With several corporations throwing up fractured mandates & an intense tug-of-war for power, especially among Mahayuti allies, hectic parleys are on to stake claim to urban local bodies.
A former corporator from undivided Shiv Sena, Shrikant Pangarkar is one of 18 accused in the murder of journalist Gauri Lankesh. He was granted bail by Karnataka HC in 2024.
NCP leaders say BJP’s constant poaching of leaders from allied parties has also not gone down well with them. Polls to 29 municipal corporations will be held on 15 January.
The first corporation elections after the splits in the Shiv Sena and the NCP, the single-phase Maharashtra civic polls to test state-level alliances. BMC is the big prize.
Fifteen years since it contested its first BMC election, Raj Thackeray's MNS has been reduced to having just one seat each in the Mumbai civic body and Maharashtra assembly.
The problem, dear Ralph Lauren, is not your use of the jhumka, but your dismissal of its history. The list of stolen items is too vast to fight, but we haven't given up on acknowledgement.
In a first during his tenure as High Commissioner to India, Riaz Hamidullah addressed JOCAP consisting of tri-forces officers, as New Delhi & Dhaka step up normalisation efforts.
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.
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