Once passed, the bill will benefit 550 former MLAs in the state where pensions are already the highest in the country – over three times that of MPs – and will cost the exchequer Rs 55 lakh a year,
Efforts were made by Nath camp to get support of 23 MLAs so that anti-defection laws don’t apply to them, party insiders claimed. Congress has 66 seats in 230-member Assembly.
Resistance to decentralisation does not come much from All-India Service officers but from state-level political leadership who know their powers of patronage will be curtailed.
The baseless claim of Arunachal Pradesh as 'Southern Tibet' cropped up once again when an Indian national was harassed by Chinese immigration officials at Shanghai Airport.
Once acquired by IAF, the medium transport aircraft (MTA) will replace both AN-32s and IL-76s, it is learnt. The idea behind the revamp is to meet modern operational needs.
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.
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