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Why Is SECI Silent on Adani’s Bribery Allegations?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBIVqYm-4J0 Moneylife News Bites Nov 27, 2024 
The Adani bribery scandal has rocked the global energy sector, with indictments from the US Department of Justice and the SEC. At the center of this controversy lies SECI (Solar Energy Corporation of India), whose silence raises troubling questions about its role in facilitating inflated solar power prices and bribery schemes. This video explores:
SECI's questionable policies and decisions.
Allegations of corruption involving Adani Green Energy and Azure Power.
The Power Ministry’s role in encouraging centralized solar plants.
Demands for an independent investigation

US probing Adani Group and founder over potential bribery, Bloomberg reports https://www.reuters.com/world/india/us-probing-adani-group-founder-over-potential-bribery-bloomberg-reports-2024-03-15/ By Reuters March 15, 2024 Prosecutors are digging into whether an Adani entity or people linked to the company, including Gautam Adani, were involved in paying officials in India for favorable treatment on an energy project, the report said, citing people with direct knowledge of the matter..."We are not aware of any investigation against our chairman," Adani Group told Bloomberg News...

Ezhikkara panchayat to formulate climate action plan to fight tidal flooding https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Kochi/ezhikkara-panchayat-to-formulate-climate-action-plan-to-fight-tidal-flooding/article67954369.ece/amp/ 22 community researchers, mostly drawn from Kudumbashree,buil(t) .. up a grassroots-level basic information system in 20 coastal panchayats.. In the second phase of co-creating ward-specific micro level climate action plan, they will facilitate discussions and surveys for ward-level problem identification and gathering inputs for arriving at lasting solutions. Based on the climate action plan, a detailed project report will be drawn up for potential funding from the State Disaster Management Authority 
March 15, 2024

Call for combining scientific and traditional methods to check high tide flooding in Ernakulam panchayats https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Kochi/call-for-combining-scientific-and-traditional-methods-to-check-high-tide-flooding-in-ernakulam-panchayats/article66953873.ece  June 10, 2023 

Kerala’s coastline  crisis: Rising seas, disappearing land, and women on the frontlines
Manjula Bharathy https://www.policycircle.org/opinion/kerala-facing-coastline-crisis/ July 17, 2024 One of the viable solutions proposed to combat the effects of high-tide flooding is the expansion of mangrove forests. 

The project adopts a rights-based, gender-sensitive approach to climate change adaptation and mitigation. It emphasises the participation of local communities in decision-making processes and the production of knowledge. Key interventions include: Community Mapping; Community Video, theatre.  hybrid perspectives and co-production of knowledge, tackling power and gender imbalances, and ensuring that local communities are active participants

India banned a Chinese app four years ago. Government agencies are still using it https://restofworld.org/2024/india-banned-camscanner-government-agencies/  The Election Commission is not the only Indian government-adjacent entity still using this banned scanning app. Rest of World found 30 other instances of documents uploaded by government departments and ministries that were scanned with CamScanner .

the Indian government has not clearly communicated to the public why it has banned the app. Raman Jit Singh Chima, Asia Pacific policy director and senior international counsel at Access Now says.. “The CamScanner blocking was a political action and less a cybersecurity one, Most experts agree that bans aren’t the best way to protect national security, especially when they target tech from a single nation of origin. “The way to go forward is to have policies in place that all companies, all applications have to follow,” Rajmohan said, adding that India needs to have robust national cyber security policy and data protection laws that foreign and domestic firms must comply with.