Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation https://x.com/GoIStats/status/1807084205001593182 
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MoSPI has launched 'eSankhyiki portal' ( https://esankhyiki.mospi.gov.in  ) - a user centric data portal on 29th June 2024 for easing access to official statistical data and enabling use and reuse of data as information by various stakeholders.

NTV, TV9 Telugu and Sakshi blocked in Andhra? TV war with Chandrababu Naidu | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZi4VIqf0Cw Pooja Prasanna  explores how media clampdowns occur in both Telugu states and what the law says about taking channels off the air.

extract: four news channels that's NTV tv9 Telugu 10 TV and sakshi have been blocked in Andra Pradesh since June 6thassembly results came in and TDP was all set to form the government with a thumping majority of 135 seats the same set of channels were made unavailable from June 21st once again.

sakshi TV is owned by ysrcp Chief jagan Mohan R's family, NTV is owned primarily by Rachna television private limited  which belongs to Narendra Chowdhury . ri the TDP has always alleged that NTV is a proxy of  ysrcp.  TV 9's promoting company is associated broadcast private limited or abcl.  in 2018 Alanda media took majority stakes in ABC Alanda is in turn owned by influential businessman Jupali iRrameshwar Rao, the owner of real estate company my home. 
10TV was a Cooperative News Channel run by cpim members but in 2018 the ownership changed and was taken over by people associated with my home once again

There is also a Caste angle to the ownership of TV channels, as some channels are owned by Kammas supporting Chandrababu N. 

Under TDP govt in Andhra, cable TV operators take four channels off the air https://indianexpress.com/article/india/under-tdp-govt-in-andhra-cable-tv-operators-take-four-channels-off-the-air-9409225/ YSRCP flags freedom of press in letter to TRAI, minister Lokesh says no such order
 Sreenivas Janyala  June 23, 2024

Andhra Police Seal CID, Fibernet Offices Ahead Of TDP Combine Forming Govt https://www.etvbharat.com/en/!state/andhra-police-seal-cid-fibernet-offices-ahead-of-tdp-combine-forming-govt-enn24060602804 Jun 6, 2024,

Fibernet case: A.P. govt. allows CID to seek attachment of properties of accused https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/fibernet-case-ap-govt-allows-cid-to-seek-attachment-of-properties-of-accused/article67951485.ece  March 14, 2024
. In the G.O., the government alleged that the prime accused in this case and TDP national president Nara Chandrababu Naidu conspired with the accused Vemuru Harikrishna Prasad (A2), and Tummala Gopichand (A5), and a director of Tera Software Limited (A4), and awarded the AP Fibernet Project Phase-1 in favour of Tera Software, in a fraudulent manner by accepting false experience certificates. .. While executing AP Fibernet Project Phase-I, the accused in pursuance of their conspiracy violated the tender agreements and involved the companies of the accused Viplav Kumar V.L.S. (A11), Vijaykumar Rammurthy (A13), Ramkumar Ramurthy (A14) and Kanumuri Koteswara Rao (A18) with a mala fide intention, utilised substandard materials and got the funds released to Tera Software Ltd. in a fraudulent manner without supply of goods and services.”

Andhra CM Jagan defends Naidu’s arrest, accuses ‘yellow media’ of bias https://www.thenewsminute.com/andhra-pradesh/andhra-cm-jagan-defends-naidus-arrest-accuses-yellow-media-of-bias 
16 Sep 2023 ‘Yellow media’ like Eenadu, Andhra Jyothi and TV5 still present a picture of a wrongly accused Naidu. They will not show the truth even though Naidu’s corruption has been thoroughly exposed, Jagan said.

From PSF Statement:1st July 2024  the termination of 55 teachers and 60 non-teaching staff has been withdrawn. This decision came in response to a huge public outrage against the current TISS administration This decision came in response to a huge public outrage... Even teachers in the Advanced Centre for Women’s Studies (ACWS), whose salaries were paid from the plan grants of the UGC, were terminated. .. the press release from the TISS administration raises new questions and concerns.

1. No Clarity on the Period of Extension
2. Silence on the Termination of UGC Positions in Women's Studies
3. Degree Programmes Are Not Projects, and Teachers Are Not Project Staff
The press release unfortunately refers to the terminated teachers and staff as “project/programme faculty and non-teaching staff”. ..According to our understanding, these “project/programme faculty” were reported as regular teachers when TISS applied for NAAC and NIRF rankings.
4. What Should the Non-Teaching Staff Do?
5. Who Failed TISS Now? The TISS administration leadership was also unable to convince the TET to continue funding, leading to this mass termination. All indications are that it was the TET that reached out to the TISS administration to temporarily resolve the matter, and not the TISS administration that reached out to the TET.

Tata Institute of Social Sciences sacks around 100 staffers, including teachers, across all campuses  https://scroll.in/latest/1069963/tata-institute-of-social-sciences-sacks-around-100-staffers-including-teachers-across-all-campuses  This includes half of the institute’s teaching staff and all of its non-teaching staff at its campus in Guwahati...“Nearly a hundred institute staff members which were previously funded by the Tata Education Trust will become unemployed after years of service at TISS,” the institute’s Progressive Students’ Forum said in a statement. “It is completely a failure of the current leadership of TISS administration in running the institute and apathy of the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Union government.”..

The termination letters, signed by officiating registrar Anil Sutar, said: “The institute tried its best for the release of grant from Tata Education Trust for the purpose of salary…through official correspondence and personal meetings…The decision regarding further extension of grant period has not yet been received.”...Changes to the University Grants Commission’s regulations last June had brought the institute under the Centre’s administrative purview.

https://www.instagram.com/p/C8zjjdkvjO_/?igsh=MThncWg0MndudmV4bw== 

Last year, the BJP-led union government took over TISS, making it a fully 'public-funded institute'. The result has been that students are facing delays in receiving student aid and are being threatened in the name of fee payment. While becoming a public institute should have relieved the pressure from students coming from economically and socially marginalised backgrounds, the central government takeover has resulted in added monetary pressures. The latest move of robbing a hundred teaching and non-teaching staff at the institute of their jobs highlights the BJP government's anti-education and anti-TISS stance.

The BJP-led central government and the current TISS administration are directly responsible for taking away the livelihoods of nearly a hundred employees and putting the future of its students also at risk.

https://indianexpress.com/article/education/tiss-withdraws-termination-letters-staff-members-tata-education-trust-funds-9424269/ 

A statement issued by the institute on Sunday signed, by the Registrar of the TISS, states, “TET has committed to releasing funds for the salaries of TET project/programme faculty and non-teaching staff.” The institute’s administration confirmed that a funding of a total of Rs 4.79 crore has been sanctioned by the Tata Education Trust...  the institute in future will work on identifying the requirements of the staff and appoint them with a regular process of advertising for the post as per the other UGC-approved appointments,” said an official from the institute’s administration.

Marking the Web’s 35th Birthday: An Open Letter from  Tim Berners-Lee https://medium.com/@timberners_lee/marking-the-webs-35th-birthday-an-open-letter-ebb410cc7d42 Mar 12, 2024

Underlying its whole infrastructure was the intention to allow for collaboration, foster compassion and generate creativity

the web was decentralised with a long-tail of content and options, it created small, more localised communities, provided individual empowerment and fostered huge value.

when the web turned 30, I called out some of the dysfunction caused by the web being dominated by the self-interest of several corporations

..in the past decade..From the centralisation of platforms to the AI revolution, the web serves as the foundational layer of our online ecosystem ..

The first is the extent of power concentration, which contradicts the decentralised spirit I originally envisioned. This has segmented the web, with a fight to keep users hooked on one platform to optimise profit through the passive observation of content.

Compounding this issue is the second, the personal data market that has exploited people’s time and data with the creation of deep profiles that allow for targeted advertising and ultimately control over the information people are fed.

Part of the solution is the Solid Protocol, https://solidproject.org/  a specification and a movement to provide each person with their own ‘personal online data store’, known as a POD.

 Why Cities Flood https://www.youtube.com/embed/U70egbUZ2Pg?start=136&end=1036 15 min slide presentation   Dr Priyadarshini Karve Pune River Revival Jun 27, 2024 #riverfront #pune #saverivers
Dr Priyadarshini Karve explains why Indian cities flood, with a little rain. What can we expect in monsoon? Is there a solution

The New Criminal Laws and their Impact on Freedom of Expression https://freespeechcollective.in/the-new-criminal-laws-and-their-impact-on-freedom-of-expression/  
JUNE 28, 2024 "...civil liberties and free speech will be further jeopardised by the replacement of old laws with more repressive legislation, coupled with provisions of other laws that also seek to curb and censor the freedoms of our already beleaguered citizenry."

Sedition, albeit in another guise, refuses to go away

Other provisions include special offences, such as terrorism, otherwise dealt with by special laws like The Unlawful Activities ( Prevention ) Act (UAPA), 1967 or organised crime, otherwise dealt with by state laws like The Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA), 1999. Criminal defamation remains in the BNS, as well as sections dealing with ‘disturbing public tranquility’, that extend the scope of Section 153A of The Indian Penal Code (on spreading disharmony or causing enmity between groups), which has been used extensively against journalists, writers and academics.

Where is my Interest? Will Nirmalaji explain? https://www.cenfa.org/where-is-my-interest-will-nirmalaji-explain/ 

For years the Government and the RBI have allowed banks to flourish at the cost of the depositors who are the real owners of the banks. They are not on the Boards of Banks; they are not told where their money is invested, and they are not even properly cared for. Almost every customer complains of poor service due to shortage of staff.

How to take this forward?

Trade Unions, Civil Society, Customer Rights Organisations and people have to come together and launch a successful campaign to make both the depositors and the banks understand the value of people’s money.

But over the years, this zero-investment natural farming, with minimal environmental impact, has begun to falter. And along with the healthy fishes, the number of traditional fishermen like Gopi is also dwindling. Gopi is losing faith in the traditional method. He says, “Fungal and bacterial infection keeps killing the fishes.”

https://thewire.in/environment/something-fishy-medicine-treats-bacteria-tricks-and-cycle-repeats 

Though modern medicines offer solutions to treat infections, lately that solution is backfiring. Drugs like antimicrobials (antibiotics, antivirals, antifungals) which treat diseases by attacking microbes (bacteria, virus and fungus), are not able to kill the pathogens.

Microbes are ubiquitous, but not all of them lead to diseases, instead they make life possible as we know it. But when microbes are constantly exposed to antimicrobials, they can self-mutate in response to the stressful environment, and develop resistance to the antimicrobials – a process called antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Overuse, misuse and the improper disposal of drugs like antibiotics in hospitals, livestock farms, fisheries and households, has allowed AMR pathogens to proliferate to far off spaces. And with the changing climate, more farm diseases are hitting production, resulting in the need to use more antibiotics.

In 2017, Kerala recognised the threat of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) in farming (with changing climate more farm diseases hit production and need more antibiotics), and set up the Kerala Antimicrobial Resistance Strategic Action Plan (KARSAP). Kerala, where Gopi practices fishing, is one of the few states in India, (apart from Delhi and Madhya Pradesh) which has an action plan to fight against AMR. 

AMR has a domino effect, impacting every form of life. Research shows that more and more microbes around the world are becoming resistant to drugs. In 2019, directly and indirectly, 4.95 million people in 204 countries died because drugs could not treat microbial infections. 

by Monika Mondal

28/06/2024

राहुल पर गोदी मीडिया की सुपारी? ओम बिरला के संविधान पर विवादित बयान पर गोदी मीडिया चुप? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-3azRj-msk Abhisar Sharma
Jun 28, 2024
राहुल पर गोदी मीडिया की सुपारी?
ओम बिरला के संविधान पर विवादित बयान पर गोदी मीडिया चुप?

माइक बंद करने पर Rahul Gandhi Lok Sabha में Om Birla से भिड़ गए! Parliament News on NEET https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mepBu4u6ByA  Public Meter 
Jun 28, 2024 Rahul Gandhi Mike off in Parliament, Speaker Om Birla adjourned the Lok Sabha due to the clash between the Modi government and the INDIA Alliance when Rahul Gandhi and opposition leaders demanded a debate on the NEET issue. Praveen Gautam's analysis on why Rahul Gandhi had an argument with Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla over switching off the mike in Parliament?

LIVE | LoP Rahul Gandhi objects to speaker's reference to emergency | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLmiEOQsku4  News9

Aggressive Congress tried to corner Speaker Om Birla on his speech. Om Birla had spoken on emergency. Rahul objected in person and subsequently, Venugopal shot a letter to him saying that it was shocking. Rahul said that it should not have come from the chair. Subsequently, the imposition of emergency was also mentioned in President Murmu’s speech leading to an all-out verbal war between Congress and the BJP. Why has Congress decided to take up the sticky issue of emergency? On point decodes

स्पीकर ओम बिड़ला क्या इस्तीफा देंगे, हालात इतने आसान नहीं हैं इस बार https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jCw0pcVL60  KnockingNews Jun 28, 2024
हमारे वाट्सएप चैनल को सब्सक्राइब करें और सभी पोस्ट के नोटिफिकेशन निश्चित रूप से पाएं. ये लिंक क्लिक करें...