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Friday, August 15, 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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Opinion

Nobel committee, note how Trump allowed Munir to make nuclear threat against India from US soil

Seshadri Chari -
So far, India has responded to his threats with a measured, diplomatic, strategic, and multi-dimensional approach. Now, it needs to react firmly.

India talked big on Russia-Ukraine mediation. Alaska meet offers a window

Dismiss debate on EC functioning as ‘hoo-haa’, then hail India as ‘robust democracy’

Economy

Modi’s ‘Diwali bonanza’ for the common man—next-gen GST reforms, lower tax on daily-use items soon

Mrinalini Dhyani -
Finance ministry says the proposed revamp will focus on structural reforms, rate rationalisation & ease of living, & will be deliberated upon in the coming weeks.

Defence

Yudh Seva Medal for Major General SS Sharda, who led Indian Army’s info war during Op Sindoor

Javaria Rana -
Independence Day honours for ADG Strat Comm team behind Op Sindoor’s strategic messaging, including the logo designer, for real-time narrative control & countering misinfo.

National Interest

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Shekhar Gupta -
Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.

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