'The jobless armies of youthful India are getting angrier and desperate,' warns Shekhar Gupta.Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com Brand guru Alyque Padamsee had a favourite boast: Clients ask me......
Acute shortage of labour and migration towards social schemes like Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) and Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA), a......
Development of 100 smart cities and housing for all by 2022 were the mantra of Ministry of Urban Development and Housing and Poverty Alleviation in 2014. With the NDA government replacing......
Official data show as of 2012, of the 49 schemes and institutes named after eminent personalities, 16 were after former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, five after Indira Gandhi, and two after......
Right now the challenge before the government is to double the speed of construction in order to complete the remaining 6.6 million houses before March 2019. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com......
The proliferation of schemes is a result of the competitive populism that underlies political rivalries in India, notes Nitin Desai. Many years ago there was a popular song from an American musical......