BANGALORE, India — Prompted by the imminent decision of the government to approve large scale open air field trials for genetically modified (GM) food crops; hordes of tomatoes, corn, potatoes, brinjals, and lady's fingers committed mass suicide...

DELHI, India — Following the German government’s decision to ban Monsanto’s 810 BT Corn, Greenpeace India today urged all Indian political parties to take a similar pro-active stand against all GM food and pay heed to bio-safety concerns of...

NEW DELHI, India — The Minister for Science and Technology, Prithviraj Chavan was demanded to be arrested for establishing the Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India (BRAI) today at the Anusandhan Bhavan Premises today. The group of...

CHENNAI, India — 15 activists from the Safe Food Alliance confronted 150 MLAs who were on their way to the assembly today, and demanded that they address the issue of Genetically Modified food crops in the state. They requested the MLAs to raise...

NEW DELHI, India — The 91st meeting of Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC) witnessed an unprecedented youth outrage today when a group of 50 anxious youths gathered outside the meeting place at CGO complex, raised ‘STOP’ symbols and...

CHENNAI, India — "The future of our nation, and the next generation is at stake. If Genetically Modified (GM) Food is not stopped from entering the country, we will have no surety for the youth of our nation or even our health" said Jai Krishna,...

KANCHEEPURAM, TAMIL NADU, India — In the midst of a 10,000 party workers and farmers gathering from Tamil Nadu that thronged to listen to the Union Health Minister, Dr. Anbumani Ramadoss, at a public meeting, Greenpeace campaigners took the...

NEW DELHI, India — Greenpeace knocked on the doors of Health Ministry today to remind Dr Ramadoss, the Health Minister about the health risks of GM foods. The activists piled up the illegal GM chips packets in front of the Ministry while...

NEW DELHI, India — Highlighting the imminent threat of genetically engineered food crops making its run through India's food chain, Greenpeace today slammed the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) for its scruffy act in collaborating...

CHANDIGARH, India — The global rejection of Genetically Engineered (GE) rice is revealed as 41 of the world’s biggest rice exporters, processors, and retailers issued written commitments to stay GE free. This worldwide tide of vehement opposition...

CHENNAI, India — New, environmentally sustainable and consumer-friendly technologies effectively render the imprecise Genetic Engineering (GE) technology both obsolete and unnecessary, according to a new report released today by Greenpeace.

NEW DELHI, India — After three days of sustained pressure, union agriculture and food minister Mr. Sharad Pawar met Greenpeace activists at his residence this morning. Mr Pawar assured he would take into account the concerns raised by Greenpeace...

DELHI, India — Three 'cows' and three 'sheep', on behalf of 1600 dead cattle, sought an audience with the Minister of Agriculture Mr. Sharad Pawar this morning to present a memorandum (1) drawing his attention to the mysterious deaths of cattle...

NEW DELHI, India — The Genetic Engineering Approval Committee [GEAC] and the State Governments today accepted that they are not kept informed by the companies on where the GM crop trials are happening. This was revealed at a meeting convened by...

NEW DELHI, India — 10th August 2004, New Delhi: Greenpeace activists were the first to greet delegates arriving at the FICCI auditorium this morning for the inauguration of the three-day conference 'Agricultural Bio-technology - Ushering in the...

HYDERABAD, India — A group of young citizens today called on Bayer Bio-Science with placards saying ‘Arrest Me Too, I Say No To GM Rice’ at the company’s office in Tolichowki, Hyderabad. The activists also presented to Bayer officials hundreds of...

HYDERABAD, India — Greenpeace activists today raided a genetically modified (GM) rice field trial of Bayer Crop Science in a company-owned research farm in the village of Chinnakanjarla, about 45 kilometers from Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh. 10...

KOLHAPUR, India — On “Shaheed Diwas” marked across India in the honour of the martyrdom of revolutionary freedom fighters Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru, hundreds of farmers from all across Maharashtra came to Kolhapur to protest against the...

BANGALORE, India — A study published this week by the Austrian government identified serious health threats of genetically engineered (GE) crops. In one of the very few long-term feeding studies ever conducted with GE crops, the fertility of mice...

DELHI, India — “We will survive without GM (Genetically Modified) food but we will never be able to survive the change unleashed by the tide of modification that is called Genetic Engineering” said Aruna Roy, at the launch of Greenpeace’s Genetic...