BJP leader JP Nadda announced the names of 184 candidates from 20 states for the Lok Sabha elections on Holi after three rounds of meetings...

PM and BJP chief have been guided by forthcoming assembly polls in UP & U'khand and kept caste equations — with special focus on Dalit vote...

An equal amount would be available under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme, he said.

"The point is our government has taken such initiatives which no other government could take in the past 60 years," Union Minister Birender...

The Rural Development, Drinking Water and Sanitation Minister said the move is unlikely to be opposed by any political party.

A two-day workshop on giving panchayats tax and non-tax powers got underway with Minister Nihal Chand making a strong pitch for empowering ...

Chand said it was for the first time that the Centre had transferred funds directly into gram panchayats' accounts, and prepared a five-yea...

Daman and Diu, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Gujarat and Goa figure amongst five states with lower EWRs at 28.87 per cent.

Centre has hiked allocation for the rural development sector by 140 per cent to Rs 4,091 crore under the 14th Finance Commission.

Law Ministry has raised the issue of constitutional validity of the draft Nyaya Panchayat Bill and it will be introduced in Parliament only...

He announced this while talking to reporters here on the sidelines of a meeting with officials of the three autonomous district councils.

"Panchayati raj in Arunachal was the oldest and added that the grassroot democratic institutions need to be empowered," he said.

Birender Singh today trained his guns on his bete noir Bhupinder Singh Hooda demanding a probe into the cash-for-change of land use (CLU) s...

The strength of the NDA government, which was 45, has now gone up to 66 after the Prime Minister expanded his Council of Ministers and resh...