Sunday, March 25, 2018 was 104th birthday of Norman Borlaug. The World Food Prize Foundation headed by Ambassador Kenneth Quinn has given high priority to youth education programs.

March 24 has been designated by the UN as the World Tuberculosis Day. It was on this day in 1882 that Dr Robert Koch announced the discovery of the bacterium that causes TB.

The importance of water to all forms of human security needs hardly any emphasis.

On the occasion of the International Women’s Day on 8th March, our Prime Minister launched a National Nutrition Mission covering all the 640 districts of the country.

International Women’s Day reminds us of the need for gender equity and justice in all our development programmes and in our day-today life.

On behalf of everyone at MSSRF, I wish to say that it is with very great sorrow we heard the announcement about the Siddhi of our highly respected Shankaracharyar.

Prof Swaminathan will be awarded the the ‘Bharath Shanthi Dootha Award’ by Warangal based World Peace Festival Society (WPFS) on March 6, 2018 at MSSRF, Chennai.

Scientific progress is the foundation for achieving our goals in every field of human activity. In our country the support given to science has lead to remarkable achievements in agriculture, health, and industry. The Science Day helps us to renew our commitment to support science, both with reference to advances in knowledge and advances in production and productivity.

Auroville came into existence on 28th Feb 1968 when youth from 124 different nations and 23 Indian states, deposited a handful of their native soil into the Urn, a marble clad structure in the form of a symbolic lotus bud, located in the centre of the Amphitheatre.

Rice production and export alone cannot cause ground water depletion in India, other factors such as temperature, rainfall and even population can be contributors, said Prof Alok Bhargava, School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland in a seminar at MSSRF today.