The Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Bill, 2011, is likely to be tabled in the ongoing Winter session of Parliament at the earliest, Lok Sabha was informed today.

Members of Parliament from Tamil Nadu and Kerala hold protest outside Parliament House

The greenhouse gas emissions of biofuels have been under discussion for years. Now studies commissioned by the European Union are putting pressure on biodiesel in particular.

With the government hurrying up internal deliberations to push its National Food Security Bill in the current session of Parliament, activists under the ‘Right to Food Campaign’ on Tuesday got MPs

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

The Kerala government on Monday gave an undertaking to the Centre that it would continue to provide the same quantum of water to Tamil Nadu, as is being given now, if a new dam was constructed in t

It is not just political parties that are unhappy with the way the government has gone about the business of opening up FDI in multi-brand retail, dissent against the controversial move has now com

Jean Dreze, former member of the Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council, said on Monday it would be a “blunder” if the government introduced its draft National Food Security Bill in Parliament.

Islamabad—The government will table a National Water Policy (NWP) in the parliament within next two months aimed at evolving consensus among provinces on major issues.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called for formulating a legally binding agreement on specific greenhouse gas emission cuts in the Durban summit on climate change.

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