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Topic: Ujjwala scheme

Women voters in Madhya Pradesh want jobs, not sanitary napkins and cooking gas

Anirvan Chowdhury -
Madhya Pradesh revealed a fundamental disconnect between party perceptions and women voters’ expectations.

Nearly 400 districts will have city gas distribution facility in 2-3 years: PM Modi

PTI -
Modi also said the number of compressed natural gas stations will increase to 10,000 by end of this decade, which will also help reduce pollution.

Modi govt’s pet schemes have improved access to energy in 6 laggard states, survey finds

Priyamvada Grover -
32 million households from Bihar, Jharkhand, UP, MP, Odisha and West Bengal have got better access to energy than in 2015, says CEEW survey.

To solve Ujjwala refill problem, govt takes a leaf out of Sushma Swaraj’s book

Saubhadra Chatterji, HT -
The petroleum ministry will take help from the rural development ministry to use women’s self-help groups, gram panchayats etc to fix the issue.

The Rahul Gandhi Defence League is obsessed with the wrong problem

Shivam Vij -
In denial that Rahul Gandhi has an image problem, his supporters can’t see beyond Hindutva.
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Opinion

Mohan Bhagwat’s U-turn on ‘retire at 75’ is a Hindu succession problem

Shankar Sharan -
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat has backtracked on his retirement rules. The ‘75-year rule’ was applied selectively to sideline some leaders, but it doesn’t apply to the top brass.

With Param Sundari, the North-South divide is back

Why families keep killing wives, daughters—a silenced woman preserves honour

Economy

Easy loans, uneasy ‘debt traps’. Women harassed by private lenders ask ‘who will restore lost dignity?’

Heena Fatima -
A public meeting, where the women voiced their protest, took place this month in Delhi, grounded on the findings of an AIDWA survey, covering 9,000 women borrowers.

Defence

Post-Sindoor, joint doctrine tasks Special Forces with fighting info warfare & countering propaganda

Javaria Rana -
Joint Doctrine for Special Forces Operations, released Wednesday, also outlines plans for the future expansion of AFSOD and the creation of Joint Service Training Institutes.

National Interest

That Oval Office picture for ages deserves closer Indian reading, with a geopolitical lens

Shekhar Gupta -
Putin sees this as a victory. Europeans have decided to deal with Trump on his terms for the sake of the larger Western alliance. We look at the lessons for us in India.

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