Horticulture 4.0: Time to play to India’s strengths {Priyanka Singh} Trade Promotion Council of India

India should leverage its strengths in horticulture for exports through sustained efforts at value addition & market diversification, establishing farm-to-fork traceability and enabling a robust market intelligence framework. Despite ranking second globally in fruits and vegetables production, India’s share in global exports amounts to a meagre 1.7% in vegetables and 0.5% in fruits.Fruits & vegetables […]

Be Patient with Life

Be patient with life, despite its cruelty. Often it seems careless of our pain, But just as often brings us hope again. Remember, I wanted happiness for you. Under every foolish word this still was true. Be happy, then, without, as you would with me. In your life many sweet events remain. Not in anguish, […]

Abdul Kalam a true secularist

APJ Abdul Kalam born on 15 October 1931 and died 27 July 2015 was an Indian scientist who served as the 11th President of India from 2002 to 2007. He was born and raised in Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu and studied physics and aerospace engineering. He spent the next four decades as a scientist and science administrator, mainly at the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and was intimately involved in India’s civilian space programme and military missile development efforts. He thus came to be known as the “Missile Man of India” for his work on the development of ballistic missile and launch vehicle technology. He also played a pivotal organisational, technical, and political role in India’s Pokhran-II nuclear tests in 1998, the first since the original nuclear test by India in 1974.

Character retrospective

  In this accelerating, yet retrospective hasty place, Where nobody desires being a riff-raff but a social desirable face, Conscience and Qualm have taken back seat, Character plays rickety and virtues have gone astray and accepted defeat. Rhapsody for the rigmarole of character transformation barely exists, As the sadists and carefree get their way through […]