Basant Kumar

Jan 7, 2025 | medium.com | Basant Kumar

Basant Kumar·Follow2 min read·--PM Surya Ghar Muft Bijli YojanaThe Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, announced the launch of the ‘Rooftop Solar Scheme’ or the ‘PM Surya Ghar Muft Bijli Yojana’ in the Interim Budget 2024-25. In the full Budget 2024-25, the Finance Minister reiterated that this scheme will enable 1 crore households to obtain free electricity up to 300 units every month.

Jan 6, 2025 | medium.com | Basant Kumar

!! संगति, परिवेश और भाव !!एक राजा अपनी प्रजा का भरपूर ख्याल रखता था. राज्य में अचानक चोरी की शिकायतें बहुत आने लगीं. कोशिश करने से भी चोर पकड़ा नहीं गया. हारकर राजा ने ढींढोरा पिटवा दिया कि जो चोरी करते पकडा जाएगा उसे मृत्युदंड दिया जाएगा. सभी स्थानों पर सैनिक तैनात कर दिए गए. घोषणा के बाद तीन-चार दिनों तक चोरी की कोई शिकायत नही आई. उस राज्य में एक चोर था जिसे चोरी के सिवा कोई काम आता ही नहीं था. उसने सोचा मेरा तो काम ही चोरी करना है. मैं अगर ऐसे डरता रहा तो भूखा मर जाउंगा.

Dec 24, 2024 | newslaundry.com | Basant Kumar

In the first episode of our new show, Newslaundry looks at steps taken by Bhupender Yadav to tackle air pollution. Aaj Ka AQI is a new show aimed at fixing accountability for a solution to India’s air crisis. For the first episode, Newslaundry went to Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav’s home in Delhi’s Lutyens zone on Tuesday. The AQI at the nearest air monitoring station hovered around 413, or the ‘severe’ category.

Dec 14, 2024 | newslaundry.com | Basant Kumar

A viral video of BJP’s Ravinder Negi, alias Ravi Negi, shows him threatening Muslim shopkeepers, asking them to write their names on their shops and urging Hindus to put up saffron flags.    The Municipal Councillor from Vinod Nagar in East Delhi, who lost to Manish Sisodia in Patparganj constituency in the 2020 assembly polls, has been segregating local shopkeepers on religious basis. He also demands that meat shops be shut during Navratri and Sawan. But why does Negi do this?

Nov 14, 2024 | thenewsminute.com | Basant Kumar

In May 2020, a journalist named Dhaval Patel wrote a news report suggesting that then Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani’s government would soon fall. Patel, the editor of a web portal called Face of Nation, claimed this was due to Rupani’s “failure” in handling the Covid pandemic. Days later, Patel, a resident of Ahmedabad, was picked up by the police and charged with sedition.