-The Hindustan Times West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee will lead the campaign in the Congress strongholds during the ensuing panchayat elections in early 2013. She will lead the Trinamool Congress campaign in the green belt in North Bengal, which has always voted for the Congress. Mamata has earmarked Congress MP Adhir Chowdhury’s bastion, Murshidabad, MP Deepa Dasmunshi’s base, North Dinajpur, and the late ABA Ghani Khan Chowdhury’s home turf, Malda, now...
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Govt defers call on hiking sugar price
-The Times of India Keeping the festive season in mind, the Manmohan Singh government, which is on a reforms-fiscal correction mode, hit the pause button on Monday, deferring a decision on scrapping subsidy on levy sugar under the public distribution system (PDS) quota. Removing the subsidy would have meant a steep hike in the price of the commodity to Rs 23 per kg from Rs 13.50/kg. The relief is expected to last...
More »Myths about industrial agriculture -Vandana Shiva
-Al Jazeera Organic farming is the "only way to produce food" without harming the planet and people's health. Reports trying to create doubts about organic agriculture are suddenly flooding the media. There are two reasons for this. Firstly, people are fed up of the corporate assault of toxics and GMOs. Secondly, people are turning to organic agriculture and organic Food as a way to end the toxic war against the earth and...
More »Food security Bill to see more delay as panel tenure ends-Sandip Das
-The Financial Express The government is unlikely to take up the National Food Security Bill in the winter season of Parliament as the panel examining the proposed law had to be reconstituted as its tenure had lapsed. The National Food Security Bill, 2011, which was introduced in the Lok Sabha by Food minister KV Thomas in the winter session last year, was referred to the Parliamentary Standing Committee chaired by Vilas Muttemwar...
More »Government keen to push bills on Food security, land acquisition: Salman Khurshid
-PTI After the big-bang reforms, Law Minister Salman Khurshid today indicated government's keenness to push bills on Food security and land acquisition, insisting that even Mamata Banerjee will not be able to oppose them. He maintained that "the bills drive a deft political balance between populism and reforms". "The draft (Food security) Bill is being given the final touches by the Cabinet. This will ensure that poor will have their stomachs full. Nobody...
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