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AA Edit | Sonia warning on Census delay

AA Edit | Sonia warning on Census delay

The National Food Security Act, which was legislated during the United Progressive Alliance-2 government, aims to...

12 Feb 2025 12:52 AM IST

DC Edit | Do much more to help farmers

DC Edit | Do much more to help farmers

Highlighting India’s revolutionary transformation from a food-deficient country to food-surplus in the first...

5 Aug 2024 12:08 AM IST

China plans more Forest Cities which will have rooftop gardens.

Leafy towns can firefight urban heat: Urban farming boosts nutritional...

It is time we graduated from food security to nutritional security.

9 April 2018 2:21 AM IST

Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman addressed a press conference about the achievements of Ministry of Defence in last four years in New Delhi. (Photo: Twitter/ANI)

Budget 2019: Programmes to be accelerated, red tape reduced in 'New...

NDA in its first term set the ball rolling for 'New India' with strident commitment to fiscal consolidation, said...

5 July 2019 12:33 PM IST

Patralekha Chatterjee | Pay heed to shadow pandemic of hunger

Patralekha Chatterjee | Pay heed to shadow pandemic of hunger

Globally, there is a red alert about the shadow pandemic of hunger in the time of COVID-19

3 Dec 2020 9:56 AM IST

PM Narendra Modi (PTI photo)

Prime Minister pitches for ration card unity of India

Today's address to the nation was an attempt by the PM to put speed on his next project of bringing India under one...

30 Jun 2020 8:25 PM IST

Union Minister Prakash Javadekar at the press briefing. (PTI)

Union Cabinet formally extends free ration under PMGKAY till November...

The minister said that the scheme will benefit more than 80 crore people in the country.

9 July 2020 1:52 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the UN High-Level Dialogue on Desertification, Land degradation and Drought, through video conferencing, in New Delhi. (PTI Photo)

India to restore 26 million acres of degarded land, says PM Modi

'Sadly, land degradation affects over two-thirds of the world today,' Modi said

15 Jun 2021 6:59 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the I2U2 virtual Summit, in New Delhi, Thursday, July 14, 2022. (PTI Photo)

AA Edit | I2U2 focus right: Unite on food security, clean energy

UAE will invest $2 billion to develop integrated food parks in India

16 July 2022 1:26 AM IST

Representational Image. (Photo: Pixabay)

Social stigma stops families to procure outside help

Here is what new research found.

2 March 2018 12:25 PM IST

The crisis is so bad that those who hope to win the race for the last water reserves are drilling deeper and deeper into the ground leading to a precipitous drop in water tables across India by an average of 0.3 metres per year and by as much as four metres in some place the worlds fastest rate of groundwater decline.

India's arid lands, thirsty crops

India's water crisis stems from a thorny mix of economic, geographic and political factors.

13 Jun 2018 1:20 AM IST

The association also also hit out at controls on in-shop advertising saying it will remove differentiation between retailers selling legal tobacco products and fly-by-night retailers selling smuggled tobacco products.

Tobacco area, output decline as farmers shift to other crops

The tobacco area has declined by 14.56 per cent to 3.99 lakh hectares in 2016-17 from 4.67 lakh hectares in 2014-15.

13 Aug 2018 2:29 PM IST