A peculiar poll battle is on the cards in the tribal-dominated Banswara-Dungarpur Lok Sabha constituency in Rajasthan where the Congress is appealing to the people not to vote for its candidate.......
In a setback to the Congress in Rajasthan, four-time MLA and former minister Mahendrajeet Singh Malviya joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday. IMAGE: Four-time Congress MLA and former......
'Gehlot made it a Modi versus Gehlot contest. It was for the first time in a northern Indian state where the prime minister had to confront a chief minister.'Prakash Bhandari, veteran observer of......
Under India's laws bigamy is disallowed and those in breach of the law don't submit affidavits testifying to this status.However, these candidates have no fear of the law -- and thereby hangs an......
Rajsamand MP Diya Kumari and Jaipur Rural MP Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore are among the seven BJP parliamentarians who will contest the Rajasthan Assembly polls, according to the first list of 41......
It was supposed to replace a fifth of India's diesel consumption by 2011-- a projection that led the government to identify 4,00,000 square kms (98 million acres) of land where it could be grown.......
Social audit of rural jobs scheme promises to empower people with information about how they are being denied the benefits of the schemes meant for them. Something comes between entitlements and......
Work became a Constitutional right of every citizen in rural India the day Parliament passed the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in 2005.It is six months since the Centre began implementing......
Arun Shrimali, a social worker with an NGO called Sewa Mandir is no engineer. Yet, he, along with four other NGOs, are working on a tight deadline to come up with a five-year plan for assets to be......
At the construction site of a dam in Chakmandi village of Dungarpur district in Rajasthan, nearly 183 labourers below the poverty line eat frugal meals.They do not know it, but other families are......
The list of authorised representatives of affiliate units for the 76th AGM of the Board of Control for Cricket in India, released by the election observer T S Krishnamurthy in Kolkata on......
Reports that the Pakistan Cricket Board has asked the last one-day game between India and Pakistan to be shifted from New Delhi to Mumbai has added to the problems of Arun Jaitley, president of the......