State Food, Civil supplies and Consumer Affairs minister has rushed to New Delhi to take up the matter and explain the gravity of the situation in view of the reduction of rice quota with the Centre on Monday.
Do you want a blunt answer? My experience tells me that the greatest challenge to overcome is inertia -- not resources or understanding. Get off your butt and make that first investment, advises P V Subramanyam.
A homoeopathic state of mind pervades our thinking in governance and infrastructure-building. Do it in small, harmless doses, but nothing bitter, sharp, or bloody, says Shekhar Gupta.
'I would recommend every young Indian reads Shashi Tharoor's book to get a perspective of our colonial past in the present day mesmerising euphoria of the global village in spite of Donald Trump, says Shivanand Kanavi.
With 2016 officially behind us, let's look forward and speculate about the events, people and issues that will shape 2017.
'I swayed my arms in the air with strangers when George Michael sang Careless Whispers' 'I was in heaven.'
Dr Sen, 62, who is currently facing charges of sedition in India, came to England, with his wife Illina, to receive the Gandhi Foundation International Peace Award 2011. Naomi Canton caught up with him in London during his trip.
Mohan Bhagwat's remarks came in the wake of controversy over ban on beef consumption in some states
The West Bengal government on Monday made public the cabinet papers on Netaji and allied subjects from 1938 to 1947.
Referring to the Rs 42,340 crore new investment plans of automobiles, chemicals, electronics, and pharma sectors, NCAER has said it could increase production capacities.
Tarun Vijay on why the victory in Uttar Pradesh belongs to Narendra Modi and the road ahead.
The Rajasthan high court was acting on a PIL against the government's proposal to get scores of helipads constructed in each district under famine relief works.
'It needed political courage on the part of the prime minister to make such an intervention at the present juncture when the hawkish opinion rules the roost in the Indian foreign-policy discourses in our media, and, unfortunately, the sane voices have largely fallen silent,' says Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
'The creation of Pakistan was integral to Britain's grand strategy.' 'If they were to ever leave India, Britain's military planners had made it clear that they needed to retain a foothold in the NWFP and Baluchistan because that would provide the means to retain control of Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, the UAE, Bahrain and Qatar.'
Perhaps half-way through India's demographic transition, what is the outlook for the future?
'I felt sorry the handsome woman had to spend her birthday in a war zone, away from her eight-year-old kid and her drifting husband, both in the US.'
This Rohit Shetty action-comedy has a lot going for it.
Cafe Irani Chaii is Mansoor Showghi Yezdi's attempt at preserving Irani culture in an age of globalisation, where old cultures are swiftly fading away.
Government claims big successes in agriculture, rural roads & investment scenario.
Football idols Zidane and Ronaldo team up in UN Ebola fundraiser.
'An ardent advocate of nuclear disarmament, Obama may even be secretly heaving a sigh of relief that the NSG is unlikely to reach unanimity of opinion on India's candidature,' says Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
'The summer of 1857 saw violence, perpetrated by the Indians and the Britons, on an unprecedented scale.' 'Never before and never after in the history of British rule in India was there violence at the level that 1857 witnessed.'
North Korea has reportedly published a list of 310 bizarre patriotic slogans to kick-start celebrations ahead of the 70th anniversary of the founding and the liberation of the Korean peninsula from Japanese rule
The Green Revolution owes a debt to Norman Borlaug, whose birth centenary falls this year.
The highest ranking Indian-American in the Obama Administration, Raj Shah on Wednesday announced to step down as administrator of the US Agency for International Development in mid-February next year after receiving high-praise from the President.
Cows are required for milk and as producer goods for breeding cows and bulls for the future.
In South Asia, the poverty would fall to 13.5 per cent in 2015.
'There is no food to eat and water to drink and people are migrating in hordes.' 'Chief Minister Fadnavis must shift his base to Marathwada in such times.' 'If you do not help during a drought, then when will you help?'
Little-known stories of royal families losing their wealth.
On Wednesday, the Chinese authorities extended a ban on sales of shares by large shareholders.
Indian farming was transformed after the mid-60s.
Legendary actress Zohra Sehgal, who essayed character roles with aplomb in a career spanning both theatre and cinema, died in New Delhi on Thursday. She was 102.
Modi government must fix policy paralysis.
We are all 'Chasing the Monsoon', notes Ajit Balakishnan.
The World Bank said improved infrastructure, specifically rural electrification, has had far-ranging effects
'Drought in the 1990s was essentially the drought of a poor India.' 'This 2016 drought is of a richer and more water-guzzling India.' 'The severity and intensity of the drought is not about lack of rainfall.' 'It is about the lack of planning and foresight, and criminal neglect.'
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee's 1882 classic, Anandamath (Abbey of Bliss) offers all the inspiration you need.
Whether we flew aircraft or mastered plastic surgery is immaterial for modern India, what matters is if ancient Indians understood the science and art of settlement planning, architecture and governance of natural resources. This is the history we need to learn, says Sunita Narain
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