First food: business of taste
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
Health
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India's smoking-TB link nailed
Proof has arrived from researchers in Chennai after studying smoking habits of India's living and the dead
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90 per cent street kids in city still exposed to chronic diseases
Condemned to a life of hard labour and meagre return, about 90 per cent poor children of the Chandigarh city remain deprived of the fruits of freedom. Although no official surveys have ever been
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2.2 cr under-5 children to be administered polio
Some 2.2 crore under-five children of Bangladesh will be administered polio vaccines under the 12th National Immunization Day (NID) early next year.The under-five children willbe administered two
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27000 women receiving vitamin-enriched Atta
The rural women used to receive wheat under the VDG programme. Now over 27,000 rural women in five districts of Bangladesh are receiving vitamin-enriched coarse atta instead of wheat under the same
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Campaign against supply of adulterated milk
Alarmed over reports of massive inflow of synthetic milk into Delhi through clandestine methods from Uttar Pradesh and Haryana, the Delhi government has decided to station "special squads" led by
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UNPF launches India programme
The United Nations Population Fund has launched its sixth country programme for India converting the period 2003 to 2007. The highlight of the US dollars 75 million programme would be a special focus
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'Less harmful tobacco through organic manuring possible'
The scientists' team at the Central Tobacco Research Institute (CTRI), under the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), Government of India, at Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh, headed by Dr K.
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Ranbaxy gets US nod for Amoxicillin
Pharma major Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd has received the green signal from the US regulatory authority to market its new dosage form of Amoxicillin, which is used to target bacterial infections in
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Big trouble
Obesity is spreading to parts of the world that once worried about getting enough to eat.Within the past decade obesity rates have shot up by 50 per cent, rising from 200 million people in 1995 to
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'Rats could have spread SARS'
Black rats of the type that spread bulbonic plague could have triggered one of the biggest outbreaks of hte SARS epidemic, according to an article in Britain's Lancet. The theory suggests that rats