Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Monday expressed serious concern over 'slow progress' and 'improper implementation' of the centrally-sponsored National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in his Lok......
S C Chandrahasan is a Sri Lankan Tamil leader and founder of the Organisation for Eelam Refugees Rehabilitation. He is the son of the late Sri Lankan Tamil political leader Samuel Selvanayagam. He......
Myanmar's democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi plans to visit Papasanipalli village in Andhra Pradesh's Anantapur district on November 17 to witness rural development programmes. Suu Kyi will be......
The war of words between Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati has put the state's political cauldron on the boil. With Rahul making Maya bashing a......
Thousands of hands went up in the air to greet the Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi as he landed in the semi urban constituency of Aurangabad in Bihar after making the crowd to wait for......
NREGS has no place in the scheme of things that Kejriwal prescribes for the nation in his book Swaraj, says Sreelatha Menon. The National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) is the only......
The government's biggest welfare programme could see an almost 60 per cent increase in funding. The forthcoming Budget is likely to make a provision of Rs 64,000 crore (Rs 640 billion) for the......
Andhra Pradesh Rural Development Minister V Vasant Kumar on Tuesday said the daily wages paid to workers under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in the state will be enhanced......
The Centre on Tuesday refuted reports that there is 30-40 per cent siphoning off of allotted funds under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. "It is not true that there is 30-40 per......
Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh has said states would not be allowed to ignore the findings of the social audits notified recently by his ministry on the National Rural Employment......