Toilets used for storing food grain: Ramesh

Last Updated: Friday, July 6, 2012, 17:11

Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh said toilets built over the last 10 years across the country are being used for storing food grain.

UP food grain scam: CBI arrests ex SDM

Last Updated: Tuesday, May 8, 2012, 20:31

Former Sub-Divisional Magistrate of Gola has been arrested by the CBI in connection with the multi-crore Uttar Pradesh food grain scam.

Grain scam: Blacklist contractors, demands SP

Last Updated: Wednesday, April 25, 2012, 11:35

The Samajwadi Party national general secretary and the district president have demanded that the UP government blacklist all contractors, whose names have cropped up in the foodgrain scam.

CAG raps Himachal for supplying inferior foodgrain

Last Updated: Monday, April 9, 2012, 14:01

Himachal Pradesh supplied 2,066 tonnes of substandard pulses and 1,167 tonnes of inferior foodgrains to consumers from 2006-11, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has said.

Tiny comet grain reveals Jupiter`s formation date

Last Updated: Friday, March 2, 2012, 13:09

NASA`s Stardust spacecraft has indicated that Jupiter formed more than three million years after the formation of the first solids in our Solar System.

Iran grain imports stalled by sanctions

Last Updated: Wednesday, February 1, 2012, 00:21

The stalled shipments showed the impact Western sanctions imposed over the past three months.

Record foodgrains production facilitates Food Bill

Last Updated: Tuesday, December 27, 2011, 11:54

The agriculture sector performed exceedingly well in 2011, with record foodgrains production of over 240 million tonnes.

`Food grain distribution on 2011 Census basis`

Last Updated: Wednesday, October 19, 2011, 23:20

The Centre Wednesday said that public distribution of food grains will be made as per the Census 2011 from December this year.

Draft bill eyes cheap grains for 810 mln people

Last Updated: Wednesday, September 14, 2011, 22:35

The government has agreed on a draft law to provide cheap grains to two thirds of its 1.2 billion people, a plan that could widen fiscal deficit but help win voter support for the government and its allies.

Record foograin output, but need to produce more: PM

Last Updated: Saturday, July 16, 2011, 14:13

Announcing a record foodgrain production at 241 million tonnes (MT) in 2010-11, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Saturday said the country still needs to produce more to meet the rising demand, besides controlling high food prices.

Brand Ramdev: From DVDs to multi-grain flour

Last Updated: Thursday, June 9, 2011, 23:33

Yoga guru Ramdev`s 1,100-crore business empire is not just limited to DVDs of his exercise techniques as lifestyle products from multi-grain floor to his brand of cosmetics are also in demand.

Rotten grain being supplied to tribal areas: CPI-M

Last Updated: Thursday, March 24, 2011, 12:43

Rotten grain with rat stool is being supplied to tribals by government agencies, Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) MP Brinda Karat said on Thursday.