Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh today hit back at scientists who had accused him of holding biased public consultations on Bt brinjal. He said Vikram Sarabhai and Satish Dhawan, the two science stalwarts of India, would not have behaved in similar manner. "My conscience is clear. I have listened to all points of view," said Ramesh. He has come under criticism from a section of the scientific community
By putting an open-ended moratorium on the commercial cultivation of the gene-altered Bt brinjal, environment minister Jairam Ramesh has ended the long-pending uncertainty over this issue. If,
Union Minister for Agriculture and Food Sharad Pawar today said a new seed can be introduced only after the Ministry of Environment and Forests has cleared it. He was reacting to the Centre’s
Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh today imposed a "moratorium" on the commercialisation of Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) brinjal until such time as long-term scientific studies could establish its
Scientists and activists have welcomed the decision of Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh to defer commercialisation of Bt brinjal. Even Maharashtra Hybrid Seed Company (Mahyco), which created the
In a significant decision, the Himachal Pradesh government has given its nod to an anti-hail gun and radar system in the hail-prone fruit-growing areas of the hill state.
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