Buzz in corridors: PAC to audit RD ministry schemes, empanelme...

Union minister for rural development Jairam Ramesh has written to Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi pointing out "serious complaints of gross irregularities" in the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA). In a letter dated May 22, ...

The Sanjeevini Rural Development Society based at Araku in Visakha Agency received the Plant Genome Saviour Community Award along with a cash award of Rs. 10 lakh, from Union Minister of State for Agriculture Tariq Anwar at a function held in New Delhi on ...

KATHMANDU: The due diligence for the merger of five regional development banks has revealed that their per unit share value varies from Rs 1.02 to Rs 140. Pashchimanchal Grameen Bikas Bank's the best performer in the pack share has been valued at Rs ...

Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh will visit Bangalore on June 14 to review the welfare programmes implemented by the Rural Development Ministry in Karnataka. Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, who met Ramesh here on Wednesday told reporters that as ...

In the coming three years, the Russian government will spend some 90bln roubles on programmes to speed up social and economic development in depressed rural areas. The money will go to build housing, roads and power lines and increase wages. Prime ...

Aiming at working towards grassroots-level empowerment in rural Bihar, Bihar Rural Livelihood Promotion Society (BRLPS) organised a road show to woo and invite high-impact social innovators from the City on Tuesday. Social innovators representing the public, ...

With an eye to assembly elections which are due in November, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit Tuesday asked legislators to expedite the development work in the rural areas of the capital.She referred to those projects which have already been approved by ...

The Department of Rural Development and Panchayat Raj (RDPR) will bring back File Movement System (FMS) which was in practice during S M Krishna's tenure to ensure speedy clearance of files. RDPR Minister H K Patil told reporters here on Tuesday ...

Qualcomm Incorporated has helped develop SootSwap, a mobile application for monitoring the adoption of clean cooking technologies, a company official said here Friday. Approximately three billion people depend on traditional cookstoves for their ...