Stocks exceed the buffer norm despite dip in production ‘FCI machinery should be geared up’ The Union government on Wednesday ruled out the likelihood of rice imports on its account, as stocks were more than the buffer norm despite an expected dip in production due to drought in the kharif season. Speaking to journalists on the sidelines of the annual general meeting of the Indian Council of Agriculture Research, Union Agriculture and Food...

In a clear indictment of the punjab Police and the state government, National Commission for Women chairperson Girija Vyas set up a committee to examine the Ruchika Girhotra case. The NCW is also examining whether it can file a case to get damage compensation for Ruchika Girhotra's family. Vyas told reporters that she was setting up a committee of lawyers to examine the sequence of events that took place in...

Nineteen years after he allegedly molested a 14-year-old tennis player who later committed suicide, former Haryana police chief S.P.S. Rathore was today sentenced to six months in jail, a punishment the victim’s friends considered too light. Rathore, who retired in 2002, has been granted bail till a higher court decides on the appeal he said he would file. Ruchika Girhotra had accused the officer of molesting her on August 12, 1990, when...

While the government may have got reprieve with the fair and remunerative price, the mills are expected to move the courts On October 21, the Central government came out with an ordinance that it will henceforth announce a fair and remunerative price for sugarcane, instead of the statutory minimum price. Millions of farmers across the country grow sugarcane which they sell to sugar mills. To make sure that prices don’t tank...

The food price inflation in India, measured by the wholesale price index of food items, touched a 10-year high for the week ended November 28, 2009 when it crossed 19% on point-to-point basis over the corresponding week a year ago. The cereal prices were up by about 13%, but pulses are up by 42%, and vegetables by 31%, although potato prices shot up by 102%. This is getting way beyond...