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Wednesday, September 3, 2025
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Topic: FCI

FCI to bolster with IP-based CCTV surveillance

23,750 cameras have been installed at 561 FCI-owned depots to enhance storage operations.

How a sepoy & an Army craftsman ran Rs 1.43 crore ‘recruitment racket’ — here’s what CBI probe found

Sepoy Bablu Chauhan, craftsman Akash and Chanchala Devi, a ward sahayika at Army’s Udhampur command hospital, were among 10 booked in the case, lodged on complaint by defence ministry.

Bharat Atta gets thumbs up, buyers now want govt to sell tea, vegetable oils & more pulses

Modi govt allocated 2.5 lakh metric tonnes wheat for NAFED, NCCF & Kendriya Bhandars which was later processed into flour & is being sold at ₹27.50 per kg at outlets & mobile vans.

SubscriberWrites: India’s agricultural sector needs a push

Keeping in line with the promises during the election campaign in 2013-14, PM Modi promised to double farm incomes by 2022, but it still needs to be fulfilled.

Karnataka to give ‘Anna Bhagya’ beneficiaries ‘cash’ instead of rice, BJP asks, ‘Can people eat money?’

CM Siddaramaiah said after cabinet meet Wednesday that ‘Anna Bhagya’ beneficiaries will get ‘cash’ until govt is able to secure stable supply of rice for the scheme.

With tightening wheat supplies globally, prices of atta soar Rs 7 in just a year

Experts believe prices are likely to go down as harvest season approaches & assert that government must release strategic reserve in open market to enhance supply. 

More bad news after inflation hits 5-month high: Wheat stocks at 6-yr low, ‘rice output to fall’

Wheat stocks are half of where they stood in October 2021. Public stocks of rice are nearly double stocking norm, but price outlook depends on actual harvest this season.

India’s Amul milk model has a lot to teach its state cereals, pulses procurement schemes

Only when the procurement of an entire range of commodities – from Manipur oranges and Uttarkashi apples to Sunderban raw honey– is put on an even and transparent keel will India’s rural economy grow.

No plan to import wheat, govt says after traders flag drop in output estimate due to heatwave

Department of Food & Public Distribution took to Twitter clarifying that India has adequate foodgrain stocks to meet its domestic requirements

Why India shouldn’t get carried away by wheat, rice export bonanza due to Ukraine war

Modi govt must assess food inflation and the domestic requirement of wheat and rice in a war-ravaged year. Data on procurement doesn't look good.

On Camera

On Arundhati Roy, mother-daughter conflicts, and the burden of being a ‘good mother’

When reading the book, one can see Roy’s mother as a 'fascist government' unto herself, the centre of her own cult. In Arundhati’s words, Mary Roy was ‘mother guru’.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Loyal wingman’ to full ICBM triad & air defence, China’s show of power at Victory Day parade

China flaunted military might & modernisation as it displayed stealth drones, anti-satellite system & cyber warfare contingent during parade to mark victory over Japan in WWII.

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.