Articles by Ranjit Devraj
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Protesters Resist an ‘Indian Fukushima’
Ranjit Devraj, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
According to PMANE leader [TRANSCEND member] S.P. Udayakumar, the Kudankulam project built with Russian technology is unsafe and threatens the delicate marine ecology of the Palk straits. “A Fukushima-type accident at this mega plant, which is due to generate 9,200 MW when complete, would be truly catastrophic.”
→ read full articleGenetically Modified Crop Could Migrate Dangerously
Ranjit Devraj, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2013
Food security activists who secured a moratorium on introducing GM brinjal (aubergine) into India fear that their efforts are being undermined by release of same in neighbouring Bangladesh. “India and Bangladesh share a long and porous border and it is easy for GM brinjal varieties to be brought over.”
→ read full articleIndia Puts GM Food Crops under Microscope
Ranjit Devraj – Inter Press Service-IPS,
5 Nov 2012
Environmental activists are cautiously optimistic that a call by a court-appointed technical committee for a ten-year moratorium on open field trials of genetically modified (GM) crops will shelve plans to introduce bio-engineered foods in this largely agricultural country.
→ read full article“BRICS Can Ensure Affordable Drugs”
Ranjit Devraj – TerraViva Europe,
11 Jul 2011
While ‘data exclusivity’ clauses will not feature in the India-European Union free trade agreement (FTA), the threat posed by the impending deal to the world’s supply of cheap generic drugs is far from over.
→ read full articleIndia: Fukushima Won’t Stop World’s Largest Nuclear Facility
Ranjit Devraj – Inter Press Service-IPS,
2 May 2011
While the Fukushima tragedy has not deterred India from going ahead with building the world’s largest nuclear power facility at Jaitapur on the western coast, the government has announced a tighter safety regime for its ambitious nuclear power programme.
→ read full articleINDIA HOLDS PUBLIC MEETINGS ON GM FOOD CROP
Ranjit Devraj – IPS, TerraViva Europe,
16 Jan 2010
As India’s central government begins a series of public meetings across the country this month on the commercial release of genetically modified (GM) brinjal – or eggplant – in this country, activists and farmers’ groups are mobilising to oppose such a plan. The meetings are a response by Union Minister for Environment Jairam Ramesh to […]
→ read full articleDEVELOPMENT-INDIA: FARMERS VS. COCA-COLA IN WATER WARS
Ranjit Devraj,
3 Oct 2009
As India faces its worst drought in four decades, a dispute over water resources between farmers in the Kala Dera area of western Rajasthan state and a Coca-Cola bottling plant located there has sharpened.Farmers and activists in Kala Dera who have been campaigning for the closure of the bottling plant operated by the global beverages […]
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