New York: Many people who suffer migraines believe that certain weather changes set off their symptoms, but a new study finds no strong evidence that this is true. "Weather is most probably overestimated," researcher Dr. Christian Wober, of the Medical University of Vienna, said. "People search for causal explanations for their migraine attacks, but recall is often biased." The findings, reported in the medical journal Cephalalgia, add to a conflicting...
12:31 PM, Dec 10, 2010
New Delhi: A third of India's foodstocks left in the open to rot. Thousands of tonnes already spoilt. It might have forced the Government and particularly the Food Corporation of India (FCI) to aggressively look for more storage and take steps to save the stocks. But the FCI has other ideas up its sleeve- outsourcing India's food security. Well, almost! CNN-IBN's RTI query revealed the rather controversial proposal from the...
07:46 AM, Dec 02, 2010
New Delhi: One third of India's food reserves dumped on raised platforms, some covered with polythene, the rest uncovered and visibly wasting away. For the untrained eye this was plainly an unscientific and irresponsible method of storing foodgrain. But the government kept saying that this was purely an "indigenous" method of storage. They called it,"cover and plinth" or CAP storage. But after official acknowledgment of at least 67,000 metric tonnes...
10:57 AM, Nov 23, 2010
Punjab: Fifty-five thousand metric tonnes of food grains rotted in Punjab alone and thousands of tonnes more across the nation. The pictures of rotting grains might have shocked us, but not Adesh Pratap Singh, the Food Minister of Punjab and certainly not Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The documents accessed by CNN-IBN through an RTI revealed that this rot was expected. A copy of a...
09:16 AM, Oct 25, 2010
New Delhi: India's attempt at food diplomacy has met with little success. An RTI query reveals that due to various problems even Bangladesh was not interested in Indian food grains. Bangladesh is eager to buy, India more than eager to sell the grains and the Food Corporation of India (FCI) wanting to hurry the process or so it seemed. Now, documents accessed by CNN -IBN through an RTI reveal the...
09:27 PM, Oct 21, 2010
Uttarakhand: Thousands of quintals of wheat meant for flood victims of Uttarakhand are rotting in Food Corporation of India (FCI) godowns in Haldwani - a shocking case of government apathy towards hundreds of people going hungry. The grain stocks were meant for consumption by the flood-ravaged victims of Haldwani district in Uttrakhand. Layers of fungi were seen upon many sacks of wheat stored at the dilapidated warehouse owned by FCI,...
11:04 AM, Sep 26, 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
Jaipur: Over 1000 Below Poverty Line (BPL) card holders in Rajasthan, got free cell phones, instead of the free food grains. It seemed the UPA Government would rather let the food grains rot in open than distribute them for free to the poor. The Government felt it more important to distribute cell phones to the poor in Minister of State for Communication and Information Technology Sachin Pilot's constituency of Ajmer....
09:11 AM, Sep 10, 2010
Jaipur: Over 1000 Below Poverty Line (BPL) card holders in Rajasthan, got free cell phones, instead of the free food grains. It seemed the UPA Government would rather let the food grains rot in open than distribute them for free to the poor. The Government felt it more important to distribute cell phones to the poor in Minister of State for Communication and Information Technology Sachin Pilot's constituency of Ajmer....
09:11 AM, Sep 10, 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
New Delhi: Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar on Thursday said the government is considering a hike in the quantity of foodgrains under the Public Distribution System (PDS) along with an upgradation in the number of eligible Below Poverty Line (BPL) families. "The government is considering an overall increase in PDS including an upgradation in the number of eligible BPL families," Pawar told reporters here after a meeting of the Empowered Group...
10:28 PM, Sep 02, 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
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has come down heavily on Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar and criticised his statements that rotting food grain cannot be distributed to the poor free of cost. "Free of cost distribution of food grain was a part of the order. Tell your Minister that distribution of rotting food grains was a part of our order and not just an observation," the court told Additional Solicitor...
01:10 PM, Aug 31, 2010
New Delhi: Annual food inflation fell to 10.35 per cent for the week ended August 7 as prices of vegetables, specially potato and onion, declined. Food inflation, which was 11.40 per cent for the week ended on July 31, is in double digits for the second consecutive week, after it remained in single digit for a fortnight in mid-July. On a yearly basis, potato became cheaper by almost 50 per...
01:20 PM, Aug 19, 2010
New Delhi; The Supreme Court has intervened on the rotting food grain issue. The apex court has asked the government to distribute grain that's getting damaged among the poor free of cost. The pictures of rotting food grains first exposed by CNN-IBN shocked a nation and attracted the attention of the Supreme Court. A worried court said, "In a country where admittedly people are starving it is crime to waste...
12:52 PM, Aug 12, 2010
Weeks back, CNN-IBN had shown tonnes of wheat submerged under water at a procurement centre in Sirsa, Haryana. ...
04:49 PM, Aug 10, 2010
CNN-IBN exposes how grain is first let to rot in the open in Bihar and then the poor are forced to have it. ...
10:00 AM, Aug 04, 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
15,000 metric tonnes of wheat rotting in floodwaters in Sirsa, Haryana. ...
03:49 PM, Jul 28, 2010
