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El Niño likely to intensify as India’s monsoon advances slowly
Global meteorological agencies have confirmed El Niño is here. In India, El Niño conditions in the equatorial Pacific Ocean are expected to intensify as the southwest monsoon progresses, confirms the India Meteorological Department’s June bulletin. Experts say the developing El Niño should be treated as a serious climate risk and an early warning, urging timely…
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Maharashtra to miss June 30 deadline for farm loan waiver, disbursal to start on July 5
The Maharashtra government on Monday acknowledged that it will miss its June 30 deadline for implementing a farm loan waiver scheme that was approved earlier this month, Sakal reported. State Agriculture Minister Dattatray Bharane told the Assembly that loan waiver amounts under the Punyashlok Ahilyadevi Holkar Shetkari Karjmafi Yojana will begin reaching eligible farmers from…
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Rush Hour: Opposition flags SIR concerns to CJI, another setback for Uddhav Sena and more
Twenty-three Opposition parties have sent a letter to Chief Justice Surya Kant expressing its concerns about the special intensive revision of electoral rolls. The exact contents of the letter were not immediately known. Trinamool Congress MP Sagarika Ghose said that the Opposition had urged the judiciary to look into the manner in which the exercise…
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Translated fiction: 14-year-old Gibran’s conservative father wants him to get employed in a mosque
When I was reciting the sipaara after the Fajr namaz, Amma gave me some money and said, “Go, see if Kallu has opened his store and buy two eggs from him. Otherwise, what will I give Abba when he returns from the mosque?” I ran to Kallu Chacha’s store, and when I returned home with…
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Supreme Court refuses bail to Asaram in 2013 rape case
The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to grant bail to religious leader Asumal Harpalani, also known as Asaram Bapu, in a 2013 case pertaining to the rape of a minor, Live Law reported. The court sought a response from the Rajasthan government within three weeks to Asaram’s plea challenging the Rajasthan High Court’s May decision…
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Maharashtra: Setback for Uddhav Sena as party leader files nomination from Mahayuti for council post
Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) MLC Sachin Ahir on Tuesday filed his nomination for the post of deputy chairman of the Maharashtra legislative council on behalf of the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Mahayuti alliance. Ahir, who was considered a confidante of Uddhav Sena leader Aaditya Thackeray, filed the nomination in the presence of Chief Minister Devendra…
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Readers’ comments: As a BJP supporter, I too have lost many friends due to ideological differences
I am 24 years old and working in the IT industry. Since college, I have avoided discussing anything even indirectly related to politics with my family, relatives and friends (“After 12 years of Modi, I’m not sure if my decades-long friendships can survive politics”). I found comfort in realising that I am not alone in…
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Delhi SIR process to include persons whose homes have been demolished, says poll panel
The Election Commission will devise a mechanism to ensure that voters whose homes have been demolished recently are not excluded from the special intensive revision of electoral rolls, The Hindu quoted Delhi Chief Electoral Officer Ashok Kumar as saying on Monday. Kumar’s statement came a day before the door-to-door enumeration exercise for the revision of…
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Bengal passes bill allowing year-long preventive detention for ‘anti-social’ activities
The West Bengal Assembly on Monday passed a bill that would allow the preventive detention of “anti-social” persons for up to a year, The Hindu reported. The bill would not allow detainees to be represented by a lawyer before the panel reviewing their detention, except in certain cases. Every detention case would be reviewed within…
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23 Opposition parties raise concerns about SIR in letter to chief justice
Twenty-three Opposition parties have sent a letter to Chief Justice Surya Kant raising concerns about the special intensive revision of electoral rolls, the Congress said on Tuesday. The exact contents of the letter were not immediately known. Trinamool Congress MP Sagarika Ghose told ANI that the Opposition has urged the judiciary to look into the…