The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) warned in a new report that around 6.3 million people in Sri Lanka are facing moderate to severe acute food insecurity.
Union minister of home affairs and minister of cooperation Amit Shah on Monday assigned homegrown dairy giant - Amul and the country's national dairy board - the National Dairy Development Board - the task to make India self-reliant in manufacturing dairy machinery.
The wholesale price index- (WPI-) based inflation rate for August decelerated for the third consecutive month to an 11-month low of 12.41 per cent as pricing pressure from manufactured and fuel items eased despite an increase in food inflation.