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"Maybe I'll be arrested at the airport. Maybe I won't." Cockroach Janta Party founder Abhijeet Dipke said he will return to India on June 6 to launch a peaceful protest demanding Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan's resignation over the NEET paper leak controversy. The announcement comes shortly after the Delhi High Court declined to order the immediate restoration of CJP's X account. Dipke said his family and friends fear he could be detained on arrival, but added that he still believes he will be allowed to protest peacefully in a democracy.

K Annamalai, the former Tamil Nadu BJP president and one of the party’s most visible faces in the South, has decided to submit his resignation from the BJP and is expected to formally convey his decision to party chief Nitin Nabin in Delhi on Tuesday (June 02), according to multiple senior BJP sources familiar with the development. Annamalai, who will reach Delhi on Monday night, is expected to meet Nabin to formally place his decision on record. Reliable sources in the BJP said he has already made up his mind and that the Delhi visit is intended not merely as a political meeting but also as a gesture of gratitude towards a party with which he spent the last six years of his public life.

A 19-kg commercial LPG cylinder now costs over Rs 3,000 across India — but the price is not the same everywhere. Businesses in Lakshadweep pay among the highest rates at Rs 3,450 per cylinder. In Andaman and Nicobar Islands, the rate is Rs 3,400. Ladakh is at Rs 3,320, while Mizoram is at Rs 3,300. At the other end, Maharashtra has one of the lowest indicative rates at Rs 3,068. Gujarat and Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu are at Rs 3,090. These are the prices paid by businesses, hotels, restaurants, canteens, dhabas and food vendors that use commercial LPG cylinders. The rates are indicative reference prices for the principal city of each state/UT, and may vary by distributor and district. Created by: Angshuman Maity

Nearly 60 of the 80 newly elected TMC MLAs failed to turn up at party supremo Mamata Banerjee’s Kalighat residence in Kolkata on Sunday (May 31), forcing the party to cancel the scheduled meeting. With only a handful of MLAs turning up, the meeting has now been deferred. Those who were seen at Mamata’s Kalight residence included party MP Derek O’Brien, former minister Chandrima Bhattacharya, MLAs Sovan Deb Chatterjee, Nayana Bandhopadhay, Ashok Deb, Samir Kumar Jana, Rahim Bakshi, Ashima Patra, Madan Mitra, and Kunal Ghosh, among others. In the wake of the attacks on TMC MPs Abhishek Banerjee and Kalyan Banerjee, the party has announced statewide protest rallies in every ward and block on June 1, followed by a daylong dharna at Kolkata’s Rani Rashmoni Road under the leadership of party chief Mamata Banerjee.

The process to remove the towering statue of Argentine football icon Lionel Messi in Kolkata's Lake Town area began today (June 1), after the structure was deemed unsafe by engineers. Two hydraulic cranes arrived at the site, as engineers and workers swarmed the place. The 70-foot statue, installed atop an underground pedestrian crossing, was unveiled by Messi himself during his visit to Kolkata in December last year, using a remote-controlled mechanism. This move comes after complaints from local residents that the massive structure appeared to sway during strong winds.

The southwest monsoon usually enters India through Kerala on June 1. Around the same time, it also reaches parts of the Northeast. From there, it moves in stages. By June 5, it usually covers more of the southern peninsula and the Northeast. By June 10 and June 15, it starts spreading across parts of Maharashtra, Telangana, Chhattisgarh, Odisha and central India. By June 20 and June 25, it usually advances into more of Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Gujarat and eastern Uttar Pradesh. By late June and early July, the monsoon normally reaches Delhi, Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan and other parts of northwest India. Some of the last areas usually get it around July 8. These dates show when the monsoon usually reaches different regions — not how much rain they will get.

The prices of commercial LPG have been hiked by Rs 42 to Rs 53.50 on 19 kg cylinders — a fifth time increase in four months The new rates came into effect from today. According to Good Returns, the hike is highest in Kolkata at Rs 53.50, followed by Chennai, Mumbai and Delhi. After a hike of Rs 42, the commercial LPG rate in Delhi now stands at Rs 3,113.50, and while the rate in Kolkata stands at Rs 3,255.50 after a raise of Rs 53.30. The prices of the 5 kg cylinders have also gone up by Rs 11.

Underlining that there can’t be a one-size-fits-all approach in the application of the Immoral Trafficking Prevention Act (ITPA) to tackle commercial sexual exploitation (CSE), the Supreme Court has laid out an elaborate ‘Victim Protection Plan’, securing the rights of “voluntary” sex workers, and called upon the government to consider amending the law to exempt trafficked victims from being prosecuted for prostitution. It also sought that the new law protects the victims from “sexual abuse” by police personnel when in custody. A bench of Justices JB Pardiwala and R Mahadevan, which exercised powers under Article 142 of the Constitution, said in its May 29 judgment that the plan which details “the manner in which preventive, protective and rehabilitative measures are to be taken to safeguard the fundamental rights of the victims of trafficking for CSE…would hold the field until the Parliament enacts a law on the subject”. The court noted that “rights of sex workers can exist without there being a right to sex work”.