India is home to one of the world's most ambitious social programmes - a jobs guarantee that gives every rural household the legal right to paid work. Launched in 2005 by a Congress party government, ...

NEW DELHI, Dec 15 (Reuters) - India has presented legislation to expand a 20-year-old rural employment scheme by boosting the number of guaranteed workdays but opposition leaders challenged plans to ...

(This was originally published in the India File newsletter, which is issued every Tuesday. Sign up here to get the latest news from India and how it matters to the world.) India has overhauled a ...