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Tuesday, August 26, 2025
TopicRural Development

Topic: Rural Development

Last Laughs: The incomplete electrification of India’s villages and Biplab-nomics

Neera Majumdar -
The best cartoons of the day, chosen by editors at ThePrint.

Why are Uttarakhand’s young leaving the state? Govt report to shed light soon

Pragya Kaushika -
A lack of employment opportunities for the state’s youngsters is among the factors thought to be forcing them to seek work elsewhere.

PM Modi’s model village scheme gets big thumbs down from most MPs

Ruhi Tewari -
416 Lok Sabha MPs and 214 Rajya Sabha MPs haven’t adopted a village under the third phase of the scheme, which was to be implemented by 2019.

MGNREGA wage clearance improves, but still not reaching workers on time

Ruhi Tewari -
Rural Development Ministry says crediting wages in workers’ accounts within the 15-day time limit will be its key focus in FY 2018-19.

Modi govt’s last full budget to give Rs 1 lakh crore boost to rural development

Ruhi Tewari -
Key job guarantee and livelihood schemes to get increased budget allocation; the ongoing farm crisis seems to influenced govt decision.

Talk Point: Rural Gujarat in 2002 was backward, bleak, and lacking in reliable electricity and water

Tavleen Singh -
The Gujarat model cannot be a model for the whole of India, but it can work at the state government level.

Centre gives massive budget for MGNREGA, states say not enough for even delay compensation

Ruhi Tewari -
More than half the delay compensation rejections in 2017-18 are due to “insufficient funds”. Centre says no paucity of funds, states just being careless. Ruhi Tewari
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Opinion

India will absorb Trump tariff impact due to its Achilles’ heel

Trinh Nguyen -
Like China, India remains a big domestic market, which will continue to attract investment, but the US tariffs will make India unattractive for future investments.

How Wang-Yi’s visit set back India-Nepal ties

Indira Gandhi gets credit for Punjab formation. It was Lal Bahadur Shastri who paved the way

Economy

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

Ruchi Bhattar -
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.

Defence

‘Peace without power Utopian, lessons from Op Sindoor being implemented’—CDS inaugurates Ran Samvad

Snehesh Alex Philip -
India’s 1st tri-service seminar, on the lines of Shangri-La Dialogue, kicks off in Mhow, with top military officers & defence attaches from several countries in attendance.

National Interest

That Oval Office picture for ages deserves closer Indian reading, with a geopolitical lens

Shekhar Gupta -
Putin sees this as a victory. Europeans have decided to deal with Trump on his terms for the sake of the larger Western alliance. We look at the lessons for us in India.

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