Madhavankutty Pillai
Maharashtra’s budget scrambles to fill the hole left by an election sop
Karnataka BJP has made a provocative statement, drawing parallels between DKS and Maharashtra’s Shiv Sena breakaway leader Eknath Shinde
The clash between the arch rivals in cricket will be a sell out with every seat at the Dubai International Stadium, where the expatriates will shell out thousands of Dirhams and create an electrifying atmosphere
Maharashtra makes a questionable nutritional decision by removing eggs from the mid-day meal scheme
The idea is to reduce footfalls at Mantralaya as also to rein in middle-men, who tend to approach ministers for favours like transfers of officials or to bag contracts
Hereon, BJP’s emphasis will be upon Ajit Pawar as politics will revolve around whether the Congress is able to counter him in the Marathwada regions of the state
A year of many elections saw India’s freebie fetish push state-level expenditures beyond margins of safety
The Election Commission might protest that that the shrill assault on EVMs undermines faith in the machines
Balasaheb Thackeray’s Shiv Sena has passed into the hands of Eknath Shinde