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Science and Technology - Briefs
Issue Date: Feb 15, 2013
GEOLOGY
Fault finding
“Stable” zones of the earth’s crust might not be so stable. These zones are more likely to cause massive earthquakes. It was thought that “stable” zones, where fault segments of the crust slip slowly, act as barriers to earthquakes and fast-slipping faults trigger them.
Letters - December 15, 2012
Issue Date: Dec 15, 2012
Leave Them Alone
This is with reference to the article, “Tourism in Jarawa buffer, officially” (November 16-30, 2012). The Andaman and Nicobar Islands have been home to several distinct tribes for tens of thousands of years. But the administration, first the British and later the Indian government, brought nothing but disaster for the tribes. Only the Sentinelese tribe remains untouched by the devastation due to their isolated location and aggressive behaviour towards outsiders.
The GM maize rats
@ljishnu Issue Date: Oct 31, 2012
Three weeks ago, a university institute in Normandy, France, sparked fury, outrage and an astonishingly vicious battle between scientists across the world by publishing results of a two-year animal feeding study. The study involved one of the best known varieties of genetically modified (GM) maize and the most widely used glyphosate-based herbicide. The study was published by a team of scientists led by the highly regarded Gilles-Eric Seralini who heads the Institute of Biology at the University of Caen in France.
Monsanto shuns GM
Issue Date: Mar 15, 2012
Genetically modified food is banned at a canteen of its biggest producer Monsanto. Granada Group, which runs the canteen at Monsanto’s pharmaceuticals factory at High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, serves only GM-free meal, says a report by The Independent.
Maize Mania
Issue Date: Aug 15, 2011
In the lush forested uplands of Koraput, Domu Matpadia, a Paraja tribeswoman, is coming face to face with modern farm technology. A representative of Charoen Pokphand, a Thai agribusiness multinational, is telling her how to grow its hybrid maize seeds that the state government has given her free along with a kit of fertiliser and pesticide. The seeds that she cradles in her palm with wonder are the key to a plan that Odisha has drawn up to get its farmers to give up their traditional rice cultivation in the uplands and take to hybrid maize instead to boost income.
Global food crisis: causes and implications for India
Issue Date: Apr 15, 2008
Africa
How useful is genome decoding?
Issue Date: Dec 15, 2011
THE clue to a plant’s productivity and disease resistance lies in its genes. Thus plant genomics is touted to bring about a revolution in the field of crop sciences, unfolding avenues to create high-yielding and disease-resistant varieties. Till date, scientists have sequenced or are in the process of sequencing over 15 plant genomes. The latest deciphered plant is arhar or pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan).
Letter
Issue Date: Nov 15, 2011
Play safe with forests
Chhattisgarh will not allow GM crops
Issue Date: Oct 31, 2011
There is a demand to shift agriculture from the State List to the Concurrent List. Is this a good move?
Interviewee:
Chandrasekhar Sahu
