The idyllic surroundings of Balkote, just 1.5km from LoC, seem enchanting, but ask the locals, and they will tell you the reality of living along one of the world's most tense borders.
With eye on rural votebank, Telangana budget raises allocations for farmers, power & welfare schemes, while introducing new initiatives and relying on borrowings to fund growth.
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.
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