Over 60% of Indian cities are left ‘orphaned’ without elected urban governments. Citizen groups, civic influencers, and informal ‘nagarsevaks’ are filling the gaps in Mumbai and Nagpur.
BJP fielded 395 Muslim candidates. Party now says community no longer harbours 'doubts' about them, while analysts say BJP has fielded Muslim candidates only in lower level of govt.
BJP leaders say this should be a wake up call for the party ahead of next year’s assembly elections, cite ‘infighting’ and ‘lack of management’ in handling of polls.
BJP & Asom Gana Parishad won 58 out of 60 wards in municipal polls held Friday after 9-year gap. Lurinjyoti Gogoi-led Assam Jatiya Parishad got 1 seat.
Opposition TMC and CPI(M) told a Supreme Court bench that its candidates and supporters are allegedly not being allowed to cast votes in the Tripura municipal polls Thursday.
CM Basavaraj Bommai and many senior leaders hail from Hubballi Dharwad, but BJP fell short of majority. It won Belagavi, while Congress finished first in Kalaburagi.
For an industry globally classified as hazardous, protections such as health insurance and a provident fund for workers are necessities. In Sivakasi, they remain elusive.
The industry forecasts exports are set to grow 16% in 2025-26, boosted by surplus domestic production and a drive to push into 26 underserved global markets with strong potential.
Indigenisation level will progressively increase up to 60 percent with key sub-assemblies, electronics and mechanical parts being manufactured locally.
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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