The meaning of the above phrase: Oh! Bengali……you are best in Food culture…you are best in Football…you lost your everything……..in spending on foods and parties….. It was a very old saying about a Bengali babu. Food has always been a weakness for Bengalis. In those days Bengalis used to spend a large amount of money just [...]
Continue reading...28. May 2008
ISLAMABAD: The Australian Government will provide US$ 8.5 million to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in support of its programme in FATA and Balochistan. The agreement was signed by Australian High Commissioner Ms. Zorica McCarthy and WFP Representative Wolfgang Herbinger at a ceremony held in Peshawar. Honourable governor of NWFP Mr. Owais Ahmed [...]
Continue reading...24. May 2008
LAHORE: Punjab government has doubled the food budget for 60,000 jail inmates of 32 prisons in the province. Talking to private TV channel on Saturday, Punjab Home Secretary Nadeem Ahsan Asif said all prisoners would be provided Sharbat (cold drink) once in a summer day and daily two-time tea in winter. He said the government [...]
Continue reading...16. May 2008
UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan has called for a concerted plan of action that must include emergency actions, including humanitarian aid, to enable severely stressed developing countries to provide affordable food to their peoples. “It (the action plan) must also provide inputs to ensure larger food production in the near term, inter alia, to ensure supplies and [...]
Continue reading...13. May 2008
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has asked the Ministry of Food and Agriculture to import additional 2.5 million tons of wheat, including the 1.5 million tons already approved by the ECC, in addition to procurements from the local market in order to build strategic reserves for meeting country’s future requirements. The Prime Minister [...]
Continue reading...12. May 2008
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani Monday directed Ministry of Food and Agriculture to import additional 2.5 million tons of wheat, including the 1.5 million tons already approved by the Economic Coordination Committee. Chairing a meeting to review food situation in the country, the Prime Minister said the imported wheat would be in addition [...]
Continue reading...29. April 2008
ISLAMABAD: Sixty-six percent (66%) of a National Sample of respondents from the rural and urban areas of all four provinces say they have lately faced difficulties in obtaining aata (flour) for their daily food consumption. Says a survey report issued by Gallup Pakistan Tuesday. According to the report, the remaining 34% said they did not [...]
Continue reading...24. April 2008
LARKANA: Chief Minister Sindh Syed Qaim Ali Shah said here Thursday that smuggling of wheat would be strictly checked. He was talking to the journalist at Shaheed Benazair Bhutto House Naudero Thursday afternoon. The Chief Minister informed that Atta price and wheat smuggling was discussed in a high level meeting at Islamabad Thursday attended by [...]
Continue reading...21. April 2008
ISLAMABAD: Mr. Anthony Banbury, World Food Program (WFP) Regional Director for Asia will brief media on rising food prices situation in Asia and it’s impact on WFP’s operation. The press briefing will take place at 04:00 pm at United Nation World Food Programme (WFP) office, House # 3, St. 2, F-8/3, Islamabad.-SANA Popularity: 12% [?]
Continue reading...15. April 2008
LAHORE: To mull over the atta crisis in the province senior officials of Food Department held an important meeting here on Tuesday. The meeting was presided by Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Dost Mohammed Khosa. He directed to ensure strict action against the hoarders and black-marketers in the province. The Chief Minister also directed the concerned [...]
Continue reading...14. April 2008
LAHORE: Punjab government slashed the flourmills’ daily wheat supply quota by 25 percent here on Monday. The revelation was made by the flourmill owners while talking to a private television channel that the Punjab flourmills’ daily wheat supply quota had been cut down to 13500 tons from 18000 tons mainly due to scarce wheat stocks [...]
Continue reading...13. April 2008
KARACHI: Sindh is in the grip of flour crisis as like other provinces in the country, while a major wheat crisis is looming due to the shifting of huge wheat stocks from Mirpurkhas to other provinces. Hyderabad facing shortage of flour due to non-supply of wheat from the government warehouses to the flourmills, while the shopkeepers [...]
Continue reading...13. April 2008
LAHORE: The Punjab Food Department will kick off wheat procurement from April 15 that would continue till the end of the season at the rate of new support price of Rs 625 per 40 kilogram. Secretary Food Punjab Seerat Asghar, while spelling out the policy said that a total of 375 purchase centres have been [...]
Continue reading...7. April 2008
LAHORE: The government of Punjab has set the wheat purchasing target of three million tonnes during the current year here Monday. Addressing a press conference here, Punjab Food Secretary Sirat Asghar said that the mills owners, dealers and shopkeepers hoarded wheat in the wake of subsidized price that has shot from Rs465 to Rs615. He revealed [...]
Continue reading...25. January 2008
DARYA KHAN: The severe cold had badly affected the sugarcane varieties spread on hundreds acres of land here. A local sugar mills has stopped the purchase of sugarcane. The farmers are worried and they are expecting loss of millions of rupees. According to details, the severe cold weather has damaged a number of varieties of [...]
Continue reading...14. January 2008
ISLAMABAD: The government has increased the wheat quota for the flour mills from 32000 to 38500 tons daily to overcome the shortage of atta in the country.In a news briefing here on Monday, Chairman, Federal Food Committee (FFC) Lieutenant General (Retd) Farooq Ahmad Khan said that the flour mills are producing 30800 tons of atta [...]
Continue reading...9. January 2008
ISLAMABAD: The Federal caretaker Minister for Food, Agriculture and livestock Prince Isa Jan Baloch has said that the shortage of flour would be overcome within next 48 hours. In a statement issued here on Wednesday the Minister said the demand of flour has come down in the country as supply of wheat to the mill [...]
Continue reading...18. May 2007
Gujranwala is known as city of wrestlers. Wrestling holds top position amongst amusements recognized hence it is part of culture of Gujranwala. Local wrestling style is termed as “Kushti” and wrestlers are termed as “Pehalwaan” with heavy muscles and well-built bodies; they are true machos of our country- Hercules of present times. Popularity: 20% [?]
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4. June 2008
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