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With the 2024 general elections handing the <keyword id="19894848" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="BJP" source="keywords" meta.keywordsubtype="org" meta.entityname="BJP" meta.hostid="261" meta.entityid="BJP">BJP</keyword> and its allies a fractured, albeit ruling majority in the country for the third consecutive time, India is now gearing up for the 2024–25 <keyword id="19908389" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Union-budget" source="keywords">Union budget</keyword>, which will be presented on July 22 between 11 am and 1 pm. The <keyword id="20613906" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="economic-survey" source="keywords">economic survey</keyword> is traditionally presented the day before. However, as per reports, the economic survey is likely to be released on July 3rd this year. The famous halwa ceremony will take place 10 days before the budget is tabled. Pre-budget consultations will begin on June 17th. FM <keyword id="19916618" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Nirmala-Sitharaman" source="keywords">Nirmala Sitharaman</keyword> will become the first finance minister to have presented seven straight budgets, a record previously held by <keyword id="238033" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Morarji-Desai" source="Orion">Morarji Desai</keyword>, who had six consecutive budget presentations to his name. To date, Sitharaman has tabled five full and one interim budget. The first parliamentary session under Modi 3.0 will kick off on June 24, and the 264th session of the parliament will take place between the 27th of June and the 3rd of August. The year is set to see two budgets: one full-fledged budget in July and an interim budget presented on February 1, 2024. <cmsannotation type="cmsannotation" annotationid="What can we expect from this budget?" comment="subhead" text="What can we expect from this budget?">What can we expect from this budget?</cmsannotation> Presenting an interim budget is customary during election years in India since it facilitates the transfer of work and finances between the outgoing and incoming governments. With the upcoming budget, PM Modi’s government will largely focus on tackling unemployment, issues in the agriculture sector, and maintaining the flow of capital expenditure in the economy. The simplification of the <keyword id="19993914" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="GST-regime" source="keywords">GST regime</keyword> and rolling out the 3rd edition of the <keyword id="20359761" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="FAME-scheme" source="keywords">FAME scheme</keyword> (Faster Adoption &amp; Manufacturing of Electric Vehicles) will also rank highly on the budget agenda. In that stead, a meeting of the GST council is also scheduled to take place on June 22nd. Additionally, experts are also anticipating the expansion of the PLI (production-linked incentives) schemes in this budget to include other sectors as well. <cmsannotation type="cmsannotation" annotationid="Lesser-known budget milestones" comment="subhead" text="Lesser-known budget milestones">Lesser-known budget milestones</cmsannotation> Till 2019, the union budget was carried in a briefcase, a practice initiated by India’s first FM, Sir RK Shanmukham Chetty. In 2019, the budget was presented as a traditional bahi-khata for the first time. It went paperless in 2021 after the FM introduced the budget via a tablet. Apart from having presented most budgets, Sitharaman also holds the record for having delivered the longest budget speech while presenting the Union budget for 2020–21. She spoke for two hours and 42 minutes. On the other hand, India’s shortest-ever budget speech was given in 1977 by Hirubhai Patel.

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Ben Keenan estimates that over the past year, he's spent somewhere between $1,500 and $2,000 on dating. Despite spending a hefty sum on everything from drinks and food to tickets and Ubers, the 31-year-old Seattle communications consultant and content creator said the payout had yielded no real results: His relationship status is "nonexistent.""A lot of times I'm spending money just to get to know somebody out from behind a screen," he saidLike many younger Americans, Keenan is encountering a harsh reality: Not only is the modern <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/gen-z-dating-declines-all-time-low-inflation-loneliness-friendship-2023-10">dating scene really tough</a>, but putting yourself out there adds up. To be smarter about his romantic spending, Keenan has become more selective with whom he meets — and instead of immediately suggesting pricey drinks, he's proposing lower-cost options like grabbing a coffee or going for a walk.As someone who's also been dating through whatever it is we've been doing romantically since 2020, I've noticed that my dating costs are going through the roof. There are, of course, the basic increases in just about everything, as anyone who's bought groceries or gas knows. In addition, new costs are getting layered on every day as the dating pool becomes tougher to navigate — relationship apps are barren unless you pay for access, and the new crop of exciting <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/speed-dating-better-than-online-dating-apps-2024-3">speed-dating events</a> will cost you (if they don't sell out first).In an age of <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/loneliness-epidemic-decline-in-third-places-friends-parks-community-2023-9">increasing isolation</a>, an intimate relationship can be especially valuable. And, pragmatically, finding a partner can have some economic advantages — after all, things are cheaper when they're divided by two. But the price tag to find the right person is getting higher. Love, in this economy, is increasingly reserved only for those who can afford it.<h2>Bring in the dating coaches!</h2>There's no magical financial formula for a relationship (sadly), but to sketch out the new cost of love, I decided to ask several dating coaches a few questions that could help me develop a relationship road map: How long does it usually take to find out whether you're compatible? How much should a date cost? Who is expected to pick up the tab?The coaches said it usually takes about three months of seeing someone once or twice a week for most people to consider it a relationship. So that's at least 12 dates before getting into a relationship. Not every date is the same — costs and activities will vary by person, location, and what you're drawn to. Amy Nobile Messing, a New York City <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/love-amy-nyc-matchmaker-perfect-dating-profile-2020-2">dating coach</a> with a holistic and technology-based approach and clients aged 25 to 81, recommended a "mini screener date" for a first meetup before escalating to anything more."First dates should not be the traditional go out to dinner for four hours and spend a ton of money," she said. "They really shouldn't."Damona Hoffman, a Los Angeles dating coach, similarly recommended doing drinks because clients could otherwise end up overstaying their welcome and shelling out a whole lot of money."First dates should be something short and sweet," she said.After the first date is when the tabs get more substantial — a longer meal where you can sit across from one another and delve deeper. Daphney Poyser, whose <a target="_blank" href="https://www.fernconnections.com/press">Fern Connections</a> specializes in queer dating, recommended dinner and an activity like mini golf, ax throwing, or cooking classes.As things progress, another big question is who's picking up the bill — a decision that comes with a host of gendered assumptions and changing norms. Messing said that among her heterosexual clients, there's still an expectation that the man is paying for all the dates."If you're in a heterosexual relationship and you believe in chivalry, which, again, 95% of my clients do, then the man is paying, period, end of story," Messing said.But the answer is not as clear-cut for same-sex couples, couples who don't skew toward traditional heterosexual norms, or younger generations."My younger daters, they're like, 'Of course, we're going to split the cost of the date,'" Hoffman said. "That's a huge shift."Poyser tells her clients that everybody should expect to split the cost."If you like someone and they like you, then you should be willing to split the cost," Poyser said. Among Messing's queer clients, the rule of thumb has been that whoever asked the other person out or planned the date should pay — and they naturally trade-off as things progress.So for simplicity's sake, in our road map, let's assume that you're always splitting costs, with the expectation that straight men will pick up the bill more often.<h2>The nitty-gritty</h2>Now that we have a sense of the time, shape of the activities, and share of the bill, we can get a sense of what dating costs look like for a 12-date plan. Of course, these numbers are all approximations — your favorite restaurant or activity might cost more or less. But to get to rough estimates, I tried to stick close to real menu prices and approximate how much costs have risen.Since the coaches' first-date suggestions generally boiled down to drinks, I started the tabulation by looking at the average cost of a cocktail, which was <a target="_blank" href="https://conormclaughlin.net/2019/06/a-semi-scientific-study-of-american-cocktail-prices/">about $12 in 2019 across major US markets</a>. Adjust that for inflation, and it's about $14.50 in 2024 dollars. For alcohol-free drinkers, the average price of a coffee <a target="_blank" href="https://ny.eater.com/2024/5/9/24151420/price-of-coffee-nyc-latte-cold-brew">is about $6</a> in New York City, which is <a target="_blank" href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/03/people-in-this-city-spend-the-most-on-coffeeits-not-new-york-or-la.html">comparable</a> with other markets."The cost of everything is more expensive," Hoffman said.For movies, prices vary across the country. The average ticket cost $11.75 in 2022, the research firm EntTelligence estimated; round up for recent inflation, and the average movie ticket costs about $12, plus $27 for a large popcorn, a drink, and candy. The same logic can be applied to museums: <a target="_blank" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/01/arts/design/museums-raise-admission-fees-guggenheim.html">Ticket prices across the country</a> have ticked up to the $30 range. I chose the American Museum of Natural History as our museum date spot because it is, inarguably, a great place to go on a date. The cost of an adult ticket: $28 for non-NYC residents. I also chose a premium concert experience for our daters since those <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/jennifer-lopez-cancels-tour-slow-ticket-sales-concerts-prices-ticketmaster-2024-6">are less likely to get canceled than smaller shows right now</a>. Pollstar, a live-music industry publication, found that the average ticket price for a tour of the top 100 performing artists was $123.25 in the first quarter of 2024, up from $95.63 in 2020.Numbers got a little fuzzier when I looked at how much it cost to go out to dinner or order in. I chose my favorite date spot — Thai72 — as a menu example, and it tracked fairly closely with MoneyGeek's <a target="_blank" href="https://www.moneygeek.com/living/analysis/cost-of-a-date-in-major-cities/">estimate</a> that a romantic dinner out costs $96. Similarly, I used my favorite pizza spot — Mama's Too — to gauge the cost of a nicer takeout pizza and then added a Trader Joe's Caesar salad and a bottle of Josh rosé.After they have a few dates under their belt, I figured that many daters clustered in too-small urban apartments would want to get some breathing room. After all, there's nothing like a day trip to figure out what longer-term travel with your partner might look like. I looked at the cost of driving from New York City to Hudson, New York, a popular mini-road-trip destination (and, conveniently, a great way to visit Business Insider's economic-data editor, Andy Kiersz, who helped oversee these calculations). For our later dates, I also included a few spicier ideas, like a visit to the board-game café Hex&amp;Co., a pasta-making class, and a cheese tasting at Murray's Cheese, as fancier date activities.With these estimates, it's easy to see how dating adds up: Our hypothetical dater is spending $650 to make it to the 12-date mark.The estimates also don't take into account the subtler costs of dating. That could be as simple as the price of the commute to and from your meetup — which would cost you $5.80 if you took New York City's subway — or having to fill up your gas tank. The dating experts I spoke with also listed services their clients may want to invest in for dating, from hair and makeup to Botox and dating-app subscriptions.Hoffman, for instance, said that beauty norms had shifted: Skincare and different types of fillerl, along with Botox, are increasingly seen as necessary parts of a beauty regimen."All of these beauty enhancements, people aren't really thinking about the cost of them, but many times the reason that they're doing it is for attraction," she said. "I consider that a cost."Given these costs, I decided to incorporate a few of the major categories into the road map. An <a target="_blank" href="https://youprobablyneedahaircut.com/how-much-does-a-haircut-cost/">informal survey</a> of salons across the country pegged the average haircut at $56, so add one of those to the tab for the three-month getting-you-know-you period. In a 2023 survey by the data-analytics firm Inmar Intelligence, one-third of surveyed consumers said they <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/beauty-shoppers-still-spending-big-as-us-consumers-cut-elsewhere-2023-3">spent over $500 on beauty products in the past year</a> — that works out to $125 in beauty-product spending, if we're accounting for around a three-month period. Meanwhile, an informal 2022 report <a target="_blank" href="https://www.styleseat.com/blog/waxing-cost/">found</a> that the average cost of a full body wax was $152, and <a target="_blank" href="https://www.cosmopolitan.com/style-beauty/beauty/a36462846/botox-cost-guide/">Cosmopolitan reported</a> in January that low-end forehead Botox would cost you $300. Taken together, that could mean up to $500 more in beauty spending alone.Modern dating also comes with a new cost: forking over money for dating apps. In a 2022 Pew <a target="_blank" href="https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2023/02/02/the-who-where-and-why-of-online-dating-in-the-u-s/?utm_source=npr_newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=20240202&amp;utm_term=9250242&amp;utm_campaign=money&amp;utm_id=8562679&amp;orgid=128&amp;utm_att1=#paid-to-use-a-dating-site-or-app">poll</a> of adults who were online dating, 35% said that they'd paid to use one. Messing recommended paying for HingeX — <a target="_blank" href="https://www.fastcompany.com/90849674/hinge-is-rolling-out-its-50-per-month-subscription-on-thursday">$50 a month</a> — and <a target="_blank" href="https://bumble.com/en-us/the-buzz/bumble-premium">Bumble Premium</a>, which runs about <a target="_blank" href="https://mashable.com/review/bumble-premium-review">$40 a month</a>. Hoffman doesn't have a uniform recommendation for dating apps but said people should pay for what's important to them. Similarly, Poyser recommended paying for Hinge preferences."The average dater that only started using dating apps in the last five or 10 years has what I feel like is an unrealistic expectation of what they should get from a free dating-app experience," Hoffman said. She added: "A lot of the apps are breaking out the different levels of service, different features that you can pay for, and it's kind of like streaming television. You just pay for the ones that you are going to use."You could also choose to employ a dating coach. Messing's services run $25,000 for a four-month program. Hoffman's costs range from $9 into the five figures; she said her most popular program was group coaching, which costs $2,500. Poyser said that she charged $200 for her initial one-hour session and then $150 for bundled sessions afterward.After adding up all the direct and implicit costs of dating, the price of finding that special someone rang in at about $1,000 for around 12 dates. Adjusting for inflation, that would've come out to about $800 in 2019 — without accounting for the loneliness and geographical shifts the pandemic caused, where people are willing to spend more to find friends. Notably, the $50 paid version of Hinge that our coaches recommended rolled <a target="_blank" href="https://www.fastcompany.com/90849674/hinge-is-rolling-out-its-50-per-month-subscription-on-thursday">out in 2023</a>, and <a target="_blank" href="https://fortune.com/2023/09/22/tinder-500-a-month-subscription/">pricier app</a> <a target="_blank" href="https://www.platformer.news/grindr-ai-boyfriend-wingman-monetization-paid-taps/">offerings</a> are a more recent invention all around.And that's just the cost to get into a relationship. Even deeper down the romantic path, couples face <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/average-wedding-cost-in-biggest-metro-areas-of-us-2023-2">the soaring cost of weddings</a> — not to mention the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/millennial-gen-z-parents-struggle-lonely-childcare-costs-money-friends-2023-11">rising price of being a parent</a>.<h2>What does that mean for all of us?</h2>The daters out there might not be too surprised to learn that getting into a relationship is expensive — though even I was taken aback by just how much I'd been sinking into finding a partner.But the rising costs of dating aren't just an issue for the lonely hearts of America, they also point to a growing problem for everyone in the US: The things that bring us joy, happiness, or meaning are all getting more expensive. Dinner out with friends is <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/food-prices-cheapest-option-groceries-restaurants-fast-food-2023-12">more expensive</a>. Going on vacation is <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/young-people-booking-vacations-despite-finances-debt-summer-economy-travel-2024-6">getting pricier</a>. Owning a pet <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/protect-finances-pets-likely-recession-2022-11">will cost you more</a>.Even those who have moved beyond the cycle of dating and into building a family are facing these price pressures. <a target="_blank" href="https://www.brookings.edu/articles/middle-class-marriage-is-declining-and-likely-deepening-inequality/">Research</a> <a target="_blank" href="https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.30.2.79">has found</a> that <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/american-marriage-family-structure-kids-over-2023-9">marriage is becoming increasingly reserved</a> for the wealthy and more educated. Some people are happily opting not to have children, while others are finding themselves pushed into a child-free existence because they can't afford to have kids. But even with the high up-front cost of dating, getting into a long-term relationship might pay off in the long run. Solo Americans often come up against what's known as the "singles tax": They're <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/rent-higher-singles-tax-living-alone-new-york-san-francisco-2024-2">paying thousands more than couples to live alone</a> and need to make nearly (if not more than) six figures to <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/single-family-city-living-costs-income-nyc-la-inflation-rates-2024-3">live comfortably</a>.Keenan, the Seattle dater still looking for love, is keenly aware of the singles tax."Bills are made for a household," he told me. "I'm paying the same amount on my sewer and my garbage and my gas as I would if I had four people living in my apartment as I do with one person living in my apartment. There's nothing that is intended to be comfortable for one person."As things get more expensive, the singles tax gets worse — creating an ever-increasing price for singledom."Just because I haven't found my person, suddenly society's expecting me to pay more because I'm living alone," Keenan said.But Keenan's still out there. For about six to eight months, he tried to just meet people in person — which, as he noted, is often cheaper. Bumping into somebody at a bar means they probably already have a drink, and it's less formal than a sit-down dinner.Keenan's status, though, might be familiar to fellow beleaguered daters out there: He's back on the apps. It's a fate we all may have to resign ourselves to in the era of modern dating. It looks like those $12 first-date cocktails aren't going anywhere anytime soon (and they soon may be $20 cocktails). The only question is what new paywall might emerge in pursuit of a partner.<a target="_blank" rel="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/author/juliana-kaplan">Juliana Kaplan</a> is a senior labor and inequality reporter on Insider's economy team.

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Looking for love while living overseas can get complicated.</li><li>Dating abroad doesn't always work the way it does at home – and personalities don't always translate across languages.</li></ul><a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/dating">Dating is complicated</a>. Finding love while living abroad can seem impossible.I've been living overseas for more than 15 years. I had just gotten married when I left New York and moved to Singapore, so I never had the experience of <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/passport-bros-tiktok-digital-nomads-us-citizen-travel-abroad-2023-5">dating outside the US</a>. But over the years, I've seen it go both ways: Some single expat friends have found love, while others have moved back home, finding it too hard to date abroad. One woman in my network even went back to New York, found a man, and moved back to Asia with him after tying the knot.After spending over a year editing stories for Business Insider about different women's experiences — from a <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/single-mom-dating-men-without-kids-no-fathers-less-complicated-2024-4">single mom in Spain</a> who makes it a point to avoid single dads, to a teacher in China who relies heavily on the support of her therapist when looking for Mr. Right — I've compiled a list of dating advice.One common thing most of them have told me is that they have no interest in returning home.<h2 id="aa615928-c31d-42e6-aa10-dda5b7b67e4a">1. There can be benefits to dates gone wrong</h2>People are usually looking for more than love when <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/relocation-regret-biggest-mistake-lesson-2024-4">moving to a new city</a>; they also need friends.Sonya Matejko <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/what-american-pays-living-in-vienna-most-liveable-city-2024-4">moved from the US to Vienna</a> in 2022 at 31. She found that dating can be a great way to explore a new city. "I learned quickly that dating a local was the best way to discover the best parts of a town and find its little hidden gems," she said.Matejko also credits dating with helping her make friends."We realized on the date that we weren't a fit romantically, but he's still one of my closest friends. And this is not the only time this has happened — a guy I dated in Poland also turned into a dear friend, and I've even gone to stay with him in Brussels to celebrate his getting a new job," she said.<div type="image" title="Woman in a hat, wearing sunglasses, holding a glass of wine in Switzerland." height="576" width="768" msid="113077542" hostid="261" sizebytes="61602"></div><h2 id="415ec707-0e88-49b8-a8ff-abde6456e6fb">2. Long distance can only last so long</h2>Dena Roché's first <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/dating-long-distance-relationship-online-success-married-switzerland-2024-7">long-distance relationship</a> lasted for three years and, at first, felt like a fairy tale. They would meet up in cities like Rome, London, and Paris and spend extended time in each of their hometowns, but she said it never felt real."While we did spend time in each other's world, it still had that vacation-like quality. We had to maximize the little time we had with each other, we couldn't be bothered with the mundane tasks that make up a life," she said.Luckily for Roché, the second time she met someone living far away, she was able to get him to relocate.<h2 id="3d19eeeb-4364-47c4-9e0f-90e9ef07125c">3. Plan a dating event</h2>Candice Gallagher had faced challenges with dating in the US, England, and Switzerland, but she found it to be the most difficult when she <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/british-expat-bought-one-way-ticket-to-singapore-2024-8">moved to Singapore</a> in 2019."I found there was a very small pool of people who fit into the same cultural space I operated in. It was like I was trying to go fishing in a very small pond," she said about her experience.When she came across a video on TikTok of a group in the US who had set up a dating event, she felt inspired to do the same in Singapore."I ended up hosting a dating event called 'Singlepore.' It was pretty amazing. It reflects a desire for offline, real-world ways to connect with people," she said.<h2 id="874f75ef-eb15-4961-820a-298bdcc71afb">4. Find a therapist for emotional support</h2>Danielle Marcano was bored with her life in Philadelphia and applied for a job in northern China. She made the move overseas in 2019 at 25, and although she was satisfied with her career progression, she found <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/moved-america-to-china-feel-lonely-find-dating-difficult-2024-1">dating to be the most challenging</a> part of her new life overseas.Language barriers made it hard for her to date local Chinese men, and she said the majority of the single expats she's encountered had little interest in anything serious.Despite struggling through heartbreak and self-doubt, she's determined to stick with it: "I'm confident that the support system I've built here — my therapist, friends, and life coaches — will help me build the confidence I need to return to the dating scene." Weekly online therapy has become a staple.<div type="image" title="Woman on the beach" height="920" width="1226" msid="113077538" hostid="261" sizebytes="175166"></div><h2 id="3555699e-d658-48d6-ac8b-10f75bd0a4d1">5. Don't expect dating to work the same way it did at home</h2><a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/what-dating-is-like-in-different-countries-2018-5">Cultural expectations differ when it comes to dating</a>, so it's helpful to get some local insight.On top of that, personality can get lost in translation.Nicola Prentis, a single expat, moved to Spain in 2012. Over the years, she has <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/single-dating-spain-language-barriers-avoid-locals-lost-in-translation-2024-5">tried dating in Spanish</a> but has found that she never feels like herself."I've come to prefer people who speak English and don't make fun of my Spanish, just so they get to know the real me and not this version of me who's sometimes bolshy, sometimes overly agreeable, and often inattentive. After all, I wouldn't date me in Spanish," she wrote.Who pays on first dates can also cause confusion. In the US, dating is typically casual, and in heterosexual relationships, it's long been the norm for men to pick up the tab.One woman who was single when she <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/spain-dating-locals-tinder-clubbing-split-bill-living-with-parents-2024-8">moved to Spain</a> was surprised to find that most of the local men she went on dates with expected to split the dinner bill.When local friends told her that was a common practice, she realized there was no need to get offended — or assume the man had no potential for her.

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<ul><li>Monsoon is likely to hit Kerala on June 8. </li><li>With the monsoon delayed for another week, heatwaves in Northern India are going to continue. </li></ul><a href="https://sites.google.com/a/iitgn.ac.in/high_resolution_south_asia_drought_monitor/drought-early-warning-system/dews-india">With the early drought warning hovering over 43.3% parts of the country</a>, people in India aren’t going to get relieved from heat waves for another week. However<a href="http://www.imd.gov.in/pages/monsoon_main.php?adta=PDF&amp;adtb=6"> the monsoon is likely to begin within 48 hours</a> in Kerala and would take at least seven days to reach the central and western regions of the country. 
 
 <div type="ExtQuote" text="Heavy to Very heavy rainfall at isolated places likely over Assam &amp; Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram &amp; Tripura, South Interior Karnataka and Kerala &amp; Mahe on June 8. Heavy rainfall at isolated places likely over Tamilnadu, Puducherry &amp; Karaikal, Lakshadweep, Rayalaseema and Odisha" auname="— Special daily Weather Report by the India Meteorological Department"></div>




 Temperature in Rajasthan’s Churu soared to 50 degree Celsius on June 1— the day when monsoon normally hits Southern parts of India. Many parts of the country are struggling with heat waves with the maximum temperature between 45 degrees to 50 degree Celsius. According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), heat waves were expected in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra's Vidarbha region, Telangana and coastal Andhra Pradesh. <a href="http://www.imd.gov.in/pages/monsoon_main.php?adta=JPG&amp;adtb=1">Expected Monsoon dates in key parts of India </a> <table style="border-width: initial; border-style: none; width: 468pt;"></colgroup><tbody><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;">State </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;">Normal Monsoon onset date </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;">Delayed till (Approximate)* </td></tr><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;">Kerala </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;">1 June </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;">8 June </td></tr><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;">Tamil Nadu </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;">1 June </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;">8 June </td></tr><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;">Odisha </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;">10 June </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;">17 June </td></tr><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;">Maharashtra </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;">10 June </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;">17 June </td></tr><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;">New Delhi </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;">29 June </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;">5 July </td></tr><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;">West Bengal </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;">10 June </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;">17 June </td></tr><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;">Bihar </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;">10 June </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;">17 June </td></tr><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;">Andhra Pradesh </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;">1 June </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;">8 June </td></tr><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;">Karnataka </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;">5 June </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;">13 June </td></tr><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;">Haryana </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;">1 July </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;">8 July </td></tr><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;">Punjab </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;">1 July </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;">8 July </td></tr><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;">Uttar Pradesh </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;"> </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;"> </td></tr><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;">Madhya Pradesh </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;">15 June </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;">22 June </td></tr><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;">Meghalaya </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;">5 June </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;">13 June </td></tr><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;">Chattisgarh </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;">10 June </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;">18 June </td></tr><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;">Rajasthan </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;">1 July </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;">8 July </td></tr></tbody></table>*These are expected dates and may differ from the actual dates. This has been the second driest pre-monsoon season in the last 65 years, with the lowest being recorded in 2012 when countrywide cumulative rainfall deficiency had mounted to 31 per cent, according Private forecaster Skymet The heatwaves are expected to become severe in New Delhi and other northern cities in the coming days and the mercury is expected to breach 45 degrees Celsius. The National Capital Region along with Haryana and Punjab may get some relief due rains and thunderstorm led by western disturbances after June 11. 
 
 <div type="ExtQuote" text="Usually monsoon arrives in Delhi on June 29. However, this time it is expected to be delayed by a week. It may come in the first week of July" auname="Mahesh Palawat, Director at the private forecaster Skymet."></div>





 Delhi on Wednesday recorded a maximum temperature of 44.6 degrees Celsius, three notches above the season's average. (With IANS)

Monsoon to hit Kerala tomorrow, heatwave in Northern India to last another week

<ul class="summary-list"><li>I started dating a guy nearly 20 years younger than me until I realized he was dating another woman.</li><li>When I reached out to the other woman, we learned we were both lied to.</li></ul>In the fall of 2019, a man I didn't know sent me a friend request on Facebook. Usually, I delete messages from <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/went-to-beyonce-concert-with-stranger-had-a-blast-2023-8">total strangers</a>. But I was single and feeling insecure and lonely after a bad breakup. Our chat about fitness and nutrition turned into a fling.One day, after a particularly steamy encounter, he commented about his upcoming birthday. He said he'd be turning 30 next week and felt so old. I almost choked on my spit as I tried to process the fact that meant he was 19 years <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/dating-younger-men-pros-cons-2024-6">younger than me</a>. How had we never discussed age?Things remained casual for over a year until I committed to seeing only him, as he assured me that he was 100% mine.That was until I learned the truth, and he brought me to my new <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/moved-away-best-friend-long-distance-struggle-2024-3">best friend</a>.<h2 id="b4a54c26-1a46-488b-a68e-ba87994ca1c2">Our relationship was rocky</h2>When we were together, everything was great. When we weren't, communication was hit-and-miss. I found myself crying more than smiling.Once, he was three hours late for our Valentine's <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/stopping-date-night-saved-my-marriage-2024-2">dinner date</a> at my house, and I believed the excuses for his silence: "I left my phone in the car," "My phone died," or "I was out of the service area.In September 2022, a random conversation with his mother became a grenade when she casually mentioned his <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/friends-with-partners-girlfriend-metamour-polyamory-2024-7">new girlfriend</a>. She didn't know we were an item; he had asked me not to tell her, so she assumed I was only his friend.Hours later, I emerged from my daze. I finally told his mom that we had been dating for two years but that I was done. His mother gave me <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/being-the-other-woman-workplace-romance-red-flags-2024-3">the other woman's</a> number.<h2 id="ef445222-2503-433d-b022-96576c93d733">The other woman and I built a friendship</h2>I took her <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-support">phone number</a> and held my breath as I dialed — not knowing what to expect. The conversation was a bit awkward at first, as neither of us knew where to start. There were stunned moments of silence, laughter, and tears. We both kept muttering the words: "How could I have been so stupid?"We both thought we were the only one in his life. We both had received the exact same Thanksgiving text. We had been with him within hours of each other on multiple occasions.We met and went for a hike. We had similar features and <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/kibbe-body-type-dress-well-mom-daughter-2023-12">body types</a>, were educated, and had dry senses of humor. We talked multiple times a day, cutting our therapy bills by thousands of dollars since we were able to validate each other and unravel the lies from the previous two years. Case in point, I learned that he had not been out of cell range; he had been with her on Valentine's Day when I was trying to keep our dinner warm for three hours.People raised an eyebrow when they heard that we were friends. "Isn't that weird?" they'd ask. It really wasn't so strange. After all, there was a reason he picked both of us: He had a type, and we weren't dissimilar. There was also now a <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trauma-bonding-explains-why-people-often-stay-in-abusive-relationships-2017-8">trauma bond</a> between us, and we tried to sort through our disbelief and pain together.This year, we celebrated Valentine's Day together on a tropical vacation. We still workout together and talk daily. It's not about him anymore, as we recognize that we were both victims of an elaborate emotional con.We reflect on how far we've come, having picked up the pieces of distrust and lies. We have constructed new, healthier paths forward for ourselves.Our silver lining is that we now have each other — even if the way we met was through him.

I dated a younger guy until I learned he had another girlfriend. I became good friends with the other woman.

<ul class="summary-list"><li>As a single mother who works from home, Nicola Prentis found that dating apps were the only way to meet new men.</li><li>App dating led to endless messaging, and even being ghosted, so she opted for long bouts of celibacy.</li></ul>In 2019, after <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/single-mom-not-allowed-bring-kids-home-spain-hague-convention-2024-1">becoming a single mother</a> with only alternate weekends free to date, I joined Tinder, then OK Cupid, and even spent time on Bumble.I had lived in seven countries, given birth to my two sons, and gone through a difficult breakup, but at this point was happily settled as a writer working from my home in Spain. The downside was that <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/single-mom-dating-men-without-kids-no-fathers-less-complicated-2024-4">meeting men in real life</a> was highly unlikely. I decided to give online dating another shot. I'd done it circa 2013, had a lot of fun, and found both long-term romances and friendships.But, since then, the apps seemed to have changed the way dating worked. Instead of spending plenty of time on dates, like in the past, I spent most of my time on the apps having boring conversations that led nowhere. It was bad but not — yet — quite enough to make me abandon the apps and choose celibacy.<h2 id="14463aff-fd6d-4386-ac49-66e2f21e57cf">I was cruelly ghosted by an app hook-up</h2>But then, I swiped on a truly interesting, attractive guy who lived a few minutes away. On our first in-person date, he brought wine and cooked me dinner in my kitchen. I returned the favor the next time. He spontaneously told me how much he liked me and seemed genuine and affectionate. Until, after three dates in three weeks, he suddenly ghosted me completely, including pointedly turning in the opposite direction on the street whenever we ran into each other.With no friends in common, nor real-life links, it was easy for him to cut me dead. Hurt and with my self-confidence knocked, I deleted all the apps soon after. If they were the only game in town, I wasn't playing.This is a big part of why <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/bumble-billboard-ads-celibacy-not-answer-dating-backlash-tiktok-2024-5">Bumble's recent ad campaign</a> got it so wrong. The campaign featured billboards with messages that included: "You know full well a vow of celibacy is not the answer." Another one read: "Thou shalt not give up on dating and become a nun."Celibacy and a different approach to dating are, to me, the only answers to the kind of dehumanizing behavior the apps today provoke. <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/bumble-ceo-rethinks-if-women-required-message-first-2024-3">Bumble</a> has since removed the ads and vowed to make donations to the National Domestic Violence Hotline.Instead of apps, I've found a real-life way to date, one that is about quality and meaningful connection and that works for me, even if it has meant celibate periods of up to two years at a time.<h2 id="f29cb7a2-64c2-48fb-8dbe-5d6b9f36f699">Old friends make amazing new partners</h2>It started with a friend of 10 years. We'd always been close, and when I was newly single, he invited me to visit him in Ireland. In texts, he came right out and suggested we hook up. At first, I was coy, then curious, then enjoying the flirtation because I knew it was safe to. When I arrived, I had to let myself into his flat with a key he had hidden because he was away. He was due to get back a few hours after me, by which time I was asleep in his bed — that's how secure and relaxed I was.Fast forward a sex-free year-and-a-half to when a friend of about 14 years, who'd always held a candle for me, invited me to Istanbul. It didn't work out as we weren't sexually compatible, but we're still friends. Why wouldn't we be after all those years and history?Almost two celibate years later, another longtime friend of friends re-entered my life. We'd been on a couple of dinner-only dates nine years earlier which turned out to be the basis for a wonderful, weekend-long third date. A short couple of months after that, my brother-in-law's best friend, who I mostly <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/couple-scheduled-first-kiss-on-google-calendar-took-away-anxiety-2023-2">knew through Facebook</a>, struck up a conversation that led to two fun trips to the UK.Resurrecting old flames and <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/friend-dates-intentional-romantic-partner-2023-11">deepening long-term male friendships </a>has been more fun and more rewarding than swiping strangers despite the months of celibacy in between.<div type="image" title="Woman in a green sweater sitting on a chair with a laptop" height="1638" width="2048" msid="110357861" hostid="261" sizebytes="316106"></div><h2 id="047df2d2-b4ea-4700-bf75-91be04e53375">Celibacy might suck, but it's better than the apps</h2>Excluding that disastrous internet date, the average length of time I've known a guy before sleeping with him is 12 years. That includes a guy I <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/reconnected-decades-later-dumped-text-long-distance-2024-5">dated 21 years ago</a> and recently reconnected with, and an outlier, someone I've known only one year before our friendship took a romantic turn. But, since single parenting and work take up most of my time, it would be hard to meet anyone new. And slow and celibate is my choice over the apps.That the friendship is — or was at some point — solid is essential to me. <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/gen-z-dating-trend-online-apps-friends-romantic-partners-relationships-2023-3">Dating apps</a> throw people together with none of the social glue that binds us in our IRL trusted networks. Some guy who swiped right is basically a complete stranger, even after a few dates or sleeping together. If I don't know his family or friends, and he doesn't know mine, who even is he? And, more importantly, who am I to him?I trust men I have a history with even if I don't expect, or necessarily want, us to be together forever. But I know these long friendships, and even the acquaintances that are meshed into my friends and family, aren't going to disappear overnight. I trust that someone who has stayed in touch ever since we met will continue to care enough to check in and see how I'm doing.Some people might call this style of dating "friends with benefits," but I don't. All too often, that's shorthand for a shallow, no-commitment hookup. But the way I see it, the friendship is the benefit. And long may I benefit from this kind of relationship, even with its lengthy periods of celibacy. I'd choose that over the soulless <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/linkedin-is-a-dating-app-remote-work-online-romance-2024-1">dating app experience</a> any day.Got a personal essay about life as a single parent that you want to share? Get in touch with the editor: <a target="_blank" href="mailto:akarplus@businessinsider.com">akarplus@businessinsider.com</a>.

Celibacy might suck, but it's better than dating apps. Hooking up with old friends is the way to go.

New Delhi [India], July 20 (ANI): The Monsoon session of <keyword id="6354721" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="parliament" source="Orion">Parliament</keyword> begins on Thursday amidst outrage over the situation in <keyword id="6359754" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="manipur" source="Orion">Manipur</keyword> with the Opposition demanding a statement from the Prime Minister of India. Parliamentary Affairs Minister <keyword id="145705" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="prahlad-joshi" source="Orion">Prahlad Joshi</keyword> has said that 31 bills will be taken up in the monsoon session. Among these include the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2023. Other important legislations that are expected to be taken up in the Session are the Bill to replace the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi (Amendment) Ordinance, 2023, promulgated in May this year. The ordinance deals with the control of services in Delhi and was promulgated after the Supreme Court verdict on an appeal by the Delhi government. Parliamentary Affairs Minister yesterday said that 34 parties and 44 leaders participated in the all-party meeting convened by the government for smooth conduct of the monsoon session which will continue to till August 11 and will have 17 sittings. Other Bills on the agenda of the government include Cinematograph (Amendment) Bill, 2019; DNA Technology (Use and Application) Regulation Bill, 2019; Mediation Bill, 2021; Biological Diversity (Amendment) Bill, 2022 ; Multi-State Cooperative Societies (Amendment) Bill, 2022; Repealing and Amending Bill, 2022; Jan Vishwas (Amendment of Provisions) Bill, 2023; Forest (Conservation) Amendment Bill, 2023; Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order (Third Amendment) Bill, 2022 (with respect to State of Himachal Pradesh); Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order (Fifth Amendment) Bill, 2022 (with respect to State of Chhattisgarh); Postal Services Bill, 2023; National Cooperative University Bill, 2023; and Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains (Amendment) Bill, 2023. The list also includes International Monetary Fund and Bank Bill, 2023; Provisional Collection of Taxes Bill, 2023 18; the National Dental Commission Bill, 2023; National Nursing and Midwifery Commission Bill, 2023; Drugs, Medical Devices and Cosmetics Bill, 2023; Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Bill, 2023; <keyword id="6357972" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="jammu" source="Orion">Jammu</keyword> and Kashmir Reservation (Amendment) Bill, 2023; Cinematograph (Amendment) Bill, 2023; Press and Registration of Periodicals Bill, 2023; Advocates (Amendment) Bill, 2023; Mines and Mineral (Development and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2023. Railways (Amendment) Bill, 2023; National Research Foundation Bill, 2023; Constitution (Jammu and Kashmir) Scheduled Castes Order (Amendment) Bill, 2023; Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order (Amendment) Bill, 2023 and the Constitution (Jammu and Kashmir) Scheduled Tribes Order (Amendment) Bill, 2023 are also among the 31 bills on the agenda of the government. Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2023, was approved by the Union Cabinet earlier this month. This government had withdrawn Personal Data Protection Bill from Parliament in August last and said that it will come up with a fresh bill. Supreme Court had ruled in 2017 that privacy is a fundamental right and the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2023, is a crucial pillar of the overarching framework of technology regulations being framed by the Centre. The previous version of the bill had come after an extensive consultation process with a Joint Parliamentary Committee also examining it. The government has held another round of consultations to frame the new bill. The Bill to replace the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi (Amendment) Ordinance, 2023, seeks to establish the National Capital Civil Services Authority, which consists of the Chief Minister, Chief Secretary of Delhi, Principal Home Secretary of Delhi. The Authority will make recommendations to the Lieutenant Governor (LG) regarding transfers and postings of officials and disciplinary matters. While the government is expected to give push to its legislative agenda, the Opposition parties have planned to raise several issues including Manipur violence, railway safety, unemployment, inflation, India-China border standoff and trade imbalance between the two countries. Pralhad Joshi said the government has sought the Opposition's support in the smooth functioning of the Parliament during the Monsoon Session. "The government is ready to discuss all issues in the Monsoon Session. We have appealed to the Opposition parties to support in the smooth functioning of the Parliament," Joshi said after the all-party meeting yesterday. Some of the parties have planned to move an adjournment motion over Manipur violence among other issues on day one of the Parliament's Monsoon Session today. The opposition insisted that the discussion should take place in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Congress on Wednesday said that the party will raise Manipur violence during the session. "Today, in the beginning (of the meeting), I kept my point. Our first issue is the violence in Manipur. Prime Minister should come and answer in Parliament. We will bring adjourment motion over the matter tomorrow," Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Choudhary said after attending the all-party meeting. <keyword id="6355187" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="lok-sabha" source="Orion">Lok Sabha</keyword> Speaker Om Birla also chaired a meeting of the Business Advisory Committee ahead of the session. He said, leaders of all parties have assured cooperation in the proceedings of the House. (ANI)

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Alike is a new dating and friendship <keyword id="11896037" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="app" source="Orion">app</keyword> for the <keyword id="12368106" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="asian" source="Orion">Asian</keyword> and Pacific Islander communities.</li><li>The app was created by Hanmin Yang, a Korean-Canadian entrepreneur living in Toronto.</li></ul>Hanmin Yang, a Korean-Canadian entrepreneur living in Toronto, experienced a lot of racism as a kid growing up in Canada. Without many childhood friends, he spent a lot of time consuming popular films and TV, and he internalized racism because of how Asians were portrayed. Decades later, following <a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/5vLVi3Gw75duw8FftUW047?si=ya_Py7MBRleXyn7d00LZiQ&amp;dl_branch=1ch=1">a divorce and multiple career pivots</a>, he got the idea to create an app where users could connect and heal from past racial traumas together.That led to <a href="https://www.alike.social/">Alike</a>, a dating and friendship app for the Asian and Pacific Islander community that recently launched in Canada and the US. The video-based platform aims to "celebrate the Asian experience" by fostering meaningful connections between its users to build a sense of community, according to its website.<div type="image" title="Alike founder Hanmin Yang." height="3521" width="5152" msid="87210595" hostid="261"></div>Yang started developing Alike in 2019 as a <keyword id="11911255" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="dating-app" source="Orion">dating app</keyword> meant to be a safe space for Asian and <keyword id="12368107" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="pacific-islanders" source="Orion">Pacific Islanders</keyword>. In his research, Yang saw an app <a href="https://www.gq.com/story/eastmeeteast-asians-only-dating-app">targeting East Asians</a> that deeply disturbed him."It was so disgusting for the female Asian fetish," Yang said. "For one example, the women used the app for free, but the men would pay."He wanted to create an app that fights the hypersexualization of Asian women and the emasculation of Asian men, both phenomena rooted in historical xenophobic propaganda, anti-immigration sentiment, and depictions by old Hollywood films - phenomena still <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/18/movies/asian-pacific-islanders-film.html">reinforced today</a> by our current TV shows and movies.At the same time, Yang said Alike is meant to be complementary to the mainstream <keyword id="11970843" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="dating-apps" source="Orion">dating apps</keyword> we all know."We're not saying only date other Asians," Yang said. "Users typically are using three to four dating <keyword id="11975316" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="apps" source="Orion">apps</keyword> simultaneously, so we're just providing another option."Preferences can be for dating can be set for seeking a man, woman, or nonbinary person in any combo. When female users began requesting a feature for making friends, Yang expanded Alike, and only users of the same gender can connect with one another in the friendship feature of Alike so it's not abused.Alike reinforces finding meaningful connections by designing a few things differently than mainstream apps.<div type="image" title="A profile on dating and friendship app Alike." height="2183" width="1097" msid="87210596" hostid="261"></div>Instead of written bios, the app requires at least one video recording to be uploaded. Using prompts like "I knew when I was Asian when…" or "My love languages are…", the video clips allow users to get a first impression of the other person by seeing and hearing them talk, which several users told Insider they loved.One user in Brooklyn told Insider the video portion "offers something new and acts as a gate to keep out people who aren't willing to put in effort," while another user said it "gives further legitimacy to profiles here." While people of non-Asian Pacific Islander descent can join the app, there's an option to match with everyone or only users of Asian and Pacific Islander descent, making it easier to navigate the vast spectrum of diversity within the group. Any users who join who aren't of Asian Pacific Islander descent are expected to be respectful of the community.To "like" a user, you have to attach a message in response to a video or photo in that person's profile, initiating a conversation. <div type="image" title="A chat on dating and friendship app Alike." height="2183" width="1097" msid="87210599" hostid="261"></div>There's also no classic dating app swipe feature. "I didn't want the simplified approach where it's designed to swipe through based all on how someone looks," Yang said. "This forces you to watch their videos and get a good sense of whether this is someone you'd actually like to connect to." Many early users told Insider it has been easy to find commonalities with matches on Alike.Abigail Asuncion, an Alike friendship user in Toronto, said she connected to other users about common interests that were brought up from the video prompts, like gaming and food. "I connected to one girl about 'Vita Lemon Drink,'" Asuncion said. "Growing up, only Asians know and have had this drink because it's typically sold in Asian grocery stores. It was one of the pictures on her profile and right away we clicked!"<div type="image" title="A profile on dating and friendship app Alike." height="1725" width="1080" msid="87210600" hostid="261"></div>One user, who grew up in Hershey, Pennsylvania, appreciates how the design of Alike does some of the groundwork in finding connections through prompts."A lot of responses are similar to how I feel about topics, and it makes me feel less isolated," they said. "Especially as someone who grew up in an area without many Asians to interact with, it's nice to see that some of the quirks I have aren't unique to me."A new user said he looks forward to how Alike may be different from other apps. "I appreciate that [Alike] provides preferences to Asians as a filtering method," he said. "For me it's a big plus, but by no means a necessity. It helps if a potential match can resonate with you culturally to some degree or at least can empathize with how that culture shapes and affects your relationship dynamics."Jude Santos, based in southern California, was a beta user who started using Alike for dating. Most of the people he connected with were far away, so he's preferred to make friends for now, but remains optimistic about Alike."Unlike other apps, I know with Alike there's [an element of] shared experience, knowing my potential partner is of Asian descent," Santos said. <div type="image" title="Dating and friendship app Alike." height="2183" width="1097" msid="87210601" hostid="261"></div>Yang hopes users on Alike find a stronger sense of belonging and become more open after sharing life experiences. This may be especially timely as Alike's launch is in the midst of a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/09/25/us/asian-americans.html">rise in anti-Asian hate</a> crimes, too reminiscent of the hate and Islamophobia that South Asians had to endure 20 years ago post-9/11. Alike was started pre-pandemic, so Yang said its development was not influenced by it directly. But he has noticed the community becoming more aware of an undercurrent of anti-Asian racism, more interested in their heritage, and taking notice of Alike's mission."What I really want users to take away from their experience is finding self-love in the process of connecting with others," Yang said. "We're trying to heal our community and through loving yourself you can find healing,"Right now, healing and finding a way to move forward as a community may be more important than ever.

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>DA Fani Willis and the top prosecutor in Donald Trump's Georgia case admit a relationship.</li><li>Willis says this shouldn't disqualify her from the Trump case.</li></ul><a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/fani-willis-defends-prosecutor-trump-georgia-election-improper-relationship-allegations-2024-1">Fani Willis, </a>the Fulton County, Georgia, district attorney prosecuting former President <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/donald-trump">Donald Trump</a> and 18 of his allies over 2020 election interference, admitted to having a relationship with the man she appointed to special prosecutor in the case.In a new court filing on Friday, attorneys for Willis hit back at demands to disqualify her over <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/fani-willis-accused-improperly-dating-prosecutor-trump-co-defendant-2024-1">allegations that she had an "improper" romantic relationship</a> with special prosecutor Nathan Wade.The highly-anticipated court filing was in response to a January 8 motion that was filed by a lawyer for one of the co-defendants in the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-rico-charge-meaning-racketeering-definition-2023-8">racketeering case</a>, former Trump campaign staffer Michael Roman.That motion alleged that the relationship began while Wade — who filed for divorce from Joycelyn Wade on November 2, 2021 — was married. The divorce filing came a day after Willis appointed Wade to spearhead the probe into Trump and others' efforts to overturn Trump's Georgia loss during the 2020 presidential election.In Willis' response to the motion on Friday, her attorney argued that the efforts to disqualify her have "no merit" and "should be summarily denied without an evidentiary hearing.""While the allegations raised in the various motions are salacious and garnered the media attention they were designed to obtain, none provide this Court with any basis upon which to order the relief they seek," the filing from Willis' attorneys says.Willis' lawyers wrote that she never benefited financially from a relationship with Nathan Wade and that she has no financial or personal conflict of interest that justifies disqualification."To be absolutely clear, the personal relationship between Special Prosecutor Wade and District Attorney Willis has never involved direct or indirect financial benefit to District Attorney Willis," the filing read.Willis' attorneys also pointed to "at least two personal relationships" between lawyers for defendants in the election interference case "that, under the standard urged by the Roman's motion, would almost certainly require disqualification."An affidavit from Wade was included in the Friday filing in which he admitted to having a relationship with Willis."While professional associates and friends since 2019, there was no personal relationship between District Attorney Willis and me prior to or at the time of my appointment as special prosecutor in 2021," Nathan Wade said, according to the filing."In 2022, District Attorney Willis and I developed a personal relationship in addition to our professional association and friendship," said Nathan Wade, according to the court documents.Roman's lawyer accused Willis of benefiting financially from hiring Wade because he paid for her extravagant vacations, but Wade said they share all travel costs.<div type="image" title="Nathan Wade, the Georgia lawyer who admitted he had a relationship with Fulton County DA Fani Willis, addresses the judge in a recent hearing." height="2333" width="3500" msid="107371346" hostid="261"></div>"The District Attorney and I are both financially independent professionals; expenses for personal travel were roughly divided equally between us," he wrote. "At times I have made and purchased travel for District Attorney Willis and myself from my personal funds."Roman's motion suggested that Willis benefited from the hundreds of thousands of dollars Nathan Wade was paid for his work on the case because he went on to pay for their travel to places like Napa Valley, Florida, and the Caribbean. The motion also claimed that Nathan Wade also bought tickets for him and Willis to go on cruises."As the layers unfold, it becomes clear that the district attorney and the special prosecutor have been profiting personally from this prosecution at Fulton County's expense," Roman's motion, which does not provide any proof, said.The motion calls "the entire prosecution" "invalid and unconstitutional" and seeks to get the criminal indictment against Roman tossed and to disqualify Willis, an elected Democrat, her office, and Nathan Wade from prosecuting the case.Attorneys for Trump, along with his co-defendant, lawyer Robert Cheeley, have also joined in on the motion filed by Merchant, Roman's lawyer.Trump, who was quick to weigh in on the allegations of an interoffice affair, posted to Truth Social Friday about Willis' response. "Fani Willis, the D.A. of Fulton County, just admitted to having a sexual relationship with the Prosecutor she, in consultation with the White House and DOJ, appointed to 'GET PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP,'" he wrote."By going after the most high level person, and the Republican Nominee, she was able to get her "lover" much more money, almost a Million Dollars, than she would be able to get for the prosecution of any other person or individual. THAT MEANS THAT THIS SCAM IS TOTALLY DISCREDITED &amp; OVER!"Meanwhile, legal expert and former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani told Business Insider the relationship is a "terrible look and a potential ethics violation" for Willis."But it's not a conflict of interest with respect to Trump or the co-defendants," Rahmani, the president and co-founder of West Coast Trial Lawyers, told Business Insider.Rahmani said that Willis and Nathan Wade "should probably step down from the case due to the optics and have career prosecutors take over, but there is no legal requirement that they do so or effect if they do not."<div type="image" title="fani willis" height="1666" width="2500" msid="107371347" hostid="261"></div><h2>Wade and Willis are expected to testify</h2>Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee has scheduled a February 15 hearing on Roman's motion. Merchant has subpoenaed Willis and Nathan Wade to testify at that hearing.Later last month, lawyers for Joycelyn Wade had subpoenaed Willis for a deposition in the divorce proceedings. In a court filing, an attorney for Willis argued that Joycelyn Wade was "using the legal process to harass and embarrass" Willis and was, in turn, "obstructing and interfering" with the election interference case.Joycelyn Wade's lawyers, in a filing in response, included <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/fani-willis-affair-claims-look-bad-impact-trump-case-experts-2024-1">credit card statements that showed Wade bought plane tickets</a> in October 2022 for him and Willis to go to Miami and booked tickets in their names for San Francisco.On Tuesday, Nathan and Joycelyn Wade reached a temporary divorce settlement, which canceled a Wednesday hearing at which Nathan Wade was expected to be grilled about his relationship with Willis, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.ajc.com/politics/fulton-da-willis-under-fire-whats-next/5QOSP6TJJZCXROPXR6BDAB3UZM/">according</a> to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

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