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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Not in my backyard
Delhi, reduced to a gas chamber due to the proliferation of highly polluting industries, now requires the social and political will to enforce an effective relocation
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Eco friendly disposal
A new waste disposal technology has been developed by Mumbai-based Excel Industries Ltd, an agricultural and industrial chemicals company. The company'scost-effective strategy involves waste
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Breaking the ice
Discovery of ice on the Moon might make colonising it and using it as a low cost outer space missions launching centre a less difficult target
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Requiem
It was a strong anti adulteration law aimed at the standardising of food stuffs. Stronger industrial lobbies and vested interests helped it die a quiet death
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Monitor vessel
The vessel Sagar Paschima, designed by the National Ship Design and Research Centre, Vishakapatnam, and built by Alcock Ashdown Gujarat Ltd, will be used to facilitate monitoring of coastal marine
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Mosaic view
The mosaic of pictures of the south polar region of the Moon by Clementine has 1,500 images, taken through a red filter. The top half of the mosaic faces Earth. Clementine has revealed what appears
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Malaysia Marching
Successful local involvement in a Malaysian park throws up an answer to heavyweight World Bank terms and plans for ecodevelopment
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Siberian tiger in the cold
Conservationists draw up strategies to arrest the rapid decimation of the great Siberian tiger
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Clean drive
Electric vehicles for Kathmandu have completed a successful trial period, beckoning investors
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Promising pulses
R w Schoenlein and his collaborators at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, US, have reported the generation of ultrashort pulses of X- rays using an infrared laser. The X- rays have a wavelength