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
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
Over the years, India has seen a criminal waste of food grains, but now the Karnataka food department is trying to ensure that doesn't happen any more. They now have a monitoring system in place. ...
10:16 AM, Jan 29, 2013
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
New Delhi: To overcome the problem of foodgrains storage, the government is building an additional 15 million tonnes capacity in 19 states with help from private enterprenuers. "Nearly 15 million tonnes capacity is being created under the Private Entrepreneur's Guarantee Scheme", Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said in his budget speech on Friday. Out of this, 3 million tonnes of storage capacity will be added by the end of 2011-12 and...
06:05 PM, Mar 16, 2012
New Delhi: With the latest freight hike across the board, Railways aims to earn between Rs 15,000 crore to Rs 20,000 crore in the next fiscal. The Railways has increased the freight rate in all commodities including foodgrains, fertiliser, cement, coal, and petroleum products ahead of Rail Budget. Effective from Tuesday, the hike varies from commodity to commodity ranging between 15 per cent to 35 per cent. While for coal...
08:14 PM, Mar 07, 2012
New Delhi: Exceeding target, the country is set to harvest a record 250 million tonnes of foodgrains this year, as efforts to push farm growth seem to be paying off, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Wednesday. "Our farmers have done us proud again this year. ...but we still have a long way to go. ...we cannot afford to be complacent since demand of horticulture and animal products is increasing...
01:53 PM, Feb 15, 2012
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
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
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
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
15,000 metric tonnes of wheat rotting in floodwaters in Sirsa, Haryana. ...
03:49 PM, Jul 28, 2010
Reports say that almost 17.8 million tonnes of wheat and rice are stored under tarpaulins across India. ...
12:21 PM, Jul 27, 2010
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FCI General Manager of Northern Region has also started an inquiry into the matter. ...
11:08 PM, Jul 21, 2010
Foodgrains will be included in VAT and the rate is likely to be at 5 per cent. ...
09:06 PM, Dec 30, 2009
Three months of patchy rains have sent food prices soaring. ...
11:29 PM, Sep 03, 2009
ASSOCHAM says India's total foodgrain production could fall by 20 pc in 2009. ...
05:14 PM, Aug 10, 2009
The foodgrains wasted in FCI godowns could feed millions. ...
09:20 PM, Aug 04, 2009
How bad is the situation and what does this mean for foodgrain production? ...
03:01 AM, Jul 10, 2009
