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New Delhi: Indian compound men’s and women’s teams won bronze medals at the Archery World Cup stage 3 in Medellin, Colombia.

With issuance of notification by the Central Law Commission of India on June 14, 2023 soliciting views from the public and recognized religious organisations on Uniform Civil Code, the divisive politics of BJP-RSS clan has risen its head again, as usual, ahead of Lok Sabha elections 2024. Since the issue has always been seen sharply dividing all religious communities in the entire country, it is a bad omen for the country at a time when the very democracy has been subjugated by the Hindutva communal politics.

One thing is getting certain and certain as we get closer and closer to the general elections 2024. That is, the BJP will go to any extent to win elections. Who can forget the 2019 elections on the heels of the Balakote airstrikes; which had at its source, a bloody militant attack that left over 40 soldiers killed? And, now, the senseless Manipur killings. Of course, there wouldn’t be a surgical/air strike into Myanmar because the Manipur elections are over and done with, but the suspected “militants” have their tails up, brazenly alleging that they had the BJP’s back!

The BJP-led union government announced the minimum support prices (MSP) for the Kharif Season 2023-24 on June 7, 2023 claiming that “the move is to ensure remunerative prices to growers for their produce and to encourage crop diversification”. The MSP announced is neither fair nor remunerative; it belies the hopes of the farmers and inflicts huge losses in their incomes. Let alone encouraging crop diversification, it discourages farmers from investing in agriculture.

At a time when scams galore including cash for teaching jobs, coal and cattle smuggling is dogging Trinamool Congress, it has been gifted a brownie point in the form of an alliance between Left and Indian Secular Front before the panchayat elections in West Bengal. The TMC stands to gain from an almost inevitable division of Opposition votes as Congress, an electoral ally of the Left Front in the rural polls having nothing to do with this new alliance.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is visiting USA on a four day state visit beginning on June 21. He will discuss pending defence deals with the US President Joe Biden and the other senior policy makers during his visit including the summit with the US President on June 22.

There had been tall promises made by the RSS-BJP government as early as in 2019 to offer online infrastructure and Internet connectivity through the 'Digital India' programme with a vision to transform the country into a digitally-empowered society with a rich knowledge economy. It was to be ready for public access by 2022. More than half of 2023 is over, but country is yet to see the fulfilment of the ambitious goal.

New Delhi: Australia will begin their defence of the ICC World Test Championship (WTC) title in a series against England. The five-match Ashes series begins in Birmingham on Friday with Lord’s, Leeds, Manchester and The Oval hosting the remaining matches.

New Delhi: Teenager Aditi Gopichand Swamy with a score of 711 points out of 720 broke the Under 18 world record in the women’s compound qualification round at the Archery World Cup 2023 stage 3 in Medellin, Colombia.

So a Sena advertisement claims Eknath Shinde is the first choice of the people of Maharashtra for Chief Minister and Devendra Fadnavis is nowhere in the picture. The Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister’s face didn’t show on the advertisements which did not forget Modi’s picture. Is this a sign of a “raging feud” between Shinde and Fadnavis? Could it be that Shinde is all set for revolt, a ‘gharwapsi’ of sorts though Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut nipped that likelihood in the bud saying the Shinde Sena was now the “Modi-Shah Shiv Sena.”