Busting Myths on Weight loss
By Shamira Pujani Weight is almost every individual’s concern, regardless of age or sex. The obsession with weight or being ‘thin’ begins as early as eight years and continues throughout. In the early years More...
INDO-EUROPEANS 3: NOAH’S ANIMALS MARCH
Favorable climate and abundant water made India and Southeast Asia a hothouse for the domestication of plants and animals. The second wave of Indo-Europeans carried these into Eurasia and Europe. The controversy More...
Taking a tip from tech, food incubators launch startups
Report by Neal Ungerleider, Thu Dec 13, 2012 3:12pm EST - A new group of food-based startups are applying tricks learned from the technology industry to grow a new wave of businesses to cash in on the growing More...
The Manipur’s Food and Friction Saga
Today Manipur was in news. I saw a big article on Mary Kom in a national news paper; a few days back she was walking the ramp, a few weeks prior to that she was a proud recipient of the Olympic bronze backing her More...
U.S. government mandate or no, fuel ethanol is here to stay
E85 Ethanol biodiesel fuel is shown being pumped into a vehicle at a gas station in Nevada, Iowa (Reuters) – For the past five years, the U.S. government has paid fuel companies billions of dollars in subsidies More...
Fleeing violence, Assam’s displaced face disease, death in camps
Hundreds of thousands of people sheltering in squalid, overcrowded camps in India’s northeast desperately need food, water and medicines after fleeing some of the worst communal violence in a decade, officials More...
INTERVIEW – Rohit Shetty on Bollywood, success and blowing up cars
Interviewed by Shilpa Jamkhandikar MUMBAI (Reuters) – There was a time when Rohit Shetty and his brand of cinema came in for much ridicule from critics and the Indian film industry. The critics don’t More...
INDIA’S ENERGY FAMINE 2: TOWARDS A SOLAR WORLD
Exploitation of solar can transform India from an energy starved to an energy abundant country. It will mean new ways of generating power as well as changes in lifestyle in homes and workplaces. More than money, More...
China has repatriated North Korean refugees: Activists
Seoul, NORTH KOREA – Despite international pressure, China has repatriated all 31 North Korean refugees it arrested last month, activists said Friday, fearing for their safety as Pyongyang is known to treat More...
Australian economic grows at 0.4%
Sydney, AUSTRALIA – Growth of Australian economy has went below expectations at 0.4% in the last (October-December) quarter of 2011. As per experts, this is mostly due to non-mining sectors. As per data of More...
