Rural development minister refutes Centre's claim

While Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar may have come to grips with a scary law and order situation that existed in the hey day of the Laloo Yadav regime, economic development has brought its own share of grief the emergence of realty sector dons ...

NEW DELHI AS Bihar's growth story under the Nitish Kumar administration gets increasingly talked and written about, a book based on a study of the state over the past three decades contends that development has been highly concentrated in urban ...

NEW DELHI, April 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Calls for Applications and Invites High Impact Social Innovators Across India The Hon'ble Chief Minister of Bihar, Shri Nitish Kumar, today announced the launch of the 2nd Bihar Innovation Forum, an ...

Two days after the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) said states like Bihar used only 20 per cent of the funds spent nationally under the government's flagship rural employment scheme, Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), the ...

Determined to ameliorate the condition of 1.25 crore rural families through National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM), the Bihar government has decided to send teams to various states to learn innovative steps taken there to uplift the condition of ...

The government has urged the Centre to look into its notification regarding wage rates for unskilled work under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act. Bihar stands for upward revision of the rate for 2013-14. The notification issued ...

Newly-elected MLCs sworn-in at Bihar Legislative Council in Patna on Tuesday. Patna: Bihar Legislative Council Chairperson Awadhesh Narayan Singh on Tuesday administered the oath of ceremony to the three newly-elected MLCs at a function held at the ...

Patna : Politicians are increasingly using social networking sites as a tool to further their political agenda and the latest to join the bandwagon is Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. When Kumar launched his campaign for special status for Bihar, he used ...

Patna: The Bihar government has issued notices to 3.20 lakh beneficiaries for non-construction of houses under the Indira Awaas Yojana (IAY) in spite of availing funds for the purpose, while 93 others have been booked for similar offences, a Minister said.