Aiming to provide food security to the poor, the government today approved food bill that seeks to give legal entitlement of cheaper food grains to 63.5 per cent of the country's population. The......
The proposed ordinance on food security is likely to be taken up again at a meeting of the Union Cabinet on Wednesday, when it will consider whether to go ahead with promulgating it or convene a......
With hardly anything positive to flaunt before the electorate while seeking a third consecutive term at the Centre, Sonia Gandhi’s Congress is desperately hoping that the food security law......
Amid talk of a special session of Parliament on the Food Security Bill, government said all options are open on the issue. The remarks of Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath assume......
An Indian national, Sai Varshith Kandula, 20, on Thursday was sentenced to eight years for an attempted attack on the White House with a rented truck on May 22, 2023. Photograph: White House on......
The recently promulgated National Food Security Ordinance might breach the global trading rules on agriculture under the World Trade Organization if there is diversion of the subsidised foodgrain......
The Food Security Bill, the flagship scheme of the UPA envisages distribution of grains between Rs 1-3/kg to around 70 per cent of the population. However, with just two months left for general......
Nobody can deny that the purpose of the law is laudable, however, there are several problems with the Food Bill. The government’s rush to push through food security legislation as an......
'Food security' will, unfortunately, become a giant boondoggle, says T N Ninan. Tucked away in a long Budget speech by Amit Mitra, West Bengal's finance minister, is a little nugget of......
The central pool of food grains is insufficient to provide for families above the poverty line who are covered by the Targetted Public Distribution System, if they are to be all included in the......