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  # OPINION : Monday, September 21, 2020.  - 2247 ##Opposition parties break Deputy Chairman’s mic, disrupts audio system of Rajya Sabha, in an attempt to stop farm reform bills : 20 September, 2020 : Opindia : Media Report. ###In a shocking act, the members of the opposition parties snatched and threw papers from the table and even broke the chairman's microphone which led to the disruption in the audio system of the Upper House of the Parliament. #*Opposition parties disrupt audio system by breaking chairman's mic/ Image Source: Rajya Sabha On Sunday, the Upper House of the Parliament, Rajya Sabha witnessed violent scenes during the passage of the two farm bills after members from opposition parties resorted to intense disruptions and heckling of Deputy Chairman of the house Harivansh Narayan Singh. In a shocking act, the members of the opposition parties snatched and threw papers from the table and even broke the chairman’s microphone which led to the disruption in the audi...

  # OPINION : Saturday,  September 19, 2020. 6:52. PM. : 2245 ##Draft EIA to protect green, bring in transparency, expedite environmental clearance: Javadekar :  02-Sep-2020 : Organiser : Media Report.  The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has issued a Draft Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) Notification 2020 to replace the current EIA Notification 2006. The government has sought comments and suggestions from the public. While some of the changes brought in by the government in the new version have been widely appreciated, a slew of modifications have not gone down well with experts and activists. Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Shri Prakash Javadekar spoke to Organiser Editor Prafulla Kelkar on EIA and related issues. Excerpts:  ###You have received lakhs of responses from people with regard to Draft Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) Notification 2020. There are many apprehensions regarding post-facto clearances, ...

  # OPINION : Friday,  September 18, 2020. 6:30. AM.  2242. ##Police Raj under Pinarayi Vijayan brings back Emergency days in Kerala : 16-Sep-2020 : T Satisan : Organiser : Media Report.  ###Unprecedented Popular Upsurge in Kerala Against Corrupt Nepotic LDF Regime led by ABVP, being crushed with brute force like it happened during Indira Gandhi's emergency. Public anger against the state government increases as involvement of more ministers in smuggling and money laundering is exposed.   #*Police tortures protesters in different parts of the state (Pictures by Chandrasekhar, Thiruvananthapuram)  Police of Pinarayi Vijayan, CPM supremo and Kerala CM in-charge of the home ministry, unleashes the worst form of police atrocities against the workers of BJP, Bharatheeya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) and ABVP. They are tortured throughout Kerala as they take into the streets peacefully demanding the expulsion of Higher Education & Waqf minister K.T. Jaleel from t...

  # OPINION :Wednesday, September 16, 2020. 8:44. PM. 2239. -------------------------------------------------------------------- ##India should take a firm stand against China and recognize Tibet as an occupied territory : 16 September, 2020 : Tsewang Rigzin : Opindia : Media Report . ###Historically, China never shared even an inch of the border area with India until the 1950s when China brutally occupied Tibet. ####There can never be constructive solution to India-China border issues without addressing Tibet #*BJP's Ram Madhav pays tribute to Special Frontier Force's Tibetan martyr Nyima Tenzin At the height of border conflict between India and China, on August 29, 2020, a group of Tibetan commandos from the little-known Special Frontier Force (SFF) undertook a pre-emptive mission against the Chinese army. SFF commandos reclaimed India’s strategic position in the Southern Pangong lake. This military achievement is unprecedented since the Sino-Indo war of 1962. In the process ...

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # OPINION : Monday, September 14, 2020. 8:44. PM. 2238. ##Yearly increase in number of students taking Hindi Prachar Sabha exams in TN flatten the ‘Hindi imposition’ narrative of DMK and its allies :  14-Sep-2020 : T S Venkatesan : Organiser : Media Report.    ###Over 1.6 lakh students in Chennai appeared for the Hindi Prachar Sabha’s exams in 2018 compared to 27,600 in 2009. In 2010, a total 2 lakh 30,000 students took the DBHPS exams from different streams across Tamil Nadu and in 2019 this increased to 5 lakhs 71,000 in 2018. Undeterred by the anti-Hindu stand of the Dravidian parties, students from 5 years onwards studying Hindi as optional, additional language has been on the rise in Tamil Nadu . Mind you, It is voluntary in nature. Tamil Nadu had witnessed anti-agitation in 1965s stirred by the DMK saying “Hindi was being imposed on Tamil...

  # OPINION : Wednesday, September 09, 2020. 9:10. PM. 2237.   Chronicle of a Death Foretold :  08-Sep-2020 : Pritam Banerjee : Organiser : Media Report. How China destroyed the global economic commons and the importance of the Indian resistance  A large section of influential economists and opinion makers are uncomfortable by the growing economic resistance to China across the world. They feel that this represents an increasing tide of protectionism that will impede global trade and hamper the many advantages that free and open markets provide for global economic growth and development.  In making such an argument, they fail to realise that the resistance to China is actually a resistance to an unfair and predatory economic relationship that the Chinese state managed to impose on the world and got away with for close to three decades.  The question is why is that resistance suddenly growing in strength, and why are the Western economies much more concerned...