Amit Shah targets Lalu’s family
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday unleashed a no-holds-barred attack on the family of RJD supremo Lalu Prasad, claiming that his son Tejashwi Yadav’s “favourite” CM is MK Stalin, whose party DMK “insults Biharis by comparing them with bidis ”.
He also accused Congress leader Sonia Gandhi and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of maintaining silence over repeated attacks by Pakistani terrorists during the UPA regime and claimed that “they did not have the courage to retaliate or even issue a statement against terrorism”.
“Someone asked Lalu’s son — who is his favourite CM? He said DMK’s (MK) Stalin, who is Tamil Nadu’s CM. Do you know who he is? I will give his (Stalin’s) introduction. His party compares Biharis with ‘Bidis’. His party insults Biharis and disgraces them. Tejashwi’s favourite is this CM,” Shah claimed at a Bhagalpur rally. The BJP leader also alleged that Stalin’s party “insults Sanatan Dharma, opposes creation of Ram Temple”.
Please tighten your seatbelts
It sounds both mysterious and mystifying. Here is a company that controls more than 60 per cent of the domestic market share. There are agonised postings on social media of how it charges sky-high rates for some simple services, possibly due to its near-monopoly status. How can such a company incur huge quarterly losses regularly? Yes, we are talking about IndiGo, “India’s largest and most preferred passenger airline, and among the fastest-growing airlines in the world.” In Q2-FY26 (July-September), it incurred a net loss of more than Rs 2,500 crore, which was more than two-and-a-half times the loss figure (just under Rs 1,000 crore) in Q2-FY25.
World leaders gather in Brazil
As world leaders head to a second day of climate talks being hosted in Brazil, a major proposal to protect tropical forests worldwide is sure to be a major topic of discussion. Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Thursday sought to mobilise funding to halt the ongoing destruction of tropical rainforests and advance the many unmet promises made at previous summits. He’s proposing a fund called the Tropical Forests Forever Facility that would pay 74 developing countries to keep their trees standing, using loans from wealthier nations and commercial investors. Financed by interest-bearing debt instead of donations, it aims to make it more lucrative for Governments.
