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Meanwhile, the Governor, C.V. Ananda Bose, who is currently in Darjeeling in north Bengal, now has decided to cut-short his tour there and return to Kolkata on Sunday afternoon only.

Banerjee, who along with other TMC leaders, is holding an indefinite sit-in outside Raj Bhavan here since Thursday, has said they will continue the demonstration till Governor CV Ananda Bose meets the protesters.

The indefinite sit-in demonstration outside Raj Bhavan by TMC activists led by senior leader Abhishek Banerjee entered the third day

Congress on Saturday once again took a swipe at BJP accusing it of forced digitalisation in the name of transparency

The economic crisis in rural India is so deep that in September the demand for MGNREGA has increased by 30pc in 4 years, said Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge in a post on X

TMC) on Thursday staged a protest in Kolkata against the central government on this issue

He skipped the ED summons which asked him to appear on Tuesday in Kolkata in connection with the schoolteachers' recruitment case.

TMC MPs and state ministers will peacefully sit in at Rajghat on October 2, followed by a peaceful rally of MGNREGA job card holders in the national capital

Susmita Dev hit out at the central government over the refusal to provide special trains to MGNREGA job cardholders from West Bengal to reach Delhi

TMC has arranged special buses to ferry nearly five thousand MGNREGA job cardholders to Delhi for their scheduled protest

The Congress also said that on this day, MGNREGA was passed under the leadership of Manmohan Singh.

Parliamentary Affairs Minister Sovandeb Chattopadhyay alleged that the Centre had stopped funds for Bengal because of vendetta politics

West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana were among the states which saw the highest number of deletions

To ensure a wide variety of plant species, nurseries have been established in 208 Gram Panchayats across the district.

Such documents include Bank Passbooks, CMHT cards, Ayushman Bharat Cards, Ration Cards, Old age pension cards, and Aadhaar Card.

Though India’s economy grew 13.5% in the first quarter of this fiscal, the clouds of gloom still hover over the country as the looming headwinds — worsening global growth prospects, the impact of rising inflation on consumption, and the progressive hike in interest rates — could end up denting the growth momentum. The GDP growth […]

Hyderabad: Finance Minister T Harish Rao on Tuesday blasted the Central government for introducing additional rules for labourers working under the MGNREGA scheme, stating that it would affect their livelihood. “The State government came up with several schemes for the welfare and development of the workers but the Centre has confined labourers to only 20 […]

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Karimnagar: Agriculture Minister S Niranjan Reddy said that drastic changes have taken place in rural areas with the availability of irrigation water following the completion of various irrigation projects in the state. Not only availability of irrigation water, ground water levels, variety of crops, greenery, flora and fauna and biodiversity would be developed with the […]

The proposal to introduce an urban employment guarantee scheme, on the lines of MGNREGA being implemented in rural areas, is an idea that is worth experimenting with to provide immediate relief for the unemployed but should not be seen as a panacea or a long-term solution to the problem. This is because the issues related […]