Fearing that the proposed Seeds Bill, 2004, if enacted, would harm millions of small and medium farmers across the country…

The Right to Food Campaign on Tuesday expressed its disappointment with the “narrow manner” in which the proposed food security…

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday said the government was in favour of amending laws, if need be, to make…

To perpetuate a system that assigns a household to a single BPL/APL category in circumstances in which poverty is multi-dimensional…

Summer temperature in India is set to remain above average, weather officials said, raising hopes of heavy rains at the…

Days after several persons were hospitalised after exposure to radioactive waste at a West Delhi scrap market, it emerges that…

Farmers in Punjab reported low wheat yield this year. Even though the state agriculture machinery sold them certified seeds, not…

The battle over genetically modified brinjal may resume shortly as an environment ministry agency readies its ammunition against arguments that…

Haryana’s powerful khap panchayats have served an ultimatum on all MPs and MLAs from the state to extend their support…

“85-90 per cent disposal done in unorganised sector”  Minister says he is against import of used computers in the name…

Belief in the north-east that it brings drought, famine  Phenomenon occurred in 1960s in Mizoram, leading to an increase in…

For nearly three decades, Selvi V. has lived in a village in the Kanchipuram district of Tamil Nadu, 75km from…

There were few takers among women in West Bengal for jobs granted under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee…

P. Chidambaram today took on civil society organisations for showing sympathy towards Maoists by training guns at social activist and…

At first glance, the vegetable patches in this north Indian village look no different from the many small, spare farms…