NATIONAL FOOD SECURITY

Arnab chats: CWC demands JPC probe on violation of national security, Official Secrets Act

The CWC, chaired by Sonia Gandhi earlier discussed the issue along with that of the farmers' agitation and the COVID-19 vaccination drive a...

94% of beneficiaries satisfied with free grain scheme: Piyush Goyal

He said that FCI distributes 47.5 million tonnes of food grains every year to 800 million poor people at subsidised rates under national fo...

FCI to be strengthened, modernised in next 12 months; MSP system to continue: Piyush Goyal

The Food Corporation of India (FCI), government's nodal agency for procurement and distribution of foodgrains, should become more efficient...

China builds world's largest seed bank to boost food security

China's top policymakers said last month that the country's seed sector is vital to guaranteeing the country's food supply, a long-standing...

Headway unlikely at Centre-farmers union meet today; government's wordplaying, say farmers

Farmer unions in their letter also put the withdrawal of the draft Electricity (Amendment) Bill, 2020 on the agenda, instead of amendments ...

Food & Consumer Affairs ministry completes herculean tasks in COVID times

The ministry's consumer affairs department too played its role efficiently by taking speedy measures on the regulatory front to ensure adeq...

'Mom, we need food': Thousands in South Sudan near famine

Pibor county this year has seen deadly local violence and unprecedented flooding that have hurt aid efforts. On a visit to the town of Leku...

Mrs Bectors Food shares to list on bourses today

The issue, sold in the range of Rs 286-288, was subscribed a whopping 198 times in the three-day bidding process, with the HNI quota gettin...

Dialogue is way forward to resolve issues raised by farmers: Naidu

Interacting with a group of 'progressive farmers' at his Hyderabad residence to mark 'Kisan Diwas', Naidu said any issue could be resolved ...

VP Naidu expresses hope of reasonable solution to farmers' issue

The vice president pointed out that restriction-free marketing of farm produce has been a long-standing demand, which he himself had articu...

Farmer leaders were happy after December 3 meeting but did a u-turn on December 5: MoS Som Parkash

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said MSP will continue as earlier. We are ready to give a written assurance. There is no Act earlier too o...

America to start vaccinating with Pfizer drug; Germany returns to partial lockdown

Courier services FedEx and UPS have deployed fleets of trucks and planes to carry their precious cargo - sometimes under armed guard - to a...

Expedite applications for issuing ration cards: HC to AAP government

The court was informed by their counsel, Tushar Sannu Dahiya, that their applications for ration cards have been pending for more than two ...

Farm laws protest: Centre calls Punjab farmers for second round of talks on December 3

In the first round of talks, agriculture minister Narendra Singh Tomar, food, railways and consumer affairs minister Piyush Goyal had detai...

Government weeds out 44 million bogus ration cards to plug leakage

“There were a large number bogus and duplicate ration cards before 2013. In last seven years, we have focused to prevent any leakage in the...

Farm bills undermine food security system: Congress

"Every political party has to take a stand - is it with the farmers or is it with the BJP threatening the livelihood of farmers," Chidambar...

NHRC core group to discuss food security crisis amid coronavirus pandemic

ET gathers that the NHRC has called a meeting of its Core Group on Right to Food and Nutrition and has sought details from various ministri...