Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday inaugurated and laid foundation stones of eight projects worth around Rs 7,600 crore in Chhattisgarh capital Raipur and said the Centre has been providing......
Union Minister for Rural Development Jairam Ramesh sanctioned Rs 1133 crore to Tamil Nadu for upgrading 3,000 kilometers of roadways under Prime Minister Gramin Sadak Yojana. In a letter to Chief......
Centre is to allocate Rs 1,000 crore for Tamil Nadu from the Pradhan Mantri Gramin Sadak Yojana to lay roads in interiors of more than 1,000 kms connecting villages to main towns. The Empowered......
As farmers vowed to expand their protests over new farm laws, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday assured them that his government was committed to their welfare and that the legislations were......
Samajwadi Party on Thursday forced three adjournments of Rajya Sabha in pre-noon session alleging discrimination by the Centre in releasing funds for Uttar Pradesh. Slogan-shouting SP members......
Buoyed by the success of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Actscheme, the government mulls an NREGA-type poverty alleviation programme for the urban poor. "The government is planning such a......
The World Bank is eager to double its assistance to India to about $3-4 billion this fiscal, of which $2 billion could be for infrastructure development alone."We are ready to give $2 billion for......
Anglo-Dutch oil and petrochemicals giant Royal Dutch/Shell is planning to get into the chemicals business in India.The company will set up a bitumen plant, and has applied to the Foreign Investment......
The World Bank and the Asian Development Bank have agreed to provide about $800 million (approximately Rs 3,500 crore) for the development of rural roads. Of this, the World Bank will give $300......
Allocating a major share to infrastructure that includes Rs 2.21-lakh crore (Rs 2.21-trillion) outlay, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Monday said enhanced allocations coupled with reforms......