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INDIA

India's strategies for rice congress

Parliamentary committee slams regulatory system on GM crops

Says the crops have an impact on health and the environment and that these aspects were overlooked while approving Bt Brinjal trials in India

INDIA

US biotech to plant GM rice with human genes

Billed to confuse

A new bill leaves little scope for dissent on GMOs

Australian farm specialist loses job for speaking against GM crops

Pro-GM farmers stage protest near Parliament

Farmers' organisations demand rejection of technical experts committee report recommending indefinite ban on field trials of GM crops

Kerala says no to GM crop

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Science & Technology - Briefs

GM crop field trials: anti-GM activists protest outside Moily's office

Moily’s approval will now allow event selection trials of rice, castor, cotton and a few other genetically modified crops ÒÇÇ

Is Bt cotton a success or failure?

Participants attending conference to review Bt cotton call for extensive investigation into all aspects of cotton production before drawing …

Monsanto conducted trials of GM maize without approval, reveals RTI reply

Biotech regulatory panel overlooked violation

EC stops import of US long-grain rice

EU concerned over imports of GM protein used in animal feed by China

Questions over EU plan to label organic food 'GM free'

What price the constitution?

Breakthroughs in genetic engineering have led to questions on the ethics of suchexperiments. Should scientists alone be steering the decision-…

Confused and weak

The Biological Diversity Act has lost sight of what it originally set out to do

Third world power

China has proved that genomics is no longer the preserve of developed countries

Basic Instinct

In a simultaneous press release issued on Monday, 26 June 2000, the Human Genome Project, an international government-funded project, and Celera …

In limbo

Will a disaster take place before strong laws are adopted to protect the world against irresponsible introduction of gmos?

Going nowhere

The biosafety protocol is still a chimera