India is undertaking one of the world's largest dam rehabilitation programs, DRIP, with significant progress made in improving the safety o...

Kerala's new government plans free bus travel for women on state buses. Private bus operators warn this will hurt their business. They seek...

DK Shivakumar retracted his remarks about possibly reviewing Karnataka's 'Shakti' scheme, which offers free bus travel to women, following ...

Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah clarified there is no proposal to change the Shakti scheme, providing free bus travel for women. Despite Deputy C...

"Thanks to the Congress government's free travel initiative, which you implemented as Chief Minister. I have been able to pursue my law stu...

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has instructed officials to purchase 5,600 buses for the state road transport corporation in response...

The federation has called for bandh seeking a ban on bike taxis, and urging the government to extend the Shakti scheme -- that offers free ...

"The work we have done in Karnataka will be replicated across India," Rahul said. The 'Gruha Lakshmi' scheme, rolled out amid fanfare, is o...

“Around 30-35% private buses in Karnataka are not running right now. The private bus sector, which has eight lakh employees across the stat...

The government of Karnataka, India, has pledged to purchase 4,000 buses from the state's road transport corporation, and will recruit 13,00...

Economists caution that it is challenging to draw direct correlation between free travel and labour force participation. “When it comes to ...

The state owes regional transport corporations (RTCs) about Rs 194 crore for the first 15 days since the Shakti scheme was launched on June...

The BJP has said that the Karnataka finance department has an inability to provide additional grant for payment of wages and fuel prices fo...

In just three days since the launch of Shakti scheme -- a key pre-election promise of the Congress -- in the state, 98,58,518 women travell...

The free bus ride service will benefit more than 41.8 lakh women passengers every day and would cost the state exchequer an estimated Rs 4,...

According to the order, the beneficiaries of the scheme should be a domicile of Karnataka. Along with women, transgenders can also make use...

"It empowered the women, not our political party. If we had got any political gains, would I have lost elections." said C Motamma.