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Thursday, September 4, 2025
TopicGM foods

Topic: GM foods

Disease-resistant potatoes, fortified bananas — 2 more GM crops get govt nod, trials this year

Mohana Basu -
Over past couple of months, govt panel has given go-ahead to field trials for several GM crops. There's still apprehension that anti-GM activism could derail trials.

Why the success of the purple tomato is a win for GM foods

Yang Yue -
The ignorance about GM products and the reluctance of government policymakers have impeded the progress of genetically modified foods to the market.

I am launching a civil disobedience movement against moratorium on GM crops. Here’s why

Anil Ghanwat -
I respect the rule of law but today, I will plant Bt brinjal on my farm to launch the ‘Feed India civil disobedience movement’. GM crops need revival.

Did EU get GM rice from India? Govt & experts say impossible shipment was ‘contaminated’

Samyak Pandey -
In June, EU flagged 500 tonnes of rice converted to flour for GM content, and claimed it was from India. Now, anti-GM groups have written to govt alleging ‘contamination or leaks’.

Mushrooms are the next big thing in the meat-free protein market

Johnny Wood -
Mycoprotein, found by fermenting spores of mushrooms, has a meat-like structure that gives both a cost and texture advantage over plant-based proteins.

MS Swaminathan and his co-authors are not helping Indian farmers at a moment of crisis

Devang Mehta -
Swaminathan and P.C. Kesavan's latest piece trashing the use of GMOs is littered with scientific untruths and misrepresents the technology.

GM foods are safe. We don’t need labels with smiley faces to sell them

Mary Duenwald -
There’s no need to dress up the labels to suggest that genetic modification makes foods somehow better. That risks misleading the public.

Modi govt wants NITI Aayog to play peacemaker in GM row

Rajgopal Singh -
The idea is to bring supporters and opponents of GM technology into the same room and sort out differences.

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Opinion

Counter-insurgency is Indian military’s reality. Op Sindoor was brief flash in combat spectrum

Manvendra Singh -
The Chief of Defence Staff was spot on when he declared war fighting as ‘military’s bread and butter.’

Superman Modi to superpower meeting — Indian TV anchors script a Tianjin blockbuster

Why India should let the rupee fall

Economy

GST 2.0: India streamlines indirect tax regime amid Trump tariffs & what it means for consumers

Sampurna Panigrahi -
Goods and Services Tax Council paves way for a broad two-slab structure of 5% and 18% with a demerit rate of 40% for super luxury and 'sin' goods.

Defence

Choppy ride for India’s submarine ambition: Project P-751 chugs forward, Scorpenes a stinging tale

Snehesh Alex Philip -
With P75I still years away & the follow-on Scorpenes stuck, India’s long-promised 30-yr submarine plan remains behind schedule

National Interest

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

Shekhar Gupta -
From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.

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