Government monitors self help groups

Fifty-five-year-old Imtiaz Ahmed hails from a remote village in Nalgonda district and came to the State capital in search of a livelihood seven years ago. While he makes a sparse living as a pushcart vendor, his wife works as a domestic help. Likewise, ...

Kathua, Jammu and Kashmir, May 24 : In an effort to revamp the silk industry in Kashmir, the state sericulture department has shifted to bivoltine sericulture technology.Kathua district alone has achieved the mark of 1.3 lakh kg of cocoon production. Nearly ...

No questions. That's the stand of a state government department on the Right to Information Act. The department has said that it will not furnish information under the RTI Act if the application contains questions. "Under the RTI Act, 2005, your queries ...

The vigilance department of the state government has proposed setting up of an exclusive court on the pattern of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to dispose of cases of corruption against public servants on a priority basis. The court would deal with ...

Chief Secretary RS Sharma on Thursday instructed the RTE, SCPCR and NCPCR departments to form a task force and deal with trafficking of minor girls in the State to take strict actions over the issue and sort out such matters by August 31. The ...

About 100 physical education colleges in the state will now come under the aegis of the higher and technical education department. On Wednesday, the state cabinet approved a proposal for transferring these colleges to the department. These came under the ...

To ensure added importance to tribals in the state, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today announced a separate department of tribal affairs, which would be under her. "Tribal people have many grievances, but they don't know where to lodge ...

out of the state home department. He has been kept in waiting for the time being. The move is being widely perceived as a result of the officer's comment that came in response to a media query on an incident in Sonbhadra in which four members of a family were ...

The Department of Kannada and Culture is in the hands of Minister of State Umashree, who has been given independent charge. It is an embarrassing situation of sorts for the Minister because chairpersons of the Kannada Development Authority (KDA) and the ...