Norman Borlaug, the father of the "Green Revolution" who died on Saturday in Texas aged 95, is widely credited with saving more than a billion lives by breeding wheat, rice and other crops that brought agricultural self-sufficiency to developing countries around the world.

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Borlaug Showed India The Way To Overcome Food Shortage

New Delhi: Long before Mr Bush and Dr Rice came by to leapfrog US-India ties to a new level, it was Prof Wheat who jumpstarted and nourished the relationship. Norman Borlaug, the genial scientist-pacifist who died of cancer in Dallas on Saturday, was as much India

In a move that is bound to trigger angry reactions from the states, the Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) has decided that the estimation of the Below Poverty Line (BPL) numbers by the government would be considered final for the proposed National Food Security Act (NFSA), thereby nipping in the bud the problem of various estimates put forth by different committees.