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Public financing is needed to narrow the gap in education between rural and urban India

August 29, 2025 4:29 pm

Scholarships and subsidies should be prioritised to reduce the overwhelming financial burden on households. Unchecked private coaching exacerbates inequalities and distorts learning priorities

In the demographic dividend conversation, India must include its villages

July 23, 2025 1:28 pm

To do so, we need a rural-first approach to population policy that puts people and their dignity at the centre

India's labour market challenges: addressing bonded labour, migrant worker welfare, and work culture.

The missing worker in the ‘work culture’ debates

February 28, 2025 5:19 pm

We need discussions on ‘work culture’ and ‘work hours’ for all workers, irrespective of caste, class, gender, or state

Tavleen Singh writes: India must not hesitate to confront some harsh truths

March 31, 2024 9:23 am

If the polls are right and Narendra Modi wins a third term, it could be because his vision of the future is that of a developed India by 2047.

The emergence of innovative new liquid fertilisers like Nano Urea and Nano DAP with the foliar application has generated the need for the development of an efficient fertigation system. (Express File Photo)

Why rural India needs women drone pilots

December 11, 2023 1:41 pm

The NAMO Drone Didi scheme can make this happen, helping women become the centre of economic activity and rural prosperity

Mobile app frauds increased in 2021, rural India an opportunity for app marketers: AppsFlyer report

February 11, 2022 7:22 pm

AppsFlyer launched the "State of App Marketing in India 2022 Report", highlighting the growth, challenges and opportunities of the Indian mobile app market in 2021. Here's what the report said.

Don't just raise minimum marriage age, also address lack of access to education, jobs: experts

December 19, 2021 9:09 pm

On December 15, the Union Cabinet cleared the proposal to raise the minimum age of marriage for women from 18 to 21 years.

As prices of fuel skyrocket, a Mexican company offers biogas as a clean alternative

October 24, 2021 8:01 am

Camilo Pages, co-founder of this enterprise, talked about the usage of fluid dynamics in their digester which makes it more efficient and long lasting than brick and mortar dome type reactors.

Average debt of farm households up 57% in five years till 2018

September 11, 2021 7:32 am

More than 50 per cent of the increase in income was on account of higher monthly wages, which almost doubled to 4,063 in 2018 compared with Rs 2,071 in 2013.