Letters
Pesticide makers file plea for exporting endosulfan formulations
Is it a ploy to expand export business?
Making science of mumbo-jumbo
Scientists compile India's ethnic knowledge. They find a veritable gold-mine
News Briefs
Time to nail pesticides
Centre forms expert committee to frame policy to check residues in fruits, vegetables
Science and Technology - Briefs
Bhopal to Germany
Airlifting Union Carbide waste requires amending Indian law, violates Basel Convention
Pesticide-rich food
Agriculture department confirms high pesticide residues
Poison on the plate
Study links toxins in food products to cancer and other diseases in children
Earth links
Promoting millets: the wheel need not be reinvented
New policy could be detrimental to millet farming
Nothing is good enough
Even pesticides based on herbal extracts can affect brain functioning
Supreme Court allows export of unused endosulfan
Calls for strict monitoring while packaging
SC seeks details on safe export of endosulfan
Interim ban on the pesticide to continue
A pill a day
Keeps death away
World Rainforest Day: Goliath frogs need urgent conservation measures
Goliath frog population is estimated to have halved in the last 15 years
Supreme Court asks Centre to submit endosulfan disposal plan
Sets deadline of July 23
Haryana hurdle: Paddy procurement season on, but farmers have no buyers
Crop moisture to logistics, government officials rejecting paddy, claimed farmers
Pesticide manufacturers want to export more endosulfan
Apex court asks them to file application
Rotterdam Convention meet: no consensus on including herbicide paraquat in the prior informed consent list
120 nations had agreed to the listing, but India and Gautemala played spoilsport
To bring back bees, European commission to impose temporary ban on neonicotinoid pesticide use in farms
Move to be reviewed after two years