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Sunday, April 12, 2026
TopicCentre for Economic Data and Analysis

Topic: Centre for Economic Data and Analysis

43% of 1.6 million women factory workers in India work in Tamil Nadu alone, finds study

ThePrint Team -
Ashoka University examined Annual Survey of Industries data, which said less than 5th of million who worked in factories in 2019-20 were women.

On Camera

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Opinion

Asha Bhosle, Lata Mangeshkar didn’t have a cabaret-classical split. It was about genre, style

Balaji Vittal -
Consider Asha Bhosle and Kishore Kumar’s duet ‘Chhod Do Aanchal’. The sequence was set in a flower garden, and the girl’s bashfulness was not even remotely relatable to a cabaret dancer.

I turned up at Asha Bhosle’s door as a fan. She invited me home

Ashatai was a serial stealer of hearts—her music, mimicry and kebabs will live on

Economy

Fuel shock hits Asia’s rice bowl as farmers cut planting

Hallie Gu -
War-driven surge in fuel and fertilizer costs forces farmers across Southeast Asia to delay harvests, scale back sowing and risk lower output.

Defence

Iran’s Shahed vs US’s LUCAS—The drone arithmetic reshaping the West Asia war

Adurthi Ashwin Swarup -
From Kyiv to the Gulf, Iran’s Shahed rewrote the rules of aerial warfare. Now, the US has its own copy of the cheap drones, LUCAS.

National Interest

The world’s in a flux. India must reform, consolidate & build a strong economy

Shekhar Gupta -
We now live in a world order that will keep shifting. India must use this window. This also means we remain disciplined enough not to be knee-jerked into reacting to what Pakistan sees as its moment in the sun.

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