IRGSP receives the World Technology Award 2003 .

Report of the 2nd Interim Working Group Meeting held on December 19,2002, Tokyo, Japan.

Declaration of the Completion of Phase II sequencing of entire Rice Genome on December 18,2002, by Mr. Junichiro Koizumi, Hon'ble Prime Minister of Japan.

Message from Sh. Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Hon'ble Prime Minister of India .

NRCPB, IARI completes the Phase II submission of all the 48 BACs on 29 th November 2002. A total of 6734077 bp (6.73 Mb) of data submitted to GenBank.

The Fourth meeting of the Program Advisory and Monitoring Committee (PAMC) for the project "Indian Initiative for Rice Genome Sequencing" was held on 25.10.2002 (Friday) under the Chairmanship of Dr. G.S Khush.

A high level Brazilian delegation visited NRCPB, IARI on 18.10.2002 (Friday).

Dr. R.S. Paroda, Hon'ble Ex-Director General, ICAR, visited NRCPB, IARI on 24.08.2002 (Saturday) .

Sh. Ajit Singh, Hon'ble Union Minister for Agriculture, visited NRCPB, IARI on June 5 2002 (Wednesday).

Sh. B.S. Rawat, Hon'ble Minister of State for Science & Technology, Dedicates the Genome Sequencing Facilities at NRCPB & UDSC to the nation.

Workshop on "Functional Genomics of Rice" was held at IARI on May 20-21 2002.

Prof. Joachim Messing, Director, Waksman Institute, Rutgers University, USA delivered a lecture on "Genome Sequencing" at 10:00 AM on 12.04.2002(Friday) at NRCPB auditorium.

Dr. G.S. Khush, IRRI, visited NRCPB, IARI on 15.03.2002 (Friday).

The Third meeting of the Programme Advisory and Monitoring committee (PAMC) for the project "Indian Initiative for Rice Genome Sequencing - To identify genes/markers of agricultural importance" was held on 07.03.2002 (Thursday) under the Chairmanship of Dr. G.S Khush.