Tuesday, 25 January, 2022
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Aadhaar, MGNREGA, DBT, rural housing — how Modi has hijacked Congress legacy

Ruhi Tewari -
Congress had kept the ingredients of a welfare structure ready. The Prime Minister mixed them together and added the Modi ‘tadka’ to sell them as his.

India has social schemes for poor in crises like Covid. But it needs a ‘who to pay’ database

Rajesh Bansal -
Large sections of India’s population are invisible to the state. That is why in crises like Covid and lockdown, we need one common social database.

India doesn’t want taali-thali charity from billionaires, it wants Socialist state to act

Jignesh Mevani -
Everyone becomes a Socialist in a pandemic. It’s time India realises billionaires aren’t the cure for coronavirus — the State is. 

Farm to health to education, Modi govt’s Budget has no clear vision for India’s social sector

Avani Kapur -
The Budget reverted to Modi government’s old avatar – a focus on infrastructure and a mission-mode model of meeting targets, this time for water.

State regulation in India – the art of rolling over rather than rolling back

Devesh Kapur -
Regulatory bodies were created to de-politicise decision making. But in India, something different has happened.

Maximum schemes, minimum welfare: How the Modi govt fell into the same trap as UPA

Yamini Aiyar -
‘Gareebon ka Neta’ Modi is going to go to the polls with exactly the same record that he accused the Congress-led UPA of: a polity of promises, and not performance.

‘The entire anti-poverty NGO industry has been Y2Ked by Aadhaar’

ThePrint Team -
Who is really affected by Aadhaar and who has a problem with it? Here's the full transcript of the live conversation with ThePrint's Editor-in-chief Shekhar Gupta on the subject

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Representative image of Army | ANI

Central Vista, old army uniforms—why this year’s Republic Day parade is a source of pride

Lt Gen Satish Dua (retd) -
Days of Mughal or British glory are over. Central Vista is Indian govt's modern structure, and uniforms are sources of pride.
Yogi Adityanath at Dalit homes. Dalit outreach is a farce

Not civil servants, engineers, or teachers, politicians always dine at poor Dalit homes

Why Federal Reserve will no longer have pandemic-era investors’ backs

Economy

A Chinese flag being raised in the Lujiazui Financial District of Shanghai | Photo: Qilai Shen | Bloomberg

India among Asian destinations for investors fleeing Chinese real estate debt crisis

Ameya Karve -
Both Goldman Sachs & CreditSights consider Indian companies attractive. While the first recommends high-yield renewables, the latter considers financial firms to well shielded here.

Defence

File photo of Scorpene-class submarine 'INS Vela', at the Naval Dockyard in Mumbai | ANI

Kamov choppers, submarine torpedoes among deals defence ministry will review this week

Snehesh Alex Philip -
Ministry is reviewing all procurement under the ‘Buy (Global)’ category, under which equipment is bought directly from foreign manufacturers, amid govt's 'Atmanirbhar' push.

National Interest

Modi vs non-BJP CMs: When most popular isn’t all-powerful & why Centre-state ties will worsen

Shekhar Gupta -
Modi’s inability to win many states, and the huge popularity his rivals enjoy there, is pushing Indian politics in a more robustly federal direction.

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