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The Budget Speech and Documents aggravate the Modi Government’s lack of transparency on VB-GRAMG. In her 90-minute speech, the Finance Minister did not utter a single word on MGNREGA or VB-GRAMG. The Budget Documents also gave no indication whatsoever of where and when VB GRAMG is to be notified, what the state-wise “normative allocations” are likely to be, or how the transition from MGNREGA is to take place. This uncertainty and confusion are putting state governments in a difficult position, as they have to make plans in the dark, including significant budget allocations. Frontline functionaries are even more confused, not to speak of rural workers. The Central Government must end this opacity and reveal its plans for VB-GRAMG without delay.

Video by NewsMinute ---In this episode of Let Me Explain, Pooja Prasanna breaks down how the Sangh operates through schools, hostels, unions, media, and diaspora organisations, shaping communities and narratives both at home and abroad. For over a century, the RSS has operated not just as an ideological movement, but as a vast organisational network embedded in everyday life. From schools, hostels, labour unions, media houses, charities, and cultural forums, its reach extends into education, work, and communities

Radical Socialist stands in solidarity with the mass uprising in Iran against brutal state repression, and deteriorating national economic conditions triggered by the collapse of Iran’s official currency and skyrocketing inflation. The ongoing wave of protests began on 28th December 2025 in the Grand Bazaar within Tehran, and soon spread outside the national capital to all the total 31 provinces across Iran. Contrary to the disinformation propagated by Western media and Iranian state agencies, the protesters are primarily comprised of ordinary Iranian citizens who have generally been in the forefront of previous upsurges also.

Our attention is drawn to a vicious campaign of vilification and personalized attacks against Dr. Harini Amarasuriya, Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister and the Minister of Education.

statements from left parties and groups in India over the US intervention in Venezuela