Daily Briefing: Norms tweaked for firm of JD(U) MP’s kin; latest on Manipur violence; Satwiksairaj-Chirag script history; and more

“If the state government is not able to take care of the security and safety of its own people, then the state has failed…and if they have failed, they have no business to remain there.”

Amid violence grips Manipur, former deputy Manipur CM Yumnam Joykumar said his party and BJP ally, the National People’s Party (NPP), would be compelled to “reconsider its equation with the current government” if the situation persists. Read the full interview here.

In the latest edition of Idea Exchange, Karnataka Assembly Speaker UT Khader speaks on the Congress’s win in the state and what it means. He also talks about the role of the Speaker and why protests and discussions have their place in the Assembly.

📰 From the Front Page

In a bid for tri-service integration, the Indian Armed Forces are planning to go ahead with cross posting of a large number of senior officers in the ranks of Brigardies and Major General and equivalent, The Indian Express has learnt.

Cut-offs increased across categories this year in the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Advanced, with the IIT Hyderabad zone accounting for the highest number of qualifying candidates among all seven zones. Meet the topper.

🏸 The Indian duo of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty on Sunday won a historic men’s doubles title at the Indonesia Open here, becoming the first doubles pair from the country to claim a Super 1000 event.

👩‍💻 Must read

Two attacks on security personnel in the space of a fortnight have suddenly made Jammu, a region that was largely seen as the more peaceful of the two regions of J&K, the focus of a new terror thrust. From more well-trained militants to fewer informers, we make sense of the terror shift.

A reunion that took over a decade and spanned a distance of over 2,500 km — from a village in the Sunderbans delta to a village in Himalayan Kashmir. Here’s how a woman was reunited with her daughter, thanks to the persistent efforts of her brother-in-law and a community of HAM radio enthusiasts.

There’s a new assignment for border guards. Central Armed Police Forces personnel have been asked by the Ministry of Home Affairs to fan out to villages in the border areas manned by them and collect their history, extending up to the past 2,000 years, The Indian Express has learnt.

⌛And finally

🏳️‍🌈 For Pride Month 2023, we explain the history of the pride flag, with a special look at what the new version denotes.  

🤫 In today’s Delhi Confidential, read about G20’s International Yoga Day plans in Goa and BJP’s struggle to become an aggressive opposition voice in Karnataka.

🎧 Find out more about pre-panchayat polls violence in West Bengal, controversy over renaming Nehru Memorial Museum, and an update on Uttarakhand’s communal tension in the latest episode of the 3 Things podcast. 

Until next time, 

Sonal Gupta and Arushi Bhaskar