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1 week ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Ilangovan Rajasekaran |Vaishna Roy |Deepanshu Mohan
Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw announced on April 30, 2025, that the Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs had approved the inclusion of caste enumeration in the next population census. The announcement marks a reversal of the current administration’s position since the BJP has never shown any interest in conducting a caste census. The opposition, on the other hand, especially Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, has been demanding a caste census for some time now.
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3 weeks ago | 
thewire.in | Deepanshu Mohan |Ankur Singh
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1 month ago | 
thequint.com | Deepanshu Mohan |Ankur Singh
An Indian worker already clocks an average of 46.7 hours per week—a number much higher than the US, the UK, and even China. And yet, India’s labour productivity stands at a meagre $8 per hour, which is dwarfed when compared to the UK’s $56.9 or Germany’s towering $73.05. What makes this disparity even starker is that while India’s corporate profits soared by an astonishing 22.3 percent in financial year 2023-24, employment has barely risen by 1.5 percent, according to the Economic Survey 2024-25.
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1 month ago | 
m.thewire.in | Deepanshu Mohan
Despite Trump's promises, economic nationalism has neither made America great nor uplifted struggling communities. Instead, it has widened inequalities, destabilised global trade and pushed the world toward a more divided economic order – one where the marginalised suffer the most.
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1 month ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Divya Gandhi |Vaishna Roy |Deepanshu Mohan
TradeThe clock is ticking down on US President Donald Trump’s planned imposition of “reciprocal tariffs” on trade partners from April 2. There is no credible indictment yet of Trump’s masterclass on how to misuse a potentially effective trade policy tool. In the grand theatre of economic policy, tariffs have been both the hero and villain, helping build empires in one era and plunging nations into crisis in the next.
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2 months ago | 
thewire.in | Deepanshu Mohan |Ankur Singh
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Feb 8, 2025 | 
thequint.com | Deepanshu Mohan |Ankur Singh |Najam Us Saqib
The last-minute tax breaks for the middle class swung the fence-sitter voters in Delhi toward BJP, sealing its win. For the first time in more than 27 years, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is poised to break its long poll exile in the national capital, sweeping to power in more than 40 seats.
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Feb 6, 2025 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Ankur Singh |Soni Mishra |Vaishna Roy |Deepanshu Mohan
A close look at the budgetary numbers offers critical insights into government spending in two vital areas: education and health. Schools across the country remain underfunded, with many lacking even basic infrastructure. The crisis is so severe that the suicide rate among students has now surpassed that of farmers, a grim reflection of the pressure and neglect in the education sector.
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Feb 6, 2025 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Ankur Singh |Soni Mishra |Vaishna Roy |Deepanshu Mohan
In the recent Union Budget, the BJP government has once again paraded its so-called achievements in the Budgetary announcements—billions allocated, millions covered, and proclamations of “Viksit Bharat” (Developed India) by 2047. But beyond the glossy numbers, the core welfare schemes of this administration—PM-KISAN, PM-GKAY, and Ayushman Bharat—are themselves not testaments to success but glaring reminders of failure.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
thequint.com | Deepanshu Mohan |Ankur Singh
As Delhi gears up to vote on February 5th, the political stakes couldn’t be any higher for the incumbent Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) contesting against its principal rival, the BJP. For AAP, this particular election is more than just another assembly poll. With its leader, Arvind Kejriwal along with other key state party leaders battling alleged corruption charges, Kejriwal’s AAP is gambling its political legacy testing its popularity against a leaderless BJP (when viewed from Delhi’s electoral scene).
