Dispensing with dear drugs

New US law to clear the decks for generic drugs (Read full article)

Land grab fallout

Scramble to buy land in foreign countries to grow more food leaves more people hungry

Breakthrough in impasse over toxic export ban

Parties take a step forward to make it easy to enforce Basel Ban Amendment

A sticky label

US biotech industry gears up to play dirty in Europe

The small big polluter

Small-scale industries: Where regulations are meaningless and pollution control an unaffordable luxury. Can they leapfrog to cost-effective …

Have technology, will survive

A green agenda based on the paradigm of pollution prevention can rescue the small-scale industry

Mere plans

Government proposes. Industry disposes. Programmes for cleaning up have very largely gone by the wayside

The small big polluter

Resource crunch and poor regulatory processes have made small-scale industries the pariahs of India's environment

Curious case of seaweed

AquAgri pays highest sum in royalty but benefits do not reach people

The JNU way out

FCI speculates on futures trading

Brokers and traders don't want FCI to enter the grain commodity exchange

Butchers up in arms

Onion export ban lifted

Minimum export price fixed at US $475 a tonne. Will it profit farmers?

SAVING FALCONS

Drug wars

Pesticide makers file plea for exporting endosulfan formulations

Is it a ploy to expand export business?

INDONESIA

Fukushima rice passes radiation tests for first time since disaster

The earthquake that hit Japan nearly four years ago had forced the country to stop export of fish and other produce from the area near Fukushima …

Indian laws adequate for ensuring biosafety, says MoEF special secretary

But they do not provide for liability and redress if damage occurs due t release of GMOs by biotech giants, point out civil society groups

Ayurvedic drug manufacturers divided over new eu directives

Parliament panel deliberates plea to ban meat exports

Petition to Parliament panel draws attention to severe cattle depletion in the country affecting agricultural economy; public comments invited

New tentacles

Stiff US law ruffles Indian marine food sector

Breakthrough in search for new malaria cure

Scientists find a way to block malaria parasite from making itself at home inside host blood cells; research opens up possibilities of new …

Onion growers blockade highway; demand revoking export ban

Consumers likely to face the brunt

Pristine Tasmania faces GM threat

Opium industry lobbies to lift moratorium on GM farming