https://www.indiatoday.in/education-today/news/story/iit-madras-makes-its-computer-science-courses-available-to-the-public-1947329-2022-05-09

 Interview of Dr. Mallika Sarabhai, daughter of Dr. Vikram Sarabhai, by Kiran Chandra. https://youtube.com/watch?v=udX5jCrF8f4&si=9v5INc_1f-fCKoBF
Time to remember Dr. Vikram Sarabhai at such an historic moment. The man behind ISRO and many others public institutions like IIM Ahmedabad, ECIL, NID to name a few.

 जहाँ विकास अभी भी सपना ही है मध्य प्रदेश के गांव से ग्राउंड रिपोर्ट   Aug 23, 2023  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEUqQQTyWaM  An isolated village of Madhya Pradesh is still as isolated as it was several years back. Bamangaon of Harda District has no access to government policies and services. In this Ground Report, we bring out the issues of general public from the poll-bound state of Madhya Pradesh.

Centre blaming Myanmar migrants for Manipur violence is dangerous  https://frontline.thehindu.com/the-nation/centre-blaming-myanmar-migrants-for-manipur-violence-is-dangerous/article67212603.ece Aug 24, 2023 Angshuman Choudhury
Is New Delhi endorsing Meitei narrative or diverting from its failures? Until now, Shah had attributed the violence in Manipur to the precipitous Manipur High Court judgment in April that suggested the Scheduled Tribe status for the Meiteis. This was the first time Shah had named a particular community for the crisis in Manipur. And, he made a grievous “error” while doing so.

“A Kuki Democratic Front started a movement there, and the military rulers launched a crackdown on them. As there is no border fencing, a large number of Kuki brothers came to Manipur and Mizoram as refugees,” Shah told Parliament. He was referring to the armed resistance against the junta in Myanmar and the attendant refugee movement across the India-Myanmar border.

Yes, 29 Aug, he was in his room at Hotel Swagat in Raigad district of Odisha preparing for a Press Conf scheduled to be held at 4 pm to highlight atrocities agt Adivasis/Indigenous Ppl  https://twitter.com/leofsaldanha/status/1696740732009381974

Meera Sanghamitra @meeracomposes
Away from 'national news', 25 adivasi, dalit movement leaders from across South Odisha have been arrested in a sweeping crackdown by Govt. for resisting destructive mining projects of Adani, Vedanta, Hindalco. See Press Release of Ganatantrik Adhikar Surakhya Sangathan 

http://emeets.lnwr.in/index.php/4594-jagrit-adivasi-dalit-sangathan-activist-nitin-arrested-in-burhanpur 

Far-right monk Kalicharan Mahraj delivers communal speech targeting Muslims and called on Hindus to militarise themselves. https://twitter.com/HindutvaWatchIn/status/1696543308804129076?t=P5gwPPF82bin6OT-am2_UQ&s=08

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Will India be able to deal with Google’s adtech monopoly? https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/08/28/will-india-be-able-to-deal-with-googles-adtech-monopoly/ August 28, 2023 by Praneel Panchagavi

Publishers and advertisers across the world primarily utilize three main adtech services to facilitate their ads: publisher ad servers (to manage ad spaces), ad buying tools (to buy ads), and ad exchanges (wherein the supply and demand converge). Google acquired prominent service providers in these categories, namely; DoubleClick (2008), AdX (2008), and AdMeld (2011) and other nascent competitors, to position itself as a tech giant which could “control and manipulate” selling and buying of digital ads. This merger led to the creation of Google’s own “AdTech stack,” which includes publisher ad server as Google Ad Manager, ad exchange as AdX, and two buying services: DV360 and Google Ads.

The concretization of such power was pursued through various contentious tactics such as prioritization of Google’s own transactions through ad-exchange, and pressurizing news outlets into adopting alternative webpage format.

*Jagrit Adivasi Dalit Sangathan activist Nitin arrested in Burhanpur* . The Sangathan, in addition to campaigning for Forest Rights has been protesting against state connivance in the massive deforestation in Burhanpur district. Organization activists Antram Awase and Dilip Sisodia were sent to jail, Adivasi activists were implicated in a plethora of false cases and Sangathan activist Madhuri was externed from the district!

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Pew survey on G20 eve shows India still hugely popular but world divided on Modi & a Europe shocker   Aug 29, 2023 #CutTheClutterr https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSm8vAn6mWA  
The stage is set for the grand finale of India’s G20 presidency. Against this backdrop, in episode 1300 of #CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta picks up broad trends from the latest Pew survey of 23 countries to show how the world sees India & Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Views of India Lean Positive Across 23 Countries https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2023/08/29/views-of-india-lean-positive-across-23-countries/  Among Indians, Modi and India’s global influence are viewed favorably BY CHRISTINE HUANG, MOIRA FAGAN AND SNEHA GUBBALA

A median of 46% of adults hold a favorable view of India, while a median of 34% have unfavorable views. In comparison, views of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, which were collected in a subset of 12 countries, are more mixed: A 37% median say they have confidence in Modi, and a 40% median say they lack confidence in him.