Another crisis
AS THE United Nations labours to clear the mess it has been accused of creating in providing refugee relief in Somalia and in the elections and peace process in Angola, World Health
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C major
The debate over the magic qualities of vitaminCseems to be ending in its favour. Mark Levine of the National Institute of Health's Clinical Center in Bethesda in the US, conducted a study and
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Adipose Americans
An increasingly sedentary lifestyle is making Americans, largely white, obese. The US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, conducted between 1988-91, reveals that 33.4 per cent of
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Recipe
Fry a little leaf or a chopped bulb of a onion, four-five chillies and half a bay leaf. Add about 100 gm of rice, a few leaves or corms of <i>Colacasia</i>, a slice of fresh bamboo shoot, slivers of <i>Benincasa hipida</i> and <i>Langenaria cineria</i> fruits and handful of pea seeds; sprinkle a pinch of sodium bicarbonate and a teaspoon of salt. <br>
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International Conference on Climate Change Innovation and Resilience for Sustainable Livelihood, 12-14 January 2015, Nepal
The International conference on Climate Change Innovation and Resilience for Sustainable Livelihood is going to be held on 12-14 January in Kathmandu, Nepal.The conference will focus on innovative approaches
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In limbo
Will a disaster take place before strong laws are adopted to protect the world against irresponsible introduction of <a c>gmo</a c>s?
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Green medicine
The risk of cancer can be reduced by eating substantial amount of vegetables and fruits
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Early education is the key to reducing birth rate
Every rupee invested on four years of primary education for girls would yield returns worth Rs 10 of investment on advertising contraceptive technology.
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Mind your genes
Studies have established that mental abilities are dependent on genes of a larger extent then previously thought
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Selling diarrhoea
NESTLE seems to have perfected the fine art of profiting at another's expense. Its infant food substitutes have been a known cause of diarrhoea and death among year-old babies. Now, the company
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Oily hopes
Red palm oil could be a potent source of beta carotenes which help in combating vitamin A deficiency
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Yes Prime Minister
a b banerjee general secretary, Indian Science Congress Association, Kolkata It is a coincidence that some of the people invited here are involved in the field of defence. Abdul Kalam is an
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The other side of nitrogen
Excess of any thing is bad, and nitrogen is no exception. The benevolent gas is actually responsible for immense ecological damage
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Natural born killers
A naturally occuring bacterium in milk can save the losses incurred by mal1scale dairy farmers who do not own refrigeration facilities
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Ask the villager before the researcher
Nigerian pastoralists have been found to be a storehouse of valuable information on the value of plants.
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Basic Instinct
In a simultaneous press release issued on Monday, 26 June 2000, the Human Genome Project, an international government-funded project, and Celera Genomics (a us privately funded body) announced that they had assembled a ‘working draft’ of the human genome
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Blood read
A new instrument measures the concentration of haemoglobin in the blood
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Oilseed bonanza
Indian markets may soon be flooded with high yielding hybrid seeds of mustard and rapeseed
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A miss on rural health
Experts fear new rural health plan, consuming Rs 6,713 crore in 2005 2006, will be a fiasco
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'There is a conflict in gene patenting in India and abroad'
ASIS DUTTA, a senior biologist at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, is the first Indian scientist to have applied for a gene patent in the United States of America. Two years ago, he succeeded in isolating a gene which codes for an ideal protein