New Delhi, July 24 : President Pratibha Devisingh Patil hosted a lunch for a group of more than 100 children, all of them from the underprivileged sections of society and some of them orphans in the Banquet Hall of Rashtrapati Bhavan on Thursday.
The children were from Bal Vikas Vidyalaya, Bachchon Ka Ghar, Arya Orphanage, Nehru Bal Samiti and Literacy India.
New Delhi, July 16 : President Pratibha Devi Singh Patil today stressed the need for keeping agriculture at the centre of the country’s development agenda.
Addressing a function at the Indian Council of Agricultural Research here this afternoon, Patil called for a second Green Revolution to meet the growing foodgrain requirements in the country.