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
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
The driver of a firm associated with liquor baron late Ponty Chadha on Monday escaped with an amount to the tune of Rs 10 lakh from Gurdaspur district, police said. On the complaint of Jaspreet Singh Seth, Vice President of 'AB food grains', associated with Chadha, a case was registered against Amritsar resident Rajesh Kumar for escaping with the amount, SHO Sri Hargobindpur Gurbhinder Singh said. ...
10:12 PM, Dec 31, 2012
A bank with a difference provides grain on loan to poor Dalit women in Paliganj in Bihar. It saves them from the clutches of upper caste moneylenders. ...
10:16 AM, Nov 30, 2012
Chandigarh: Decrying the lack of proper sanitation facilities, Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh on Friday said toilets built over the last 10 years across the country are being used for storing food grain. "In last 10 years, toilets have been built (across the country)...But toilets are not being used for the purpose for which they had been built. They are being used for storing food grain...they have been turned into...
05:14 PM, Jul 06, 2012
Kota: There has been yet another shocking case of damage to food grains due to rains in Rajasthan's Kota district. Food grains to the tune of Rs 2 crore were neglected by Food Corporation of India (FCI) officials. Famers have now logded a case against Food Corporation of India (FCI) officials, alleging that they did not make adequate arrangement, despite assurances by food minister KV Thomas to CNN-IBN. This comes...
11:39 AM, Jun 09, 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
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
London: A 'Mediterranean diet' can increase a woman's lifespan by as much as 15 years, and increase a man's life by eight years, says a study. What is a Mediterranean diet? It is one rich in vegetables, olive oil, fruit, nuts, fish and whole grains, with occasional meat and alcohol. Those who can combine such a diet with exercise, avoiding smoking and maintaining desirable weight, could expect to live up...
12:15 PM, Aug 04, 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
Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy has stepped in to stop the rotting of grain. Just hours after CNN-IBN reported a record harvest of grain rotting because of lack of storage facilities Reddy has appointed a team of 10 IAS officers to supervise paddy procurement and has issued instructions to minimise wastage by ensuring a supply of gunny bags to warehouses. He has also reportedly asked officials to...
08:40 PM, May 11, 2011
New Delhi/ Chandigarh: Biraj Patnaik, a special advisor to the Supreme Court, will bring the case of rice being burnt at a godown in Punjab to the court's attention. Patnaik will take up the cause just a day after CNN-IBN reported how thousands of tonnes of rice in Punjab was burnt to ashes after lying in the open for five years. "Hundred children die of malnutrition every hour. We have ...
11:44 AM, May 10, 2011
New Delhi/ Chandigarh: Biraj Patnaik, a special advisor to the Supreme Court, will bring the case of rice being burnt at a godown in Punjab to the court's attention. Patnaik will take up the cause just a day after CNN-IBN reported how thousands of tonnes of rice in Punjab was burnt to ashes after lying in the open for five years. "Hundred children die of malnutrition every hour. We have...
11:44 AM, May 10, 2011
India has been subsidizing its rice exports to Bangladesh. But still the deal doesn't seem to be materializing. ...
11:49 AM, Dec 19, 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
