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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)
india news
Published on Feb 03, 2025 03:57 pm IST

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

Fact check: There were four working age adults per pensioner in 1961
world news
Published on Dec 07, 2024 01:03 am IST

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

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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
opinion
Published on Nov 16, 2024 04:58 pm IST

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

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What does the free food grain promise entail?
opinion
Published on Nov 10, 2023 03:46 pm IST

Raj laws can spur a new welfare model

PREMIUM
Rajasthan’s laws are a reminder of the centrality of social movements in shaping welfare.
opinion
Published on Jul 26, 2023 10:13 pm IST

Building an inclusive social safety system

PREMIUM
WSPR suffers from a measurement issue. In India, the size of the unorganised or informal sector is about 80%.
opinion
Published on Jul 20, 2023 10:19 pm IST

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
india news
Updated on Apr 12, 2023 11:13 pm IST

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)
others
Updated on Apr 07, 2023 02:16 pm IST

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.
india news
Updated on Apr 03, 2023 12:29 am IST

The draft STIP’s inclusion of LGBT and gender is welcome

The draft policy shows how inclusiveness follows from rationality and a scientific temperament; in its demand for an equitable representation of women, disabled persons and other social, regional and economically diverse groups, as well as its recommendation for spousal benefits for partners of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) persons, “irrespective of their gender”
editorials
Updated on Jan 03, 2021 10:07 pm IST

The post-Covid economic order

A man arranges earthen lamps during a nationwide lockdown in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, Kozhikode, April 4, 2020
editorials
Published on Apr 05, 2020 05:09 pm IST

How women are shaping political outcomes in India | Opinion

Arvind Kejriwal promised the creation of a welfare state in Delhi. This message resonated with women
columns
Updated on Feb 17, 2020 06:13 pm IST

‘Erasing the poor’: Pakistanis feel crunch of rising prices

Pakistan’s surging petrol prices have more than halved the income of taxi driver Yasir Sultan, just one of many consumers whose faith in a government elected last year on a pledge to help the poor has been shattered.
world news
Published on Apr 04, 2019 07:35 pm IST

Universal basic income idea gains political traction

On Tuesday, Congress president Rahul Gandhi put the idea on the forefront of the political agenda by promising a minimum income guarantee to the poor.
india news
Updated on Jan 30, 2019 08:24 am IST

Aadhaar for welfare schemes a ‘legitimate exercise’, says Supreme Court

The Supreme Court defined welfare schemes as only those funded directly from the “consolidated fund of India”, the main corpus of all revenues received by the government.
india news
Published on Sept 26, 2018 10:30 pm IST

Populism and talk of a welfare state will only get Khan so far and no more

Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan, speaks to the nation in his first televised address in Islamabad, Pakistan August 19, 2018
editorials
Updated on Aug 20, 2018 06:36 pm IST

Pakistan Election Results: Imran Khan vows to convert ‘lavish’ PM House in Pakistan into public space

Imran Khan said he will live humbly and promised to end VIP culture.
world news
Updated on Jul 26, 2018 11:48 pm IST
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