India originally possessed some 110,000 landraces of rice with diverse and valuable properties. Green Revolution covered fields with a few high-yielding varieties, so that roughly 90 percent of the landraces vanished from farmers' collections.
Since the last 30 yrs Sri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara Dharmothana (SDMD) Trust has been quietly restorating neglected temples, other monuments of historical, architectural, religious importance & has restored more than 200 temples so far
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Sushma Swaraj, had reduced her ministry into a high-velocity consular agency. She had no time or inclination in engaging her counterparts for any serious diplomacy , which had to be conducted by and large from the PMO. 1/n
Very very few people stuck with the losing side (ideology) before 2014 - hardly surprising that so called innumerabe "speakers of the side" are but neo converts
Hey
@MEAIndia
, can we have the names of Indian ‘citizens’ airlifted from Wuhan, China and brought back India? My Aapiya friends are saying that some of them will have to show their papers n prove their nationality else they will be send out of country.
Every BJP state CM projects himself as the next PM in running , one should first master the art of winning back to back elections, by decimating opposition at home should aim his looks at Hastinapur
During partition, Pakistan did not allow Dalits to leave for India. Pak PM Liaqat Ali told Indian High Commissioner "who would clean streets and latrines of Karachi if they are allowed to leave?"
Most Hindu refugees coming from Pak are Dalits. Those opposing CAB are anti-Dalit.
It took years for it to become conventional wisdom that Vietnam was the only country to have defeated on the battlefield three permanent members of the Security Council – France at Dien Bien Phew, the US in Saigon, and China at Lang Son.
When he was sworn in his first outreach & visit was Pakistan not India - "missed the bus" analysts even at that time were writing lengthy opeds of India has lost the plot
“The longer Russia prosecutes its war without India changing its position, the more likely the United States will be to view India as an unreliable partner. It may not want to, but ultimately New Delhi will have to pick between Russia and the West.”
We call for restraint on all sides.We're convinced that this issue can only be resolved through diplomatic dialogue.We need to give space to recent initiatives undertaken by parties which seek to diffuse tensions: India's Permanent Rep to UN ,TS Tirumurti,at UNSC meet on Ukraine
Even in their hour of defeat, Hindus kept on trying to save as much as possible of their civilization. They didn’t take it lying down. They struggled, and in most of India, they ultimately won
As the oldest civilization we should never shirk away from mentioning our recent history & its struggles , have we seen any isrli pm addressing foreign audience without mentioning holocaust ?
For India, Putin’s War Starts to Look Like a Gift
From cheap Russian oil to sudden overtures from China, India’s neutral stance on Ukraine has many benefits.
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India and France are expected to move ahead on Atmanirbhar Bharat project of PM Modi by manufacturing air independent propulsion submarines and high thrust aircraft engines in India apart from mapping the Indian Ocean bed
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‘Putin’s next target’: Another European country on Russia hit list - All eyes are on Ukraine and the Russian troops massing nearby, but Moscow has quietly been making moves on another European nation and the West is worried.
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The Middle Power test
@Barugaru1
Can Middle powers like Brazil, France, Germany,
India, Indonesia,Japan & South Africa work together to impose some discipline on the
Big three - China,Russia & US
We took 80+ hours just to clear a hotel (whatever the reasons hidden or otherwise), folks expect to takeover a country in 2-3 days ,while westerners rting & debating a supposed leak- RT congratulatory piece on the same 🙂
For more than 60 years, the United States and South Korea have forced tens of thousands of Korean women and girls into prostitution and sexual slavery in special "comfort camps" near U.S. military bases in South Korea.
"The US doesn’t like multipolarity and is fighting it. My fear is it will exhaust itself fighting because it will fail."
George Yeo, former Singapore Foreign Minister
India with France is looking towards manufacturing & export of emerging & critical defence tech without any license regime Under the “Make in India”, India is looking towards France to make Safran aircraft engines and make AIP submarines
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