Government today claimed that the problem of migrant labourers is being solved gradually through several Bharat Nirman schemes and rural…

Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan is often feted for development work. But it seems the progress has not reached…

Encouraging women’s participation in politics, the historic bill to reserve 33 percent of seats for them in parliament and the…

The cost of health care is known to push millions into poverty every year, a fact from which India is…

Finance Minister T.M. Thomas Isaac told the Assembly on Wednesday that inclusion of estate workers, the disabled and potters in…

Overwhelmed by the victory in the passage of the Women’s Reservation Bill in the Rajya Sabha, women’s groups on Wednesday…

The Bt brinjal seed stock developed in the country should be deposited with the National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources…

Central Information Commissioner Shailesh Gandhi recently took the extraordinary step of unilaterally releasing the minutes of the October 14, 2009…

The poor health indices and health care in rural India have always been met with lofty ideals sans action; they…

The revelation by the developer of pest-protected Bt cotton Bollgard, Monsanto-Mahyco, that pink bollworm pest has developed resistance to the…

Even a decade after the horrific episode in which seven Dalits were burnt alive by “caste” Hindus in Kambalapalli village…

A sericulture cluster will be established at Berigai, near Hosur, with assistance from National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development…

The Central budget of 2010-11 is a further step in the realisation of a vision of India vibrant with the…

From equity and livelihood perspectives, livestock rearing must be at the centre stage of poverty alleviation programmes.  Livestock rearing is…

Forget the rhetoric, the FM’s left little for core social sectors The Union finance minister’s enthusiasm in marking the roadmap…