Govt to buy 50,000 tonnes of rice from Indian company

The government yesterday decided to buy 50,000 tonnes of parboiled rice from an Indian company at $416 per tonne to replenish depleting public food stocks.   PK Agri Link Pvt will supply the grain from Birbhum, said Additional Secretary to the Cabinet Division Abu Saleh Mostafa Kamal after a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Purchase. The West Bengal-based company was the