Why Cities Flood https://www.youtube.com/embed/U70egbUZ2Pg?start=136&end=1036 15 min slide presentation   Dr Priyadarshini Karve Pune River Revival Jun 27, 2024 #riverfront #pune #saverivers
Dr Priyadarshini Karve explains why Indian cities flood, with a little rain. What can we expect in monsoon? Is there a solution

The New Criminal Laws and their Impact on Freedom of Expression https://freespeechcollective.in/the-new-criminal-laws-and-their-impact-on-freedom-of-expression/  
JUNE 28, 2024 "...civil liberties and free speech will be further jeopardised by the replacement of old laws with more repressive legislation, coupled with provisions of other laws that also seek to curb and censor the freedoms of our already beleaguered citizenry."

Sedition, albeit in another guise, refuses to go away

Other provisions include special offences, such as terrorism, otherwise dealt with by special laws like The Unlawful Activities ( Prevention ) Act (UAPA), 1967 or organised crime, otherwise dealt with by state laws like The Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA), 1999. Criminal defamation remains in the BNS, as well as sections dealing with ‘disturbing public tranquility’, that extend the scope of Section 153A of The Indian Penal Code (on spreading disharmony or causing enmity between groups), which has been used extensively against journalists, writers and academics.

Where is my Interest? Will Nirmalaji explain? https://www.cenfa.org/where-is-my-interest-will-nirmalaji-explain/ 

For years the Government and the RBI have allowed banks to flourish at the cost of the depositors who are the real owners of the banks. They are not on the Boards of Banks; they are not told where their money is invested, and they are not even properly cared for. Almost every customer complains of poor service due to shortage of staff.

How to take this forward?

Trade Unions, Civil Society, Customer Rights Organisations and people have to come together and launch a successful campaign to make both the depositors and the banks understand the value of people’s money.

But over the years, this zero-investment natural farming, with minimal environmental impact, has begun to falter. And along with the healthy fishes, the number of traditional fishermen like Gopi is also dwindling. Gopi is losing faith in the traditional method. He says, “Fungal and bacterial infection keeps killing the fishes.”

https://thewire.in/environment/something-fishy-medicine-treats-bacteria-tricks-and-cycle-repeats 

Though modern medicines offer solutions to treat infections, lately that solution is backfiring. Drugs like antimicrobials (antibiotics, antivirals, antifungals) which treat diseases by attacking microbes (bacteria, virus and fungus), are not able to kill the pathogens.

Microbes are ubiquitous, but not all of them lead to diseases, instead they make life possible as we know it. But when microbes are constantly exposed to antimicrobials, they can self-mutate in response to the stressful environment, and develop resistance to the antimicrobials – a process called antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Overuse, misuse and the improper disposal of drugs like antibiotics in hospitals, livestock farms, fisheries and households, has allowed AMR pathogens to proliferate to far off spaces. And with the changing climate, more farm diseases are hitting production, resulting in the need to use more antibiotics.

In 2017, Kerala recognised the threat of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) in farming (with changing climate more farm diseases hit production and need more antibiotics), and set up the Kerala Antimicrobial Resistance Strategic Action Plan (KARSAP). Kerala, where Gopi practices fishing, is one of the few states in India, (apart from Delhi and Madhya Pradesh) which has an action plan to fight against AMR. 

AMR has a domino effect, impacting every form of life. Research shows that more and more microbes around the world are becoming resistant to drugs. In 2019, directly and indirectly, 4.95 million people in 204 countries died because drugs could not treat microbial infections. 

by Monika Mondal

28/06/2024

राहुल पर गोदी मीडिया की सुपारी? ओम बिरला के संविधान पर विवादित बयान पर गोदी मीडिया चुप? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-3azRj-msk Abhisar Sharma
Jun 28, 2024
राहुल पर गोदी मीडिया की सुपारी?
ओम बिरला के संविधान पर विवादित बयान पर गोदी मीडिया चुप?

माइक बंद करने पर Rahul Gandhi Lok Sabha में Om Birla से भिड़ गए! Parliament News on NEET https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mepBu4u6ByA  Public Meter 
Jun 28, 2024 Rahul Gandhi Mike off in Parliament, Speaker Om Birla adjourned the Lok Sabha due to the clash between the Modi government and the INDIA Alliance when Rahul Gandhi and opposition leaders demanded a debate on the NEET issue. Praveen Gautam's analysis on why Rahul Gandhi had an argument with Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla over switching off the mike in Parliament?

LIVE | LoP Rahul Gandhi objects to speaker's reference to emergency | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLmiEOQsku4  News9

Aggressive Congress tried to corner Speaker Om Birla on his speech. Om Birla had spoken on emergency. Rahul objected in person and subsequently, Venugopal shot a letter to him saying that it was shocking. Rahul said that it should not have come from the chair. Subsequently, the imposition of emergency was also mentioned in President Murmu’s speech leading to an all-out verbal war between Congress and the BJP. Why has Congress decided to take up the sticky issue of emergency? On point decodes

स्पीकर ओम बिड़ला क्या इस्तीफा देंगे, हालात इतने आसान नहीं हैं इस बार https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jCw0pcVL60  KnockingNews Jun 28, 2024
हमारे वाट्सएप चैनल को सब्सक्राइब करें और सभी पोस्ट के नोटिफिकेशन निश्चित रूप से पाएं. ये लिंक क्लिक करें...

The science of protests: how to shape public opinion and swing votes  https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02082-5 Helen Pearson
Pdf download link: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02082-5.pdf  

non-violent protests are more effective at achieving goals than are violent ones.... effectiveness of non-violent revolutionary campaigns is waning over time — in part, they say, because governments are learning how to suppress uprisings.

But there is evidence that these types of protest can have an impact. Social Change Lab asked around 2,000 people — before, during and after disruptive protests in the United Kingdom by Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion in April 20228. The protesters blockaded oil depots and glued themselves to government buildings and oil-company offices. Most people who were surveyed opposed the actions, but continued to support climate policies and Just Stop Oil’s goals to stop new fossil-fuel projects. This counters the view that disruptive action can sour public opinion on an issue.

it’s important.. to recognize that protesters are often expressing anger, grief and frustration as well as trying to drive change. “Sometimes, people have deep feelings that need a platform and a means of expression,” 

“Non-violence is effective. But what’s especially effective is non-violence met by repression,”

Arundhati Roy Wins PEN Pinter Prize 2024 for a 'Writer of Courage' https://thewire.in/books/arundhati-roy-wins-pen-pinter-prize-2024-for-a-writer-of-courage

Chair of English PEN Ruth Borthwick, who was on the jury, said that “Roy tells urgent stories of injustice with wit and beauty. While India remains an important focus, she is truly an internationalist thinker, and her powerful voice is not to be silenced.”

Another judge, actor and activist Khalid Abdalla, said, “Arundhati Roy is a luminous voice of freedom and justice whose words have come with fierce clarity and determination for almost thirty years now.

https://www.theindiacable.com/p/us-state-department-report-directly 

The US state department’s annual report on religious freedom around the world documents instances of concern from India, and secretary of state Antony Blinken noted his government’s concern while releasing the report [ ] in Washington, DC: “In India we see a concerning increase in anti-conversion laws, hate speech, demolitions of homes and places of worship for members of minority faith communities,” the department presser quotes him as saying...

 https://www.theindiacable.com/p/us-state-department-report-directlyUS State Department Report Directly Criticises India's Record on Violence Against Minorities; Heist of Education System in the Land of Nalanda
Inequality report says 88% of wealth in the hands of upper castes, Ayodhya temple trust says water leak in sanctum sanctorum not from ceiling but from pipe, Big jump in Telugu population of US JUN 27, 2024

Secretary Antony J. Blinken 2023 International Religious Freedom Report JUNE 26, https://www.state.gov/secretary-antony-j-blinken-2023-international-religious-freedom-report-rollout/  2024Extraordnary Ambassador Hussain, Extraordnary In India, for example, Christian communities reported that local police aided mobs that disrupted worship services over accusations of conversion activities or stood by while mobs attacked them and then arrested the victims on conversion charges.

Biased, Selective Facts: MEA Rejects US' Report On Treatment Of Religious Minorities In India https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dogASvtbg5Y HW News English 
Jun 29, 2024
The United States’ 2023 International Religious Freedom Report has sparked a significant diplomatic row, with the Indian government branding the document as ""deeply biased"" and lacking an understanding of India's intricate social fabric. The report, released by the US State Department, highlights concerns over the repression of religious communities in India, and violence against Indian minorities prompting a strong rebuttal from New Delhi.

The three new criminal laws betray a narrow spirit of nationalism  https://theleaflet.in/the-three-new-criminal-laws-betray-a-narrow-spirit-of-nationalism/ Dec 23, 2023

Union home minister Amit Shah, , “Under the leadership of Modiji, I have brought Bills that lay emphasis on Indianness, the Indian Constitution and the well-being of the people. The laws are being changed in the spirit of the Constitution.”

It is common knowledge that the Indian Constitution is in spirit an Anglo-Saxon one, with its emphasis on freedom, the rights of the people and democratic governance, which Indians never had in their 5,000-year-old history, despite Modi’s excessive claim that India is the mother of democracy. the spirit behind the colonial laws— was that justice means not punishing the innocent, accepting that a person is innocent until proven otherwise and letting a hundred criminals go free rather than punish a single innocent person.