The government has extended the tenure of Chief of Defence Staff Gen Anil Chauhan up to May next year.
Shiv Sena patriarch Bal Thackeray on Friday attributed the party's poor show in the Maharashtra assembly polls on the young generation's 'ignorance about the travails' the party has gone through for the state. "The young generation is a stranger to the history of Maharashtra and the Sena's fight for the Marathi cause. They have ruined Marathi unity in just a day," Thackeray rued in an editorial in party mouthpiece 'Saamna'.
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Naravane's appointment has been cleared at the highest level, adding the government has followed the principle of seniority in the appointment.
This is the first time that a retired officer has been appointed at this position for which a gazette notification was issued to announce the change in rules for the appointment.
'Many resignation dramas are played out to make others realise one's importance, but Sharad Pawar would not play such petty games.'
The 36 new ministers included 10 cabinet and four ministers of state (MoS) of the NCP, eight Cabinet and four MoS of the Sena, and eight Cabinet and two MoS of the Congress.
Sharad Pawar reckons that the NCP has value as a united, going concern, not as a gaggle of leaders in search of followers, notes Shreekant Sambrani.
The cross-country foot march stayed in the news almost right through, mostly for the barbs between the BJP and the Congress and occasionally for other reasons, including infighting in the opposition party.
The 29-year-old next-gen Thackeray, whom his party wants to be the deputy chief minister in the BJP-Sena alliance government, won with a thumping majority from Mumbai's Worli constituency.
'To them, the day may not be far off when the state BJP starts claiming and propagating that Modi is next only to AIADMK's late boss Jayalalithaa,' says N Sathiya Moorthy.
Hours after 21 ministers took the oath of office and became a part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ministry, speculation began on which minister would be handed which portfolio. However, all speculation ended after the list was announced.
"Each soldier was my brother in arms.' 'We fought together and achieved glory for India.' 'We fought on with only one thing in the mind -- that that this is a national battle and we must not let the Pakistanis get the better of us,' says Major General Shamsher Singh, who was awarded the Mahavir Chakra for fighting in one of the bloodiest battles the Indian Army has ever waged.
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