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Thursday, August 7, 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

AI integration for military is risky business. Combat monopoly must remain with soldiers

Manvendra Singh -
The Army has plans for a technology thrust in the near term, including the use of AI to support decision-making. While well-intentioned, this may have unintended consequences.

Rudra, Bhairav commandos, Shaktiman to drone platoons—how Army is transforming for future wars

75 years of Planning Commission—what India’s first experiment can teach us in the age of PLIs

Economy

Web of spoof sites, scam call centres. Crypto theft racket modus operandi in focus amid ED crackdown

Mayank Kumar -
As part of the crypto theft racket, businessman Chirag Tomar and his aides targeted 542 victims and managed to steal a total of Rs 19.9 million.

Defence

Pakistan army chief Asim Munir to attend CENTCOM chief’s farewell, second visit to US in two months

Debdutta Chakraborty -
Munir was earlier in America in June when he had a two-hour luncheon meeting with the US president at the White House.

National Interest

Pakistan, Dhaka have played Washington well. Back home, Modi ecosystem has an inner conflict

Shekhar Gupta -
To protect ourselves from Trumpian diplomacy, first we must introspect the bipolarity within our establishment discourse.

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