GM Crops 
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Monsanto may trump antitrust claims
Monsanto, facing antitrust probes into its GM seeds, may benefit from previous court rulings in which intellectual property rights trumped competition concerns. The US Department of Justice and 7 state attorneys general are investigating whether the world’s largest seed company is using gene licences to keep competing technologies off the market.
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- 15/03/2010
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- Financial Express (New Delhi)
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Transgenic food has its uses, says DRDO
It is looking at supplying this food to forces in high altitudes
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- 12/03/2010
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- Hindu (New Delhi)
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Monsanto ‘admission' has business motives?
Priscilla Jebaraj
NEW DELHI: Biotech crop giant Monsanto seemed to admit failure with Bt cotton last week, but a government analysis says it looks more like a smart business strategy.
- Date:
- 12/03/2010
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- Hindu (New Delhi)
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Bt brinjal panel may side with Ramesh
EVEN as the last word is yet to be spoken on Bt brinjal, the issue has fallen under the scrutiny of a parliamentary panel. As most of the committee members appear to be taking an anti-Bt brinjal stand, environment minister Jairam Ramesh may find an ally in his battle against the commercial release of the genetically modified
vegetable.
- Date:
- 11/03/2010
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- Economic Times (New Delhi)
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Committee may complicate Bt brinjal issue
Saubhadro Chatterji / New Delhi March 11, 2010, 1:08 IST
The tussle over the genetically-modified brinjal, also known as Bt brinjal, between the various lobbies in the government may turn more complicated, as a Parliament Standing Committee representing various political parties is likely to disapprove of the introduction of Bt brinjal in India in its suo motu report on the issue.
- Date:
- 11/03/2010
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- Business Standard (New Delhi)
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Sweeping powers, glaring omissions
The biotech regulatory Bill gags dissent and takes away the power of states without providing any safeguards to farmers and consumers
Latha Jishnu / New Delhi March 11, 2010, 0:42 IST
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- 11/03/2010
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- Business Standard (New Delhi)
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Limits to biotechnology
Don't throw the technology away with the seeds
- Date:
- 11/03/2010
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- Business Standard (New Delhi)
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Bt brinjal seed stock to be deposited: Ramesh
NEW DELHI: The Bt brinjal seed stock developed in the country should be deposited with the National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources to prevent any potential leakage or contamination during the moratorium on its commercial release.
- Date:
- 11/03/2010
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- Hindu (New Delhi)
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Fresh push for Gen-2 Bt cotton
Rashme Sehgal
New Delhi, March 9: Despite Monsanto admitting that its Bt cotton (Bollgard-1) had failed to control pests in four districts of Gujarat, GEAC, apex regulator of genetically-modified crops, has cleared the Bollgard-2 variety, which has two Bt resistant genes, thereby increasing its toxicity.
- Date:
- 10/03/2010
- Source:
- Asian Age (New Delhi)
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Interpreting the colour green
March 10 : Ecologists like me are called “greens”. We work to protect the green mantle of the earth — forests and biodiversity, soil and water. Nature’s green capital is the real capital that supports all life, and in the final analysis all livelihoods and the entire economy. However, the colour green has been much abused and used for anti-green, anti-nature, anti-people programmes.
- Date:
- 10/03/2010
- Source:
- Asian Age (New Delhi)
