The Centre has written to the Meghalaya government, along with other states, asking it to ensure smooth supply of food items in the state to contain the steep rise in prices.

The exercise is part of a nationwide initiative to bring down food prices all over the country.

Official sources said today that the Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee had asked all the state governments, including

NEW DELHI: India on Tuesday announced an extension of the ban on milk and milk products from China for another year.

According to a notification from the Directorate-General of Foreign Trade (DGFT), the extension took effect on December 24 last.

Prices of open milk being sold in the city are expected to rise as the Jaipur Municipal Corporation (JMC) proceeds with its plan to relocate dairies out of the city's municipal limits.
Despite protest from owners, a JMC squad on Monday captured and relocated several bovine animals from various parts of the city to the Hingoniya cow shelter.
With local dairies being moved out of the city, it is e

The three-day workshop for those involved in goat rearing organised by the Himalayan Environmental Studies and Conservation Organisation (HESCO) concluded in Dehradun on Thursday. Local residents engaged in goat rearing participated in the workshop which was coordinator by senior social activist Jaipal Singh Chauhan.

Himani Purohit convened the concluding session of the workshop.

Milk sale is picking up along with an increase in processing capacity
Jayashree Bhosale & Madhvi Sally PUNE | CHANDIGARH
MILK prices will not fall in winter, which is a flush season, primarily due to rising cost of feeding milch cattle.

Two weeks after 11 students of a municipal school fell sick after drinking BMC-supplied flavoured milk, the civic body has sent the milk

The Madhya Pradesh Cooperative Milk Development Federation has decided to observe November 1, Foundation Day of the state, as Mass De-worming Day in the state with a view to improve milk production by the cooperative milk producing societies.

Alternative strategy in the drive to achieve food security
Ksheeraganga has a subsidy component of Rs.9 crore
Plan to produce an additional 135 lakh litres of milk a year

Thiruvananthapuram: Decades back, buffaloes ambling along the city roads used to be a regular sight.