Raking up the Finance Commission controversy, Naidu said although the southern states had successfully controlled population growth, he was now ‘encouraging people in his state to have more children’.
At a three-day conclave, TDP passes a resolution saying regional parties have an understanding that they will come together to protect interests of the states.
Naidu has termed his fast ‘dharma porata deeksha (struggle for justice)’. A day before, he told his cabinet colleagues at a meeting, ‘This is just the beginning. The protest should continue.’
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.
These are issues for lawyers to argue over, judges to adjudicate upon. Beyond the written letter of the law – some years ago, the Gauhati High Court struck down the legal charter of the CBI – there are courtesies, conventions, mutual accommodation between Delhi and the states, many of which are ruled by opposition, including regional, parties. Statesmanship is required to sustain cooperative federalism. A constant state of war, continuing forward the polemic and elevated political contestation of an election campaign diminishes the overall capacity of the system to deliver governance and growth.
These are issues for lawyers to argue over, judges to adjudicate upon. Beyond the written letter of the law – some years ago, the Gauhati High Court struck down the legal charter of the CBI – there are courtesies, conventions, mutual accommodation between Delhi and the states, many of which are ruled by opposition, including regional, parties. Statesmanship is required to sustain cooperative federalism. A constant state of war, continuing forward the polemic and elevated political contestation of an election campaign diminishes the overall capacity of the system to deliver governance and growth.