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Friday, October 31, 2025
TopicAatma nirbhar bharat

Topic: aatma nirbhar bharat

Commercial coal mining is key to Modi’s Aatmanirbhar Bharat, but states need to do their bit

Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren has chosen to oppose commercial coal mining, which damages our national interests as it makes it difficult to deal with local issues.

Gadkari and other ministers’ different voices on India-China trade cause confusion

Modi govt departments and ministries seem to be taking different approaches to calls for ‘boycotting China’ and ‘self-reliance’ since Galwan clash.

CHAMPIONS can ease MSME pain only if it effectively helps implement govt’s relief measures

The suggestions and grievances on CHAMPIONS portal must be analysed to assess whether there is need to tweak current measures for the MSMEs in sectors worst hit.

Why Modi’s economic nationalism is a wrong turn for Covid-hit India

Free-trade champions fret that Modi is acting against their advice to dismantle statist controls on land, labour & capital to help make India more competitive.

India’s local economies lie outside innovation zone. Can’t chase Modi’s Atmanirbhar dream

India must drop its decades-old delusion of becoming the exporter of high-tech commodities and instead focus on lower-end products.

Modi govt’s conditional offer to states on borrowing and the controversy around it

In episode 476 of #CutTheClutter, Shekhar Gupta discusses the criticism around Modi govt's latest fiscal stimulus and whether it's part of the 'Modi Derangement Syndrome'.

‘Aatma nirbharta’ not for everyone and paper boat for migrant workers

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Self-reliant India will automatically be more internationalist: Foreign Secretary Shringla

In a virtual address, Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla also said Covid-19 pandemic has brought ‘new and uncertain dangers’ to the ‘dangerous world’ we live in.

On Camera

Starbucks was once progressive. It’s now approaching a dangerous spot in culture wars

Former CEO Howard Schultz once told shareholders those who opposed his support of same-sex marriage were free to invest elsewhere. But now, CEO Brian Niccol seems to be selling Starbucks as a place that just, well, sells coffee.

Consumer Price Index gets up to date. Airfare, OTT plans, e-commerce prices in new basket—MoSPI secy

New CPI series will take 2024 as base year, will provide more accurate measure of inflation, spending on digital services. Expected to enhance representation and reliability, says Saurabh Garg.

India pulled out of Tajikistan’s strategically important Ayni air base in 2022. Here’s why

Tajikistan did not want to extend the lease because of apparent pressure from Russia & China over non-regional military personnel at the air base, it is learnt.

Deepfake on duty: when I asked AI to read Op Sindoor citations

On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.