Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Monday launched payment of cash in lieu of the additional 5 kg of rice to beneficiaries under the government's 'Anna Bhagya' scheme. IMAGE: Karnataka Chief......
Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has written a letter to the Centre, saying the number of active caseload of COVID-19 in the state is expected to double in the next 15 days. IMAGE:......
Migrant workers play a very vital role in building the nation and their rights cannot be ignored at all, the Supreme Court said on Thursday while asking the Centre to devise a mechanism so that......
Persons with disabilities have been excluded from welfare schemes "from time immemorial", the Delhi high court said on Wednesday and asked the Centre to consider providing them ration based on......
The government on Wednesday decided to promulgate an Ordinance to give nation's two-third population the right to 5 kg of foodgrain every month at highly subsidised rates of Rs 1-3 per kg. The......
Taking exception to Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar's statement, the Supreme Court on Tuesday asserted that it had ordered free distribution of foodgrains to the poor instead of allowing them......
Agriculture credit jumped seven-fold to Rs 7,00,000 crore (Rs 7 trillion) in the past ten years of UPA government, boosting foodgrains output to a record and enabling enactment of food law.......
The government has in principle decided to expand the coverage of population under the proposed Food Security Bill to include almost 70 per cent of Indians, who will have the legal right to cheap......
Writ Petition (Civil) No. 196 of 2001 concerning citizen's Right to Food has been listed again for hearing on September 6, 2010 in the Supreme Court and the central government has to give its......
The above poverty line families will not be excluded from the public distribution system even after the implementation of the proposed National Food Security Act, the government assured the Rajya......