In Hindenburg fallout, serious questions cordoned off by the media’s noise https://www.newslaundry.com/2024/08/14/in-hindenburg-fallout-serious-questions-cordoned-off-by-the-medias-noise  Kalpana Sharma 14 Aug, 2024
To independently verify the Hindenburg revelations would require media houses to invest time and money.

Mumbai: Malabar Hill Residents Demand Geological Study & Construction Halt Amid Redevelopment Concerns 
Recent developments have also strained infrastructure impacting roads, parking, and water supply in Malabar Hill
SHEFALI PARAB-PANDITUpdated: Sunday, August 04, 2024   "Construction of several high-rise buildings up to 40 floors is underway in the area. Can the Hill withstand this level of excavation and weight? We risk a disaster if we continue to ignore these issues .. Malabar Hill has already  experienced two landslides in 2020, along with a road cave in. BG Kher Marg, which connects major junctions in South Mumbai and suffered extensive damage from a landslide, was reopened only  after a closure of two and a half years.Recent infrastructure developments in South Mumbai, such as the Mumbai Coastal Road are expected to improve connectivity to the area where the city's affluent residents reside.

Pelvic girdle, hyoid bone broken? R G Kar victim’s post-mortem report says no fracture found  https://www.altnews.in/pelvic-girdle-hyoid-bone-broken-r-g-kar-victims-post-mortem-report-says-no-fracture-found/   Alt News was able to access the post-mortem report of the victim through police sources. The post-mortem report mentions several injuries but states that no bone fractures were found on the victim’s body.

The report mentions injuries and condition of various organs in a tabular format. In a row titled ‘Muscles Bones and Joints’, one column says Fracture — Not Found. Another says Dislocation — Nil. 

 Following a viral tweet,   Senior journalist Barkha Dutt hosted a show on Mojo Story on August 14 with the title “Legs Wrenched Open, Pelvic Girdle Broken” I Kolkata Doctor Rape & Murder Cover Up”. https://youtu.be/Iaq4gcwVvYk  At the 22-second mark, the journalist says that the victim’s family has broken silence on the condition that they found their daughter with multiple fractures. Later, at 4:10, she asks a doctor on the panel to talk about the multiple pelvic fractures. They run a ticker throughout the video that says, ‘Multiple pelvic fractures, not work of one man’ ..

 JNU University बेच रही मोदी सरकार ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5HlMOUna8Y  , Adani , Jawaharlal Nehru University
DESH NEETI

JNU बेचेगा अपनी प्रॉपर्टी और संस्थाओं से वसूलेगा किराया, फंड की कमी के चलते लिया फैसला https://www.abplive.com/education/jnu-will-sell-its-properties-ask-institute-to-pay-rent-due-to-fund-crunch-know-the-details-2763722  यूनिवर्सिटी परिसर में बने इंस्टीट्यूट से किराया लिया जाएगा इसके साथ ही कुलपति शांतिश्री धुलिपुडी पंडित ने बताया कि जवाहरलाल नेहरू यूनिवर्सिटी परिसर में कुल 12 इंस्टिट्यूट चलाए जाते हैं. वह सभी बिना किराए दिए ही संचालित हो रहे हैं. लेकिन अब यूनिवर्सिटी उन संस्थाओं से हर महीने किराया लेने की योजना के बारे में सोच रही है. ताकि यूनिवर्सिटी पर जो वित्तीय बोझ है वह काम हो सके. 

Mumbai with scarce lands can’t continue to have slums and no open spaces https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/mumbai-with-scarce-lands-cant-continue-to-have-slums-and-no-open-spaces-says-bombay-hc-9518358/

Bombay High Court  suggested that an effective mechanism or policy for the accommodation of migrants should be considered by going to the “root of the issue”. “The Government should have a vision… a city like Mumbai is an international city and financial capital of the country… we should absolutely have a slum-free city. The Slum Areas Act, 1971 will help the vision,” the bench said.

 बिना मंत्रियों और IAS के अब सरकार चलाएंगे मोदी, Lateral Entry is Extra Constitutional https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EXcMmKceeQ
Dinesh K Vohra -News Time

 Extra-Constitutional Lateral Entry: पुतिन मॉडल-मोदी को देश चलाने के लिए न मंत्री चाहिए न IAS अधिकारी https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zQaC5fKEJE
Dinesh K Vohra -News Time

Electric smart meters
BEST has come with another fraudulent request which cannot be enforced without positive consent of each electricity consumers.
This letter of request is evidence of the installation of smart electric meters carried out earlier by committing offence of trespassing, criminal breach of trust by public servants and theft
Without prejudice to our rights and contentions and with regards to the request to installation of the smart electric meters we over vehemently oppose your installation on the following grounds mentioned herein below amongst other grounds
RDSS statement is not binding on citizens and BEST CANNOT FORCE ON CITIZENS INSTALLATION OF SMART ELECTRIC METERS.
Smart electric meters are loots of tax payer money.
The notice is issued to chairman and President of society and not to individual consumer. How can society decide on the consent to be given by individual consumer.? The notice itself is illegal and bad in law.
No office bearer of society can give consent on behalf of the individual consumer.
Mr. Kamlakar Shenoy has raised some queries of blatant violations for which BEST has not given any legal reasons and explaiation
1. The installation of 11 lacs electronic electric meters was going on even after 31.10.22 as around 90000 meters were still to be installed. So as soon as electronic meters are installed now it will be changed to smart meters.
2. Devendra fadnavis statement
3. No metrology dept weight and measures dept certificate produced
4. Therefore inflated bills.
5. Purpose to bring down transmission distribution loss. BEST LOSS is 3.5% bare minimum
6. BEST consumers are not informed of the reduction in cost per unit after spending 1300 crores.
7. False statement that installation of smart electric meters is free of cost. No upfront charges. In fact subsidy is given by C government and claims shall be put through ARR before MERC.
8. Notices fixed on the entrance are illegal and faulty, without providing any details of study carried out.
Notice dt. 22.2.24 now submitted after consumers refused to install smart meters is with different format and contents from earlier submitted notice dt. 22.4.24.
This further proves the act of forgery and misrepresenting true facts.
That is why BEST have come out with this illegal request inspite of
DY. CHIEF MINISTER AND POWER MINISTER STATEMENT ON FLOOR OF ASSEMBLY THAT
SMART ELECTRIC METERS SHALL NOT BE INSTALLED IN RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL PREMISES BUT ONLY ON TRANSFORMERS , FEEDERS AND GOVERNMENT BUILDING.
Kindly note that BEST UNDERTAKING and/or any other distribution company shall be liable for criminal Prosecution of these Electric distribution companies send such illegal request and notices even after Power Minister has openly stated that smart meters shall not be installed in residential and commercial premises

Date 17.8.24
Kamlakar Shenoy 

A port of no return: In Great Nicobar Island, a port was won, a wildlife sanctuary lost Pankaj Sekhsaria  https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/wildlife-sanctuary-great-nicobar-island-9499941/ 

 a category of land labelled by Indian law as coastal regulation zone ( CRZ)IA and second, the environmental clearance granted by the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change ( MOEFCC) to a Rs 42,000 crore transshipment port in Great Nicobar Island's Galathea Bay. Coastal areas that are notified as protected areas ( wildlife sanctuary and national park), with mangroves, corals, turtle- nesting beaches, seagrass beds and nesting grounds of birds among others, are included in CRZ- IA . Significantly, they are out of bounds for large construction projects such as the port in question in Great Nicobar Island. The NCSCM,   National Centre for Sustainable Coastal Management ( NCSCM) hence, concluded that no part of the project area is falling under CRZ- IA.”

The turtles still nest here, the mangroves still stand, the megapodes still forage and breed here and 20,688 coral colonies still flourish in the adjoining waters. This is still CRZ- IA, but now that the port has been approved, this cannot be IA. It should never have been IA in the first place. The cart was unfortunately before the horse all along but this has been corrected now.

introduction to VS and its work:

1. Alternatives Transformation Format
https://vikalpsangam.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Alternatives-framework-7th-avatar-post-VSCG-for-public-circulation-17.11.2023.pdf

2. Search for Radical Alternatives
https://vikalpsangam.org/wp-content/uploads/migrate/Resources/alternetivesframeworkbookletrevisedfinal1512.pdf

3. People's Manifesto 2024
https://vikalpsangam.org/article/vikalp-sangam-general-assembly-to-release-peoples-manifesto-2024/

4. Reports on Sangams
https://vikalpsangam.org/article/vikalp-sangam-reports/