The Government will introduce in the Lok Sabha on Thursday the National Food Security Bill which seeks to give legal rights to subsidised foodgrains to identified beneficiaries under the public dis
The controversial targeted National Food Security Bill, which got the nod of the Union Cabinet on Sunday, is a pet project of United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi.
On Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's directions, the Union Water Resources Ministry will hold official-level talks with Tamil Nadu and Kerala here next week on the Mullaperiyar dam issue.
Cutting across party lines, several members of Parliament backed a universal public distribution system to ensure food security for all citizens “as a right” on Tuesday and vowed to oppose the ‘tar
India and Nepal will hold bilateral talks on shared water programmes, including the progress on the 6000-MW multi-purpose Pancheshwar hydropower project on the river Mahakali near the border.
In a softening of stand, social activist Anna Hazare on Friday told the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Personnel and Law and Justice that it would be acceptable to his team if the government b
Pawar announces mega plans for mechanisation in 12th Plan
Faced with farm labour shortage following the introduction of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar on Wednesday announced mega plans for mechanisation in the 12th Five-Year Plan.
Though the methodology for determining the poor would be based on the socio-economic caste census being undertaken by the Rural Development Ministry, the (Suresh) Tendulkar poverty line would remai
