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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Magnetic trap
A new method for detecting fingerprints at the scene of crime is sure to give criminals some second thoughts
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Flexible software
A new software which is less expensive, swift and easily adaptable will soon be used in computer assisted clinical trials
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Elixir or poison?
NEXT time when you are going to drink a glass of milk, think twice. It might be a concoction of refined oil, caustic soda, urea and detergent. Scientists of the *National Dairy Research Institute
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Dusty deaths
THE villagers of Chinchugeria in West Bengal are threatened by silica and gypsum dust released by two different factories. Even as they reel under the shock of the recent loss of 20 lives to
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Network
Open secret With memories of the Cold War fading away, the Department of Energy (DoE) of the US government is planning to post an Internet web page for people hungry for nuclear secrets.
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There's something rotten...
Despite judicial activism in the environmental field, despite the failure of the regulatory system, the courts have rarely awarded compensation to the victims
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Weapons of the weak
In the current election, campaign, mainstream parties were once again caught napping on their environmental commitments, spurring a novel people's protest
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Vote for the environment
The parliamentary elections are just around the corner and activists throughout the country are keen to project the environment as an issue before the electorate. The first to do so was
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The blind Court
This is a story of justice denied. <br> On February 13, 1996, the Supreme Court, the highest seat of justice in the country, ruled that five units of a particular company, producing toxic chemicals in Bichhri village in Rajasthan's Udaipur district, b
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Feathers, nails, bones and blood!
Time has come for tribal medication to be revalidated