Outlay on roads and renewables may climb to Rs 13 lakh crore in FY24, FY25 August 30, 2023 https://indianexpress.com/article/business/economy/outlay-on-roads-and-renewables-may-climb-to-rs-13-lakh-crore-in-fy24-fy25-8915300/ According to Crisil, the growth is expected to sustain over the medium term, supported by conducive policies, strong investor interest and healthy financial profiles, leading to stable credit quality of companies in the Crisil Ratings portfolio in both sectors.

Comment: Wonder if this takes into account increase kickbacks around election seasons! 

YouTube Removed 1.9 Million Videos In India In Jan-March 2023   https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/youtube-removed-1-9-million-videos-in-jan-march-2023-for-rule-violation-4343648

" protected the YouTube community from harmful content."

"more than 93 per cent of these videos were first flagged by machines rather than humans. "Of the videos detected by machines, 38 per cent were removed before they received a single view, and 31 per cent received between 1 and 10 views before removal,"

YouTube removed over 8.7 million channels in Q1 2023 for violating community guidelines. "The overwhelming majority of these channels were terminated for violating our spam policies, including but not restricted to scams, misleading metadata or thumbnails, video and comments spam," it said.

YouTube removed more than 853 million comments in Q1 2023, the majority of which were spam. About 99 per cent of removed comments were detected automatically.

https://www.indiatoday.in/education-today/news/story/iit-madras-makes-its-computer-science-courses-available-to-the-public-1947329-2022-05-09

 Interview of Dr. Mallika Sarabhai, daughter of Dr. Vikram Sarabhai, by Kiran Chandra. https://youtube.com/watch?v=udX5jCrF8f4&si=9v5INc_1f-fCKoBF
Time to remember Dr. Vikram Sarabhai at such an historic moment. The man behind ISRO and many others public institutions like IIM Ahmedabad, ECIL, NID to name a few.

 जहाँ विकास अभी भी सपना ही है मध्य प्रदेश के गांव से ग्राउंड रिपोर्ट   Aug 23, 2023  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEUqQQTyWaM  An isolated village of Madhya Pradesh is still as isolated as it was several years back. Bamangaon of Harda District has no access to government policies and services. In this Ground Report, we bring out the issues of general public from the poll-bound state of Madhya Pradesh.

Centre blaming Myanmar migrants for Manipur violence is dangerous  https://frontline.thehindu.com/the-nation/centre-blaming-myanmar-migrants-for-manipur-violence-is-dangerous/article67212603.ece Aug 24, 2023 Angshuman Choudhury
Is New Delhi endorsing Meitei narrative or diverting from its failures? Until now, Shah had attributed the violence in Manipur to the precipitous Manipur High Court judgment in April that suggested the Scheduled Tribe status for the Meiteis. This was the first time Shah had named a particular community for the crisis in Manipur. And, he made a grievous “error” while doing so.

“A Kuki Democratic Front started a movement there, and the military rulers launched a crackdown on them. As there is no border fencing, a large number of Kuki brothers came to Manipur and Mizoram as refugees,” Shah told Parliament. He was referring to the armed resistance against the junta in Myanmar and the attendant refugee movement across the India-Myanmar border.

Yes, 29 Aug, he was in his room at Hotel Swagat in Raigad district of Odisha preparing for a Press Conf scheduled to be held at 4 pm to highlight atrocities agt Adivasis/Indigenous Ppl  https://twitter.com/leofsaldanha/status/1696740732009381974

Meera Sanghamitra @meeracomposes
Away from 'national news', 25 adivasi, dalit movement leaders from across South Odisha have been arrested in a sweeping crackdown by Govt. for resisting destructive mining projects of Adani, Vedanta, Hindalco. See Press Release of Ganatantrik Adhikar Surakhya Sangathan 

http://emeets.lnwr.in/index.php/4594-jagrit-adivasi-dalit-sangathan-activist-nitin-arrested-in-burhanpur 

Far-right monk Kalicharan Mahraj delivers communal speech targeting Muslims and called on Hindus to militarise themselves. https://twitter.com/HindutvaWatchIn/status/1696543308804129076?t=P5gwPPF82bin6OT-am2_UQ&s=08

https://twitter.com/HindutvaWatchIn

Will India be able to deal with Google’s adtech monopoly? https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/08/28/will-india-be-able-to-deal-with-googles-adtech-monopoly/ August 28, 2023 by Praneel Panchagavi

Publishers and advertisers across the world primarily utilize three main adtech services to facilitate their ads: publisher ad servers (to manage ad spaces), ad buying tools (to buy ads), and ad exchanges (wherein the supply and demand converge). Google acquired prominent service providers in these categories, namely; DoubleClick (2008), AdX (2008), and AdMeld (2011) and other nascent competitors, to position itself as a tech giant which could “control and manipulate” selling and buying of digital ads. This merger led to the creation of Google’s own “AdTech stack,” which includes publisher ad server as Google Ad Manager, ad exchange as AdX, and two buying services: DV360 and Google Ads.

The concretization of such power was pursued through various contentious tactics such as prioritization of Google’s own transactions through ad-exchange, and pressurizing news outlets into adopting alternative webpage format.