Ministry of Agro and Rural Industries

Technology intervention essential to improve rural productivity
The rural sector holds the key to our future growth efforts. It is the home to 70 per cent of our people and nearly 80 per cent of our poor ......................

Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution

Genetically modified foods and consumer protection
Shri Wajahat Habibullah, Secretary, Department of Consumer Affairs has underlined the need for enforcing certain regulations on the sale of genetically modified foods in order to protect the rights of consumers ......................

Ministry of Tribal Affairs

Ministry of Tribal Affairs felicitates popular folk artiste Smt. Teejan Bai
Ministry of Tribal Affairs organised a special function to felicitate Smt. Teejan Bai, a folk and traditional artiste of National repute on the occasion of her getting the Padma Bhushan Award here last evening ......................

Ministry of Development of Northeastern Region

Union Minister for Northeast inaugurates Chapchar Kut Festival
Union Minister for Development of Northeastern Region (DoNER) Dr. C.P Thakur formally inagurated the Chapchar Kut Festival at Aizawl today......................

Ministry of Agriculture

Food grains allocation for drought affected states
The Task Force on Drought Management headed by the Deputy Prime Minister Shri L.K. Advani at its meeting here today reviewed the situation in some of the drought affected States and allocated 19.39 lakh tonnes of food grains for employment generation programmes for the next three months i.e. from April to June, 2003......................