After announcing the direct cash transfer rollout from January 1, the focus has come back on the Food Security Bill, for which the UPA government is looking at the Budget Session for passage. The parliamentary standing committee is learnt to have given its report to Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar.

The Centre’s current food subsidy burden stands at roughly Rs 90,000 crores, which will shoot up to `1,10,000 crores if the proposed provisions of the Food Bill are implemented.

After going ahead with FDI in multi-brand retail and having withstood the opposition of Mamata Baner-jee’s Trinamul Congress, the government will take up the contentious Land Bill for at the Union Cabin-et’s meeting on Thursday.

With the FDI in retail sailing through both Houses in Parliament, the government will try to push through the certain key legislation, which have been pending.

Setting the tone for poll preparations, the UPA has begun drafting a “right to land” for the landless, on the lines of the right to work, National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme and the right to food, by working with state governments to avoid confrontation as land is a state subject.

Activist Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday unveiled his “Aam Admi Party (AAP)” with an inaugural don-ation of `1 crore from former Union minister Shanti Bhushan and an objective to change the “rule of poli

After missing the original target to link 1.70 lakh rural habitations with all weather roads in 2007, the Centre, in a move to give a boost to government spending to spur economic activities, will spe

In a clear indication that the Samajwadi Party is not rushing in to rock the UPA boat soon, party general secretary Ram Gopal Yadav on Thursday said that the Lok Sabha elections could take place in Oc

Allowing FDI in multi-brand retail was reportedly the main issue at Friday’s UPA dinner, hosted by the Prime Minister against the backdrop of the approaching Winter Session of Parliament beginning November 22.

Allowing FDI in multi-brand retail was reportedly the main issue at Friday’s UPA dinner, hosted by the Prime Minister against the backdrop of the approaching Winter Session of Parliament beginning Nov