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Saturday, April 11, 2026
TopicSocial Indicators

Topic: Social Indicators

How to become Viksit Bharat with $30 tn economy? Focus should be on 50% population, says Amitabh Kant

At a discussion moderated by ThePrint's founder-editor Shekhar Gupta, Kant & panelists stress on improving health & social indicators & closing gap between skills & job demands.

Bengal above national average on social indices, but fiscally stressed — 15th finance panel

Mamata's West Bengal beats some BJP-ruled such as Gujarat & MP on human development, but has high interest burden and low investments.

Talk Point: ‘Gujarat model’ an average product, ‘Gujarat marketing model’ in another orbit

If we cut through the marketing hype, Gujarat is not the trailblazer state it is made out to be.

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Congress was committed to alcohol ban law without being practical: MA Venkata Rao

Since the bulk of citizens did not regard drinking as a crime, they had no respect for the prohibition laws and did not cooperate with the police, wrote MV Venkata Rao in 1962.

Fuel shock hits Asia’s rice bowl as farmers cut planting

War-driven surge in fuel and fertilizer costs forces farmers across Southeast Asia to delay harvests, scale back sowing and risk lower output.

Iran’s Shahed vs US’s LUCAS—The drone arithmetic reshaping the West Asia war

From Kyiv to the Gulf, Iran’s Shahed rewrote the rules of aerial warfare. Now, the US has its own copy of the cheap drones, LUCAS.

The world’s in a flux. India must reform, consolidate & build a strong economy

We now live in a world order that will keep shifting. India must use this window. This also means we remain disciplined enough not to be knee-jerked into reacting to what Pakistan sees as its moment in the sun.