Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar has announced to set up an oil factory, with a production capacity of 20,000 metric tonnes, in Kurukshetra in order to give relief to agitating sunflower farmers. The CM said that Haryana State Co-operative Supply and Marketing Federation Limited (HAFED) is buying sunflower seeds from farmers at Rs 4800 […]
The Uttar Pradesh government led by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is trying to expand the transport services as well as to increase the income of the transport department, an official statement said on Wednesday. In this sequence, against the target of Rs 12,672 crore set for the financial year 2023-2024, the department achieved Rs 1656.51 […]
The North Bengal tea industry, which accounts for around 25 per cent of the total production of Indian tea, has incurred hefty losses this year due to very less rain and the incessant effect of pests. The industry is around 15 per cent behind the average production and it will touch up to 32 per […]
Miniratna state-owned manganese ore mining company MOIL on Monday reported a 38.3 per cent drop in its net profit to Rs 80.9 crore for the quarter ended March 31, 2023, against Rs 131 crore in the year-ago period. In FY23, the company made profit before tax (PBT) and profit after tax (PAT) of Rs 334.45 […]
The world-famous aromatic tea from Darjeeling is experiencing a decline in demand in Europe of at least 10 to 15 per cent from the previous year, a decline that has almost exactly paralleled Germany’s entry into a recession. According to the office bearers of the Indian Tea Exporters Association, Germany is the consuming and trading […]
Tamil Nadu government has extended the ban on — manufacturing, storage, transport, distribution or sale of chewable food products, such as Gutkha and Pan masala, which contain tobacco and nicotine as ingredients – for one more year. The Commissioner of Food Safety and Drug Administration, Tamil Nadu said the order will apply from 23 May […]
With temperatures rising above 40 degrees Celsius, the demand for sweet and savoury sattu drink has increased among people in Bihar to beat the heat waves. Sattu Sharbat is a traditional nutritious summer drink from Bihar that is typically made with roasted black chickpea (kala chana) flour. Rich in fibre and protein, sattu sharbat keeps […]
The Adani Group is developing an integrated data centre and technology business park in Visakhapatnam to boost local technology ecosystem in the region. The investments will be on top of the Rs 20,000 crore already invested in the state, which created more than 18,000 direct and 54,000 indirect jobs, according to a statement from the […]
In the view of Buddha Purnima, the Bengaluru civic body issued an order prohibiting the slaughter and sale of meat in the city on the day of Buddha Purnima, which will be celebrated on Friday. “Due to the Buddha Purnima celebrations on May 5, animal slaughter and sale of meat in the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara […]
The export of Uttar Pradesh has increased from Rs 89 thousand crore to Rs 1.57 lakh crore in the last six years, the state government said on Tuesday. “Despite being a landlocked state, has seen remarkable growth in its exports in the last six years of the Yogi Government going up from 88,967 crores to […]
