Meals have played a crucial role in diplomatic negotiations, from Lal Bahadur Shastri's final meal to the Tehran Conference where Churchill...

The Reserve Bank of India's governor, Shaktikanta Das, highlighted the need to closely monitor onion production during a recent meeting. On...

The Indian government has imposed a 40% tax on onions for export as prices of the vegetable spike, driving up retail prices of what is a ke...

Government officials say the domestic consumption of the kitchen staple is estimated to be close to 165 lakh tonne a year, which is much le...

Pawar pointed out that the majority of the farmers practise dry land farming, meaning they can cultivate the crop only once during the mons...

Unseasonal rains in 3 major producing states have seen the crop marooned in fields & prices jumping each day.

More than WPI and CPI data, the common man gets impacted by high prices of vegetables.

Export parity price is really the right thing to do in many ways, but we have taken a view on rather pragmatic basis.

The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has kept tabs on the onion market for some time, although it is yet to gather substantial evidenc...

Onion is selling between Rs 90 to 100 per kg in most of the retail markets in the city.

It is ironical that food inflation surged to around 18% in August when agriculture is the primary hope in economy. The culprit was mainly o...

Dikshit hit out at opposition parties for "politicising" the issue and resorting to "gimmicks" after they started selling the kitchen stapl...

Slamming the BJP for "politicising" the issue, Dikshit said her government was doing "everything possible" to stabilise the prices of onion.

As onions continue to remain costly at about Rs 80 per kg, fair trade regulator CCI is looking into the possibility of cartelisation and ho...

Minimal role of farmers in price discovery due to low size of average farm holdings - 1.15 to 1.3 acre, unfavourable weather conditions and...

Government has acknowledged that benefit of onion exports was not reaching farmers as it insisted that prices of the commodity had moderate...

Government on Tuesday acknowledged that benefit of onion exports was not reaching farmers as it insisted that prices of the commodity had m...