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Ganesh Puja in Alibag taluka is about simplicity and minimalism. It's about quiet devotion too.
Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal on Wednesday questioned Amazon's announcement of $1 billion investment in India, saying the US retailer was not doing any great service to the Indian economy but filling up for the losses it had suffered in the country. He said that their huge losses in India "smells of predatory pricing", which is not good for the country as it impacts crores of small retailers.
The zestful, satisfying mixed vegetable Italian soup makes for a special meal.
We'd invited you, our readers, to share recipes cooked with mustard oil. Here Nalini Kudalkar tells us how to make potato and parwal sabzi.
Readers share their favourite rainy day recipes.
A piquant curry to jazz up steamed rice. Have it with papad.
'Rahul Gandhi is raising the issue of a caste census though his party has been doing injustice on this front from the 1950s.'
It's the ultimate recipe to try with tomato prices skyrocketing.
A new study on global warming says massive atmospheric changes may drive many varieties of plants and crops, including potatoes and peanuts, to extinction by 2050.
Here are special recipes for you to enjoy during the nine days of Navratri revelry.
Jang Bahadur Singh Sangha, a local farmer who has done his MSc in plant physiology and pathology from Cornell University in the United States, with a specialisation in potato seed, has set up a laboratory in the farms owned by his father, and has been carrying out multiplication or cloning of potato seeds through tissue culture and supplying the disease-free potato seeds all over the country, which he claims would increase the production by up to 25 per cent.
The star ingredient of many a delicious preparation is, of course, cheese!
Test your knowledge of Indian street food with this fun quiz!
Make vegan, gluten-free kebabs for parties and be surprised by how fast they will vanish.
Throughout its 155 minutes, every scene is doused in blaring background music and melodrama. Disappointment alone won't do, it must feel like a full blown catastrophe, observes Sukanya Verma.
Spicy, crunchy, crispy and tangy, this chaat hits all the right spots.
Heating a potato without pricking a few holes on its skin may lead to an explosion inside the oven.
Before winter ends, it's time to give undhiyu a try!
The wholesale inflation rose to a 13-month high of 1.26 per cent in April fuelled by rising prices of food articles, especially vegetables, amid expectations of RBI holding interest rates in the policy review next month. The wholesale price index (WPI) based inflation has been rising for two months in a row.
An open sandwich that will bring delight to the faces of your children when they open their lunchboxes.
If you love potatoes, you better try this dish!
Need some appetiser inspiration? It's speedy but crowd-pleasing as well.
If you are fasting, you must steer clear of processed and packaged foods as they often contain additives, preservatives and excessive salt or sugar which can disrupt the purity and purpose of your diet, says dietician Ruchi Rai.
MS had written that seeds of the green revolution were first sown in the fields of CRRI through the indica-japonica rice crosses, and decided that the plant type should be tailored to be functionally responsive to external application of fertilisers.
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Is it surprising that the favourite food of our manic Mumbai city has achieved a world rank?
You can make these cutlets in a microwave oven without compromising on their taste.
Lessons of Bengal's ill-advised restriction on potato trade.
Major potato producing state West Bengal is in the grip of blight disease and farmers are set to suffer huge losses this time due to the late attack of the fungi.
The amendments to the six-and-half-decade law provides that stock holding limit on commodities will only be imposed under exceptional circumstances like national calamities, famine with a surge in prices, the minister said.
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Cracking down further on hoarding, the Centre on Wednesday put onion and potato under purview of the Essential Commodities Act and imposed stock holding limits in a bid to improve availability and rein in prices.
Onion prices have gone up 43 per cent in a year and potato is costing over 20 per cent more, but the government has said it will take "some time" before prices of the kitchen staples decline.
Ahead of this election, the alliance between the BJP and the SKM had broken down. One reason is the fear that like Article 370, Article 371F might also be changed.
Maldivian Foreign Minister Moosa Zameer on Saturday said India's gesture to renew the quota to allow the export of certain quantities of essential commodities for his nation signifies the longstanding bilateral friendship and the commitment to further expand trade and commerce.
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