New Delhi: A recent study conducted by doctors at AIIMS and Maulana Azad Medical College has shown a startling increase in the number of celiac cases in the country. The study reveals that undiagnosed celiac or allergy to wheat may be a major cause of malnutrition in the country. Three-year-old Gudiya has body of a one year old, all because of a condition that is increasingly prevalent across India. Gudiya's...
08:48 AM, May 28, 2012
Palwal: Not just train mishaps but the last three years of UPA rule have also witnessed tonnes of foodgrain rotting away across the country while the poor starve. CNN-IBN has been running a sustained campaign to highlight the issue. Now, it reveals how 80,000 sacks of wheat rotting in the open in Haryana are being distributed to villages through the public distribution system. The dry dust is all that remains...
09:30 PM, May 22, 2012
Thane: While the Food Security Bill is expected to be tabled in the Parliament soon, it has come to light that as much as 7.42 lakh tonnes of foodgrain, worth Rs 330.71 crore, was damaged in the past 10 years in the country due to various reasons. The Food Corporation of India (FCI) has revealed this information in response to an RTI query, filed by a local activist Om Prakash...
02:33 PM, Dec 21, 2011
New Delhi: Food inflation declined marginally to 11.81 per cent in the week ended October 29, but the slight moderation in the rate of price rise provided little respite to consumers burdened by high prices of essential kitchen staples like vegetables and pulses. Food inflation, as measured by the Wholesale Price Index (WPI), stood at 12.21 per cent in the previous week ended October 22. The rate of price rise...
12:53 PM, Nov 11, 2011
New Delhi: Food inflation rose to 12.21 per cent during the week ended October 22, with expensive vegetables, pulses, fruits and milk, putting more burden on the common man. Food inflation, as measured by the Wholesale Price Index (WPI), stood at 11.43 per cent in the previous week. The rate of price rise of food items stood at 13.55 per cent in the corresponding week of the previous year. As...
12:10 PM, Nov 03, 2011
Darbhanga: Rotten wheat is being supplied for the Public Distribution System. The Bihar government has rejected and returned 150 metric tonnes of wheat to the Food Corporation of India. State Food Minister Shyam Rajak said that the grain delivered was unfit for consumption. The minister also alleged that the Centre had held back more than half of the wheat that Bihar had asked for. "The wheat sent was rotten. We...
08:21 AM, Oct 23, 2011
New Delhi: Thousands of tonnes of foodgrain is in a shocking state of decay in Haryana, while the rest is vulnerable to damage. It has been left to rot in the mandis of Haryana, just 60 kilometers away from New Delhi. Foodgrain has been kept in a shocking state of decomposition with insects and worms feeding on what was meant for human beings. The water gathering in pools makes it...
08:54 AM, Aug 09, 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
Chandigarh: Even as the country is grappling with the problem of big grain drain, another instance of gross wastage of the wheat in Punjab has come to light. Due to lack of storage facilities and lack of clearance of earlier stock, fresh wheat is being piled up by the roadside, getting drenched in pre-monsoon showers and rotting. In Muktsar and Ferozepur, the Punjab government was unable to provide for adequate...
09:24 AM, Jun 24, 2011
New Delhi: Over 7 lakh tonnes of freshly procured wheat is lying in the open and the Madhya Pradesh government is claiming it has exhausted all its storage options. Private godown owners, however, have complained to the state chief Minister alleging godowns are lying vacant and have not been taken on rent as they refused to bribe officials. With the monsoon expected to reach Madhya Pradesh in two weeks, it...
10:37 AM, May 31, 2011
Narsinghpur: Thousands of tones of wheat is lying in the open, waiting to rot in Narsinghpur, while the Madhya Pradesh Warehousing Corporation has rented 33 godowns to private businessmen to store soyabean. The 33 godowns belong to the Narsinghpur agriculture produce procurement centre were handed over to the state warehousing corporation in 2010 for storage of wheat. But, this year, the moment the wheat was taken out, these godowns were...
08:32 AM, May 28, 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
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
Itarsi: No fresh procurement of grain is taking place in Madhya Pradesh till the procured wheat is lifted by the Food Corporation of India. Farmers say payments have been stuck for a long time and fresh produce is lying in the open across the state. The state government has blamed the Central government for not arranging adequate storage space for grain and Madhya Pradesh officials have admitted to CNN-IBN that...
01:59 PM, May 12, 2011
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