Will Bayer's proposed $7.25 billion Roundup deal bring legal closure?Bayer's Monsanto division is making headlines with a bold offer of $7.25 billion to settle lawsuits concerning Roundup and its alleged link...
19 Feb, 2026, 12.00 PM IST
Banned cotton seeds carve out ₹600 cr parallel marketBanned HTBt cotton seeds are now popular in India. These seeds account for 15% of the market. Farmers use them to cut labour costs. Industr...
19 Jun, 2025, 12.06 AM IST
MAHA report highlights glyphosate dangers and ultra processed food impact on children's healthA new federal report warns of growing threats to children’s health from glyphosate exposure and ultra processed food. The MAHA Commission’s...
23 May, 2025, 10.29 AM IST
'Sickest generation': What RFK Jr's report says about American children and how to 'make America healthy again'The White House has released a report, spearheaded by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., highlighting a public health crisis among Ame...
22 May, 2025, 11.46 PM IST
US state orders Bayer to pay $2 billion in Roundup cancer caseThe verdict, which Bayer said on Saturday it would appeal, is one of the largest legal settlements issued in a Roundup-related case and is ...
22 Mar, 2025, 10.51 PM IST
Gold hits record high as global markets riseGold hit a record high on Friday as global stock markets gained on reassuring data about the health of the world's biggest economy and like...
17 Aug, 2024, 10.09 AM IST
Farmers in India are hit hard by extreme weather. Some say expanding natural farming is the answerThe Indian federal government’s agriculture ministry has spent upwards of $8 million to promote natural farming and says farmers tilling ne...
08 Apr, 2024, 10.25 AM IST
Beware! This popular artificial sweetener may be a carcinogenAspartame, used in products from Coca-Cola diet sodas to Mars' Extra chewing gum and some Snapple drinks, will be listed in July as "possib...
29 Jun, 2023, 08.34 PM IST
WHO's cancer research agency to say aspartame sweetener a possible carcinogen: SourcesThe artificial sweetener aspartame is set to be declared a possible carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a...
29 Jun, 2023, 11.44 AM IST
The next ESG frontier is genetically modified foodThe need to feed an expanding population while cutting agriculture’s high greenhouse gas emissions means farming must become more efficient.
03 Feb, 2023, 09.38 AM IST
Can you identify which chemicals may be carcinogenic? Study says yesCarcinogens include asbestos, tobacco smoke, diesel engine exhaust etc.
31 Jan, 2023, 09.54 PM IST
Bayer Chairman quits after making progress to settle litigationBayer, which is fighting claims its weedkiller Roundup causes cancer, said its Chairman Werner Wenning was stepping down because the drugs ...
26 Feb, 2020, 05.05 PM IST
Swadeshi Jagran Manch ticks off Agriculture ministry over 'misleading' reply in Parliament on herbicide GlyphosateThe Manch has reacted strongly to a reply given by the ministry to an unstarred question in Praliament on July 9.
23 Jul, 2019, 10.32 PM IST
Kotak Mahindra Bank, Fortis and RIL among top stocks to track todayHere's a look at the top stocks that may hog the limelight in today's session.
16 Aug, 2018, 09.16 AM IST
US jury orders Monsanto to pay $290 million to cancer patient over weed killerFollowing eight weeks of trial proceedings, the San Francisco jury ordered Monsanto to pay USD 250 million in punitive damages along with c...
11 Aug, 2018, 11.38 AM IST
Monsanto slumps as its popular herbicide Round Up faces class action suit in the USShares of Monsanto slumped 5 per cent in Monday's trade after four cancer-stricken Nebraskan patients sued the company over its popular her...
16 May, 2016, 04.40 PM IST