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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Microcontrollers in EVMs, VVPATs do not recognise party and candidate, observes Supreme Court
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For better or for worse? Shifts in gender norms in India – in 12 charts
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What Sudhir Kakar (1938-2024) had to say on violence, secularism, and religion in India
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CAA is a letdown, but Bengali Hindus in Assam are unlikely to ditch BJP