The royals have been in a similar position before. In the early 1990s, the disintegration of Charles's marriage to late Princess Diana, was played out in the full glare of the media.
Britain’s longest reigning monarch, who died Thursday, had visited India thrice in 1961, 1983 & 1997, with the last trip even causing friction between her & then UK PM Tony Blair.
The coronation ceremony of the new king will take some time; Britain will observe national mourning till a day after the Queen’s funeral on 19 September.
Following Princess Diana's lead and playing cricket in a salwar kameez is fine, but the Duke and Duchess have to do much more to compete with YouTube content creators.
For an industry globally classified as hazardous, protections such as health insurance and a provident fund for workers are necessities. In Sivakasi, they remain elusive.
The industry forecasts exports are set to grow 16% in 2025-26, boosted by surplus domestic production and a drive to push into 26 underserved global markets with strong potential.
Indigenisation level will progressively increase up to 60 percent with key sub-assemblies, electronics and mechanical parts being manufactured locally.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
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