Implementing the Food Ordinance is the bigger challenge and there are many provisions of the National Food Security Bill which need to be expanded and strengthened.
It has initiated efforts to get full details only now.
State governments yet to act on sorting MGNREGA wage delays
The Brookings Institution, a think tank associated closely with the US administration, recently expressed keen interest in it.
The organisation can invest in bonds of private companies with dual 'AAA' rating, say new norms.
Despite warnings from a parliamentary panel, the list of tax exemptions in 2012-13 shows a rising trend.
According to the funding projections indicated in the 12th Plan document, allocations for essential medicines would be doubled.
Anti-corruption activists Arvind Kejriwal and Prashant Bhushan are planning to launch a television channel, which, they say, will be non-profit and will focus on public issues. "We are starting a channel which will focus on public issues," said Bhushan.
Centre, states clear first hurdle, agree on compensation formula for losses on account of reduction in Central Sales Tax rate.
The auditor said that it has unfettered right of access to all records of Reliance Industries (RIL) during its audit of operations in the Krishna-Godavari basin and would override any conditions sought to be imposed on the process.
Key point under deliberation remains the requisite number of people whose consent is required for acquisition of land by govt.
Central trade unions have opened some successful unions for contract workers in the Ghaziabad industrial belt, breaking the myth that it is difficult to bring them under unions' fold.
Meera, wife of S P Udayakumar who led anti-nuclear protests in Kudankulam, talks about her hopes and fears
May take Rs 1,000-crore hit to re-route country's longest slurry pipeline
Some of the notices are not only for taxes but for cancellation of the NGOs' registration as non-profit entities under the Income Tax Act.
New regulations by the Reserve Bank of India on microfinance have prompted MFIs to go for a makeover.
Cabinet had earlier this week deferred a decision on the much-discussed issue on this ground.
Embarrassed by the debate on whether its suggestion that a human being can live on Rs 32 a day in urban India, the Plan panel has said those who are not really poor should be excluded from being enumerated as being poor.
The demand for cash transfers was highest in Bihar at 54 per cent, followed by 34 per cent in Uttar Pradesh and 22 per cent in Jharkhand, where the access to PDS foodgrain was found limited.
Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh has said states would not be allowed to ignore the findings of the social audits notified recently by his ministry on the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS).
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