In a setback to Bihar's main opposition Rashtriya Janata Dal ahead of the state assembly polls, its national vice president and former Union minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh resigned from the party......
After exiting the Rashtriya Janata Dal on Thursday, former Union minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh wrote to Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar seeking extension of MGNREGA benefits to the farm......
The probe panel, constituted by Bihar's National Democratic Alliance government, on Tuesday confirmed that Union Rural Development Minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh's kin had engaged two child......
The government on Friday declared it would achieve total sanitation across the country by 2012 as part of its nationwide programme aimed at eliminating the practice of open defecation. Union Rural......
It was under his stewardship of the Union Rural Development Ministry that NREGA, the flagship rural livelihood scheme, was implemented. IMAGE: Notwithstanding his political successes,......
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......
With only two days left in the last session of the 14th Lok Sabha, the group of ministers headed by Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar cleared the proposed amendments to the Land Acquisition......
In an unusual occurrence, a bureaucrat turned down a minister's proposal and forced the entire Cabinet on Thursday to accept her recommendations. A proposal to provide pension to widows and......
With the CAG finding irregularities in implementation of its flagship National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, the Government has decided to stop direct cash payment to the beneficiaries and......
The Union government has reconstituted the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as its chairman.The reconstituted CCEA would have ten other ministers including......