On the first day after assuming charge as Home Minister, Amit Shah's primary focus remained the state of Jammu and Kashmir.While he was briefed on the situation in the Kashmir Valley by Director, Intelligence Bureau, Rajiv Jain and Union Home Secretary...

Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir are among the six states that have so far not released central funds sanctioned for Panchayati Raj institutions, Union Rural Development Minister Chaudhary Birender Singh said on Tuesday."Six states have not released the funds sanctioned...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday appealed to women representatives in panchayats in the country to make efforts to construct toilets in every house so that not a single female goes to open fields for defecation."There are 30,00,000 lakh panchayat representatives...

Ahead of the union budget later this month, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Tuesday called for increased public spending on rural development to boost domestic economic growth amid a global slowdown."Bad monsoon in the last two years has resulted in rural...

The Centre today called for practical fiscal decentralisation by State Finance Commissions while distributing resources between the state governments and local bodies. The Minister of State for Panchayati Raj Nihal Chand said that in the 14th Finance Commission...

The Minister of State for Chemicals and Fertilizers, Nihal chand has said that at regards fertilizers, Urea is provided to the farmers at the statutory price of Rs 5310 per MT since 1.4.2010.  This price was increased slightly by Rs. 50 per MT w.e.f. November...

The Minister of State for Chemical and Fertilizers, Nihal Chand has said that the urea is sold at a maximum Retail Price (MRP) statutorily fixed by the Government. At present, it is Rs.5360 per MT (plus sales tax and other local taxes wherever levied) w.e.f....

Nihal Chand has taken charge as the Minister of State for Chemicals & Fertilisers in New Delhi this evening. The Minister said that he had been with his senior cabinet colleague Shri Anant Kumar, when he expressed the ministries’ priorities and would work...