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. …
function map() { var popurl="image/20040915/8-map.jpg" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=400,height=425,scrollbars=yes") } devastating floods in Bangladesh claimed at least 800 human lives and seriously affected 35 million people in 39 out of the country's 64 districts last month, stumping experts and politicians: while the timing and magnitude caught the former completely off-guard, the government's initial …
HEARD of Plachimada? Over the last two-and-a-half years, people in this Kerala village have been agitating to get a neighbouring Coke plant shut down. According to them, Coke's water mining has parched the lands of over 2,000 people. Welcome to the water wars. This is why it was heartening to …
To tide over acute water crisis in the Punjab province of Pakistan, members of parliament of the ruling coalition of Punjab have asked the government to buy water from India. They have also demanded renegotiation of the 1960 Indus Water Treaty with New Delhi over the Sutlej waters. Members of …
• What's in a name? Everything, or so claim Mexican chili farmers. Facing competition from cheap foreign peppers, they want to give their products the same international brand protection as French champagne or Parma ham from Italy. The farmers demanded that Mexican varieties be origin-controlled, meaning Jalapeno-type chili peppers grown …
function illus() { var popurl="image/20040831/53-illus.jpg" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=485,height=400,scrollbars=yes") } Let us take an ecologist's look at Kolkata. It has the river Hooghly to its west from where it draws water. Another river, the Kulti Gong, 28 kilometres to Kolkata's east, drains the city's wastewater into the Bay of Bengal. No other mega-urban …
Pharmaceutical giant Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd's Rs 107 crore expansion plan in Himachal Pradesh's Sirmour district has become a bitter pill the company's being made to swallow. Farmers' suspicions, indeed outright distrust, have placed the company's initiative to expand the capacity of an existing plant at Ganguwala, Paonta Sahib, under a …
In October 2003, the managers of Kovalam beach near Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, conceived a plan to create a zero-waste, eco-friendly beach. They targeted the waste tourists dump on the sands; that hasn't cleaned the beach up. The real problem lies
numerous people, including newborns, are being exposed to a toxin via medical products, indicates a recent report. Di (2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (dehp), the toxin, is found in products made of polyvinyl chloride (PVC). dehp is added to PVC so that it gets softened to manufacture products like blood bags, urine bags …
bully power: A World Trade Organisation panel will examine the US claim that a tax imposed by Mexico on American soft drinks that use corn sweeteners violates international trade rules. Mexico's 20 per cent tax on soft drinks and syrups using high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) have almost halted the …
The dispute between India and Pakistan over the use of the waters of the Indus and its tributaries and its resolution through a treaty in 1960 constitute a useful precedent to solve the present row. KARNATAKA, ruled the Supreme Court in 1991, answering a Presidential Reference under Article 143 of …
The controversy over the Satluj-Yamuna Link Canal only serves to stoke regional chauvinism and deflect attention from the real agrarian crisis faced by Haryana and Punjab. IT takes a fair bit of asking around to find the dank office tucked away in a corner in Chandigarh's Sector 35, the Office …
Hydrological characteristics and sedimentation loading in Hokersar wetland of Kashmir Himalaya was monitored from November 2000 to october 2001. The compound water budget showed a substantial (91 percent) input from various surface inflows and just 9 per cent through precipitation. Major water discharge (67 per cent) occurs through surface outlets, …
The Sethusamudram Ship Channel Project under the consideration of the Ministry of Shipping, Government of India, envisages creation of a ship navigation channel to suit different draughts (9.15 m, 10.7 m and 12.8m) through dredging/excavation in Adam’s Bridge, parts of Palk Bay and Palk Strait. The navigation route will originate …
A curious court action in the UK gave environmentalist group Friends of the Earth (FoE) the right to tell people where to look for information on some pesticides, but not to offer the data on its own. The dispute involves FoE and chemical manufacturer Bayer. In 2000, the former asked …
bi-advantages: As per researchers from Canada's York University, bilingualism is useful not only because it makes it possible to talk to more number of people. They have found that bilinguals perform a variety of cognitive tasks better than people who speak only one language. Furthermore, the differences between the two …
function graph() { var popurl="image/20040731/8-graph.jpg" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=600,height=500,scrollbars=yes") } finance minister (fm) P Chidambaram's budget for 2004-2005 is actually the interim budget presented by his predecessor Jaswant Singh of the National Democratic Alliance (nda). There are minor variations in allocations. The two exceptions are defence (an additional Rs 11,700 crore) and the …
as part of its initiative to promote traditional systems of medicine, the World Health Organization (who) has recently set forth a set of guidelines to help member states evolve regulations aimed at providing consumers with information on the appropriate use of the remedies. Currently, 80 per cent of the world …
