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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Research on the backburner
India's investment in research and development activities in 1990-91 was Rs 4,186.83 crores. This was just 0.89 per cent of the country's gross domestic product - a paltry figure compared
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The patterns of chaos
In the wake of the plague came the clamour for plague-beating drugs, particularly tetracycline. Says Prabir Biswas, director (marketing) of the Indian Drugs and Pharmaceuticals Ltd (IDPL), "When
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Stars in stripe
Is the ban on "tiger shows" at Kanha and Bandhavgarh really in interest of the big
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MEF and the law of the jungle
I AM the law," said Bumble, the parochial beadle in Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, terrorising his wards into submission. The ministry of environment and forests' new draft Conservation of
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India honeycombed
References in scriptures and cave paintings show that honey has been popular in India since ancient times
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Rehabilitation measures denounced
Even as the Maharashtra government faces flak for its inept handling of bubonic plague in Beed district, experts have denounced the state's earthquake reconstruction and rehabilitation programme
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Tipsy hearts and the good life
A recent study suggests thart a moderate consumption of alcohol is good for the heart
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Of mice and men
Till September 1994, plague was s 'upposedly a forgotten disease in India. It caught the country's medics aghast at their own ignorance. But after its outbreak, medical authorities have taken
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A weed maligned
A fearsome weed in the Rann of Kutch is hardly, as is feared, sucking the land to death
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Another bend in the Ganga
THERE will be few who will disagree with the Supreme Court judgement that over Rs 420 crore have been washed away in the first phase of the Ganga Action Plan (GAP) Without any significant