Run-up to COP29: Climate induced loss and damage to agri-food systems cries for attention  - https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/economy/agri-business/run-up-to-cop29-climate-induced-loss-and-damage-to-agri-food-systems-cries-for-attention/article68768034.ece, 

  https://beeindia.gov.in/sites/default/files/2024-10/OM%20for%20approved%20Sectors%20in%20Offset%20Mechanism%20under%20CCTS.PDF  Indian govt. approves 10 sectors for carbon market offset scheme https://www.qcintel.com/carbon/article/indian-govt-approves-10-sectors-for-carbon-market-offset-scheme-30832.html The sectors include energy, industries, waste handling and disposal, agriculture, forestry and transport under phase one, and construction, fugitive emissions, solvent use and carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS) under phase two

https://icapcarbonaction.com/en/news/india-adopts-regulations-planned-compliance-carbon-market he amended Energy Conservation Act, 2022 empowers the Indian government to establish a domestic carbon market and to authorize designated agencies to issue carbon credit certificates (CCCs). Each CCC will represent one tonne of CO2 equivalent (tCO2e) reduction or removal from the atmosphere.

 People’s Movements and Individuals Call for Shutdown of Bretton Woods Institutions and Demand a New Global Democratic Financial System As people of the global south, who continue to bear the brunt of the impacts of colonial expansion, resource extraction, wealth concentration, climate change and deepening inequality, we demand that these institutions be shut down and make way for a new global democratic and decentralised economic system which protects both people and the planet.  For far too long, the World Bank and IMF have been instrumental in entrenching a system of global financial governance that perpetuates poverty and inequality, displaces people and communities, and destroys nature, livelihoods and life itself

Endorse the demand: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScmXY2PEDnmW__K2JkGosncRusVADPSmSZwNj7VZirU4ZYrIA/viewform?fbzx=8621795832575370144 

BJYM Protests at Shyam Manav’s Event in Nagpur Over Dashrath Madavi’s Remarks  https://revealinside.in/bjym-protests-at-shyam-manavs/   In Nagpur, Maharashtra, the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) workers disrupted the “Samvidhan Bachao Maharashtra Bachao” program organized by Shyam Manav, the Founder-National Convenor of Akhil Bharatiya Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti. The protest erupted following remarks by Dashrath Madavi, who claimed the Constitution was in danger after 2014. BJYM members expressed their anger by raising slogans, tearing banners, and marching off stage.

Maharashtra: BJP Disrupts Shyam Manav’s ‘Save Constitution’ Event, Is Fadnavis Behind Ruckus? https://youtu.be/uV_jvpvwQGI? The Wire 

हिन्दू धर्म नहीं Culture है : आज के धर्म के हिसाब से Constitution सर्वोपरि होना चाहिए | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d9D4c_tTyk   Shyam Manav
The Public India

Canadian PM Justin Trudeau Remark: Modi, Shah & Doval destroyed India's foreign policy   https://youtu.be/TI0XghOpQl8?si=a09vsAZlVxReQuvW   The Public India

https://thewire.in/diplomacy/amit-shah-authorised-attacks-in-canada-washington-post-cites-canadian-officials-as-alleging https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsMw8jqYJ9o   India-Canada Tensions: Hindi Proverb To 'Newton',  Jaishankar Showed The Mirror To Trudeau MIRROR NOW

Big Admission By Canadian PM Trudeau, 'No Evidence Provided To India https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuFREug66lk  Republic TV

भारत-कनाडा में आर-पार, ख़ुफ़िया फ़ाइल में क्यों आया Amit Shah का नाम? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TI0XghOpQl8   | Arfa Khanum Sherwani
The Wire भारत और कनाडा के बीच तनाव बढ़ता जा रहा है। 
अरफ़ा ख़ानुम शेरवानी इस संघर्ष के पीछे की कहानी का विश्लेषण करती हैं और यह देखती हैं कि Amit Shah का नाम कैसे इस विवाद में शामिल हुआ है। वे दोनों देशों के बीच संबंधों पर इसके प्रभावों और भविष्य के लिए इसके मायने भी बताती हैं। वीडियो देखें और जानें कि आखिर क्या हो रहा है India और Canada के बीच।

Amit Shah Authorised Attacks' in Canada, Washington Post Cites Canadian Officials As Alleging  https://thewire.in/diplomacy/amit-shah-authorised-attacks-in-canada-washington-post-cites-canadian-officials-as-alleging  The Wire Staff 15/Oct/2024 Canadian officials have told the Indian government that “conversations and texts among Indian diplomats” ordered out of the country yesterday “include references” to Union home minister Amit Shah and a senior official in the Research and Analysis Wing in India “who have authorised… intelligence-gathering missions and attacks on Sikh separatists,” in Canada, the Washington Post reported late last night. ... The nature of these “references” is not known, nor indeed their accuracy, and it is likely that Canadian investigators sought to interrogate the Indian diplomats in order to gather more information about the participation of individuals whose names had cropped up in intercepted communications. India rejected the Canadian request for their diplomatic immunity to be lifted, triggering yesterday’s expulsion of six diplomats including the Indian high commissioner. 

https://thewire.in/diplomacy/canadas-allegations-extremely-serious-india-obviously-hasnt-chosen-path-of-cooperating-with-probe-us 

 Trudeau's Diplomatic War with India Backfires, Criticised by Canadian Media India Today  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fuNGBwrsU4  
Oct 17, 2024 Sympathizer Jagmeet Singh, are being blamed for worsening ties with India. Trudeau's allegations against India have been criticised for lack of credible evidence and for spreading misinformation about the Khalistani threat. Trudeau's move is seen as an attempt to appease Jagmeet Singh and Khalistani ministers, which could cost Canada billions in trade. 

'Hate crime': Minorities in Gujarat face targeted attacks; report reveals 55 incidents in 2022 https://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2024/Jan/26/hate-crime-minorities-in-gujarat-face-targeted-attacks-report-reveals-55-incidents-in-2022  Report by the Minority Coordination Committee (MCC)  documents a total of 55 unsettling incidents, with 53 assaults directed towards Muslims and two incidents targeting Christians, prompting a closer examination of the challenges faced by minority groups in the state.

The MCC report titled 'TARGETED: DOCUMENTING INCIDENTS AFFECTING MINORITIES IN GUJARAT' was released in October 2023, with seventy leaders from various areas of the state collaborating to acquire and compile material and produce the study.

Report for 2023: \6246 -Targeted_Report 2023.pdf" (to be uploaded)

‘Serious job’: How a collective in election-bound India fights hate speech  https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/7/how-a-collective-in-indias-karnataka-is-standing-up-to-hate-ahead-of-polls  Hate Speech Beda trains volunteers from across the southern state of Karnataka on using the law to combat hate crimes. It’s an uphill battle, but they’re not giving up.

India: Increased Abuses Against Minorities, Critics...
https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/01/11/india-increased-abuses-against-minorities-critics
The Indian government undermined its aspirations for global leadership as a rights-  The BJP government’s discriminatory and divisive policies have led to increased
violence against minorities, creating a pervasive environment of fear and a chilling effect
on government critics,” said Meenakshi Ganguly, deputy Asia director at Human Rights
Watch. “Instead of holding those responsible for abuses to account, the authorities
chose to punish the victims, and persecuted anyone who questioned these actions.”
In the 740-page World Report 2024, its 34th edition, Human Rights Watch reviews
human rights practices in more than 100 countries.

'EVMs more robust than Hezbollah pagers': EC shoots down Cong claim' https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/evms-more-robust-than-hezbollah-pagers-ec-shoots-down-cong-claim/articleshow/114262468.cms

WA by SS:  It's a constitutional body speaking or the IT Cell??? Mark the tone, tenor and the language.

It's quite another thing that Rashid Alvi's demand under the obtaining circumstances is stupendously stupid and utterly suicidal. The "Chandigarh Mayoral poll" is enough of an illustration. The EC must of course come clean on the complaints and the demands, as regards the Haryana state poll, of by far the largest opposition party in the state, and also the main opposition party nationally, within a reasonable timeframe.
If it doesn't, no stone should be left unturned to make it discharge its mandated task.

The Right to Live Under the Grip of UAPA  Eenadu 15.10-2024

Professor Saibaba, who languished in prison for ten years for a crime he did not commit, passed away last Saturday. With a 90% disability, he endured a hellish experience in a dark cell. He was not even allowed to see his mother one last time when she passed away. 

The Bombay High Court, which determined that there was no evidence to support the charges against Saibaba, overturned his life sentence last March, describing the criminal proceedings against him as a 'judicial failure.' 

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India rejects EU demand to audit Indian Financial Firms. RBI, SEBI reject EU's jurisdiction.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHoUK-poBws 11 oct 2024

https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/markets/indian-regulators-may-follow-2013-formula-to-deal-with-europe-regulator-on-clearing-corporations/article66104661.ece  Last week, ESMA de-recognised six Indian CCs due to “no co-operation arrangements” between ESMA and the Indian regulators and set April 2023 deadline for the European banks to stop doing business with them. But the view in India is that an agreement with the ESMA would give it the power to deeply supervise Indian CCs, which have a status of core (also sensitive) market infrastructure institutions. Nov 2022

India Will Not Let Europe Audit Domestic Financial Settlement Firms: https://www.ndtvprofit.com/business/indian-financial-regulators-not-to-give-in-to-europes-auditing-demands-report-3506303 Report  10 Nov 2022

Finance lobbies call on India and EU to cut a deal amid RBI-ESMA rift over clearing houses  https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/banking/finance/banking/finance-lobbies-call-on-india-and-eu-to-cut-a-deal-amid-rbi-esma-rift-over-clearing-houses/articleshow/97786695.cms

https://www.naavi.org/wp/india-stands-up-against-eu-demand/  Four EU banks namely, Credit Agricole, Societe Generale, Deutsche Bank, and BNP Paribas have sought RBI and ESMA (European Securities and Market Authority) to resolve the differences. The point of controversy is that ESMA wants a right to audit CCIL (Clearing Corporation of India) in order to allow the EU Banks invest in Indian securities through CCIL.,,

According to the report in Business Standard the concerns revolve around client confidentiality, in the context of third-party clearing, especially for custodian banks tasked with holding securities on behalf of other financial entities.

Banks have now sought an extension of at least 6 months from their national regulators to provide extension of the current deadline.