Quote of the day by Noam Chomsky: The quote challenges the common belief that poverty is unavoidable. It argues that broken economic system...

Iran's economy, known as the 'resistance economy', is facing severe impacts from the ongoing US-Israel war. Economic pressures are mounting...

While India's early efforts are modest compared with those of China, where more than 200 million people use the e-yuan, the world's most po...

India is piloting its digital rupee, the e-rupee, for welfare payments. This initiative aims to improve efficiency and reduce corruption in...

It's a wake-up call for the organisation and those found involved in corrupt practices will not be spared, Goyal was quoted as saying while...

Process to make the Public Distribution System more transparent had already started and new ration cards would be distributed in March

The government supplies highly subsidised foodgrains through PDS to ensure food security to the poor.

The government should revamp the FCI, shot through with corruption and inefficiency, to usher in a competitive market for grain.

The FCI, set up under the Food Corporation Act 1964, is a nodal agency for procurement, storage and distribution of foodgrains to PDS and o...

Research has unequivocally shown that increased press freedom has real benefits which are disproportionately higher for vulnerable sections...

If the food security Bill is finally implemented, all it will do is to supplement part of what the states spend on food subsidy with money ...

SC recommends that government should undertake subsidised food grains distribution instead of doing so through Fair Price Shops run by priv...

As much as $14.5 billion (around Rs 80,649 crore) in food was looted by corrupt politicians and their criminal syndicates over the past dec...

The right to food should give states the option to give cash instead of foodgrains.

Agricultural growth dents rural poverty directly and proportionately much more than growth in town-based activities such as industry and se...

Montek Singh Ahluwalia, proposed the rollout of the scheme from the beginning of the 12th Five Year Plan, which gets underway in April 2012.

Supreme Court order asked the Centre to distribute foodgrain for free to the poorest instead of allowing it to rot due to lack of storage f...