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Mumbai, Feb 25 (IANS) Municipal Commissioner Bhushan Gagrani on Wednesday presented the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) budget for the fiscal year 2026-27, proposing a total outlay of Rs 80,952.56 crore. The budget gives a major push to infrastructure development and technological advancement.This represents an 8.77 per cent increase over the previous year’s budget of Rs 74,427.41 crore.The budget marks a significant strategic shift toward long-term asset creation, with Capital Expendit…

Udaipur (Rajasthan), Jan 31 (IANS) The University Grants Commission’s (UGC) 2026 regulations aimed at “promoting equity” in higher education have come under sustained academic scrutiny, not only for their alleged vagueness but also for deep ‘internal inconsistencies’ that ‘risk excluding’ the very groups they claim to protect.An essay authored by IIM Udaipur professors Kunal Kamal Kumar and Gyanesh Raj argues that the regulations suffer from a serious lack of coherence — particularly in t…