Union Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan declared that insurance companies face a 12% penalty for delayed PMFBY claim payments, deposited direc...

Irdai, the sector regulator, has issued a master circular directing life and non-life insurance players to meet certain percentages of busi...

Regulator Irdai on Thursday came out with draft guidelines for 'Bima Vahaks (BV)', which seeks to establish a dedicated distribution channe...

The BJP is in power in both the states, and the Opposition Congress in Karnataka wondered if the BJP regime was so bankrupt that the neighb...

This is the first remote sensing technology based largest pilot study conducted so far in the country for crop yield estimation, the agricu...

The agriculture ministry has sought civil aviation regulator DGCA's nod for allowing shortlisted private agencies operate drones to capture...

The programme would be rolled out to 6,200 gram panchayats covering 12 million households across 29,000 villages in the second phase.

The government has provided Rs 6,000 crore for BharatNet in FY21, she said adding that fibre-to-home through BharatNet will link 1 lakh gra...

Those farmers whose names are in the white list will have to go to their concerned bank branch to get the Aadhaar seeding done.

PM said the country's progress depends hugely on the development of villages and emphasised the need for bridging the gulf between cities a...

"Each Centre will have PCs, laptops, printers, scanners and large-size LED TVs. We are spending Rs 2.5 lakh for each Centre," he said.

The workers will have to submit their domicile, identity proof to gram panchayat and have to work for 90 days a year.

The intent of the programme is to promote convergence for wage employment, livelihood, housing, skills and social security.

Agriculture minister Eknath Khadse said he had spoken to union agriculture minister and secretary and apprised them about the situation.

When the Mamata government came to power in May 2011, about 1,000 of 3,354 gram panchayats were bereft of banking presence.

Industry representatives are worried this may be another way to make money from them, but rural activists say the villager has the initial ...

Credit cards are set to become a part of a new countrywide financial inclusion drive that will pitch gram panchayats as the basic planning ...