Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Are missing palm trees causing more lighting deaths in Bihar appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 29.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Are missing palm trees causing …
staple switch: The Sri Lankan government is now busy promoting the country's own staple food among its people. It feels that Sri Lankans are getting used to consuming large amounts of imported wheat flour, although rice is their staple food. As a result, the country's paddy farmers cannot sell their …
food and environmental safety in the country has been stoked with the centre's decision to ease the quarantine norms for 5.5 million tonnes of imported wheat. The first tender for this was released on February 20 this year; the latest on September 5. Three union ministries have bent rules to …
the Sri Lankan government gazetted regulations for the import of genetically modified (gm) food on August 3, 2006, making labelling and pre-import approvals mandatory. The rules will be enforced from January 1, 2007. This is a marked change from the government's earlier plan to ban gm food completely. The ban …
Rising incomes and urbanization, an expanding domestic consumer base concerned about food quality and safety, and rapidly growing agricultural exports have been important drivers for the increased attention to food safety in India. But the development of effective food safety systems is hampered by a number of factors, including: restrictive …
Knowledge of demand structure and consumer behaviour is essential for a wide range of development policy questions like improvement in nutritional status, food subsidy,sectoral and macroeconomic policy analysis, etc. An analysis of food consumption patterns and how they are likely to shift with changes in income and relative price is …
A Bill to consolidate the laws relating to food and to establish the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India for laying down science based standards for articles of food and to regulate their manufacture, storage, distribution, sale and import, to ensure availability of safe and wholesome food for human …
In the monsoon session of parliament, beginning July 2006, the government proposes to table the Food Safety and Standards Bill (fssb), which it says will assure food safety for all. The bill will replace the present Prevention of Food Adulteration (pfa) Act, the Essential Commodities Act and repeal other food-related …
Communist Party of India (Marxist) Politbureau member Brinda Karat led a protest demonstration for Tribals' rights Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. Ms. Karat also met Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan along with a delegation to draw his attention towards various issues confronting tribals and minorities in the State. Briefing mediapersons …
The public distribution system (PDS) is a popular programme that provides foodgrains and other essentials at subsidised prices in rural and urban areas. The fact that PDS supplies are needed to sustain food security in rural areas is proof of the continuing vulnerability of casual wage workers, small and marginal …
Ensuring food safety to protect public health and promote economic development remains a significant challenge in both developing and developed countries. Considerable progress to strengthen food safety systems has been achieved in many countries, highlighting the opportunities to reduce and prevent food-borne disease. However, unacceptable rates of foodborne illness still …
A bill to consolidate the laws relating to food and to establish the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India for laying down science based standards for articles of food and to regulate their manufacture, storage, distribution, sale and import, to ensure availability of safe and wholesome food for human …
At its request, Spices Board was permitted to undertake development of vanilla and is engaged in this endeavour to add another item to the spice export basket. It has only few exclusive vanilla related programmes and they are supply of subsidized planting materials and on farm curing aids.
The state quality watchdog announced it discovered the cancer causing Sudan I in 88 kinds of food and food additives produced by 30 domestic companies. The State Administration for Quality Supervision Inspection and Quarantine made public a list of contaminated foods and their production on its Website. The inspection was …
In a fresh assault on bacterial contamination of food, some major U.S. meat processors have embraced a high-pressure processing technique that they say makes cold cuts, fruit and other edibles safer without affecting taste. Hormel Foods Corp., Perdue Farms Inc. and others are dunking prewrapped foods nto tanks of pressurized …
Pakistan Minister for Education and former director-general of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Javed Ashraf Qazi on Wednesday said the UN World Food Programme (WFP) would provide $51.6 million assistance to government to encourage about half a million girl students to stay in schools. The minister said this while inaugurating an art …
The indigenous people from the Saharia tribe constituting a small minority of the rural population in Datia district of Madhya Pradesh now find themselves caught in a process of transition that has created huge gaps in terms of food security and livelihood needs. Newri village, falling under the Badauni Panchayat …
An Act to make provision for prevention of adulteration of the food. This Act may be called the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954. It extends to the whole of India. It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, …
The right-to-food campaign gets a fillip with the Common Minimum Programme of the new government incorporating far-reaching commitments on food security and the evolving constitutional doctrine that public welfare is a core obligation of the state. IT could be coincidence. Or it could be the case that committed public interventions …
More than 100 countries endorsed a campaign to raise an additional $50 billion a year in development aid to combat global hunger, but US poured cold water on the project. "The greatest scandal is not that hunger exists but that is persists even when we have the means to eliminate …
