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MELBOURNE: Fourth India-Australia 2+2 Secretary-level Consultations - November 3, 2024
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TORONTO: India’s response to diplomatic communication from Canada - November 2, 2024
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NGERULMUD: Shri Harsh Kumar Jain concurrently accredited as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Palau - November 1, 2024
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DHAKA: Statement on attack on Puja Mandap and desecration and damage to Hindu temples in Bangladesh - October 31, 2024
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KINGSTON: Shri Subhash Prasad Gupta concurrently accredited as the next High Commissioner of India to St.Vincent and the Grenadines - October 30, 2024
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STOCKHOLM: Dr. Neena Malhotra appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Kingdom of Sweden - October 29, 2024
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BEIRUT: Statement on recent developments in southern Lebanon - October 29, 2024
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BANGKOK: Meeting of Prime Minister with Prime Minister of Thailand - October 28, 2024
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NEW YORK: H1B Visa “Thing Of Past”: Union Minister Piyush Goyal After US Visit - October 28, 2024
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MOSCOW: Prime Minister meets with the President of the Russian Federation - October 27, 2024
LONDON: UK minister visits ICRISAT, discusses climate action
LONDON: Premier Hyderabad-based agri
research centre, the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid
Tropics (ICRISAT), on Thursday said Lord Tariq Ahmad, minister of state for
South Asia and the Commonwealth in the UK government, led a high-level
delegation to discuss climate-resilient agriculture and biodiversity during his
visit to the institute.
Lord Ahmad toured ICRISAT’s field
experiments, water and biodiversity management facilities, genomics facilities
and the genebank. The minister was briefed about the changes in the behaviour
of crops, pests and diseases that can occur with rising carbon dioxide levels.
“This year, as we host COP26 in Glasgow, sustainable agricultural practices and
technologies are an important issue for the UK. My visit to ICRISAT is to
explore future collaboration in this regard and an opportunity to see how
ICRISAT is catalysing productivity and prosperity in the semi-arid tropics in
the face of climate change,” he said.
“Climate change threatens to
compromise food systems and disrupt lives. We are committed to making
smallholder farming in the drylands resilient to climate shocks,” said
Jacqueline Hughes, director general, ICRISAT.