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Modi 3.0 budget has a socialist headline, nuclear fine print

It is easy to beat up on the corporates. But a society that does not give its entrepreneurs, wealth- and job-creators love and respect, is doomed to be frozen in a low-middle-income hole. That’s where India is now located. If it has to reach middle-income status in the next 15-20 years, a lot of Indians will need to work very long and productive hours. Watch this week's #NationalInterest with ThePrint Editor-in-chief Shekhar Gupta----more----Read this week's National Interest here: https://theprint.in/national-interest/in-defence-of-murthy-subrahmanyan-success-isnt-9-to-5-and-no-ones-forcing-you-to-work-longer/2473317/----more----Watch ‘How Long Can You Stare At Your Wife?’ here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KuAqe6_BtI

What’s the row over Sonia Gandhi’s remarks on President Murmu? 

If the resurgence of Hindu consolidation results in ritualistic congregations of huge magnitude without discipline, accidents are bound to happen. Devotees need to be trained in crowd management.

The liquidity in India’s financial system has connections to the RBI’s monetary policy as well as Budget 2025. Watch as Economist Radhika Pandey and Deputy Editor TCA Sharad Raghavan deconstruct this in ThePrint #MacroSutra.----more----Read this week's MacroSutra here: https://theprint.in/macrosutra/why-indias-liquidity-management-framework-requires-a-thorough-review/2470309/

Jharkhand Police say cyber crime module, run by school dropouts using AI tools & YouTube tutorials, defrauded nearly 3,000 mobile users of Rs 12 crore and is linked to over 500 cases.----more----https://theprint.in/india/cyber-crime-as-a-service-with-after-sale-support-inside-dk-boss-gangs-cyber-crime-module-in-jamtara/2469775/

Court says that the registration authority set up will also address grievances of live-in partners, especially issues concerning children born from such unions.----more----https://theprint.in/judiciary/rajasthan-hc-calls-for-legislation-on-live-in-relationships-directs-registration-by-govt-authority/2469665/

On January 20, 2025, two Indian courtrooms separated by 2,500 kilometres, delivered two widely diverging verdicts. Both the judgments – the life sentence awarded to Sanjoy Roy in the brutal rape and murder of a doctor at the RG Kar Medical College, and the death penalty for S.S. Greeshma in the Sharon Raj murder – “feel” wildly dissatisfying. The parallel narratives — one of institutional violence, another of intimate violence — force us to confront uncomfortable questions. Both the RG Kar and Sharon Raj verdicts reveal a need for neat narratives, for monsters we can identify and eliminate by sending our problems to the gallows. But violence rarely announces itself with such clarity. When we reduce justice to a spectacle — whether through public bloodlust or performative celebration — we dodge the harder questions about why women’s bodies remain battlegrounds… and why their choices invite harsher judgment than their violation," says Karanjeet Kaur, journalist and former editor of Arré, in this week's column ----------------------------------------------------------------