'Respect nature, working with (it) rather than against it.' IMAGE: Dr Rattan Lal, winner of thr 2020 World Food Prize. Photograph: Kind courtesy Worldfoodprize.org Dr Rattan Lal, a soil......
'We met on a Mumbai local some time ago, but the lessons she taught me about money management and life in general have stayed with me,' says Geetanjali Krishna. IMAGE: Women on board a Mumbai......
The Central Information Commission has directed the government to make public the information on safety tests data of genetically engineered crops. The commission noted that such details need to be......
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday night arrived at the White House to attend the state dinner hosted by US President Barack Obama. This is thefirst state dinner hosted by Obama since his......
British Prime Minister Tony Blair celebrated the 19th birthday of his daughter Kathryn at Red Fort, an Indian restaurant in Soho in central London, on Thursday night. Besides the prime minister's......
In most cases, however, retail consumers are paying higher prices in the absence of direct procurement from aggregator or farmers. Vegetable prices have declined about 44 per cent over the past......
Prices have continued to move up in Delhi's markets, wholesale and retail, on supply worries and spoilage due to record cold weather. After a sharp increase in December, the prices of vegetables......
Vegetable arrivals at mandis, especially in Maharashtra, have declined by more than 50 per cent since the beginning of the month. Vegetable prices have shot up this month in wholesale and retail......
Onion has become costlier by over 33 per cent in the last one week and over 70 per cent in September so far, reports Dilip Kumar Jha. Image used for representational purpose. Photograph: ANI......
The revival of the phytosanitary protocol with China is expected to boost tobacco exports to China and prove economically beneficial to Indian farmers. Hemmed in by increasingly restrictive......