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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.

June 3 won’t be a date that many in the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) will want to remember for very long. For months, the anti-migration hardliner Hans Peter Doskozil had launched attacks on the party’s sitting leader, Pamela Rendi-Wagner, before achieving his aim of forcing a leadership election. After weeks of campaigning, two final candidates remained. Doskozil made it to the final round, promising a tough migration policy to reclaim votes from the Right.

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.”

In the first eight years under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India witnessed more than double the number of bank frauds. The first half of the ninth year, number of frauds rose even more sharply compared to the corresponding months of the eighth year. Now in the tenth year, when Lok Sabha elections are only 10 months away, the fraudsters are being allowed compromise settlement and even fresh loans in the ‘interest of public’ rather than much desired actions against the swindlers of bank moneys and conniving bank officials.

The heavy impact of the disclosures made by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey about alleged armtwisting by the Modi government to force the microblogging giant to block criticism of the government in connection with the farmers agitation has overshadowed the disastrous data leak relating to Covid vaccination. The latest controversy has taken the spotlight away from the CoWin breach, which nevertheless would have continued implications for the people of India.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Habits die hard. The Congress party in Kerala does not seem to have learnt any lessons from the spectacular victory its counterpart in neighbouring Karnataka scored in the recently-held Assembly elections in that State.

The geopolitical rivals United States of America, China, and Russia, were among the nations that took part in naval drills, Multilateral Naval Exercise KOMODO (MNEK), held in the waters off the coast of Indonesia to improve their ability to work together during a humanitarian crisis.