Dismissing unconditional cash transfers through the parochial logic of ‘unearned assistance is undeserving’ narrows the space for policy innovation and restricts possibilities for social mobility.
At the launch of the book Power Pivots, former Haryana finance minister Abhimanyu Singh Sindhu said Haryana is ‘not what we read about from the lens of Delhi. It has changed a lot’.
Marya Shakil and Narendra Nath Mishra’s ‘India on the Move’ attempts to view events following the JNU event, the farmers’ protest, Balakot strikes and the subsequent unravelling of deep fissures within us.
While Modi took oath as PM for the third consecutive time, new faces that joined his cabinet include J.P. Nadda, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, H.D. Kumaraswamy and Chirag Paswan.
The biggest threat to INDIA is the breaking of consensus. The PM candidate must be clever enough to prove that they are not a threat to anyone within the alliance.
When a nation's constitution grants its citizens freedom of speech, does it mean that individuals can say whatever they want or are there any reasonable limits to such freedom?
India has silently acknowledged that the US is helpful in some ways, but also a roadblock in others. Both China and the US have an unspoken interest in slowing down India’s rise.
Other key promises in the budget include AI- and other technology-enabled services for farmers and continuation of the Ladki Bahin Yojana, which will have the same outlay.
IRIS Lavan was in the region for the International Fleet Review held last month and ‘sought urgent docking in Kochi citing technical issues,’ it is learnt.
Trump has ushered in the age of humiliation. His method is to push around America’s friends rudely and publicly. He knows none of them can afford to fight back.
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