS, the House of Representatives was poised today to approve a measure that would bring total