In surprise move, Shiv Sena (UBT) fields Thackeray’s close aide Milind Narvekar. MVA has 3 candidates in the fray, but only enough numbers to win 2 seats. 11 seats go to polls on 12 July.
This comes weeks after oppn alliance registered big wins in LS polls and when assembly elections are months away. Another litmus test on 12 July as 11 more MLC seats go to polls.
Voting underway for Mumbai Graduates, Mumbai Teachers, Nashik Teachers and Konkan Graduates constituencies. A total of 4.29 lakh people will determine the fate of 55 candidates.
Uddhav Thackeray challenges Modi directly, says NDA would soon be replaced by INDIA, while CM Eknath Shinde says Thackeray faction’s euphoria over LS polls victory will be ‘short-lived’.
Shiv Sena (UBT) has called its candidate Amol Kirtikar's defeat 'very suspicious' & alleged 'misuse of the system'. Shinde-led Sena says the Opposition is unnecessarily crying foul.
Shinde-led Sena has emerged as a player BJP can't dominate. Meanwhile, Congress’s performance will now give it greater bargaining power within Opposition MVA with Shiv Sena (UBT).
Smooth sailing for Eknath Shinde in home turf Thane & son's seat Kalyan while 48 votes clinched win in Mumbai North West. Shiv Sena (UBT) leads in South & South Central Mumbai.
A Shinde Sena leader has called for MP Gajanan Kirtikar’s expulsion for 'undermining party’s interests' & supporting his son, a candidate from Shiv Sena (UBT). Gajanan has denied this.
Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, earlier Aurangabad, is seeing motley mix of push and pull factors: demand for Maratha quota, clash between Senas, VBA & overhang of change in city's name.
The question is no longer whether India can create fast tracks. It already has. The question is whether the main track—and the regulators who feed into it—can be fixed.
As Visakhapatnam readies a mega airport, the Andhra Pradesh government has revived its shelved Dagadarthi project, aiming to boost cargo and connectivity on the south coast.
Both the Russian and Ukrainian militaries are leaning on drones, but they’re also firing cruise and ballistic missiles, some of them relatively new and experimental.
UK, EFTA already in the bag and EU on the way, many members of RCEP except China signed up, and even restrictions on China being lifted, India has changed its mind on trade.
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