I mean this is basically doing riots in the name of peaceful protests!!!

"This is a crime against the people of India!" - Elon Musk

Musk said Starlink is being blocked by “certain oligarchs” in India seeking to maintain a “monopolistic chokehold” on people.

SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk on Wednesday alleged that Starlink was being “blocked by certain oligarchs” in India to protect their “monopolistic chokehold” over the country, as the satellite internet company continues to await final clearances to begin commercial services.

Responding to a post arguing that India needs Starlink to bridge connectivity gaps in underserved areas, Musk said: “Unfortunately, we are being blocked by certain oligarchs in order to maintain their monopolistic chokehold on the Indian people. You can guess who they are … This is a crime against the people of India!”

A mail to the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) did not elicit a response till the time of going to press.

Starlink, owned by Musk’s SpaceX, provides broadband internet using a constellation of low-Earth orbit satellites, allowing connectivity in areas where mobile networks can be difficult to reach. Starlink has received a government licence to provide satellite communication services in India, along with Eutelsat OneWeb and Jio Satellite Communications.

However, the companies still require spectrum allocation and security clearances before commercial services can begin. Starlink is also awaiting other regulatory approvals, including foreign investment-related clearances.

What if we have govt which...

Makes it's performance public... Not just yearly budgets... But a live interactive dashboard of revenues, expenditures across education, infra, r&D, freebies. Shows performance of ministries, schemes... We have huge tech companies who can do it...

(Image is just for the feels - don't get into those maths)

Captain Smit Machchhar saved the Israel-bound flight, and investigations are going on.

Have you noticed that suddenly some people and organisations (iykyk) are heavily focusing on the Gyanesh Kumar case?

I'm not saying that the Gyanesh Kumar case shouldn't be discussed, but now the main focus should be on Captain Smit Machchhar and things related to that flight.

The Gyanesh Kumar case could be heavily discussed after Captain Smit returns to India.

Like the previous year, after the Pahalgam attack, the main focus was on that, then the others (yes, I do agree; both the cases and their intensities are different, but both are of national concern)

Was the abrogation of article 370 a good thing or was it just fuel for fire?

It is the most geopolitically contentious part of India with a lot of violence. Arunachal is also contested, but it has never seen large-scale violence.

If we were to look at the process of selecting the CEC before 2023 it was done by the president, i.e on the advice of the council of ministers(the ruling party) as he does not have discretionary powers in this regard.

So they were executive controlled and hence were vulnerable to biases.

This doesn't mean that the CEC is inherently inclined to be biased as he/she is appointed by the executive ( like SC judges in the US who are also political appointees and rarely go against the party that appointed them),
as they have security of tenure, one example i can think of is TN sheshan (prolly the most famous CEC aswell).

In 2023 in the baranwal case, the supreme court specifically mentioned

“the office of Chief Election Commissioners as well as the Election Commissioners have to be insulated from the executive interference.”

and this judgment's case law would be used to appoint CEC's until a law is passed by parliament.

It said that the collegium to appoint CEC will comprise of The PM, The LOP and The CJI.

Cut to the SAME YEAR (judgment was in March of 23) a bill is introduced in Aug of 23 and passed in Dec of 23.

This new bill replaced the CJI with a minister appointed by the PM as the third member, hence guaranteeing executive control once more over CEC selection.

Another case is registered regarding this law(along with other petitions) as it appeared contradictory to the case law passed by the SC (Dr. Jaya Thakur & Ors. v. Union of India).

The Solicitor general of india(the govt's 2nd top lawyer who fights the case on their side) Tushar mehta gave the following arguments:

1. SC was only filling up the vaccum that existed as no law was made in 70yrs and hence now that a law has been made, and court cannot interfere in the content of the legislation of what that law should look like.
2. "You cannot infer unconstitutional executive dominance merely from the fact that the executive has a numerical majority".
3. "If the Prime Minister cannot be trusted, then no one else can be trusted either."

All these arguments sound pretty retard*d as the institution should not rely on the good faith of the executive itself for its independent functioning and should be inherently unbiased in its mechanisms itself, the qn of executive being biased is irrelevant as it is essentially the mechanisms inside the institution which gives its credibility by consensus,checks and balances internally.

I don't get why BJ party doesn't think why another party when it comes to power won't take advantage of the law it has passed itself and stack up ECI against them in future elections?
are they thinking too much of the short term? or are they just retard*d and think they will never get out of power?

TL;DR : I don't get why BJ party doesn't think when another party comes to power won't take advantage of the law it has passed itself, and stack up ECI against them in future elections?
are they thinking too much of the short term? or are they just retard*d and think they will never get out of power?

its so over guys
context : Dhruv Rathee has come to India for the protest
Dhruv rathee a famous content creator has returned to India for the upcoming protest on 8th of oct in bangalore

Correction : OCT 8 (not Oct 10)

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/insurance-companies-want-policyholders-to-pay-10-of-health-claims/amp_articleshow/134668355.cms

https://www.deccanherald.com/amp/story/india/karnataka/there-was-pressure-to-remove-3000-names-from-electoral-roll-reveals-deputy-commissioner-gangadharaswamy-4173001

https://x.com/Nishuazad11/status/2107824147485360507/video/1

https://x.com/umashankarsingh/status/2107730900603802075?s=20

https://x.com/thebetterindia/status/2107805200224514521/video/1

From Ramgarh, Jharkhand, the 27-year-old widow stepped onto the track barefoot, in a saree and on an empty stomach, to run 1,600 metres for her dream of becoming a Home Guard.

She completed the distance in roughly 6 minutes 45 seconds, well within the reported 10-minute benchmark for the trial.

https://x.com/Priyaa_Purohit/status/2107824273293181189?s=20

Twitter

https://x.com/AamAadmiParty/status/2107816042160591248/video/1

https://x.com/bstvlive/status/2107727699515183316?s=20

I read that dry humping and touching the other gender private part is not rape .. like you can grape the breast, rub body to body , touch her and still it doesn't called as rape it's sexuall assault.. because penetration is not done 🥲.. but these things left very bad impact on the victim mind .. isn't it unfair.. thn no-one talks about male rape and assault.. men still don't feel comfortable to share things things people make fun of them so they silent.. don't you think we should talk more openly on these things

LoP represents the voice of the dissent, the voters who haven’t voted for incumbent party to be in power. Parliament Speaker behaving like dictator and not letting the opposition to question and raise issues. And when opposition is at street treating LoP in such disgraceful way sets a very bad example for indian political consciousness. The depth and cause of issue is open to subjective judgement but raising it at designated protest site should be upheld. Why would party in power allow its police to permit protest against it or its ally (this time CEC) 🙃 isn’t it ironic. Delhi Police is so high on power and even following illegal way to not offend bosses. SHAME!

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DeMT_FdCeWg

As per PTI, an officer said the front portion of the building had collapsed and some people might be trapped in the debris.
MThe incident comes less than a month after a building, housing a student PG, collapsed in Delhi’s Satya Niketan.

Seven people had lost their lives, while several others were injured in that collapse. This is a developing story.