Distinguished plant scientist, Dr Sanjaya Rajaram is the winner of the prestigious World Food Prize for 2014.

If you have just written your Class X exams and have a keen interest in nature, here is a green opportunity for you. The M S Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) has announced an essay contest on “What can we do to address the issue of climate change” that will help select students for their annual camp on biodiversity, climate change and biotechnology.

In a forum, where farmers from eights states across the country, rubbed shoulders with international experts, speakers stressed the need to give much more importance to farmers.

It is the centenary year of the person who has been referred to as “the man who saved a billion lives”.

Fast-talking and animated in her expression, Maheshwari had the audience in splits as she recounted her travails of her experiments with cooking.