Counter affidavit on behalf of Chief Municipal Engineer, Patna Nagar Nigam in the matter of Saurav Narayan Vs Bihar Pollution Control Board & Others dated May 20, 2025. The report said that the corporation has been diligently performing its statutory duties within the limitations of the available resources and infrastructure. …
Country's private seed companies sought government permission to produce and market genetically engineered (GE) variety Bt Brinjal, officials said. "Six Bangladeshi seed companies including Supreme Seed Company Ltd, GETCO Agro Vision Ltd and Lal Leer Seed Co Ltd, who are engaged in vegetables, rice and maize seed business, have sought …
India has overtaken Canada to emerge as the fourth largest country to grow biotech or genetically modified (GM) crops in 2013 as farmers here planted Bt cotton in about 11 million hectares. In the previous year, farmers in India had planted Bt cotton — the only approved GM crop for …
Campaigners against genetically modified crops on Tuesday urged the government to immediately withdraw genetically modified Bt brinjal sapling and stop the process of introducing other GM crops including ‘potato and golden rice.’ At a human chain formed in front of the National Press Club, they also warned that European countries …
European Union ministers hit deadlock on Tuesday on whether to let a new strain of genetically modified (GM) maize be grown on EU soil for human consumption, clearing the way for the bloc's executive arm to approve the crop automatically. European Commission endorsement of insect-resistant Pioneer 1507, developed jointly by …
The government has allowed commercial cultivation of Bt cotton, while moratorium has been put on Bt brinjal There are no "credible scientific reports" to prove that genetically modified (GM) crops have adverse impact on environment, human health and livestock, the government said in Parliament today. "No madam, there are no …
Authorities in Bangladesh have released the country’s first ever genetically modified crop to farmers amid criticism from environmental groups, officials said on Friday. Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI) has begun distributing the seedlings of four types of genetically modified aubergine following approval from the government’s biosafety regulator. “We have released …
While the government is looking to deliberate on the bio-safety bill in the upcoming session, some sections are cautioning more awareness and consultation on the subject before finalising the law. The highlight of the bill is on regulating and monitoring genetically modified organisms (GMO) and other products derived from GMOs. …
The government’s attempts to get the Environment Ministry to support field trials have failed. The government’s attempts to persuade the Environment Ministry to accept the Agriculture, and Science and Technology Ministries’ views in favour of immediately going ahead with field trials of genetically modified (GM) food crops have failed so …
The government’s attempts to get the Environment Ministry to support field trials have failed. The government’s attempts to persuade the Environment Ministry to accept the Agriculture, and Science and Technology Ministries’ views in favour of immediately going ahead with field trials of genetically modified (GM) food crops have failed so …
New minister to allow field trials, reversing stand of predecessors Ramesh and Natarajan Environment Minister Veerappa Moily is expected to cast his vote in favour of allowing genetically modified (GM) food crops in the country, overturning the position of his immediate predecessors — Jayanthi Natarajan and Jairam Ramesh. Moily’s support …
Supporters of genetically-modified (GM) crops are likely to draw the Supreme Court’s notice on the retraction by the Food and Chemical Toxicology Journal of the only study on adverse effects of GM corn to justify their case for allowing field trials in the country. The Supreme Court will resume hearing …
With ceremonious flourish last week, Governor Dannel Malloy signed into law a bill that would require labeling on all products meant for human consumption that contain genetically modified ingredients (GMO). The legislation was passed by voters in June and actually received the governor's formal endorsement at that time. The Dec. …
A fierce public debate over GM food exposes concerns about America. Of the many thousands of usually small protests that break out in China every year, few relate to national policy. Many consider the risk of challenging the central government too great. But the entrance to the agriculture ministry is …
Scientists and others, who are in favour of genetically-modified (GM) food crops, have got support from an unexpected quarter — a Nobel laureate. Richard J. Roberts, who won the Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine in 1993, on Monday made a forceful case for promoting research on GM food crops …
A top U.S. Federal Reserve official on Monday suggested that farmers consider a path toward internationally accepted standards for genetically modified crops, following rejections of U.S. corn shipments by China. Dallas Federal Reserve Bank President Richard Fisher told a gathering of farmers in Chicago that it was important that the …
IN AUGUST environmentalists in the Philippines vandalised a field of Golden Rice, an experimental grain whose genes had been modified to carry beta-carotene, a chemical precursor of vitamin A. Golden Rice is not produced by a corporate behemoth but by the public sector. Its seeds will be handed out free …
Genetically modified maize causes cancer: that was the gist of one of the most controversial studies in recent memory, published in September 2012 by Food and Chemical Toxicology. Well, actually, it doesn’t. On November 28th the journal retracted it. This followed criticism that the rats used in the experiment were …
World hunger is a multifaceted problem that cannot be solved by technological changes alone. Meanwhile industrial agriculture is unsustainable, and technological adjustments based on genetic engineering have not been able to achieve the relevant Millennium Development Goals; instead, they have introduced products that restrict farmer-based innovation, in situ conservation and …
A new German grand coalition government would seek tougher regulations in the European Union for labeling of meat from farm animals that have eaten genetically-modified organisms (GMOs), a policy draft showed. Angela Merkel's conservatives and the Social Democrats (SPD) are starting a decisive week of German coalition talks and are …
Hundreds of scientists have raised serious concerns about “open air field trials (outside glasshouse)” of genetically modified (GM) crops in India by writing a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday. Incidentally Bangladesh officially gave a conditional approval for planting of certain varieties of genetically modified Bt Brinjal recently. …
