Supreme Court notice to govt on HT GM mustard field trials
The Supreme Court on Monday sought response from the government on a plea asking it to initiate contempt against three members of the Genetic Engineering Appraisal...
View ArticleStop Bt Brinjal movement from Bangladesh to India: Activists
Kolkata, Dec 2 (IANS) Activists and scientists have urged the West Bengal government to intervene and take up with the central government the issue of trans-boundary movement of Bt Brinjal - a...
View ArticleGroup of Secys recommends promotion of two GM pulses
A Biosafety Risk Assessment Unit has been created and is functional for the last few months. While it is yet to take a final call on allowing commercial cultivation of genetically modified hybrid...
View ArticleGM mustard hybrid plagued with technical flaws
Nagpur: Even after Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC) of the Union ministry of environment, forests and climate change has put the commercialization of genetically modified (GM) mustard,...
View ArticleCentre seeks review of GM mustard
NEW DELHI: Central regulator Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC) has asked Delhi University's Centre for Genetic...
View ArticleScientists differ over GM mustard's performance
The genetically modified mustard, which is under the government's consideration for commercial release, yielded less in farmers’ field when compared with popular varieties, a retired crop scientist has...
View ArticleFarmers from 16 states bat for GM mustard
BENGALURU: More than 1.38 lakh farmers from 16 states including Karnataka have submitted a petition to the Union environment minister Prakash Javadekar in favour of genetically modified (GM) mustard....
View ArticleRelease biosafety data on GM mustard, says CIC
The Central Information Commission (CIC) has asked the Union Environment Ministry to release the biosafety data on the trials of genetically modified mustard in the public domain after screening out...
View ArticleFarmer bodies demand commercialisation of GM Mustard
New Delhi, Mar 30 () A consortium of six farmer bodies today demanded for commercialisation of GM Mustard crop saying this will help in increasing yield and farmers income in the country by more than...
View ArticleCIC wants all bio-safety data on GM mustard public by April 30
NEW DELHI: In a move which may bring transparency in the decision making process on the fate of transgenic food crops in India, the Central Information Commission (CIC) has directed the Genetic...
View ArticleMake GM mustard biosafety data public: CIC
The Central Information Commission (CIC), the arbitrator on Right To Information requests, has asked the Environment Ministry to make public all the data pertaining to the safety of...
View ArticleMake public biosafety info on GM mustard, says Central Information Commission
NEW DELHI: In an order intended to make the decision-making process on transgenic food crops in India more transparent, the Central Information Commission (CIC) has directed the Genetic Engineering...
View Article‘Make public biosafety info on GM mustard’
NEW DELHI: In an order intended to make the decision-making process on transgenic food crops in India more transparent, the Central Information Commission (CIC) has directed the Genetic Engineering...
View ArticleGroup of secys calls for fixing GM crop regulatory issues
New Delhi, May 3 () A group of secretaries has recommended resolving regulatory issues of genetically modified (GM) crops, Parliament was informed today. Bt cotton is the only GM crop allowed for...
View ArticleGovt takes time to okay commercial cultivation of GM mustard
The NDA government has approved 18 field trials of genetically modified crops in the last two years, but needed more time to decide on the commercial cultivation of GM mustard. “In the last two years,...
View ArticleCentral regulator to take a call on fate of GM mustard tomorrow
NEW DELHI: In what could be a significant step to decide the fate of genetically modified (GM) food crop in India, the country's central regulator - Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC) -...
View ArticleActivists vow to step up resistance to GM mustard
New Delhi, Jul 18 () A group of activists today said they will step up their resistance to approval of GM mustard and demanded fixing liability on crop developers for providing "false" evidence to the...
View ArticleMake GM mustard data public, biotech regulator tells developers
GMO hybrid mustard The country’s top biotechnology regulatory body Monday asked developers of a genetically-modified mustard variety to place documentation related to the variety in public domain in...
View ArticleNo fresh tests for GM mustard
The Environment Ministry is unlikely to prescribe fresh tests to ascertain the safety of genetically-modified (GM) mustard even as environmental activists on Monday alleged that the GM mustard, under...
View ArticleAsk Centre to disallow GM crops, Jaya urged
CHENNAI: Farmers, trade unions and activists on Monday urged chief minister J Jayalalithaa to write to the Centre against approving any genetically modified food crops like mustard. While AIADMK in...
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