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Knowledge Nugget: Why UPSC aspirants should read about M.S. Swaminathan
August 08, 2025 11:10 am
UPSC current affairs: August 7 marks the centenary of M.S. Swaminathan’s birth anniversary. In today’s Knowledge Nugget, learn about his significance and role in India’s Green Revolution. In ‘Beyond the Nugget’, also explore other revolutions named after colour in India.
Sorrow to success: A potato farmer in debt turns soya milk pioneer
July 14, 2024 10:13 am
Fate took a turn when Garcha attended a trade fair at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi. There, he discovered a stall showcasing soybean cultivation and dairy processing techniques. Intrigued by the potential, he decided to pivot towards soybean farming and dairy production.
How to make MSP work
February 23, 2024 9:17 am
While demand for MSP is justified, 50 per cent margin demanded by agitating farmers will be a burden on the economy. Reforms suggested by Swaminathan panel should be considered instead to reduce dependence on government intervention
History Headline | The 'foreign hand' behind MSP for crops
February 18, 2024 9:16 am
The idea of a guaranteed minimum price for crops, like the seeds of the Green Revolution, both came from American philanthropic foundations
If we honour Swaminathan, we have to take farmers along, says daughter
February 14, 2024 7:18 am
Head of the Economic Analysis Unit at the Indian Statistical Institute, Bengaluru, she joined the event through video conferencing.
Message to farmers, strike at Congress, as Modi govt announces 3 more Bharat Ratnas
February 10, 2024 6:54 am
Days after honouring EBC champion Karpoori Thakur and Hindutva hero L K Advani, it awards farmer leader Charan Singh, noted agricultural scientist M S Swaminathan, and ex-PM P V Narasimha Rao, who was left fighting for space in Cong legacy
Sanjaya Baru writes: Why Narasimha Rao had to wait for 33 years after 1991 for the Bharat Ratna
February 10, 2024 6:04 pm
Rao's political leadership of India's economic turnaround and subsequent rise laid the foundations of a truly New and Rising India. Bharat Ratna to him now smacks of political opportunism
‘He would have been happy if news came during his lifetime…but he didn’t work for awards’: MS Swaminathan’s daughter
February 09, 2024 9:57 pm
During an interaction with the media, she also highlighted her father's lifelong dedication not just to agriculture, but to the welfare of farmers and the most vulnerable segments of society.
‘He was a karma yogi’: Dr M S Swaminathan’s daughter on PM Modi announcing Bharat Ratna for her father
February 09, 2024 5:20 pm
Dr M S Swaminathan, a late Indian agricultural scientist, along with former Prime Ministers P V Narasimha Rao and Chaudhary Charan Singh will be honoured with the Bharat Ratna, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday.
Modi's tribute to Prof M S Swaminathan: He was a true ‘Kisan Vaigyanik’... In his heart there was a farmer
October 07, 2023 6:25 am
Prof M S Swaminathan loved India and wanted our nation, and our farmers in particular, to lead a life of prosperity.
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