Acharya, who holds an MBBS degree and lived in Singapore until the party announced her candidature, shot to prominence in 2022 when she donated one of her kidneys to her father.
Smooth sailing for Eknath Shinde in home turf Thane & son's seat Kalyan while 48 votes clinched win in Mumbai North West. Shiv Sena (UBT) leads in South & South Central Mumbai.
Election results showed psephologist’s prediction was wildly off the mark. Afternoon trends showed NDA was falling short of 300 seats, and BJP much lesser than the 303 it won in 2019.
Dimple secured nearly 6 lakh votes in Mainpuri, a seat she first won in a 2022 bypoll after Mulayam Singh Yadav's demise. Starting 1996, the SP founder won the seat five times.
Organisational infrastructure was limited in 2019 but today the party boasts of 1,005 mandals for 147 assembly constituencies, says state BJP leader Sajjan Sharma.
Gandhi now has tag of giant slayer as he had earlier defeated Kaur in 2014 parliamentary elections as AAP candidate. Outgoing MP is a member of erstwhile Patiala royal family.
The US and Israel’s assassinations of Iranian leadership ended up bestowing martyrdom on those killed. Shias saw the deaths as a continuity of martyrdom from the Battle of Karbala.
India’s fast-growing data centre sector may strain state electricity networks; Central Electricity Authority has urged Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu to boost capacity.
Theaterisation, which aims to divide the forces into three theatres with specific areas of responsibility, will become the single most far-reaching reform that the Indian military has witnessed since independence.
China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.
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