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Journalist @barandbench
Joined January 2013
AQI is a western construct. India must have its own index -Bharatiya Air Quality Weather Administrative System (BAQWAS). Under BAQWAS, AQI of 250 will correspond to 1 on BAQWAS and this will be categorised as "Ati Uttam". Similarly AQI of 1000 will coresspond to 2, and this
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Artificial intelligence-generated images and videos are fueling a new wave of anti-Muslim hate across India's social media ecosystem, according to a new report by @csohate Latest. https://t.co/CE8uqDLeqK
asia.nikkei.com
Researchers see surge in sectarian content; call for 'systems to identify misuse'
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Amazing story of the jokers of the Home Ministry under Amit Shah Yesterday, the Home Ministry cancelled the FCRA license of Ladakh-based Sonam Wangchuk’s NGO. Now check out Page 3 of the cancellation order to realize the STUPIDITY of the Modi Govt 👉 Wangchuk’s NGO says a
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DYC is throwing off all the masks he wore to look civilised. Remember a member of judiciary telling me that the people are being conned by man and they can’t complain because he looks so cultured.
🚨 NEW INTERVIEW! From Ayodhya to Gyanvapi, former DY Chandrachud speaks with @SreenivasanJain about his controversial judgments and the criticism against them. 🔒 Watch: https://t.co/ieKpFFBKhd
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Taxpayer money – meant to nurture research and scholarship – will now bankroll 100 interns at Sudarshan News, a channel infamous for “bhujiya jihad”, “UPSC jihad” and communal conspiracy theories. @PratyushDeep1 reports. https://t.co/2VyPFQvMRe
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After May’s India-Pak escalation, demand for VPNs surged, and YouTube creators spread step-by-step unblock VPN guides. My @NikkeiAsia piece unpacks the data and the fandom. https://t.co/lqwHRxsKm0
asia.nikkei.com
Fans of hugely popular serials use tech to skirt ban amid geopolitical tensions
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Kerala High Court has sought Centre's response on a PIL challenging the cover of Arundhati Roy's book 'Mother Mary Comes to Me' showing her smoking a cigarette without a statutory health warning.
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So bored of the 'no place for political violence in democracy'. Yeah, sure, except the cops, prisons, courts etc. Liberal democracy IS violence, just wrapped in procedure.
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Reuters said its cameraman Husam al-Masri was killed; AP confirmed freelance journalist Mariam Dagga’s death. Al Jazeera’s Mohammed Salameh and NBC photographer Muath Abu Taha also died. https://t.co/uSOLADIdrl
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said it was a "tragic mishap" and promised a "thorough investigation".
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J&K LG orders forfeiture of 25 books on Kashmir. Section 98 of BNSS invoked.
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🤐 "If I say there is a book ready, they will raid me" 🤐 "I realised that I should not keep the manuscript at home" 🤐 "As a precaution he had moved the manuscript to a safer location" In his death, former J&K governor Satyapal Malik sheds light on the state of free speech.
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In 2019 I lost a childhood friend and classmate. She had expressed a wish to see me before the chronic illness takes her away but Kashmir was surviving a communication blackout. When I came to know and reached her home she was being taken to the graveyard.
पूर्व गवर्नर ��ौधरी सत्यपाल सिंह मलिक जी नहीं रहें। #satyapalmalik
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Varanasi: After Kanwariya Allegedly Harasses Muslim Girl, Police Files FIR Against Her Family @tarushi_aswani✍️ https://t.co/wHe0ZInSsu
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Despite the existence of CCTV evidence, the police say the 16-year-old girl’s claim that she was molested and chased is “100% false” and that it was, in fact, the kanwariya who was the victim.
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We have appended an Editors' Note to a story about Mohammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq, a child in Gaza who was diagnosed with severe malnutrition. After publication, The Times learned that he also had pre-existing health problems. Read more below.
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Across India, courts have overturned numerous terrorism-related convictions involving Muslims, often years, or decades, after the damage was done. I write for @trtworld
trtworld.com
The 12 acquitted men were accused of planning and planting the bombs that tore through several suburban trains and killed 187 people and injured more than 800.
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