Surveillance & Clampdown: 'NGOs to be linked to central data hub with unique ID' https://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2023/mar/02/surveillance--clampdown-ngos-to-be-linked-to-central-data-hub-with-unique-id-2552166.html
The MHA has directed the DGPs and IGPs of states and union territories to assign teams that are working in coordination with the central government wing to expedite the process of unique ID allocation

 02nd March 2023

In India, while the NGOs registered under the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) are monitored by the MHA through a dedicated division, there are nearly 35 lakh NGOs which are not registered under the FCRA and are governed by nearly 40 different laws like the Society registration Act, The Companies Act, Public Trust Act and others, and are usually governed by the laws of the states.

“There have been instances, however, where both categories of NGOs have been indulging in violations like diversion of funds and money laundering,” ministry sources claimed.

As a result, the regulatory mechanism for all FCRA and non-FCRA are also being relooked into at the moment, while the process to link them centrally is being worked out.

100 Days agitation by 100 workers per day demanding 100 days’ work without hitches - Centre for Financial Accountability (cenfa.org) https://www.cenfa.org/100-days-agitation/ The World Bank which once called the scheme as ‘a barrier to development’ later lauded it as world’s largest social security scheme.

This Govt which was cynical of the scheme continued it because of the Covid 19 pandemic during which the migrant workers who walked home hundreds of kilometres could be given at least some days of work.

Now the workers organised under MGNREGA Sangarsh Morcha, a National Collective of Trade Unions are on Dharna at Jantar Mantar. They have decided that everyday 100 workers from different states will assemble at Delhi for 100 days continuously to press for various demands which include:

• Stop mandatory linking of the Job Card with Aadhar Card and Bank Account.  Even if there is a single mistake in one of them it is difficult to correct the link.

From February 1^st 2023 payments to MGNREGS beneficiaries were to be made only through Aadhar Based Payment System (ABPS). However as on 20^th February, only 44% of total workers registered under the scheme were eligible as per The Hindu dated 27.02.2023.

With New Rules, JNU Students Can Be Fined Rs 20,000 for Dharnas, Expelled for Gheraos https://thewire.in/education/with-new-rules-jnu-students-can-be-fined-rs-20000-for-dharnas-expelled-for-gheraos The new 'Rules of Discipline and proper conduct of students of JNU', running up to 10 pages, details punishments for several activities that have been classified as 'misconduct and indiscipline'.

Jawaharlal Nehru University has put in place new rules that appear to be an attempt to thwart campus protests. The various punishments listed include “cancellation of admission or withdrawal of degree or denial of registration for a specified period, rustication up to four semesters and/or declaring any part or the entire JNU campus out of bounds, expulsion, a fine of up to Rs 30,000 as per the old rules, One/two semesters of eviction from the hostel.”

https://www.thequint.com/quintlab/lynching-in-india/

documentation of lynchings. It has violence in the name of cow protection, child abduction, inter caste relationships.

Interfaith relations can't be dubbed as a form of love jihad: HC  https://www.rediff.com/news/report/interfaith-relations-cant-be-dubbed-as-love-jihad-hc/20230301.htm

The high court rejected the love jihad argument, .."Merely because the boy and girl are from different religions, it cannot have a religions angle. It can be a case of pure love for each other," the court said. "It appears that now the colour has been tried to be given of love jihad, but when love is accepted then there is less possibility of the person being trapped just for converting him into the other's religion," it added.

As per the prosecution case, the man and woman were in a relationship since March 2018. The man belonged to a Scheduled Caste community, but did not disclose this to the woman.

Was Adani’s associate in China involved in violating UN Security Council sanctions against North Korea? - Adani Watch https://www.adaniwatch.org/exclusive_was_adani_s_associate_in_china_involved_in_violating_un_security_council_sanctions_against_north_korea

Just before Narendra Modi became the Prime Minister of India in May 2014, the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) in the Ministry of Finance served two show-cause notices on his (adani's) companies alleging over-invoicing of power-generation equipment from China. The cases are in court.

Morris and Norris Chang are involved in shipping companies that have violated sanctions against trading with North Korea and which also are involved with shipping companies using the Adani brand...

One such entity is Adani Shipping (China) Co Ltd, whose website said it was catering for the international trade of Adani Global Ltd (a direct subsidiary of Adani Enterprises Ltd – the flagship company of the Adani Group) and Hi Lingo Co Ltd (a trading company owned by Lingo-Chang).

Around 60 families live in the area near Janata Camp, and their children study in nearby schools. Some of them have received notices to vacate their huts.

Watch: 'Government Is Removing Us From Our Homes Over the G20 Summit' (thewire.in)

People living in front of Pragati Maidan in Delhi have received notices to vacate their huts. A resident, Mohammad Ali Hussain, claims to have lived here since 1993.

by Atul Ashok Howale

26/02/2023

Most of us tend to think that if google and all our other apps are taking all our information in any case, why not go ahead with other apps which collect "family" information. We think we can somehow manage as the data will get lost and depersonalized. This perhaps is the case with corporates at the macro level, but there are algorithms in the big bad world, which deal with more personalized matters.. marriage's, jobs, legal proceedings, political mobilization, market targeting for more than simple commercial purposes. Many of these algorithms work from non-transparent geographies. http://emeets.lnwr.in/index.php/3690-loopholes-in-google-s-data-safety-labels-keep-companies-in-the-clear-and-consumers-in-the-dark  The debate on a gate-keeping app seems to be forgotten. Unfortunately, government regulations on this, leave alone proper oversight is very slow and wanting. In any case corporates, especially those entities : with "limited liability" protection, and obscure holdings many of them in questionable geographies, are difficult to pin down.

Many a times we have found ourselves changing our privacy settings, because a particular app needs some information and since we were busy at that time wanting to get done with something, we click OK. Similarly, when matters related to family and homestead, you just don't know how the compiling of data at the community level can be engaged with. Just a board saying you are under CCTV surveillance, or :your phone number/pix or noentry" is no protection. Society needs to be more particular if it needs to survive.

Strategies Beyond Borders: Tales of Time Banks This webinar series, called "Learning for Alternative Futures"  https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org/newsletters:08:collaboration