Union government has ordered all its employees to hoist the national flag stop their houses to mark Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav, the 75th year of India’s Independence celebrations from August 9-13 to show their love for the country preceding the Independence Day on August 15, 2022 with the customary unfurling of the national flag Tiranga by the Prime Minister from the ramparts of the red fort followed by his landmark address to the nation. Union government has also exhorted the people at large to do the same to exhibit and reiterate their love for the country.

Successive Union Governments since Independence have engaged with the idea to enact a Uniform Civil Code (UCC) to ensure uniform civil code of conduct for all people irrespective of their castes, communities, religions, rites, rituals, customary practices, cultures and over all their diversity pursuant to Article 44 of the Directive Principle of State Policy in the Constitution of India which declares that the state shall endeavor to secure a UCC throughout the territory of India.

Left Wing Extremism (LWEs), earlier known as Naxalism, is armed rebellion by tribals against the rule of law based system of constitutional democratic governance in the countryconsidered as centuries of cumulative exploitations by the rulers in the form of gradual deprivation of the tribe’s inherent right to Jal (Water), Zameen (Land) and Jungle (Forests) for all round development of India. Deforestation for mining, industry and infrastructure is viewed by the LWEs as thecontinuing deprivation of their traditional habitats and livelihoods.

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.

Union Government in the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has floated a new draft IT rules on its websites to elicit public and users’ opinion/consultation before it is finalized for notification shortly.

Eight years of NDA Union Government’s misgovernance since 2014 has plunged the nation into the vortex of communalism, hatred, religious polarization, divisive/majoritarian politics, ever-rising unemployment, growing inflation, farmer crisis and economic downturn as never before, making India a dystopia, a society characterized by human misery, squalor, oppression and disease. Besides, the Prime Minister made India communal and authoritarian.

Recent directive of the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (Cert-In) requiring Virtual Private Network (VPN) service providers to store user data for five years, is  yet another step to make India a full fledged surveillance state following all other internet based free flow of information having already been policed by the current fascist union government. Journalists, activists and others who use VPNs to hide their Internet footprint will now be in quandary to think whether to use such devices.

Union Government in the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has raised concern over failure of the States/Union Territories (UTs) to adopt Model Prison Manual 2016 for improving jail administration and security of jails.

झारखंड में राजनीतिक हलचल तेज है। झारखंड स्थापना से अब तक 22 वर्षों में अनेक बार सत्ता का परिवर्तन हुआ है, आगे भी होगा। परंतु क्या झारखंडी जन अर्थात आदिवासी- मूलवासी की जीवन में कोई परिवर्तन हो सका है? नहीं। उसका सपना "अबुआ दिसुम- अबुआ राज" के खिलाफ सब कुछ हो रहा है। तब क्या झारखंडी जन पार्टियों / नेताओं को कोसने के बदले निम्न नीति- सूत्र पर चिंतन मंथन कर एक नया झारखंड, अपने सपनों के झारखंड को सच बनाने के सार्थक पहल में भागीदारी निभा सकेगा ?

India’s civilisational holy treatise, the Vedas mention Ayurveda as a system of medical knowledge having been transmitted from God to sages and from sages to human physicians. Originated in ancient India, it is a system of holistic and natural alternative medical care that ensures health of the healthy and cure for all types of illnesses to enable the patients to live healthy and long life. Healers in this system of medical care are known as Vaidya(s).