New Delhi, Aug. 26 -- The Centre is set to launch a dedicated portal, SAMARTH Panchayat, to help the country's rural local bodies track and manage their tax and non-tax revenues and bring transparency... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 22 -- Maharashtra, India's largest state economy and home to the country's biggest business groups, has emerged as the top recipient of payouts under the Centre's flagship crop insuran... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 19 -- Poverty and squalor dominate the popular perception of a typical Indian village. But there are some villages, particularly in the country's western and southern states, that gene... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 17 -- The government is working on a framework to help village councils (panchayats) generate their own revenue and become financially autonomous, carrying out development works withou... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 15 -- India plans to share its digital rural-land mapping model with other countries after the government's push to take the unified payments interface (UPI) overseas as part of the na... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 13 -- The panchayati raj ministry will host 210 panchayat representatives from 28 states and Union territories as special guests for the Independence Day celebrations at the Red Fort i... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 10 -- The Centre is planning to digitally archive Indian tribes' heritage to develop the market for their products and cultural expressions, Vivek Bharadwaj, the secretary of the minis... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 8 -- Indian scientists are working on weather intervention technology to induce or suppress clouds and rain, according to a top official. "Currently, we are doing lab experiments. Onc... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 6 -- India aims to explore the Indian Ocean for critical minerals as it seeks to secure supplies essential for several industries, including clean energy. The country aims to conduct ... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 6 -- Indian startups are taking a crack at another market facing Chinese squeeze: specialty fertilizers. The bulk of such agrochemicals, designed to deliver targeted nutrients based o... Read More