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. …
"Notices have been sent to parents that April 1, 2001 onwards they would need to arrange for their children getting dropped and picked up from school,' reported Delhi newspapers in January 2001. The Delhi Transport Corporation has already written to schools that it will withdraw services from April 1. Most …
the Spanish government has approved a plan to transfer water from the Ebro, one of Spain's largest rivers, to the parched southern part of the country. Ecologists opine that the plan violates the European Union's (eu) laws on water management and nature protection. It would also ruin the habitat of …
a biogas plant uses cattle dung, human excreta and other organic material as raw material. The organic material has to be thoroughly mixed with an equal quantity of water. The amount of water used makes it an unviable proposition for areas with little water to spare. This is one reason …
Much water has flown in the history of Madhya Pradesh's Dhar district. The legendary romance of Rani Rupmati and Bag Bahadur has found indelible expressions in numerous waterbodies of the district's fort town Mandu. Most of these traditional water harvesting structures were built by Bag Bahadur for his love Rupmati. …
Whether it is old Ahmedabad or Uttarkashi, traditional structures have withstood earthquakes of different magnitudes, better than the modern structures. Even in the Shillong earthquake of 1897, measuring 8.1 on the Richter scale, the traditional houses built by local residents reported less damage than the structures erected by the British. …
VARIOUS STANDARDS AND SPECIFICATIONS FOR PETROL What the Indian government recommends for 2005 Europe has bettered in 2000 PARAMETERS SPECIFICATIONS India 20001 Mukhapadhyay committee 20052 Europe 20003 Europe 20053 USA RFG-34 Sulphur (per cent by weight) 0.015 0.1-0.05 0.03 0.005 0.002 Aromatics (per cent by volume) No limit 45 42 …
Do we have the technological wherewithal to connect villages right across India? How much will these technologies cost? Can we afford them? The most daunting challenges can be summarised in three categories. Connectivity tele phony "There are barely 29 million telephones in India. Telecom infrastructure in small towns and villages …
The diffusion of infotech happens at varying speeds at various levels. The speed at which the technology spreads its reach in an industrialised country is 243 times the speed at which it can impact a village in a developing country. R A Mashelkar, director-general of the Council of Scientific and …
as a result of climate change, uk may have to bear the brunt of as many as twelve floods a year. This would be four times the annual average a century ago, and double the present annual average of six, declared the National Flood Warning Centre of the of the …
RAIPUR'S air is euphoric. The secretariat, earlier the main civil hospital of the city, still smells of fresh paint. A huge cutout of chief minister Ajit Jogi overlooks its premises, while residents of Raipur eagerly debate the future of this natural resource-rich state and the opportunities it brings. The general …
WHILE the first chief minister of Uttaranchal was being sworn in at midnight on November 9, 2000, many leaders who fought for statehood swore to continue the struggle. "It is not over yet," summed up Kamla Pant, a leader at the forefront of the movement and member of the Uttrakhand …
ON NOVEMBER 15, 2000 when the collective dream of some 22 million people for half-a-century rolled into reality, there was hardly anybody to celebrate. Jharkhand, India's youngest state and one of the richest, was born at midnight. Twenty minutes later, a new government was sworn in to chart out its …
ON THE face of it, democracy in India has won a small battle. People's aspirations have been met by the creation of the three new states - Chattisgarh, Uttaranchal and Jharkhand. The people agitated for decades against apathy and skewed development of the mother states - Madhya Pradesh (MP), Uttar …
the genetic makeup of a plant has been deciphered for the first time by a team of scientists. The decoding of the genetic makeup of Arabidopsis thaliana , also known as thale cress, will pave way for better crossbreeding without genetic engineering, believe some plant biologists. The decoding has been …
The Ramsar Convention of IUCN held in 1971 in Iran raised global awareness of the conservation and management of wetlands. Wetlands, the transitional zones that occupy an intermediate position between dryland and open water, regulate the flow of water and nutrients, thereby facilitating optimum functioning of the physical and biological …
A total of 2.4 billion people across the world do not have any access to proper sanitation facilities and at least 1.1 billion people do not have regular water supply. These were the two major findings of the Global Water Supply and Sanitation Assessment 2000 , a report jointly brought …
Rajya Sabha members have recently demanded that the Union government should speed up its efforts to sign a treaty with Nepal, that will allow the government to channelise the waters flowing into Bihar. This will help in preventing floods. Nagendra Nath Ojha, a Communist Party of India member from Bihar, …
The book looks at the value of water as a basic need instead of valuing water in terms of productivity in agriculture and industry, or in terms of the costs of supply. It examines water in the regional context, in terms of what it means to the people of Kumaon, …
The use of water which is the most important and scarce resource, needs to be guided by national perspective for sustainability. In an effort to develop, conserve, utilize and manage this vital resource, effectively, Fourth Water Asia Show has been organised in Delhi and inviting International and national experts to …
the Inter-State Water Disputes Act, 1956, which provides for adjudication of disputes relating to waters of inter-state rivers and river valleys, will soon be amended to incorporate the Inter-State Council on the Sarkaria Commission's recommendations. A bill to this effect will be introduced in the forthcoming session of Parliament. The …
