Prime Minister Narendra Modi will commemorate 10 years of the Swachh Bharat Mission on October 2, launching sanitation projects worth over ...

"Fulltime doctors have been appointed in 1,149 primary health centres (PHCs). In the event of long-term leaves...doctors from PHCs will be ...

Bill Gates, Co-founder of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation appreciated Dr. M S Lakshmi Priya, IAS, Mission Director National Health Mission ...

Sonowal laid foundation stone for six new projects under City Infrastructure Development Fund (CIDF) in Bongaigaon .The projects that Sonow...

The classrooms will be equipped with laptops, multimedia projectors, whiteboards and sound systems, and connected to a central server that ...

NITI Aayog has planned a day-long national conference on Monday where states/UTs will share their notable practices in social sector servic...

The BJP outplayed JD(U) and RJD in the race for Jayaprakash Narayan's (JP) legacy, with a delegation of Amit Shah among other MPs visiting ...

From 'Self Reliance' to 'Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan', Indian election sloganeering has come a long way with major political parties now chanting ...

According to the survey, just about 133 individuals of the every 1,000 in rural India aged 15 or more sought work in public works. And of t...

The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has indicted the Bihar rural development department for alleged glaring irregularities in impleme...

The Standing Committee on Rural Development has observed in its 29th report that the percentage hike in allocation of outlay has declined a...

The Centre finally found a way to deal with the CAG's adverse report on its flagship rural employment guarantee scheme: Take credit for it ...

Finance minister P Chidambaram may peg growth in gross tax revenue at 17% when he presents the Budget proposals for 2007-08 next week.

It might seem strange, but a few of the social welfare schemes announced by the government in the past few years have added to the pressure...

UPA Government has allocated a whopping Rs 40,000 crore for various social development schemes like Sarva Siksha Abhiyan, National Rural He...

At least half a dozen Union ministers, including commerce minister Arun Jaitley and HRD minister Murali Manohar Joshi, have lodged strong p...

Following up on Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's call for optimum utilisation of funds to Central rural development schemes, the gover...