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Cabinet clears Sonia's Food Security Bill

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......

Food security ordinance on Cabinet agenda tomorrow

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......

Food Security: Will it help Cong tide over its other crises?

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......

All options open on Food Security Bill: Kamal Nath

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......

Indian gets 8 yrs jail for bid to attack White House

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......

Food security law's WTO complication

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......

Will UPA manage to implement Food Security Bill before elections?

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......

Major problems with the Food security Bill

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......

Why the food security bill will not help the poor

'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......

Food security law can't cater to APL families

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......

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