The rural job guarantee scheme is facing a severe funds crunch and villagers are being denied work under the programme in violation of the law, academics, researchers and civil society groups said on ...

Particularly vulnerable tribal groups, earlier known as primitive tribal groups, are the sort of people you may never meet unless you take the trouble to look for them. In Jharkhand, they live in smal...

With Rahul Gandhi’s announcement of the Congress’s “historic decision” to adopt an income guarantee scheme, the idea of a universal basic income, mooted in the Economic Survey two years ago, h...

The writer is is a civil engineer and data cruncher...

I was in KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa last week. Why? Protesting students. There had been a delay in payments by the National Student Financial Aid Scheme. Before that I was in Chad, Ethiopia, Uganda...

The resignations from the National Statistical Commission (NSC) would undermine the trust in official statistics, and data window-dressing is feared ahead of the elections, economists have said.“It ...

The district administration on Monday asked the management of tea gardens to send proposals for projects that could be taken up under the 100-day rural employment scheme to ensure earnings for casual ...

Altogether 600 youths of the Northeast are going to be trained to make utensils from tree leaves under an entrepreneurship-training programme at the National Institute of Rural Development and Panchay...

The rural development department of Tripura’s BJP-Indigenous Peoples Front of Tripura (IPFT) government has won 13 national awards under four categories for successful implementation of flagship sch...

When I enter Feroze Varun Gandhi’s home in Delhi’s Jor Bagh, I can hear Vedic chants emanating from one of the rooms deeper inside the house. I can smell sandalwood and ghee too. Varun informs me ...