MUMBAI : When there was no war, the rice mills of Madhya Pradesh’s Raisen district would hum through the night in March. The Pusa basmati, long-grained, fragrant, destined for the dinner tables of Tehran
NEW DELHI: About 400,000 metric tons of Indian basmati rice are stuck in transit as the Iran conflict disrupts shipping routes across the Middle East and sends freight costs soaring, Reuters reported on Tuesday,