According to reports, most Indians suffer from chronic pain due to migraine, nausea or any other ailment. ...
01:46 PM, Nov 11, 2012
Food Minister KV Thomas has ordered a probe into rotting wheat having been distributed in the Public Distribution System in Palwal, Haryana. On May 22, CNN-IBN's story showed how 80,000 sacks of wheat lay rotting and almost abandoned in Ghugera, Haryana. The report also said that rotting wheat had been distributed to BPL card holders systematically. Thomas told CNN IBN, "Nothing has been damaged, I assure you, and we are ...
09:42 AM, May 24, 2012
The country is on the verge of record harvest, and yet for a third consecutive year, there is simply no space for storage. ...
11:04 PM, May 09, 2012
The opposition has attacked the government for lack of storage of foodgrain. ...
04:04 PM, May 09, 2012
Two days after CNN-IBN's report on the grain rot, Food minister KV Thomas takes responsibility and promises action. ...
08:56 AM, Aug 11, 2011
Bhopal: In Jabalpur, unseasonal rains have led to the damage of thousands of tonnes freshly procured wheat which were lying in the open. Procurement officials say that the wheat could not be stored because of lack of storage space. No one is willing to take accountability for the mess-up with the State government passing the buck blaming the Food Corporation of India (FCI) for the damage. The Madhya Pradesh government ...
04:32 PM, May 26, 2011
New Delhi: Over the past few weeks CNN-IBN has been showing how the government has turned a blind eye to lakhs of tonnes of foodgrain which have been left to rot in the open. After Punjab, Haryana and Madhya Pradesh, now wastage is being reported from the national capital, New Delhi, as well. Delhi's Narela Mandi, which is around 30 kms from Parliament, has one lakh sacks of wheat which ...
08:56 AM, May 23, 2011
A record produce of wheat in Madhya Pradesh's wheat bowl this year should have meant celebration for farmers. ...
09:29 AM, May 13, 2011
on Talking Point, Rajdeep Sardesai asks, 'Rotting grain: when will this national shame end?' ...
11:36 PM, May 12, 2011
Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh farmers have been forced into distress sale of paddy after the government failed to lift the grain since there is no space to store it. Andhra Pradesh government sources say only 25 per cent of the yield can be bought as there is no space to store grain. Farmers are now demanding the government to lift the ban on rice exports to prevent it from rotting in ...
04:36 PM, May 11, 2011
New Delhi/ Chandigarh: Biraj Patnaik, a special advisor to the Supreme Court, will bring the case of rice being burnt at a godown in Punjab to the court's attention. Patnaik will take up the cause just a day after CNN-IBN reported how thousands of tonnes of rice in Punjab was burnt to ashes after lying in the open for five years. "Hundred children die of malnutrition every hour. We have ...
11:44 AM, May 10, 2011
Chandigarh: Even as the highest ever harvest of wheat and rice is expected this year, callous administration is leading to rice literally going up in smoke in the Punjab. Tens of thousands of tons of rice stocked for the last five years in the open have now caught fire at a Punjab Agro storage area in Khamano, a large procurement market. An incensed Supreme Court had in 2010 said if ...
03:47 PM, May 09, 2011
India has been subsidizing its rice exports to Bangladesh. But still the deal doesn't seem to be materializing. ...
11:49 AM, Dec 19, 2010
Free mobile phones to the poor instead of foodgrains. In such a scenario, what are the key challenges India needs to deal with? ...
08:32 PM, Sep 11, 2010
Excess food grains have been rotting in godowns for months, but Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar continues to say that it is not possible to distribute grains for free among the poor. ...
11:46 AM, Sep 04, 2010
On India at 9, CNN-IBN Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai spoke to a panel of experts on the issue. ...
11:03 PM, Aug 31, 2010
The apex court rapped the Union Agriculture Minister for not implementing its order to distribute food grains to the poor. ...
08:45 PM, Aug 31, 2010
FCI men drag the woman out of the godown towards the Railway track and later lock her up. ...
02:48 PM, Jul 29, 2010
Millions of food grains are wasted every year due to storage problem. ...
11:14 PM, Jul 27, 2010
Flood waters submerged Haryana's grain warehouses in Sirsa where wheat worth Rs 15 crore was reduced to waste. ...
11:55 PM, Jul 23, 2010
