In a letter to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh has outlined his concerns about the faulty implementation of the Indira Awaas Yojana in the......
Saurabh Kumar, who is in his mid-30s, has been begging on the streets in a small village in Bihar's Vaishali district with his family. Placards hang from their necks, which boldly proclaim in Hindi......
Indira Awaas Yojana, a social welfare programme started to provide homes to the poorest of the poor, has fallen prey to rampant corruption in Bihar, the latest Comptroller and Auditor General......
After confiscating properties of corrupt officials, Bihar government has now confiscated properties of two middlemen who indulged in misappropriation of government funds, officials on Monday......
V Divaharan, brother of Sasikala Natarajan, a former aide of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, was arrested in Tiruchiraappalli late on Thursday night in connection with a house demolition......
The COVID-19 pandemic affected the residential property market during the April-June period last year but sales have improved in affordable homes segment since July onwards, reflecting economic......
The Union Cabinet on Thursday approved the implementation of the national policy on biofuels. It also approved setting up a national biofuel coordination committee, to be headed by the prime......
The corpus of the Rural Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF), which is the main instrument of the government to channelise bank funds for financing rural infrastructure, has been increased from......
A massive outlay of Rs 11,000 crore (Rs 110 billion) has been earmarked this financial year for laying of rural roads, a key component under Bharat Nirman programme. The rural roads scheme......
To pep up rural demand ahead of the general elections, the National Democratic Alliance government has decided to spend up to 60 per cent of the allocation for rural development for 2004-05 on the......