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Wednesday, July 30, 2025
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Topic: MNREGA

BJP taps aspirational classes, promises ‘sabka saath, sabka vikas’ – once again

While the BJP manifesto or ‘Sankalp Patra’ includes a bit of populism, it largely projects the party as a facilitator for aspirational classes.

Modi pushed many pro-women schemes, but is reluctant to share power with them

At the end of the day, when it comes to placing power in the hands of women, both Narendra Modi and the BJP have balked.

Lawmakers & activists write to PM Modi raising concerns over MGNREGA fund crunch

More than 99% fund of the MGNREGA scheme was reportedly exhausted by 1 January 2019, three months before the end of the financial year.

UP officials miss CM Adityanath’s 10 January deadline for relocating stray cattle

The CM had given district magistrates a week's time on 3rd January to shift cattle to shelter homes with fences and veterinary care. 

Sadly for BJP, Indians don’t vote based on fictional works like The Accidental Prime Minister

Nervous about their own poor performance, BJP is hoping that a cock and bull story will get it votes in 2019.

Vajpayee created 60 million jobs in 5 years, whereas Modi has just been creative with data

Modi's claims that there exist three lakh village-level entrepreneurs have not been backed up by any data.

BJP accuses Rahul Gandhi of belittling India & lying about Modi govt in his Germany speech

The Congress leader said that it was 'dangerous' thing that Modi govt has left out tribals, Dalits and minorities from its development narrative.

What Vajpayee & Manmohan Singh said in the last Independence Day speeches of their terms

Modi's two predecessors stressed on foreign policy, infrastructure and rural welfare.

With biggest budget, how has the rural development ministry performed on key schemes?

For FY 2017-18, the ministry had an allocation of Rs 1.07 lakh crore. How has it fared on implementing schemes like MGNREGA, housing, and roads?

Budget 2016 shows Modi is a reformer in retreat

The loss in Bihar has forced a change in NDA's market positioning.

On Camera

Meghnad Desai was a man of many passions. Marxian economics, politics to Bollywood

Meghnad’s interest went much beyond economics and politics. This is reflected in his writing, particularly after his retirement as a full-time LSE professor in 2003.

Govt’s earlier FDI limit of 74% in insurance sector has remained underutilised, Parliament told

In the latest budget, the FDI limit was increased to 100 percent, but most foreign companies are not buying such large stakes in the Indian insurance sector.

India to get last of Spain-built C-295 next month, focus now on 1st India-made aircraft

New Delhi: The last of the C-295 transport aircraft that is replacing the ageing Avro fleet of the Indian Air Force (IAF) will be...

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.