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COP28: UAE planned to use climate talks to make oil deals  https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-67508331

Leaked briefing documents reveal plans to discuss fossil fuel deals with 15 nations. They included proposed "talking points", such as one for China which says Adnoc, the UAE's state oil company, is "willing to jointly evaluate international LNG [liquefied natural gas] opportunities" in Mozambique, Canada and Australia.

The documents suggest telling a Colombian minister that Adnoc "stands ready" to support Colombia to develop its fossil fuel resources.

There are talking points for 13 other countries, including Germany and Egypt, which suggest telling them Adnoc wants to work with their governments to develop fossil fuel projects.

 How a Congress leader is using ‘mohabbat’ and an app to woo Gwalior South https://www.indiatoday.in/opinion/story/madhya-pradesh-election-congress-nominee-praveen-pathak-using-app-to-woo-gwalior-south-2468355-2023-11-28
Such an experiment is taking place in a place where concerted attempts are being made to resurrect Gandhi's killer.

Faced with the BJP’s potent trifecta of hyper-nationalism, welfarist policies, and Narendra Modi’s personality cult, Praveen Pathak  embarked upon a circular formation, reaching out to each and every segment of society through pad yatras, personal visits, and an app, Pragaman, that mapped virtually every voter. By the time voting took place on November 17, 2023, Pathak, inspired by Rahul Gandhi’s “Mohabbat ki dukaan” could see and clock in real-time how his support base of nearly 1,06,000 voters, perhaps enough to see him through, were at their polling stations.

This is the story of Sarah tucker in whose name there was a school started in palayamkottai. - By Cynthia Stephen 

Her brother John tucker was an official working in the area and she lived in her home in England.. he used to write to her every week. He mentioned to her that the women of the area were hardly seen outside, and one day when he went to a village and felt thirsty he knocked on the door of a house to ask for water. A little girl opened the door and seeing him, fled from him in fear. He asked why, and was told that they were not allowed to move about and were kept only within their own houses, and were not allowed to study.

He wrote to Sarah about this and she was very dismayed, and collected as much money as she could - about 40 pounds - to send to him to start a school.for girls. Accordingly the brother started the school and somehow they ran it for 13 years with support that she raised and with other money he was able to manage. At last he confessed that they could no longer keep them open. Sarah who was in frail health began to pine away at the loss of her dream. One.day three of her friends came to visit her and asked why she was so sad...she related the story and said that she was heartbroken that her dream school had to be closed down, she felt her life was not worth living as a result. Shortly thereafter she passed away. Her three friends were determined to see that Sarah 's dream would not die, so they took up the challenge, raised over 300 pounds and sent it to revive the school. It still survives and in the districts of palayamkottai and Tirunelveli at last 10 lakh - one million girls have passed out of the school and college. What a legacy.