We will defeat Maoists design through development: Jairam Ramesh

In a letter war between Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh and Cabinet Secretary Ajit Seth on how to tackle red terror, Jairam has become the loser. In 2012, the minister had criticised the UPA's flagship program - Integrated Action Plan ...

Digha, April 26: Jharkhand's most frequent high-profile visitor, Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh, had not expected a rude reality check from a woman in Digha village, Saranda, this morning at the launch of the former rebel turf's ...

"It has become fashionable for people in power to talk like the opposition. Jairam Ramesh is a (Union) minister and should make efforts to change the situation," PDP president Mehbooba Mufti told reporters here. She was referring to comments by the ...

Union Minister Jairam Ramesh, who went for a pillion ride in Maoist-hit Jhumra Hills area of the state on Sunday, said the Centre would soon announce the Jhumra Action Plan (JAP) to develop the villages of three contiguous districts in the area.

India's bureaucracy was "the most dangerous animal in the world", Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh said here Saturday. He was speaking at a event organised by an eye hospital to mark a camp it conducted in Jharkhand's Saranda forest, ...

COAL MINISTER Sriprakash Jaiswal is a worried man. He was worried the day former environment minister Jairam Ramesh floated his go, no-go formula to keep the best forests out of bounds for miners. This weekend, Jaiswal warned that large tracts of ...

The gram panchayat can earn up to Rs 1 crore a year, says Jairam Ramesh After Mendha-Lekha in Maharashtra's Gadchiroli district and Jamguda in Odisha, two tribal villages in the forests of Andhra Pradesh’s Visakhapatnam district received community ...

NEW DELHI: The Union Environment and Forests Ministry has asked the Goa government to send proposals to set up a tiger reserve at the Mhadei Wildlife Sanctuary, Parliament was told on Monday. The Ministry has also asked the Maharashtra, Uttar ...

Continuing her tirade against attempts by the UPA Government to adopt the Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, 2011, in Parliament without addressing the concerns expressed by many, CPI (M) Polit Bureau member Brinda Karat on ...