The Thapar clan has been among the elites of Punjab and then New Delhi, with familial connections to the Nehru-Gandhis and Khushwant Singh, among others.
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.
Siddharth Varadarajan and Karan Thapar are repeat offenders. They have maintained a sustained anti-India and anti-Hindu rhetoric all through and their journalism is simply about peddling a narrative – one manufactured by their ideological masters holding distinguished academic position in leading Western universities.
There are quite a few from the same cabal working at The Print itself (e.g. Shailaja Bajpai, Rama Lakshmi, etc.). No wonder The Print is so aggrieved at the FIRs against Siddharth and Karan.
Siddharth Varadarajan and Karan Thapar are repeat offenders. They have maintained a sustained anti-India and anti-Hindu rhetoric all through and their journalism is simply about peddling a narrative – one manufactured by their ideological masters holding distinguished academic position in leading Western universities.
There are quite a few from the same cabal working at The Print itself (e.g. Shailaja Bajpai, Rama Lakshmi, etc.). No wonder The Print is so aggrieved at the FIRs against Siddharth and Karan.