Chief Economic Advisor V Anantha Nageswaran on Wednesday said US tariffs-related challenges will dissipate in the next one or two quarters, and urged the private sector to do more as the country navigates through other longer-term challenges.

Breaking his silence after a furore over some civic bodies in Maharashtra asking meat shops and slaughterhouses to remain shut on Independence Day, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has said the order is not new and has been in place since 1988.

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi has alleged some BJP MPs threatened him he would “meet the same fate” as his grandmother, former prime minister Indira Gandhi, for his remarks against Vinayak Damodar Savarkar during the ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ in 2022.