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Sunday, April 28, 2024
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Topic: Maharashtra

2 more Maharashtra farmers sow GM cotton, say it’s their ‘civil disobedience movement’

Move by the two farmers, who are from Ahmednagar and Akola districts, comes 3 days after a huge protest in Akola against ban on GM seeds in India.

Furore over Pakistan’s ad on IAF pilot Abhinandan and Amit Shah ‘rewrites’ Gokhale’s remarks

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

My mother was wrongly jailed for ‘waging war’ on India. A professor with bad knees, no bed

Our Supreme Court sings paeans to the supremacy of ‘human liberty’. What good is ‘liberty’ if you have drained a human’s life even before a trial has begun?

When Shiv Sena’s Aditya Thackeray told Gurmehar Kaur he is a feminist

Even the self-defence classes we organise, I tell the girls that I’m embarrassed that we need to hold these classes, says Aditya Thackeray.

Congress-NCP could have won 7 more Maharashtra seats, but this party played spoilsport

Congress-led UPA could have scored 2 more seats in Vidarbha, 3 in western Maharashtra, and 2 in Marathwada, if not for Prakash Ambedkar’s VBA.

BJP-Shiv Sena’s massive win sweeps away bitterness, could help cement once-shaky alliance

Key to a happy alliance, though, will depend on how BJP accommodates Shiv Sena, the ally with second highest seats, in the union cabinet.

Raj Thackeray is the biggest loser in Maharashtra and he didn’t even contest elections

Raj Thackeray held rallies campaigning against Modi govt, but BJP-Shiv Sena has won in 8 of the 10 Maharashtra constituencies he addressed.

Exit polls show Shiv Sena is losing ground to BJP, will win fewer seats than its ally

Exit polls show Shiv Sena will manage a strike rate between 43.47% and 73.9% against BJP's 76% to 84%. Sena contested 23 seats, while BJP fought on 25.

Exit polls show BJP-Shiv Sena set to win Maharashtra again, but with fewer seats than 2014

BJP, Shiv Sena won 42 of Maharashtra’s 48 seats in 2014 Lok Sabha elections. This time, alliance is projected to win 37, says NDTV’s Poll of Polls.

Mumbai’s development body has I-T dues of Rs 8,000 crore. But it doesn’t want to pay

MMRDA was brought within the tax bracket in 2015. It’s now appealing against the tax, saying it doesn’t have a profit motive.

On Camera

America’s out-of-control militarised police forces are a threat to democracy

The world watched aghast as police armed with tasers, tear-gas masks—and in one case backed up by snipers—arrested hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters at universities across the United States.

Government allows export of onions to six countries, sets buffer stock target

The government had imposed an export prohibition in order to ensure adequate domestic availability of onions in the country.

Germany removes restrictions, India can now buy small arms from its firms

Germany’s erstwhile Christian Democratic Union govt, led by Angela Merkel, prevented sale of small arms to police forces in states they perceived had ‘bad human rights record’.

Frontrunner is letting the challenger define this poll campaign. Modi still hasn’t found a big theme

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.