New Delhi The Cabinet is likely to consider the National Food Security Bill which envisages subsidised foodgrain as legal entitlement for two third of the country's population on Tuesday.

New Delhi Just two days ahead of a crucial cabinet meeting to clear the UPA-II government’s National Food Security Bill (NFSB), food minister KV Thomas on Sunday said the country’s food subsidy wou

The Punjab government on Thursday recommended to the Centre that multi-crop irrigated land should not be acquired under the proposed national land acquisition policy.

The Delhi government has opposed certain provisions of the National Food Security Bill draft saying the proposed universalisation of foodgrain entitlements to majority of the population would be ve

Social activists up in arms against proposed reforms; impact on procurement feared

The government plans to form an inter-ministerial committee to suggest ways to check misleading advertisements that claim exaggerated benefits like fair skin or full energy, junior food minister K

New Delhi Several state governments have come out strongly against how the centre has planned the resource mobilisation for the national food security law, a key initiative of the UPA-II government

With the Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council (NAC) insisting on providing separate legal entitlements to some sections — pregnant women, lactating mothers, homeless, destitute and disaster a

Thiruvananthapuram The National Food Security Bill (NFSB), which would entail an expenditure of R1 lakh crore in subsidies to the exchequer, is almost ready.

KOLKATA, 31 OCT: The state finance department today sanctioned Rs 285 crore for procurement of 20 lakh metric ton of rice.