Unemployed During Lockdown, Ayushmann Khurrana's Dream Girl Co-star Sells Fruits On Streets

1 month ago

Govt working out scheme to prevent distress sale of farmers’ produce: Agri Min Shivraj Singh

New Delhi, Feb 22 Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Saturday said the government is working out measures to ensure that farmers do not have to sell their produces, especially fruits and vegetables, at throwaway prices. Chouhan said the government is holding discussions with farmers directly as well as through their organisations to understand the problems and then making …

India Delhi Farmers Price Minister Chouhan Varieties

2 months, 3 weeks ago

Potato sellers in Bengal upset over Mamata’s restrictions on sale

The Hindu

Potato vendors and cold storage owners in West Bengal are unhappy after Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee ordered restrictions in the last week of November 2024 on selling produce to neighbouring States. While speaking to The Hindu, he also added, “We still have so much aloo left in our cold storages, it is the season of new harvest, where will we …

Kolkata Market State Bengal Cold Potato Banerjee

2 months, 3 weeks ago

Food blogger ‘Brown Sahiba’ opens up on trends of 2024; rates Mughlai dishes, regional cuisines as top hits

Live Mint

Choosing between a delicious food, quick service restaurants, online delivered foods or a cuisine speciality is a tough choice. Recently, the author of The Sweet Kitchen and famous food blogger Rajyasree Sen, known by the name 'Brown Sahiba', shared her experience tasting different food items across the world on Indian Express. She also took a jibe by saying, as IE …

Food India Trend Indian Restaurants 2024 Food Blogger

7 months, 3 weeks ago

A barefoot yatra upends commute, tramples on shop owners’ business as it passes through

The Hindu

Just off the Delhi-Haridwar highway in Uttar Pradesh lies Raipur Nagli village, where the homes are half-built and open drains flow beside them. “The kanwariyas were intoxicated, not Mohit,” says Vakeel, who was himself undertaking the journey with his wife and one daughter; he returned when his brother was hospitalised. Parvez, who is still recovering from wounds, says, “They just …

Delhi Men Uttarakhand Yatra Highway Hindu State

9 months ago

Delhiwale: A life in Connaught Place

Hindustan Times

The woman clad in a sari is among the regular faces of N Block, Outer Circle, Connaught Place. Whatever, there are long gaps when no Connaught Place stroller pauses to examine the jhumke, obliging Rani to sit patiently through those idle intervals. I think of my late husband, I think of my late son, I think of my little grandchildren, …

Covid Son Rani Connaught Place

10 months, 3 weeks ago

Fruit sellers and juice shops do brisk business in scorching summer in Tiruchi

The Hindu

With the temperature soaring to 41 degrees Celsius on Saturday, people thronged roadside shops selling fruits, juice, and other items to beat the heat in Tiruchi. Temporary shops selling watermelon, muskmelon, palmyra fruit, pathaneer, sweet lime juice, sugarcane juice, buttermilk, pearl millet porridge, and other varieties of juice have sprung up along the roadside in the city. These shops, operating …

Road Shops Watermelon Juice Madurai Main Road

1 year, 1 month ago

YouTube tutorials and a government scheme transforms a brick kiln worker into a successful entrepreneur

The Hindu

In a quaint village nestling amidst lush green fields, A. Ayyanar, 36, his wife Baby, 33, and other family members sit under an asbestos roofed-shed, packing incense sticks and sambrani cups. Once employed in a brick kiln in Avadaiyarpattu village near Vikravandi in Villupuram district, Ayyanar, and his wife, have now become successful entrepreneurs, and are proud owners of the …

His Wife Ayyanar

1 year, 7 months ago

Fruit market in Sopore lively after a four-month hiatus

Hindustan Times

After almost four months of hiatus, hustle and bustle is visible at Asia’s second largest fruit market located in north Kashmir’s apple-rich town Sopore. “Every day, 80 to 100 trucks leave from our mandi and the number will go up,” said Omar, who is working with Sarhad Fruit Company. These rates are 20 to 30 ₹ percent higher as compared …

Kashmir Fruit Rates Lakh Last Year Good Produce

1 year, 8 months ago

As rains, landslides hit supply, tomato rates touch ₹250 per kg in Chandigarh

Hindustan Times

With the inclement weather conditions disrupting the production and supply of vegetables in the city, tomato rates have shot up to an all-time high of ₹250 per kg at the apni mandis of Chandigarh. Most of the suppliers at the apni mandis of Chandigarh had no tomatoes to sell to the residents, while those having limited supply were charging retail …

Supply Price Chandigarh Rates Mandi Tomato Tomatoes

1 year, 11 months ago

This woman selling fruits at Karnataka bus stop has Anand Mahindra's attention. Here's why

India Today

Anand Mahindra retweeted a video of a woman who was seen cleaning up a bus stand in Karnataka. https://t.co/2SzlTE9LZy — anand mahindra April 11, 2023 Netizens wrote how they have been a witness to similar incidences and some also appreciated this woman. “It's a reality that the weak & poor have a much robust sense of responsibility towards society in …

Mahindra Bus Woman This Woman

2 years, 2 months ago

Ready for transactions via e-rupee, says Mumbai fruit vendor selected by RBI for digital currency pilot

India Today

Bacche Lal Sahani, a fruit vendor in Mumbai, is among the 15,000 people chosen by the Reserve Bank of India for its nationwide pilot project on Central Bank Digital Currency or e-rupee. On the issue of smoothness of transactions, the fruit vendor said that he’s already received a couple of transactions but accepts that the speed is still an issue …

Mumbai Fruit Rbi Read Ready Transactions Vendor

2 years, 8 months ago

Kanwar Yatra: Flowers showered on Kanwariyas help poor scrape a living

Op India

The ongoing Kanwar Yatra 2022 is extremely special for the devotees of Lord Shiva as it is happening after a gap of two years. We are having good sales in this journey.” Policemen buying fruits from vendors and distributing them among kanwariyas Many local shopkeepers benefited from the tableau Trivendra from Meerut, who got the tableau of the late CDS …

Flowers Team Yatra Poor Sho Opindia Flower

3 years, 1 month ago

Teacher sells home-cooked food in Delhi after losing job. Watch video

Hindustan Times

The Covid-19 pandemic affected a lot of livelihoods as many people lost their jobs. One such inspirational story is of a teacher in Delhi who lost her job due to Covid and is now selling home-cooked food on a stall. The woman lost her job as a teacher and began selling home-cooked food in Delhi. Suman, a teacher who lost …

Delhi Video Instagram Her Job Losing Job

3 years, 7 months ago

Afghanistan Unrest: Dry Fruit Prices Shoot Up in Kolkata Markets, Stocks to Soon Dry Up

News 18

The Taliban takeover in Afghanistan and its aftermath have driven up prices of dry fruits at markets in Kolkata and across India. A trader at Bara Bazar, the wholesale market in Kolkata, said, “This is just the beginning, prices will further go up in the coming days.” Dry fruit trader Rajesh Gupta said, “We get mainly asafoetida, raisins, murakka and …

Afghanistan Price Dry Fruit Market Dry Fruit Dry Fruits Raisins

3 years, 10 months ago

Karnataka lockdown | Fruit and vegetable farmers and traders hit hard

The Hindu

Farmers raising vegetable and fruits and merchants dealing with them, wholesale as well as retail, have been hit hard by the fortnight-long Janata Curfew and the lockdown that began on Monday with limited time available to dispose of produce. While farmers are unable to harvest and sell their entire produce in time, wholesale merchants are unable to sell produce in …

Fruit Produce Wholesale

3 years, 11 months ago

Day 1 of lockdown: People throng vegetable markets, roads nearly empty in Ranchi

Hindustan Times

Barring grocery, vegetable and fruit markets, all major markets wore a deserted look on Thursday, while light movement was witnessed on roads on the first day of the week-long lockdown called Swasthya Suraksha Saptah. I will request people to not come out of their houses unless absolutely necessary and cooperate in the initiative, that I believe will help reduce the …

Ranchi Lockdown Markets Roads

3 years, 11 months ago

COVID-19: Delhi's Chandni Chowk, wholesale markets to remain shut till April 25

India TV News

The famous Chandni Chowk market in the old Delhi and the wholesale markets in the national capital will remain shut till April 25. Delhi Kirana Committee of Khari Baoli Market and Chemical Merchant Association of Tilak Bazaar have announced that shops will remain closed till April 21. Delhi on Sunday recorded the biggest jump in its daily COVID-19 tally with …

India Delhi Market Covid Chandni Chowk

4 years, 2 months ago

Gritty Tales: Amid a Year of Setbacks, These are The Winners of 2020 Who Gave Us Hope

News 18

The unprecedented pandemic situation the world braved since early this year has taken away a lot from the people. Sharada’s story soon went viral on social media, and reached actor Sonu Sood, who has been going out of his way to help migrant workers and anyone who needs it during the pandemic. Speaking to reporters, he said at that time, …

Family Job Mumbai Pandemic Hope Help Started

4 years, 3 months ago

Protesting Farmers Say Got MSP This Kharif Season; Worry if They Will Get After 4-5 Years

News 18

"I have sold about 125 quintals of kharif paddy in an APMC mandi and received MSP payment in my bank account. Like other protesting farmers associated with over 32 farm organizations, his only demand is "repeal of the three new farm laws" enacted by the central government which he fears will dismantle the MSP system and put next generation farmers …

Delhi Farmers Protesting Union Patiala Singh Centre

4 years, 5 months ago

Khaali Peeli: Ishaan Khatter, Ananya Panday lead an action-packed entertainer, released on ZeePlex

Firstpost

With OTT platforms, filmmakers have the ability to be more experimental, ready to dish out fresh concepts and storylines. Khaali Peeli, releasing exclusively on Zeeplex, is similar to old-school, adventure romps a la Bunty aur Babli. Starring Ishaan Khatter and Ananya Panday in the lead, Khaali Peeli was earlier slated for a theatrical release on 12 June, but it was …

Mumbai Zee Pooja Blackie Khaali Peeli Zeeplex

4 years, 5 months ago

Former Union Minister Solanki Recovers From Covid-19 After 101 Days

News 18

Ahmedabad: Former Union minister Bharatsinh Solanki, who tested positive for coronavirus in June this year, was discharged on Thursday after being in hospital for 101 days. Talking to mediapersons after being discharged, the 66-year-old Congress leader thanked doctors of a city-based private hospital, where he was undergoing treatment, for saving his life and providing him good medical care. Solanki, a …

Minister Solanki

4 years, 6 months ago

'Learnt to Be Atmanirbhar': Visually Impaired Man Sells Homemade Snacks After Losing Job in Pandemic

News 18

The coronavirus pandemic, and the subsequent nationwide lockdown, has been particularly hard for many — especially those who have been left without any source of income during these difficult times. A visually impaired man in Ahmedabad, Thakkar Ashwin, has been forced to sell homemade snacks after losing his job during the pandemic. The economic slowdown triggered by the coronavirus pandemic …

Job Hyderabad Pandemic Man Losing Homemade Snacks

4 years, 6 months ago

Ishaan Khatter, Ananya Panday’s Khaali Peeli to release on pay-per-view service Zee Plex on October 2

Hindustan Times

Director Maqbool Khan’s Khaali Peeli, starring Ishaan Khatter and Ananya Panday, will debut on Zee Plex on October 2, making it the latest Bollywood film to forego a theatrical release. Toh public, abhi tum bhi ho jao ready, aa rahi hai mad ride #KhaaliPeeli, 2nd October ko,” Ishaan posted on social media, sharing a poster for the film. “Mad ride …

Film Zee Ishaan Ishaan Khatter Peeli Khaali Peeli Khaali

4 years, 7 months ago

AAI Launches Krishi Udan Scheme for Transportation and Marketing of Agri Products of NE States

News 18

To facilitate the marketing of agricultural and farm products of the northeastern states outside the region, the Airports Authority of India has launched the ‘Krishi-Udan Scheme’, officials said on Wednesday. AAI’s Regional Executive Director Sanjeev Jindal said that it was one of his wishes that has come true after a dedicated domestic freighter started its services in the northeastern region. …

India Kolkata Services Airport Products Region Guwahati

4 years, 7 months ago

Ayushmann Khurrana Resumes Shooting, Says 'It's Refreshing To Go Back To Work'

News 18

Ayushmamm Khurrana has resumed work after three months of hiatus due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The actor said in a recent interview with Mid-day said that while the uncertainty related to the pandemic is unsettling, it is still "refreshing" to go back to work. He said, “I have shot multiple things while being in my hometown and it has been …

4 years, 7 months ago

Ayushmann Khurrana says it is ‘refreshing to be on the sets and working after so many months’

Hindustan Times

Actor Ayushmann Khurrana has begun working after months of staying home due to coronavirus pandemic. Ayushmann Khurrana moved to his hometown Chandigarh from Mumbai through the pandemic period. It’s really refreshing to be on the sets and working after so many months.” Expressing his thoughts on getting back to work after the coronavirus lockdown, actor said, “It took some time …

Mumbai Work Chandigarh

4 years, 7 months ago

Hit by Covid, out-of-work Varanasi weavers selling fruits and vegetables

Hindustan Times

Reverberating with the sound of powerlooms till four months ago, the lanes of Kazaakpura - in Lallapura of Varanasi - are eerily quiet. After wholesalers or big shop owners place orders, the weavers purchase silk yarn and weave saree on handloom or powerloom installed at their homes. “Banarasi Vastras, including sarees traders, have decided to keep their shops closed till …

Orders Varanasi Patel Selling Weaver Sarees Banarasi

4 years, 7 months ago

Hyderabad Techie Selling Vegetables After Losing MNC Job Gets Offer Letter from Sonu Sood

News 18

A 26-year-old woman who lost her job in Hyderabad has been selling vegetables to make ends meet. Instead of losing hope amid extreme financial crisis, Sharada did what she had to to support her family - she started selling vegetables at the local market. Mohun Bagan academy footballer Deep Bag has also been forced to sell vegetables to make ends …

Hyderabad Sonu Sood Sharada Mnc Job Selling Vegetables Techie Sood

4 years, 8 months ago

Akshay Kumar’s Sooryavanshi Co-star Kartika Sahoo Sells Vegetables to Survive Covid-19 Pandemic

News 18

With film production being stalled for over three months, the entertainment industry came to a staggering halt. Bollywood actor Kartika Sahoo from Odisha has resorted to selling vegetables to make ends meet. In 2018 he landed some noticeable roles in action sequences of many movies and also has a fight sequence with Akshay Kumar in his upcoming film Sooryavanshi. Earlier, …

Vegetables Sahoo

4 years, 10 months ago

Meet India’s inspiring farmers who pivot, adapt and keep supplying fresh produce during the lockdowns

The Hindu

Diversified deliveries Kiaro Foods, Hyderabad Of late, Sharath Reddy Gattu has been living at a makeshift accommodation set up for his staff to maintain hygiene and avoid contamination. The breads we supply are from an upscale confectionery that’s known for its desserts; the wheat is also from an exporter who had a big amount of fresh wheat that couldn’t be …

Food Karnataka Farmers Fruits Vegetables Seeds Started

4 years, 10 months ago

Coronavirus | Traders to blame for Koyambedu market cluster, says Edappadi Palaniswami

The Hindu

Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami on Wednesday blamed wholesale vegetable and fruit traders for the expanding Koyambedu market cluster, stating that they “stiffly opposed” the government’s move to close down the market earlier. “It is because of the traders’ refusal to accept the government’s proposal to shift many people from Koyambedu that the number of cases in Chennai has been …

Market Traders Koyambedu Palaniswami

4 years, 11 months ago

Coronavirus lockdown: Kajal Aggarwal turns chef, prepares samosa

India Today

Social-distancing and self-quarantine have given celebrities a lot of time in taking up new hobbies that they haven't done before. Actress Kajal Aggarwal is no exception and it looks like she is using the lockdown period to the fullest. Taking to Instagram, Kajal Aggarwal shared a series of pictures, in which she is flaunting her creation - Punjabi khasta samosa. …

Kajal Aggarwal

5 years, 6 months ago

Broke Kashmiri students 'sell' apples in Maharashtra

India TV News

Nearly two months after the revocation of Article 370 and 35A in the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir, scores of broke Kashmiri students here have resorted to a novel initiative - selling Kashmiri apples to make some extra cash for survival. One of the Kashmiri students, Adil Mir has set up a five-member team to work out the quality …

Maharashtra Pune Apples Nahar Broke Kashmiri Students Sell Broke Kashmiri Students

5 years, 6 months ago

Apples hang rotting on trees in Kashmir as lockdown puts economy in tailspin

India Today

It's harvest time, but the market in the northern Kashmiri town of Sopore - usually packed with people, trucks and produce at this time of year - is empty, while in orchards across India's Jammu and Kashmir state unpicked apples rot on the branch. BUSINESSES REELING Business people who spoke to Reuters say it is not just the fruit industry …

India Kashmir Kashmiri Shah Srinagar Sopore Shawl Trader

5 years, 6 months ago

Kashmir clampdown: Apple crops rot as farmers struggle to sell produce

India Today

The clampdown in Kashmir, implemented before the abrogation of Article 370 over a month ago, continues to hurt the livelihoods of locals. Fruit vendors selling apples during relaxation in clampdown in Kashmir's Srinagar on August 17 Militant threat The apple farmers face a multi-prong threat as the government-imposed restrictions were not their only concern. Centre offers direct procurement The government …

India Kashmir Kashmiri Mandi Clampdown Apple Clampdown Apple Crops

5 years, 7 months ago

‘Running Out of Food’: Actor Manju Warrier’s SOS from Himachal

The Quint

A heavy landslide had happened in the Dharamshala-Kangra road near Chhatru three days ago. “She told me that the food would last only for two more days and she asked me to get help. Madhu also told TNM that Manju was not even aware that floods had happened in Kerala and that her mother's house had been affected too. On …

Himachal Madhu

6 years, 5 months ago

Women dole out success stories at Dasara festival

Deccan Chronicle

Mysuru: She is an inspiration to all those farmers, who are despairing at their diseased or excess crop and see suicide as their only option. Forty -year- old Nagarathna Narayanswamy saw an opportunity when her mango crop fell prey to disease. Turning the disaster into opportunity she became an entrepreneur and today sells products like mango bars, juices, candy, chocolates …

Mango Products

6 years, 5 months ago

Gujarat migrant crisis: Uneasy calm in Ahmedabad as violence stops, but rumours fuel fear among 'outsiders'

Firstpost

Police claim that things have returned to normal and no new incidents of attacks on the North Indian community have been reported in the past seven days but these migrant vendors are not yet fully at ease. He is one of the scores of non-Gujaratis who sell fruits and vegetables in Shastrinagar, close to Chandlodiya market which witnessed at least …

Market Violence Bihar Uttar Pradesh Gujarat Fear Attacks

6 years, 6 months ago

All that is Indian

The Hindu

Once in a while, food retail chain SunnyBee extends an invitation to all farmers and farmer producer companies, based around the country, that it sources from. “Around 150 farmers are participating this weekend, and the santhai will be held at a much larger ground in Aavin Junction,” says Sanjay Dasari, co-founder, SunnyBee. “We are also in conversation with farmers in …

Farmers Produce Sanjay Santhai Sunnybee

6 years, 11 months ago

SunnyBee ‘santhai’ is back in Chennai!

The Hindu

Three months ago, about a hundred farmers from across the State — and some based as far as Maharashtra — had gathered on a plot of land in Nungambakkam, produce in tow. While that last farmers’ market might still be pegged as a commercial success, this time around, organiser SunnyBee is making it a point not to underestimate the appetite …

Market Chennai Farmers Dasari Santhai Sunnybee

7 years ago

Amid ouster speculation, Gujarat Congress chief Bharat Solanki defers his US visit

India TV News

Amid ouster speculation, Gujarat Congress chief Bharat Solanki defers his US visit The development comes amid speculation that Solanki might be replaced by a young leader with an eye on the 2019 general elections. Days after Gujarat Congress chief Bharatsinh Solanki denied reports that he has offered to step down from his post, the leader today said that he has …

Congress Gujarat Rajya Sabha Party Usa Sabha Chief

8 years, 11 months ago

Simhastha triggers panic buying, admn allays fears

Hindustan Times

Ujjainites have resorted to panic buying of food stuff as they fear a short supply during a month-long Simhastha festival in the face of multifold rise in the floating population in the city and guests at home. Superintendent of police MS Verma said special care would be taken to ensure safe movement of vehicles carrying food stuff and milk to …

Simhastha Food Stuff

9 years, 3 months ago

Food walk: Eat your way through delicious Punjabi food at Sion Koliwada in Mumbai

Firstpost

By Junisha Dama, Burrp Home to the iconic Fish Koliwada, Sion Koliwada is where you’ll find a host of dhabas serving generous Punjabi food. Price: Rs 80 for Paya, Rs 80 for Chicken Masala Hazara Restaurant and Bar GTB Nagar’s pride, the Fish Koliwada is an original recipe of Hazara Restaurant and Bar; the fish is marinated in spicy Koli …

Food Mumbai Price Masala Eat Walk Chicken

9 years, 9 months ago

'Worried about avam not aam': Nitish slams Manjhi after allegations that cops were sent to guard trees

Firstpost

Jitan Ram Manjhi-led Hindustani Awam Morcha on Wednesday accused the Nitish Kumar government of deploying 24 policemen to prevent former Bihar chief minister from enjoying mangoes and litchi from trees planted at the CM’s official bungalow. After being accused by his former protege Jitan Ram Manjhi that he had deployed 24 policemen just to prevent him from enjoying mangoes and …

Bihar Fruits Nitish Kumar Hai Nitish Manjhi Official Residence

17 years, 1 month ago

Fresh approach: from farm to shop, old ways get a new twist

Live Mint

Pune: Every tomato and cauliflower at ITC Ltd’s Choupal Fresh store here tells a tale and therein lies a larger tale—one about how modern retail initiatives are slowly but surely starting to transform India’s famously leaky farm-to-kitchen supply chain. For the Choupal Fresh stores in this city, the story actually begins at Anil Kashith’s eight-acre farm in Yadgaon village, where …

India Retail Farmers Vegetables Old Farm Store

Unemployed During Lockdown, Ayushmann Khurrana's Dream Girl Co-star Sells Fruits On Streets

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