Shinde, Fadnavis & Ajit Pawar met late Tuesday. While Pawar insisted on finance, energy, irrigation & cooperation, the other two are unwilling to part with their offices, it is learnt.
In closed-door meet with top state leaders including CM Chouhan, Bhupender Yadav & Ashwini Vaishnaw, Shah asked all ‘power centres’ to put aside egos & be more 'aggressive', it is learnt.
Though it came a distant second to TMC, the party improved on its 2018 performance, but has lost support in its strongholds of north Bengal and tribal seats in Jangal Mahal area.
Six Rajya Sabha seats from West Bengal will go to polls on 24 July, along with 3 in Gujarat and 1 in Goa. Bypoll to be held in one more RS seat in Bengal.
Elections to the violence-hit 3-tier rural councils – the gram panchayats, panchayat samitis and zila parishads – were held on 8 July and counting began on the 11th.
Counting was underway at 339 counting centres for 63,229 gram panchayat seats following which counting will begin for 9,730 panchayat samiti seats and 928 zilla parishad seats.
Minorities form chunk of Kerala population, with Muslims & Christians comprising 26% & 18% respectively. State goes to polls next year, has no representative in Lok Sabha at present.
India will need to recalibrate crude sourcing strategy as US ends waivers for Russian & Iranian oil, energy experts say. But Russian crude will likely remain central to energy basket.
This special edition of Cut The Clutter, straight from the Siliguri corridor, details the strategic importance of the narrow strip of land in West Bengal, and how it’s a vital link connecting the Northeast to the rest of India.
We now live in a world order that will keep shifting. India must use this window. This also means we remain disciplined enough not to be knee-jerked into reacting to what Pakistan sees as its moment in the sun.
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