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NCLAT reserves verdict on Google appeal against ₹1,337 crore CCI penalty for anti-competitive practices in Android market Prashant Jha 20th Mar, 2023 https://www.barandbench.com/amp/story/news/litigation/nclat-reserves-verdict-on-google-appeal-against-1337-crore-cci-penalty-for-anti-competitive-practices-in-android-market

Arguments for Google LLC Google LLC argued that CCI's order suffers from confirmation bias and is based on a similar order from the European Commission (EC) in 2018. It was stated that the company's agreements do not prevent equipment manufacturers from pre-installing competing apps with similar functionality.

Arguments for CCI ASG Venkataraman said that Google's policies in India can be summed up in five phrases: digital feudalism, digital slavery, technological captivity, chokepoint capitalism and consumer exploitation. He argued that the companies that did not sign Google's contract have gone extinct. NCLAT was told that all these agreements are linked to one another, and cannot be signed independently. It was stated that Google abused its dominant position in the Android Operating System (OS) market to indulge in unfair trade practices by restricting entry of other applications in its Play Store.

https://youtu.be/lwxMeEQZLjQ?t=57 on whether why women could confide in Rahul.. and will he betray their confidence by disclosing their names to the Police! dignity and privacy issues..

Afterwaves of Covid-19. Is economic distress causing a spike in suicide deaths in India?  BY PARVATHI BENU March 20, 2023 - https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/data-stories/deep-dive/is-economic-distress-causing-a-spike-in-suicide-deaths-in-india/article66635113.ece
The suicide rate jumped to 11.3 in 2020 and was at a record high at 12 in 2021

But there has been a jump in suicides during the pandemic. The NCRB recorded 1.5 lakh suicide deaths in 2020, against 1.39 lakh in 2019. Between 2020 and 2021, too, there was a 7.1 per cent increase. In 2021, 1.64 lakh people took their own lives, according to the NCRB.

The jump in the number of suicides in 2020 and 2021, according to mental health experts, is clearly the after-effect of the pandemic and the financial stress that it brought along. “In 2020, during the lockdown, when you had a real financial crisis, the number of suicides, too, shot through the roof,” said Soumitra Pathare, consultant psychiatrist and director at the Centre for Mental Health Law and Policy, Indian Law Society, Pune.

Daily wage labourers and housewives combined, form close to 40 per cent of people who died by suicide in 2021.  Also, the National Family Health Survey points out that domestic abuse is still a very common thing in India. “Many times, a landless female farmer is mentioned as a housewife. The same happens with a female daily wager, too.