West Bengal elections: High-pitched campaign for 152 seats in first phase ends; voting on April 23The high-pitched campaign for West Bengal's first phase of assembly elections concluded Tuesday, with the BJP and TMC clashing over elector...
22 Apr, 2026, 09.30 PM IST
Gig workers social security scheme may have multiple fund managersThe labour ministry of India is charting a new course by investigating a multi-manager framework for its latest social security initiative ...
20 Apr, 2026, 12.07 AM IST
Bengal Polls: Voting for any party other than TMC means vote for BJP, says Abhishek BanerjeeAbhishek Banerjee urged Murshidabad voters to support TMC for development and stability. He accused opposition parties of aligning with the...
18 Apr, 2026, 09.15 PM IST
Housing dreams falter in West Bengal amid corruption, land crunchEligible families in Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal, are denied housing benefits. Decades of occupancy on railway land disqualify them from...
17 Apr, 2026, 05.53 PM IST
Top 10 per cent rural households control 44 per cent of land in India: ReportA new study reveals stark land inequality in rural India. The top ten percent of households control nearly half of all land. Meanwhile, alm...
07 Apr, 2026, 03.43 PM IST
Only J&K domiciles eligible for land to landless scheme: UT AdminThe Jammu and Kashmir administration has approved the allotment of land on a lease basis to landless individuals. The scheme, launched by L...
25 Aug, 2023, 03.55 PM IST
Complete land survey in Assam: Hari Shankar Brahma to state governmentIn an email, Hari Shankar Brahma suggested few more measures for ensuring land possession by landless indigenous people like completing lan...
29 Jan, 2021, 10.18 PM IST
Odisha to provide Rs 1,040 crore credit to 7 lakh landless farmersAround seven lakh landless cultivators will be benefited from the programme in the next two years, they said. The decision in this regard w...
03 Jul, 2020, 03.00 PM IST
Proportion of landless families falls to 7.41% in rural IndiaAccording to the study, Kerala witnessed a double increase in percentage of landless households in the last decade.
17 Dec, 2015, 10.13 AM IST
Landlessness key to rural deprivation, census saysAs per figures, 59% of households with kuchha houses are landless-labourers, followed by 55% of those with no literate adult above 25 years.
13 Jul, 2015, 11.15 AM IST
Either we pass land bill, or brace for the fury of the landlessThe current estimate for India’s landless is around 100 million households, which would constitute at least 300 million of our population.
05 Apr, 2015, 11.57 AM IST
RBI issues guidelines on loans to landless farmersIn the Union Budget 2014-15, it was declared that 5 lakh Joint Liability Groups (JLGs) of land-less farmers will be financed through NABARD...
13 Nov, 2014, 10.59 PM IST
Mayawati promises three acres of land to MP's landless peopleBahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati today promised to give three acres of land to each landless person and create employment for the unemp...
18 Nov, 2013, 07.44 PM IST
"Hard political decisions" needed to give land to landless: Jairam RameshIt requires "hard political decisions" to distribute land to roughly 15 to 17 million families who are still landless in the country, Rames...
01 Nov, 2013, 02.46 PM IST
- Kerala government's zero landless project to open on September 30
Kerala government's ambitious "zero landless project" aimed at providing land to all landless people by 2015, will open on September 30.
28 Sep, 2013, 04.10 PM IST
Sonia Gandhi to launch 'Zero Landless Project'Of 2,33,232 families listed as landless in Kerala, one lakh would get land in the first phase. By 2015,all landless in the state would get ...
31 Aug, 2013, 02.44 PM IST
A safe landing for the landlessThe Union Government has proposed to provide land to the landless. Nearly half of the country’s rural population is absolutely or relativel...
06 Aug, 2013, 04.00 AM IST