As the toilet-vs-temple controversy, triggered by Union Minister Jairam Ramesh, refuses to die down, and the Supreme Court issuing a directive that all government schools must have toilets within s

GoM on Bill may meet again today to resolve issues including retrospective acquisition

Toilets are more important in India than temples, Union Minister for Rural Development Jairam Ramesh said here on Friday, as he inaugurated a yatra that will travel through states raising awareness

The Nirmal Bharat Yatra “to make the country open-defecation-free and to ensure proper sanitation in rural India” began on Friday from Sevagram in Wardha district of Maharashtra in presence of the

Jairam Ramesh's ministry offers to share half the installation cost for the entire system. Toilets in Indian Railways coaches will soon witness a makeover.

Thousands of people began a long march from Gwalior to Delhi on Wednesday demanding that the Centre announce a national land reforms policy and amend legislations for the benefit of the landless.

Efforts of Jairam and Jyotiraditya to talk them out of it fail

Thousands from all over India set to march to Delhi to demand their own land

On Tuesday, Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh and Union Minister of State for Commerce Jyotiraditya Scindia flew into Gwalior in a last-ditch effort to convince the padayatra organisers — a land reform people’s movement called Ekta Parishad — to call off the march and accept the Government’s promises that a draft National Land Reform Policy will be prepared within six months.

The State Government has set a target to complete at least 500 out of the 823 road projects sanctioned by the Centre under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) on September 12.

Chandigarh: Union Minister of Rural Development Jairam Ramesh today said that under the centrally sponsored project, Himayat, one lakh youth from Jammu and Kashmir would get placements in the next