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Wednesday, September 24, 2025
TopicRural India

Topic: Rural India

More Indians now maintain age gap of 3 years between two children, shows survey

Achyut Mishra -
In signs of improvement, the percentage of children born after at least 36 months of previous birth fared better as compared to 2011 results.

Economic Survey hails Modi govt for fine-tuning UPA’s ‘inefficient’ rural job scheme

Ruhi Tewari -
Economic Survey 2018-19 claims use of technology such as Direct Benefit Transfer and Aadhaar has brought reforms.

Modi govt to continue pushing its model village scheme, despite MPs’ thumbs-down

Ruhi Tewari -
Only 225 of the 543 Lok Sabha MPs adopted a village in the third phase of the Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana, but Modi govt now wants them to adopt one each year.

India’s caste problem has a silver lining: urbanisation, and inter-caste marriage

Ramanath Jha -
Unlike villages, search for partners in cities shifts its focus from family and caste networks to friends and professional networks.

UK study conducted in India finds children born into poverty have weaker brain activity

Sandhya Ramesh -
The study, conducted in UP on children aged four months to four years, finds a link between mother’s education and mental development.

Right skills & right jobs: How Modi govt’s Grameen Kaushalya Yojana is helping rural youth

Vikram Sampath -
The stories of young Indians from Manipur, Kashmir & Haryana show Modi's Grameen Kaushal Yojana is on the right path to skilling rural India.

Coy and in ‘ghoonghats’, these women are taking over Youtube, TikTok with their rural lives

Jyoti Yadav -
YouTube channels like Indian Girl Babita's Village and Sidhi Marwadi are helping rural women chart their own paths within the limits of local conventions.

Cabinet approves Rs 2,000 crore Agri-Market Infrastructure Fund

PTI -
The Rs 2,000 crore corpus will be created with NABARD for development and upgradation of rural agriculture markets.

Piyush Goyal hails India’s newly-connected villages, but 26% still await pucca roads

Ruhi Tewari -
In his budget speech, Finance Minister Piyush Goyal said “construction of rural roads has been tripled” under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana.

Not a single rural healthcare centre in 15 states meets govt’s minimum quality standards

Himani Chandna -
CPR report says healthcare centres don't meet standards designed by health ministry in terms of infrastructure, manpower, medical equipment and drugs.
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My first meeting with Modi ji in 1996 gave me a living model of leadership: ML Khattar

Manohar Lal Khattar -
As Modi enters his seventy-sixth year of service to the nation, I join millions in wishing him strength and success.

There is a shift in Modi govt’s economic strategy. It comes with some risks

Bads of Bollywood can’t get more brazenly nepo. The joke’s on us

Economy

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

Sampurna Panigrahi -
SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

Defence

China navy achieves breakthrough with new fighter jet launch system. What are electromagnetic catapults

Saksham Thakur -
China’s most advanced aircraft carrier—Fujian—uses electromagnetic catapults, a core component of future aircraft carriers.

National Interest

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Shekhar Gupta -
Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.

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