After more than a year, the Prakash Javadekar led Environment Ministry today finally called a meeting of the Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC) to decide on field trials for a number of

The government may not be pushing hard for field trials of genetically modified (GM) crops due to pressure from an RSSlinked group, but the Centre's premier agriculture research body has emphasized

US researchers say it has become "virtually impossible" to plant genetically modified trees in any part of the world.

Rapid alteration of gene pools could fight disease – and harm ecosystems.

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Years after the government imposed an indefinite moratorium on the commercial release of Bt Brinjal, genetically-modified for resistance to the fruit and shoot borer, a principal scientist of the N

Refers matter to Anil Kakodkar-led committee

A 'double-muscled' pig has been created by editing just one gene by scientists in South Korea and China.

NAGPUR: As Central Institute Research of Cotton Research (CICR) makes a second bid to develop an indigenous Bt cotton seed, the premier government agency already has 21 varieties of this geneticall

BATHINDA: Punjab chapter of the NGO 'Coalition for GM free India' has warned the state government against going ahead with field trials of genetically modified mustard and maize crops.

NAGPUR: Just a few days before five private parties were to go ahead with field trials of genetically modified (GM) rice and chickpea (kabuli chana), the Devendra Fadnavis-led BJP-Shiv Sena governm

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