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. …
A three-year moratorium has been put on the use of genetically modified organisms (gmos) in the state of Victoria in Australia. The need for comprehensive inquiry and public debate on the contentious issue has spawned the decision, taken by the Municipal Association of Victoria (mav)
nearly one-fifth of the farmers in the us midwest are ignoring federal rules about how much transgenic maize they should plant, indicates a recent study. Experts fear this non-compliance could encourage pests to develop resistance to the insecticide produced by the crop. Some transgenic maize contains a gene from the …
reports about the demise of the y chromosome and a consequent extinction of men are exaggerated. This was revealed during the genetic sequencing of the much talked about chromosome. The male-determining y has long been considered a vestigial chromosome
The row over genetically modified (gm) food has taken on strong political overtones in the uk. As part of a controversial cabinet reshuffle, British Prime Minister Tony Blair has asked environment minister Michael Meacher to step down. Meacher, who had held this post since 1997, was an outspoken critic of …
farmers from developing countries may no longer be forced to buy expensive seeds of genetically modified (gm) plants. A new variety of gm plant will produce fertile seeds that carry desirable traits, but are incapable of spreading engineered genes into the environment. Environmentalists have long warned about the dangers of …
THE Paris-based International Council for Science, a federation of more than 100 national science academies, has come out with the biggest review of scientific literature on genetically modified (GM) crops. The review provides guarantee: GM foods presently in circulation are safe for consumption. It also avoides judgement: the future safety …
Illegal variants of GM seeds are threatening the future of cotton in India The biotech revolution in India has turned into a nightmare. At least in Gujarat, where cotton farmers are happily using illegal versions of genetically-modified (GM) cotton seeds. The so-called regulator set up by the environment ministry, the …
fifty years ago, on February 28, 1953, two young men walked into the Eagle, a dingy pub in Cambridge, and announced that they had discovered the secret of life. James D Watson and Francis Crick had found that the dna was the key to evolution. Like many others, Crick's wife, …
post-Iraq, the us is gearing up for another fight. This time, it is over the export of genetically modified (gm) food to the eu. The us is moving the World Trade Organization (wto), along with Argentina, Canada and Egypt against the eu's "five-year moratorium' on allowing the sale of gm …
A recent draft measure by the new Brazilian government to control the country's rampant illegal transgenic soya trade has created a storm among those for and against genetically modified (gm) soya. There is widespread support as well as antagonism towards such varieties of the crop in Brazil (see: Down To …
The uk's Food Standards Agency (fsa) has sought the people's opinion on the controversial issue of genetically modified (gm) crops. The watchdog body seeks to engage a "citizen's jury', comprising 16 people from the town of Slough in the southern part of the country, to discuss whether gm food should …
The hazards of cloning were revealed yet again after scientists in the us had to put to sleep one of two banteng calves they had cloned. The researchers took the step as the animal was "abnormally large'. While the "healthy' calf was normal in size (20 kilogrammes or kg), the …
Australian researchers have developed a unique technique to check the rapid growth of mouse population. The government-backed Cooperative Research Centre (crc) for Biological Control of Pest Animals has produced a genetically modified herpes virus that makes sexually prolific female mice infertile by blocking sperm from entering their eggs. "We know …
are genetically modified (gm) crops threatening biodiversity? Not really, if the results of a small-scale trial being conducted in Denmark are to be trusted. The tests suggest that engineered sugar beet is more beneficial to wildlife than its conventional counterpart. In their experiments in Jutland from 1999 to 2001, ecologists …
for some, it was the logical outcome of more than a decade of intensive research. For others, it was the culmination of a mind-boggling journey through uncharted territory. Either way, the recent completion of the human genome project is seen as a landmark development. And the breakthrough couldn't have been …
