Ahead of the Chhattisgarh assembly elections, both the Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party tried hard to woo farmers, women, and the poor with populist schemes. IMAGE: PM Modi had accused CM......
The ruling Congress is seeking to retain power in Chhattisgarh by banking on the welfare schemes of the Bhupesh Baghel government, while the Bharatiya Janata Party is hoping to corner it on the......
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said every paisa of every rupee released by his government reaches the poor as there is no place for middlemen and asserted that his endeavour is to provide......
Rajiv Ranjan, the Janata Dal-United legislator from Islampur assembly seat in Nalanda district, was suspended by the party for anti-party activities on Friday. A day later, minutes before......
The Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday termed as misleading the announcement of implementation of food security scheme by the city government and said it will meet the same fate as other......
Government has decided to raise the bar on annual income required to qualify for benefits under its existing housing schemes for Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) and Lower Income Groups (LIG), a......
Slum dwellers from Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe communities in the city will be eligible to get flats costing little over Rs 300,000 virtually free with Delhi government as well as Centre......
The UPA government is aggresively pursuing its flagship housing project for slum dwellers, the Rajiv Awas Yojna, to bring in the second phase of urban reforms.The Centre is holding talks with state......
Private players may soon be roped in for developing slums under the Manmohan Singh government's ambitious Rajiv Awas Yojna. An experts committee, headed by HDFC chairman Deepak Parekh, has......
The government announced a slew of concessions worth up to Rs 400 crore (Rs 4 billion) for coffee growers, local tobacco industry, hospitals, cancer drugs and urban housing for poor, among others,......