'The President of India, as advised by the prime minister, has accepted the resignation of Harsimrat Kaur Badal from the Union Council of Ministers, with immediate effect,' the Rashtrapati Bhavan said in a statement.
In the last Cabinet meeting held a few days ago, there was a virtual face off between Union Human Research and Development Minister Kapil Sibal and Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Minister C P Joshi, with Joshi objecting to the setting up of an education tribunal being installed by Sibal.
After taking over as the new Panchayati Raj Minister, Deo disapproved of the actions of Andhra Pradesh MLAs and MPs who have resigned on Telangana issue.
Four more Congress leaders, including former deputy speaker of the Jammu and Kashmir assembly Gulam Hyder Malik, and a dozen prominent workers of the Apni Party resigned from their respective parties on Monday in support of veteran politician Ghulam Nabi Azad.
Newly-appointed Tribal Affairs and Panchayati Raj minister V Kishore Chandra Deo on Tuesday asserted that no development can take place at the cost of people's rights and said the mindset that tribals can be displaced for mining projects will have to be changed.
Terming India's fiscal decentralisation as 'flawed', the World Bank has mooted six broad strategies, including strengthening the state finance commissions, broadening tax base and greater devolution of power to Panchayati Raj institutions.
A division bench of the Kerala high court on Tuesday quashed the Puthussery panchayat's order cancelling the licence given to PepsiCo India Holdings
Chidambaram did speak on the resolution later and as always did a good job. But some ministers sitting there found it strange that he was telling the prime minister and Sonia Gandhi what they should do in the next 10 years and some said it sounded almost like a dictation!
The MGNREGS started in 24 districts of the state from February 2, 2006 while it is in operation in the rest six districts from April 1, 2008.
In the wake of recent terror attack on the Indian Embassy in Kabul, the two countries on Tuesday put up a united face and resolved to jointly fight the "enemies of peace".
He said Bangladesh has expressed its interests in exchanging experiences on local government and so have South Africa and Brazil.
The minister emphasises the need for greater urbanisation of rural India to curb the rising migration from villages to metropolitan cities.
They will help pursuing research on issues like panchayati raj, women's empowerment and nuclear disarmament, subjects close to the heart of the late leader.
Lalit Srivastav, chairman of the Noida, Greater Noida and Taj Express Way Authority, was given additional charge as CEO of Greater Noida and Taj Express Way Authority.
Militants hurled a powerful grenade at the private house of Manipur Panchayati Raj Minister Mohammed Alaudin in East Imphal district, official sources said on Tuesday. No one was injured in the attack as the grenade failed to explode, they said.
Mukherjee will travel to Pakistan on January 13 to invite President Pervez Musharraf for the SAARC summit to be held here in early April and hold 'substantive talks' with Kasuri.
Union Minister Nitin Gadkari was on Wednesday given the additional charge of portfolios held by Gopinath Munde who died in a road accident in New Delhi.
The government has identified 846 products for which the business community could have a partnership with panchayats for establishing rural business hubs based on Chinese model.
India and China should follow the path of cooperation and not confrontation in their quest for overseas energy sources, Union Panchayati Raj Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar said on Thursday.
Union Panchayati Raj and Sports Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar was admitted to the Apollo Hospital in Chennai after he developed chest pain on Wednesday morning. "His condition is stable and there is nothing to worry about. However, he will be kept under observation at the ICU for the next 24 hours," hospital sources said.
As hard as it is to believe, the impact of information technology is far greater in rural areas than in cities, says a survey on e-governance project by management and ICT consultancy firm Skoch.
Earlier in the day, the MLAs held a closed-door meeting in the state capital to discuss the issue in the aftermath of quota agitation and violence which has claimed 14 lives so far.
Narendra Singh Tomar has been given the additional charge of the ministry of parliamentary affairs and D V Sadananda Gowda that of the ministry of chemicals and fertilisers.
The Jammu and Kashmir government on Monday assured the people of Gool that requisite action would be taken against those responsible for the firing incident of July 18 in Ramban district in which four persons were killed.
In his characteristic style, Rahul walked into the dusty swathe of his constituency reminding villagers of the manner in which his father Rajiv Gandhi and grandmother Indira Gandhi had interacted with them.
Members of a Kashmiri Pandits organisation, led by Sandeep Mawa, have been sitting on a fast-unto-death for the past four days in Srinagar pressing for their demand.
"While there may be scope for improving the grammar and the language, let us get to the substance of the issue," he told Karan Thapar in an interview for CNN-IBN's Devil's Advocate show.
Launching the Rs 1,000 crore scheme to meet the water problem in different parts of the country, he asked the people to turn the mission of water conservation into a 'People's Movement'.
A couple of months after exiting the Petroleum Ministry, Mani Shankar Aiyar on Thursday lashed out at the way the top bureaucrats functioned in the ministry.
Senior Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee on Friday said he will participate in the party's protest programme in New Delhi on October 3, a day after he was summoned by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for questioning in connection with the school jobs scam in Kolkata on the same day.
A bench of Justices Hrishikesh Roy and S V N Bhatti said it won't issue any clarification on the July 22 order as "We have said what needed to be said in our July 22 order. Can't force anyone to disclose names."
"We have made temporary arrangements for the stay of legislators in Circuit House, Officers' Training School, Panchayati Raj Bhawan and Indira Gandhi Canal Board guest house in Jaipur. Rooms in the Secretariat and vehicles for the ministers are also ready," said Rajasthan Principal Secretary GAD Rakesh Srivastava.
The one-year-old Himachal Pradesh Cabinet headed by Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu was expanded on Tuesday with the induction of Rajesh Dharmani and Yadvinder Goma as cabinet ministers.
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Friday sacked Rajendra Gudha as minister of state, hours after he cornered the state government in the assembly.
The TMC general secretary, considered number two in the party, shared the letter sent to him by the central agency on X, formerly Twitter.
BJP heavyweights Smriti Irani, Arjun Munda, Ajay Mishra Teni and Kailash Chaudhary were among the 13 Union ministers who tasted defeat in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, as stunning losses in three Hindi heartland states forced the BJP to rely on allies to form the government.
