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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3 Indian Cos in Race to Bid for Bandanna Energys Coal Assets
In a deal valued at $1.5 b, state-owned consortium ICVL, GVK,and Reliance Power have shown early interest VINU LAL & MV RAMSURYA BANGALORE/MUMBAI Three top Indian companies have joined the race to bid for the coal assets of one of Australia
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Is Nuclear Power Safer Than Other Energy?
KIRIT S PARIKH FORMER MEMBER PLANNING COMMISSION Public Perception of Risk is Unwarranted The nuclear disaster in Japan has raised grave concerns around the world about the safety of nuclear plants. But the chairman of India
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NPC monitoring data from Japan
MUMBAI: March 11, 2011, began like any other day for an official of the Nuclear Power Corporation (NPC) in the hi-tech emergency control room at the Vikram Sarabhai Bhavan, its headquarters at Trombay.
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Tata Power mulls wind energy foray abroad
MumbaiTwo years after it dropped plans to set up wind power capacities in the US and Europe, the R18,854-crore (FY 2010 revenues) Tata Power is again eyeing the US, Spain, Portugal and Germany for a wind energy foray, its first outside India.
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A new slant on slopes: measuring the benefits of increased electricity access in Developing Countries
<p>The objective of this paper is to shed some light on the benefits of improved access to electricity supply, specifically the benefits referred to as "consumer‘s surplus", which is the difference between what customers are willing to pay for the utilities associated with electricity access and the price that they actually pay.
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Path to $45-Trillion Economy
If energy, reforms and governance are addressed right, the Indian economy will be the largest by 2045 Given its extraordinary demographics and the unfulfilled demand for infrastructure and consumption combined with the hopes and predictions of responsible bankers such as Citibank and Goldman Sachs, India must know her strategy to keep growing at 10% and with sub-5% inflation to be the largest eco
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Foreign Companies Eye Clean Technology Projects in India
Western companies are in the race for slice of the lucrative market for clean technologies such as renewable energy and water or soil treatment projects in India and China, which corporate leaders say will be worth trillions of dollars in a few years as the Asian giants grapple with rising oil prices and pollution.
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Drop in unemployment not necessarily good news
the 61st round of the National Sample Survey (nss) seems to suggest that the unemployment rate in the country has come down. But this statistic has to be read in context. The entire gamut of data
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Nandigram and CPI M 's insensitivity to rural sector
the massacre at Nandigram came as a shock to most. In retrospect, though, it needn't have. cpi(m)'s unrelenting drive to industrialise and urbanise West Bengal has had the makings of a disaster for
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Containing a virus
prime Minister Manmohan Singh rightly called Naxalism a "virus' during a meeting with chief ministers of Naxalite-affected states. Unfortunately, he did not take the analogy further. A virus cannot