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The Delhi government will bring facial recognition technology in schools

In a first, Punjab's Forest Dept uses drones to plant trees in inaccessible areas. 350-400 seeds/batch, 4kg/payload, 15 days to germinate!

CM @BhagwantMann & @LC_Kataruchak ji did this innovative eco-initiative

Marking Raksha Bandhan, AAP women's wing launched women safety campaign, highlighting Govt’s failure to protect women and girl child abuse in Goa.” “During our discussion it was seen that women fear to call 112 or approach male cops to address sexual assault”. Captain Venzy MLA AAP Goa

AAP to announce Haryana Assembly candidates by August end - Rules out alliance with JJP

Delhi High Court stayed Delhi Govt's Circular against arbitrary rise in Private School Fee. It has led to steep increase in private school fee structure across Delhi. High Court of Delhi acts like BJP's Peon and they undermine every progressive work of Delhi Govt.

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The provisions of PMLA should be changed. The BJP government has started misusing it. They started applying the laws applied on terrorists on opposition party leaders and businessmen. Manish Sisodia in BBC interview

Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann along with his family arrives at Nanded airport in Maharashtra He says, "Today, I have got an opportunity to visit Nanded Sahib and take blessings...Very soon Arvind Kejriwal will come out of jail, we will do 'ardas' for him...Tomorrow, I will meet some businessmen and film personalities in Mumbai."

UP court orders arrest of #AAP MP Sanjay Singh in 23-year-old case, asks police to produce him before it on Aug 28, PTI reports

A letter of appreciation to the Chief Secretary upon accomplishment of the mission?!

Public Protest at Badlapur Station After 2 Nursery kids face alleged sexual assault by male attendence

SEBI Classifies Dues Worth Nearly ₹ 80,000 Crore As "Difficult To Recover"

Difficult to recover (DTR) dues are those that could not be recovered even after exhausting all modes of recovery.

60 cases are before court-appointed committees, with ₹ 59,970 crore at stake. (Representational)

New Delhi:

Capital markets regulator Sebi has segregated dues to the tune of ₹ 76,293 crore under "difficult to recover" category at the end of March 2024, marking an increase of 4 per cent from the preceding year.

Of this, a huge chunk is on account of cases pending before court-appointed committees.

Difficult to recover (DTR) dues are those that could not be recovered even after exhausting all modes of recovery.

"Segregation of such DTR dues is purely an administrative act and this will not preclude the recovery officers from recovering the amount so segregated as DTR as and when there is a change in any of the DTR parameters," Sebi said in its annual report for 2023-24.

As of March 31, 2024, Sebi identified 807 cases as DTR, with a total outstanding of ₹ 76,293 crore, up from 692 cases amounting to ₹ 73,287 crore the previous year, according to the report.

Among these 807 cases, 36 are pending due to ongoing proceedings in State PID courts, National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT), National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) involving ₹ 12,199 crore.

Additionally, 60 cases are before court-appointed committees, with ₹ 59,970 crore at stake.

These two categories together account for 95 per cent of the total amount yet to be recovered.

The Indian Economy Is Being ‘Destabilised’ by Cronyism, Not Hindenburg or Soros

The Hindenburg report pointed out that short selling in Adani stocks was due to cronyism and stock market manipulations. That is what is spoiling the investment climate, not the exposés by Hindenburg reports.

The SEBI board, some brokers, investors, lawyers and corporates, including Adani have come to the defence of the chairperson. She has presented her defence, suggesting that a) the money invested abroad was out of the savings from working abroad, b) she has not invested in Adani companies, c) she has been transparent about her financial dealings.

The ruling party, though not an accused, immediately came to her defence. This due to the closeness of the party leadership with industrialist Gautam Adani. If the SEBI chairperson gets implicated, then the matter of wrongdoing by Adani, which at present is dormant, would get reopened. The earlier accusations against the Adani group were buried after the Supreme Court pronouncements based on the clean chit by the expert committee it set up.

Union Govt writes to UPSC to withdraw advertisement for lateral entry recruitments.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has directed the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) to cancel an advertisement issued by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) for the appointment of joint-secretary-level officers and other key positions through the lateral entry process. 

The decision, conveyed in a letter from union minister Jitendra Singh to UPSC chairperson Preeti Sudan, marks a significant shift in the way senior officials are appointed to crucial ministries such as finance and electronics.

Lateral recruitment for joint secretaries, directors and deputy secretaries in the union government was introduced in 2018. According to a Lok Sabha reply dated 24 July, 63 appointments have been made this way so far, including 35 from the private sector. Currently, 57 of these appointees are still serving in their respective ministries or departments.

The breakdown of Civil Hospital's solar rooftop system, installed by the Gujarat Energy Development Agency, has resulted in a monthly electricity bill of ₹1.5 crore! The solar panels have been defunct since 2022!

Nation cannot await a rape or murder for real changes on ground: Supreme Court on Calcutta rape-murder

A three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud said nationwide protests following the brutal incident have brought the issue of lack of institutional safety for doctors to the forefront

We will protect Constitution, reservation at all costs: Rahul Gandhi after govt's lateral entry U-turn

I am saying it again - by removing the 50 per cent reservation cap, we will ensure social justice based on caste census, says former Congress chief

Slamming the Modi government for the "rampant adoption" of machine-manufactured polyester flags, Congress leader Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday called for the restoration of khadi as the only fabric with the distinction of bearing the tricolour and asserted that the fabric must find its rightful place as an embodiment of national pride.

Penning an article in The Hindu, Gandhi said Prime Minister Narendra Modi's renewed call for a 'Har Ghar Tiranga' campaign in the week leading up to the Independence Day offers an opportunity to collectively introspect on the national flag and its significance to the country.

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"His (Modi) moral duplicity in paying deference to the national flag while pledging allegiance to an organisation that has remained, indifferent to it, is one matter. The rampant adoption of machine-manufactured polyester flags, with raw materials often imported from China and elsewhere, is another," she said.

The Flag Code of India has historically required the national flag to be made of "hand spun and hand-woven wool/cotton/silk khadi bunting", she pointed out.

Khadi, that coarse but versatile and sturdy fabric which the Mahatma himself spun and wove in his leadership of the national movement, is imbued with a special meaning in our historical and cultural memory, she said.

Khadi is at once a symbol of our storied past, and an icon of Indian modernity and economic vitality, the Congress Parliamentary Party chief asserted.

It was in deference to this eternal symbolism that the tricolour once bore the Mahatma's charkha as its centrepiece, and that the modern-day Indian flag used to insist on khadi as its sole fabric, Gandhi said.

"In 2022, on the auspicious occasion of the 75th anniversary of our Independence, the Government amended the code ('vide its order dated 30.12.2021') to include 'machine made...polyester ... bunting' and simultaneously exempted polyester flags from the Goods and Services Tax (GST). Thereby, it put them on the same tax footing as khadi flags," she said.

At a time when it would have been appropriate to bind ourselves afresh to the service of our country's national symbols, the Government chose to set them aside and pursue mass-market, machine-made polyester fabric, Gandhi said.

She pointed out that the Karnataka Khadi Gramodyoga Samyukta Sangha (KKGSS) in Karnataka's Hubballi district, the country's sole national flag manufacturing unit accredited by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), had to resort to an indefinite strike to call attention to the state-sponsored murder of India's khadi industry.

There was waterlogging under Zakhira Underpass in Delhi. Minister Atishi got to the source of the problem; In 2023, Delhi Govt has given its 50% share that is 2.7 Crores to build a culvert. But there has been no progress by the Railways. Kudos to Atishi for swift action.

People drinking alcohol based on health permits have increased in Gujarat

An online survey carried out by National Medical Commission nearly 16% of the UG students and 31% PG students reported having thought about suicide.28% of undergraduate medical students and 15 ..post-graduate medical students have mental health issues like depression & suicidal tendencies
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In the biggest setback so far to Disney (DIS.N), opens new tab and Reliance's (RELI.NS), opens new tab plans to strike a $8.5 billion India media assets merger, the country's antitrust body has reached an initial assessment that the deal harms competition due to their power over cricket rights, four sources told Reuters on Tuesday.

The three-judge Bench, led by Chief Justice of India (CJI) D Y Chandrachud, said, “We are establishing an NTF with doctors from diverse backgrounds who will propose modalities to be implemented nationwide to ensure that safety conditions are maintained and that doctors, whether young or middle-aged, are safe in their work places.

The task force, comprising senior doctors, will develop a national protocol to ensure the safety and facilities for health care workers at their workplaces. This could potentially lead to major reforms in the working conditions for medical practitioners and paramedics across the country.

'Where's the Proof They Were Raped?', Biren Allegedly Says of Kuki Women Paraded Naked, 'Reward Those Arrested for Saving Them'The Wire was informed by the purported maker/s of the 48-minute recording that it was done in person at a meeting where the chief minister unmistakably indicated his partisan complicity in the ongoing violence. The sources, claiming anonymity on account of the threat to personal safety, told The Wire that this material has also been submitted to the Commission – along with an affidavit attesting to its authenticity from the person/s who made the recording at the chief minister’s official residence –and that protection and anonymity has been sought from the Commission as well.

The official death toll as of May 2024 is 226 with another 39 missing while around 60,000 people belonging to both the Meitei and Kuki-Zo communities are still displaced and unable to return to their homes. Despite official assurances, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s governments, both in the state and in Delhi, have failed to end the bloodshed. More importantly, they have done little to bridge the gulf between the Meitei and Kuki-Zo communities. 

The statements as recorded are communally divisive and inflammatory and raise fundamental concerns about the ruling dispensation in the violence torn state. It suggests that the ruling dispensation is partisan and bent upon sharpening the existing polarisation between Meitei and Kuki instead of healing it.

International financial architecture has been created for opacity to thwart official investigations. Tax havens are used both for their low taxes and for the promise of secrecy. So, even if the returns are low, businessmen are assured that they will not be caught. Names of Indians holding money abroad have neither been revealed under the Double Taxation Avoidance Agreements (DTAA) with 87 countries nor Tax Information Exchange (TIE) treaties with 37 nations. These have come from stolen data from tax havens. Like, from Liechtenstein, UBS Geneva, British Virgin Island, Paradise and Panama.

Nested companies in Bermuda or Mauritius are often a part of a chain for transfer of illegal funds. The SEBI chief and her husband, Dhaval Buch, putting their savings in a company that had Vinod Adani as a major depositor is suspicious. Such companies do the bidding of their major depositors and it being helmed by Dhaval Buch’s friend is no guarantee of clean business. The deposit in such a company could have been with the motive of building links with powerful people for future benefits. 

SCIENCE NEWS

In India, about 500,000 people died during the period 2000-2005, and Rs 58,110 crore ($69.4 billion) worth of damage has occurred every year due to the loss of vultures, according to a new study.

To put this in perspective, the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed about 214,000 people. In 20 years since the Iraq invasion, between 280,000 and 315,000 people are estimated to have died from war-related violence.

Vultures play a critical ecological role as scavengers, and are cultural totems. Hindus revere Jatayu; Zoroastrians, who believe the earth and water are sacred, don’t defile them with their dead; instead, they place their dead on the Tower of Silence in Mumbai, to be eaten by vultures. By feeding on the carcasses of cattle, dogs and other animals, vultures clean up the environment, effectively getting rid of carcasses that are breeding grounds of pathogens. Their presence makes human habitats livable.

USEFUL MEDICAL NEWS FROM THE LANCET

The 2024 update of the Lancet Commission on dementia provides new hopeful evidence about dementia prevention, intervention, and care. As people live longer, the number of people who live with dementia continues to rise, even as the age-specific incidence decreases in high-income countries, emphasising the need to identify and implement prevention approaches. We have summarised the new research since the 2020 report of the Lancet Commission on dementia, prioritising systematic reviews and meta-analyses and triangulating findings from different studies showing how cognitive and physical reserve develop across the life course and how reducing vascular damage (eg, by reducing smoking and treating high blood pressure) is likely to have contributed to a reduction in age-related dementia incidence. Evidence is increasing and is now stronger than before that tackling the many risk factors for dementia that we modelled previously (ie, less education, hearing loss, hypertension, smoking, obesity, depression, physical inactivity, diabetes, excessive alcohol consumption [ie, >21 UK units, equivalent to >12 US units], traumatic brain injury [TBI], air pollution, and social isolation) reduces the risk of developing dementia. In this report, we add the new compelling evidence that untreated vision loss and high LDL cholesterol are risk factors for dementia

Climate Change Section :

As a developing country of the Global South, with a large population, India is highly susceptible to the impacts of climate change. At 1.2^C warming above pre-industrial levels, India has experienced record-breaking weather events over the past few years. In line with the international Paris Agreement and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, both of which have set out a vision of a low-carbon, climate-resilient and sustainable future for all, India too has set its net-zero targets for 2070. This vision needs to be pursued urgently. It is critical, therefore, to foster an ecosystem that will allow urgent climate change mitigation, adaptation and climate justice solutions to be implemented, replicated and scaled up. 

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