While alleging subversion of 'level playing field', Jairam Ramesh avoids pointed attack on EVMs, in contrast with approach after Congress's defeat in Haryana assembly elections.
Ajit-Pawar-led NCP had won 40 seats and was leading in one more as of 9 pm. Of 37 seats where the two factions faced each other, Ajit Pawar faction won 29.
JMM defector Champai Soren won the only ST seat for BJP in Jharkhand. Meanwhile, in Maharashtra, party looks set to win 10 ST seats, 2 more than in 2019 assembly polls.
Hemant Soren is another big winner, while biggest questions must be asked of Congress. A negative consequence is that freebies have now cemented themselves as an unassailable idea.
Congress oozed confidence after its solid show in LS polls. However, after Haryana & Maharashtra verdict, its authority as the leader of the INDIA bloc may be questioned.
Deora was chosen to contest from high-profile seat because Shinde did not want Thackeray to have a cakewalk, it is learnt. Thackeray's margin has come down drastically from 2019.
In the Congress stronghold, Rajesh Khandare from Shinde's Shiv Sena is in second position. Uddhav Thackeray had vowed to scrap the Dharavi redevelopment tender if he returned to power.
ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.
Bengaluru-based CeNS designs accurate, portable, and cheap sensor using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. It could significantly reduce risks at vulnerable choke points.
From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.
Nice to see the Congress getting shock treatment.