"The answer lies in the details – in comparing specific provisions of the old laws with their equivalents in the new codes."

For example: "the most consequential change concerns retrenchment – the permanent termination of workers’ employment"... under the IDA 1947, establishments "employing 100 or more workers were required to obtain permission from the central or state government before laying off, retrenching, or closing down operations." Under the new code, "Companies with up to 300 employees can now retrench staff without any approval."

https://scroll.in/article/1088996/anand-teltumbde-how-indias-new-labour-codes-dismantle-worker-protections  

In its parliament reply, the government did not provide a complete list of all private companies in which LIC has invested and said that providing an "exhaustive, granular list of companies, in which LIC has invested, may not be commercially prudent and could affect LIC’s operational debt interests."  https://thewire.in/government/lic-has-invested-rs-48284-62-crore-in-adani-group-companies-government 

Two months after it was reported that the Narendra Modi government quietly devised a $3.9 billion plan to rescue Gautam Adani’s debt-laden conglomerate by directing money from the state-owned Life Insurance Corporation of India, the government has said in a parliament reply that LIC has invested a total of Rs 48,284.62 crore – Rs 38,658.85 crore in equity and Rs 9,625.77 crore in debt, in Adani Group companies.

04/12/2025

ALL the PMs men!

आधी रात इस्तीफा,सरकार में खलबली | Modi के ऑफिस से Rahul को खबर लीक? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E50cQO0idPc  Congress leader Pawan Khera's press conference regarding Hiren Joshi and the late night resignation of Navneet Sehgal, who was serving as the Chairman of Prasar Bharati, are being discussed in political circles. 

POst by India Awakened: https://x.com/IndiaAwakened_/status/1996476525835624811 Dec 04-2025

There is Hiren Joshi. Until yesterday, he was considered the most powerful person in the PMO (Prime Minister's Office). It is said that a major part of his identity was that he was the head of Headlines Management—channels would receive orders from him about what to air, what to suppress, and what to manage! ​Well, after managing news, since yesterday, he himself is the news—the allegation is that he was operating the Mahadev Betting App while sitting in the PMO.  ​Nobody knows where he is now—there's no information! There's chatter that he has quietly slipped away to a country with "safe hands."

​Then there is his associate, Hitesh Jain—he was made a member of the Law Commission just in April. He had a keen interest in laws related to betting. His resignation has been taken, and his bungalow has also been vacated.

​The third is Navneet Sehgal—from our own Uttar Pradesh. Rajnath, Mulayam Ji, Mayawati, Akhilesh, Yogi—no matter who the CM was, he was in everyone's good books: he always received the best postings under every regime. He was currently the director of Prasar Bharati—with a full year left in his term, but he too has resigned and disappeared.

​There is silence in the Godi Media —
​The Print had published the news. The Hindi part is still opening; but if you click to read the English version, it shows 404, meaning it's missing!
​But amidst all this, another bizarre news story is circulating—that an illegal Indian immigrant in Germany was sitting next to the famous actress from Lord of the Rings in the metro and didn't even recognize her! Shocked by this, the entire German media tracked him down and asked why he didn't recognize 'Messi' (the actress). The anonymous man gave a profound philosophical answer that when you don't have a single Euro in your pocket and are traveling illegally, what difference does it make who is sitting next to you! Following this, the newspaper was supposedly so impressed that they immediately gave him a job, and so on!

​All the "warriors" on Indian social media are gushing over this second news story!

​The amazing thing is that nothing like this ever happened in Germany! There is no such news in any of their newspapers. However, this "story" has certainly helped to keep the news about Hiren, Hitesh, and Navneet out of the limelight!
​This country has truly become a nation of zombies!
​
 India Awakened (@IndiaAwakened_) posted at 0:37 pm on Thu, Dec 04, 2025:

‘Totally meant for business houses’: Senior advocate Gayatri Singh on new Labour Codes

https://indianexpress.com/article/legal-news/gayatri-singh-interview-new-labour-codes-10389268/ 

https://www.cenfa.org/the-balance-sheet-world-bank-its-80-year-legacy-documentary-trailer/

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXld_51qzho   For 80 years, the World Bank and IMF have fueled displacement, inequality, fossil dependence, and authoritarian regimes—while claiming to fight poverty. The Balance Sheet exposes their legacy and sinister designs, and celebrates global resistance by adivasis, women, and marginalised communities who dared to challenge their exploitative development model. 

🎬 Script, Camera, Editing & Direction
Joe Athialy

https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/india-orders-phone-companies-to-install-govt-cyber-safety-app-in-every-phone-users-will-not-be-able-to-delete-it-2828694-2025-12-01

The November 28 order gives major smartphone companies 90 days to ensure that the government's Sanchar Saathi app is pre-installed on new mobile phones, with a provision that users cannot disable it. For devices already in the supply chain, manufacturers should push the app to phones via software updates, the ministry said in its order, which was not made public and was sent privately to select companies.

The government said the app was essential to combat "serious endangerment" of telecom cyber security from duplicate or spoofed IMEI numbers, which enable scams and network misuse.

post by — 𝑷𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒗𝒊 𝑹𝒂𝒋 𝒃𝒖𝒅𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒂 Through this app, the government is now going to spy directly on your phone... And all this is being done in the name of cyber security...

This means that the government will no longer have the hassle of purchasing data from other apps or even refusing to do so to gather information about you. So get ready, friends, the government is about to come and sit in your phone.

Western Ghats forests losing vitality despite green cover expansion: Study
https://www.heraldgoa.in/goa/western-ghats-forests-losing-vitality-despite-green-cover-expansion-study/455568/  Satellite imagery shows an expansion in green cover, yet a steady erosion of ecological function in the northern Ghats, where Goa’s major rivers, aquifers and biodi vesity corridors originate
The State’s river systems, groundwater recharge zones, forest soils and wildlife habitats depend not just on the presence of trees but on the functional strength of the Ghats as a living ecological engine..
Thus conservation planning cannot rely solely on canopy cover or tree-density figures.  Long-term functional indicators, particularly NPP, are essential to capture how forests are actually performing under climate stress.

Read more …

 AQI 400 Paar! But We Are Obsessing Over Modi's Emosaans & Urban Naxals  https://youtu.be/SiilQ3x-Z_Q?t=202 

Delhi can’t breathe. AQI 500+. Kids coughing, elders wheezing…and you know what TV news is debating? “Maoist conspiracies” and “Ram Mandir sentiment.” Because why talk about PM2.5 when you can manufacture PM — Political Masala?

On this week’s TV Newsance, while India observed Constitution Day, our beloved Godijeevis did what they do best — lose themselves in Ram Mandir flag-hoisting visuals. Hours of primetime were spent decoding Prime Minister Modi’s “body language”, “divine emotions”, and “historic hand gestures”… all while Delhi gasped through its worst pollution spell of the year.

And when they weren’t celebrating saffron flags, anchors were manufacturing an “Urban Naxal” crisis out of a protest by… 22 students. Yes, 22. The same anchors who once performed live asthma attacks when AAP was in power now suddenly don’t know who to blame for the AQI crossing 500.

The lone exception? Sonam Mehrotra Kapoor of India Today — one of the very few who actually remembered that journalism is supposed to serve the public.

Meanwhile, Delhi’s Lieutenant Governor was busy promoting hot-air balloon rides as “world-class infrastructure”. Because what better solution to pollution than literally floating above it?

Story of Mumbai’s Working Class Movement   https://countercurrents.org/2025/01/kahani-mumbaichya-kamgarchalvalichi-story-of-mumbais-working-class-movement/   Anil Pundlik Gokhale 23/01/2025 Book Review: Mr. Ajit Sawant covers the Historical Period of  Mumbai’s labor Movement from 1853- 2017. He says, “The Mumbai labor movement which inspired the workers of the world to fight continuously for their rights is in a state of dispair and struggle for survival. Why is such state of affair of the great militant labor movement of Mumbai?   he concludes  “ When all boundries of Labour- working class exploitation are crossedand when the Ruling Perties and the Opponents are enguaged in showering promises on them with sight on Elections their failure to fulfill them will pave the ways for working class struggles. At this hour Mumbai working class movment will rise and fly into the sky from the ashes like Phinix”. The rebirth of the movement is certain.