State govt believes new facilities, infra push would transform Mangaluru & other coastal districts into the next 'high-growth corridor', allowing the region to realise its economic potential.
Karnataka govt’s ‘anti-communal force’ is yet to become operational, even as tensions in communally sensitive coastal regions remain dangerously close to spiraling out of control.
State Home Minister Parameshwara said the force will be constituted along the lines of 'anti-naxal force' & scour all platforms, speeches & social media, to identify provocative content.
Bajrang Dal, which Congress promised to 'ban' if voted to power, has presence in coastal Karnataka. The issue, though not a 'game-changer' will likely neutralise anti-incumbency in state.
The rise of Hindutva and Islamist forces, coupled with socioeconomic tensions, have turned Dakshina Kannada into an arena of what experts have called ‘competitive communalism’.
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.
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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