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EU clears BT potato for cultivation
JAMES KANTER
The European Commission began a new push on Wednesday to allow farmers in Europe to grow more biotech crops. In doing so, they have cleared the genetically modified potato for cultivation, despite persistent public opposition to the technolo- gy.
- Date:
- 04/03/2010
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- Asian Age (New Delhi)
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Europe gets its first GM food: Potato
The European Union, where genetically modified food crops face stiff opposition on grounds of health and environmental risk, has approved the cultivation of GM potato — the first genetically modified food crop to get a go-ahead there.
- Date:
- 04/03/2010
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- Indian Express (New Delhi)
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Vedanta raises Rs 4,000 crore via bonds issue
Abhineet Kumar / Mumbai March 03, 2010, 0:31 IST
Vedanta Resources, the London-listed holding company for India's largest copper producer, Sterlite Industries, raised $883 million (Rs 4,000 crore) through issue of convertible bonds in Europe.
- Date:
- 03/03/2010
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- Business Standard (New Delhi)
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Tata Motors seeks to electrify Europe
Rohin Nagrani / Geneva March 03, 2010, 0:27 IST
Tata Motors is looking to increase its presence in Europe and believes electric is the way to go. At the Geneva Motor Show, the company previewed the production of the Tata Indica Vista EV, that is to go on sale later this year across Scandanavia and other select markets of Europe.
- Date:
- 03/03/2010
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- Business Standard (New Delhi)
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Shipbreaking: clampdown in Asia will send it to Africa
Ingvild Jenssen from the NGO Platform on Shipbreaking explains how tougher regulations simply relocated the shipbreaking industry, and how the public can help stop the trade.
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- Mar 2010
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- Ecologist
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- Reports and Documents
Rethinking climate diplomacy: new ideas for transatlantic cooperation post-Copenhagen
In this paper, authors Nigel Purvis and Andrew Stevenson argue that the most dangerous thing Europe and the United States could do is ignore the strategic implications of Copenhagen and fall back into old strategies with a new sense of patience. They recommend a fundamental shift in thinking.
- Date:
- Mar 2010
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- The German Marshall Fund of the United States
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Genetically modified seeds 'are everywhere'
"Zero-tolerance" laws designed to keep Europe free of unauthorised GM crops are unworkable, say farmers
- Date:
- Jan 2010
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- New Scientist Issue: 2745 pp: 11
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After US, Toyota recalls cars in Europe, China
Toyota says it is recalling 75,500 vehicles in China for the same gas pedal problem behind the US and European recalls. Toyota Motor Corp on Thursday informed Chinese authorities it will start a recall in February for RAV4 sport utility vehicles that were manufactured in China between March 2009 and January 2010, says spokeswoman Ririko Takeuchi.
- Date:
- 29/01/2010
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- Indian Express (New Delhi)
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Toyota halts US sales of 8 models
The faulty gas pedals that prompted Toyota to suspend US sales of eight of its most popular models — including the Camry, America’s best-selling car — are also in its vehicles sold in Europe, an official with the automaker said Wednesday.
- Date:
- 28/01/2010
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- Indian Express (New Delhi)
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Wrong to label H1N1 alert as fake
Not Taking Pandemic Seriously Is To Trivialize Deaths Of Over 14,000 People: WHO
New Delhi: The World Health Organization has termed allegations of creating a fake pandemic around H1N1 swine flu virus to bring economic benefit to the pharma industry as “scientifically wrong and historically incorrect”.
- Date:
- 27/01/2010
- Source:
- Times Of India (New Delhi)
