Food Security, Land Acquisition Bills trigger fresh spar in co...

The Congress government had to face opposition over Food Security Bill (FSB) on the third day of winter session as Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday staged a walkout.

IT is quite paradoxical that Zimbabwe struggles to guarantee food security yet the country is blessed with some of the most productive and vast land, good climate and large water bodies enough to support agriculture. And not just that, the ...

India scored a remarkable win on food security, but trade partners will now put pressure on New Delhi to provide meaningful openings for industrial goods and services and be more accommodative on liberalising tariffs. In the first week of December 2013, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) was resuscitated when 160 member-countries (which includes the latest entrant at Bali — Yemen) agreed on a package that addressed a few significant issues under the Doha Development Agenda. ...

China will safeguard national food security while continuing to pursue the sustainable development of agriculture, an official statement said Friday. The statement, issued after a four-day central economic work conference, said a national food ...

NCP-PAWAR (BES30) - On Pawar's birthday, Patil praises him for Food Security Bill Contributed by NAMPA / PTI. Nagpur, Dec 12 (PTI) A galaxy of ministers led by Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar celebrated the 74th birthday of Nationalist Congress ...

Alarmed at recent poll reverses, the Congress-led government has decided to widen the acceptability of its biggest social security initiative, the National Food Security Bill (NFSB), by agreeing to equally share the financial burden of ...

Hard-selling United Progressive Alliace's 'game changer' Food Security Act, Rahul Gandhi on Thursday reached out to the 'aam admi' and tribals recalling that Sonia Gandhi was in tears as she failed to cast her vote in Lok Sabha when her pet project was being passed in August. "I will not go until the bill is passed (despite being taken ill in Parliament). I have fought this battle for years. I will not go without pushing the button (casting the vote)," Rahul quoted the Congress chief as having ...

Jammu, Dec 5: Although the Congress Party seems desperate to get some of the recently passed central laws implemented in Jammu and Kashmir where it rules in coalition, its ruling alliance National Conference is reluctant on Food Security Bill. Highly placed ...

An Article from the Asian Human Rights Commission will the poor benefit? In a previous article I argued that India's "rights revolution" has so far mostly existed on paper without significant improvements in the conditions of the poor. In this ...