Will you work for 90 hours? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkEWh8cRD9Q Ravish Kumar Official Jan 10, 2025 L&T Chairman SN Subrahmanyan Asks Employees To Work 90 Hours A Week A video of L&T Chairman SN Subrahmanyan is going viral in which he is saying that he regrets that he is not able to get people to work on Sundays. There are many memes going around on social media on his proposal to work for 90 hours a week. Actually, in the last several years, you have been reduced to sending only memes and good morning messages. There is either no job or it is low salary, inflation is at its peak and savings are going down. But you are pushing memes and blowing away every worry. All the questions have already disappeared from the media, the remaining work has been completed by the memes. Stop for a while and think how much space is there for you and your rights in such a proposal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po8vzTSTkmk | N18L CNN-News18 Dilip Cherian seem to be "normalising" it.. Saying that many people do work like that especially start-ups. After inviting sharp criticism for its chairman SN Subrahmanyan's idea of a 90-hour workweek, Larsen & Toubro (L&T) defended his remarks saying that 'extraordinary outcomes require extraordinary efforts'. 'We believe this is India’s decade, a time demanding collective dedication and effort to drive progress and realize our shared vision of becoming a developed nation. The Chairman’s remarks reflect this larger ambition,' the company said in a statement.
Zuckerberg ends fact-checking on Meta's Facebook, Instagram: Why it could lead to a flood of misinformation https://www.firstpost.com/explainers/mark-zuckerberg-fact-checking-meta-facebook-instagram-misinformation-13850856.html?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-intl January 8, 2025, Mark Zuckerberg-led Meta has announced that it will end its fact-checking programme in the US, citing that the checkers have become ‘too biased’. While some believe the move is an attempt by the tech mogul to appease US President-elect Donald Trump, others have slammed it, calling it an ‘abdication of responsibility’
Interview: Releasing Nicobar report would be like ‘opening can of worms’, says anthropologist https://scroll.in/article/1077603/interview-releasing-nicobar-report-would-be-like-opening-can-of-worms-says-anthropologist A largely uncontacted tribe of about 250 people, the Shompens live on the Great Nicobar island, the southernmost landmass of India. In 2021, the Modi government announced plans to develop a massive infrastructural project on the island at a cost of Rs 72,000 crore, which many fear could endanger the island’s native tribal communities and unique flora and fauna. Pandya submitted a video report to the administration, which included interviews he had conducted with members of the island’s tribal communities, the Shompens and the Nicobarese, as well as settlers from the mainland who had been living there for decades. “We never heard from the administration after that,” Pandya told Scroll.
The Shompens have the argument that it will destroy the area’s soil regeneration system. Each part of the forest is associated with streams of the Galathea and Alexandra rivers crisscrossing the island. When the river overflows in the rainy season, the alluvial soil is deposited downstream, which makes it possible for Shompens to regenerate their tapioca gardens and horticultural plots.
Government reports used to call Shompens “shy”. Hostile Jarawas, aggressive Sentinelese, docile Onges – these are the terms reports used. Why would the Shompen be shy? These are all the categories created because of the way [the administration] interacted with them and the way it suits the scheme of our development. Shompen are aware of the outside world and are articulate that they do not want the outsiders here. And that’s why they became “shy”.