The Villages That Were Submerged Due to PM Modi’s Birthday  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYysHwsCSs0 Jul 13, 2024
Medha Patkar talks about the forty years of her struggle, the lives of the displaced people, the falsehood of compensation, and how a few Gujarat companies gained more from the Sardar Sarovar project.

Adani’s violation of NGT orders  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuZTtbQ2eWY&t=1636s Shivnarayan reported on an Adani-operated coal mine in Chhattisgarh that received environmental clearance despite a National Green Tribunal order. He delved into how these clearances were granted and the loopholes used to violate orders passed by the NGT. 

Kashmir’s media crisis,  | Reporters Without Orders Ep 339 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuZTtbQ2eWY  newslaundry
Sep 28, 2024  Reporters Without Orders  

Manisha reported on press freedom in Kashmir from ground zero. She speaks about her interviews and conversations with journalists in the valley, who described an intensifying clampdown on media, a sense of suffocation, and censorship, particularly after the abrogation of Article 370. 

Inside Kashmir’s media crisis: The REAL story no one is talking about this election https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqiRfnIHd1Y newslaundry

Saket Court flags defective affidavit by BJP's Suresh Nakhua in suit against Dhruv Rathee https://www.barandbench.com/news/saket-court-flags-defective-affidavit-bjps-suresh-nakhua-suit-dhruv-rathee Nakhua had moved the Court against Rathee alleging defamation for uploading a video titled “My Reply to Godi Youtubers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFe8bJ9e_FA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6l21pMU0jyA   Dhruv Rathee पर करने गए थे केस...BJP नेता की कोर्ट में भारी फजीहत ?
Ulta Chasma uc 

 My Final Reply to Godi Youtubers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVqhgfoFaDk | Elvish Yadav | Dhruv Rathee
Dhruv Rathee

How the Attack on Rahul Gandhi For His US Remarks Exposes BJP's Own Dubious Relationship with Sikhs https://thewire.in/politics/how-the-attack-on-rahul-gandhi-for-his-us-remarks-exposes-bjps-own-dubious-relationship-with-sikhs/ Paramjeet Singh and Rajarshee Narayan Chowdhury 28/Sep/2024  Senior BJP leaders such as Hardeep Singh Puri (who is himself Sikh) pulled-no-punches, in a column for the Indian Express, Puri wrote: “The only time Sikhs have felt insecure and faced an existential threat in India was in the early 1980s.” 
 BJP’s national spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi, referred to Rahul Gandhi’s comments as supposed evidence of the latter having gone from making “childish comments” to “dangerous and mischievous activities”. ..Congress leader Pawan Khera, in responding to the BJP leaders’ attacks on Gandhi, pointed to how the saffron party often construes any criticism of its policies as attacks on India. Khera further reminded how the Prime Minister himself was not above-often in pejorative terms-referencing people’s clothing, most recently, the anti-hijab movement of the BJP, against the school-going girls of Karnataka, fanning communal flames in educational institutions; with members of the judiciary openly attending events by organisations such as the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP). 

Adani Pump Storage Dams: Defiling sacred pools and fish sanctuaries in the Western Ghats https://sandrp.in/2024/09/25/adani-energy-dams-defiling-sacred-pools-and-fish-sanctuaries-in-western-ghats/
September 25, 2024 SANDRP

Tekpowale Fish Sanctuary: This small, remote settlement protects a pool and fish dear to a particularly fierce forest deity, Vardayini (Bestower of Boons). The pool is surrounded by a dark sacred grove which is the open-to-sky shrine to the goddess... Forest-dwelling communities here do not cast a net on the pool even when the drought is bad, and food is scarce. Water is not drawn from the pool, there are no pumps and pipes dipping in the pool, otherwise ubiquitous all over.

Adani Green Energy: 1500 MW Warasgaon-Warangi Pumped Storage Project: Adani Energy has proposed 1500 MW Warasgaon Warangi Pumped storage Project which consists of interbasin transfers of water from Krishna basin to the flood-prone, west flowing Savitri Basin and back. 

 How can such a project be proposed in a biodiversity-rich, highly dammed area with sacred space of worship, dense forests, a conservation reserve and a Wildlife Sanctuary?

Alternative analysis of the project locations done in the Pre-feasibility report is a purely desktop exercise which considers only the economic cost of the alternatives. The consultants (Tata Consultancy has worked on the PFR) simply put 4 options on paper and have paid zero attention to the siting and its impact on ecology of the Global Biodiversity Hotspot of Western Ghats. 

https://www.adaniwatch.org/pumped_hydro_adani_s_2_billion_pumped_hydro_projects_to_impact_biodiversity_hotspot  Campaigners,,, say these ‘pumped hydro storage’ projects will damage the biodiversity of the Western Ghat range. A tiger reserve and a wildlife sanctuary are adjacent to the proposed dams, which occur inside a sensitive seismic zone. Experts say that the environmental-impact study for parts of the project flagrantly ignores the environmental importance of this globally significant hotspot for biodiversity.

 Dharavi redevelopment: State proposes sending residents to Deonar dumping yard   https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/mumbai-news/state-moots-rental-housing-for-dharavi-residents-at-deonar-dumping-yard-101726254505747.html  The move has raised concerns regarding exposure to toxic gases and spurred the opposition to redouble their pleas for rehabilitating residents within Dharavi 

“Sending Dharavi residents to Deonar is inhuman. No one must be displaced and everyone must be rehabilitated in-situ (at the spot),” said Shiv Sena (UBT) MP from south central Mumbai, Anil Desai. “Dharavi has enough land for everyone and the residents have been living there since decades,” he noted. 

 Modi will close NITI Aayog due to fear, evidence found red handed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnVhXhc7cUk  
The Public India  Sep 29, 2024  Anjali Bharadhdwaj says Modi will close NITI Aayog due to fear, evidence found red handed

Govt ignored Niti red flag that data protection law could weaken RTI  https://indianexpress.com/article/india/govt-ignored-niti-red-flag-that-data-protection-law-could-weaken-rti-9593569/
Niti’s concern: Disclosure of personal info of public officials may not be possible in larger public interest too. On Jan 16, 2023, the NITI Aayog formally wrote to the Ministry of Electronics and IT urging it not to pass the proposed law as it would weaken the RTI act... the suggestion had come as part of the then ongoing inter-miniterial consultation and hte law was still in the draft stage.. 

 How a US-Based PR Firm Is Profiling Activists, Scientists Opposing Pesticides and GMO
Sarasvati Thuppadolla, Margot Gibbs and Elena DeBre  https://thewire.in/agriculture/how-a-us-based-pr-firm-is-profiling-activists-scientists-opposing-pesticides-and-gmo The firm spearheading this work is Missouri-based v-Fluence Interactive, founded and run by a former Monsanto executive, Jay Byrne, who previously worked as a communications executive at the US Agency for International Development (USAID). Since its creation in 2001, v-Fluence has provided a range of services including “in depth research, ongoing intelligence gathering, proprietary data-mining and analytics” to the global agrochemical and biotechnology industry.

v-Fluence also has links to corporate pesticide giants such as Syngenta which is currently facing a lawsuit in the US, with Byrne and v-Fluence as co-defendants. The lawsuit was filed by farmers with Parkinson’s disease who have alleged that their illness was caused by the company’s paraquat herbicide. They accuse Syngenta and v-Fluence of suppressing negative information on the dangers of paraquat, working to “neutralise” those who criticise it, and investigating the social media pages of people who reported injuries to Syngenta’s crisis hotline.