Industry experts convened to emphasize the need for advancing plastics circularity throughout India and the Asia Pacific region. They ident...

Will she be able to provide the spark that can turn the recovering economy into an engine of growth? ET looks at the possibilities.

In a pre-Budget memorandum to the Finance Ministry, Sa-Dhan, the association of microfinance sector, also made a case for introduction of c...

The government is expected to initiate measures in the upcoming budget to support domestic growth momentum.

“Our focus is more on backward districts. We are working on a mission mode to achieve our targets by the end of this year,” a senior govt o...

Sarbananda Sonowal expressed optimism that this project would be able to uplift the agricultural sector of the state and inspire the farmer...

The waste management programme has been started recently under the National Rural Livelihoods Mission which also ensures additional income ...

Only 10% of the 3 million NGOs submit accounts of their funding and expenditure to the authorities as mandatorily required.

Key changes include making construction of toilets part of the scheme, besides providing for mandatory convergence of water & power supply

Punjab CM Parkash Singh Badal today asked Nabard to evolve special scheme for setting up skill development centres in villages to enable un...

The CM also urged NABARD to concentrate on Agri and allied sectors since these sectors have tremendous scope for uplift of the economy of S...

Rural Development Ministry, which steers a number of flagship programme like MNREGA and PMGSY, gets an allocation of Rs 80,194 crore for 20...

Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee has reached out to scheduled castes by announcing Pradhan Mantri Adarsh Gram Yojana (PMAGY) while present...

Read what the broking houses expect from Union Budget 2009-2010.

The cumulative expenditure of states in rural development as a percentage of total expenditure has dropped to 4 per cent.

Multi-lateral funding agency Asian Development Bank will provide $150 million for developing rural telephony in India.

The theme for the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas this year is engaging overseas Indians in India’s socio-economic development.