MUMBAI: Kerala-based, all-women micro-lender Kudumbashree will soon sign a pact for providing consultancy services to the National Rural Livelihood Mission with the objective of scaling up this fla

In the backdrop of adverse reactions against poverty lines filed by the Planning Commission in the Supreme court this week, Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh has described the below poverty

Objecting to the Planning Commission's poverty estimates and worried about the outcome of a case pending before the Supreme Court, the UPA government on Thursday underlined the need for reworking the BPL (Below the Poverty Line) cap in a bid to do away with any kind of cap, which has become a matter of controversy.

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This wedding season, anxious grooms from Parsa and Ghatburra, two villages in Chhattisgarh's Surguja district, were offered financial assistance from an unlikely source. Adani Mining Pvt Ltd, a subsidiary of Adani Enterprises Ltd, was handing out loans to all those who could prove that the money would be spent on marriage arrangements.

New Delhi: The UPA government seems to be getting more generous towards Bihar with the Centre clearing all bottlenecks in execution of rural roads under Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY), pa

NEW DELHI, 16 SEPT: The Bihar chief minister, Mr Nitish Kumar, today met the rural development minister, Mr Jairam Ramesh, and thanked him for allowing road projects worth Rs 935 crore to be undert