Observing that it ‘raises substantial issue of compliance of environmental norms,’ the National Green Tribunal recently took a suo motu cognisance of The Indian Express investigation report titled ‘Mumbai lost over 21,000 trees in 6 years to make way for Metro, road projects’ published last month.

Comment on WA: PS: This toothless body has suddenly sprung to life in election season. Is there an ulterior motive behind all the "credible" institutions of India, which have hitherto been supportive of environmental crimes and not of conservation, speaking up for it now?

Modi has been on a spree of ‘interviews’ with no interruptions, follow-ups, or counter-questions. https://www.newslaundry.com/2024/04/18/inside-indian-polls-modis-lies-fake-news-and-media-that-does-not-question  Kalpana Sharma 18 Apr, 2024

We have many independent digital news platforms and channels, although if you are a person who principally gets news from mainstream media, when you listen and read what they report, you might think they are reporting from a parallel universe.

The other alternate universe is of fake and misleading news, of hate speech, of the deliberate twisting of facts to push forward a particular narrative.  

The ANI Intervbiew: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcRW9evFZBw
smita prakash non-interviews modi | MEGHNERD REACTS   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxP6i_CULCo smita prakash non-interviews modi | MEGHNERD REACTS 

NEWSWEEK : Exclusive Interview: Narendra Modi and the Unstoppable Rise of India https://www.newsweek.com/2024/04/19/exclusive-interview-narendra-modi-unstoppable-rise-india-1888678.html  Newsweek, could run an “exclusive” with Modi that reads like a series of press releases strung together. It is an “interview” without any questions. And it is the cover story that has Modi’s face and, in capital letters, the word “Unstoppable”.  
BY DANISH MANZOOR BHAT ON 04/10/24

India elections: ‘Our rule of law is under attack from our own government, but the world does not see this’  https://theconversation.com/india-elections-our-rule-of-law-is-under-attack-from-our-own-government-but-the-world-does-not-see-this-226889  April 11, 2024 Led by the ideology of Hindutva, which perceives India’s history to be inextricably linked with Hindu religious practice, and with the help of a hand-picked committee of advisers, they have pursued a vision of India as a country run by Hindus for Hindus.

This is the story of how you build an authoritarian state, the legal way.

Step 1: reinterpret existing laws..Hindus attacking marginalised groups is no longer discrimination in India. But stating that powerful Hindu groups are attacking minorities is now hate speech or incitement

Step 2: introduce new laws. The second element of Modi’s strategy is the introduction of new anti-minority laws and criminal codes. 

Step 3: silence the judges third strategy that India’s government has used to cement power and undermine democratic structures: the silencing of a once-independent, critical judiciary.

Step 4: revise history: To achieve complete control over public opinion, one final ingredient is required: one must use the now-subordinated legal system to promote a version of national history that falls in line with the government’s social and political vision.

At its heart, any authoritarian project – whether in the US, Russia or India – must set out to tackle the country’s legal system. To achieve the desired level of control, the project’s leaders know they must bring supposedly justice-producing institutions like courts and police into line with their political ideologies, or their ambitions for the country will fail.

NYAY GUARANTEES TO LIBERATE THE COUNTRY FROM BJP'S 10 YEARS ANYAY KAAL ✋🏾🇮🇳

Today the country is troubled, and people are frustrated -

✖ due to rising inflation
✖ due to increasing unemployment
✖ due to wrong GST
✖ due to increasing atrocities against women

👉🏾 On one hand, tax waivers and loan waivers worth lakhs of crores to a few billionaires
👉🏾 On the other hand, the general public is hit by inflation and higher taxes

⭕ Congress Party & INDIA Alliance have come together to guarantee justice against all these injustices

▪Yuva Nyay
▪Naari Nyay
▪Kisan Nyay
▪Shramik Nyay
▪Hissedari Nyay

How WhatsApp earns Money? | Secret Business Model of WhatsApp | Dhruv Rathee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTwtK-H1_A0 It has over 2 Billion Users Worldwide and is completely free to use. It was acquired by Facebook (Now Meta) in 2014. But have you ever thought about how does it earn money if it's completely free to use? How did it come into existence? How did it become so famous and dominate similar apps like WeChat, Hike, Line, Viber, etc? Why did the founder of WhatsApp leave the Company? What is the Business Model of WhatsApp?

 June 2018 How WhatsApp Makes Money: The INSANE Story of WhatsApp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQd5bo9nIZs Aug 12, 2021

How Does WhatsApp Make Money? This mini-movie tells the story of WhatsApp, and the insane journey of Brian Acton & Jan Koum. Imagine this: you go for a job at Facebook and get rejected. A few years later, Facebook buy your company for $19 billion dollars. Well, for WhatsApp founders Brian and Jan, that’s exactly what happened. Unfortunately, for WhatsApp's users, the story perhaps doesn’t have quite such a happy ending… The story of how WhatsApp was built and scaled is both fascinating and worrying.
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https://www.youtube.com/@MagnatesMedia/featured

https://blog.whatsapp.com/why-we-don-t-sell-ads

Narendra Modi Is Preparing New Attacks on Democratic Rights https://jacobin.com/2024/04/narendra-modi-india-bjp-hindutva/  BY ACHIN VANAIK
Modi does not merely want to secure a majority of seats as before or return to power with its National Democratic Alliance (NDA) partners. It wants to elect 370 or more MPs, giving the party a two-thirds majority in the Lok Sabha (LS) after the elections.
RS MPs sit for staggered terms lasting six years, with one-third of the current 233 designates up for elections every two years, namely in 2024, 2026, and 2028.
the SC judges only mustered the courage after a seven-year delay to declare the electoral bonds scheme for large donations to political parties unconstitutional,
The BJP’s dominant influence over the big print and electronic media chains means that it is confident of minimizing the negative fallout from these revelations. The main thing is that the BJP got the lion’s share of such funding for campaigning and other purposes.
government agencies are arresting senior opposition leaders on the mere suspicion of financial wrongdoing, using a Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) that shifts the burden of proof onto the accused

Within 48 hours of being selected to receive subsidy from Union gov’t, Aurobindo Pharma gifted Electoral Bonds to BJP https://www.reporters-collective.in/trc/within-48-hours-of-subsidy-from-govt-aurobindo-pharma-gifted-electoral-bonds-to-bjp  P Sarath Reddy, director of Aurobindo Pharma, has turned approver in the Delhi excise case after a Rouse Avenue court on Thursday accepted the Enforcement Directorate's plea to pardon him, a report by The Hindu Businessline said. ED said that Reddy will voluntarily disclose all the irregularities in making and implementing the liquor policy in Delhi.
According to ED, Reddy was a part of the "South Group" that had allegedly paid Rs 100 crore to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which was used to fund its Goa elections. He was arrested in November last year and granted bail by the Delhi High Court last month... Later  Aurobindo pharma approved for government incentives to Produc Peniicilin G

https://www.business-standard.com/india-news/aurobindo-pharma-s-p-sarath-reddy-becomes-approver-in-delhi-liquor-case-123060200182_1.html 

Kejriwal केस में नया ट्विस्ट ,आरोपी और मोदी के बीच सीधा Connection ?? 2024 Election - Electoral Bond  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnSEEzHL1sI DESH NEETI.. comment on YT @bhanwarartist9196 पत्रकार बिटिया देश की जनता बहुत भोली है रे और सबसे बड़े ताजू की बात तो यह है कि अपने देश में सुप्रीम कोर्ट हाई कोर्ट सब कुछ होने के बावजूद यह अपराधी अपराध खुले आम कर रहे हैं पता नहीं अपने देश की जनता कब जागरूक होगी और कब इन अपराधियों को अपने वोट के जरिए सबक सिखाएगी 

Riverfronts kill rivers https://www.civilsocietyonline.com/column/living-rivers/riverfronts-kill-rivers/ VENKATESH DUTTA RECENTLY, over 2,000 citizens participated in a unique protest along the banks of the Mula-Mutha river in Pune by hugging trees — just like the 1973 Chipko movement to save trees in the Garhwal Himalayas.

The riverfront development project in Pune aims to develop the 44-km stretch of all three rivers — 22 km of the Mula, 10 km of the Mutha, and 11 km of the Mula-Mutha -- at an estimated cost of `5,500 crore... It proposes to construct embankments along the river, which will cause significant harm to the riverine ecosystem. The embankments will not aid in flood control. In reality, this will decrease the river’s water-carrying capacity, making nearby areas more susceptible to flooding.  ..Many riverfront development projects have come up in India — the problem is that these projects lend cosmetic treatment to rivers with incomplete sewerage networks and inadequate sewage treatment. Riverfront developments have not prevented sewage from entering the river; in fact, they have escalated the city’s water and wastewater crises. Multiple sewer lines have been laid along or underneath the riverfronts. The result is that these river stretches have become ‘glorified sewer canals’.  The phrase ‘urban river’ is being used to disconnect a river from its upstream and downstream continuum. This urban-centric approach of river management is trying to give river space an elite look, with more build-landscape and concrete river banks along the urban stretches of a river

The Sabarmati riverfront development project attempted to execute interceptor sewers and sewage diversion networks, but these efforts have largely failed due to faulty design and malfunctioning sewage treatment plants. According to a report from the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) presented to the Lok Sabha in February this year, the Sabarmati is the second most polluted river in the country. Therefore, it is imperative to ensure that sewage treatment plants are properly installed and functional to achieve the vision of a clean and unpolluted river in urban areas such as the Sabarmati and Gomti.

BJP govt. spent ₹44 crore on media ads in four months ahead of Assembly polls, reveals RTI query https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/bjp-govt-spent-44-crore-on-media-ads-in-four-months-ahead-of-assembly-polls-reveals-rti-query/article66904454.ece  May 28, 2023 
This was informed by the Department of Information and Public Relations in response to a Right to Information Act (RTI) query filed by Puttur-based activist Rajesh Krishnaprasad

https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/6491cr-spent-on-advertisements-in-media-in-eight-years-i-b-ministry-101670957676039.html ₹6,491 cr spent on advertisements in media in eight years: I&B ministry ByAnish Yande, New Delhi Dec 14, 2022 

Govt spent ₹967.46 crore on advertisements in print media from 2019-20 to 2023-24 https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/govt-spent-96746-crore-on-advertisements-in-print-media-from-2019-20-to-2023-24/article67654389.ece#:~:text=The%20government%20on%20Tuesday%20said,%2D20%20to%202023%2D24.
Anurag Thakur said the CBC releases awareness/publicity campaigns.
December 19, 2023

Wonder what the break up of expenditure is.  Is there a media plan, based on which the ads are distributed.