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What next for Shiv Sena? Will the Eknath Shinde faction grab the party from "rightful owners", the Thackeray's, and run with it? That must be in Shinde's mind. The fellow is no angel. It requires a stout mean heart to rebel and run roughshod over shallow sentiments. Shinde wants the Shiv Sena for keeps and the Thackeray's, father and son, do they have the mojo to keep what's theirs?

Having emboldened by the success in Maharshtra, the BJP has just started its political game in Jharkhand to destabilize the Mahagathbandhan government led by JMM. Chief Minister Hemant Soren has just betrayed his commitment towards opposition unity and ditched the anti-BJP political parties by announcing support to BJP’s presidential candidate Draupadi Murmu. Under the thickness of the murky politics of BJP, the mystery behind it remains concealed, but the indications emanating from within and outside Jharkhand points towards beginning of a turbulent political phase in the state before it enters electioneering for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

Good health is essential not only for the progress of an individual but even more so for the society as whole. Since times immemorial mankind has looked into various methods and developed different techniques to impart effective healthcare. Primitive society attributed the causation and treatment of diseases to super natural powers. This was because human society lacked knowledge of causes of various events around. With the passage of time different theories and hypothesis were propounded to promote wellbeing.

Apprehension has come true. Just within forty eight hours of Supreme Court refusing to pass any interim order on the Maharashtra government’s plea that there should not be any floor test in the Assembly, the BJP leader Devendra Fadavis, tipped to comeback as the person to replace Uddhav Thackeray, called on the Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari in the night of Tuesday and requested him to ask Uddhav to prove his majority in the Assembly.

Riyaz Aktari and Ghouse Mohammad. The beheading of tailor Kanhaiya Lal by the duo could have been prevented if the police in Udaipur hadn’t turned peacemakers instead of piling the full force of the law on the law-breakers. After the two believers’ video that they were going to ‘sar kalam’ Kanhaiya Lal surfaced, the men in uniform should have understood that this was for real!

The Bharatiya Janata Party may apply the operation-dislodge model of breakaway Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde in capturing power in Rajasthan and Jharkhand. West Bengal is also in the defection antenna. The Opposition and BJP leader of West Bengal Suvendu Adhikari disclosed almost directly that after Maharashtra, BJP would form governments in Jharkhand and Rajasthan as also West Bengal by 2024.

On June 22, Droupadi Murmu reached the Brahma Kumaris Centre at Rairangpur in Odisha’s Mayurbhanj district. Inmates of the centre, including its in-charge, Brahma Kumari Supreya, were pleasantly surprised to see the presidential candidate of the BJP-led alliance paying them a visit. The spiritually inclined Murmu, who could be first tribal President of India, was at the Centre to offer prayers and to mediate. The 64-year-old practices Rajyoga and mediation regularly. She became an ardent follower of the Brahma Kumaris sect after she was forced to deal with multiple personal tragedies. “Murmu remains just as simple as she used to be, despite the big announcement,” said Supriya. “We just celebrated her birthday a couple of days ago”.

The announcement of India’s Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) on June 14 of a big recruitment plan to provide one million government jobs in the next one and half years, just two years ahead of next Lok Sabha Poll in 2024, is impregnated with a dilemma that has lately started haunting the Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He had actually promised 10 million jobs every year in Agra election rally of 2013 if his party BJP would come to power.

India has resented being ranked at the bottom among 180 nations on Environmental Performance Index 2022, but the country still needs to work hard to save its people from the risks of environmental hazards. Entire ecology of the country is at great risk, and all national and international reports point that India is heading fast towards a catastrophic situation in which Indian would be worst suffer in this world.

With demand incentives withdrawn after FY 2024, maximum penetration of electric two-wheelers in India could be 71.54 per cent in Technology Driven Scenario by FY 2031, while with no technological improvement and reduction in battery cost, penetration level of 21.86% only can be achieved even if incentives are continued. However, combination of technological improvement and incentives can achieve 100% penetration, says a study titled “Forecasting Penetration of Electric Two-wheelers in India: A Bottom-up Analysis” prepared by TIFAC and NITI Aayog.