US Farm Distress Real Reason For Trump's Tariff Tantrums

'What the US appears to be doing is to force India to be "the buyer of last resort", on whom their products can be dumped, 1.4 billion people have to eat something, so why not eat American corn?'......

Flood-tolerant rice will help Indian farmers

Scientists have identified a genethat allows rice plants to survive floods; a development that could help poor farmers especially in India who are having atough time braving floods.Most rice plants......

HISTORIC: Shuks heads to ISS, 1st Indian in space in 41 years

Astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla was on Wednesday headed to the International Space Station on a historic odyssey marking India's return to human spaceflight after a gap of 41 years following a......

Modi's day out in Manila

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has a packed schedule in Manila. The PM, who arrived in the Philippines on Sunday, is here to attend the ASEAN-India and the East Asia summits. On his second day of......

Festivities, polls prompt govt to keep tabs on food price movement

Amid the ongoing festival season and ahead of the elections for five state assemblies, the Centre is closely monitoring inflation, particularly in food items, to enable it to take steps to increase......

Food of the poor to get Vitamin boost

Indian poor's staple diet -- rice wheat and maize -- will soon get a booster dose of minerals and vitamins. The Central government's ambitious campaign - 'India Biofortification Programme' -- is......

Green revolution: More losses than gains?

Green revolution's biggest drawback was its limitation to a few states, promotion of mono-cropping  and encouraging the use of more chemical fertilisers.  Image: The technology......

The real reason for Delhi's annual smoke season

The Delhi metropolitan area has one of the highest concentrations of population in the world, and suffocating the people of the area on an annual basis should be treated as a crime against......