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Indian sailors risk work at sea, as Iran war grinds onIndian sailors are increasingly finding themselves caught in the crossfire of the Iran war, with thousands of seafarers stranded in conflic...
Planning to study abroad? What Indian students should know about the National Overseas ScholarshipApplications are now open for the National Overseas Scholarship (NOS) for the 2026-27 cycle, supporting marginalized students in pursuing M...
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...
Fitting reply to Opposition: Telangana Minister Jupally Krishna Rao after govt increases Rythu Bharosa cash handoutTelangana Minister Jupally Krishna Rao announces increased benefits for farmers under the Rythu Bharosa scheme, providing Rs 12,000 per acr...
Bihar cabinet approves 3 pc hike in DAThe Bihar government has announced a 3% increase in dearness allowance for its employees and pensioners, effective from July 1, 2024. The c...
Rahul Gandhi to launch financial assistance scheme for landless labourers in Chhattisgarh on Feb 3Nearly 4.5 lakh landless families of MGNREGA labourers, barbers, blacksmiths, priests, etc will benefit from the scheme, for which the stat...
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...
PM to launch programme to allot 'patta' to over 1 lakh indigenous people in AssamThe state government will allot a total of 2,28,160 land 'pattas' in just 4.5 years and the prime minister will initiate the beginning of a...
Office of Barak Valley divisional commissioner to start functioning from Silchar with immediate effectIt may be noted that the government took the decision in the interest of Public Service and for administrative convenience to shift the Div...
Assam: Starting 2021, no government jobs for those with more than two kidsThe important decision was taken at the Assam Cabinet meeting that also adopted a New Land Policy, which will give three bighas of agricult...
Delhi govt to give ownership rights to 7,200 families allotted land under 20-point programmeUnder the "20-point programme", launched during former prime minister Indira Gandhi's tenure in 1975-76, around 12,500 landless families in...
Rahul to bring farm distress in spotlight at Moga rallyWhile Punjab is not new to the tension between India-Pakistan, the changed narrative allows the Congress to sell its pre-poll plank of debt...
Rahul Gandhi to keep spotlight on farm distress at MogaIt works well for the party in Punjab where the chief minister Amarinder Singh government is implementing debt waiver of over Rs 7,000 cror...
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.
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.
No landless family in Burdwan district by March: District Magistrate Saumitra MohanGiving figures, Mohan said that 49.490 acres of land was distributed among 1,164 families under the programme which was launched in 2011.
Bihar: 25,679 Mahadalit landless families to get plots for houseThe House later passed the department's demand for expenditure of Rs 733.05 crore with voice vote amid walkout by the opposition BJP MLAs.
14,369 homeless families get landAround 14,369 landless or homeless families have got land under free land distribution scheme in Burdwan district in last 2.5 yrs.
"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...
Ramesh tells states to speed up land reform measuresJairam Ramesh has urged the state governments to improve and expedite existing land reform measures to address the needs of the poor and la...