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Thursday, November 20, 2025
TopicXiaokang villages

Topic: Xiaokang villages

PCOs in 1990s to high-speed internet now—how India’s border regions transformed

In February 1994, I received a hotline call from then state home secretary Manish Gupta. He asked whether I, as Murshidabad DM, could quickly conceptualise a border area development scheme.

Arunachal’s Kaho is set to become India’s first vibrant village. But China is miles ahead

Beijing has completed construction of 624 modular border villages while India starts work on its first.

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Granta’s India issue goes into the heart of ‘vikas’. Restlessness written all over it

The Ramayana entering politics is not the collapse of reason alone; sometimes it is also the search for continuity in a decade that has moved faster than people can catch up with

At Charcha 2025: Local entrepreneurship, not just big IT, will drive next wave of distributed AI work

While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.

Drone manufacturer ideaForge wins orders worth over Rs 100 crore from Army

ideaForge has formed a joint venture to manufacture and market UAVs in the US. Its Q6 UAV is now included in NATO and allied procurement systems.

INDIA has a Congress-sized hole. And the fix begins with a little humility

Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.