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Pedro Sanchez, a global champion who fed the world’s poor dies at 85Pedro A. Sanchez, a soil scientist, passed away at 85. He revolutionized agriculture in poor nations, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. San...
Indian scientist Swati Nayak named World Food Prize's Norman E Borlaug Award winnerBased in Delhi, the scientist from Odisha, Nayak will formally receive the Borlaug Field Award during a ceremony at the 2023 Norman E. Borl...
Full text of PM Narendra Modi's address to US CongressThe prime minister addressed the US Congress on Wednesday where he talked about the Indo-US bond and highlighted the issue of terrorism.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's full speech at the US CongressIn granting me this opportunity, you have honoured the world's largest democracy and its 1.25 billion people.
Terror being 'incubated' in India's neighbourhood: Narendra ModiHe covered strategic ties and civil nuclear cooperation, and emphasised that the countries should leave "constraints of the past" behind.
Indian startups lack vision and will to tackle big problems: Rahul Alex Panicker"I have seen donated incubators being used as file cabinets. They make good file cabinets because they're sort of airtight and keep insects...
Eminent Indian crop scientist wins World Food PrizeThe World Food Prize, presented at the 2014 Borlaug Dialogue, currently being held in Des Moines, United States, from October 15-17.
India-born scientist Sanjaya Rajaram named winner of 2014 World Food PrizeWorld Food Prize was established by Borlaug in order to focus the world's attention on hunger and on those whose work has significantly hel...
India-born scientist Sanjaya Rajaram named winner of 2014 World Food PrizeRajaram's breakthrough achievement in successfully cross-breeding winter and spring wheat varieties, which were distinct gene pools.
What the Green Revolution teaches usThe issue concerning GM crops is not that Bt brinjal was consigned to cold storage but the process that led to its approval being held in a...
- Borlaug showed India way to overcome food shortage
By cranking up a wheat strain containing an unusual gene, Borlaug created the so-called “semi-dwarf ’’ plant variety, a shorter, stubbier, ...
- Norman Borlaug, Green Revolution pioneer dies
Long before Mr Bush and Dr Rice came by to leapfrog US-India ties to a new level, it was Prof Wheat who jumpstarted and nourished the relat...