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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The minister says
Ashish Vachchani speaks to Saleem Shervani in New Delhi
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Sour gripes
Non governmental organisations face the wrath of the government for exposing the loopholes in its wildlife policy
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Likes and the unlikely
Homoeopathy, the butt of broadsides and jokes of practitioners and adherents of conventional medicine, is giving its detractors a run for their money. Increasing popularity across the world and clinical trials which have held up its claims to cures, stren
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In India: a matter of money and training
Homoeopathy came to India in 1839 with John Martin Honigberger, a doctor who was invited to treat Ranjit Singh, the ruler of Punjab, for paralysis of the vocal cords and oedema. India's first
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A tradition is revived
Across the Palk Strait, Sri Lanka turns back the pages and rejuvenates its traditional indigenous systems of medicine
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Hat trick
The Supreme Court has upheld the rights of Gujarati tribals to permanent employment
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Panacea for insomniacs
For those who toss and turn in bed hoping for at least a wink of sleep, here is some good news. Scientists from the Scripps Research Insti tution at La Jolla, California, US, have just synthesised
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In the net
On August 13, at the Colaba beach in Mumbai, the minister of state for food processing Dilip Kumar Ray offered coconut water to the fisherfolk's leader, Thomas Kocherry (seen on left) to break his
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Gassing the truth
More than a decade after the Bhopal gas disaster, the data collected from those exposed to the gas remains shrouded in mystery
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BRAZIL
An accelerated destruction of the Amazon rainforest has set alarm bells ringing. Satellite data from the National Space Research Institute in Sao Jose dos Campos shows that from 11,000 sq km in 1991,