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. …
india, which entirely depends on import to meet its requirement of two million tonnes of the potassic fertiliser, has taken the first step towards manufacturing the vital plant nutrient. The Bhavnagar-based Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute (csmcri) has developed a technology to produce potash from seawater. Though seawater …
on august 7 the Karnataka state cabinet gave a fresh twist to the Cauvery controversy, when it decided to propose that the river's water be shared with Tamil Nadu (tn) only for drinking purposes. The ludicrousness of the plan can be gauged from the fact that almost 95 per cent …
Indian non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have sought their inclusion in the country's official delegation to the World Trade Organization's (WTO) Cancun ministerial. The plea was jointly made by two NGOs
The increasing popularity of a high-fat, high-protein diet proposed by the late nutrition guru, Robert Atkins, is eating into multinational company Unilever's profits. The Atkins diet allows people to gorge on meat, cheese and fats but requires them to control their carbohydrate intake. As a result, Unilever's SlimFast brand, with …
A division bench of the High Court (HC) of Kerala has restrained the Municipal Corporation of Cochin from issuing new building permits in the city in view of its non-functional sewage system. The bench, comprising Chief Justice Jawahar Lal Gupta and Justice A K Basheer, had earlier summoned an official …
The draft guidelines on ship recycling, finalised at a meeting of the Marine Environment Protection Committee (mepc) of the International Maritime Organisation (imo), have recognised that the prevailing environmental standards in shipyards are often woefully inadequate. The imo is the un agency responsible for the safety of shipping and preventing …
Europe is facing its worst heat wave in decades. While the scorching sun has come as a blessing for holidaymakers, widespread crop failure and forest fires have got farmers and the administration worried. At places, water levels have sunk so low that power companies are unable to generate any electricity …
The fundamental right to water intends to alleviate suffering. It fails miserably to meet its intention. Feel the lives of those who suffer and see it with the way law in this area operates. Then bear the pain. You will see that it will hurt more. The higher courts
The Colombian government is caught between a rock and a hard place. A court has ordered the country's government to stop spraying Monsanto's glyphosate herbicides on coca and other crop plantations until more research is done on the chemical's possible ill-effects on health and the environment. But the us-backed glyphosate-spraying …
a severe water crisis spawning an acute shortage of textbooks? Strange but true. Karnataka's school students recently became unsuspecting victims amid this bizarre turn of events. It so transpired that the Mysore Paper Mills (mpm) stopped functioning as its water supply was disrupted due to the drying up of Bhadra …
Andhra Pradesh's response to the Paragodu project has been multi-pronged - when the government takes the issue to the Centre and the Supreme Court, the political parties adopt the agitational approach. Andhra Pradesh views the Paragodu dam project as yet another attempt by Karnataka to deprive it, the lower riparian …
In the Kannada language, the word kere means a man-made or natural water tank, and the word for the numeral nine is ombhatthu , pronounced colloquially as vombatthu . The author's surname, which means nine water tanks, is derived from the fact that in the 19 th and the early …
The news is out: water levels in Mumbai are over 15 per cent less than last year. It might seem routine but it has the city up in arms. Mumbaikars have hit the roads demonstrating on the painful summer that came in early this year. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (bmc) …
Extreme climate events such as aridity, drought, flood, cyclone and stormy rainfall are expected to leave an impact on human society. They are also expected to generate widespread response to adapt and mitigate the sufferings associated with these extremes. Societal and cultural responses to prolonged drought include population dislocation, cultural …
toddlers in trouble: A research institute has found high levels of mercury in 60 per cent of newborns at hospitals in Itaituba city, in the Brazilian Amazon. Out of the 1,666 babies born during 2002 in the hospitals, 1,000 were detected with mercury contamination. Some of the kids had 80 …
But not a drop to drink. The heat wave has already killed more than a thousand people all over India. Taps in major metros are running dry. Water bodies are evaporating. Groundwater supplies are running low. At a time like this, who wouldn't fall for a newspaper ad that promises …
even as Karnataka chief minister S M Krishna set off on his statewide tour of temples to invoke the rain gods, the water level in Mysore's Krishna Raja Sagar (krs) reservoir plunged to an all-time low of 65.68 feet. The krs dam is built on the Cauvery basin, which is …
A new coral reef has been found off the coast of Australia. Its 120 square km sit 30 m below the surface. Researchers while crushing into Queensland's Gulf of Carpentaria found themselves charting a previously unknown reef. "We were quite surprised," says Peter Harris of Geoscience Australia.
