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HT This Day: February 4, 1959 -- President inaugurates Rourkela steel plant

HT This Day: February 4, 1959 -- President inaugurates Rourkela steel plant (HT)

Published 525 days ago

Fact check: There were four working age adults per pensioner in 1961

Fact check: There were four working age adults per pensioner in 1961

Published 584 days ago

Terms of Trade | What can the US election results teach India?

Donald Trump, from left, former US First Lady Melania Trump, and their son Barron Trump during an election night event at the Palm Beach Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Florida, US, on Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024.. Photographer: Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg

Published 605 days ago

Terms of Trade | Redistribution is dead, long live redistribution!

What does the free food grain promise entail?

Published 976 days ago

Raj laws can spur a new welfare model

Rajasthan’s laws are a reminder of the centrality of social movements in shaping welfare.

Published 1083 days ago

Building an inclusive social safety system

WSPR suffers from a measurement issue. In India, the size of the unorganised or informal sector is about 80%.

Published 1089 days ago

HT This Day: April 13, 1958 -- India’s biggest industrial estate at Okhla

HT This Day: April 13, 1958 -- India’s biggest industrial estate at Okhla

Updated 1188 days ago

HC rejects pleas of Goa casinos for fee waiver for Covid lockdown period

The court said the government’s position in a welfare state is comparable to that of parents. (Shutterstock)

Updated 1193 days ago

How some states deliver via bureaucratic norms

University of Oxford political scientist Akshay Mangla used the example of police officers seeking to enforce the rule of law on the streets as a classic illustration of the power of norms.

Updated 1198 days ago

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