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BHOPAL: The Madhya Pradesh units of both the BJP and the Congress have decided to initiate massive reforms in their respective organisations. The BJP has been asked by the RSS to apprise Congress leaders, who have joined the BJP, of the saffron party's style and culture.

OKEMAH (USA): The revolutionary spirit of Woody Guthrie permeates his birthplace of Okemah, Okla., where the 27th Annual Woody Guthrie Folk Festival was held July 10-13. There attendees celebrated Woody’s 112th birthday, and modern musicians added their voices to the folk canon. A sense of camaraderie flowed throughout the festival as musicians jammed long into the night and attendees engaged in conversation over shared meals.

Economic Survey 2023-24 does present a rosy picture of India’s growth story and recognizes the short-term prospect as good, but does not fail to flag several areas of concern that require clear forward-look vision for better prospect in the long term.

The Bharatiya Rashtra Samithi, formerly the Telangana Rashtra Samithi, sets itself apart from other declining political parties. Led by the ambitious K. Chandrasekhar Rao, or KCR, the party's national expansion has been marked by setbacks, including its failure to retain power in Telangana. This fate is shared by many political parties and their leaders, as most eventually fade away after holding power at a state or national level.

The battle for dominance between Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and his deputy Keshav Prasad Maurya, believed to be the protégé of the Modi-Shah duo, is only the prelude; the ‘big fight’ is between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat for the ‘Hindu Hridaya Samrat’ crown, though post Lok Sabha elections it will be intellectual dishonesty to think of Modi as a Hindutva icon. To a vast section of Hindus, Modi turned out to be a rolling stone who gathered no Hindutva moss.

The CEO of OLA, Bhavnish Aggarwal has endorsed a 70-hour work week call given by the Infosys founder Narayana Murthy some time back. He argues against the concept of work life balance saying that enjoyment of work naturally fosters happiness. Both of them are of the opinion that the 70-hour work week is important to build India as the largest economy and number one country in the world. This is not astonishing because primary motive of capitalism is profit. So they come out with several logics to prove their point including talking of pride in service to the nation. But hardly do they care about the basic needs of the workmen and their own responsibilities.

President Joe Biden has stood down and, in his stead, Vice President Kamala Harris will be Democrat candidate for the President’s post. And if she beats Donald J. Trump in November, Kamala will be laughing all the way to the White House. Harris’ defining tone is her trademark laugh and Kamala is a mix of African-American and Indian American. If elected President, Kamala Harris will be the first woman to break the glass ceiling.

Phenomenal rise in the use of smartphones in India has helped the people get everything on their fingertips. This has distracted youth and children from their main goal post of studies, pursuit of excellence in their higher education, turned youth unemployable, those in jobs inefficient and less and less productive, thus ruining their career prospects, as they become addict. In the process, lives of many children and youths are doomed, their families ruined as this has spread like viral.

Come July 23, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will be presenting the first-year budget of Prime Minister Modi’s third term. Finding herself at a pivotal juncture, she is tasked with crafting a budget that appeases coalition partners, addresses public discontent, and sustains economic growth, and her role assumes unprecedented complexity as she navigates the tightrope between political expediency and fiscal prudence.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) decided to pay a record dividend of Rs 2.11 lakh crore to the Union government for 2023–24. Last year it paid Rs 87,416 crore.