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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With demand incentives withdrawn after FY 2024, maximum penetration of electric two-wheelers in India could be 71.54 per cent in Technology Driven Scenario by FY 2031, while with no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.

Senior Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders in West Bengal are deeply embarrassed by the unacceptably poor performance of their party in the recent Tripura Assembly by-elections. They have been remarkably reticent on the issue, not least because the humiliation they face is directly attributable to party second-in-command Abhishek Banerjee MP.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Overkill does not pay in politics. That is the bitter lesson the Congress and the party-led Opposition United Democratic Front (UDF) is learning at a heavy cost.

At last the Delhi Police has gone and done the unpardonable. The capital’s constabulary, which answers to the Union Home Ministry, summoned AltNews co-founder Muhammad Zubair from Bengaluru to Delhi and Monday, June 27, took him into custody in what looked like a sleight of the ham-handed. If it was a non-BJP government at the Centre, the Delhi Police wouldn’t have carried out such an outrage, but these are not the best of days for the secular ecosystem, and in the eight years of Modi rule, whosoever stepped on rightwing, especially BJP, toes ran the risk of getting hauled over the coals.

Senior advocate Fali S. Nariman, described civil rights activist and journalist Teesta Setalvad as a “foot soldier of the Indian Constitution”. Today, the foot soldier has been arrested for zealously pursuing justice for one of independent India’s most egregious wrongs, namely the Gujarat pogrom, which was unleashed following the Godhra train burning of February 27, 2002.

Is the ongoing Maharashtra political crisis an ideological battle within the Shiv Sena or the inability of Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray to convince his Sainiks about his soft Hindutva? Or is it the BJP's ambition to eliminate all non-BJP governments, or is it for the realignment of political forces? It is perhaps a combination of all.

Modi’s New India by 2022 is finally emerging. In April, the first month of the current financial year 2022-23, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had boasted to feed the world on amidst the impending global food crisis, but a month later in mid-May wheat export was banned. One month ago he tried to give impression that India has surplus food stock while a month later wheat export ban was announced for ensuring food security in the country. The statements present a contrast that hides the truth manifested across the country in the form of hungry malnourished lean and thin men and animals including cows in large number.