If you swear by your 'tadka' and 'chhauka' then here's something interesting for you. I learnt how to make a complete main course dish without ...
01:10 PM, May 17, 2012
New Delhi: The government in a high level meeting chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh decided to free sugar exports by removing quantitative restrictions in order to expedite shipments of the sweetener. This came after Agriculture Minister and NCP chief Sharad Pawar shot off an angry letter terming the UPA's policy on agriculture exports 'ambivalent' and 'against the interest of the farming community'. Importantly, Pawar had termed the Food Ministry's...
06:59 AM, May 03, 2012
New Delhi: The government on Wednesday decided to free sugar exports by removing quantitative restrictions in order to expedite shipments of sweetener and also scrapped the minimum export price (MEP) on onion. The government also decided to constitute a committee, headed by Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council (PMEAC) Chairman C Rangarajan, for formulating policy on how to handle surplus foodgrains in government godowns. These decision were taken at a high...
09:51 PM, May 02, 2012
Keeva is a diabetes alert dog in Canada and she's trained to recognize when blood sugar levels go high or low. ...
03:44 PM, Mar 23, 2012
New Delhi: In a setback to sugar mill owners on Tuesday, the Supreme Court directed private mill owners to pay approximately Rs 1000 crores to UP sugarcane farmers. The state government had fixed a particular price for sugarcane farmers a few years back, because of which a backlog of nearly one thousand crore rupees turned up. The matter was challenged in court. VM Singh, petitioner in the Supreme Court, said...
01:28 PM, Jan 17, 2012
Two or more sugary beverages a day can expand a women's waistline, even if they don't gain weight, according to a new study. ...
04:13 PM, Nov 17, 2011
A Vellayan (Murugappa group) Age: 58 Profile: Chairman of Chennai-based Murugappa Group Rank: 55 Family wealth: $ 1.02 billion Insights: - Wants to stick to values such as integrity and trust - But says decision making will have to be faster Sometime in 1945, AMM Vellayan, the second son of AM Murugappa Chettiar, went back to Burma to take stock of the wealth his family and his community left behind...
11:38 AM, Nov 02, 2011
Washington: It sounds counter-intuitive - add sugarcane extract to a fatty diet and it will help shed the flab. But that could be the way of the future if trials by scientists, including an Indian-origin researcher, pan out. Dr Ankur Desai from Horizon Science, a Melbourne-based food biotechnology firm, and colleagues at La Trobe University claim their findings show sugarcane molasses in high-fat diets can encourage calorie excretion and increase...
11:53 AM, Jul 19, 2011
New Delhi: Sugar-rich Maharashtra on Thursday demanded an increase in the export quota of the sweetener from the current five lakh metric tonnes to 20 lakh metric tonnes. A ministerial delegation led by Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with demands for hiking sugar export quotas and imposing stiff duties on the import of the sweetener. Chavan was accompanied by Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, Union...
03:32 PM, Jun 30, 2011
New Delhi: The Centre is creating additional storage space for foodgrain after a series of CNN-IBN reports showed rotting foodgrain at several godowns across India. Almost 64 lakh tonnes of wheat in Punjab and 1.5 million tonnes of sugar in Maharashtra are rotting as they lie in the open. Foodgran are also rotting in Madhya Pradesh, Haryana and Andhra Pradesh. In Sirsa, Haryana grain has been rotting in the Food...
10:05 AM, Jun 30, 2011
Mumbai: After wheat and paddy, the big grain drain now includes sugar which has been left out in the open at the risk of getting spoiled because Maharashtra has had a bumper harvest this year and has run out of storage space. Seventy thousand quintals of sugar has been stored out in the open at a sugar factory in Kolhapur in Maharashtra, covered with only a plastic sheet, exposing lakhs...
09:35 AM, Jun 18, 2011
New Delhi: Inflation has touched a record high. Prices of basic commodities are spiraling up and with the government doing little, according to experts, the future could be jittery. If you thought onions were tearing you up then 2020 could be worse. Onions have grown at a rate of over 400 percent since 2000 from Rs 7 per kg then, to Rs 30 per kg now. If this trend continues,...
10:18 AM, Feb 11, 2011
New York: In a new study, portable meters used to gauge blood sugar levels in pregnant women with diabetes gave readings that differed from lab tests by up to 16 percent. That kind of inaccuracy is concerning, researchers say, because small differences in blood sugar during pregnancy can have potentially serious consequences for the mother and baby. But that doesn't mean women should stop using glucose meters. Instead, they should...
03:05 PM, Jan 16, 2011
Washington: Placebos can help patients feel better, even if they are fully aware they are taking a sugar pill, researchers reported on Wednesday on an unusual experiment aimed to better understand the "placebo effect." Nearly 60 percent of patients with irritable bowel syndrome reported they felt better after knowingly taking placebos twice a day, compared to 35 percent of patients who did not get any new treatment, they report in...
10:19 AM, Dec 23, 2010
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