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  Maharashtra gives nod for field trial of 5 genetically modified crops

  India | January 30, 2015 17:06 IST

  New Delhi:  The Maharashtra government has given ‘no objection certificate' for field trial of five genetically modified (GM) crops—brinjal, maize, rice, chickpea and cotton—in the state.Since June 2011, it has been made mandatory for companies

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  Northeast India turns to Myanmar, Bangladesh for rice

  India | October 16, 2014 16:21 IST

  Agartala: Transport bottlenecks have forced India's northeastern states to procure much needed rice from neighbouring Myanmar and Bangladesh.The Indian government has floated bids to import rice from Myanmar for Manipur and Mizoram. The Food Corporation

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  Interim Budget: Cord Blood Banks, rice warehouses exempted from service tax

  February 17, 2014 13:59 IST

  New Delhi: Finance Ministe  P. Chidambaram today announced that services provided by Cord Blood Banks will be considered as part of health care services and they shall be exempt from service tax. Presenting the interim

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  Karnataka doles out rice at Re.1 a kg for poor

  India | July 11, 2013 7:42 IST

  Bangalore, July 11: The ruling Congress government in Karnataka yesterday began distributing 30 kg of rice at Re.1 a kg for the below poverty line (BPL) families in the state, fulfilling one of its promises

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  Call off Re 1 a kg rice scheme, former Infosys chief Pai tells Karnataka CM

  July 09, 2013 8:51 IST

  Bangalore, Jul 9: Former Infosys CFO T V Mohandas Pai on Monday asked Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to rise above politics and call off implementation of Congress government's scheme to provide 30 kg rice per month

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  Obama snubs Republicans to name Rice national security adviser

  World | June 06, 2013 10:17 IST

  Washington, June 6: In a snub to the Republicans, President Barack Obama named long time confidante Susan Rice, who had courted political controversy with her remarks on the Benghazi terrorist attack, as his national security

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  Rice at Re.1 per kg for poor families in Karnataka

  India | May 13, 2013 16:06 IST

  Bangalore, May 13: Thirty kg of rice per month will be sold at Re.1 per kg for BPL (below poverty line) families across Karnataka from June 1, newly sworn-in state Chief Minister Siddaramaiah announced here

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  Punjab Wants To Export Wheat, Rice Via Wagah To Iran, Iraq

  October 07, 2011 19:52 IST

  Amritsar, Oct 7: Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal today demanded that the state's farmers be allowed to export wheat and rice to Gulf countries through the Attari-Wagah border.Addressing a press conference here, he

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  Achuthanandan Welcomes High Court Order On Rice Scheme

  Politics | March 21, 2011 20:20 IST

  Thiruvanathapuram, March 21: Kerala Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan welcomed the high court order to set aside the Eelection Commission decision to restrain the state government from extending rice at Rs.2 per kg to fresh

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  Rice Export Scam Handed Over To CVC For Probe

  India | November 19, 2010 15:17 IST

  New Delhi, Nov 19: In disclosures which can add to its troubles, government today admitted that PSU officials did not follow transparent norms in export of non-basmati rice to some African countries during UPA-I tenure,