Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
Cosmetics and drugs cannot be treated at par with food articles when it comes to labelling them with a red or a green mark to distinguish on the basis of vegetarian and non-vegetarian ingredients. Also, since the food habits in India vary from person to person and from place to …
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has issued notices to the Centre and four states asking about steps taken to prevent death of elephants on railway tracks passing through their habitat or cutting across their migration route. A bench of Justices K S Radhakrishnan and Dipak Misra issued notices to the …
This report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India contains the results of the Implementation of Agricultural Debt Waiver and Debt Relief Scheme (ADWDRS). 2008. In 2008-09, the Government of India announced a debt waiver and debt relief scheme for farmers, for implementation of all Scheduled Commercial Banks, besides …
The people of many villages in Bhavnagar district in the Saurashtra region of Gujarat are up in arms against the Central Government, demanding cancellation of public hearing on the environment impact assessment due to the proposed 6,000-MW nuclear power plant to be set up near the coastal Mithi Virdi village …
With the Centre allocating Rs 500 crore for crop diversification, the ball is now in Punjab's court. The state government needs to decide on the steps to be taken in this regard. Sources said the Group of Ministers (GoM) set up by the Central Government to deal with agriculture-related problems …
Finally, the Centre today officially recognised the fact that Green Revolution states need crop diversification. The Centre has made a fiscal provision of Rs 500 crore in the budget to facilitate the plan for crop diversification, moving away from the traditional paddy-wheat cropping pattern. Announcing the provision, Union Finance Minister …
The Budget documents presented to Parliament comprise, besides the Finance Minister's Budget Speech, of the following: Annual Financial Statement (AFS); Demand for Grants (DG); Appropriation Bill; Finance Bill; Memorandum Explaining the Provisions in the Finance Bill, 2013; Macro-economic framework for the relevant financial year; Fiscal Policy Strategy Statement for the …
The Punjab Government’s proposal to the Centre seeking Rs 5,300 crore for diversification in the agriculture sector has failed to generate any response. Last year, the Centre had conveyed to the state government to stop growing paddy as most of the rice consuming states have become self-sufficient. Following the Centre’s …
Read text of Pranab Mukherjee's speech during budget session of the Parliament. He touched upon various issues like the slow economic growth, growth in agriculture and allied sectors to India's role at Doha climate conference & called for greater transparency in governance. Read text of Pranab Mukherjee's speech during budget …
How will solar energy be made to work in India? As I discussed in my previous article, there are three key challenges. One, how will the country pay for solar energy in a situation where there is no money to pay for even the crashing costs of installation? Two, what …
The Union government’s direct cash transfer scheme linked to the Unique Identification (UID) number was launched with much fanfare in January with pilots in five districts of Rajasthan. The government believes this initiative is a game changer, which will successfully plug leakages in delivering entitlements to the poor and pluck …
To Make Project Meet Global Standards Kochi: The master plan of SmartCity Kochi will be altered to add more facilities to attract more international IT firms and also to suit the lifestyle of techies from developed countries. SmartCity authorities took this decision at a workshop held to finalize the master …
Chennai: Stepping up her attack on the UPA Government, Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayalalithaa on Saturday announced a statewide protest by AIADMK in front of central government offices on January 24 over ‘denial’ of the state’s rights and other issues including diesel price and railway fare hikes. The AIADMK chief …
NEW DELHI: Concerned by high animal mortality in traffic accidents on roads passing through thick forests, the Supreme Court on Friday issued notices to the Centre and 10 states asking why mitigating measures, including a dusk-to-dawn ban on vehicles on forest roads, be not taken immediately. Amicus curiae Harish Salve …
The Centre has taken conciliatory view of the endemic flood-related problems being faced by the state on three fronts - increasing silt deposits in the river Ganga, delayed flood management schemes and financial constraints in taking up those schemes - and also assured positive action to solve them. The assurance …
The government's move to issue compulsory licences (CLs) for three more patented cancer drugs is a jolt to multinational pharmaceutical companies. The plan is to issue CLs for Trastuzumab (or Herceptin, used for treating breast cancer), Ixabepilone (used for chemotherapy in breast cancer treatment) and Dasatinib (or Sprycel, for leukaemia). …
New Delhi: The Centre on Tuesday assured the Supreme Court that it would strive to bring in a new law to abolish manual scavenging across the country and peg it on right to dignity and life to make it mandatory for the states to implement it. Repeated adjournments sought by …
The environment ministry has set February 15 as the deadline for states to finalize no-go areas for industry around the 600-plus national parks and sanctuaries. If the states fail to meet the deadline, the Centre will impose a 10-km stretch around these zones as eco-sensitive areas, where development projects would …
To meet surging domestic energy demand, provide power to the largest population in the world that lacks electricity (> 400 million people), and reduce rapidly growing CO2 emissions, the Government of India (GOI) has embarked on a fast-track dam-building program.
This study was undertaken since 2009 to examine the scale and extent of grants being released to voluntary organizations (VOs)/Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) by the government of India, both at Central and State level for implementation of various programmes/ schemes across the country. The study also focuses on the procedures for …
