The charismatic Pita had led pre-election opinion polls as Thailand's top choice for PM but faced a host of legal & legislative challenges that he maintains were orchestrated to keep him from power.
Pita has a mountain to climb and hit his first of a series of expected hurdles when political rivals challenged his re-nomination, arguing parliament had already declined to endorse him.
The poll body said it found merit in a complaint alleging Pita was unqualified to run for the election because of his ownership of shares in a media company in violation of electoral rules.
Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma's Hindu-Muslim polarisation is clearly done to maximise the odds of winning. But an important legal question is: does it expose him to legal liability?
FY 2022-23 was the first normal economic year in recent years, said Saurabh Garg, Secretary of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, in an interview with ThePrint.
The 7 February incident involving Tejas aircraft caused severe damage to its frame. IAF and HAL are working together as part of the Board of Inquiry (BoI) to probe the incident.
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