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Delhi, AP, Haryana and Uttarakhand launch Food Security Scheme

The State Governments of Delhi, Arunachal Pradesh, Haryana and Uttarakhand have launched the Centre sponsored Food Security Scheme. The food security scheme aims at ensuring the poor to get...

August 23, 2013

Food Bill: some States gain and some lose in allocation of food grain

Although the National Food Security Bill is still pending in the Parliament, the Centre has intimated to certain States that their food grain allocation would decline in spite of the...

August 20, 2013

Food Bill: some States gain and some lose in allocation of food grain

Although the National Food Security Bill is still pending in the Parliament, the Centre has intimated to certain States that their food grain allocation would decline in spite of the...

August 19, 2013

World Bank & ADB to provide $ 400m to disaster-hit Uttarakhand

The World Bank and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide $ 400 million for reconstruction and rehabilitation in the disaster-hit areas in Uttarakhand. The fund would be spent...

August 8, 2013

Supreme Court issues notice to Centre, States on disaster management

After the devastating tragedy that struck upon Uttarakhand and which resulted in numerous deaths the Supreme Court issued notice to Uttarakhand and six other states for their alleged...

July 24, 2013

Man-made factors to blame Uttarakhand Floods: Environmentalists

The devastating floods of Uttarakhand which ravaged the region by killing thousands and leaving hundreds of other stranded has more man-made factors and less natural cause behind it....

July 6, 2013

Curb sale of adulterated milk: Supreme Court to State govts

Expressing concern over the sale of adulterated milk in the country, the Supreme Court has directed the governments of Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Delhi to file their response...

July 5, 2013

V K Duggal appointed as nodal officer for relief & rescue operations in Uttarakhand

The government appointed former top Union home secretary V K Duggal as the nodal officer for relief and rescue operations in flood hit Uttarakhand, saying lack of proper coordination...

June 24, 2013

Uttarakhand CM opposes declaring Gomukh-Gangotri as eco-sensitive zone

Uttarakhand Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna has urged the Centre to review the recent notification declaring the 100 km stretch from Gomukh to Uttarkashi as an eco-sensitive zone. The declaration is...

June 7, 2013

Arunima Sinha becomes First Indian Amputee to conquer Mt Everest

Arunima Sinha, a former national level volleyball player who lost one of her legs after being thrown off a moving train of Padmawati Express for resisting a chain-snatching...

May 22, 2013

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