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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 planning and preparedness rather than alarm.

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 July 5.

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 was “being manipulated” by the Bharatiya Janata Party. The decision to write to the chief justice was taken at the INDIA bloc meeting on June 8.

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 the eggs, I found Nusrat sitting on my low stool. I yanked the stool from under her and she fell backwards. Amma smacked me on my back and said, “Couldn’t you have taken it later?” Nusrat had hurt her head.

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 upholding his conviction in the case, according to Bar and Bench.

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 Fadnavis and Deputy Chief Ministers Eknath Shinde and Sunetra Pawar, indicating that he has switched sides to the ruling alliance.

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 feeling this way.

Talks about a merger between the Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) and the Congress are underway, Maharashtra Congress leader Vijay Wadettiwar was quoted as saying by NDTV on Tuesday. “Those who subscribe to the secular ideals of the Congress and Sharad Pawar are always welcome in our party,” the former leader of Opposition in the state told the channel. The talks are in the final stages and progressing positively, NDTV quoted unidentified sources as saying.

I met Aditi in Coimbatore in 2022. Pooja and I had gone to the city on work and, always seeking a chance to hang out with queer folx, we announced a spontaneous queer meetup on our Instagram stories. Aditi and I had already connected on Instagram by then and I invited her to the meetup and she agreed. We were excited to meet her and her partner Ameya and many hours were spent swapping nuggets about our love lives.

The sowing of Kharif crops fell by 22.7% as compared to last year as delayed southwest monsoon has slowed planting in several states, showed data released by the Union government on Monday. As of Thursday, the area under kharif crop cultivation was at 182.7 lakh hectares, down from 236.4 lakh hectares in 2025, the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare said. The Kharif season in India is between June and October.