Sohphlang curry
Flowering blossoms
You can interpret banana flowers in many ways—religious, medicinal and culinary
India wants to be TB-free by 2025, but patients suffer due to stigma, lack of counselling
There is evidence of increased risk of suicidal behaviour among people living with TB
Government announces names of first 20 smart cities
Bhubaneswar, Pune, Jaipur top the list
Inking solutions to pollution
Two Indian startups are converting polluted air particles into inks and paints
Vanishing from the wild
The impact of climate change on wild food has not received the attention it deserves
Jharkhand mine collapse: 11 workers killed; over 50 feared trapped
Rescue operations still on, exact number of trapped miners yet to be ascertained
Heavy rain causes flood in Assam; over 150,000 people affected
The IMD has forecast heavy to very heavy rainfall in the coming days
FAO and WHO joint body contradicts IARC’s finding on chemicals posing carcinogenic risk
WHO-FAO joint meeting finds some insecticides unlikely to pose carcinogenic risks
Cheaper fruits, vegetables could reduce deaths from cardiac disease, says study
A 10-per cent reduction in prices through 2030 could save nearly 64,000-69,000 lives
Rajya Sabha passes the Constitutional Amendment Bill on GST
The move paves way for a uniform tax regime in India
India to be fastest growing large economy in 2016: UN report
Consumer and investor confidence in India has risen
Food safety authority issues draft standards for cereal products
The food regulator, which released the draft standards on Wednesday, has called for comments within 30 days
10 cement companies, industry body fined Rs 6,300 crore for cartelisation
The Competition Commission of India found the companies were acting in concert to fix the prices of cement
Parliamentary panel raps Medical Council of India for failure in performance
Panel's report highlights corruption in the MCI, lack of transparency in appointments, failure to provide a robust system of medical education …
Green bonds, banks can boost India’s clean energy market
India needs Rs 17.5 trillion to finance clean energy projects in order to ramp up its capacity to 160 GW by 2022
India's food labelling, promotion laws need to be strengthened: experts
India does not have standardised serving size of foods and it is not required to be labelled
Parliamentary panel moots penalty for misleading celebrity endorsements
Celebrities featuring in misleading advertisements of products should be penalised with a fine of up to Rs. 50 lakh and five years of imprisonment,…
Dry run
Nutritional standards for the sale of camel milk, issued for the first time by the government, are a huge threat to the nascent dairy industry
जानें, मोरिंगा के पेड़ की खासियत और बनाएं फूलों की सब्जी
मोरिंगा की फसल को बहुत कम पानी लगता है, इसलिए यह सूखा प्रभावित क्षेत्रों में अच्छा विकल्प है
Can FSSAI ensure safe food at places of worship without hurting religious sentiments?
India’s food regulatory body plans to implement Food Safety Management System (FSMS) to ensure quality of food in places of worship, but it …
Taste for tradition
Home delivery services are taking traditional food everywhere. And the market is catching up too
Affordable housing a thrust area, says FM
Experts remain doubtful if the poor will benefit from the incentives offered in the budget
Food fortification is not magic bullet to fight malnutrition
The Supreme Court order on sourcing natural food locally instead of relying on artificially-fortified commercial products was hailed by experts
Synthetic influx
Synthetic menthol threatens the livelihoods of 400,000 families of farmers who grow Mentha