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 provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
The 13th session of the un Commission for Sustainable Development (csd), which steers the development agenda agreed upon at the Earth Summit held in Rio in 1992, was a damp squib. The 11-day meet at New York had water supply, sanitation and human settlements as its focus areas. Though participants …
Sri Lankan Environment and Natural Resources Minister A.H.M.Fowzie said that he has been assured by an Indian Government official that their government will ensure that the Sethusamudram Canal Project will not cause any adverse environmental impacts on Sri Lanka. Addressing a forum of experts at the Auditorium of the Sri …
Iran and Turkmenistan have taken a step towards averting future water disputes. On April 12, 2005, they opened a dam in Germabab Mountains that will meet their water requirements. The dam, located partly in Turkmen and partly in Iranian territory, is called Dostluk in Turkmenistan and Doosti in Iran, both …
In a blow to the Perumatty gram panchayat in Kerala's Palakkad district, on April 7, 2005, the Kerala High Court (HC) permitted the Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Private Limited to resume production at its Plachimada plant. The company can draw not more than 0.5 million litres of water per day. The …
pakistan president Pervez Musharraf's summit-level talks with prime minister Manmohan Singh on April 17, 2005 at New Delhi made little headway in resolving the Baglihar dam row, which has become crucial to defining the future bilateral relations between the two nations. This was despite Singh underlining India's keenness to solve …
a rs 25 crore amusement park coming up in Kerala's Kannur district, sponsored by local Communist Party of India-Marxist (cpi-m) leaders, has raised environmental and health concerns. The water park is to be set up near the famous Parassinikadavu temple. Promoted by a cooperative society called Malabar Pleasures Private Limited …
the Tamil Nadu government announced on April 18, 2005 that it has shelved the Rs 300 crore New Veeranam Extension Project because farmers were afraid it would harm agriculture in the Coleroon river basin. Chief minister J Jayalalithaa said in a statement that her government didn't want to scare the …
At around 9.30 pm on April 7, 2005, 68 pilgrims were killed while taking a holy dip in river Narmada at Dharaji village in Madhya Pradesh's (mp's) Dewas district on the occasion of Bhootdi Amavasya mela (fair). Forty people are still missing. The reason: the Indira Sagar Dam, located 25 …
Faced with a barrage of criticism from the Opposition that it has failed to stop Andhra Pradesh from going ahead with the construction of "unauthorised" irrigation projects in the Krishna and Godavari river basins, the Karnataka government is yet to decide which of the two options it must pursue: approach …
Andhra Pradesh is in a hurry to complete 16 irrigation projects on the Krishna in an attempt to turn a clause in the Tribunal Award in its favour. Andhra Pradesh is gearing up to complete 16 irrigation projects, including five ongoing ones, on the Krishna river within the next three …
In the Kerala High Court, a village panchayat loses its battle for water with Coca-Cola. The Perumatty village panchayat in Palakkad district of Kerala has lost its legal battle for the right to water with Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Private Ltd., the soft-drink manufacturer. A Division Bench of the Kerala High …
the Union government is devising guidelines to check the unmonitored use of stem cells for treating ailments. This is being done in view of the prevailing use of stem cells to cure heart diseases and blindness by many private and public institutions, a potentially dangerous practice. "This is cause for …
the Comptroller and Auditor General (cag) of India has come down heavily upon the Orissa government for not providing clean water to its people. As many as 2,169 people died in the state due to water borne diseases between 2001 and 2004. A population of 525,000 suffered these diseases in …
a bangladeshi scientist has developed a biopesticide from garlic, whose smell repels insects perhaps as much as it does humans. Integrated Pest Management Laboratory head Bahadur Meah says the garlic tablet he has made can treat seeds that can be planted on fields up to 0.4 hectare. Developed under a …
