Erratic rainfall, prolonged heat, groundwater depletion, and volatile farm incomes are becoming structural features of rural ...

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has called on Prime Minister Modi to suspend the VB-G RamG Act, cautioning it undermines employment guarantees by replacing MGNREGA. He criticized the shift from ...

The author argues that VB-G-RAM-G strengthens, not scraps, MGNREGA by expanding job guarantees, curbing leakages, creating ...

The debate isn’t just about rural jobs but fiscal control, political symbolism and whether the Centre’s VB-G RAM G model can ...

MGNREGA or the VB-G-RAM-G Act—the policy should not be a continuation of doles and freebies but a pathway to systemic ...

In 2011-12, roughly 100 million rural Indians sought work under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, ...

Opposition parties are fixated on the argument that the government has deliberately removed MK Gandhi’s name from the Act. The real provisions in the Bill are barely being discussed.

The parallel between happenings in 2025 and the dystopian novel 1984 is unmistakable. Between them, Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and Xi Jinping have all but created the fictional nations of Oceania, ...

Supreme Court takes suo motu cognisance of the matter concerning the definition of the Aravalli Range. A three-judge vacation ...

The prime minister combines the best of both---grand vision and the ability to bring his vision to fruition, with unwavering finesse ...

In 2011-12, roughly 100 million rural Indians sought work under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, which increased to 130 million last year. Expenditure on MGNREGA has ...

The signatories argue that the new Act is based on an incomplete and flawed diagnosis of the problems facing MGNREGA and that ...