Kerala gets cautious

Plans to ban extremely and moderately hazardous pesticides in cardamom district, Idukki

Biotechnology Bill: deadline for public feedback extended

Parliamentary committee has extended date till August 25; activists demand public consultations across the country in regional languages

India cannot afford organic farming

S K SINHA national professor at the Water Technology Centre, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, spoke to Manish Tiwari on food …

News 360° - Briefs

News 360° - Briefs

Bad feed

New lands of the free

New lands of the fat?

Land of the Free

Test tube brinjal

Costly silence

No one is debating where goats will graze

Mark Lynas and the demeaning of science

He’s fuzzy on facts and low on science, but the campaigner gets big media support

A pre-emptive strike against Monsanto

American organic farmers are trying to ensure the biotech giant cannot sue them

Is the joyride over ?

There was fear in the 1960s. Would India continue to wait for food imports to feed itself? The scientific community came up with an answer that …

Children of endosulfan

Several unusual diseases afflict a Kerala village. Residents blame aerial spraying of the pesticide endosulfan by the Plantation Corporation of …

Growing organic tea in northeast India is a difficult task

Western Ghats: lessons in protection

In the wrong ministry?

Biotech Regulatory Authority will have too much power, no checks

Brief

France extends GM corn ban

Supreme Court criticized for giving clearance to Bt Brinjal

Science & Technology - Briefs

India's nutritional puzzle

From the maw of the Indian state there has emerged an undigested piece of development cake: nutritionally speaking, people's diets are out of …

Bauxite mines in Andhra Pradesh draw tribals' ire

Test tube brinjal

Indian regulators are keen to clear Bt brinjal for commercial cultivation. This would be India’s first genetically modified food crop. If …

Maize Mania

Maize has become the queen of cereals, courted by state governments, seed companies, farmers and the feedstock and starch industries as the crop …