One more exciting phase of football world cup matches held in Russia has come to an end. Of the 32 teams that have participated and played, 24 have been defeated at various phases now. Eight teams will fight to stay afloat in the quarter finals and the winners among them will go to semi finals. July 15, when the peak of weekend dawns in on Sunday, two teams will fight to clinch the world championship title.   

The central government has cautioned that by 2020, many cities including Bengaluru will lose their ground water source completely. A report on Composite Water Management Index released by the centre indicates Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad and other metropolitan cities with high population density would soon go totally dry in their ground water resource.

Owing to an altercation between students in a college in Kerala’s Kochi, a student activist of SFI has been stabbed to death. Kerala has a reputation of being the most mature state as far as political awareness among people is concerned. And even with that, contradiction would be, Kerala is also known for its gangwars. As a result of this, a life of a student would who have contributed to the future of the society is lost. No matter who has carried out this heinous act, it is highly condemnable. This has added another episode to the bloody history of Kerala.

Two gruesome incidents that can cost India its name have occurred in Delhi and Maharashtra. While the first incident shows the country still seeped in superstition, the second one shows the denigrating law and order system of this country.

Even as Sangh Parivar tries its best to cover casteism by selling the dream of ‘Hindutva’ as a lofty ideal, the wound is getting deeper with time. It has been proved time and again that wealth, power or office can never really compensate for the caste based discrimination a lower caste person feels in our country.People are getting killed for having ridden a horse on the wedding day, or riding a motorcycle, or for having deskinned a dead cattle, or for entering a temple so on and so forth. If the dalits consolidate against such tyranny, the government does not even hesitate to brand them naxals.

Primary and higher education minister N Mahesh has referred to the idea of conducting open book examinations to the children of smaller classes. In our country, the only ‘change’ we see in education system is the change in topics covered in text books while all other aspects remain the same.

India saw days of ‘emergency’ exactly 43 years ago, when Indira Gandhi was the prime minister. In the last four and a half decades after that, much water has flown under the bridge. Many people who lived through those ‘dark days’ have passed away. The new generation that came after those days, do not have any experience regarding how terrible those days were.

Hell bent upon saffronising every aspect of the public life and government machinery, the Narendra Modi headed NDA government has decided to open up lateral entry to various high profile posts in various fields such as Agriculture, economic sector and infrastructure among the others.