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WASHINGTON DC: President Donald Trump has ruled out any patching up with Elon Musk over their divide following strong differences over the Big Beautiful Bill leading to $2.7 trillion deficit in a decade opposed strongly by the tech billionaire Musk who has vowed to ensure the bill does not see the light of the day.

KOLKATA: Manipur is on the boil again with the National Investigative Agency and the Central Bureau of Investigation stepping up their respective activity. Ironically, the fresh violence, the persisting deep ethnic divide and deactivated internet services in five of Manipur’s 16 districts serve as the backdrop of the talks with the Kuki-Zo insurgent groups which the Union ministry of home affairs has scheduled for June 9. Despite the unfortunate developments, the chances of the scheduled talks being held are 100 per cent because MHA has chosen New Delhi as the venue; instead of capital Imphal or any other suitable place in the strife-scarred state. The talks will be presided over by MHA’s north-east advisor A K Mishra, who is to be aided by an official of the rank of joint director.

US President Donald Trump has targeted top US universities during his second term. He has been waging a war on Ivy League universities for the past few weeks. He has particularly targeted institutions such as Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Cornell, Brown, Dartmouth, and the University of Pennsylvania. This move has shocked the American higher education system. Academia now faces a significant challenge fighting against the Trump administration.

On June 9, this year, as BJP celebrates 11 years of PM Narendra Modi led government in India as golden period of the country, unemployment rate stood at 6.9 per cent as per Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) data based on 30-day moving average basis. This is the only data available on real time basis in the country.

Indore's Raja Raghuvanshi didn't want to honeymoon in Meghalaya. But Indore's Sonam Raghuvanshi was adamant and Meghalaya they went. And Meghalaya is wishing this wasn't how it should have been! Why bring murder to Meghalaya, there was already talk of Meghalaya as a crime-high state?

A scrutiny is a careful and exhaustive examination of the facts and the ground realities. The interpretations may have the element of personal bias but it ought not to be used for setting political agenda. Nevertheless the scrutiny of Rahul Gandhi’s criticism of the role of Election Commission in conducting the Maharashtra assembly election by the experts of Indian Express newspaper reinforces the perception that the operation has the stamp of the saffron ecosystem.

Religion as long as it remains confined to individuals and there is civilised tolerance of different faiths, peace prevails. But once it spills into public space and attempts are made to assert dominance of a particular religion as we are witnessing here and in some neighbouring countries, religion becomes the reason for strife among communities and also among nations. That then becomes the cause of untold miseries among people and derailing of economic progress.

Bihar seems to have a penchant for being in the news be it owing to JP's call of total revolution or the Bhagalpur blindings or the fodder scam. The state finds itself in the news again as a new leader whose political party is part of the NDA coalition has thrown his hat in the ring for the chief minister's post , just five months before the crucial elections.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A long-standing dream of Keralites is set to become a resounding reality soon with the Union Government giving the green signal for the Sabari rail project.

India remains fractious on June 9, 2025 when the RSS Pariwar union government completes first year of the third term of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and cumulatively eleven years consecutively, divided by religion, caste, community, sexes, regions and ethnicity.