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Thursday, November 13, 2025
TopicCash Transfer

Topic: Cash Transfer

Indian political parties’ focus on women, cows & freebies, and Mukesh Ambani’s data centre ambitions

Vandana Menon -
Global media also took note of the railway accident in Maharashtra, writing about safety of train travel in India, as well as the reality of the economic downturn in the country.

Mamata’s ‘Lakshmir Bhandar’ was a secret weapon. Bengal TMC is now reaping electoral fruits

Monideepa Banerjie -
BJP can see how voter consolidation behind 'Lakshmir Bhandar' can be pivotal to the 2024 election outcome in West Bengal, but the party has tied itself in knots.

Don’t wait for the perfect database. Modi govt can do cash transfers now

Yamini Aiyar -
It isn’t as hard to find jobless workers in the lockdown as the finance ministry claims it is. There is a way out, if the Centre has the will.

Direct cash transfer best way to help poor in Covid crisis. If Modi govt can’t do it, let us

Nitin Pai -
It is disappointing that direct cash transfers are not a major part of Modi govt's economic package. So here's an idea to make this work.

Flaws of India’s welfare system are visible in our fight against Covid-19

Mekhala Krishnamurthy -
The current welfare system cannot deal with the Covid-19 crisis. It is required to move to a demand-based system of relief and welfare.

50 nations promised cash to fight Covid. Few, like India and Bangladesh, are doing it right

Alan Gelb -
India’s trinity of Jan Dhan, Aadhaar, and mobile communications — or JAM — can work wonders if it is used extensively to reform citizen–state engagement.

3 things Congress must explain before India’s poor believe in its minimum income support

Shalini Mittal -
While the Congress’ Rs 6,000 a month income guarantee is ambitious, there is no clarity yet on how the 20% poor households will be picked.

With cash transfers, both BJP and Congress are showing no imagination in fighting poverty

Sanjay G. Reddy -
The scope for graft in plans like NYAY is massive because the benefit is conditional and administrative authorities hold great discretion.

Rahul Gandhi’s minimum income for poor faces 3 challenges – cost, targeting & delivery

Saksham Khosla -
Rahul Gandhi's announcement is certainly good politics, but does it make for good economics?

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Opinion

Operation Sarp Vinash — the forgotten 2003 campaign that changed India’s fight against terror

Manvendra Singh -
Lt Gen Hardev Singh Lidder’s book on Operation Sarp Vinash shows why the Indian Army’s 2003 campaign to clear terrorist strongholds in Rajouri-Poonch still matters today.

This era has made journalistic independence harder than ever: New York Times publisher

Air purifiers are the new water filters. Delhi has quietly accepted a crisis

Economy

Inflation plunges to a 10-yr low of 0.25% in October. Here’s why

Sampurna Panigrahi -
Record-low inflation gives RBI room to ease rates. Food prices have something to do with it.

Defence

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

Keshav Padmanabhan -
At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

National Interest

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Shekhar Gupta -
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.

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