'For the first time in this country, perhaps the first time anywhere, we are going to use backwardness index.''It is a fundamental shift in the discourse in the country's social justice.' IMAGE:......
While data can empower communities, it reinforces identities, making local politics more caste-centric, with decisions increasingly contested on the grounds of representation. Such dynamics could......
'Women' as a political constituency appears to be an idea that has come of age. It is changing India in ways that we only dimly understand, asserts Aditi Phadnis. Illustration: Dominic......
With students and the Telangana Non-Gazetted Officers Association calling for a bandh on Monday, the Centre is contemplating making Hyderabad a free zone. There has been a great deal of confusion......
'We don't have to go abroad for anything.''Anyone who thinks we have a lot to learn from the US needs to have his head examined.''We are in a new era.' IMAGE: President Droupadi Murmu and Prime......
'The top 10 per cent of the population should adopt and handhold the bottom 20 per cent of the population as a social responsibility.' IMAGE: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu......
Alloting more funds for MNREGA and PM-KISAN could wipe out the entire additional money that the Centre may have for FY25. IMAGE: Farmers harvest Calabash (bottle gourd) from a field at Bapora......
'We would like to develop Andhra Pradesh into a logistics hub not only for India, but also for South Asia.' IMAGE: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy meets business tycoon Mukesh......
'Over the next 20 years, we would be adding almost 10 million people to the workforce every year!''And we won't be able to give employment to even 2 million out of the 10 million every year.''Don't......
The country's per capita income is likely to grow by close to 70 per cent to $4,000 by fiscal 2030 from $2,450 in fiscal 2023, helping it become a middle-income economy with $6-trillion GDP, more......
IMAGE: Following her success at the Rio Olympics last year, the Andhra Pradesh Cabinet had passed a resolution on August 22, 2016, offering Sindhu a Group-1 (gazetted officer) post of her choice.......