NCLT on 6 September scrapped DPIL’s resolution plan for Lavasa and ordered fresh insolvency proceedings. DPIL blamed ‘a few corrupted homebuyers’ and ‘political pressure on banks’.
Delayed, erratic rains wreaked havoc on Haryana’s rice crops. With stubble-burning restrictions looming, many farmers are eyeing weather-resistant underground crops.
The moment the principle of letting the police kill anyone they claim is guilty is extended to the killing of middle-class people, the public response is suddenly very different.
The party had painted over its Marxist red with the colours of Sinhala ethnic nationalism. Tamils and Muslims were consigned to the margins of the JVP’s politics and cultural imagination.
Lines are often blurry as retired IPS officer says police & militancy exist within same classroom, family, sometimes within same person. 'It is not easy being police here,' he adds.
A year after Rajasthan’s 17 new districts were carved out, they’ve become a political battleground between BJP and Congress. But action on a review panel’s report still pending.
Consider Asha Bhosle and Kishore Kumar’s duet ‘Chhod Do Aanchal’. The sequence was set in a flower garden, and the girl’s bashfulness was not even remotely relatable to a cabaret dancer.
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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