What Was Shah Bano Case | Maintenance For Divorced Muslim Women  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3po8_uBKRU
10 Jul 2024 #ShahBanoCase #MuslimWomenRights #MaintenanceForDivorcedWomen
In the backdrop of the Supreme Court verdict on maintenance for divorced Muslim women, we take a look at the Shah Bano case that laid the ground for Muslim women’s fight for equal rights in matters of marriage and divorce in regular courts. The Indian Express’ Charulata Biswas explains.

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‘Men will now abandon, not divorce’ – Muslims divided over Supreme Court alimony verdict.https://theprint.in/feature/men-will-now-abandon-not-divorce-muslims-divided-over-supreme-court-alimony-verdict/2169851/ 

Even for people who wholeheartedly welcome the verdict, a reservation loomed large at the back of their minds. 

“The Supreme Court should not interfere in religious matters, whichever community it is. Muslims follow very balanced laws. You are (SC) making things difficult. Men might choose to abandon her instead of divorce her,” said Asma Zehra Tayeba, a member of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board.

Agnipath: 'Degrades Military's Combat Effectiveness; Agniveers are Barely Trained, just sentries’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-yti2u6WPg  10 Jul 2024 Agnipath scheme will degrade combat effectiveness; Agniveers are "barely trained" and only fit "for sentry duties"; military is not a laboratory for social engineering and reform: former Navy Chief Admiral Arun Prakash

Uttarakhand gov’t snatches forest conservation funds, outsources policing and royalty collection from riverbed miners to private players https://www.reporters-collective.in/trc/uttarakhand-violates-sc-orders-on-river-mining
Ignoring the conflict of interest, the BJP government has encouraged tax-collecting private companies to also mine the rivers in the ecologically-fragile Himalayan state. All done in the name of preventing disasters. The state has gone a step further, establishing by regulation, what many experts believe is a classic case of conflict of interest. Any private company that wins the rights to collect taxes from riverbed mining will also be given priority over others to mine the rivers. In other words, a mining company could now be collecting taxes from other miners and also be in charge of preventing illegal extraction of boulders, sand and gravel from the state’s rivers. 

the Uttarakhand government has continuously violated the Supreme Court order which requires the state to plough the money from riverbed mining in forests into conservation – a face saver device to compensate for the damage caused to forests by ecologically harmful activities like river mining. T

Decoding a potential peace plan to resolve the crisis in Manipur https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j74nisf3Nk  11 Jun 2024
RSS Supremo Mohan Bhagwat says that Manipur has been burning for a year and nothing has been done about it, he also added that the situation in Manipur needs to be addressed and resolved on a priority. News9 which has kept an eye on the Manipur situation, since the very beginning decodes a possible peace plan for the situation in Manipur. Tune in for a special show with an expert panel.

 the 10 points by News9

 formation of an empowered peace committee
this peace committee should be allowed to meet everyone and it should encourage cross community talk

it should be succeeded by Crackdown on civil militias civil militias who don't let Police Force Army work

it should be followed by action against CSOs who prevent public servants from discharging duties like Mara pip
there might be a small segment but they do that

Clarity on the SoO  agreement they should be there or shouldn't be there. have they been violated or have the sanctity been kept

search and cordon operation to recover looted weapons

quick sealing of the international border

prevent land grab by illegal immigrants

Crackdown on the drug business, and

timeline for the safe return of displaced people

https://www.bhaskar.com/local/rajasthan/jaipur/news/national-conference-of-peace-builders-forum-india-organized-133281111.html

https://sabrangindia.in/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/FINAL-290624-VFD-Press-Release-New-criminal-laws-mockery-of-Constitution.pdf  Vijay Hiremath the new laws, give unprecedented powers to the executive and the police officers. According to Vijay Hiremath, under the guise of doing a copy-paste
job, the union government has introduced many illogical and draconian legislations. Hiremath further
highlighted the issue of impossibility of filing complaints against any defaulting police officer, due to the
rather sinister and confusing sections the BNSS has. Hiremath concluded ends by saying that these laws are
extremely dangerous, and will make the whole of the country and its citizens a target.

Vrinda Grover: the provisions of seizure, attachment of property, and
forfeiture that have now been included in these laws, which highly expand the powers of the state to target
individuals arbitrarily. Light was also shed by Vrinda Grover of the expansion of the period of police custody
through the BNSS, which could lead to increase in cases of intimidation, torture and coercion of the ones
arrested. Connecting to the same provision, she also spoke on how the said law will have a negative impact
on the right of bail that can be exercised by the one arrested. 

Teesta Setalwad: several provisions that provide draconian powers to the police, endanger the statutory right
to bail, criminalise free speech (in a newly introduced provision that she described as “sedition plus” and also
penalise, if not criminalise legitimate democratic protest. Safeguards against police abuse that had been
introduced through amendments earlier have been deliberately left out said Setalvad.

s a new crime as the ‘Terrorist act’ under general
penal law. When there exists, for dealing with terrorist activities special laws like UAPA (Unlawful
Activities Prevention Act, 1967), why are the same provisions and features being brought into the new penal
provisions of the new laws with extraordinary discretion given over these to the police?

https://www.facebook.com/cjpindia/videos/483280027409061/ India’s new criminal laws: Reform or repression

Water shortage could hurt India’s sovereign credit strength, says Moody’s  https://scroll.in/latest/1069742/water-shortage-can-negatively-impact-indias-sovereign-credit-strength-says-moodys
The water crisis could disrupt agricultural production, industrial operations resulting in inflation, decline in income and social unrest, the agency said.

By 2031, the average annual water availability per capita in India is likely to drop to 1,367 cubic metres from an already-low 1,486 cubic metres in 2021, Reuters reported citing data from the water resources ministry.

Comment: The Sovereign Credit strength is also dependent on the Public assets and the earnings from them, either as services, when in fact these are being privatised through internal debt to private sector, but from public funds.

Rahul Gandhi in Manipur I Decoding Brand Rahul I Rahul vs Modi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxvD5ZQDojI Neerja Chowdhury Mojo Story

Rahul Gandhi is in Assam and Manipur today, this after weekend visits to Gujarat and Hathras. The politician, once mocked for his frequent personal vacations, appears to have transformed. But how will Rahul Gandhi navigate his politics as Leader of the Opposition- Will his ideology be left or Centre right?

 https://youtu.be/gxvD5ZQDojI?t=650  Not deafeated the Mandir movement, but the mandir issue did not work in the elections..

https://youtu.be/gxvD5ZQDojI?t=838  Percieving RG as Hindu Left.. Fashioning an ideological alternative as " we are ass HIndu as you are"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D4fw2XtIQ8 Rahul Gandhi In Manipur: राहुल ने मणिपुर में हिंसा पीड़ितों से मुलाकात के बाद क्या बोले ग्रामीण ? .. कुकी बहुल चुराचांदपुर के जिस राहत शिविर में राहुल ने पीड़ितों का हाल जाना वहां से ग्राउंड रिपोर्ट : साल भर से एक हॉल में डेढ़ सौ लोग.. नवजात बच्चे से लेकर बुजुर्ग तक सब हालात के मारे ..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJYbbvn1KQs LIVE: Rahul Gandhi In Manipur | Rahul Gandhi On The Front Foot! | Manipur News |  Rajat Sethi calls it tragedy tourism.

How did ‘Bhole Baba’ gather such a massive crowd, one that any politician would have died for? https://thewire.in/rights/hathras-stampede-and-the-growing-shadow-of-irrationality 

Much like Big Tobacco when markets decline seeks to lure women and children to try its wares, ‘Bhole Baba’ gravitated towards the woman devotee. Having had to reinvent himself following his arrest in the year 2000 for nabbing the body of a dead girl after claiming that he would bring it back to life, he seems to have taken the business decision to prey on softer targets. His modus operandi, going by the observations a former schoolmate made to The Hindu, was to have women agents share tales of his magical prowess among local communities. It would follow that the people these agents were most likely to interact with were other women – invariably those who were poor, less lettered, and from castes subjected daily to a myriad forms of discrimination. These are the precise subjects who find themselves most vulnerable to false information and spurious spiritualists. 

The unspeakably appalling stampede also provides a prism to view the shrinking of rationality in contemporary India.

Today, we have seen a complete reversal of even the intent to push back against superstition and irrationality, even as the “baba-rocracy” has grown in multifold ways with ashrams dotting the landscape across the country. Bogus products, especially those related to health, have gained a firm foothold on media content. The pre-programming space in satellite television provider, DISH TV, for instance, is a mélange of fakery, featuring cads of every description from tarot card readers and astrologers to drug manufacturers offering all manner of cures. They are presented as authentic thanks to fervent certifications from “ordinary” people, or actors pretending to be so. On its part, DISH TV takes care to prominently state that it does not endorse any of the claims made or products promoted.

by Pamela Philipose

08/07/2024