Dealers are selling gold at a discount of Rs 175 for 10 gm.
Total area sown till last Friday was 16.56 mn hectares, up 23%.
The IMD on its part is sticking to its forecast of July rainfall.
Status to enable Arvind Panagariya to attend Cabinet meetings.
Around two dozen flour mills with its maida supply dedicated to Nestle have stopped production.
The forecast of deficient monsoon rainfalls scared farmers.
'We have done what we needed to do on behalf of the consumers'.
However, it's too soon to see any trend; July rain is key.
Rain for the central and northwestern parts a concern.
Studies have shown that milk is the most common form of adulteration in India
A deficient rainfall season starts with heavy showers.
We had prepared a contingency plan for 580 districts, the minister said.
The official India Meteorological Department (IMD) and the private Skymet Weather Services have made widely divergent monsoon forecasts.
Total area impacted across India pegged at 18.9 mn hectares.
IMD will present its month-wise and region-wise forecast in June.
'There is no mechanism to understand how things would evolve'.
Harassment, corruption and the burden of compound interest for years are also the reasons.
Millions of central government employees were taken for a ride on April Fool's Day.
Intermittent storm in the first week of March hit the flowers and emerging buds.
Planning Commission had got into a big controversy on this issue.
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