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8 months after Supreme Court rap, state to set up food panel

The state food commission will be set up in Mumbai and will have a chairman as the head.

25 Jan 2018 5:21 AM IST

PC says Modi govt cruelly ignoring Food Security Act

The former finance said as long as there were children who tragically starved to death.

28 July 2018 2:47 AM IST

Erratic and excessive rainfall this year would trim the countrys foodgrain production by 1.14 million tonnes in the Kharif crop season of 2019-20, estimates released by the Union Agriculture Ministry on Monday showed.

Centre makes standard format for ration cards, asks states to follow...

Under the initiative, eligible beneficiaries would be able to avail entitled foodgrains under the National Food Security...

19 Dec 2019 2:12 PM IST

Foodgrains are highly subsidised in India under Food Security Act.

Food Security Act to cover over 99 lakh more people

The Aadhaar card-based ration cards have left no scope for usage of duplicate or bogus cards in the public distribution...

22 May 2018 2:06 AM IST

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M Karunanidhi was scientists' scientist

Dr Karunanidhi stands tall among political leaders who have promoted science for public good.

9 Aug 2018 5:08 AM IST

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Supreme Court to states: Implement Food Security Act

The AG assured the court that the law would be implemented across the country.

10 Aug 2017 1:21 AM IST

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Govt planning to supply fortified wheat via PDS, says Ram Vilas Paswan

Paswan also said that the Centre is linking ration cards to Aadhaar to weed out bogus ration cards.

16 May 2017 7:16 AM IST

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Seven chief secretaries brief top court on steps for drought relief

Observing that these states are not serious in constituting the commission, the bench asked the chief secretaries to be...

27 April 2017 4:31 AM IST