Food Processing Industries

Timelines

06 Jan 2019

World record and Dalit votes: Amit Shah's rally hogs limelight

In a bid to attract Dalit voters, Bharatiya Janata Party will be cooking over 5,000 kg of khichdi at a rally in New Delhi on Sunday. Amit Shah will address the gathering.

21 Nov 2018

Bengal welcomes you to 'Ahare Bangla', its uber-popular food festival

The annual food festival 'Ahare Bangla', organized by West Bengal government in Kolkata, is offering a wide variety of dishes.

02 Nov 2017

No plan of declaring khichdi India's national dish: Minister clarifies

A day after reports about 'khichdi' being declared India's national dish went viral, Food Processing Industries Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal dismissed the rumors.

28 Mar 2017

Centre approves 101 cold-chain projects to curb food wastage

The government approved 101 cold-chain projects across the country, to attempt to curb the problem of food wastage in India.

22 Nov 2016

Commercial surrogacy bill introduced in Lok Sabha

The government has introduced the Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2016, in the Lok Sabha; the bill seeks to tighten norms for commercial surrogacy in India.

25 Aug 2016

Cabinet proposes ban on "commercial surrogacy"

On Wednesday, a draft bill which aims to safeguard the rights of surrogate mothers and make parentage of such children legal was cleared by the Cabinet.