Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is set to secure a record fourth straight term as her Awami League party was on Sunday leading in most of the seats in the general elections marred by......
The AAP has adopted policies in an ad hoc manner, without thinking them through, says Praful Bidwai. As the Lok Sabha election looms, India's political battle-lines are being redrawn. The Congress,......
Political leaders cutting across party lines have joined hands with the civil society to launch a nationwide campaign against GM crops and the Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India Bill. The......
If Kuldip Nayar were a Russian, he would have publicly demanded a prison sentence for Vladimir Putin -- for permitting the use of a nerve gas that choked the human rights and lives of 60-odd......
The Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC) has recommended the environmental release of the genetically modified (GM) mustard variety DMH (Dhara Mustard Hybrid)-11, paving the way for the......
There has been strong opposition from organisations influential with the government against approval to GM foods. The Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC) under the environment ministry......
Activists are aghast that at a time when the entire nation is concerned with laxity in food safety regulation as seen in the Maggi case, the Modi government is pushing GM food crops without......
Efforts by Indian activists to challenge the Biotechnology Regulatory Authority Bill, now pending in Parliament, may get a boost from a controversy that has broken out in the US Agricultural......
For several years now, a beef producer in the US has been trying its best to test its cattle for mad cow disease. The brain-wasting disease is rare, but deadly, since it can kill people who eat......