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The writer, chairperson of Gene Campaign, is a scientist and development activist. She can be reached at mail@genecampaign.org.

Suman Sahai | Second Gene Bank May Establish India As a Global Leader in Biodiversity Sector

Suman Sahai | Second Gene Bank May Establish India As a Global Leader...

Most Gene Banks are refrigerated chambers where seeds can be stored and kept viable for long periods of time for use...

20 April 2025 11:35 PM IST

Suman Sahai | Heat shelters are urgently needed as world’s climate is changing swiftly

Suman Sahai | Heat shelters are urgently needed as world’s climate is...

May 2024 set a global record for temperatures, with India facing unprecedented heatwaves, affecting health and...

31 July 2024 12:02 AM IST

Farmers during their Delhi Chalo march, near the Punjab-Haryana Shambhu border, in Patiala district, Saturday, Feb. 24, 2024. (PTI Photo)

Suman Sahai | India must fight to protect food & farm subsidies at Abu...

As the WTO's ministerial conference approaches, India faces crucial discussions on agricultural subsidies and fisheries...

25 Feb 2024 12:05 AM IST

Our water systems are facing multiple problems- climate change is result in drought in one place and heavy rainfall in the next. (Photo: Representational/Pixabay)

Suman Sahai | In India, has the environment now been destroyed beyond...

The 2023 UN Climate Change Conference will be held in Dubai from November 30 to December 12, 2023.

20 Nov 2023 12:05 AM IST

The wrangling over GM mustard reveals the ongoing dispute in society on the suitability of GM crops. (AFP FIle Image)

Suman Sahai | We must build a consensus on technologies which we need

Not just agriculture and food production, in any area where technology is involved, whether science and technology, is...

25 Sept 2023 12:05 AM IST

Hordes of monkeys enter Taj Mahal from the riverside (Photo: AFP)

Suman Sahai | Agriculture faces a threat as man, animal conflicts...

The culling of natural populations of fast-breeding animals like deer, boar, etc, is practiced in many countries,...

28 July 2023 12:00 AM IST

Millets can play a major role in addressing climate induced challenges to Indias food and nutrition security. (DC File Photo)

Suman Sahai | It's time to take millets seriously, to fight climate,...

Millets are of crucial importance to weather the ravages of climate change.

15 Jun 2023 12:11 AM IST

Given the pace of climate change and the havoc it is wreaking, no course correction will be possible unless green technologies already developed by the industrial nations are made available to all countries. (Photo: ANI)

Suman Sahai | India has task cut out to arrange waiver of IPR on...

No course correction will be possible unless green technologies already developed by industrial nations are made...

3 Feb 2023 12:05 AM IST

Some people believe its inevitable theyll develop dementia because of their genetics. (Photo: ANI)

Suman Sahai | Slipshod way of approvals for GM crops very alarming

The use of herbicide destroys all the vegetation in and around the field where the HT crop is cultivated.

21 Nov 2022 1:01 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the inauguration of the 104th session of the Indian Science Congress in Tirupati in January 2017.

Why has the Science Congress been postponed this year?

The postponement of the Science Congress being hosted by Osmania University, Hyderabad this year, is allegedly due to...

15 Jan 2018 2:31 AM IST