THE prices of persihables such as onions for which the retail consumer is paying 40 a kilo would come down to 22 in cities such as Delhi by this week, said KV Thomas, minister of state for consumer affairs, food and public distribution.

Meghalaya Principal Secretary CD Kynjing today said the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) had brought about a change in the State with the participation of people in implementation of the scheme.

Inaugurating a two-day

Quick action will be taken on petitions submitted by people at the grievances day meetings, and mass contact programmes, being conducted in the villages, said Collector T.K.Ponnusamy on Wednesday.

Presiding over the mass contact programme meeting at Poyyadhanallur village in Ariyalur district, the Collector said that all the department officials would be present at the meeting to redress their

Senior Congress leader Vilasrao Deshmukh, who took charge today as the Union rural development minister, said he would look into the controversy over delinking the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), the government

The district-level vigilance meeting resolved to urge the Union Government to increase the amount under Indira Awas Yojana to Rs 75,000.

The decision was taken at a meeting held under the presidentship of former Prime Minister and MP H D Deve Gowda.

The new union rural development minister Vilasrao Deshmukh takes charge of the key ministry at a time when the mega Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) 2005 completes mandated five years of implementation within next few weeks.

Deshmukh would lead the rural development ministry which gets the largest annual financial allocation to the tune of more than Rs 50,000 cro

A fortnight after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said wages paid under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) would not be linked with minimum wages, Minister of State for Labour Harish Rawat today said NREGA was a flawed law, as it went against the Minimum Wages Act.

Rawat told Business Standard the section in the law which contained a contradiction with the minimum wages Act made