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TopicDevendra Fadnavis

Topic: Devendra Fadnavis

Maharashtra Budget: Fadnavis hands farmers another loan waiver even as 6 lakh await benefits of 1st one

Other key promises in the budget include AI- and other technology-enabled services for farmers and continuation of the Ladki Bahin Yojana, which will have the same outlay. 

6 yrs after writing ‘Budgets Made Easy’, Fadnavis delivers his 1st, dedicating it to late deputy Pawar

His very first budget laid strong emphasis on capital expenditure & infrastructure development, his goal of making Maharashtra a five-trillion dollar economy by 2047, and ensuring fiscal discipline.

Rs 47,000 cr push for Mumbai infra as MMRDA tables first surplus budget in nearly a decade

With focus on big-ticket infra projects including Metro rail and tunnels, the MMRDA budget also laid emphasis on decongestion under ‘Mumbai 3.0’ vision.

BJP cements rural grip in Maharashtra in zilla parishad & panchayat polls, allies not far behind

BJP emerges as the single largest party in Maharashtra's rural polls, but analysts see strong performances by Shinde Sena and NCP as a warning for BJP's plans to go solo in 2029.

Sharad Pawar back in game as NCP merger talks turn into bout between Baramati patriarch & Fadnavis

By criticising Union Budget, raising concerns over India-US trade deal, Sharad Pawar asserted that despite prior talks of an NCP merger, he remains firm in his opposition to NDA.

‘A good friend, a great leader of the masses’—Fadnavis pays tribute to his deputy Ajit Pawar

Three days of state mourning in Maharashtra. Fadnavis and Shinde headed to Baramati to meet the Pawar family.

Dhurandhar Devendra, indispensable Shinde & dejected Pawar—Mahayuti’s equation post-civic poll results

Mumbai: After dominating the municipal council polls across the state, the Mahayuti and, especially, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) further strengthened its presence in urban...

‘Why marker pens in BMC polls?’ Voters, opposition complain ‘indelible’ ink getting erased, CM responds

Poll body releases statement saying that it is wrong to erase ink & confuse voters. Fadnavis, meanwhile, says some people were preparing to blame something for the poll results.

In Saamana interview, Thackeray cousins warn of a ‘North Indian mayor’ & a ‘helpless Marathi manoos’

Before the local polls in Mumbai, Raj and Uddhav, in an interview for the Uddhav-led Sena mouthpiece Saamana, recall the late Raj Thackeray's aspirations when he founded the Sena.

Inaugural flight lands at Navi Mumbai airport, but demand for its naming after DB Patil yet to settle

Daughter-in-law and grandson of the late farmer leader were among passengers of the flight from Bengaluru that landed Thursday at the newly inaugurated airport.

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Indian welfarists destroyed right to property by guaranteeing rights to life, liberty

A welfare state grows out of mutual co-operation and spontaneity, not through measures thrust forcibly upon the masses, wrote G Jayachandran in 1959.

Maharashtra Budget: Fadnavis hands farmers another loan waiver even as 6 lakh await benefits of 1st one

Other key promises in the budget include AI- and other technology-enabled services for farmers and continuation of the Ladki Bahin Yojana, which will have the same outlay. 

Iranian naval ship Lavan with crew of 184 docked in Kochi same day US torpedoed IRIS Dena

IRIS Lavan was in the region for the International Fleet Review held last month and ‘sought urgent docking in Kochi citing technical issues,’ it is learnt.

Trump brings the Age of Humiliation for friends. Modi needs stoicism abroad, humility at home

Trump has ushered in the age of humiliation. His method is to push around America’s friends rudely and publicly. He knows none of them can afford to fight back.