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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Power. Continuous
Scientists have developed a more efficient biogas plant that can operate continuously
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• State governments may soon announce favourable power purchase policies for renewable energy projects. In this regard, an agreement was recently signed by state secretaries, in charge of
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Hot stuff
India has a potential to develop geothermal energy. It is time the government utilises it
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Herbal hunt
council for Scientific and Industrial Research (csir) and Kottakkal-based Aarya Vaidhya Shala (avs) will jointly develop drug molecules from tradi-tional ayurvedic medicines. This will be the
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Plug in to Sun s power
Pacific Solar of Australia plans to develop a novel concept in solar technology that could allow solar panels to be plugged directly into the standard 240 volts (V) wiring system of a house
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The reanimators
Best out of waste? These scientists have taken it further, making a supercomputer out of electronic junk
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Conserving petrol
the government has chalked out a plan for saving petrol worth Rs 10,000 crores per year by giving a boost to the ethanol industry. In this regard, the ministry of non-conventional energy has
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Defenders of the earth
Zap! And another pollutant bites the dust
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Mars had life
researchers at the National Aero nautics and Space Administration (nasa) say that water flowed on Mars for a million years. The present findings support the theory that life existed on Mars.
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Solution for pollution?
Scientists at Benaras Hindu University (BHU), India, have developed a low-cost catalyst for reducing automobile pollution. They claim that it can replace those currently being used in imported