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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Squatters' rights
The issue of toilet space for 8.1 million slumdwellers in India's 4 major metros threatens to expand into a matter of social rights
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In the past lies the future
From being a romantic quest for treasures and lost civilisations, archaeology has now come down to earth, increasingly associated with reconstructing the apparently esoteric: the thought processes of ancient peoples. But travelling through the maze of tim
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Commoner's scientist passes away
Cyril Ponnamperuma's death leaves a void in the world's scientific community
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200 years of groping in the dark...
...and latest findings have 2 groups of mutually hostile astronomers still going cockeyed trying to gauge the age of the universe
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Hybrid gains
A rice hybrid developed in India can help reap an extra Rs 2,500 per ha
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Watershed ruling on Narmada
The Supreme Court has washed aside an ambiguous Review Committee Report and ordered fresh investigations
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Matching wits on fluid issues
THE COMMITTEE SUGGESTS: • Fresh calculation of the quantum of flow to avoid revision of plan priorities • Efforts to achieve a 60 per cent irrigation efficiency •
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Shortages of plenty
Local resource depletion started when hunter gatherer humans grew roots
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Treasure tapping
THE Environmental Resources Research Centre (ERRC) in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, seeks to promote research and studies in identification of natural resources, and their use by developing required
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The view from the rigging
The oil industry could have gone crackers