The dirt and gravel road may look like a timeless feature of the Great Rift Valley. But it is part of a huge public road- building project that is slowly hauling one of the poorest, hungriest nations

Rural Development Minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh on Wednesday said the Government would introduce the Employment Guarantee Bill in the forthcoming session of Parliament. Addressing the fifth

Rural Development Minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh has again written to Finance Minister P. Chidambaram on lowering the interest rate on loans availed by BPL families under self-employment schemes

This year, the annual editors' conference on the social sector is expected to focus on poverty eradication, employment generation and reforms in the sector. The Press Information Bureau would be

The central government's initiative for providing food security to the

The Karnataka State government proposes to regularise 1.35 lakh unauthorised irrigation pumpsets, Power Minister H D Revanna said. Speaking to reporters after reviewing the functioning of the

Development Commissioner Chiranjeev Singh who has been asked to submit a report on the rise of Naxal movement in the Western Ghats said

Five years later, the situation remains as before. Even today, Jayanti does not wish to prolong her life.The scar left by the apocalypse continues to shake her existence. .The growing suicidal

"Anti-poverty programmes in India have failed to reach the poor". This is not a politician making a statement, but International Labour Organisation (ILO) which says that the poor are even less