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Nationalist Congress Party president Sharad Pawar and some others in the party had forewarned then-Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray about a possible rebellion in his outfit Shiv Sena, but the latter was confident his MLAs will not take any extreme step, senior NCP leader Ajit Pawar has said. A section of MLAs of the undivided Shiv Sena, led by then-Cabinet minister Eknath Shinde, had rebelled against Thackeray’s leadership in June last year, leading to the collapse of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) coalition government. The rebel MLAs then teamed up with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to form a government under Shinde’s leadership. Ajit Pawar, asked by Lokmat Editor Sanjay Awate on Friday during an interview if those in the MVA government had any inkling about a rebellion brewing in the Shiv Sena, said they had clues about such a possibility much in advance and Thackeray was informed about it. “Pawar saheb (Sharad Pawar) himself had informed Thackeray. Pawar saheb had … [Read more...] about Sharad Pawar, Others in NCP Had Warned Uddhav About Shiv Sena Rebellion: Ajit Pawar

The Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), which are counted among the noted business schools in the country, have faced a budget cut this year with the Centre reducing their grant by half. The top institutes, however, believe that the move might hurt new IIMs but not the second or first generation IIMs. There are 20 IIMs across the country. In the budget for 2023-24 announced by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday, the funding for IIMs has been brought down to Rs 300 crore from the previous fiscal year’s Revised Estimate (RE) of Rs 608.23 crore, a 50.67 per cent drop, even when the net budget for the fiscal year 2023-24 rose by 8 per cent amounting to Rs 44,094 crores for the higher education sector. Read | IIT Madras to Receive Grant of Rs 242 Crore for Research on Lab Grown Diamonds According to the Budget Estimates (BE) for 2022-23, the IIMs were allocated an amount of Rs 653.92 crores. According to IIM Udaipur Director Ashok Banerjee, the … [Read more...] about Budget 2023: Grant for IIMs Reduced by Half, Top B Schools Say Centre Signalling to Be Self-reliant

No one should be surprised that telecommunications companies revved up opposition to the 2021 nomination of Gigi Sohn to the Federal Communications Commission. After all, Sohn was known as an effective critic of the industry’s monopoly power and a defender of the public interest. Nor was it surprising that the industry would attack Sohn with lies — after all, that’s what corporate lobbyists do for a living. So far, the industry has succeeded in tying up Sohn’s nomination for nearly two years. Thanks to Senate procedures, President Biden has had to submit her name three times, most recently in January, and she has received two hearings. The hold-up has prevented the FCC from addressing crucial issues because it’s locked in a 2-2 Democratic-Republican tie (with two Trump appointees); Sohn would give the body a 3-2 Democratic majority, enough to undo some of the anti-consumer steps undertaken under Trump’s chairman, Ajit Pai. Advertisement Democrats can’t claim to … [Read more...] about Column: The bogus, homophobic campaign against Biden’s stellar FCC nominee