Gig workers social security scheme may have multiple fund managersThe labour ministry of India is charting a new course by investigating a multi-manager framework for its latest social security initiative ...
20 Apr, 2026, 12.07 AM IST
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...
05 Jan, 2025, 07.25 AM IST
Rs 782.26 crore distributed to 12.72 lakh ineligible beneficiaries under KALIA scheme: CAGThe CAG report revealed that the previous BJD government in Odisha disbursed Rs 782.26 crore to 12.72 lakh ineligible beneficiaries under t...
12 Sep, 2024, 01.16 PM IST
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...
29 Jan, 2022, 04.25 PM IST
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...
07 Mar, 2019, 10.07 AM IST
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...
07 Mar, 2019, 07.58 AM IST
Government on the job for cleanup of NREG schemeThe deprivation data of Socio and Economic Caste Census (SECC) is being used to identify the poor households who have not been covered by N...
15 Feb, 2017, 01.28 AM IST
Half of rural India still doesn't own agricultural land: SECC 2011The Socio-Economic and Caste Census 2011 (SECC) finds that a majority of rural households depend on manual labour for income.
09 Sep, 2015, 03.03 PM IST
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.
13 Jul, 2015, 11.15 AM IST
RSS-affiliate Swadeshi Jagaran Manch to hold protest against land billRSS-affiliate Swadeshi Jagaran Manch (SJM) is orgaising a protest at Jantar Mantar here tomorrow against the proposed legislation.
04 May, 2015, 09.26 PM IST
End obstructionism, FM Arun Jaitley tells opposition, announces some concessionsJaitley also promised to unveil soon an "extremely simplied" Income Tax Return (ITR) form for the assesses and camps to ensure expeditious ...
30 Apr, 2015, 07.39 PM IST
RSS-affiliate upset over Land Ordinance"The Manch has decided to hold a 'Swadeshi Jan Sansad' outside Parliament on May 5 on the issues of GM Food Crops, Land Acquisition Bill an...
06 Apr, 2015, 10.31 PM IST
Invest in irrigation and technology, help farmer earn betterNearly two-thirds of India's population still depends on agriculture for its livelihood, yet only 14 per cent of the country's GDP comes fr...
23 May, 2014, 12.52 PM IST
Government working on new index to fix rural wagesThe government is working on a new index based on the consumption pattern of rural landless labour to fix wages under MGNREGA.
11 Sep, 2013, 04.35 AM IST
Landless farm labourers net losers in fightThe recent SC order declaring the acquisition of land in Sahberi village illegal has given hope of renegotiating a better deal to farmers i...
23 Jul, 2011, 12.02 PM IST
- Gandhian flays Gujarat Govt for land allotment to pvt firm
Veteran Gandhian and Gujarat Loksamiti President Chuni Vaidya today criticised the state govenment's decision to allot land to a private co...
01 Jun, 2008, 07.02 PM IST
- 'Impose cess to check water abuse'
Montek Singh Ahluwalia has suggested a cess on electricity use to prevent rampant exploitation of groundwater in the country.
08 May, 2008, 02.41 AM IST