If recent indicators are anything to go by – the failure to keep food prices down, the proposed national food…

In the wake of reports of violation of ethical guidelines and exploitation during the “clinical trials” of HPV (human papilloma…

Sixteen persons were sentenced to death by a Bihar court on Wednesday for their involvement in the Jehanabad carnage of…

An inquiry committee appointed by the Supreme Court to look into the functioning of the public distribution system has just…

Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia is pitching for supply of 35 kg of foodgrains every month at Rs.…

The Supreme Court today acknowledged that the income ceilings to get BPL ration cards was “very low”, but appeared to…

Last summer, about 150 families of Kachan village in Jharkhand’s Palamu district decided to pool funds to repair their only…

The Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) scheme has been conceived as a major intervention by the Central government to deal…

How serious is the United Progressive Alliance government about enacting food security legislation that gives every citizen in the country…

A nation where hungry children are forced to eat mud has no right to call itself a superpower or a…

Asha, a Rag picker holds out a roti with salt and says, "Most days we eat only this. Rice is…

The government’s effort to draft a seminal law to fight hunger is flawed, inadequate, opaque and “not in the spirit…

A week after the suicide of a BMC engineer, his family alleges he was murdered for being a whistle blower.…

With Rs 308 crore, industrialist Rahul Bajaj is the richest Rajya Sabha MP and CPI secretary D. Raja is the…

The government has sought more time to work on the food security bill after Congress chief Sonia Gandhi insisted on…