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Topic: BPL

5 months, 10 lakh families struck off. Congress puts Haryana BJP govt in dock over BPL list pruning

BJP govt in Haryana did not find it politically expedient to ‘apply the stick to undeserving elements’ covered under BPL list owing to Lok Sabha and Assembly polls, it is learnt.

Haryana civic polls: Prospects of Haryana becoming Gujarat for Congress are real

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Is Haryana facing ‘pauperisation’? BPL ration cards surge 5x, AAY beneficiaries up 20%

Responding to an unstarred question in Haryana Assembly, minister of state for food, civil supplies & consumer affairs said the surge was recorded between April 2022 & September 2024.

Haryana is caught in a paradox. 3rd in per capita income, yet 75% there live below poverty line

Haryana's revised BPL criteria, expanding the scope for families to qualify as BPL, has sparked debate, with govt data showing 2.10 cr residents classified as impoverished.

Karnataka govt moves to weed out ineligible BPL card holders. Why beneficiaries are under scrutiny

Siddaramaiah govt says income tax payers, govt employees shouldn’t have BPL cards, but data shows nearly 8 in every 10 of state’s residents claim benefits, 'burdening' the economy.

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India’s ‘mother of all deals’ with Europe comes with a troublesome cousin—Turkey

Established in 1968, the EU Customs Union is a foundational pillar of European economic integration. With Turkey in the mix, India’s biggest deal with the EU suddenly looks more complicated.

More states giving out cash transfers. They aren’t substitutes for investments: Economic Survey

Number of states implementing unconditional cash transfers increased fivefold between FY23 and FY26, half of them estimated to be in revenue deficit, report says.

‘LCA man’ Ravi Kota, key in operationalisation of IAF’s Tejas fleet, picked as next HAL CMD

Mechanical engineer & alumnus of IIM-A & IAS France, Kota was General Manager in HAL’s Light Combat Aircraft division. He was selected from a pool of eight candidates.

Non-alignment is coming back in a new avatar: Trump-peedit alliance

No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.