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During this, a bill of 380 bags of fertiliser like urea, zinc ted powder and granules kept in the godown was found to be missing. Also, the sales of 1108 bags of mentioned stuff were shown differently in the online stock register.

The government is going to fix the prices of several commodities, including rice, lentil and flour, to check price manipulation by unscrupulous traders in the local market.

The Supreme Court on Monday sought the response of the Centre and states on a plea seeking the invocation of the National Security Act (NSA) against those involved in hoarding, profiteering, adulteration, and black marketing.A bench of Justices ...

Through your esteem daily I would like to express my concern over misuse of the domestic cylinder in the city

The Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution on Friday issued a directive to all the states and UTs to enforce stock disclosure by stockholders of Tur pulse and also to monitor and verify the stocks.The step has been initiated ...

With prices of tur dal on the rise, the Centre on Friday asked all States and UTs to ensure that stockists and traders disclose quantities of tur dal held by them.

Due to the non-payment of sugarcane dues by the Golden Sandhar Sugar Mill Limited, Phagwara, to farmers, Kapurthala Deputy Commissioner Vishesh Sarangal has taken strict action by initiating the process to attach each and every property of the sugar mill across the state. A letter in this regard has

The alertness shown by an on-duty beat marshal attached to the Mira Road police station, led to the arrest of two alleged black-marketers who were caught ferrying food grains meant for the poor. The incident has yet again exposed that food grains supplied by the central government

The police have booked owners of a Bathinda-based firm (Destgen Life Sciences Private Ltd) for allegedly manufacturing and selling spurious fertilisers.

Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal, the state's agricultural minister, formed a three-person flying team on Tuesday to start a campaign to launch a drive to pick out spurious farm materials.