Assam has temporarily halted the distribution of subsidized pulses, sugar, and salt under its public distribution system for two months, ef...

West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari has introduced a new fish and rice meal at subsidized rates in canteens. Liquor shops will now ...

Farmers call the hike inadequate while industry warns of rising cane arrears

India has floated a global tender to import 50 million tonnes of NPK fertilisers and 35 million tonnes of ammonium sulphate to strengthen n...

The Trinamool Congress has thrown down the gauntlet by inviting Prime Minister Narendra Modi to experience a nourishing Rs 5 meal at a loca...

The Supreme Court is currently reviewing an appeal aimed at elevating the significance of state-led assessments of farming costs in the est...

Government remains firm on not resuming subsidised rice sale for ethanol. Chopra encourages maize ethanol production and highlights the imp...

The rice sale for ethanol makers was discontinued for various reasons, including apprehensions about domestic output and high retail prices...

Bharat rice: The government plans to introduce 'Bharat rice' on Tuesday at a subsidized rate of Rs 29 per kg, aiming to alleviate the impac...

Food Minister Piyush Goyal is scheduled to launch Bharat rice at Kartavya path in the national capital, an official release said. The Food ...

Around 200 families – who are reluctant to go to the enclave which now belongs to Bangladesh – would also be distributed rations free of co...

The Assam government today said it will implement National Food Security Act from December 24 and provide subsidised rice to 2.4 crore peop...

"The state government will take the burden of the expenditure to be made for supply of subsidised rice to SC-ST residential schools," Patna...

The announcement comes at a time when the state government is already selling subsidised rice (at Rs 2/kg) in the LWE affected blocks in th...

Chhattisgarh Food Security Act, which he is credited of bringing in much before National Food Security Act, is being dubbed as a game chang...

The country's food subsidy bill is expected to jump by 27 per cent to Rs 74,231 crore in the 2010-11 fiscal, the Lok Sabha was told today.

Bangladesh garment manufacturers said they would distribute subsidised rice to thousands of some of the world's lowest-paid workers to help...