Right to food or right to re-election? UPA's empty gun

The traders associations met Union minster and NCP president Sharad Pawar on Sunday and urged him to intervene to resolve the stand-off between them and the state government over Local Body Tax (LBT). We explained to him that the shopkeepers have ...

NEW DELHI: An Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) on drought, headed by Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar, on Wednesday approved Rs 511-crore assistance for Rajasthan, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh - the states affected by floods and droughts in ...

With Sonia Gandhi, chairperson of the ruling UPA, committed to getting the food security bill passed before the budget session ends on Friday, back channel talks were on late Tuesday night with BJP to end the parliamentary stalemate. She hugged ...

New Delhi: India has taken steps to remove curbs on domestic sugar supplies after months of debate as the world's second-biggest producer hopes to iron out sharp swings in output that have triggered volatility in global prices. India, the biggest ...

The Food Ministry's proposal to decontrol the sugar industry by doing away with the levy system has been opposed by the Ministry of Finance as the move could trigger inflation and subsidy burden on the exchequer. On the Food Ministry's proposal, the Finance ...

BHEL to invest Rs.500 Crore for setting up Greenfield Power Equipment Fabrication Plant at Bhandara; Maharashtra CM lays Foundation Stone for the new unit Bhandara, Maharashtra, May 14: Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) is setting up a new ...

Madhav Daji Nimbre, 80, shakes his head in denial. Tobacco? Nayi. Gutkha? Nayi. Paan? Nayi. Shirtless, clad in a pair of soiled shorts, with sandalwood paste marks on his arms and strings of sacred beads around his throat, Nimbre is innocence ...

India, the world's second-biggest wheat grower, will consider cutting the export price to boost shipments from state reserves amid forecasts for a record harvest for a sixth year. A panel of ministers headed by Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar will ...

NEW DELHI India expects total monsoon rainfall to be average in 2013, federal minister Jaipal Reddy said on Friday, strengthening prospects for one of the worlds biggest grains producers to avoid widespread drought for a fourth straight year. Indias ...