Coal The Government hopes a consensus will soon evolve on opening of coal sector for commercial mining, a bill for which has been pending for past seven years, Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal said

NEW DELHI, 18 DEC: With divisions still persisting over the issue of inclusion of the Prime Minister in the ambit of the proposed Lokpal Bill and social activist Anna Hazare threatening to go on a

Sonia’s ‘aam aadmi’ proposal likely to be introduced in Parliament today

The Union Cabinet tonight cleared the much-awaited draft food security Bill, brightening the prospect of providing legal entitlement of food to three-fourth of the country’s rural population and half its urban dwellers.

Food minister K V Thomas said a meeting of the cabinet that cleared the Bill also decided to introduce it in the current session of Parliament.

Bill will be referred to standing committee after its introduction in Parliament. Sonia Gandhi’s pet programme — the food guarantee scheme — will be cleared by the Cabinet on Monday.

New Delhi The Cabinet will discuss the National Food Security Bill, 2011, on Monday, in a bid to introduce the proposed legislation in the current session of Parliament.

Food minister K V Thomas on Friday said discussions on the food Bill in the Cabinet which was deferred earlier this week would continue on Monday. “Discussions will continue when the Cabinet meets on Monday,” he told reporters.

New Delhi: Farmer suicides and the agrarian crisis have been the reason for many disruptions in Parliament, but when the time comes to discuss the issue, hardly anyone bothers to attend, as happene

Upset at the Trinamul Congress chief, Miss Mamata Banerjee, stalling the food security Bill, the food ministry has dismissed her objections and said since all the issues raised by the West Bengal g

JAMMU: Arguing the case of a healthy annual plan for next financial year and extension of Prime Minister’s Re-construction Plan for another year to facilitate completion of development works, the S

Union Ministry wants Delhi of the future to be a vertical city where people are housed in high rises

Condoning the illegalities of the past, the Union Urban Development Ministry wants Delhi of the future to be a vertical city where people are housed in high rises with quick access to public transport and modern commercial centres.