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Gondia, Apr 11 Nearly 50,000 farmers are awaiting the purchase of their paddy crop by the government at the Minimum Support Price (MSP) in the Gondia district, following the completion of procurement for the Kharif season on March 31, an official said on Saturday. A total of 1,32,614 farmers had...

Chandigarh, April 11 Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini on Saturday said the state government is committed to procuring every single grain of farmers' produce, and has taken steps to make the system transparent and farmer-friendly.The chief minister reviewed the wheat procurement process...

Raisen, April 11 Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Saturday that the government is implementing the "Jai Jawan Jai Kisan" slogan by promoting millets in the armed forces to strengthen farmers economically.Former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri coined the iconic slogan in 1965 during...

New Delhi, April 9 The Fair Trade Regulator, CCI, has directed 17 entities to cease and desist from anti-competitive practices in tenders floated by the Assam Police Housing Corporation Ltd for electrification works in police station buildings across the state.The regulator found that the...

Mumbai, April 9 NCP (SP) leader Jayant Patil wrote to Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Thursday, opposing the proposed sale of the seed strain of DPT (Diphtheria, Pertussis, and Tetanus) vaccines to a private firm.The state-run Haffkine Bio-Pharmaceutical Corporation can produce...

New Delhi, April 7 State-owned Punjab National Bank (PNB) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Government e-Marketplace (GeM) to improve financial access for sellers.The onboarding of Punjab National Bank as a lending partner on the GeM Sahay Portal offers multiple benefits...

New Delhi, April 7 The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) has said that it has complied with the CIC order, which had directed it to provide reasons for denying information to an RTI application seeking to know whether some vendors who had applied for cluster tenders had...

Shahjahanpur (UP), April 7 The district administration has recommended the suspension of the in-charge of a government wheat procurement center here after it was found that wheat was being procured just outside the facility, officials said on Tuesday.Additional District Magistrate...

New Delhi, April 7. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has raised serious concerns about the inclusion of Dalit, Adivasi, and Other Backward Class (OBC) entrepreneurs in India's public works and infrastructure contracts.Posting on Facebook, he asked, "Last year, out of the Rs 16,500 crore worth of...

New Delhi, April 6 The Government e-Marketplace (GeM), a public procurement platform, facilitated transactions worth ₹5.03 lakh crore in 2025-26, a decrease of 7.4% from the previous fiscal, a senior official said on Monday.GeM facilitated transactions worth ₹5.43 lakh crore in 2024-25.GeM...

New Delhi, April 6 The Government e-Marketplace (GeM), a public procurement platform, facilitated transactions worth ₹5.03 lakh crore in 2025-26, a decrease of 7.4 per cent from the previous fiscal, a senior official said on Monday.GeM facilitated transactions worth ₹5.43 lakh crore in...

New Delhi, April 6 The Supreme Court on Monday directed the CBI to register a preliminary inquiry within two weeks into the awarding of contracts for public works in Arunachal Pradesh to firms allegedly owned by family members of Chief Minister Pema Khandu.A bench headed by Justice Vikram Nath...

New Delhi, April 5 The Delhi Police has uncovered a racket involved in the illegal diversion and sale of government-supplied medicines intended for free distribution in hospitals, and has seized drugs worth Rs 70 lakh, an official said on Sunday.Five individuals, including a pharmacist and a...

Bhopal, April 3 – Madhya Pradesh’s Food and Civil Supplies Minister Govind Singh Rajput stated on Friday that all necessary arrangements for wheat procurement at the Minimum Support Price (MSP), starting from April 10, are being ensured in a timely manner across the state.The Minister said...

Bengaluru, April 2 The Karnataka Lokayukta police on Thursday laid a trap and arrested two officials of the Bengaluru Municipal Corporation for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs three lakh in connection with a pending "Khata" work, officials said.According to the Karnataka Lokayukta, a case...

New Delhi, April 1 India's imports of telecom equipment from China rose to USD 6,371 million (approximately Rs 59,500 crore) in 2023-24, up from USD 5,553 million in 2019-20, Parliament was informed on Wednesday.Minister of State for Communications, Pemmasani Chandra Sekhar, in a written reply...

Mumbai, April 1 The Maharashtra State Onion Growers' Association has urged the government to immediately implement the Market Intervention Scheme (MIS) to curb the sharp fall in onion prices, which the association claims has pushed farmers into a severe financial crisis.According to the...

Bhubaneswar, March 31 – The opposition Congress claimed on Tuesday that it had exposed a massive scam in the paddy procurement system in Odisha during the Kharif season, which was allegedly costing farmers their fair earnings due to collusion between millers, government officials, and the state...

Today, the Defence Ministry signed a 1,950 crore rupee contract with Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) in New Delhi to procure two mountain radars for the Indian Air Force. The Ministry stated that this deal, signed under the "Buy (Indian-Designed, Developed, and Manufactured)" category, aligns...

Bhopal, March 30 – The opposition Congress in Madhya Pradesh is planning to intensify its attacks on the ruling BJP over issues related to farmers, including the delay in procuring wheat at the Minimum Support Price (MSP) for the 2026-27 Rabi Marketing Year.To this end, state Congress...