The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has strongly criticised the emerging Indo-US trade agreement, accusing the BJP-led central government of making extensive concessions that threaten India’s economy,

Venkatesan Sundaresan, a Distinguished Professor of plant biology and plant sciences at the University of California, Davis, has been awarded a Gates Foundation grant to develop self-cloning crops for Indian farmers.

Piyush Goyal hailed the India-US trade deal, which gives Indian farm products zero-duty US access without reciprocal concessions. The framework reduces tariffs to 18%, boosting MSMEs, job creation, and exports in key sectors.