-The Indian Express The food security law is back on the Cabinet agenda with the government all set to take a call on Wednesday on whether it should take the ordinance route on the subject. The subject was not taken up earlier despite being listed for Cabinet discussion a couple of weeks ago after parties like the SP signalled that they would oppose it if the government decided to issue an ordinance...

-Frontline     Attempts by the Congress-led UPA government to adopt the ordinance route to pass the food security bill fail as the opposition parties are more or less united in seeking a Bill that provides universal PDS coverage. THE National food security bill (NFSB), 2013, touted as the biggest game changer for the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government in the 2014 parliamentary elections, will go through yet another round of discussions...

-The Hindu     Shonali Muthalaly and Anusha Parthasarathy join the queue at an Amma Unavagam in the city and sample the fare as early as seven in the morning We are in the queue at 6.30 a.m. That's if you can call this a queue. Three people stand around sleepily. So much for our mental image of waiting in a hungry Oliver Twist-like queue for idlis! Two more people saunter into the Alwarpet...

-Macroscan.com India's ruling Congress party has failed to deliver on an election pledge to bring in a law that would help deliver food security. To read the entire article, please click here * This article was originally published in the Guardian on 24 June 2013. ...

-PTI Bankura: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday asked why the UPA government was in a hurry to legislate the food security bill when its continuance was in doubt, while denying that Trinamool Congress was opposed to it. "Congress is saying that they are going to pass the National food security bill and the Trinamool Congress is obstructing it," Ms. Banerjee told a panchayat election meeting here in Bankura district. "You...