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Wednesday, August 20, 2025
TopicDrug scheme. Modi government

Topic: Drug scheme. Modi government

Pandemic pushes India’s fiscal deficit to 9.5% in 2020-21, estimated at 6.8% in 2021-22

Govt to discontinue practice of Food Corporation of India borrowing from National Small Savings Fund for food subsidy — a means used to hide the true extent of fiscal deficit.

Modi govt now wants to open its cheap drug stores in tribal & remote rural areas

Govt has set a target of opening nearly 5,000 Jan Aushadhi Kendras in the next 5 years in the NE, Andaman & Nicobar Islands and Lakshadweep.

On Camera

Afzalgunj to Begum Bazar—Hyderabad’s markets don’t look ‘nawabi’. Marwaris, Gujjus built them

Some of Hyderabad’s oldest jewellery and perfume stores—many dating back to the Nizam era—are run by Marwari, Gujrati, and Jain families.

New insolvency frameworks to shorter timelines, how 2025 amendment bill proposes to transform IBC

New bill aims to fix key issues with IBC 2016, including delays & patchy implementation, and protect creditors, with window for genuine promoters to retain control of their companies.

China pushes for separation of border issue from larger bilateral ties at 24th round of talks with India

New Delhi: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi Tuesday pushed for a “dual-track” progress for ties with India, separating economic ties from the boundary question,...

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?