BANGALORE: Ever wondered why Chaucer coined the phrase busy as a bee? Do they actually spend all their time storing nectar and pollen, making honey, royal jelly and beebread, producing wax, and caring for the queen and the drones? Nowadays, these social workers are compelled to find better homes due to multiple reasons: be it lack of natural habitat or being unwelcome in urban spaces. These bees are fast disappearing...
08:21 AM, May 14, 2012
The great Mughal emperor Akbar once asked if there was any man in his court unbound by his wife's command. The huge mass of his courtiers and public was stunned and stood huddled together barring one meek-looking man, who stepped away and stood alone. Akbar was curious and asked how such a submissive fellow was the only one brave enough to defy his wife. "I am not defying my wife,...
12:54 PM, Apr 07, 2012
New Delhi: An additional investment of Rs 1,15,660 crore would be required to revitalise the agriculture sector and boost production to meet the foodgrains demand under the proposed Food law, Parliament was informed on Tuesday. "To effectively implement the proposed Food Security Act, it is estimated that there should be an additional production of about 70-75 million tonnes of foodgrains," Minister of State for Agriculture Harish Rawat said in a...
04:29 AM, Mar 14, 2012
New Delhi: The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government on Thursday said it will address the concerns expressed by the states over the proposed National Food Security Bill. "The states have expressed some concerns on the food security bill...we will address them," Food Minister KV Thomas told reporters after the two-day meet with state food and agriculture ministers on revamping the public distribution system. Thomas said his ministry will pass on...
07:36 PM, Feb 09, 2012
New Delhi: A worried Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday said he is losing sleep over the rising subsidy bills, notably on food, fertiliser and petroleum products. "As finance minister when I think of the enormity of the subsidies to be provided, I lose my sleep," Mukherjee said in New Delhi at a conference to discuss reforms in the public distribution system (PDS). Due to a sharp increase in subsidies...
05:31 PM, Feb 08, 2012
New Delhi: Agriculture minister Sharad Pawar has hit out at the UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi's Food security Bill. In an exclusive interview to CNN-IBN, Pawar said there are not enough funds to implement Food Security Bill in its present form. This is the first time he is speaking out against the bill after it was cleared by the Cabinet. "The total provision for entire agriculture ministry is 20,000 crore. And...
01:11 PM, Jan 29, 2012
In the late 1950s, Ved Mehta, a blind writer from Oxford, spent a summer in India, a good part of it going around the country with the poet Dom Moraes. One of the high points of his trip was a meeting with the then prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. He had lunch with Nehru and his family (his daughter Indira Gandhi and his 'two quiet grandsons in their teens') and a...
12:18 PM, Jan 24, 2012
Faridkot: Punjab Congress chief Captain Amarinder Singh said on Sunday that serving the poor was the party's 'dharma' and its government at the Centre brought in the Food Security Bill in keeping with that spirit. Claiming that the party was serving the poor right since Independence, Amarinder at a rally in Jaito said the Food Security Bill brought in Parliament will enable the poor across the country to get 'aata'...
09:58 PM, Jan 22, 2012
Chennai: On the second day of his visit to Tamil Nadu, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will meet DMK chief Karunanidhi on Monday. He met CM Jayalalithaa on Sunday. This is the the Prime Minister's first visit to the southern state after the Jayalalithaa-led AIADMK took over the reins in May. The DMDK plans to stage a black flag protest against the Prime Minister, alleging the Centre's bias against Tamil Nadu...
08:08 AM, Dec 26, 2011
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Sunday asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to advise Kerala not to build a new dam across Mullaperiyar and sought a financial package for the state. In her 40-minute meeting with Singh at Raj Bhavan soon after his arrival on a two-visit to the state, Jayalalithaa submitted a memorandum making a host of demands but skipped any reference to the Kudankulam nuclear power project...
08:49 PM, Dec 25, 2011
New Delhi: Minister of State for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution KV Thomas on Thursday introduced in Lok Sabha the National Food Security Bill, which aims to provide subsidised food grain to over 60 per cent of the country's population. The bill was cleared by the Union Cabinet without any discussion on Monday. It's being billed as the most ambitious program of the UPA after the Employment Guarantee Scheme....
11:34 AM, Dec 22, 2011
New Delhi: The government will introduce the much anticipated National Food Security Bill in Lok Sabha on Thursday, which aims to provide subsidised food grain to over 60 per cent of the country's population. The bill was cleared by the Union Cabinet without any discussion on Monday. It's being billed as the most ambitious program of the UPA after the Employment Guarantee Scheme. In rural areas up to 75 per...
05:40 AM, Dec 22, 2011
New Delhi: In her first address to the party MPs since she returned from the US after having a surgery in August, Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday criticised the Opposition and Team Anna over the Lokpal and other Bills. Addressing the Congress Parliamentary Party meeting, Sonia Gandhi said, "We are ready for the fight over the Lokpal and Women's Reservation Bill." Taking a strong stand on the Lokpal Bill,...
10:49 AM, Dec 21, 2011
Mumbai: Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia on Tuesday said the government should end the oil subsidy to offset the additional subsidy burden arising out of the new Food Security Bill. "We have supported the Food Security Bill which will involve an extra cost of about Rs 21,000 crore annually. I think there are many wasteful expenditures. At the Planning Commission, our view is that it is not the...
03:07 AM, Dec 21, 2011
New Delhi: Two days after the Union Cabinet cleared Sonia Gandhi's flagship food security Bill, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa has spoken out against the Bill. She has written a letter to the Prime Minister accusing the Centre of encroaching into the domain of states and requesting that Tamil Nadu be kept out of the purview of the bill. She has said that popular welfare schemes are best left...
05:45 PM, Dec 20, 2011
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