Does it matter if the gene introduced in Bt brinjal varies from the natural brinjal by 70 amino acids rather than by one? What if the regulators in the country fail to detect this and rubber stamp

Biotech (Bt) crop technology has more than doubled India’s cotton production, a government report card said today, calling for more such revolutions. “By 2011-12, almost 90 per cent of

Close on the heels of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s call for enhancing “efforts to rid the country of the scourge of malnutrition” through increased production of food grains,

A finger of suspicion that Manmohan Singh pointed at non-governmental organisations last week for pushing foreign agendas has united such bodies in the country, while leaving the government itself