The Madras High Court has invoked the "parens patriae jurisdiction" to declare Mother Nature as a Living Being with all corresponding rights, duties and liabilities of a living person, in order to preserve and conserve them.
Genome editing (also called gene editing) is a group of technologies that give scientists the ability to change an organism's DNA. The Department of Biotechnology notified the guidelines for the safety assessment of genome-edited plants.
L&T Infotech and Mindtree, two independently listed IT services companies under Larsen & Toubro Group have announced a merger that would create India's fifth-largest IT services provider.