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India and the World Food Programme signed an agreement last month to provide Afghanistan with 20,000 tonnes of wheat that would be sent through the Chabahar Port

Updated On: 06 Apr 2023 | 1:51 PM IST

According to recent studies, Indian children's schooling may suffer if their families have trouble getting adequate nutrient-rich food

Updated On: 20 Mar 2023 | 8:29 PM IST

For a series of dinners for Spotify's clients in India in November last year, Chandra blended food with music

Updated On: 19 Mar 2023 | 9:24 PM IST

Modi also pointed out how global supply chains have broken down during times of stress and turmoil

Updated On: 02 Mar 2023 | 8:24 PM IST

The new offering will provide meals starting at Rs 89 and is currently available in select areas of Gurugram only

Updated On: 22 Feb 2023 | 11:53 PM IST

Khanna takes Chintan Girish Modi through his journey to the Michelin Star, which started with his Biji's kitchen

Updated On: 17 Feb 2023 | 4:33 PM IST

The All India Institute of Medical Sciences here on Wednesday issued orders for inclusion of healthy food items like boiled eggs, milk, sprouts, boiled 'chana' and salad in the menu of the cafeteria and hostel mess. In a communication sent to the chairman of the Cafeteria Management Committee, AIIMS Director M Srinivas said the existing menu of the cafeteria and hostel mess at the institute provides very limited and conventional food like 'samosa', 'kachori' and bread 'pakora' which are considered unhealthy food items. The faculty, resident doctors, nursing officers and other staff members working at AIIMS, New Delhi are involved in patient care and require healthy food to build up and maintain their immunity, the communication said. "Chairman, Cafeteria Management Committee is hereby requested to issue necessary directions to the DGM, Central Cafeteria to make available healthy food like boiled egg, milk, sprouts, boiled 'chana', fruit salad, veg salad, fresh uncut fruits and fresh

Updated On: 08 Feb 2023 | 10:52 PM IST

Curefoods is expecting to reach annual recurring revenue (ARR) of Rs 1000 crore ($122 million) by the end of this year and it aims to be ready for an IPO in 18 months

Updated On: 29 Jan 2023 | 8:01 PM IST

The menace of hunger or undernourishment can be mitigated to a considerable extent just by curtailing the wastage of raw food and making a better use of the left-over cooked food

Updated On: 22 Jan 2023 | 10:12 PM IST

During the year, the index hit the highest since records started in 1990

Updated On: 07 Jan 2023 | 12:29 AM IST

Biryani continued to set new records with 2.28 biryani orders per second on Swiggy in 2022 while foreign flavours like Italian Ravioli and Korean Bibimbap were the most popular food choices

Updated On: 15 Dec 2022 | 5:24 PM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday cautioned the G-20 leaders that today's fertiliser shortage could become tomorrow's food crisis as he strongly pitched for maintaining a "stable" supply chain for both manure and food grains. In his address at the G-20 summit here, Modi also highlighted how India ensured food security for its 1.3 billion citizens during the Covid-19 pandemic while supplying food grains to many countries. "The current shortage of fertilizers in terms of food security is also a huge crisis. Today's fertilizer shortage is tomorrow's food crisis, for which the world will not have a solution," Modi told the gathering which included US President Joe Biden, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and French President Emmanuel Macron. "We should build mutual agreement to maintain the supply chain of both manure and food grains stable and assured. In India, for sustainable food security, we are promoting natural farming, and re-popularising nutritious and traditional ...

Updated On: 15 Nov 2022 | 2:44 PM IST

While some restaurants abroad have successfully protected their recipes, prior art can prove to be a hurdle in patenting innovative cuisine

Updated On: 09 Nov 2022 | 12:22 AM IST

A key lever of the ITC Next strategy is to spot new opportunities at the intersection of digital, sustainability and enterprise strengths

Updated On: 31 Oct 2022 | 10:10 PM IST

A Business Standard analysis found ramping up capacity and engaging the private sector helped FCI's share in total storage to rise to over 50 per cent.

Updated On: 25 Oct 2022 | 2:11 AM IST

The fund has set an overall target of raising Rs 500 crore and has received commitment of Rs 25 crore

Updated On: 10 Oct 2022 | 6:43 PM IST

The Food Ministry on Monday said it has decided to promote millet products like ragi biscuits and cookies in its canteen and all meetings. A directive in this regard has been issued recently in order to promote the consumption of healthy products ahead of the International Year of Millets to be celebrated in 2023. Millets products such as ragi biscuits, cookies, ladoos, baked millet chips etc. as snacks to be served in the meetings. Dosa, idli and vada with millet as the main raw material to be used in the canteens and as far as possible locally available millet-based products should be used, the ministry said in a statement. Ahead of 2023 international year of millets, the Food Ministry has been actively promoting procurement, and consumption of millets in the country and utilization of procured millets for distribution in welfare schemes. Millets consumption confers several benefits and helps in managing lifestyle diseases. Due to their high density of nutrients including vitami

Updated On: 12 Sep 2022 | 9:14 PM IST

A guide to how to pick and how to cook one the world's most popular cuisines

Updated On: 09 Sep 2022 | 10:50 PM IST

The popularity of plant-based proteins,has increased in recent years as consumers look to eat fewer animal products leading to a projected growth of $3 billion in Australian market by 2030

Updated On: 16 Aug 2022 | 5:52 PM IST

Subsidizing food is largely not an activity that involves the world's poorest people who are most at risk of hunger, but its richest and most amply-fed

Updated On: 15 Aug 2022 | 12:05 PM IST