Obesity, diabetes, heart disease: 62% of Indians’ daily calories come from just 2 foods; Experts suggest healthier regional alternativesA new study reveals Indians consume nearly 62% of daily calories from carbohydrates. This carb-heavy diet, dominated by white rice and refi...
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Dairy cooperatives increase milk procurement by 20.4% in NovemberGujarat (Amul), Karnataka (Nandini), Bihar (Sudha), Haryana (Vita), Punjab (Verka) and Uttar Pradesh (PCDF-Parag) have some of the largest ...
Myth buster: How fatty foods help you maintain a healthy lifestyleFat is not as bad a villain as it is made out to be. If fat can cause weight gain, it can also help in weight loss & maintenance.
Bihar government to bring bill awarding capital punishment for making hoochBihar government is bringing bill to award capital punishment for manufacturing illicit liquor once prohibition comes into effect, CM Nitis...
Centre to float bids next month to lease out ailing Delhi Milk SchemeCentre will next month invite bids from milk companies to turnaround loss-making DMS by taking over its operations on a long-term lease bas...
Bihar CM Nitish Kumar plans to turn liquor vendors into milkmenThough Bihar is expected to lose over Rs 3,000 crore from the prohibition, the CM asserted his government was firm on effective prohibition.
Nitish Kumar moots dairy products for liquor vends that close after prohibitionNitish Kumar has his way, thousands of liquor shops in Bihar may be soon be selling healthy dairy products as his government gradually enfo...
Government asks Amul to submit detailed proposal to take over Delhi Milk Scheme operationsGCMMF, which owns the Amul brand, has been asked to submit a detailed proposal to the government for taking over operations of loss-making ...
- Bihar's Sudha milk brand keen to run DMS
After Amul, Bihar State Cooperative Milk Producers' Federation that owns Sudha brand evinced interest in acquiring processing and distribut...
Amul builder Verghese Kurien's best quotes and pictures from Economic Times archivesIn 2001, when Dr Kurien was bestowed the Lifetime Achievement Award at the ET Awards for Corporate Excellence along with the badshaah of In...
- Verghese Kurien: An engineer who became India’s most favourite milkman
A US-trained metallurgical engineer decided to quit government job to join a nascent dairy cooperative at a third of salary.
- Global milk producers offer technology support to India
As India's milk production falls 20 million tonnes short of the demand, leading global dairy players offered to help the country.
- Rural milk producers in MP sell milk worth Rs two-crore
Rural milk producers have sold milk worth Rs two crore in Sagar, Panna, Chhatarpur, Damoh, Tikamgarh and Datia districts of MP through milk...