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Flour Mills Association of Pakistan announces indefinite shutdown of all m
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Chairman of the Flour Mills Association Chaudhry Aamir in a press conference said that the flour mills will be forced to go on strike from 7 pm on Thursday because the food department has cheated them.
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Pakistanis protest in Khar area, claim denial of free wheat flour
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
The demonstration was staged in Pakistan's Civil Colony of Khar amid sloganeering against the food department, flour mills and dealers.
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Pak: Flour prices to spike as govt, millers lock horns over movement of wh
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
As the food department continued to take action against the unauthorised movement of wheat on Friday, it became apparent that the dispute between the provincial government and the flour millers over the shunting of wheat to Karachi from interior parts of the province may increase the price o
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Pakistan: Growers urge Sindh govt to stop smuggling of wheat to Afghanista
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
They claimed that the highly influential businessmen were paying Pakistani Rupees (PKR) 75,000 to 1,00,000 per vehicle as bribes to district food officials, administration and police to move their wheat-loaded heavy vehicles to Afghanistan.
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Pakistan: Punjab province stops selling subsidised flour, commodity being
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
The Punjab government has issued a notification to stop supplying subsidised flour in the province. Over 95 per cent of people are rushing to purchase cheap flour but all went in vain as the shopkeepers with the full backing of the sitting government and flour mills were selling the commodit
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Wheat auction makes impact on ground, prices retreat over 10 per cent
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
On January 25, the government said FCI will offload 30 lakh tonnes of wheat from the central pool in the markets under the Open Market Sale Scheme, within the next two months, for containing the rising domestic prices of the staple foodgrain.
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Pakistan: Balochistan province sends SOS as it runs out of wheat
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
During a press briefing on Saturday night, Food Minister Zamarak Khan Piralizai said that the food department had run out of its wheat stock and called for help from other provinces and the Centre.
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Centre says sufficient grain stocks available to meet demands
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
The government has sufficient food grain stocks under the central pool to meet the requirement of the country's food security program, additional allocation from PMGKAY, and other welfare schemes.
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'Corruption' rising in Pak's Balochistan province, Minister stages walkout
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Quetta [Pakistan], January 25 (ANI): A Minister in Pakistan's Balochistan province has staged a walkout from the provincial assembly session on Monday alleging corruption and irregularities in the recruitment process in agriculture and food departments, said a media report.
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DSP Lokayukta arrests food dept officer for taking monthly bribe amount fr
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Indore (Madhya Pradesh) [India] November 8, (ANI): DSP Lokayukta Praveen Singh Bhagel arrested an officer of the Indore food department for taking a monthly bribe of Rs 15,000 from a government ration shop manager in the morning on Monday, the DSP said.
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Pakistan's Punjab witnessing shortage of 1 million tonne wheat: Report
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Punjab [Pakistan], June 20 (ANI): Pakistan's Punjab province is witnessing a shortage of about a million tonne of wheat in its stock after completion of the procurement drive, local media reported.
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CBI arrests Assistant Commissioner in Delhi Food Department for taking bri
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], November 19 (ANI): The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday arrested Assistant Commissioner and a contractual employee of Delhi's Food and Supply Department for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs one lakh from a fair price shop owner.
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