Welfare Net
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Beneficiaries welcome Telangana pension scheme for ‘helpless single women’
The state expects the scheme to cost it Rs 150 crores a year.
GS Radhakrishna
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India’s socio-economic census threatens to exclude crores of poor from social schemes
The census says 7 of 17 crore rural households face no 'deprivation' despite living in extreme poverty. If the government follows this definition, all these people will be left out of country’s social safety net.
Anumeha Yadav
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Modi's financial inclusion scheme gathers steam – but ignores lingering questions
The Centre is likely to pay life insurance premiums for the account holders, which will cost the exchequer up to Rs 1,125 crore.
Shibaji Roychoudhury
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We will leave India if told to break encryption: WhatsApp tells Delhi HC
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By mixing Carnatic and Hindustani, Mysore’s kings helped create a unique body of music
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‘Be freed from what holds you back’: Poems by Buddhist women from the Murty Classical Library
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Canada: Amid anti-immigration rhetoric, curbing international students is a knee-jerk reaction
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Yamini Aiyer interview: With jobless growth, welfare has become a ‘compensation’, not a public right