-The Telegraph New Delhi: The Congress today indicated that the food security scheme would be its main electoral plank, describing it as the biggest ever government intervention in the world to fight hunger and malnutrition. President Pranab Mukherjee today signed the food security ordinance that entitles two-thirds of India's population to 5kg food grains every month at highly subsidised rates. The Centre plans to convert it into an act soon. Congress communications chief...

-The Business Standard Rs 4,900 crore has been provided in the Budget Estimates 2013-2014 for food subsidy Chennai: The National Food Security Bill has been generating much excitement across the country but not in Tamil Nadu, since the state has a more comprehensive model in the form of a Universal Public Distribution System (PDS). Irrespective of any government, coverage of the PDS has been universal. A state government official said at a time...

-The Times of India The Parliament's monsoon session is only about a month away. That the Union cabinet has yet taken the ordinance route to implement the national food security Bill signals the scam-tainted UPA government's desperation to woo voters before the next general elections. But the hope that expanding what is already one of the world's largest food security programmes will boost political fortunes is hallucinatory. The exchequer is already...

-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Union Cabinet on Wednesday cleared an ordinance to implement the politically significant national food security bill without waiting for Parliament's monsoon session that is about a month away. The decision to press ahead with the ordinance - delayed after the government sought to enlarge political support for the bill - is rooted in Congress's determination to project commitment to food security as an key aspect...

-The Business Standard According to Uttarakhand govt, there are over 3,000 people missing in the natural calamity Members of Parliament's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Monday, slammed the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), as a "mere spectator" during a natural or man-made calamity in the country. The members raised doubts on NDMA's functioning and asked why it was unable to give specific recommendations to state governments. PAC members, who have started considering the...