Kerala says no to GM crop

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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

The turkey buzzards

Facing resistance to the introduction of gmos in the North, business houses are waiting to take advantage of the South, including India, where …

Even the mice won't eat

Tests on mice prove that GM food might be more suspect than lobbyists would have us believe

GEAC has power only to withdraw permission

Arjula R Reddy, a plant geneticist, was appointed co-chairperson of the Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC) in 2009. At present, he …

Breach of trust

The world’s premier rice research institute tilts towards intellectual property rights

Question of safety

The Bangkok conference on the risks of genetically modified corps advocated greater investment of public funds in bio-safety research

Beware the modified wolf

Will bureaucrats choose to throw farmers and ecology to the mercy of multinational corporations by preparing the way for cultivation of …

Regulatory battle

Industry and activists have expressed conflicting opinions on GM crops. GEAC has a difficult decision to make

Test tube brinjal

Trouble with doubles

The science of cloning is in the nascent stage

Saying no to Monsanto

The Indian patent office has once again rejected the biotech seed giant’s claim for a method to produce stress-tolerant transgenic plants