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The Indian government has banned 118 mobile apps developed in China, including the gaming app PUBG.

A statement issued by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology said that these apps have been banned because they were involved in activities against India's sovereignty and integrity, defense of the country and public order.

The statement issued by the ministry said, "This step will protect the interests of crores of mobile and internet users in India." This decision has been taken with the intention of ensuring the security and sovereignty of India's cyberspace. ''

According to the statement, the Government of India was receiving complaints about these apps from various sources, including reports that users' data from some mobile apps available on Android and IOS were unauthorizedly stolen and sent to servers located outside India. Were staying.

The decision to ban 118 apps in China has been taken at a time when there are reports of tensions between the two countries on the Line of Actual Control or LAC in Ladakh once again.

The Indian government had earlier banned 59 apps related to China in June. They also included Tiktok.

The last decision to ban 59 Chinese apps was taken a few days after a violent clash between Indo-Chinese troops in the Galvan Valley on July 15.

Amnesty International, an international non-governmental organization working on human rights, has released its independent inquiry report on the riots in north-east Delhi in February this year.

The report accuses the Delhi Police of not stopping the riots, joining them, refusing to ask for help over the phone, preventing the victims from reaching the hospital, especially assaulting the Muslim community.

Citing intimidation, intimidation of riot victims and peace-loving agitators in the six months following the riots, jailing and registering cases against them, the report also underscores that not a single case of allegations of human rights violations on Delhi Police I have not registered an FIR yet. The Delhi Police works under the Ministry of Home Affairs.

According to Amnesty International executive director Avinash Kumar, "This protection from the power side gives the message that law enforcement officials can violate human rights without accountability." That is, they can run their own law. ''

Before releasing the report, Amnesty International approached the Delhi Police to find its side but no response was received for a week.

In March, Delhi Police Joint Commissioner of Police Alok Kumar, in an interview with BBC Hindi correspondent Salman Ravi, denied the allegation of police being a silent spectator during the riots and said, "If any allegations against police personnel come forward. They will be investigated if they come ''.

Earlier, the Delhi Minorities Commission also released a fact-finding report on the Delhi riots in July.

In this too, many victims had complained of not registering FIRs of police, threatening to compromise and making them accused in other cases by accusing them of violence.

At the same time, the Delhi Police was accused of falsely presenting a riot between two communities instead of plotting to target the Muslim community. The Delhi Police also did not answer any questions from the Commission.

Role of Delhi Police before riots

The report by Amnesty International is based on a study of 50 riot victims, eyewitnesses, lawyers, doctors, human rights activists, conversations with retired police officers and videos of people made.

It first mentions allegations of assault and sexual harassment from students protesting against the Delhi Police's Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) at Jamia Millia Islamia University on 15 December 2019.

The Delhi Police has opposed the PIL in the Delhi High Court to set up a special investigation team to investigate this incident.

Subsequently, on January 5, 2020, Jawaharlal Nehru University is reported to have vandalized Rods and assaulted nearly two dozen students and teachers.

In this case, even after more than 40 complaints were filed by the students and teachers of JNU, the Delhi Police has not registered a single FIR.

However, FIRs were lodged against some anti-CAA protesters who were injured in the assault, including Aishi Ghosh of JNU Students Union. The report also gives information about the provocative speeches of BJP leaders in several election rallies held in the month of January before the Delhi Assembly elections.

On 26 February 2020, the Delhi High Court orders the Delhi Police to file an FIR against BJP MPs and leaders, Kapil Mishra, Parvesh Verma, Anurag Thakur, under a 'Conscious Decision' (Socha Sekhla Judgment). No FIR has been registered against one of them so far.

In July, in an interview to BBC correspondent Divya Arya, Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi admitted that inflammatory speeches were wrong, we are against all such statements that are provocative, defame the country and secular character Are going to damage We are against all this. Whatever done, wrong done. I am against him. We have not and should not justify such poisonous statements.

Role of Delhi Police during riots

In the Amnesty International report, many riot victims have claimed in their statements that when they called the emergency number 100 of Delhi Police, no one picked it up or retorted, "Freedom was wanted, now take it Freedom. ''

'What do we want? The slogan 'Azadi' was used in anti-CAA demonstrations and according to the agitators, there was talk of freedom from discrimination and atrocities.

The report includes videos of five young men being shot by police and a conversation with the mother of one of them who claims that her son was jailed for 36 hours from where he died after being released.

According to the mother, he was not given any documents of the custody of the son, nor according to the law, the son was produced before the magistrate within 24 hours of his detention.

The report also details cases of police remaining mute spectators during the riots and in some cases engaging in stone pelting and preventing victims from reaching hospitals.

Most of the 53 people killed in the riots are Muslims and their homes and shops have suffered more damage than the Hindu community.

According to the report, when he spoke to a Hindu caretaker of a school, he did not call for help even after repeated calls to the police, but at the same time adopting a sensitive attitude towards the police, that he could not come to help. There were rioters stopping the way.

The same liberal attitude towards the Delhi Police is also seen in the report 'Daily Writers: Conspiracy Unrevealed', a report of a trust named 'Center for Justice' (CFJ), submitted to Home Minister Amit Shah, describing the riots as anti-Hindu.

Role of police after riots

Unlike earlier reports on riots, Amnesty International's investigation also looks into the police investigation after the riots and accuses them of arresting and taking large numbers of Muslims after the riots.

Citing the arrests of human rights activist Khalid Saifi for demonstrating in February, it has been claimed that he was in a wheelchair in March due to his treatment in police custody.

Saifi has been in jail for six months. He has been arrested under UAPA law.

The report contains statements of several riot-victims, including allegations of torture at the hands of the police and forcibly making false statements, coercion, signing blank paper.

There is also a statement by the lawyer of a non-governmental organization, 'Human Rights Law Network', which accuses him of preventing him from talking to his client, misbehaving with the police and lathicharge.

On July 8, an order of the Delhi Police, which wrote that the arrests related to the Delhi riots "need to be taken care of" so that it does not "hurt Hindu sentiments", but the Delhi High Court lambasted the police. .

The court had not quashed the order, but argued that "the investigating agencies have to take care that there is no discrimination against the instructions given by the senior officers which is wrong under the law".

Amnesty International has demanded with the details of the last six months that the investigation and accountability of the action of the Delhi Police should be fixed and the Police Department should be trained to work in times of communal tension and violence.

The Delhi Police's response to the allegations made in this report is awaited. The report will be updated on getting a statement from the police.

The top two universities in America have chosen the path of legal action against the US government. The government has enacted a new immigration-related rule under which students from other countries have come to terms with leaving the country.

The Donald Trump administration has implemented a new rule under which students who do not have class room classes in their educational institutions will not be allowed to stay in the country. However, due to the corona virus epidemic, most universities are conducting online teaching.

Two of the world's top institutes, Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have appealed to the Federal Court to ban the new immigration law.

In an email sent to Harvard Community, Harvard President Lawrence Bacau said that we will fight this case vigorously so that our international students and international students from other educational institutions in the country can complete their studies free of fear of being expelled from the country.

In view of the Corona infection in India, CBSE has announced to reduce syllabus from ninth to 12th class, giving relief to the students.

The press statement issued by CBSE said that the decision has been taken in view of the conditions arising out of the corona infection as class room classes are not being held due to the closure of schools.

Due to this, the board has decided to reduce the syllabus from ninth to 12th by 30% in the 2020-21 season.

The parts which will be reduced from the syllabus will not be asked questions in internal assessment and board examination.

Can boycott damage Facebook? The answer is 'yes'.

The 'Abolitionist Movement', which took place in the 18th century, prevented the British people from buying enslaved goods.

This movement had a big impact. Nearly three lakh people stopped buying sugar, which increased the pressure to abolish slavery.

'Stop Hate for Profit' is the latest campaign in which 'boycott' is being used as a political weapon. The campaign claims that Facebook does not do enough to remove hateful and racist content on its platform.

The 'Stop Hate for Profit' campaign has persuaded many large companies to remove their advertisements from Facebook and some other social media platforms.

After Coca-Cola, Unilever and Starbucks, now well-known companies such as Ford, Adidas and HP have also joined their advertisers.

Microsoft also stopped advertising on Facebook and Instagram in May, according to news website 'Axius'. Microsoft has stopped advertising on Facebook due to unknown 'inappropriate content'.

Meanwhile, other online platforms such as Reddit and Twitch have also taken anti-hate steps on their own and have increased the pressure on Facebook.

So can such a boycott cause huge damage to Facebook?

The short answer to this question is yes. Because a large part of Facebook's revenue comes from advertisements.

David Cumming of Aviva Investors told the BBC that Facebook had lost people's trust and that users found a lack of moral values ​​in Facebook's attitude. Davim Cumming believes that these assumptions can hurt Facebook's business badly.

On Friday, the share price of Facebook was down by eight percent. As a result, the company's CEO Mark Zuckerberg lost at least five and a half trillion rupees.

But can the damage be bigger? Could this threaten the existence of Facebook in the coming days? There are still clear answers to these questions.

The first thing is that Facebook is not the first social media company to face boycott.

In the year 2017, many big brands announced that they will not advertise on YouTube. This happened because an ad for a particular brand was shown after a racist and homophobic (hateful against homosexuality) video.

The boycott of this brand is now almost forgotten. YouTube changed its advertising policies and now YouTube's parent company Google is also doing fine in this regard.

This boycott may not have caused much damage to Facebook. There are other reasons for this.

The first thing is that many companies have talked about boycotting Facebook only for the month of July. Secondly, a large part of Facebook's revenue also comes from advertising by small and medium companies.

According to a CNN report, Facebook earned nearly three trillion rupees from the top 100 brands spent last year and it was just six per cent of the total advertising revenue.

Matt Morrison, head of the advertising agency Digital Whiskey, told the BBC that it is not possible for many small companies to 'not advertise'.

Says Morrison, "For companies that cannot afford to pay huge amounts of money for advertising on television, Facebook is a necessary medium. Business can succeed only when companies reach their potential customers. So they will continue to advertise. ''

Furthermore, Facebook's structure is such that it gives Mark Zuckerberg the power to make any kind of changes. If they want to change a policy, they can change it. For this, only their views need to be changed. If Zuckerberg does not want to take action, he will not.

However, in the last few days, Mark Zuckerberg has indicated changes. Facebook announced on Friday that it would begin tagging hate comments.

On the other hand, other companies are taking action on their own.

On Monday, social news website Reddit announced that it was banning a group called 'The Donald Trump Forum'. Members of this group are accused of making hate and threatening comments. The group was not directly associated with President Trump, but its members shared their supporting mimes.

In addition, Amazon-owned video streaming platform Twitch has also temporarily banned an account run by 'Trump Campaign'. Twitch has said that two of the videos from President Trump's rallies were said to promote hatred.

One of these videos was in the year 2015 (before Trump was elected president). In this video, Trump said that Mexico is sending rapists to the United States.

Twitch said in his statement, "If there is any hateful feeling in any political comment or news, we do not consider it an exception. We stop it."

This year is going to be a challenge for all social media companies and Facebook is also not outside the scope of these challenges. However, companies always take decisions keeping their balance sheet in mind. So if this boycott prolongs and more companies join, then this year will change a lot for Facebook.

To prevent Corona virus-related rumors, messaging app WhatsApp has put restrictions on forwarding messages 'repeatedly'.

According to WhatsApp, the messages that are being 'forwarded repeatedly' will now be able to forward one chat at a time to the user.

These changes have come into effect from today.

WhatsApp, which has been forwarded five times in the past, will put those messages in the list of 'Frequent Forward'.

Such messages will be shown on WhatsApp with two arrows which means that these are not the original messages.

WhatsApp will not treat these messages as private messages. This is not the first time that WhatsApp has taken steps to stop messages being forwarded.

In the year 2018, WhatsApp had limited this feature to only sending messages to five people simultaneously, restricting the forwarding of forward messages.

At that time many misinformation were being shared on WhatsApp in India and people were beaten to death in many places on the basis of these.

Six months later, in January 2019, this limited ban was implemented worldwide.

After 47 days of travel, Chandrayaan-2 lost contact with ISRO just two kilometers from the lunar surface.

Chandrayan-2's lander Vikram fell silent in the last two kilometers. Through this lander, Chandrayaan-2 was supposed to reach the lunar surface.

ISRO chairman K Sivan said that initially everything was normal but contact with the moon broke out 2.1 kilometers before the last.

The ISRO chief said that the data related to this is being analyzed. So far only the US, Russia and China have been able to get the soft landing of their spacecraft on the moon and India fell two steps behind achieving this feat.

Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi was at ISRO Center in Bengaluru on Friday night to witness this historic moment.

After losing contact, Modi tied up the scientists and said that any big mission fluctuates. Earlier, Sivan said that the last 15 minutes are the most important and in this 15 minutes the contact was broken.

There was a lot of excitement about its success in India and the eyes were on the mission of ISRO late in the night.

When the matter of losing contact with ISRO came to light, people were disappointed but all of the scientists of ISRO were encouraged. On the other hand, there was a bitter and sarcastic response from the neighboring country of Pakistan.

Pakistan's Science and Technology Minister Fawad Hussain Chaudhary retweeted the video of PM Modi's response to the loss of contact with Chandrayaan-2, saying, "Modi ji is giving a speech on satellite communication." Actually, he is not a leader but a astronaut. The Lok Sabha should ask Modi questions for wasting Rs 900 crore of a poor country. ''

In his second tweet, Fawad Chaudhary wrote, "I am surprised that Indian trolls are abusing me, as if I have thwarted their moon mission." Brother, did we say that 900 crore should be spent on these drains? Now be patient and try to sleep.

A Pakistani Twitter user wrote that you saw PM Modi leaving the control room? Fawad Chaudhary wrote, "Oops, I could not see the moment."

When an Indian named Abhay Kashyap expressed anger at Fawad Chaudhary, he said in response, "So Ja Bhai, instead of Moon, I landed in Mumbai." Those who do not work, do not mess with them.

Pakistani Army spokesman Asif Ghafur has tweeted, "Very good ISRO. Whose mistake is it First- innocent Kashmiris who have been imprisoned? Second- Muslims and minorities? Third- anti-Hindutva voice within India? Fourth- ISI? Hindutva will not take you anywhere. ''

This mission of India is being mocked on social media in Pakistan. Many people are associating it with the Wing Commander Abhinandan.

Pro-abortion rights activists say anti-abortion rights policies are threatening millions of women. In this episode, The Stream takes a look at three distinct debates around the world.
 
Gag rule
A report by the International Women’s Health Coalition (IWHC) says the US government's reinstatement of a decades-old policy that bans government-funded aid groups from discussing abortion is "ultimately killing" women. According to the report, which focused on Kenya, Nepal, Nigeria and South Africa, the so-called global gag rule – or Mexico City Policy – "reduces access to contraceptives and abortion care, leading to unwanted pregnancies, unsafe abortions, and preventable deaths."
 
We’ll speak with researchers from IWHC to find out more.
 
Honduras ban
The New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said that Honduras’ ban on abortion is putting women and girls at risk. In a recent report, “Life or Death Choices for Women Living Under Honduras’ Abortion Ban”, Honduran women discuss the difficulties they’ve experienced when trying to terminate a pregnancy.
 
Honduran law imposes prison sentences of up to six years on women, girls, and medical professionals who induce abortions, according to HRW. The government also bans emergency contraception - and since nearly 1 in 4 women in Honduras are victims of physical or sexual abuse by a partner, many are forced to terminate pregnancies in secret. Although researchers do not know exactly how many backdoor procedures are performed, they estimate that 50,000 to 80,000 abortions happen every year. In addition, data from the Honduran health secretary indicates that at least 8,600 women were hospitalised in 2017 due to complications from an abortion or miscarriage.
 
We speak to Human Rights Watch researchers.
 
Northern Ireland
The US state of Alabama made headlines worldwide when its governor signed into law one of the most restrictive anti-abortion measures in the United States. While many pro-abortion rights campaigners expressed shock over the move, activists in Northern Ireland were quick to observe that Northern Irish women were still living under anti-abortion laws crafted in 1861. In Northern Ireland, both women and medical professionals can be prosecuted for the procedure, forcing many to travel elsewhere to have it done.
 
Still, last year’s referendum in the neighbouring Republic of Ireland, which legalised abortion, has given pro-abortion rights activists like Elizabeth Nelson of the Belfast Feminist Network hope that change is possible. Writing in The Guardian, Nelson said, “We need the grit and magic of that moment now more than ever. We are more powerful than we think.”
 
In this segment, we’ll speak with pro-abortion rights campaigners in Northern Ireland to hear how activists are working to help patients receive care and avoid penalty.

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