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Tuesday, November 25, 2025
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Ration schemes since Independence did not fully benefit poor due to inefficiency: PM Modi

PM Modi during a virtual interaction with PM-GKAY beneficiaries in Gujarat further said since 2014, the govt has made the ration system more effective for poor with new technologies.

77 Mumbai civic staff died on Covid duty, but they don’t qualify for Modi govt insurance

From lab assistants, to plumbers and porters, many BMC workers have died while on Covid duty. But they were deemed ineligible for insurance under the central govt scheme.

Govt procures 3 times as much chana dal as last year to meet massive food aid requirement

NAFED has procured 21.43 lakh metric tonnes of chana dal, as Modi govt has promised 1 kg per month free to every ration card-holding family until November.

On Camera

Worker exploitation powers the firework industry in Tamil Nadu’s Sivakasi

For an industry globally classified as hazardous, protections such as health insurance and a provident fund for workers are necessities. In Sivakasi, they remain elusive.

172 countries & counting, India looks to hit new record in rice exports. But there’s a flip side

The industry forecasts exports are set to grow 16% in 2025-26, boosted by surplus domestic production and a drive to push into 26 underserved global markets with strong potential.

India and France to jointly manufacture HAMMER air-to-surface missile

Indigenisation level will progressively increase up to 60 percent with key sub-assemblies, electronics and mechanical parts being manufactured locally.

A tribute to Tejas. India’s delay culture is the real enemy in the skies

It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.