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West Bengal Assembly Election 2026 Key Issues: Jobs distress, welfare politics and identity battles shape high-stakes TMC vs BJP contestWest Bengal Election 2026: West Bengal is voting in its 2026 Assembly elections. The political battle is intense, focusing on economic hard...
West Bengal polls: Coal economy, identity politics shape contest in Asansol DakshinAsansol Dakshin gears up for a crucial 2026 West Bengal assembly election. Key issues include the declining coal economy, illegal mining, a...
Bihar: Ashok Choudhary, Shreyasi Singh take charge as state ministersIn the wake of the NDA's impressive victory, fresh faces have stepped into significant roles within Bihar's government. Ashok Choudhary tak...
Urban movers, migrants & the Nepalese knot: Bihar's big deletions from draft electoral rollBihar's electoral roll sees a major revision. Over 65 lakh voters are removed during a special drive. Deletions are due to deaths, migratio...
Bihar-made locomotive engine to drive trains in South Africa: PM Modi on inauguration of development projects in SiwanPrime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated development projects worth Rs 5,735 crore in Siwan, Bihar, focusing on water, rail, and power sect...
Impact of COVID-19 curbs, reverse migration: Remittances fall up to 10% in 2 weeksMajor remittance companies said the rapid spread of Covid in urban areas and concerns over a total lockdown, as was the case last March, ha...
Indian automakers see increased sales in rural areas, fuelled by higher farm incomesSo, what's behind this new-found love for country roads? The second consecutive good monsoons have boosted rural incomes. And the automaker...
View: Migration, not MGNREGA, is India’s most successful anti-poverty programmeCensus data shows that individuals migrating for work rose from 30 million in 2001 to 41 million in 2011. This was the very period when Ind...
Poor migrants move to other rural areas, relatively well-off to urban, finds studyA study found that 78% of all individuals from rural Bihar went to an urban destination. However, those belonging to the top of the social ...
Interstate migration in India doubled between 2001-2011: WEFThe report further said in the Asian region, Pune and Surat have been named among the most affected cities, besides Guangzhou and Davao Cit...
Child Rights and You report: India will need 100 years to end child labourMore than half of working children in India are concentrated in 5 states namely Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Maharas...
37 lakh migrated for education within India in a decadeIn the last 10 years, a total of 37 lakh moved to get a degree, showing that a discouraging academic landscape near home is no longer keepi...
Jairam Ramesh hits out at Shiv Sena for 'regional chauvinism'Strongly supporting migration within the country, Ramesh said politics of regionalism is the "biggest barrier" to the process helping the n...
- As economy surges, TN’s green areas take on an urban shade
Tamil Nadu has seen a decadal rise of 4.4% in its urban population, according to provisional figures from the Directorate of Census Operati...
- Gujarat tops in pace of urbanisation
The latest National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) report, ‘Migration in India’ , has found Gujarat to have the highest rate of urbanisa...
- Bharat again pips India in FMCG consumption
By and large, rural demand has cruised ahead on higher prices of farm produce, loan write-offs and the government employment scheme under t...
- For an integrated rural-urban policy
Investment in rural India is crucial.