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Tuesday, September 23, 2025
TopicRural India

Topic: Rural India

Direct benefit transfers to income guarantee — 6 ways Modi govt could tackle farm distress

With Modi government expected to announce a package to alleviate rural distress, ThePrint takes a look at ways suggested to help ease the problem.

Guess who’s calling from their mobile phones — nearly three-fourths of rural India

Data shows mobile phones have rendered landlines redundant, with over 72 per cent Indian villages boasting mobile connectivity.

Could Modi end up in 2004-like defeat? 11 December will tell

Neither Ram nor Rafale, the biggest election issue is rural distress.

The rurban mind

Increasingly, numbers & political clout is moving from villages to cities. Being more exposed to media, cities are influencing political agenda more than politicians understand.

On Camera

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

After watching the most discussed series on Netflix, I was planning to write an asterisk-heavy column. As a tribute to the asterisks in its...

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

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.

India takes a relook at Russian Su-57, but not for its stealth. Here’s why

India exited the Indo-Russian FGFA programme in 2018. But now it might procure at least 2 squadrons of Su-57 aircraft from Russia and evaluate Russian proposal to manufacture them in India.

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

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.