It was under his stewardship of the Union Rural Development Ministry that NREGA, the flagship rural livelihood scheme, was implemented. IMAGE: Notwithstanding his political successes,......
A galaxy of leaders including President Ramnath Kovind, Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and RJD president......
After exiting the Rashtriya Janata Dal on Thursday, former Union minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh wrote to Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar seeking extension of MGNREGA benefits to the farm......
In a setback to Bihar's main opposition Rashtriya Janata Dal ahead of the state assembly polls, its national vice president and former Union minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh resigned from the party......
It is now a different time in Bihar. It is a different place -- one in which Raghuvansh Prasad Singh's options are very limited, notes Aditi Phadnis. IMAGE: Raghuvansh Prasad Singh, PhD, who......
After the infrastructure sector, the public-private partnership model will be extended to rural job generation as well. The initial success of the flagship National Rural Livelihood Mission has......
With only two days left in the last session of the 14th Lok Sabha, the group of ministers headed by Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar cleared the proposed amendments to the Land Acquisition......
In an unusual occurrence, a bureaucrat turned down a minister's proposal and forced the entire Cabinet on Thursday to accept her recommendations. A proposal to provide pension to widows and......
Even as the flagship National Rural Employment Guarantee Act scheme continues to face problems at the implementation level, Rural Development Minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh, ignoring suggestions......
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday asked cabinet ministers to stay alert on the global financial situation even as he exuded confidence that there is no impact of the turmoil on the Indian......