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Trade deals weaponised to enforce strict seed patents, warns new report

India, Oct. 16 -- New report by GRAIN warns of growing corporate control over seeds via free trade agreements. Powerful economies - including the US, EU, Japan and the UAE - are pushing harsh IP rule... Read More


Built to binge

India, Oct. 16 -- The world has long known how cigarettes hijack the brain. Light one, inhale, and the nicotine hit is instant. Within seconds, the chemical acts on the brain to induce a pleasurable s... Read More


How to prevent pest attacks? Trick them by plant scents

India, Oct. 9 -- What if the solution to devastating pest attacks wasn't to kill the insects, but to convince them to go elsewhere? This is exactly what a team of scientists in Argentina is doing by m... Read More


Indian diets heavy on carbs and sugar linked to surge in diabetes, study finds

New Delhi, Oct. 1 -- Summary New Nature Medicine study finds 62% of Indian calories come from carbohydrates Refined cereals, milled grains and sugar raise diabetes risk by up to 14% 21 states exceed... Read More


As 2025 southwest monsoon season officially ends, 20% Indian districts observe rain deficit

New Delhi, Sept. 30 -- The 2025 southwest monsoon season officially ended on September 30 with above normal rainfall. However, of the total 727 districts, 20 per cent observed rain deficit during this... Read More


Lightning strikes took over 2,500 lives in 2023: NCRB data

New Delhi, Sept. 30 -- A total of 6,444 deaths in the country happened due to 'forces of nature' like lightning, heat stroke, and floods, in 2023. As per the latest National Crime Records Bureau (NCR... Read More


Extreme heat threatening worker safety and productivity globally: WHO, WMO sound alarm on growing workplace heat stress

New Delhi, Aug. 22 -- An increase of one degree beyond 20 degrees Celsius (degrees C) in wet-bulb global temperature (WBGT) slashes global worker productivity by 2-3 per cent, while also causing addit... Read More


Biofuels: Area under maize cultivation in India increases sharply, driven by push for ethanol

New Delhi, Aug. 14 -- Summary India's maize cultivation has surged by 9 lakh hectares in the 2025-26 kharif season, driven by the ethanol push. The government's E20 ethanol-blending program has incre... Read More


Transforming global food system could spare land larger than Africa, scientists say

New Delhi, Aug. 14 -- Summary Nature study finds cutting food waste by 75% and replacing most unsustainable red meat with sustainable seafood could spare 30m sq km of land by 2050. Combined with rest... Read More


Odisha releases new roadmap to bring landraces under formal seed systems

New Delhi, Aug. 1 -- Summary Odisha has launched a new SOP to integrate traditional seed varieties, known as landraces, into formal seed systems. This initiative aims to conserve agrobiodiversity and... Read More