Time is apparently running out for the ruling UPA to reap political dividends from the Food Security Bill.

Taking a lesson from the bitter experience of the multi-crore NRHM scam in UP under the dispensation of former chief minister Mayawati, the Centre will now end the practice of sending funds directly t

With the exit of Pawan Kumar Bansal, the issue of the passenger fare hike appears to have become inauspicious for the occupier of the hot seat in the ministry of railways. From Nitish Kumar, who was a railways minister during NDA, to Mr Bansal, four ministers could not hold on to the ministry after taking the politically sensitive decision to hike the passenger fares.

In an indication that the bribe scam involving suspended Railway Board member (staff) Mahesh Kumar and railway minister Pawan Kumar Bansal’s nephew Vijay Singla is just the tip of an iceberg pointing

Amid the logjam in the Parliament and urgency on the part of the Congress to brace for a number of state elections this year, the Centre is mulling fast-tracking the execution of the politically sensitive legislation on food security, land acquisition and direct benefit transfer (DBT). The urgency on the part of the Congress is also for the fact that the ruling alliance is seeking to replicate the electoral success of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) in 2009.

Former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee may not have imagined that his pet project Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojna (PMGSY) to connect villages would end up hastening urbanisation of the rural areas

The Comptroller and Auditor-General, in its first report on implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, reported large-scale irregularities at local levels.

With land fast becoming scarce, the government may soon dip into the massive land asset of the railways, which incidentally is known for the second largest land holding at 4.23 lakh hectares after the

Playing hardball with the BJP, the JD(U) on Sunday set a yearend deadline for the saffron outfit to declare its PM candidate, while spelling out its clear preference for a leader with the attributes o

The JD(U), which was reportedly arm-twisting the BJP to name its prime ministerial candidate, declared that Bihar chief minister and senior leader Nitish Kumar was “not in the race” for the top post. However, at the same time, the JD(U), while talking of its “impeccable secular credentials”, made its opposition to Gujarat CM Narendra Modi positioning himself as a PM candidate clear. Mr Sharad Yadav, meanwhile, was elected JD(U) president for a third consecutive term.