Experts slam trial for new Bt brinjal variety, cite regulatory lapses

The Event 142 variety of genetically modified brinjal was quietly approved for field trials without any data in the public domain, claim experts

Damning allegations: India's fields still have Bt brinjal

Coalition for a GM-Free allege it found the banned genetically modified crop in Haryana

How Bt brinjal hurt the farmers of Bangladesh

New report says three-fourth of farmers who took up cultivation abandoned it in the next rounds

Bt brinjal: Bangladesh’s model not fit enough for adoption

India plans to study Bangladesh's cultivation method while the neighbouring country incurs losses

Bangladesh's GM gamble

Anil Chandra Mahanta, one of the first 20 farmers to cultivate genetically modified brinjal in South Asia, does not understand the new technology.…

Government to take a decision on GM Mustard by September

The Supreme Court will hear petitions against the commercial release of the crop then

Scientifically invalid

Inter-Academy update on GM crops does little to redeem Indian science

How competent is Indian science?

A shoddy inter-academy report on GM crops casts a shadow on the integrity and competence of Indian science, while a US expert finds approval for …

Bt brinjal controversy hots up in Bangladesh

Bt Brinjal farmers divided between green activists opposing GM crops and government which claims the crop experiment was fairly suiccessful

Brinjal blues

Amid countrywide protests against Bt brinjal, Bangladesh government announces plan to expand cultivation of the genetically modified crop

Bt Brinjal crop fails in Bangladesh's Gazipur district

Outcome in Gazipur not going to affect government’s plan to bring 20,000 ha under the GM crop in next five years

Asia grapples with GM crops

Victory for anti-GM crusaders in Pakistan is short-lived as government gets high court ban on genetically modified crops suspended

Bt brinjal biopiracy case: court vacates stay

Karnataka High Court allows biodiversity boards to go ahead with criminal prosecution of seed company Mahyco and others, accused to using local …

Indefinite moratorium on GM field trials recommended

Supreme Court’s expert panel of scientists for ban on herbicide tolerant crops for India

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Biopiracy case turns intense

Biodiversity authority to challenge stay obtained in Bt brinjal case two days before hearing

Bt brinjal has no history of safe use

Jack A. Heinemann, professor of molecular biology and genetics at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, has expertise in genetic …

What's the fuss about Bt brinjal?

Mohammad Rafiqul Islam Mondal, director-general of Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI), is among the handful of people who have …

National Biodiversity Authority chairperson, Pisupati, resigns

The only chairperson with a background in biodiversity administration to have headed NBA, he was under extreme pressure to resign prematurely

PM qualifies Bt brinjal moratorium

Genetic Engineering Approval Committee to decide moratorium period

Karnataka Biodiversity Board washes hands of Bt brinjal biopiracy case

Activists say authority protecting Mahyco-Monsanto which used indigenous brinjal varieties to develop India's first genetically modified crop