Singur, which changed the course of West Bengal politics in 2006, is once again at the centre of a controversy 18 years later. Back then the question was about why set up industry on fertile agricultural land.

This comes after Syria’s government announced its first formal recognition of Kurdish national rights since 1946. 

​This comes after Syria’s government announced its first formal recognition of Kurdish national rights since 1946.  

The Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) and Raj Thackeray’s Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) combine had framed the BMC polls as a battle to “save the Marathi manoos and Mumbai, projecting the contest as both an assertion of regional pride and a referendum on the Thackeray legacy. ​The reunion of Uddhav Thackeray and Raj Thackeray after nearly two decades was billed as an acid test for the Thackeray brand.