Swachh Bharat Mission: other name for coercion and deprivation

What started as a campaign to make India open defecation free, has now taken shape of a cocercive policy of shaming people for not using toilets, …

Food security Act: Centre to share half the burden of states in food transportation and handling

Fair price shop dealers to get incentive for use of point of sale (PoS) devices

Raje resorts to MGNREGA to rescue farmers affected by unseasonal rains

Around 5 per cent of households in the affected regions will get benefit under the scheme till March 31

One year of Modi government: no more achhe din, claims citizen report

According to the authors, the document was prepared after consultations with stakeholders in 100 districts across India

GST regime could reduce local self-governing bodies to mendicancy

Enforcement of GST will dry up sources of revenue for urban local bodies such as municipalities and municipal corporations

Towards a bitter end: India's neem shortage

India, the land of neem trees, faces acute shortage of neem oil, and now plans to import it for coating urea

Amendments to century-old laws on tribal rights spark protests in Jharkhand

The proposed amendments would increase land acquisitions for mining and other industrial uses, causing mass displacement of tribals

PUCL moves Supreme Court over non-implementation of food security Act

The government extended the deadline for implementation of the Act, citing the states’ lack of preparedness as one of the reasons

Lok Sabha debates land bill

Opposition and allies of NDA oppose proposed amendments in land acquisition Act

Cabinet likely to give nod to real-time fund transfer for MGNREGA

This decision is expected to address the delay in transfer of funds from the Centre to states

Land ordinance promulgated a second time

Belligerent BJP says it will start a campaign across the country to remove ‘mis-conception’ around land acquisition bill

Union Budget 2015-16 reduces funds for SCs and STs

Allocations made in budget 2015-216 way short of Plan Outlays for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes

Governors in the dock

They turn a blind eye to laws overriding tribal rights, complains national commission

Children's swaraj

Karnataka turns governance into child's play with kids' assemblies

World Bank sets up commission on poverty

Commission to present its report by April 2016

Agriculture, rural jobs, food subsidy need big boost

Will the drubbing it faced in Delhi election and the huge controversy over its land Bill make BJP reconsider its economic thrust areas?

More than 400,000 farmers to protest at Ramlila Maidan

On September 5, the Mazdoor Kisan Sangharsh Rally will start a march towards the Parliament with a list of demands regarding protection for …

Left without a vote

Uttar Pradesh government's repeated attempts to bring villages under industrial authorities are against the spirit of the Constitution

'It is cheaper to ride motorbikes than take buses in Indian cities'

Poor hit the most hit by an inaccessible public transport system, says India Exclusion Report 2018-19

‘Affirmative action policies are under threat’

Dalit leader Prakash Ambedkar on restlessness among dalit youth

Relief for meat, leather traders as Supreme Court stays Centre’s ban on cattle slaughter

The Centre will revise the rules on cattle trade by August after getting inputs from states

People’s manifesto

Political parties reverse trend, seek people’s suggestions to draft manifesto

NITI Aayog ineffective in curbing inequality: Report

Latest India Exclusion Report flags several areas of concern

Civil societies urges governments of India and Nepal to end blockade

A blockade on indispensable fuel and other essentials imported from India has now entered its third month

A look at the changing scenario of Bihar politics

Of late, women have become the it factor in elections. Caste also plays a dominant role in voter polarisation