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Did security drill scare away tigers ahead of PM Modi’s safari?  https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/karnataka/2023/apr/11/did-security-drill-scare-away-tigers-ahead-of-pm-modis-safari-2564658.html 11th April 2023
 Prime Minister Narendra Modi couldn’t spot a single tiger or any big cat while on his 22-km safari in Bandipur Tiger Reserve (BTR) from 7.15 am to 9.30 am on Sunday. ...Excited and jittery, Madhusudhan, who is still having goosebumps after driving the PM, told The New Indian Express: “Sightings in forests is just luck. When I did the trial run on Friday and Saturday for the security teams, two tigers were sighted. In fact, the PM saw fresh tiger pugmarks, but just missed the tiger.

Criminal intent, direct act instigating suicide must to prove abetment: SC http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/99392117.cms  Swati Deshpande Apr 11, 2023,

The arrest of a first-year student of IIT-Bombay on charges of abetting the suicide of his batchmate Darshan Solanki has again turned the spotlight on what constitutes this offence and the judicial pronouncements on abetment.
"In matters of abetment of suicide, human emotions play a very big part and, therefore, police must always be circumspect in exercising their power of arrest. The law on abetment to suicide is now fairly clear and well settled: such allegation of abetment must have a live link with the actual suicide," said senior counsel Amit Desai.

"Abetment involves a mental process of instigating a person or intentionally aiding a person in doing a thing. Without a positive act on the part of the accused to instigate or aid in committing suicide, conviction cannot be sustained," a Supreme Court bench of Justices Dalveer Bhandari and K S P Radhakrishnan said in 2010 defining 'abetment'.

Balika Panchayat: The Story of Kunariya https://youtu.be/MB1Y_ru1sxM   Vikalp Sangam 
The Balika Panchayat of Kunariya aims to empower women in the active functioning of the Gram Panchayat.

  https://currentaffairs.adda247.com/indias-first-balika-panchayat/ “Balika Panchayat” is managed by people in the 11-21 age group and its main objective is to promote the social and political development of the girl child and to remove the evil practices from the society such as child marriage, and the dowry system. The main objective of panchayat is that the girls should move forward in politics. In Balika panchayat, the member is nominated just like Gram panchayat...

India’s first-ever ‘Balika Panchayat’ aims to promote active participation of girls in politics ANI 17 June, 2022 https://theprint.in/india/indias-first-ever-balika-panchayat-aims-to-promote-active-participation-of-girls-in-politics/1000055/