GOBAR-Dhan: Scheme announced in budget a welcome step, but challenges ahead https://www.downtoearth.org.in/blog/energy/gobar-dhan-scheme-announced-in-budget-a-welcome-step-but-challenges-ahead-87558 Biogas can be purified and upgraded up to 98 per cent of purity to make it suitable to be used as a green fuel for transportation or filling of cylinders
By Siddharth Ghanshyam Singh, Kaifee Jawed 08 February 2023

500 new ‘waste to wealth’ plants for promoting a circular economy with a total investment of Rs 10,000 crore under the GOBAR-Dhan scheme in her budget speech in the Parliament on February 1, 2023.

Of the 500 new plants announced, 200 will be compressed biogas plants (CBG), including 75 in cities and the remaining 300 will be community or cluster-based plants.

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The National Bioenergy Programme specifically mentions (paragraph five) that waste-to-energy plants based on thermal technologies like incineration, pyrolysis, etc., are not supported under the programme.

The National Bioenergy Programme specifically mentions (paragraph five) that waste-to-energy plants based on thermal technologies like incineration, pyrolysis, etc., are not supported under the programme.

HOW ASSAM’S MISING COMMUNITY IS COPING WITH FLOODS THROUGH ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
By Sanskrita BharadwajonFeb. 02, 2023 https://vikalpsangam.org/article/how-assams-mising-community-is-coping-with-floods-through-architectural-design/ the indigenous Mising community in Assam constructs and lives in traditional flood-resilient houses called chang ghors that are perched above the ground on bamboo stilts. Medhipamua in Dhemaji district is a typical Mising village that lies along the Brahmaputra river. “Our houses are built at an eight foot height while there are others in the interiors that are 12-13 feet high. We keep our bamboo poles stacked before the monsoons arrive,” Janmoni Doley, a resident of the village said. Many families, she said, still prefer moving a few kilometres away from their houses on country boats to a more secure raised platform like the village community space where the magnitude of the water is also usually less.

Pawan Khera’s ‘Gautamdas’ remark & anchors to PM’s rescue | TV Newsance 203 
At a press conference while demanding the JPC, #PawanKhera referred to PM Modi as ‘#Gautamdas’. This sparked a furore across mainstream TV news debates and anchors took it upon themselves to avenge the insult to PM Modi. Aman Chopra took recourse in ‘research’ or ‘brain mapping’ of the Congress, while the Times Now Navbharat anchor took to scribbling on his blackboard again. In all of this, the important and disturbing news of the twin murders of Nasir and Junaid took a backseat.

Bonus: Arnab tells you to pay to keep news free, but that’s a full subject for the next episode.

https://www.theindiaforum.in/book-reviews/elegy-gandhis-un-gandhian-india

Harmony Siganporia, Walking from Dandi: In Search of Vikas. Oxford University Press. 2022

'Vikas' and an Uneasy Peace: Retracing the Dandi Path That Gandhi Once Walked
An excerpt from 'Walking from Dandi: In Search of Vikas'.

There is a difference between legal reporting and political reporting.  Which one should legal correspondents adopt?

A classic example is this

Supreme Court refuses to stay EC's Sena order; issues notice on team Thackeray plea https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/supreme-court-refuses-to-stay-ecs-sena-order-issues-notice-on-team-thackeray-plea/articleshow/98161554.cms

Do you report that the SC refuses to stay ECs Sena order?on the ground that they cannot pass an order which has the effect of staying the EC order without hearing the other party..

Or do you report that the SC issued notice on a plea filed by the Uddhav Thackeray faction challenging the EC order and ordered listing of the case after two weeks.

Or that The Shinde faction gave a verbal undertaking that it would not take precipitative action against the Thackeray faction by issuing disqualification proceedings.

Or that the bench refused to pass directions on a plea about the offices and bank accounts of the party being taken over by the Shinde group. on the ground that the EC order is confined to the allotment of the symbol.

Uddhav Thackeray vs Eknath Shinde | Supreme Court refuses to stay EC order on Shiv Sena https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/uddhav-thackeray-vs-eknath-shinde-supreme-court-refuses-to-stay-ec-order-on-shiv-sena/article66540090.ece
The Supreme Court however has allowed a prayer by the Thackeray faction to allow an Election Commission interim order February 22, 2023 04:24 pm |

Supreme Court refuses to stay EC order to recognise Eknath Shinde faction as real Shiv Sena https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/nation/supreme-court-refuses-to-stay-ec-order-to-recognise-eknath-shinde-faction-as-real-shiv-sena-482166
‘We cannot pass an order to stay the election commission order. We are entertaining the SLP’, the SC Bench said

What took Muslim leaders 75 yrs to let women into mosques?  Feroze Methiborwala   Feb 23, 2023https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/what-took-this-muslim-body-75-years-to-allow-women-into-mosques/articleshow/98170533.cms  Muslim women’s entry into mosques is a moral victory, but why did it take AIMPLB 75 years to state the obvious?

Massive U.S. dollar dump? BRICS to launch new currency causing tsunami of inflation - Andy Schectman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzI0oyxQ218

 Feb 16, 2023Andy Schectman, President and Owner of Miles Franklin, discusses his thesis that the world is poised for a monetary reset which would result in the BRICS having their own reserve currency, likely backed by gold, and how this goes hand-in-hand with de-dollarization trends that are currently unfolding. He tells Michelle Makori, Editor-in-Chief and Lead Anchor at Kitco News, how a 'tsunami of inflation' would ensue as dollars are repatriated to the United States, which would cause a corresponding 'crash' in asset prices as interest rates rise accordingly.

0:00 - Central bank gold
6:00 - China's Belt and Road Initiative
7:11 - Saudi Arabia and the Petrodollar
9:22 - Weaponization of the dollar
10:43 - BRICS strength
13:34 - Bifurcation of monetary system
18:02 - Kinetic war?
20:48 - Russia and Ukraine
23:01 - U.S. military might
24:35 - De-dollarization
31:15 - Timeline for reset
32:05 - Own nothing, be happy?
36:50 - Insiders buying precious metals
38:33 - Central bank digital currencies
40:16 - Gold
43:20 - Bitcoin
43:51 - Canada's gold reserves
44:55 - Mastermind behind the Reset?
46:17 - Anything that can derail this?
49:02 - Investment implications

What's Next For Adani Group? | What Should SEBI Be Doing | Full Debate With Rajdeep sardesai https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Sfxwu51wXI 23/2/2023 Shares of Adani Group's flagship firm -- Adani Enterprises -- fell sharply in Wednesday's trade, extending their fall for the fourth straight session. The stock slumped 11.95 per cent to hit a day low of Rs 1,381.05 over its previous close of Rs 1,568.40. The apples-to-airport conglomerate's other listed entities also felt the pain after Wikipedia claimed that sockpuppets - some of them being the online encyclopedia's employees - created 'puffery' around Gautam Adani, his family and the group by adding non-neutral material and removing warnings from the information.

Saurav Majumdar, Business Today

Hemandra Hazari, Main silence is from the regulator.

Mr alok Churiwala, Former BSE defends the regulator, the market seems to have stabilised..

Kranti .. Bathini.. we need to wait and see.  Adani seems to be paying its debt, and let the dust settle..

wake up call for adani as Swaminathan Ayer has

Modi’s model is at last revealed for what it is: violent Hindu nationalism underwritten by big business Arundhati Roy https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/18/narendra-modi-hindu-nationalism-india-gautam-adani The BBC-Hindenburg moment has been portrayed by the Indian media as nothing short of an attack on India’s twin towers – Narendra Modi, the prime minister, and India’s biggest industrialist, Gautam Adani, who was, until recently, the world’s third richest man. The charges laid against them aren’t subtle. The BBC film implicates Modi in the abetment of mass murder. The Hindenburg report, published on 24 January, accuses Adani of pulling “the largest con in corporate history” (an allegation that the Adani Group strongly denies).  

Gautam Adani. With a small group of Gujarati industrialists he set up a new platform of businessmen known as the Resurgent Group of Gujarat. They denounced Modi’s critics and supported him as he launched a new political career as Hindu Hriday Samrat, the Emperor of Hindu Hearts, or, more accurately, the consolidator of the Hindu vote-bank.

In 2003, they held an investors’ summit called Vibrant Gujarat. So was born what is known as the Gujarat model of “development”: violent Hindu nationalism underwritten by serious corporate money.

‘This is the biggest attack on Modi-Adani’ । HINDENBURG REPORT । BBC SURVEY । ARUNDHATI ROY  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUIfC-SVCgc 23.2.23 The Hindenburg report and the BBC documentary were like an attack on the Twin Towers. It has caused tremendous damage to Modi-Adani. That's why Modi is nervous as well as furious. This is a big opportunity for the opposition parties, but they have to be united and work day and night. In conversation with noted author and social activist Arundhati Roy-