The US ambassador in Dhaka, James F Moriarty, on Thursday urged Dhaka and New Delhi to sit across the table to settle their dispute over India

Japan has contributed Tk 61 crore of food assistance to United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in Bangladesh.

Japanese Ambassador in Dhaka Masayuki Inoue yesterday handed over of 7,260 metric tons of rice to John Aylieff, WFP Representative in Bangladesh, says a press release.

Consultations With Food Depts Over; Bill May Come Up In Winter Session; Beneficiary Base To Widen

New Delhi: Just as the Centre is wary that its

New Delhi: With only a few days to go for the Budget session of the Lok Sabha to begin, parliamentary affairs minister Pawan Kumar Bansal is scheduled to meet top officials of government departments and ministries on Thursday to draw up a list of bills to be introduced in the session.

Amitav Ranjan

New Delhi: Taking the lead in setting the agenda for UPA II, Congress president Sonia Gandhi has written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asking him to fulfill the party

New Delhi: If the national job guarantee law was the flagship scheme of the first UPA, Congress president Sonia Gandhi has, in her first letter to re-elected Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, asked him to fulfil the party

Although the Food Security Bill is unlikely to materialise before the Union Budget in July, hectic preparations are on to give the UPA Government

The agriculture ministry is preparing a contingency plan to prevent food shortage----------

For the first time in 30 years, India stares at the probability of a drought, which threatens to worsen the already precarious food demand-supply balance and plunge the country into a deeper food security crisis.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The proposed Food Security Act is against the interests of the State, Food and Civil Supplies Minister C.Divakaran said on Sunday.