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Two U. S. senators from Midwestern states will introduce a bill on Tuesday that would require foreign companies buying U. S. food and agriculture firms to undergo a review aimed at ensuring the deal would not hurt U. S. food security.

The Jammu and Kashmir government has said that it will preserve the special position of the state when the Goods and Services Tax (GST) is implemented all over India. Public Works minister Naeem Akhtar said the government will bring a special bill in the ...

When you come to a fork in the road, you have to decide which way to go? Between objectivity and subjectivity, I would personally much rather choose objectivity for it allows one to stay on the path of moral equivalence; if I allow my biases to creep in, then ...

The government on Thursday finalised tax rates that will apply to different goods and services under the new Goods and Sales Tax (GST) regime which New Delhi aims to roll out from July 1. A panel comprising union finance minister Arun Jaitley and state ...

The government has issued notification that makes levy of service charge by restaurants illegal. The new rule comes as the NDA government is completing three years in office on May 26. Food minister Ram Vilas Paswan said forcing consumers to pay a fixed ...

With India's Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC) approving the cultivation of Bayer's GM mustard, the country is one short step away from harvesting its first GM food crop. However, while the news was music to the ears of the edible oil industry ...

By Noel Randewich (Reuters) - The S&P 500 ended flat on Monday after briefly touching a record high, while Wall Street's "fear gauge" dropped to its lowest in over two decades following centrist Emmanuel Macron's victory in the French presidential election.

State governments should display at PDS shops the foodgrain subsidy borne by both the Centre and states that will prevent the latter from hijacking the credit for selling highly-subsidised grains to the poor, Food Minister Ram Vilas Paswan said today. Wheat ...

Not only is your privacy stripped stark naked, says Mitali Saran, the system itself is illegal and vulnerable.Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com Indians have serious red tape PTSD. We live with chronic anxiety about the documents that get us the entitlements and paid services we need -- food, cooking gas, SIM cards, sale deeds, passports and so on. We're so tyrannised by bureaucracy that when we hear of an official document that might simplify life, we fall upon it with cries of joy. We ...