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"It was widely described as the week that India’s beleaguered democracy was pulled back from the brink. As the election results rolled in on Tuesday [June 4, 2024], all predictions and polls were defied as Narendra Modi lost his outright majority for the first time in a decade while the opposition re-emerged as a legitimate political force. On Sunday evening, Modi will be sworn in as prime minister yet many believe his power and mandate stands diminished.

For one opposition politician in particular, the humbling of the strongman prime minister was a moment to savour. Late last year, Mahua Moitra, one of the most outspoken critics of Modi and his Bharatiya Janata party (BJP), found herself unceremoniously expelled from parliament and kicked out of her bungalow, after what she described as a “political witch-hunt” for daring to stand up to Modi.

The murky and allegedly undemocratic circumstances of Moitra’s expulsion from parliament was seen by many to symbolise Modi’s approach to dissenting voices and the steady erosion of India’s democracy. She was among several vocal opposition politicians who were subjected to investigations by government crime agencies.

But having won a landslide re-election in her home state of West Bengal, Moitra will return once again to parliament, part of the newly empowered opposition coalition. “I can’t wait,” said Moitra. “They went to egregious lengths to discredit and destroy me and abused every process to do it. If I had gone down, it would have meant that brute force had triumphed over democracy.”

While he may be returning for a historic third term, many have portrayed the results as something of a defeat for Modi, who has had to rely on coalition partners to form a government. The BJP’s campaign had been solely centred around him – even the manifesto was titled “Modi’s guarantee” – and in many constituencies, local BJP candidates often played second fiddle to the prime minister, who loomed large over almost every seat. He told one interviewer he believed his mandate to rule was given directly by God.

“Modi’s aura was invincibility, that the BJP could not win elections without him,” said Moitra. “But the people of India didn’t give him a simple majority. They were voting against authoritarianism and they were voting against fascism. This was an overwhelming, resounding anti-Modi vote.”

During his past decade in power, Modi and the BJP enjoyed a powerful outright majority and oversaw an unprecedented concentration of power under the prime minister’s office, where key decisions were widely known to be made by a select few.

The Modi government was accused of imposing various authoritarian measures, including the harassment and arrest of critics under terrorism laws, while the country tumbled in global democracy and press freedom rankings. Modi never faced a press conference or any committee of accountability for the often divisive actions of his government. Politicians regularly complained that parliament was simply reduced to a rubber-stamping role for the BJP’s Hindu-first agenda.

Yet on Tuesday [June 40, it became clear that the more than 25 opposition parties, united as a coalition under the acronym INDIA, had inflicted substantial losses on the BJP to take away its simple majority. Analysts said the opposition’s performance was all the more remarkable given that the BJP stands accused of subverting and manipulating the election commission, as well as putting key opposition leaders behind bars and far outspending all other parties on its campaign. The BJP has denied any attempts to skew the election in its favour.

“This election proved that the voter is still the ultimate king,” said Moitra. “Modi was so shameless, yet despite them using every tool they had to engineer this election to their advantage, our democracy fought back.”

Moitra said she was confident it was “the end of Mr Modi’s autocratic way of ruling”. Several of the parties in the BJP’s alliance who he is relying on for a parliamentary majority and who will sit in Modi’s cabinet do not share his Hindu nationalist ideology...

Moitra was not alone in describing this week’s election as a reprieve for the troubling trajectory of India’s democracy. Columns heralding that the “mirror has cracked” and the “idea of India is reborn” were plastered across the country’s biggest newspapers, and editorials spoke of the end of “supremo syndrome”. “The bulldozer now has brakes,” wrote the Deccan Chronicle newspaper. “And once a bulldozer has brakes, it becomes just a lawnmower.” ...

“This was not a normal election, it was clearly an unfair and unlevel playing field,” said Yadav. “But still, there is now a hope and a possibility that the authoritarian element could be reversed.”

Harsh Mander, one of India’s most prominent human rights and peace activists who is facing numerous criminal investigations for his work, called the election the “most important in India’s post independence history”, adding: “The resilience of Indian democracy has proved to be spectacular.”

He said it was encouraging that an “intoxication of majoritarian hate politics” had not ultimately shaped the outcome, referring to Modi’s apparent attempts to stir up religious animosity on the campaign trail as he referred to Muslims as “infiltrators” and “those who have more children”.

“The past decade has seen the freedom of religion and the freedom of conscience and dissent taken away,” said Mander. “If this election had gone fully the BJP way, then India would not remain a constitutional secular democracy.”"

-via The Guardian, June 9, 2024

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KASHMIRI INDIANS RALLY IN SOLIDARITY WITH PALESTINE ON INTERNATIONAL AL-QUDS DAY

📹 Scenes from a rally held in solidarity with Palestinians under siege and bombardment in the Gaza Strip in Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir, in far-northwestern India, on Friday April 5th, 2024, celebrating International Al-Quds Day (occupied Jerusalem).

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the easiest way to achieve socialism is to build a worker owned social media network and find a way to collectively make money and help each other learn and grow and improve our lives. and pretty much just ignore all the people who don’t believe in collaboration and teamwork. expand operations to include more stuff. create a healthy ecosystem of creative teams. make knowledge sharing an entertaining art form

we will also need to prove to the people who think violence is necessary that we all deserve better than another failure like the french revolution. the french revolution and russian revolutions both failed BECAUSE of the violence, that’s why we got napoleon (capitalism) and stalin (nationalism). so that’s why it has to be about collaborative ecosystems. because networks of ecosystems transcend both capitalism and nationalism and allow everyone to express their unique nature, to express their portion of truth

truly radical shifts are only possible if you can reassure people and make them feel cared for. you can only do that if you have no enemies and no intention of making any

if someone hurts you, don’t hurt them back, retreat and show them what they’re missing. eventually the superior system will establish itself. it will be collaborative & generous. we're closer than you think

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Largest global IT outage in history did not affect Russia

A global technology outage caused by a software update from US cybersecurity company Crowdstrike caused chaos around the world on Friday, with flights suspended and healthcare, banking and ground transport systems facing major disruptions.

George Kurtz, president and CEO of Crowdstrike, said Friday morning that the company is “actively working with customers affected by a flaw discovered in one content update for Windows hosts” – a glitch that affected Microsoft users around the world. He also added:

“This is not a security incident or cyberattack. The issue has been identified, isolated, and a fix has been deployed. We refer customers to the support portal for the latest updates and will continue to provide complete and continuous updates on our website. We further recommend organisations ensure they’re communicating with CrowdStrike representatives through official channels. Our team is fully mobilised to ensure the security and stability of CrowdStrike customers.”

The Financial Times explained that Crowdstrike is “one of the world’s largest providers of “endpoint” security software, used by companies to monitor for security problems across a huge range of devices, from desktop PCs to checkout payment terminals.”

Troy Hunt, a security consultant, wrote on social media that “this will be the largest IT outage in history.” He also added:

“This is basically what we were all worried about with Y2K, except it’s actually happened this time.”

The impacts of the outage cascaded rapidly. Wired noted that “in the early hours of Friday, companies in Australia running Microsoft’s Windows operating system started reporting devices showing Blue Screens of Death (BSODs).” It continued:

“Shortly after, reports of disruptions started flooding in from around the world, including from the UK, India, Germany, the Netherlands, and the US: TV station Sky News went offline, and US airlines United, Delta, and American Airlines issued a “global ground stop” on all flights.”

The UK has been hit by a glitch

As The New York Times observed, the National Health Service in the United Kingdom “was crippled throughout the morning on Friday, as a number of hospitals and doctors offices lost access to their computer systems.”

Whitehall crisis officials were coordinating the response through the Cobra committee that deals with matters of national emergency or major disruption. Ministers were in touch with their sectors to tackle the fallout from the IT failure, and the transport secretary, Louise Haigh, said she was working “at pace with industry” after trains and flights were affected, The Guardian reported.

In the US, flights were grounded owing to communications problems that appear to be linked to the outage. American Airlines, Delta and United Airlines were among the carriers affected. Berlin airport temporarily halted all flights on Friday, while in Australia, Melbourne airport advised customers it was “experiencing a global technology issue which is impacting check-in procedures for some airlines.”

Global flight cancellations

There had been more than 1,000 flight cancellations worldwide so far due to the IT failure, according to the aviation analysis firm Cirium.

Long lines formed at airports in Asia as airlines lost access to check-in and booking services at a time when many travelers are heading away on summer vacations. News outlets in Australia — where telecommunications were severely affected — were pushed off air for hours. Hospitals and doctor’s offices had problems with their appointment systems, while banks in South Africa and New Zealand reported outages to their payment system or websites and apps.

At Hong Kong’s airport, Yvonne Lee, 24, said she only found out her flight to Phuket in Thailand was postponed to Saturday when she arrived at the airport, saying the way it was handled would “affect the image of Hong Kong’s airport very much.” Her already short five-day trip would now have to be further shortened, she said.

In India, Hong Kong and Thailand, many airlines were forced to manually check in passengers. An airline in Kenya was also reporting disruption.

Some athletes and spectators descending on Paris ahead of the Olympics were delayed as was the arrival of their uniforms and accreditations, but Games organisers said disruptions were limited and didn’t affect ticketing or the torch relay.

In Germany, Berlin-Brandenburg Airport halted flights for several hours due to difficulties in checking in passengers, while landings at Zurich airport were suspended and flights in Hungary, Italy and Turkey disrupted.

The Dutch carrier KLM said it had been “forced to suspend most” of its operations.

Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport warned that the outage was having a “major impact on flights” to and from the busy European hub. The chaotic morning coincided with one of the busiest days of the year for Schiphol.

Israel said its hospitals and post office operations were disrupted.

In South Africa, at least one major bank said it was experiencing nationwide service disruptions as customers reported they were unable to make payments using their bank cards in stores. The New Zealand banks ASB and Kiwibank said their services were down as well.

Shipping was disrupted too: A major container hub in the Baltic port of Gdansk, Poland, the Baltic Hub, said it was battling problems resulting from the global system outage.

Russia was unaffected by the outage

Meanwhile, Russia was less affected by this outage, mainly due to sanctions, import substitution strategy and technological sovereignty.

The global IT failure of devices running the Windows 10 operating system did not affect the operation of Russian airports and airlines, with flights running as scheduled. There are no problems with the information systems of Russian Railways.

“Rosatom” reported that the systems of the concern “Rosenergoatom” work on “import-independent software,” so there are no problems in operation. The disruption in Microsoft’s work will not affect the operation of Russia’s energy system in any way, the agency said.

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राजनीतिक दलों ने कैश किए 22030 बॉन्ड, 187 बॉन्ड पीएम रिलीफ फंड में डाले; जानें क्या है 15 दिनों की डेडलाइन का नियम

राजनीतिक दलों ने कैश किए 22030 बॉन्ड, 187 बॉन्ड पीएम रिलीफ फंड में डाले; जानें क्या है 15 दिनों की डेडलाइन का नियम

Electoral Bonds: इलेक्टोरल बॉन्ड्स का डेटा चुनाव आयोग को सौंपने के बाद स्टेट बैंक ऑफ इंडिया ने सुप्रीम कोर्ट को इसकी जानकारी दे दी है. एक हलफनामे में बैंक ने बताया कि कोर्ट के आदेश का परिपालन हो गया है. स्टेट बैंक ने इलेक्टोरल बॉन्ड्स की खरीद-बिक्री का डेटा ��ुप्रीम कोर्ट की फटकार के बाद 24 घंटे के भीतर चुनाव आयोग को सौंप दी है. डेटा में 187 बॉन्ड्स की जानकारी नहीं दी गई है, जिसका पैसा पीएम केयर…

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India things!

In light of the current political circumstances and concerns regarding donations, the conclusion of the Supreme Court hearings on the challenge to electoral bonds prompts a critical examination of the potential impact this challenge's resolution may have on democracy and the rule of law in India.

Political funding refers to the financial contributions provided to political parties or candidates to support their activities, campaigns, and overall functioning.

Political funding is crucial for political parties to effectively participate in democratic processes, conduct election campaigns, and engage in various political activities.

State Funding is of two types:

Direct Funding: The government provides funds directly to the political parties. However, direct funding is prohibited in India.

Indirect Funding: It includes other methods except direct funding, like free access to media, free access to public places for rallies, free or subsidized transport facilities. It is allowed in India in a regulated manner.

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US Report - Best Countries in the World: A Comprehensive Ranking .

In this report, we present an in-depth analysis and ranking of countries based on various key factors that contribute to their overall standing on the global stage. Our assessment delves into Adventure, Agility, Cultural Influence, Entrepreneurship, Heritage, Movers, Open for Business, Power, Quality of Life, and Social Purpose. Through meticulous research and evaluation, we aim to provide an insightful perspective on the best countries in the world.

Adventure: Unveiling Countries of Thrilling Ventures

Adventure seekers often seek countries that offer diverse and exhilarating experiences. From breathtaking landscapes to adrenaline-pumping activities, these destinations beckon the bold at heart. Our ranking unveils the top countries that cater to the adventurous spirit, ensuring an adrenaline-fueled journey.

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Agility is a testament to a nation's ability to swiftly adapt and thrive in an ever-evolving world. Countries showcasing nimbleness and adaptability in the face of challenges secure their position in this ranking. We explore the nations that embrace change and exhibit exceptional agility in their socioeconomic landscapes.

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Cultural influence is a measure of a nation's ability to share its rich heritage and values with the world. It encompasses arts, traditions, cuisine, and more. Our analysis sheds light on the countries that have made significant contributions to global culture and have a profound influence on societies worldwide.

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Entrepreneurship is the cornerstone of innovation and economic progress. Countries that provide a conducive environment for startups and nurture entrepreneurial spirit find their place in this ranking. We examine the nations that support and inspire a new generation of business leaders.

Heritage: Preserving and Showcasing a Nation's Legacy

Heritage signifies the efforts a nation puts into preserving its historical, cultural, and natural assets. We highlight the countries that go above and beyond in safeguarding their legacy and sharing it with the world.

Movers: Nations Pioneering Change and Progress

The 'Movers' category identifies countries at the forefront of progress and transformation. These nations are trailblazers in various domains, setting new benchmarks and driving change on a global scale.

Open for Business: Welcoming Opportunities and Investments

A nation's openness to business and investments is a crucial factor in determining its global standing. Our ranking assesses countries based on their policies, ease of doing business, and overall attractiveness for investors.

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Power encompasses a nation's geopolitical influence, diplomatic reach, and overall impact on international affairs. We analyze countries that wield significant power and contribute to shaping the course of global events.

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Quality of life is a multifaceted parameter that considers various aspects, including healthcare, education, safety, environment, and more. We unveil the countries that prioritize the well-being and happiness of their citizens, providing a high standard of living.

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Social purpose measures a nation's dedication to social welfare, inclusivity, and sustainable development. We delve into the countries that strive to make a positive impact on society and promote a better quality of life for all.

In conclusion, this comprehensive ranking provides a thorough evaluation of countries across multiple dimensions. By understanding each nation's strengths and contributions, we gain valuable insights into the best countries in the world. These insights not only inform travel enthusiasts but also businesses and policymakers in shaping a better future for all.

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INDIAN ELECTION COMMISSION ANNOUNCES DATES FOR GENERAL ELECTIONS

The Election Commission for India announced on Saturday the dates for the coming General Elections, to be conducted in seven phases beginning on April 19th.

According to reporting on the announcement, more than 970 million Indians are expected to vote in the coming elections at over 1 million polling stations across the country.

Speaking at a Press conference covering the election scheduling, Chief Election Commissioner, Rajiv Kumar, said elections will run through the 1st of June, with vote counting to be conducted on June 4th.

Acknowledging what he called "major challenges" posed by the elections, Kumar said the biggest concerns were with bribing, threats, misinformation and violations of the model code of conduct for elections.

Current Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who belongs to the Hindu Nationalist BJP Party, seeks a third term, facing a challenge from an alliance of more than two dozen Parties belonging to the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA), led by the opposition Indian National Congress Party who held power from the time of the country's liberation from the British empire in 1947, until the BJP's first National election win in May of 2014.

Modi and the BJP, for their part, have set a goal for winning 370 seats in the Indian Parliament, and 400 in total for the alliance it leads.

Previously, in the 2019 General Elections, Modi's BJP Party won 303 out of 543 seats in the lower house of Parliament, its best performance since the Party's formation in 1980.

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Why is politics turning evil? Wicked politics will turn the Indian society badly towards danger.

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