J-Schools Closing: A Sign Of The Times, But What Is The Signal? https://enewsroom.in/iijnm-shuts-down-media-graduates-journalism-school/

https://www.navjivanindia.com/india/ram-puniyanis-article-rsss-election-strategies-after-lok-sabha-elections-2024 The RSS feels that the main reason for the BJP's fall in seats in the elections is the shift of Dalit votes towards the India alliance. VHP is being activated to deal with this. Its workers will hold meetings in Dalit bastis and have meals with Dalits. To woo Dalits, seers and seers associated with the VHP will organise religious programmes in their settlements. According to The Hindu, "These religious leaders will undertake padayatras in designated places, hold satsangs and dharma samsads, visit homes of Dalits and have meals with them. The programmes will be carried out in 9,000 units of the VHP. "  Trained RSS pracharaks are all around. Through media and social media, they are promoting regressive values. The rot has reached very deep. Defeating the BJP in elections is the first step towards eradicating this rot. Then, we have to promote a social mindset based on the values of our freedom movement. Whether it is history, science or the judicial system, we have to uproot the poisonous plants sown by communal ideology.

Re-conceptualizing climate maladaptation: Complementing social-ecological interactions with relational socionatures  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959378024001146  Sameer H. Shah,  Leila M. Harris,  K.J. Joy , Trevor Birkenholtz & Idowu Ajibade  A case of  the Government of Maharashtra’s (India) Jalyukt Shivar Abhiyan, a program aimed at increasing water conservation to “free” 20,000 villages from drought impacts. India demonstrates the necessity of relational approaches.

A relational ontology considers how “matter,” “discourse,” and “society” co-produce one another to such an extent that any separation between them is impossible . These co-constitutions produce provisional socionatural assemblages or formations, which themselves have meaning..  The relations between facts, technologies, and scientific data are assembled into discourses, which have agency and meaning by virtue of their capacities to secure climate financing

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 गुजरात के विकास के ऐसे मज़ेदार दृश्य नहीं देखे होंगे कभी आपने #ashokkumarpandey
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 Gujarat Bridge Collapse Video: गुजरात में गिरा पुल, देखें लाइव वीडियो | Gujarat Flood 2024 Update https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3y-ZcN42h0
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 Gujarat Flood Update: गुजरात में भारी बारिश से त्राहिमाम, देखिए ग्राउंड रिपोर्ट | Rain Alert https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClC_xBpa59U
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टेलीग्राम के CEO की गिरफ़्तारी, क्या बंद हो जाएगी कंपनी  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyHelpl5_TA Aug 28, 2024
टेलीग्राम के सीईओ पावेल ड्यूरोव को रिहा कर दिया गया है मगर उनकी गिरफ़्तारी के बाद से अभिव्यक्ति की स्वतंत्रता के भविष्य को लेकर बहस हो रही है। सोशल मीडिया साइट को लेकर यह नया मामला है जिसे लेकर दुनिया भर में चर्चा हो रही है। पूछा जा रहा है कि क्या सरकारें अब इस बात से बेपरवाह हो गई हैं? उन्हें कोई फर्क नहीं पड़ता कि पत्रकारों और सोशल मीडिया साइट को बंद करने से जनता क्या सोचेगी? टेलीग्राम के CEO की गिरफ़्तारी पर हमारा यह वीडियो देखिएगा।

How Telegram’s Founder Went From Russia’s Mark Zuckerberg to Wanted Man https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/26/technology/pavel-durov-telegram-founder.html Mr. Durov’s anti-establishment streak appears to have gotten him into a fresh round of trouble with the authorities. On Saturday, he was arrested in France as part of an investigation into criminal activity on Telegram, the online communications tool he founded in 2013, which had grown into a global platform defined by its hands-off approach to policing how users behaved.

In new criminal codes, a missed opportunity https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/in-new-criminal-codes-a-missed-opportunity-9536700/ 
The National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal of the Government of India recognises new-age crimes such as cyberbullying, stalking, email hacking etc. Yet, the BNS does not address these aspects.

It is important that the effort and energies of the forest department are devoted more towards the pressing challenges and threats to India's biodiversity rather than to arbitrarily and illegally acting against wildlife researchers. https://thewire.in/environment/of-red-carpets-and-green-tape 

 Across India, wildlife researchers today are being harassed by forest officers for not taking prior permission for photographing and conducting research on wildlife.

At a recent conference in Bengaluru – the Indian Wildlife Ecology Conference 2024 – one common concern among wildlife researchers was the bureaucratic red-tapeism (or more appropriately, ‘green-tapeism’) that leads to severe delays and restrictions in undertaking research on wildlife.

In a country where wildlife researchers are a rarity and funding for research miniscule, scared and traumatised researchers run pillar to post to secure research permits. For them, it is not the tiger that rules the jungle, but the ‘permit raj’ of the forest department, which is the law of the jungle.

by Ritwick Dutta and Tiasa Adhya

28/08/2024

At least 91 Indians have been forced to be fight alongside the Russian army on the frontlines, and so far, eight Indian nationals have been killed. Many families have been waiting agonisingly long for their loved ones to return home.

It all began with an online job scam and the dream of a better future in a foreign country. The victims told The Wire they were duped by YouTube job scamsters, with many pointing fingers at Faisal Khan, a Dubai-based YouTuber who runs the Baba Vlogs channel. They were allegedly convinced that they would work as non-combatant workers and helpers in the Russian army, far away from the frontlines. 

Hemil’s father, Ashwin, told The Wire that his son was seeking better work opportunities in India when he came across a YouTube channel, Baba Vlogs, that promised unemployed Indians like him a job as a helper in the Russian Army. Despite constant reassurances from the channel clarifying that the particular post didn’t demand deployment, it ultimately did lead to Hemil’s forced deployment and his tragic death in a Ukrainian drone strike.https://thewire.in/rights/dead-trapped-and-waiting-to-escape-meet-the-indians-forced-to-fight-russias-war-against-ukraineAshwin Mangukiya travelled to Russia again seeking compensation for the loss of his son. He stayed in Russia for nearly two weeks at his own expense. He denied any kind of help from the Indian Embassy in Russia and the Indian government. According to him, the Russian government promised a compensation of Rs 1.3 crore within three months

The issue of Indians fighting the Russian war as soldiers also assumes significant political relevance as in the BJP’s campaigning for the general elections, it also pushed a narrative of Prime Minister Modi single-handedly putting a halt to the war to ensure the rescue of trapped Indian students in Ukraine.

The people from the Indian subcontinent were forced to fight a war without their consent, using fraudulent means. While some people have lost their lives as their families mourn for the dead, others are still going through an antagonising wait for their loved ones to return. The bureaucratic hurdles, the thousands of kilometres, and the uncharted territory only aggravate this incomprehensible situation. .

by Vipul Kumar and Neel Madhav

26/08/2024

The Indian Federation of App-based Transport Workers (IFAT), a five-year-old entity with over 25,000 members working for aggregators like Uber, Amazon, and Zomato, helped Karnataka introduce a Bill for the welfare of gig workers in July after Rajasthan introduced a similar one in 2023. The Social Security Bill is a significant move for the union and its members and is a turning point in how India perceives labour unions. https://the-ken.com/story/algorithm-vs-unions-how-a-cab-driver-is-taking-the-fight-to-aggregators/  

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https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=3d262a88-07c2-4186-975f-b4773fcce49a  Karnataka’s proposed bill for enhancing rights and protection of platform- based gig workers.. the Draft Bill introduces groundbreaking measures to enhance gig worker welfare in the state, although focused on the subset of platform-based gig workers. Once enacted, Karnataka will follow Rajasthan in becoming the second Indian State implementing regulations tailored to the welfare of these workers. While aggregators would be bound by onerous compliance requirements and additional cost obligations, other procedural aspects may also be demanding – for instance, dispute resolution mechanism under the Draft Bill, and the interplay between these provisions and those under the IDA.

Case analysis : Indian Federation of App-Based Transport Workers (IFAT) vs. Union of India and Others https://blog.ipleaders.in/case-analysis-indian-federation-of-app-based-transport-workers-ifat-vs-union-of-india-and-others/