Newsclick statement 19th Dec. 2023  https://www.newsclick.in/statement-sudden-freezing-newsclick-accounts-it-dept-dec-salaries-held  As of the evening of December 18, NewsClick has been unable to make any bank payments due to action by the Income Tax Department. NewsClick did not receive any intimation of the freezing of accounts, and the staff discovered it by chance while trying to make routine payments last evening. As a result of this high-handed action, salaries of all employees — journalists, videographers, and administrative and support staff — and consultants and contributors cannot be paid, including for the 19 days of December they have already worked.

Members of India’s ruling dispensation are often found making vociferous claims about the nation’s march on the path of development under Prime Minister Na­ren­dra Modi. But the proverbial slip between cup and lip is becoming difficult to ignore. The report, Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition 2023: Statistics and Trends, published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, has revealed that 74.1% of Indians were unable to get access to healthy food in 2021. South Asia, incidentally, recorded the highest prevalence of food insecurity. What is concerning is that India was ranked lower than its neighbours, including Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Bhutan and Iran. The persistence of India’s nutritional challenge is also borne out by the report: 76.2% of Indians could not afford a healthy diet in 2020 while about 16.6% were undernourished the following year. The causes of these depressing data are well-known. The pandemic led to disruptions in the economy and, consequently, to loss of income and livelihood opportunities. The combined effects of ascendant food inflation and declining purchasing power ensured that nutrition remains a luxury for three out of every four Indians. Entrenched gender and social inequalities, highlighted in the National Family and Healthy Survey 5, have also amplified attendant crises: as per the UN report, 31.7% of children in India suffer from stunted growth while 53% of women of reproductive age are anaemic. The economic and the healthcare burdens of malnutrition are considerable; the lack of nutrition also belies the tall claims about India meeting its welfare commitments.

https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/plate-of-worry-editorial-on-data-flagging-the-continuing-nutritional-challenge-in-india/cid/1987884 

19/12/2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH_0bix9iP4 इस नेता ने मोदी के PM बनने के सारे रास्ते किये बंद! BJP खेमे में हड़कंप नहीं देखा है तो जल्दी देखिये
Sigma Music

Comment: Congress statement in elections for free education from K.G. to P.G. is really follows Ambedkar principles.But BJP is only busy in Privatisation on Manu wad lines of thinking to keep education out of reach of poor strata of society.

https://www.missionsaveconstitution.org/

https://www.indianewsstream.com/rights/mission-save-constitution-launched/ Aug 16, 2020 In a statement senior lawyer Mehmood Pracha  , who is convenor of the Mission, said the Constitution has been envisaged as the life, spirit and the real strength of India by Babasahab Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar, but attempts have been continuing to undermine it, so this precious document needs to be protected in letter and spirit at all costs.

”Recent developments including attempts being made at the highest level to dilute the fundamental guarantees like Equality, Justice, and Fraternity contained in the very Preamble of the Constitution, is visible in the form of encroachment upon Citizenship rights, Reservation rights, rights of the weaker sections of the society like SC/ST, OBCs, Minorities and Women and is a cause to alarm all patriotic citizens of India,” he said.

इस बुजुर्ग महिला को पूरा देश क्यों सुन रहा है, वीडियों ने बीजेपी को परेशान कर दिया? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8AUFFts84U Voice News Network 17 Dec 2023 after spending 90000 crores, the Narmada dam has not been able to deliver.. ptich for Satyagraha, non violent movement for an alternative economic system.

https://youtu.be/Y8AUFFts84U?t=720 Swami Agnivesh decided not to go to the supreme court,  why?  We need to rely on the people...to defend the constitution...

Liberty of citizens at stake, clear bail pleas swiftly: Supreme Court asks high courts https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/liberty-of-citizens-at-stake-clear-bail-pleas-swiftly-supreme-court-asks-high-courts/cid/1987826  R. Balaji  19.12.23 SC regrets that despite repeated directions by it on earlier occasions, the same situation continues to exist wherein anticipatory and regular bail plea applications of accused persons get unduly delayed, keeping accused persons in prolonged incarceration
R. Balaji New Delhi Published 19.12.23

EVM मामले पर 14 पार्टियों ने चुनाव आयोग को घेरा!   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DSWz9OQNuc  NUBT NEWS s Dec 17, 2023

 Bollywood screenwriters strategise to take on powerful production houses, OTT platforms   https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/mumbai-news/bollywood-screenwriters-strategise-to-take-on-powerful-production-houses-ott-platforms-101702149688371-amp.html?fbclid=IwAR2HLR_ELk_SaOthrRkfFFPBq28CGctf020W2zjCsqcHmWgXQ4sGPpD4CaE
ByYogesh Pawar, Mumbai

https://www.facebook.com/100069416646242/posts/685365007120715/?mibextid=xfxF2i Post by Charudutt Acharya Last week on 7th December 2023, 100 plus active feature film screenwriters met under the aegis of the Screenwriters Association India. ..to discuss the proposed MBC (Minimum Basic Contract) for feature films. 
A robust beginning has also been made in the direction of discussing royalties and residuals for screenwriters and lyricists.
The recent stupendous success of the Writers Guild of America (WGA) in securing several benefits for its screenwriters has been hugely inspiring.

Comment by JD: Really appreciate the struggles of your work on copyright and contracts. The digital space , entertainment, knowledge, service and production is going through re-definition where political economy is being marginalised unless people like you dig in. You recall how George Fernandes struggled to get banks to recognised the taxis itself to be the surety and the labour itself to be the project.. This is similar work.

विदेशी जजों ने मोदी सरकार पर लगाया बेहद गंभीर आरोप, ये तो गज़ब हो गया! Parliament latest news| rafael   https://youtube.com/embed/yDCuLCw588g?start=98&end=707    LOKHIT INDIA 

CJI-SC Order Wrong ? Article 370 Ruling Questioned ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDhkHM-C6RU Law Chakra
Dec 17, 2023 SUPREME COURT OF INDIA
Justice Nariman expressed his concerns about the Supreme Court’s judgment on the abrogation of Article 370. He questioned the decision to convert Jammu and Kashmir into a Union Territory, bypassing Article 356. 

https://lawchakra.in/supreme-court-order-on-article-370-disturbing-justice-r-nariman/

the ban on a BBC documentary on Narendra Modi and the harassment of the broadcaster; the revamp of the panel that selects election commissioners; the Kerala governor’s stalling of legislation passed by the Assembly; and the Supreme Court’s delay in ruling on the abrogation of Article 370 and its sidestepping of the constitutionality of the withdrawal of Jammu and Kashmir’s statehood.

https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/retired-supreme-court-judge-cautions-courts-about-four-most-disturbing-developments-from-recent-past/cid/1987417 He referred to

This week, while upholding the abrogation of Article 370, the apex court had cited the solicitor-general’s assurance and refrained from giving a specific ruling on the constitutionality of the withdrawal of Jammu and Kashmir’s statehood.

“The solicitor-general does not have any authority to bind any successor government…. Second, and more importantly, he has no authority whatsoever to bind the legislature. And this is going to be a legislative act,” Nariman said.

“So, to say ‘We won’t decide’ means, in effect, you have decided. You have allowed this unconstitutional act to go forward for an indefinite period of time and you have skirted Article 356(5). These are all very disturbing things.”