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Friday, August 8, 2025
TopicSwachh Bharat

Topic: Swachh Bharat

Like Swachh Bharat, Modi wants mission Save Water. Stop free water first

Nitin Pai -
If a commodity is under-priced, like water, it will be overused. Sell petrol for Rs 10 per litre tomorrow and more vehicles will be on the road.

Modi govt’s Swachh Bharat shows why switching to ‘mission mode’ is helping India

Reva Abrol -
From funding flexibility to faster outcomes, government service delivery works better if it is implemented in mission mode and not as a programme.

Modi govt wants IIMs to study, improve flagship schemes like Swachch Bharat and Jan Arogya

Kritika Sharma -
HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal has asked all IIMs to select one government scheme, review it and then give recommendations to improve it.

BJP manifesto is high on output, low on outcomes, and pays little attention to policy

TN Ninan -
The manifesto shows Modi’s approach to development: Output is the number of Jan Dhan accounts opened, outcome the number of transactions taking place in them.

Media positive on BJP’s poll budget bonanza

Shailaja Bajpai -
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Maharashtra civil servants will be judged on how well they implement Modi schemes

Manasi Phadke -
The urban development department under CM Devendra Fadnavis has set KRAs for tasks such as Swachh Bharat & Smart Cities mission.

This Indore IAS officer has a solution for India’s garbage problem

Sanya Dhingra -
Asheesh Singh, the Indore municipal commissioner, was behind efforts that cleared 13 lakh tonnes of refuse in just six months through bio-mining. 

Meet the pioneers who are helping the disabled watch movies, get jobs

Deeksha Bhardwaj -
Nipman Foundation awards YouTube channel for the deaf, app that helps blind watch films. 

Use of public toilets costs slum dwellers 104 times what those with own toilets spend

Fatima Khan -
Study suggests the high user charges are undermining the benefits of the Modi government’s flagship Swachh Bharat Abhiyan.

Modi’s rule hasn’t been good for India, he has failed electorate: Manmohan

PTI -
Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh alleged that under the present government, the environment in universities and national institutions like the CBI was being vitiated and dissent stifled.
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Opinion

US has misread India. New Delhi will hedge, push back, and assert

Shishir Priyadarshi -
India’s foreign policy today is driven less by Western alignment or global liberalism and more by domestic political imperatives — economic, ideological, and electoral.

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

Economy

Smartphones, gems, pharma: Which Indian exports will be worst hit by Trump tariffs, which will be spared

Keshav Padmanabhan -
Electronics—specifically smartphones—& energy & pharma products make up 30% of Indian exports to US. 25% tariff on India came into effect Thursday, extra 25% to kick in by August-end.

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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