November 19th, 2008 - 7:18 pm ICT by IANS
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Bhopal, Nov 19 (IANS) The Congress in Madhya Pradesh Wednesday promised a bonanza to farmers and poor people if elected to power in the state following the Nov 27 assembly elections. The ...
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November 5th, 2008 - 7:53 pm ICT by IANS
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New Delhi, Nov 5 (IANS) Despite banning wheat exports, India will contribute 153,000 tonnes of the grain to set up a food bank for tackling food crisis in certain SAARC countries, the ...
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October 31st, 2008 - 11:50 am ICT by IANS
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Ranchi, Oct 31 (IANS) Despite a plethora of welfare schemes, 20 members of three primitive tribes of Jharkhand have died in the last one month, with the government attributing this to food ...
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October 22nd, 2008 - 9:07 pm ICT by IANS
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New Delhi, Oct 22 (IANS) The tug of war between the Communist Party of India-Marxist and Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee continues, with the party accusing the former CPI-M stalwart ...
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October 22nd, 2008 - 7:14 pm ICT by IANS
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New Delhi, Oct 22 (IANS) A parliamentary committee comprising 30 MPs was formed Wednesday to ensure that the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), which India aims to achieve along with the rest of ...
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October 22nd, 2008 - 7:06 pm ICT by IANS
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New Delhi, Oct 22 (IANS) The Lok Sabha was adjourned for the day Wednesday after four interruptions on the attacks on north Indians in Mumbai and what the Left parties perceived as ...
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October 22nd, 2008 - 3:15 pm ICT by IANS
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New Delhi, Oct 22 (IANS) With Left MPs demanding adequate food grain quota and electricity supply for Kerala and the Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) asking for action against Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) ...
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October 16th, 2008 - 8:02 pm ICT by ANI
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New Delhi, Oct 16 (ANI): Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar today said that India''s stand that promotion of bio-energy should not be at the cost of food security.
Addressing at the ...
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October 16th, 2008 - 1:07 pm ICT by admin
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By Sarika Tripathi
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of United Nations has recently issued a report which reveals that currently there are 75 million (7.5 crore) people in the world who have ...
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October 15th, 2008 - 11:14 pm ICT by IANS
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Lucknow, Oct 15 (IANS) Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati Wednesday accused Congress president Sonia Gandhi of "hatching a political conspiracy" against the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) even as the Congress condemned her ...
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October 6th, 2008 - 8:25 pm ICT by IANS
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Ranchi, Oct 6 (IANS) Advisors to the commissioner appointed by the Supreme Court to look into the tribal deaths in Jharkhand have found that the deaths occurred due to starvation and not ...
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September 7th, 2008 - 1:29 pm ICT by IANS
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New Delhi, Sep 7 (IANS) A Delhi government official is openly violating the Right to Information (RTI) Act by letting a person to file only one application a day, allege social activists."Whenever ...
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August 28th, 2008 - 11:39 pm ICT by IANS
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Chandigarh, Aug 28 (IANS) The Haryana government has formulated a Rs 1.53-billion plan to replace nearly 5.2 million ration cards in the state with smart cards.Once implemented, Haryana will become the first ...
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August 21st, 2008 - 5:49 pm ICT by IANS
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New Delhi, Aug 21 (IANS) The government Thursday gave approval to the state-run Food Corp of India (FCI) to sell wheat and rice under the open market sale scheme (OMSS), a move ...
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August 18th, 2008 - 2:17 pm ICT by IANS
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Agartala, Aug 18 (IANS) Five senior officials of the Tripura food department have been suspended for their alleged involvement in a public distribution system (PDS) scam, officials said here Monday. "Preliminary investigations ...
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August 16th, 2008 - 8:38 pm ICT by IANS
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Nagpur, Aug 16 (IANS) An unprecedented Rs.710 billion loan waiver has not stopped farm suicides in Vidarbha of Maharashtra with 12 such cases being reported in different parts of the region in ...
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August 16th, 2008 - 7:43 pm ICT by IANS
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New Delhi, Aug 16 (IANS) Expressing concern over the continuing increase in retail prices of essential commodities, the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Saturday said that the Manmohan Singh government's "neoliberal policies" ...
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August 15th, 2008 - 2:34 pm ICT by ANI
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New Delhi, Aug.15 (ANI): Accepting that the nation faced a grave challenge in countering the rise in prices of essential items, the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, said on Friday that ...
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July 30th, 2008 - 6:33 pm ICT by IANS
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New Delhi, July 30 (IANS) India's Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar Wednesday ruled out any early decision on lifting the ban on export of wheat and non-basmati rice. "No decision has yet been ...
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July 10th, 2008 - 7:57 pm ICT by IANS
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New Delhi, July 10 (IANS) Eight commodities that account for 40 percent of the food basket in wholesale price index (WPI) have recorded average decline of 1.2 percent in their prices over ...
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July 8th, 2008 - 10:27 pm ICT by IANS
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New Delhi, July 8 (IANS) The Delhi government Tuesday ordered a probe into reports that thousands of ration cards in the national capital are fake. An activist had claimed that over 170,000 ...
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July 7th, 2008 - 10:42 pm ICT by IANS
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New Delhi, July 7 (IANS) A rights activist Monday alleged that over 170,000 ration cards, amounting to nearly 10 percent of the total, in the national capital are fake and billions of ...
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June 25th, 2008 - 2:08 pm ICT by ANI
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New Delhi, June 25 (ANI): The Finance Ministry today expressed hope that the Reserve Bank of Indias decision of increasing the repo rate by 50 basis points and the CRR by ...
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June 23rd, 2008 - 11:23 pm ICT by IANS
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New Delhi, June 23 (IANS) Rising food prices and spiralling rates of vegetables might be affecting millions in the national capital, but Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit Monday said the situation is ...
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June 21st, 2008 - 6:36 pm ICT by IANS
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Chandigarh, June 21 (IANS) Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda Saturday urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to hike the minimum support price (MSP) for paddy to at least Rs.1,200 per quintal from ...
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June 21st, 2008 - 6:16 pm ICT by IANS
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New Delhi, June 21 (IANS) The following is the text of the statement made by Finance Minister P. Chidambaram Saturday, a day after India's inflation reached 11.05 percent: "Yesterday, the WPI (wholesale ...
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June 20th, 2008 - 11:00 pm ICT by IANS
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New Delhi, June 20 (IANS) The government will spend Rs.15 billion on supplying edible oil at subsidised rate through the public distribution system in 15 states from next month. One million tonnes ...
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June 20th, 2008 - 4:32 pm ICT by IANS
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New Delhi, June 20 (IANS) The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Friday accused the government of failing to curb rising prices, saying the Manmohan Singh government was to blame for the "dismal ...
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June 13th, 2008 - 9:44 pm ICT by IANS
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New Delhi, June 13 (IANS) India's wheat procurement has touched 22.02 million tonnes, almost double of last year's 11.13 million tonnes, it was announced Friday. A statement from the ministry of consumer ...
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June 1st, 2008 - 1:54 pm ICT by
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India draws global attention in farm production.
2008-06-01 08:30:46 - More than two dozen countries fear for food crisis in their country and causing riots due to increase in price of food ...
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