BJP gives it back says govt to blame for delayed bills

The main Opposition also picked holes in the UPA report card on its performance in the last four years and said it is making false claims of success.

Some two decades ago, my mother was living on the sixth floor of a building facing the sea in Mumbai. Whether it was pouring cats and dogs or the sun was streaming into the house, she strictly followed the tradition of cooking the morning meal, offering it to ...

GUWAHATI, May 23 Communist Party of India (Marxist), Kamrup (Metro) district committee today staged a demonstration at Sonapur on the city outskirts, demanding food security for the masses.The agitators also decried what it said was the State Governments ...

Gandhi made a "fervent plea" to the NDA and other opposition parties to come together and clear the passage of the Food Security and the Land Acquisition bills, saying these were "non-partisan" issues affecting the lives of millions of people and this was not ...

Manmohan Singh today said the government was bringing a food security legislation on back of higher foodgrain output and crop diversification. NEW DELHI: Expressing confidence of 4 per cent growth in the agriculture sector during 12th Plan, Prime Minister ...

PTI PATNA DESCRIBING the food security bill as unilateral measure, Bihar's Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi on Tuesday urged the Centre to foot the entire cost for its implementation, as many states, including Bihar, will be hard pressed to ...

Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi has criticised the Opposition parties for stalling the Food Security Bill in Parliament, and asserted the United Progressive Alliance government was determined to enact the legislation for the benefit of people. "I am sad that the Opposition is acting against the interests of the poor Indian...I can understand politics. But I cannot understand political parties hurting the poor of the country," Gandhi told a party rally in Thiruvananthapuram Saturday. "We ...

Swaminthan Aiyar, refuting Amartya Sen's calculations, says that selective projections do not tell the whole truth about social disasters in India

In what it believes to be a surefooted approach to give effect to the populist food security Bill, long in the making, the UPA government has decided to take it to Parliament for passage either through a special session or post it for the monsoon session in ...