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  India's wheat production likely to touch all-time high of 114 million tonnes in 2023-24 crop year

  Business | January 04, 2024 13:13 IST

  According to official data, wheat had been planted in 320.54 lakh hectares till the last week. In the preceding 2022-23 crop year (July-June), wheat production achieved a record 110.55 million tonnes, surpassing 107.7 million tonnes from the previous year.

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  FCI corruption case: CBI raids 50 locations in Punjab under 'Operation Kanak-II'

  India | February 21, 2023 20:51 IST

  The searches were held at the premises of FCI officials, private Rice Millers and Grain Merchants in an on-going investigation of a case.

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  CBI raids 50 locations in connection with corruption in Food Corporation of India

  India | January 11, 2023 16:21 IST

  The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday conducted searches at around 50 locations in connection with corruption in the Food Corporation of India, officials informed. According to reports, one DGM has been arrested.

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  CBI raids 20 godowns in Punjab, Haryana

  India | January 29, 2021 12:08 IST

  The move is part of preventive vigilance to check corruption at locations where public dealing takes place.

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  Centre working to launch One Nation One Ration Card: Ram Vilas Paswan

  India | June 28, 2019 10:21 IST

  The biggest beneficiary of the 'one nation one ration card' will be migrant labourers who move to other states to seek better job opportunities and will ensure their food security, Ram Vilas Paswan said at a conference with state food secretaries on food security issues. 

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  Baby survives birth in train toilet, falls onto track!

  India | February 16, 2015 23:35 IST

  Jaipur: A baby boy delivered inside a toilet of a train by a woman slipped through the flush pipe and fell on railway track but survived miraculously in Rajasthan's Hanumangarh district, a railway police official

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  PM's panel suggests cutting food security coverage, recommends cash transfer

  India | January 22, 2015 18:04 IST

  New Delhi: A panel appointed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has recommended to the government to reduce the food security coverage under National Food Security Act (NFSA) from current 67% to 40% of the population.It

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  Bihar Food Minister threatens Paswan's FCI

  India | August 28, 2014 23:45 IST

  Patna: Bihar Food Minister Shyam Rajak today threatened to file a case against FCI if it failed to make available adequate quantity of foodgrains by this month end to which Union Food Minister Ramvilas Paswan

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  Curbing food prices govt's top priority: President

  Politics | June 09, 2014 13:59 IST

  New Delhi: The new government, headed by Narendra Modi, will accord topmost priority to containing food inflation and take tough against hoarding and black marketing, President Pranab Mukherjee said today.“Containing food inflation will be the