Study identifies genes linked to obesity

The results could provide new insights into weight-loss therapies and help prevent metabolism-associated diseases

‘Manipulate market, lower drug prices’

In times of rising costs of healthcare compounded by shortage of funds, UNITAID, a UN organisation, was set up in 2006 to improve access to life-…

Difficult to digest

After much debate, the Cabinet cleared the food security bill. Will it really ensure food for every Indian?

Farmers on holiday

Andhra farmers shun growing paddy this kharif in absence of buyers, storage space

Organic farming: Reaping mixed benefits

Contradictory state of affairs in two Uttaranchal villages highlights both potential and obstacles of organic farming. The paradox has cropped up …

UNEP report at COP28 reveals $7 trillion invested globally every year on activities directly harming nature

Urgent need to reduce and re-direct finance flows to keep global temperatures below 1.5°C warming

Price of food inflation

In near future the impact of high food price will show in terms of more malnourished

Parties steal Congress show

BJP-ruled Chhattisgarh enacts its own food security law, non-Congress states to follow

Starved of substance

No headway made at World Food Summit in accelerating efforts to eliminate hunger

Countdown to Cancun: Agricultural subsidies

why should four per cent of the agricultural workforce (mostly affluent) in high-income countries reap the rich harvest of an international trade …

Painful entry for Poland into the EU

ZOE YOUNG travels through Poland to find that its farmers dread integration with the EU

India’s rainfall patterns changing drastically, say Stanford scientists

Longer dry spells and wetter wet spells could spell doom for the Indian agriculture, they warn

Pay and take

A High Powered Committee on efficient allocation of natural resources and telecom spectrum puts market above people

Wind break ends

Centre wants to withdraw sops for wind energy sector; offers an incentive to improve performance

Looking for the right bait

Developing countries like India need to be prepared for multilateral negotiations. This is certainly true of the fishing economy

Big mini revolution

Wind loses speed

Sector shows poor performance; government says it is a short-term phenomenon

Penny foolish, pond wise

Once parched, Dewas in Madhya Pradesh is now a lush green district

Remove the perverse incentive

Budget should make diesel cars pay for subidised fuel, pollution

GREEN SUBSIDIES

Nothing to smile about!

Yashwant Sinha pleases the industry by playing a rude joke on the environment

Another dismissal is possible

Wind loses power

Tamil Nadu has 40 per cent of the wind energy capacity installed in India, yet the state is reeling from power crisis

Ecofriendly subsidies proposed

EU plans to give more weightage to environmental and public safety norms by amending agricultural policy

Cancun impact felt in Dubai

The tone and tenor of the failed Fifth World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Conference in Cancun found an echo in the annual meetings of …