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. …
P.M. Bhargava The proposed bill to create such an authority is entirely industry-centric. The proposal to create a National Biotechnology Regulatory Authority (NBRA), for which a draft bill is now in circulation, is being moved in an unprofessional manner by the Government of India. The bill is driven by the …
This paper analyzes a period of contention about Genetically Modified (GM) crops, specifically BT cotton, in India over the last six years. In this paper aim to further understanding of the role of transnational activist networks (TANs) in helping to construct new forms of interest representation in the developing world. …
Regulatory Complexity, Laxity And Incompetence Are Posing Serious Threat To Nature, Limiting R&D; IT IS good news that the government is expediting the process of setting up the national biotechnology regulatory authority, which is envisaged as a dextrous, one-stop facility. Even after a fair degree of streamlining of the regulation …
Malaysia is looking to battle dengue fever by releasing mosquitoes that have been genetically engineered to be sterile. Although these efforts have stirred public concern, the country's Academy of Sciences is likely to recommend the strategy to the government within a month. Original Source
NEW YORK: Researchers in New York have created what is believed to be the first genetically engineered human embryo, which critics immediately branded as a step toward "designer babies." But the researchers, at Cornell University, say they used an abnormal embryo that could never have turned into a baby. "This …
The Central government has announced a Rs.100-crore special grant to the Thiruvananthapuram-based Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology (RGCB) which was taken over by the Department of Biotechnology on April 1, 2007. The money is to be spent over three years. Orders have been issued to release Rs.25 crore this year …
Hundreds of farmers and consumers from 15 states gathered in the Capital demanding a moratorium on genetically modified (GM) crops. The protest under the banner of the Coalition for a GM-free India comes at a time when the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC) is slated to consider Mahyco's application for …
Hundreds of farmers under the banner of "Coalition for a GM-Free India' gathered here on Tuesday to demand a total ban on genetically modified (GM) crops and food saying it would affect not only humans but livestock, soil and environment. They urged the political parties to take a categorical stand …
Civil society organisations working on the food security issues here have expressed concern over what they describe as lack of public participation in policy-making on bio-safety in India in the run-up to the international conference of the signatories to the Cartagena Protocol on Bio-safety to be held in Bonn, Germany, …
The European Commission might again put pff a decision on whether farmers can grow more genetically modified crops when it holds a long-awaited biotech policy debate in May, officials said yesterday, Reuters reports from Brussels. After months of expectation, the Commission has finally decided on May 7 for a debate …
February 2006: Divya Raghunandan of Greenpeace files RTI application with Department of Biotechnology (DBT), seeking data on gm plants March 2006: DBT gives information on trial sites; says rest of the data is confidential and proprietary and cannot be shared April 2006: Raghunandan goes to DBT's Appellate Authority for help …
Cotton's resurgence signals the path ahead for meeting rising food demand. Adoption of simple farm technologies too can fetch higher yields. The cotton farmer, in India, particularly in Vidarbha, is renowned for his despair and for his alarming propensity to suicide. Yet, last fortnight, even as the "farm loan waivers" …
The International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD) was set up to take stock of our knowledge, technology and policy, and help find a way to feed the world without destroying it . With $12 million funding from the World Bank, UN Environment Programme, UN Food and …
The genetic engineering approval committee (GEAC) on Wednesday considered new applications for commercial release of Bt cotton expressing approved gene events. According to sources, the GEAC discussed application relating to field trials and commercial approval of transgenic hybridsm expressing cry 1 Ac gene (MON 531 event), stacked genes cry 1Ac …
Agricultural technologies, unlike many other technologies, have a major impact on human beings and other life forms. This is because of the huge magnitude of this human activity
National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering (NIBGE) will undertake eleven new research projects from next month. NIBGE sources mentioned that among these projects include, Cloning of cellulase genes for ethanol production from plant biomass, Chloroplast-based over expression of pharmaceuticals to develop cost-effective therapeutics, cloning, expression and characterisation of INGAP …
The Central Silk Board (CSB), the apex body of the Indian sericulture industry, is involved in developing new hybrids to improve bivoltine silk production in sub-tropical Northern India. Among northern states, Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, and Uttaranchal are the traditional bivoltine silk producers in the region. Despite more potential …
The Tamil Nadu Agricutlural University (TNAU) has denied that its trial on Bt brinjal is based on an MoU or an agreement with private seed companies like Monsanto and Mahyco. Reacting to the remarks mady by Selvam, secretary, Erode Organic Farmers Collective, the TNAU said Genetically Engineered (GE) trials were …
The core point in your story Sane Cow Mi/let (Feb 11) is off the mark as it seems to convey that marker assisted breeding, (mab) is not genetic modification, thus is less risky than GM technology. Agreed, mab is more refined than conventional plant breeding, but it still is GM …
Even as the issues of Genetically Engineered (GE) paddy crop raised at Alandurai village here last year are still fresh in the minds of farmers and environmentalists, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) has came in for severe criticism for raising Bt Brinjal using the GE technology in its premises on …
