NEWS & VIEWS|||SARASIJ|||21/06/2025. ||| SATURDAY| VOL—IV/2025/JUNE/561

 

NEWS & VIEWS|||SARASIJ|||21/06/2025.

SATURDAY| VOL—IV/2025/JUNE/561

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“TAGORE’S KACHARI  BARI  ( REVENUE OFFICE) AT SHAHZADPUR OF SIRAJGANJ DISTRICT OF BANGLADESH,” IS VANDALIZED BY JIHADI ISLAMISTS OF BANGLADESH.

A protest letter, signed by eminent litterateurs Professor Mihir Kanti Deb, poet Ratul Deb barman, renowned theatre artist Bibhu Bhattacharya, painter, mime artist and Sangeet Natak Academy awardee Swapan Nandy, Professor Mujahid Rahman, was sent to the Bangladesh Chief Advisor via the Assistant High Commission of Bangladesh in Agartala and West Tripura District Magistrate’s office.

Hundreds of poets, writers and intellectuals on Thursday wrote to Bangladesh interim government Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus seeking his intervention into the “shameful and condemnable” incident and demanded “exemplary punishment” of the culprits who recently vandalized the ancestral home of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore in the neighbouring country.

“People of Tripura are ‘deeply upset’ on the violent attack in Rabindranath Tagore’s ancestral ‘Kachari Bari’ (revenue office) at Shahzadpur of Sirajganj district of Bangladesh,” the letter said.

I THINK—WE HAVE LOST MANY IMPORTANT DOCUMENT, AND ARTICLES USED BY TAGORE. IT IS AN INTERNATIONAL CRIME.

INDIA: (GOI, SWARAJYA, VISHWAMITRA, HINDU POST, INDIA TODAY).

Eleventh International Day of Yoga to be celebrated across the globe today.  The theme for this year's International Day of Yoga is "Yoga for One Earth, One Health", which significantly resonates with the unifying vision that India based its G20 presidency on -- "One Earth, One Family, One Future".

The Yoga Day event will be held along a 26-km corridor from RK Beach in Visakhapatnam to Bhogapuram, where over 3 lakh people can perform Yoga simultaneously.

In a prelude to the 11th International Yoga Day celebrations, a remarkable Surya Namaskar programme was organized at Andhra University in Visakhapatnam, where, around 25,000 tribal children performed 108 Surya Namaskars in 108 minutes. The unique initiative aimed to set a Guinness World Record and also highlighted the enthusiastic participation of tribal communities. 

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has appointed Professor Anantha Chandrakasan as its next Provost, making him the first Indian-born academician to hold the prestigious position. A pioneer in electrical engineering and computer science, Chandrakasan will take charge on 1 July 2025.

In Sikkim, the annual Kailash Mansarovar Yatra has begun from Nathula. Governor Om Prakash Mathur flagged off the first batch of 36 pilgrims to enter into the Tibet Autonomous region.

INS Teg, on her Operational Deployment to the South West Indian Ocean Region, is visiting Port Louis, Mauritius from 19-22 Jun 2025. The ship would be undertaking joint surveillance of Mauritian EEZ along with the Mauritius National Coast Guard (NCG) ships and aircraft, reaffirming India's commitment towards ensuring safety of the global commons and to combat Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (lUU) fishing. 

The Indian Army has begun raising the third Regiment of the indigenously manufactured Dhanush artillery guns.  The overall project involves inducting 114 guns in six regiments. 

Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah announced that NAFED will soon begin direct procurement from farmers, eliminating intermediaries from the agricultural production process. He was speaking at a national seminar held in Mumbai on the occasion of the International Year of Cooperatives.

“Khalistan: अब कनाडा की खुफिया एजेंसी ने भी माना- कनाडा में बैठकर भारत में हिंसा फैला रहे खालिस्तानी चरमपंथी”, अमर उजाला, जून 19, 2025 “आखिरकार कनाडा ने भी मान लिया है कि खालिस्तानी आतंकी कनाडा में बैठकर भारत में हिंसा फैला रहे हैं|”

“मुंबई में चल रहा 'हाउसिंग जिहाद'; ₹660 करोड़ की लूट के साथ बिल्डरों ने हिंदू इलाकों में बसाई मुस्लिम आबादी... संजय निरुपम का बड़ा आरोप”, सुदर्शन न्यूज, जून 19, 2025

WORLD: (REUTER, AP, AFP, BLOOMBERG, CNN, WP)

Foreign ministers from France, Germany, and the United Kingdom (UK) are holding talks with their Iranian counterpart in Geneva today after U.S. President Donald Trump said yesterday, he would decide whether to take military action against Iran “within the next two weeks.” UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy met with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Washington yesterday, posting on social media afterward that “a window now exists” for a diplomatic solution to concerns over Iran’s nuclear activities.

Ottawa announced yesterday that countries without bilateral trade agreements will face new tariffs on steel imports if they exceed 2024 levels. It also said it may adjust its 25 percent counter-tariffs to U.S. levies based on how talks with Washington have progressed by July 21.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez called a prospective goal for NATO members to spend 5 percent of their GDP on Défense “unreasonable” in a letter sent yesterday to the alliance’s secretary-general. Sánchez described the target as “incompatible with our welfare state and our world vision.”

A classified Russian counterintelligence document obtained by the Times says China is trying to learn about Russia’s Défense know-how; the document referred to China as the “enemy.” The Kremlin and the Chinese embassy in Moscow did not immediately respond to the newspaper’s requests for comment.

Russia’s economy is “on the verge” of a recession, the economy minister said yesterday at an international forum. As the war with Ukraine grinds on, Putin told reporters Wednesday night that he would meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy if it were the final stage of negotiations. 

The DRC and Rwanda reached a draft peace deal through U.S. and Qatari mediation and plan to sign it next week, the two parties and the United States said. The countries initialed the draft Wednesday after three days of talks in Washington.

New Zealand said yesterday it is suspending millions of dollars of aid to the Cook Islands pending further clarity on agreements the self-governing territory recently made with China. 

Finland landmine treaty exit. The country’s legislature voted 157–18 to advance a government proposal to leave the Ottawa Convention aimed at eliminating antipersonnel landmines. Finland shares a more than eight-hundred-mile border with Russia and officials have argued that landmines could be used to defend the country in the case of a Russian attack. Legislators in Latvia and Lithuania voted to leave the treaty earlier this year. 

CRIME & PUNISHMENT:

Anwar Qadri, alias Anwar Dacoit: police raids at the councilor's home and in-laws’ house in Indore love jihad case: MP.

The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Mumbai Police on Wednesday arrested Purushottam Chavan, husband of an IPS officer, for allegedly duping a Surat-based businessman and others of Rs 7.42 crore.

BSF troops in Punjab today recovered over seven kilograms of ICE (Methamphetamine) from an agricultural field near a village in Amritsar. Sources have claimed that this is the largest consignment of ICE, a synthetic drug, recovered in Punjab in the recent past. 

MISHAPS: -

The newly repaired bridge over the Harang River on the Silchar–Kalain Road collapsed in the early hours of Wednesday when two overloaded trucks were passing through it, violating weight restrictions.

Though there were no casualties, the incident disrupted road connectivity between Assam’s Barak Valley and neighbouring states — Tripura, Mizoram, and Manipur — via Meghalaya.

ENVIRONMENTAL: -

Monsoon is progressing well—as per Mausam Bivag. Some dams in Gujarat are on ‘ALERT’. DELHI, and NCR may get some heavy rain in a day, or two.

GAMES & SPORTS: --

India’s javelin star Neeraj Chopra has won the Paris Diamond League title. his first throw was 88.16 meters was the winner. Neeraj led the event from the first heave of the night, despite having three “no marks” in the middle.

The 20th June 2025 will formally bring to the front a new generation of cricket geniuses on behalf of Bharat in an important Test series being played in England.

Friday, 20 Jun 2025//1st Test • Leeds//India:  359-3 ||| Shubman Gill’s century and Rishabh Pant’s half century help India post the score.

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THE COMING EVENTS: -

Þ    Today, Nigeria begins hosting the West Africa Economic Summit.

Þ    Today, the Northern Hemisphere experiences the summer solstice.

Þ    On Sunday, Tokyo holds a metropolitan assembly election.

 

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