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Presidential elections are the buzz of the season as India is poised to get its new President next month following the retirement of incumbent Ramnath Kovind. Since Independence, these polls have witnessed close contests, surprises, and upsets. Generally, the ruling party gets its candidate elected, and the contests are a mere formality. The Opposition, too, puts up a candidate as a symbolic gesture.

States/Union Territories (UTs) have set up 169 cyber police stations across the country to combat ever rising cyber crimes in the country as per a latest report, Data on Police Organisatons for 2020 by the Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPR&D). Union Government in the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) provides overarching logistic support to enable them to function effectively. In the scheme of the Constitution of India, Law and Order are State subjects. So the responsibility to maintain law and order including setting up of cyber police stations rests primarily with the States and UTs who set up need based cyber police stations. There are five types of cyber crimes, such as phishing, cyber extortion, data breach, identity theft and harassment.

Narendra Modi has directed BJP leaders and his ministerial colleagues to market his product Agnipath in a more professional manner and to accomplish the mission they should reach out to every individual.

The BJP’s advantage in the forthcoming presidential polls is that it has friends – both overt and covert – in the opposition camp. Their presence not only boosts the party’s own numerical strength, but also sows seeds of doubt and disaffection among its adversaries.

Unprecedented unemployment crisis in independent India that has been building up with sharpest ever hike in joblessness since 2014 has finally exploded on June 14, 2022, when the Centre announced Agnipath (literally the Path of Fire) scheme for short term recruitment in armed forces. The Fire triggered eruption, unemployed youths suddenly came out on streets, wetn on the rampage, setting trains on fire, torching vehicles, damaging both private and public properties, and even attacking houses of leaders of the ruling establishments. It spread to Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Haryana, Telangana, Odisha, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Jharkhand, and Assam in a very short span of time, and is even spreading.

As the three big names of Europe rolled into Kyiv by train on June 16 of for a pow-wow with the Ukrainian president, Volodymir Zelensky, Russia had warned France, Germany and Italy of consequences. President Emmanuel Macron of France, Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany and Prime Minister Mario Draghi Italy had thought it important to show their unstinted support for the besieged Ukraine at a time when Russia was mounting its pressure in the east of the country. By that afternoon, Russia had squeezed gas supplies to the three and the inch was being felt by the people. Russia had given an explanation that she technical faults were being repaired. Nothing is forbidden in love and in situations of war.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi must be a very happy person today as his dream to make his home state Gujarat an epicentre of India’s economic development has finally come true. Modi has been relentlessly trying to make Gujarat the country’s choicest investment destination since he became the state’s chief minister in 2001. Development of a state does not come easy under India’s political system. No amount of enterprise, industrial infrastructure, proximity to raw materials and market matter if a state opposes the government at the centre. Few state leaders know this better than Modi, an advocate for “double engine growth” with a perfect centre-state political cum economic relation. Since 2014, his party has been ruling both the centre and Gujarat. Interestingly, Gujarat’s all-India ranking, based on per capita state domestic product (GSDP) went up from 12th in 2000-01 to 4th in 2021-22. Although the credit substantially goes to Gujarat’s highly ambitious businessmen, a strong support from the state and union governments has helped make it happen.

Another thoughtless decision and the country is burning again. Knee jerk reactions by the government have not succeeded and the violent protests are continuing, gaining intensity by the hour and spreading to new territories. Beginning primarily in the north Indian states of UP and Bihar, the protest against Agnipath has spread to the south, with the region accounting for some of the worst violence in the current agitation. It is virtually a case of the government sowing the wind and reaping the whirlwind.

The outcome of the recent round of elections for 75 Rajya Sabha seats offers significant political insight into lay of the land in India’s states and at the Centre, and highlights the institutional paradoxes at the heart of India’s bicameral Parliamentary system.

On November, 2020 The Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Ordinance, 2020 came into being, which was subsequently passed by the UP Legislative Assembly in 2021 as an Act. Under this Act, a person can’t change their religion without giving a prior notice to the district administration. In fact, a marriage where either of the parties have changed their religion without going through a thorough governmental scrutiny is void in the eyes of this law.