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Thursday, November 6, 2025
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Topic: MPLADS

Like Patel, Bose, Nehru, Indian MPs & MLAs must start at the bottom: in civic, panchayat bodies

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.

Sonia Gandhi asks Rae Bareli DM to use her remaining MPLADS funds to help Covid-hit people

The Congress leader authorised the DM to use an amount of more than Rs 1.17 crore is pending in her Member of Parliaments Local Area Development Scheme fund.

Govt wants MPs to buy stubble machines with funds from suspended MPLADS to tackle pollution

In a letter to MPs, government makes clear no fresh funds will be released until 2022 and puts a cap of Rs 25 lakh per annum per constituency for the purchases.

Suspending MPLADS funds for coronavirus crisis is another stab at Indian democracy

If the Modi govt needs more funds to fight Covid crisis, it can suspend Rs 20,000-crore Central Vista project or Rs 25,000-crore Parliament project. India needs MPLADS.

Vijay Mallya escaped because of privileges given to MPs, says Information Commissioner

M. Sridhar Acharyulu says Vijay Mallya could flee because of the high degree of “criminal immunity” he enjoyed as MP.

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Indians have a complicated relationship with Zohran Mamdani

Mamdani’s politics feels unusual compared to India’s current climate. He unapologetically foregrounds Muslim identity at a time when doing so in India invites scrutiny.

What does NCLAT order mean for data-sharing ban, penalty imposed by CCI on Meta & WhatsApp

On 4 November 2025, NCLAT bench, comprising Chairperson Justice Ashok Bhushan and Member Arun Baroka, noted that WhatsApp and Meta are distinct legal entities.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.