Horizon 2047 signed during Modi's visit to France in July 2023 and the defence industrial roadmap during Macron’s visit to India in January 2024 guide the strategic bonhomie between the two countries.
In 2021, the government allowed telcos to convert interest on deferred spectrum payments and AGR dues into equity. This made it the single largest stakeholder in Vodafone Idea.
New Delhi has, in past, too, objected to Chinese construction activities in Shaksgam Valley. Work in this strategic region gathered pace after the 2017 Doklam stand-off.
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.
Since the days of Haji Mastan, Sukur naran Bakia, Yousuf Patel, and perhaps even before, Mumbai police has had the dubious having dalliance with the gangsters. Mumbai police has boasted of maximum number of encounter specialists too. Bollywood movies on Mumbai gangsterism were not totally fiction. As long as the police are ready to be the tool in the hands of the ruling politicians, their image can never improve. This is true in the rest of the country also.
Since the days of Haji Mastan, Sukur naran Bakia, Yousuf Patel, and perhaps even before, Mumbai police has had the dubious having dalliance with the gangsters. Mumbai police has boasted of maximum number of encounter specialists too. Bollywood movies on Mumbai gangsterism were not totally fiction. As long as the police are ready to be the tool in the hands of the ruling politicians, their image can never improve. This is true in the rest of the country also.