'There are legions of unemployed degree holders across rural and semi-urban belts in Maharashtra. Now, they aren't finding brides.''This issue has now snowballed into a social crisis. In 2014 and......
‘The BJP alliance needs to handle the Maratha quota issue skilfully and address its root cause, which is agrarian distress. Then there is stalled industrialisation. If these issues are......
The Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress on Monday claimed they had won a majority of posts in 361 gram panchayats in Nagpur, elections to which were held a day earlier. IMAGE: BJP) supporters......
'Pawar is a fighter. He will fight back.' IMAGE: Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar during the Jyot Nishthechi Mahila Melawa event in Mumbai, February 15, 2024. Photograph: ANI Photo......
Letters purportedly written by some panchayat heads in Haryana's Mahendergarh, Rewari and Jhajjar districts "banning" Muslim traders from their villages have surfaced online, amid communal tension......
Seeking to erase the impression that the state was not serious in implementing the rural job guarantee programme, the Uttar Pradesh government on Tuesday ordered departmental inquiry against two......
The government's Swachh Bharat programme presents entrepreneurs with a chance to curb open defecation and make money in the process, R Gopalakrishnan. India has eight "Unicorns" -......
The digital divide separating rural and urban India may finally be narrowing, thanks to setting up of business process outsourcing units in villages. Jallikakinada, an obscure village in West......
The good thing about the increasing interest in micro-finance is that many practitioners are feeling the need for hard facts on impact assessment. While disbursement figures earlier did not merit......
The best option to reduce farm distress in the state is that when the rains fail, the state -- the central and the state government -- provide a financial cushion for the farmer “The......