New Delhi: First it was Vidya Balan and now it is Bill Gates who has come forward to extend support to Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh's sanitation drive. Gates, who has supported India's battle against polio, will now help alter behavioural patterns connected with sanitation. Talking to reporters after the meeting, Ramesh said, "We discussed how the Gates Foundation can support us in bringing behavioural changes along the lines of...
10:19 PM, May 30, 2012
Urban romances and stories set in Delhi and Mumbai have dominated Hindi films for the past few years. But the same can't be said about ...
12:33 PM, May 30, 2012
Lucknow: The Central Bureau Of Investigation (CBI) is likely to file a chargesheet in connection with the murders of former Chief Medical Officers VK Arya and BP Singh on Tuesday accusing two shooters and the person who hired them of murder and criminal conspiracy. The investigative agency in its first chargesheet in the sensational murders of two CMOs is also likely to name a former Health officer in the criminal...
10:39 AM, May 29, 2012
New Delhi: The Government on Monday said unemployment was on the decline in both urban and rural areas as per the figures of recent surveys. "Reliable estimates of employment and unemployment are obtained through quinquennial labour force surveys conducted by National Sample Survey Office. Last such survey was conducted during 2009-10," Union Labour Minister Mallikarjun Kharge told Lok Sabha in reply to a query. "As per the two most recent...
04:31 PM, May 21, 2012
New Delhi: About 60 per cent of India's rural population lives on less than Rs 35 a day and nearly as many in cities live on Rs 66 a day, reveals a government survey on income and expenditure. "In terms of average per capita daily expenditure, it comes out to be about Rs 35 in rural and Rs 66 in urban India. About 60 per cent of the population live...
04:50 PM, May 03, 2012
Ranchi: Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh on Monday said about Rs 1,200 crore could be alloted to include toilet system in a revamped MGNREGA. "I am going to announce in Parliament on large scale expansion in the work schedule of MGNREGA by May 8. (Planning Commission member) Mihir Shah-headed expert committee recommendations are accepted (in this regard)," Ramesh said at a press conference. "One of the important additions is...
12:36 AM, May 01, 2012
Breswana is dusting off its inertia and making connection. And a frail 30-year-old woman is its link to outside. Sabbah Haji is the village's new ...
11:29 PM, Apr 27, 2012
CHENNAI: Aiming to fulfil the higher education dreams of youngsters hailing from rural areas of Tamil Nadu, Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Thursday announced that 20 new government colleges " two engineering, 11 arts and science and seven polytechnic colleges " will be started in small towns this academic year.Leaders from several parties " Congress, PMK, CPI, CPM, RPI, MMK, AISMK Kongu Ilaignar Peravai and AIFB " hailed the Chief...
07:08 AM, Apr 20, 2012
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The state has scored high in the performance graph of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) in 2011-12 by notching up a remarkable feat of providing 44.96 days of work for target families, as against the national average of 39.95. Likewise, if the number of work days provided to women under the scheme at the national level was 48.71 per cent out of the total days, it...
11:34 AM, Apr 18, 2012
Chandigarh: On the lines of MNREGA, the UPA government is considering a scheme for urban areas, Union Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal on Saturday said. "The main problem that the country today is facing is un-employment and like MNREGA, same scheme is likely to be started in urban areas also," said Bansal, union parliamentary affairs minister. The UPA Government has started the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee programme with a...
01:50 AM, Apr 15, 2012
Muktsar: Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Friday said his government will make all efforts to transform the state into a developed one in the next two years. "The state government is fully committed to fulfill the aspirations of the people who have given historic mandate in favour of the development policies and programmes of the SAD-BJP alliance government," he told a gathering in his home district. To ensure...
03:40 AM, Apr 07, 2012
Ghaziabad: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday filed the second chargesheet in connection with the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) scam. According to the investigating agency, former senior Uttar Pradesh official S P Ram violated tendering rules to procure medical kits. Three others were named in the second chargesheet filed by the CBI. This came a day after the CBI filed its first chargesheet in connection with alleged...
07:34 PM, Apr 04, 2012
Murshidabad: Babar Ali was CNN-IBN's Real Hero in 2009 as he was perhaps the youngest school principal in the world. It's a unique school where a 27-year-old Mumtaz Begum sits attentively and listens to the teacher and her 7-year-old daughter studies in the nearby classroom. Mumtaz is in her 9th standard and wants to give board exams next year. Babar was a young and lanky 16-year-old when CNN-IBN met him...
09:53 AM, Mar 30, 2012
Lucknow: In a bid to check corruption and use of sub-standard material in construction work in the rural areas, the Uttar Pradesh government has decided to get all works video-graphed. The directives were issued by the Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Rural Development Arvind Singh 'Gop' to officials on Friday. Asking officials to get every development activity videographed, Gop said any callousness with regards to development work in the...
11:45 AM, Mar 24, 2012
Mumbai: The World Bank will not reduce its financial assistance at the moment to India for poverty alleviation measures because official data has shown the number of poor people has declined. The international funding agency takes a long-term view on its commitments and the poverty data released on Monday will not have any bearing on that commitment, World Bank (WB) Country Head N Roberto Zagha told PTI on the sidelines...
03:02 AM, Mar 22, 2012
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