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. …
fishy plant: A team of Australian scientists has created a plant that yields the highly beneficial long-chain omega-3 fatty acids usually found in fish oil. Allan Green of CSIRO, an Australian research organisation in Canberra, and his team have developed a type of thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana) by inserting genes …
Are you the leaseholder for lease number 522/03? Yes, that lease is under my name Do you yourself operate the lease? No. It is being operated by Arjun Singh of Jaisalmer. I work as a daily wage labourer in the same mine. How did you get the lease? I did …
transgenic crops may be more vulnerable to pests than believed. If plants carrying one foreign insecticidal gene are grown next to those with two such genes, insects can rapidly develop resistance to both, according to a study by scientists at Cornell University in the us. The scientists studied plants containing …
family tree: An interesting project using genetics to trace how humans colonised the earth was launched recently. Called the Genographic Project, it proposes to collect DNA from hundreds of thousands of people worldwide, including indigenous people, over the next five years. By analysing the DNA, researchers working on the project …
in the first case of its kind, Japanese scientists have incorporated a human gene into the rice genome to evolve a variety resistant to several herbicides. The move, however, has kicked up a controversy with many people opposing the use of a human gene in food. Usually, genetically modified (gm) …
gm cotton ban: On May 3, 2005, the Union government's Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC) barred commercial cultivation of three varieties of genetically modified (GM) cotton hybrids in Andhra Pradesh. The three varieties, manufactured by the Maharashtra Hybrid Seeds Company Limited, are Mech-12, Mech-162 and Mech-184. They had completed three …
After piecing together dna sequences from oceans, chicken, rice, dog and man, geneticists are now chasing microbes in the urban air, reported the online edition of the journal Nature on March 9, 2005. Researchers at a private genomic institute set up by genomics pioneer Craig Venter in the us are …
lake on mars: Claims that life exists on Mars were boosted when scientists recently declared they saw the remains of a frozen sea on the planet's surface and speculated the ice may hold preserved organisms. Planetary geologists led by John Murray of Britain's Open University said the evidence comes from …
for long, the South Indian elephant population ranging the forests has been treated as one collective. Now, studies conducted by researchers at the Indian Institute of Science have shown that there exists a genetic difference between the elephants in the Nilgiri mountain range and those free-ranging in the Anamalai and …
The resistance to transgenic crops is growing in Italy. Of the 1,209 municipalities in the country's northern Piedmont region, 248 recently declared themselves free from genetically modified organisms (gmos ), according to Coldiretti, the Italian farmers' association. The number is expected to rise further, especially in the region's Turin province. …
• Alignment of chicken and human genomes indicates some 2,000 human genes may actually start at sites different than what scientists had thought. This may have an impact on the understanding of human disease and the design of new therapies • Chicken genes that code for eggshell-specific proteins, such as …
chinese scientists have mapped the genome (genetic make-up) of silkworm (Bombyx mori), a moth economically important to a large number of people in Asia, including about six million in India. The work, by a battery of 93 scientists drawn from several Chinese institutions, appeared in the December 10 issue of …
Biotech giant Monsanto will participate in the drafting of a new legislation to regulate the trade of genetically modified (gm) seeds in Argentina. Monsanto (us) had recently complained about non-payment of royalties by the country's farmers who used the Roundup Ready soya seeds for which Monsanto held the patent. It …
wheat growers may no longer worry about drought, with scientists from Egypt's Agricultural Genetic Engineering Research Institute (ageri) evolving a drought-resistant variety of the crop. The development will reduce the number of irrigation cycles required per growing season from eight to one. Moreover, the wheat can be cultivated with only …
scientists from the Hyderabad-based International Crop Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (icrisat) are altering the genetic make-up of groundnut to produce varieties that can withstand viral and fungal attacks. One of the genetically modified (gm) varieties, which will effectively ward off the Indian peanut clump virus (ipcv), will be …
calling trouble: As per a study of Sweden-based Karolinska Institutet, 10 or more years of mobile phone use increases the risk of acoustic neuroma, a tumour on the auditory nerve. no more allergic: Researchers from the University College London, UK, have found that by inactivating a molecule called p110delta, effects …
