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Chhattisgarh CM writes to Paswan for increasing rice procurement limit und
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Raipur (Chhattisgarh) [India], Sept 24 (ANI): Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel on Tuesday wrote a letter to Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan requesting permission for Food Corporation of India (FCI) to procure 32 lakh metric tons of rice from Chhattisgarh under the central pool.
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Govt imposes minimum export price on onions
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi, Sept 13 (ANI) With prices of onions seeing a surge for the past few weeks, the government on Friday imposed a minimum export price of US $ 85 per metric ton.
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12 lakh MTs Apple will be procured from farmers: DIPR, J-K
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], Sept 10 (ANI): The Department of Information and Public Relations (DIPR), Jammu and Kashmir, on Monday said that 12 Lakh Metric Tons (MTs) of apple will be procured through special market intervention price scheme from the farmers.
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Birds eat 400 to 500 million tonnes of insects annually: Study
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Sept 2 (ANI): Birds around the world eat 400 to 500 million metric tonnes of beetles, flies, ants, moths, aphids, grasshoppers, crickets and other arthropod per year, claims a study.
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Quality of consolidating PSU banks will determine their effectiveness: Moo
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 31 (ANI): The consolidation of 10 public sectors banks announced by the government is credit positive but there will not be any immediate improvement in their credit metrics as all of them have relatively weak solvency profiles, global rating agency Moody's has said.
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Hyderabad: Police seized 10 metric tons of Ammonium Nitrate, owner arreste
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], Aug 29 (ANI): A person was arrested and 10 metric tons of Ammonium Nitrate loaded in a truck was seized by police deployed at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad.
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Maharashtra: BMC collects approximately 15 metric ton of trash after seaso
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], August 3 (ANI): Season's highest tide of around 4.9 meters washed ashore around 15 metric ton of trash on the shores of Marine Line on Saturday.
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Govt approves creation of buffer stock for 40 lakh metric tonnes of sugar
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 24 (ANI): The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the creation of a buffer stock of 40 lakh metric tonnes (LMT) of sugar for one year from August 1, 2019 to July 31, 2020.
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CCEA takes 5 major decisions, approves FRP of sugarcane at Rs 275 per quin
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 24 (ANI): In a fillip to India's sugarcane farming sector the Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday approved fair and remunerative price (FRP) of sugarcane at Rs 275 per quintal and the government has decided to create a buffer stock of
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Moody's affirms ONGC's Baa1 ratings with stable outlook
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Singapore, July 16 (ANI): Moody's Investors Service on Tuesday affirmed Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd's (ONGC) Baa1 local and foreign currency issuer ratings besides Baa1 ratings on the senior unsecured bonds guaranteed by ONGC and issued by ONGC Videsh Limited and ONGC Videsh Vankorne
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Turmeric makes it to BSE's commodity derivatives segment
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Sangli (Maharashtra) [India], June 28 (ANI): BSE, earlier known as Bombay Stock Exchange, on Friday started commodity derivatives trading in turmeric with a lot size of 10 metric tonnes.
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This World Environment Day, pledge to reduce your plastic footprint
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jun 4 (ANI): Since 1950, humans have created 8.3 billion metric tons of plastics and most of that synthetic material still exists on our planet.
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