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. …
Even as many states, including Punjab, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, rejected a key provision, an over-arching framework on water laws, in the draft National Water Policy, 2012, the Centre today adopted the document with an assurance to uphold the states’ Constitutional rights over water management and a promise …
Himachal Pradesh today sought financial support from the Centre for the development of water resources infrastructure in the state. Speaking at the sixth meeting of the National Water Resources Council in New Delhi today, Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh said the state government had launched the World Bank-funded Rs 59.48-crore Hydrology …
New Delhi: The National Water Resources Council (NWRC) on Friday approved the new National Water Policy in its meeting after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh assured states that the Centre did not intend to encroach upon the constitutional rights or to centralize the regulation over water resources. The new policy envisages …
New Delhi: The Centre has set up an expert committee to determine the poverty mark to identify beneficiaries for the rural development ministry’s programmes. The committee, to be headed by Planning Commission member Abhijit Sen, will examine figures of the socio-economic caste survey to decide who is below the poverty …
JAMMU, Dec 28: The Center has sanctioned 19 new tourist projects involving a cost of Rs 97.36 crore to the State for development and upgradation of tourist related infrastructure in the State. This was stated by Tourism and Culture Minister, Nawang Rigzin Jora while reviewing physical and financial status of …
CHENNAI, 29 DEC: Mounting pressure on Centre, Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayalalithaa today insisted that the final order of the Cauvery Tribunal be notified considering the withering crops in the state even as she expressed doubts over DMK's intentions on the issue. Recalling the recent meeting of DMK MPs with …
As per the new regulations in the making, it will become mandatory for a company to spend 2% of net profit Union corporate affairs ministry has put the onus of performing corporate social responsibility (CSR) on industry, as the Companies Bill is set to be tabled before the Parliament. “The …
Directs NIPH to do a comprehensive study The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued notice to the Union of India on an application from the Centre for Public Interest Litigation alleging that though 14 States had banned gutka, the ban was not being effectively implemented. A Bench of Justices G.S. Singhvi …
he Supreme Court, in its fi nal order of October 1991, upheld the compensation settlement with Union Carbide which made the Government of India liable for any shortfall in compensation or any new claims from the Bhopal gas victims. Following this order the Indian Council of Medical Research disbanded its …
The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy has come out with proposed norms for viability gap funding (VGF) for large-sized solar power projects that would come up in Phase II of the National Solar Mission. VGF will be made available for certain specified capacity solar projects — say, 750 MW …
The government Friday said it is not considering any additional cess on diesel cars, just days after the Supreme Court asked the Centre whether a green tax needs to be imposed. Minister of state for finance SS Palanimanickam told Lok Sabha that there is no proposal at the moment for …
ITANAGAR, 1 DEC: Lok Sabha MP from Arunachal Pradesh Takam Sanjoy has urged the Centre to immediately intervene into the impasse over the Lower Subansiri dam issue and help solve the issue once for one and all. Mr Sanjoy in separate letters yesterday, sought the intervention of Prime Minister Dr …
The Government of India constituted this committee to look into the Production Sharing Contracts (PSCs) mechanism in petroleum industry. The exploration and production policy for hydrocarbons is a cornerstone of our energy security, since India has a large and growing demand for energy and substantial hydrocarbon reserves that remain to …
Requests for power allocation have come from other States too The Centre on Thursday informed the Supreme Court that the additional power surrendered by the NCT of Delhi could not be allocated to Tamil Nadu without compromising the grid security as the critical transmission elements in the North-South corridor of …
The Centre on Tuesday sought to quell protests by locals in Kolar, Karnataka, against reports of earmarking abandoned gold mines of the district for dumping nuclear waste. The government clarified before the Supreme Court that it was not considering the spot for such purposes. “The NPCIL is filing the present …
An open letter sent by nearly a hundred Indian scientists to the Supreme Court. They write in support of the report of the Supreme Court's Technical Expert Committee (TEC) calling for a 10 year moratorium on GM field trials while regulation is put in order. The scientists come from across …
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday issued notices to the Union Government, the Delhi Government, the three Municipal Corporations of Delhi and the Delhi Pollution Control Committee on a petition by an association of plastic industries here challenging a Delhi Government notification putting a blanket ban on manufacture, sale and …
Lucknow: War between the Centre and state government over convergence of Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojna with Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, has once again raised its head. Unlike last year, when a war of words ensued between the Centre and UP for its inability to extend health benefits …
The Madras High Court has directed the Union government to fix the minimum price for green tea leaf payable to small tea growers within six weeks. It also directed the government to do such exercise by calling for a realistic report on the problem faced by the small tea growers …
Refuting that safety standards were compromised with in order to rush into the commissioning of the Kudankulam nuclear power plant in Tamil Nadu, the Centre on Tuesday sought to convince the Supreme Court that the plant was absolutely safe and the apprehensions raised against its safety were “misplaced and baseless”. …
