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India's test positivity rate for Covid-19 down to 15%; Centre ups caution

Positivity rate had been consistently increasing for 10 weeks since February and started to decline in the past 10 days

Need dynamic strategy to deal with Covid-19, says PM Narendra Modi

Tells officials to assess data on children, ensure rural India is free of Covid

Retail inflation for farm, rural workers eases marginally in April

Retail inflation for farm workers and rural labourers in April eased marginally to 2.66 per cent and 2.94 per cent, respectively, mainly due to lower prices of certain food items

Grassroots health workers fight vaccination hesitancy in rural India

Rumours spread that vaccines can cause impotence amid suspicions that the government is conspiring to kill people.

CoWIN website to be available in Hindi and other regional languages soon

This follows criticism of the government that CoWIN was a barrier in vaccinating people in rural India

Global concern grows as deadly Covid-19 variant ravages rural India

Lacking beds, drugs and oxygen, many hospitals in the world's second-most populous country have been forced to turn away droves of sufferers

Beyond the Jal Shakti Abhiyan

NITI Aayog reckons that nearly 600 million Indians are already facing "high to extreme" water stress. The situation is set to worsen as the water demand is likely to double by 2030

GramCover plans to be one-stop shop for rural insurance needs: CEO Bhatt

The company was founded in 2017-18 by a clutch of private equity firms

Over 40 mn rural homes get tap water connections under 'Jal Jeevan Mission'

Goa has become the first state to provide 100% tap water supply followed by Telangana and Andaman and Nicobar Islands

Over 500 drones to measure India's rural assets, end property dispute woes

In one of the biggest aerial surveys, over 500 high resolution drones would be deployed soon to map nearly 600,000 villages

Retail inflation for farm and rural workers increase in February

Retail inflation for farm workers and rural labourers rose to 2.67 per cent and 2.76 per cent in February against 2.17 per cent and 2.35 per cent respectively in January, 2021

Indian biggest fuel retailers gearing up for rural-led economic rebound

The increasing economic importance of India's hinterlands is influencing business expansion plans and accelerating a trend of more service stations being opened in the countryside

Highest ever spending under MNREGA during FY21: FM Sitharman

Sitharman claimed Modi-led NDA government has removed all ills from the rural-employment guarantee scheme MNREGA

Nabard disburses Rs 16,500 cr under RIDF in first 10 months of FY21

Nabard said it has sanctioned Rs 30,200 crore in the same time

India's $500 billion Budget to spur growth leaves little for the poor

The budget -- among India's most highly anticipated and closely watched events -- didn't have major proposals to address the job losses, hunger, and rising pressures on the farming and rural sectors

School students owning smartphone in rural India up 61% in 2 yrs: Survey

The percentage of school students owning a smartphone in rural India has increased from over 36 per cent to 61 per cent in the last two years, the Economic Survey 2020-21 noted

PM releases Rs 2,691 crore for PMAY-G beneficiaries, slams previous govts

Modi said the poor had to the bear the brunt of 'wrong' policies and intentions

Draft scheme to give jobs to youth in tribal villages: Gadkari to officials

Union minister Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday asked the Tribal Affairs Ministry to coordinate with the MSME Ministry and come up with a scheme to provide employment to 25 people in every tribal village in India. The minister for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) and Road Transport & Highways said five crore jobs should be created by the MSME sector this year. He observed that there are 6.5 crore MSME units in the country and 11 crore jobs have been created through the sector till now. Gadkari said the turnover of village industries at present is Rs 80,000 crore, which needs to be increased to Rs 5 lakh crore. "I request you to draft a scheme in coordination with us to provide jobs to 25 people in every tribal village in the country, which we will finance," Gadkari told the Secretary in the Ministry of Tribal Affairs. The minister said he has heard that his effigies were burnt in some parts of China to express displeasure after imposition of heavy import duty on bamboo sticks by

Tata Motors only truck maker to reduce discounts, says CV unit chief

Girsh wagh says firm took a bold decision to prune incentives by almost a third during BS VI transition

India's a digital payments hotspot

With social distancing becoming the new norm, there is a behavioural shift across all consumer categories