Some retailers put restrictions on purchase quantity

Future Group and V-Mart have put in place systems to prevent panic buying at their neighbourhood grocery stores. Retailers on Wednesday said there is enough stock of essential items and groceries......

COLUMN: Why there's a twist in the GM tale

Agricultural scientists are all for gene-altered crops that are safe for the environment and health and are beneficial to farmers, notes Surinder Sud. By raising frivolous objections to the......

GM soya may already be in food chain

Soyabean oil, manufactured from genetically-modified soyabeans, may very much have become part of the food chain, even as activists and scientists remain engaged in an increasingly ugly debate over......

Jairam Ramesh is right

The research on Bt brinjal isn't unequivocal and hasn't been publicly-funded either - given the concerns, it's not worth the risk, says Sunita Narain. As I write this, the Union minister of......