New Delhi: In a shocking revelation about the pathetic condition of catering services in Indian Railways, CNN-IBN has accessed a railways report that exposes how food is prepared in filthy conditions. The report says that the food served in trains is cooked in dirty, smelly and waterlogged pantry cars. This stands true even for premier express trains. The report says that cockroaches were all around the GT Express pantry car....
06:22 PM, Apr 12, 2013
KFC parent Yum Brands Inc warned that a new bird flu outbreak in China badly hit restaurant sales there this month, even as the company also reported a sharper-than-expected slide in March sales in the country caused by the lingering impact of a separate food safety scare. "Within the past week, publicity associated with Avian flu in China has had a significant, negative impact on KFC sales," the company said...
11:30 AM, Apr 11, 2013
Bangalore: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor D Subbarao sparked a controversy when he said rise in rural incomes was fuelling food inflation in the country. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Left and even the Congress party have condemned his remark saying it is an insult to the poor. Subbarao on Saturday said in Bangalore that the poor segments of the population were seeing an increase in income,...
08:28 PM, Apr 07, 2013
High blood pressure and hypertension are the new lifestyle diseases afflicting India's urban middle class. Dr Ravi R Kasliwal, Chairman, Clinical & Preventive Cardiology, Medanta-The Medicity, joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue. Q. What kind of cooking oil is good for heart & esp for high BP patients? Is it olive, mustard, desi ghee or refined oils like Saffola/Fortune? Asked by: Honey A. Olive oil, Mustard oil,...
05:58 PM, Apr 05, 2013
New Delhi: The government will enact the proposed right to food bill, covering 67 per cent of the population, in the second half of the budget session from April 22-May 10, 2013, Food Minister KV Thomas said in New Delhi on Wednesday. "We will pass the bill in the second half of the budget session," Thomas told a Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) meet on "India's food security and the...
05:33 AM, Apr 04, 2013
New Delhi: Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal on Wednesday expressed concern over cleanliness and the quality of food served in trains and at stations and urged zonal managers to regularly monitor the situation. "He also asked senior officers to pay attention to punctuality of trains and safety of the network," said an official after the minister reviewed the functioning of the railways with zonal general managers in Delhi. According to...
04:05 AM, Apr 04, 2013
The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed Health Secretaries of the states and Union Territories (UTs) to file compliance report on implementation of ban on sale and manufacture of gutka and pan masala containing tobacco. ...
06:09 PM, Apr 03, 2013
One of the four accused in the December 16 gangrape case sought a direction from a special court in New Delhi that he be provided nutritious food inside Tihar jail as he has to prepare for tests for recruitment of clerks in Indian Air Force. Vinay Sharma, the accused who along with others had allegedly gangraped the 23-year-old girl in a moving bus, moved the plea before Additional Sessions Judge...
08:05 AM, Apr 02, 2013
Bad Bard! William Shakespeare was repeatedly dragged before the courts and fined for illegally hoarding food during times of shortage, and even threatened with jail for evading his taxes, a new study on the famous English playwright has claimed. "There was another side to Shakespeare besides the brilliant playwright - as a ruthless businessman who did all he could to avoid taxes, maximise profits at others' expense and exploit the...
12:40 PM, Apr 01, 2013
Punjab has yet again reaped a bumper crop, but the big question is where will it be stored? Starting April 1, 150 lakh tonnes of wheat are set to arrive in Punjab's procurement centres, but only 60 lakh tonnes can be stored safely. ...
06:22 AM, Mar 29, 2013
Punjab is headed for a record wheat procurement of 140 lakh tonnes this season, officials of the state food and supplies department said in Chandigarh on Tuesday. "Punjab is all set for achieving a new record in wheat procurement as the state government would begin the biggest ever procurement operations in the state from April 1, 2013," a spokesman of the department said. ...
03:45 AM, Mar 27, 2013
As many as 1448 complaints relating to corruption have been received in the past one year in Haryana, state Lokayukta Justice (Retd) Pritam Pal said in Chandigarh on Sunday. ...
02:50 AM, Mar 25, 2013
Three persons, including a police inspector and a head constable, have been arrested after a High Court directive in connection with the murder of a Congress worker in police firing in 2012, police said. Ambika Prasad Dube was killed allegedly in a police firing at Jhipani Dhana village following a dispute in June 2012. ...
12:50 AM, Mar 25, 2013
The Food Security Bill envisaging entitlement of foodgrains for 67 per cent of the population will soon become a reality, Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tewari on Sunday said. ...
08:17 PM, Mar 24, 2013
Artificially ripened Alphonso mangoes worth Rs 1.25 lakh were destroyed by the Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) at a local fruit market here, official sources said on Saturday. Around 1,400 kilos of Alphonso mangoes worth Rs 1.25 lakh were seized from a shop at Sharadchandra fruit market here on Thursday as they were being ripened artificially using calcium carbide, FDA sources said. ...
08:16 PM, Mar 23, 2013
Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Saturday hoped the landmark Food Security Bill, to ensure the right to highly subsidised foodgrains to poor, would be passed in the ongoing Budget session of Parliament. ...
04:42 PM, Mar 23, 2013
The first half of the Budget session of the 2012-13 ends on Friday. The House will meet next on April 22. Important reform bills such as the Food Security Bill and the land bill still remain pending. ...
08:15 AM, Mar 22, 2013
Lashing out at the central government for stopping allocation of additional foodgrain in backward areas and some targeted groups at cheap rates in the coming fiscal, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said her government would continue the schemes from its own resources. ...
04:06 AM, Mar 21, 2013
Undeterred by adverse political developments, Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday said there will be no let up in the government's efforts to continue with the economic reforms and he will go ahead with his meetings with foreign investors to persuade them to invest in India. ...
02:50 PM, Mar 20, 2013
The Cabinet is all set to meet again to consider and possibly clear United Progressive Alliance's ambitious Food Bill. No decision could be passed on Monday since two Cabinet ministers P Chidambaram and AK Antony were not present. ...
09:24 PM, Mar 18, 2013
