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. …
All Nepal Peasants’ Federation has declared a war to prevent Monsanto from coming to Nepal. The farmers’ wing has vowed that it would force the government and USAID to annul the agreement signed with the Monsanto company, a US-based producer of genetically engineered seeds, to introduce hybrid corn seeds for …
KOLKATA, 23 NOV: As many as 10 former Supreme Court judges, several members of Parliament, over 200 organisations and one lakh citizens have asked the Prime Minister, Mr Manmohan Singh, to scrap the proposed Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India (BRAI) Bill in its present form that is set to be …
Contrary to its opposition early this year to genetically modified crops, Madhya Pradesh is now taking its time to decide the fate of field trials of maize cleared recently by the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC) of the Ministry of Environment and Forests. The committee has recently permitted Monsanto to …
This May Help Raise Tweaked Bugs To Fight Insect-Borne Diseases And Control Pests These mosquitoes are genetically engineered to kill — their own children. Researchers on Sunday reported initial signs of success from the first release into the environment of mosquitoes engineered to pass a lethal gene to their offspring, …
The Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India Bill, 2011 (Bill No. 54 of 2011, BRAI Bill, 2011) was proposed by Shri. Vilasrao Deshmukh, Minister of Science and Technology and Earth Sciences, in the Monsoon Session of the Lok Sabha on 27th July 2011. However, it was not taken up as the …
Researchers on Sunday reported initial signs of success from the first release into the environment of mosquitoes engineered to pass a lethal gene to their offspring, killing them before they reach adulthood. The results, and other work elsewhere, could herald an age in which genetically modified insects will be used …
The field trial of a genetically modified rice variety has been deferred till an expert committee formed to look into the food security aspect submits its report. The West Bengal Environment Minister, Mr Sudarshan Ghosh Dastidar, said here that the three-member committee would file its report on October 30 after …
Pigs could become the new source of organs and cells for humans, treating a range of disorders. With shortage of organs and cells from dead people restricting transplantation, organs from genetically-modified pigs equipped with genes to protect them from the human immune response are set to power a medical revolution. …
Increasing population and consumption are placing unprecedented demands on agriculture and natural resources. Today, approximately a billion people are chronically malnourished while our agricultural systems are concurrently degrading land, water, biodiversity and climate on a global scale. To meet the world’s future food security and sustainability needs, food production must …
Genetic engineering has failed to increase the yield of any food crop but has vastly increased the use of chemicals and the growth of "superweeds". The GMO Emperor has no clothes empowers citizens to create a GMO-free world, rich in biodiversity and healthy food. It also advances alternatives that are …
BIOTECH companies in the agriculture sector have taken to a publicity blaze in recent months, splashing advertisements that extol the “inherent safety” of genetically modified (GM) crops along with organising a series of farmer meets and press conferences aimed at promoting transgenic technology as the “powerful and safe” way to …
Scientists said they had produced the first stemcells from endangered species, a breakthrough that could potentially save dozens of animals teetering on the brink of extinction. "The best way to manage extinction is to preserve species and habitats but that is not always working," Oliver Ryder, director of genetics at …
Injecting a bacteria into mosquitoes can block them from transmitting the dengue virus and help control the spread of a disease that kills 20,000 annually in more than 100 countries, scientists have found. In two papers published in the journal Nature, researchers in Australia showed how female mosquitoes infected with …
Scientists have made a promising advance for controlling dengue fever, a tropical disease spread by mosquito bites. They've rapidly replaced mosquitoes in the wild with skeeters that don't spread the dengue virus. More than 50 million people a year get the dengue virus from being bitten by infected mosquitoes in …
Releasing genetically modified, spermless male mosquitoes into the wild could in future help to prevent malaria transmission and reduce the chances of large outbreaks of the killer disease, British scientists said on Monday. Researchers from Imperial College London sterilized male mosquitoes by genetically modifying them to neutralize a gene required …
Cotton leaf curl virus disease is one of the major threats for cotton production and has emerged as a serious disease of cotton in North India. Cotton leaf curl disease (CLCuD) is caused by a geminivirus, transmitted by whitefly (Bemisia tabaci) vector. Genetic engineering of cotton transgenics resistant to CLCuD …
South Korean scientists said on Wednesday they have created a glowing dog using a cloning technique that could help find cures for human diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, Yonhap news agency reported. A research team from Seoul National University (SNU) said the genetically modified female beagle, named Tegon and …
Transgenics or GE/GM crops are one of the oft-used tools of modern biotechnology, deployed in our food and farming systems. Genetically Modified (GM) or Genetically Engineered (GE) crops are created unnaturally by inserting genes, taken usually from alien organisms like bacteria, viruses, animals and other unrelated plants, for obtaining certain …
