PM Narendra Modi renaming MGNREGA to claim credit for revolutionary scheme: CongressThe Union Cabinet has approved a Bill to rename the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) to 'Poojya Bapu Gramee...
13 Dec, 2025, 03.35 PM IST
MGNREGA gets a name change: Pujya Bapu Gramin Rozgar Guarantee Yojana is new name for India's flagship rural job schemeThe Central government on December 12 approved the change of name for MGNREGA, renaming India's flagship rural employment scheme as Pujya B...
12 Dec, 2025, 05.43 PM IST
Recruitment process under our govt more streamlined, transparent: PM ModiPrime Minister Narendra Modi asserted on Friday that his government had effected broad changes in the recruitment process by making it more...
20 Jan, 2023, 12.36 PM IST
PM Modi to distribute appointment letters to 71,000 peoplePrime Minister Narendra Modi will distribute about 71,000 appointment letters to newly inducted recruits in different government department...
19 Jan, 2023, 03.38 PM IST
Lecturers, IT inspectors, multi tasking staff among 1.47 lakh recruited through 'Rozgar Melas': GovtConstable, teachers, lecturers, nurses, nursing officers, doctors, pharmacists, radiographers and other technical and paramedical posts, su...
22 Dec, 2022, 03.41 PM IST
PMRPY benefits 1.5 cr workers, govt spend Rs 3.4K cr: Santosh GangwarThe government has spent Rs 3,648 crore under the programme so far, the minister said.
08 Feb, 2019, 05.43 PM IST
Congress pushed farmers into debt during its rule: Sambit PatraThe Centre was working on strategies to double the income of farmers by 2022, whereas the Congress is politicising farmers' issues, Patra s...
24 Feb, 2018, 03.06 PM IST
10,000 youths offered jobs in Rozgar Melas, government tells LSUnder the Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojna, in 2015-16, out of 19.8 lakh candidates, about 8.64 lakh trained (44 per cent approximate) we...
15 Mar, 2017, 02.03 PM IST
Assam seeks special provisions, grants for maintenance of roadsSonowal said recurring flood and erosion posed a threat and requested Tomar to consider Assam as a "special category state."
19 Sep, 2016, 05.36 PM IST
Nation pays homage to Mahatma Gandhi on 146th birth anniversaryThe nation remembered Mahatma Gandhi on his 146th birth anniversary with President Pranab Mukherjee, PM Modi, Sonia Gandhi and other leader...
02 Oct, 2015, 11.45 AM IST
- HC to monitor probe in multi-crore rupee foodgrain scam in UP: SC
The SC today allowed Allahabad High Court to monitor the probe in multi-crore rupee foodgrain scam in Uttar Pradesh which is being investig...
01 May, 2013, 09.42 PM IST
- 11th plan aims to create 58 mn new jobs: Govt
Employment is projected to grow at an average rate of 2.73% annually.
15 Mar, 2010, 01.07 PM IST
- 'Women in rural areas get lower wages than men for equal work'
Women in rural areas get lesser wages than men for equal hours of work, government informed the Lok Sabha on Monday.
10 Mar, 2008, 05.50 PM IST
- Youths establish small scale units in J&K
Nearly 300 youth in Jammu and Kashmir have established small scale units in the current fiscal under the Centrally-sponsored Swarn Jayanti ...
24 Nov, 2007, 06.30 PM IST
- Govt to pay FCI Rs 17,700 crore of dues
Government will pay Rs 17,700 crore of outstanding dues to Food Corporation of India (FCI) for supplying foodgrains under welfare schemes.
08 Nov, 2007, 02.51 PM IST
- NREGP to be launched soon
The NREGP, an ambitious programme to provide 100 days of employment to every rural household, will be launched on February 2.
04 Jan, 2006, 05.05 PM IST
- Poverty schemes bolstered
In an effort to improve bottomlines in a different way, the government wants to reduce the proportion of people living below the poverty li...
26 Feb, 2005, 02.31 AM IST