'I will try and make my panchayat a model one in Bihar.' IMAGE: Aakanksha Basu, the 22-year-old head of Meghauna panchayat in Bihar. All photographs: Kind courtesy Aakanksha Basu She dreamt of......
'Government officials have not provided us anything.' IMAGE: Villagers hit by the floods shift to safer places as the water of the Ganga rises. Photograph: PTI Photo An angry monsoon and swollen......
The Delhi high court on Friday dismissed a plea by leader of one of the factions of Lok Janshakti Party Chirag Pawan challenging the Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla's decision to recognise his uncle......
Union Food Processing Minister Pashupati Kumar Paras on Thursday said he is the "real political successor" of his late brother Ram Vilas Paswan and not Chirag Paswan, who may be a claimant to his......
A politician with more than four decades of experience, Pashupati Kumar Paras, who was administered the oath of office as Union cabinet minister on Wednesday, has spent the larger part of his......
Ahead of the launch of the Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyaan scheme, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that central and state governments have meticulously mapped the skill sets of the migrant......
Around 275,000 migrant labourers and their family members have returned to the state. According to the state government, this number could exceed 1 million by the end of this month. As the NDA......
The project would facilitate the Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) to put in place infrastructure and navigation services needed to develop the waterway. The Union government and the......
A fresh scheme is likely to be released in the upcoming Budget What do Khagaria in Bihar, Paschimi Singhbhum in Jharkhand, Mewat in Haryana, and Shrawasti in Uttar Pradesh have in common? They are......
Heavily dependent on the Centre for supply of electricity and facing acute power shortage, Bihar has taken steps for setting up 25 hydel power projects for generating about 800 MW with the......