State awaits Central aid on Food Security

Summary Modi in his letter had argued even the calorific need of an individual would not be met. Right to Food Campaign Friday slammed the Narendra Modi-led NDA government at the Centre for doublespeak on the issue of the National Food ...

T Populist measures can`t be wished away - could see minor dilution in MNREGA as well as Food Security Bill. Don`t expect tax cuts or huge increase in exemption limits in personal taxation - there is hardly any room to give away goodies.... But ...

By Ashok Gulati Think for a moment that you are a small or marginal farmer of wheat or rice, and the government promises to give to your family wheat at Rs 2 per kg and rice at Rs 3 per kg (5 kg per person per month). What would you do? You would ...

With 25 states and UTs yet to roll out the food security law, the Centre today gave three more months to them for implementing the landmark Act that will push up the food subsidy bill to Rs 1.31 lakh crore. The post Food security: Centre gives 3 more months ...

After a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Food and Supplies Minister Ram Vilas Paswan on Thursday announced that the implementation of National Food Security Act has been extended by three months. The announcement came after the PM called a meeting ...

BJP leader Arun Jaitley also said the "populist" issues like the RTI and Food (Security) Bill raised by Congress party were "non-issues" in this election whose last and ninth phase took place today.

Capsule carries food, gym clothes and more for six astronauts. July 13, 2014 A security helicopter flying by the Orbital Sciences Corporation Antares rocket, 17 minutes before launch, at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Bill ...

VICE-CHANCELLOR, University of Ilorin (UNILORIN), Prof. AbdulGaniyu Ambali, has alerted on the impending danger food insecurity is posing to Nigeria. Ambali, who defined food security as the ability of a nation to feed its citizens without ...

Press Release July 14, 2014 Senator Loren Legarda today stressed the importance of the country's protected areas in improving food security and addressing poverty. Legarda, Chair of the Senate Committee on Environment and Natural Resources, ...