Congratulations to pilots Bertrand Piccard, André Borschberg and their team for completing the first successful round-the-world solar flight in Solar Impulse, the only airplane of perpetual endurance able to fly day and night on solar power without a drop of fuel.
On Friday, the aircraft touched down in Hawaii after crossing the Pacific Ocean from Nagoya, Japan, covering a distance of more than 8 thousand kilometers in five days and nights.
The flight demonstrates how pioneering spirit, innovation and clean technologies can change the world.
Bhumi Adhikar Andolan –Movement for Land Rights
New Delhi (3rd July 2015) : The Government of Uttar Pradesh has showcased its commitment to anti-people policies and disrespect to peaceful and democratic expression of poor and marginalised people, once again.
Early morning of 30th June, just hours before the big dharna and rally in support of the 100 day nationwide campaign for land rights and labour rights in Sonebhadra district of UP, Roma and Sokalo Gond (both office bearers of the All India Union of Forest Working People), along with other activists were arrested and sent to Mirzapur jail. Though many activists were picked up in the early hours on Tuesday morning, except both of them, everyone else was released later in the day.
All allegations of scams in tune of more than 2300 crores by people in the administration and those sitting at high echelons of power in the government, the scammers are rather being protected by the police and administration. Activists and whistleblowers who have attempted to expose these scams, point out police excesses and protest against illegal land acquisition are being termed as ‘miscreants’ and continuously harassed by the UP government.
On the morning of 14th April (Ambedkar Jayanti), the UP police had fired indiscriminately on several hundred dalits and adivasis, including large numbers of women and children; all peaceful protestors against illegal land acquisition for the Kanhar Dam project. Several women were injured in the firing. Following this, false cases were filed against countless unnamed persons. Four days later, on 18 April, there was a second round of police firing in which once again several people were seriously injured and some of the key activists of the movement arrested. Those arrested are yet to be released.
These incidents cannot be seen in isolation but should be looked in the context of the earlier incidents of police firing on peaceful protestors, which has continued now through severe forms of harassment, illegal arrests and false charges. These charges are arbitrary and politically motivated; aimed at crushing the peaceful and democratic struggle against the illegal acquisition of land for the Kanhar Dam project. The Government of Uttar Pradesh has used the police to illegally stop democratic expression against the persistence of land acquisition in scheduled areas. Despite there being court orders, including from the National Green Tribunal, the state government has pursued and targeted activists who are protesting its illegal actions at Kanhar.
At the National level AIUFWP, being part of the Bhumi Adhikar Andolan they have been opposing the amendments to the land acquisition proposed by the BJP government. Roma and Sokalo are strong women leaders who have spearheaded many struggles since more than a decade against the land mafia and the nexus between the forest department and the corporates.
Addressing the press meeting, Hannan Mollah, PB Member CPI-Marxist explained the sequence of events where the police forcibly entered the room where women were sleeping, kept the women police outside the door and harassed women activists even when they repeatedly objected to the use of force against them. These attacks, he said, is also an attack on the leadership of Bhumi Adhikar Andolan which has been protesting against forcible land acquisition at the national level.
Ashok Choudhary [AIUFWP] said that while the nature of arrest shows the disrespecting attitudes of the police against women, it is also the state government which has hastened the process of acquisition, resorting to the use of force, due to the pressures created by Hindalco which needs water from the Kanhar dam for its power projects in Singrauli. The Kanhar dam is neither for irrigation nor serving any other needs of the local people. “These pressure tactics show that the administration has not taken well the fact that adivasi women in the community are taking leader the Supreme Court and National Green Tribunal have asked for stopping the process,” he added.
Veteran activist Medha Patkar said that this indiscriminate use of force to restart the construction of dam, non implementation of the 2013 land acquisition act in UP and the prosecution of peaceful activists are a reflection of how the British treated dissent, and added that such things would amount to much more losses in the electoral process for Mulayam Singh and the Samajwadi Party. The ‘third and fourth front’ thus today need to explain their positions vis-à-vis the government’s not-so-veiled attempts to implement only corporate policies. The DM Sanjay Kumar has explained to the fact-finding team and other activists who met the administration regarding the arrests that ‘no new case’ has been registered against Roma after 2009. On the inhuman treatment meted out to Dalit leaders in the past such as Gambhira Prasad and a trend that has been proven once again, she demanded that the state should be booked for violation of the Prevention of Atrocities Act.
Priya Pillai of Mahan Sangharsh Samiti added that the independent fact finding committee was harassed when it went to enquire of the sequence of events. The members were stopped from meeting people in hospitals and villages. The police officer responsible for the firing on 14thApril, Kapil Yadav, made the arrests and the behaviour clearly pointed out to the aspect of ‘revenge’. This suppression by force shows patterns in how the state is extremely intolerant of any form of dissent. Dr. Sunilam of Kisan Sangharsh Samiti said that charges should be filed against the police officer for mistreatment of women and harassing peaceful protestors.
Anil Choudhary of Indian Social Action Forum (INSAF) said that the coal block re-allotments done by the new government has led to hurried construction at Kanhar dam site, in violation of all laws and guidelines. This is also because Hindalco has consumed the water sources and now it needs more water. This illegality and harassment will go on if the forcing of a ‘development agenda’ on poor and marginalised sections continues.
Bhumi Adhikar Andolan demands the stopping of harassment of activists and local people and asks the UP government to take recognition of massive irregularities in Kanhar dam region, police excesses and stop the illegal land acquisition process immediately. An enquiry into the wrongful arrests, false and fabricated cases, and wrongful police action should be made by the government. It extended solidarity to the people of Kanhar who are facing the brunt for standing up for people’s rights, and the adoption of wrongful procedures and illegalities in the name of development
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4th South Asian Basketball Association (SABA) Championship 2015
4th South Asian Basketball Association (SABA) Championship 2015 that is underway in Kanteerava Stadium, Bengaluru.
We are attaching the detailed box scores of the morning matches
Gopal, for BFI Media
Morning Results from 4th July 2015
1) Sri Lanka (Praneeth Udumalagala 28 pts & 9 rbs, Chamath Dhanawansa 11 pts & 5 assists, Roshan Fernando 11 pts) bt Maldives (Ahmed Aushan 16) 92-66 [19-12, 17-17, 25-22, 31-15]
Morning Results from 4th July 2015
1) Sri Lanka (Praneeth Udumalagala 28 pts & 9 rbs, Chamath Dhanawansa 11 pts & 5 assists, Roshan Fernando 11 pts) bt Maldives (Ahmed Aushan 16) 92-66 [19-12, 17-17, 25-22, 31-15]
2) Nepal (Sadish Pradhan 17 pts, Ashin Shrestha 14 pts & 8 rbs, Bikram Joshi 12 rbs) bt Bangladesh (Mithun Kumas Biswas 24 pts, Mithun Sarkan 22 pts & 11 rbs, Md. Tareq Aziz 16 pts) 87-74 [15-16,21-19,23-22,27-23]
3) India (Joginder Singh Saharan 12 pts, 11 rbs, 10 assists; Gurinder Singh Gill 20 pts, Arvind 19 pts & 10 rbs) bt Bhutan (Rinchen Dorji 14 pts, Karma Singye 8 pts & 11 rbs) 119-52 [39-6, 20-20, 33-16, 26-10]
Indian Smart Cities MAX Garbage Composting Water Harvesting
July04, 2015 (C) Ravinder Singh progressindia008@yahoo.com
India Inc. of Manoj Ladwa organized an event on ‘Waste Management’ addressed by Environment Minister Prakash Javedekar.
The event was boycotted by Foreign Companies and Foreign Missions for Banning Their ‘Global Branded Food Products’ in India. Events in the absence of Pioneer Foreign Companies are reduced just Stupid Talk.
Minister talked of ‘No Food Wastage in Earlier Times’ – then Food Supply was limited, people were engaged in Hard Work walked tens of kilometers in Hot or Cold conditions and eat once or twice a day had big appetite – present generation is used to Air-conditioned life style, take Tea with Snacks several times a day between Breakfast, Lunch & Cocktails and Dinner, with choice of scores of foods, in fact each of family member has different choice of food.
Earlier leftover was Roti & Dal which was fed to the Cows common in most homes or in community. Refrigeration has made it possible to increase shelf life of foods to weeks in homes to months in Cold Storages and Freezers.
Farmer Minister didn’t tell us that in earlier times Crop Yields were low and at times 20% to 80% of Foods were Lost to Insects, Pests, Birds, Rats and Wild Animals before harvesting and post harvesting in storage.
Farmers in India have Minimized On Farm Wastages except for Natural Causes like Unseasonal Rains, Droughts & Floods.
Strangely even after some thousand such events across India, this event too missed out sessions to ‘Minimize Waste’ or ‘Maximizing Fresh Water Use.’
‘The Prime Minister said urban and rural development in our country should be complimentary. One way of doing this was to ensure waste water management in urban areas, so that the treated water could be returned to rural areas for irrigation.Similarly solid waste management could generate compost which could act as organic fertilizer for the surrounding rural areas.’ June25, 2015
Even PM is ‘MISLED ON WASTE’ – India waste over 70% of Fresh Water to sea in the absence of Storage Dams and Canals, 50% to 80% of Fresh Water Stored in Dams and released in to Canals are wasted and we use Hard Ground Water Containing Unsafe Levels of Chemicals and Heavy Metals.
All Our Foods ROT in Markets For A Day For Fruits & Vegetables to Weeks For FoodgrainsLosing On Nutrition & Value In ABSENCE of Storage, Processing & Packaging –
— Mostly Raw Foods is Dispatched to Cities to Generate Mountains of Stinking Waste.
Indian’s Per Capita Food Consumption is Lowest in The World – BUT India Generates MAXIMUM Garbage Per Capita Or Food Waste.
Session on Ganga River Cleaning Was UNBEARABLE. GANGA Basin Has 100,000 MW Hydro Power, 500 BCM Water Resource and Require 25 mHac Flood Protection.
Ravinder Singh, Inventor & Consultant, INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES AND PROJECTS
Y-77, Hauz Khas, New Delhi-110016, India. Ph; 091- 9718280435, 9650421857
Ravinder Singh* is a WIPO awarded inventor specializing in Power, Transportation, Water, Energy Saving, Agriculture, Manufacturing, Technologies and Project
RBI announces revised methodology for overnight MIBID/MIBOR
MIBID/MIBOR benchmark in India will be revised with the introduction of the FBIL-Overnight MIBOR on July 22, 2015. The FBIL-Overnight MIBOR will be based on actual traded rates and will be administered by a new company called the Financial Benchmarks India Private Ltd (FBIL).
The Reserve Bank of India has stated that the methodology for the FIMMDA-NSE-Overnight Mumbai Interbank Bid/Offer Rate (Overnight MIBID/MIBOR) benchmark in India will be revised with the introduction of the FBIL-Overnight MIBOR on July 22, 2015. The FBIL-Overnight MIBOR will be based on actual traded rates and will be administered by a new company called the Financial Benchmarks India Private Ltd (FBIL). The existing benchmark, based on polled rates, is set by the Fixed Income Money Market and Derivative Association of India (FIMMDA) and the National Stock Exchange (NSE).
Financial Benchmarks India Private Ltd (FBIL) has been jointly formed as an independent company for administration of benchmarks in financial markets by FIMMDA, the Foreign Exchange Dealers’ Association of India (FEDAI) and the Indian Banks’ Association (IBA). This follows the recommendations of the Committee on Financial Benchmarks accepted by the Reserve Bank of India in February 2014 (Chairman: Shri P. Vijaya Bhaskar, Executive Director).
Over a period of time, FBIL will also take over the administration of foreign exchange benchmarks and other Indian Rupee interest rate benchmarks in consultation with the stakeholders. FIMMDA and FEDAI who are the current benchmark administrators for the Indian rupee interest rate and foreign exchange benchmarks, respectively, will continue to act as administrators for the Rupee interest rate and foreign exchange benchmarks till they are shifted to FBIL. The Reserve Bank will set up an appropriate oversight mechanism for ensuring that the benchmark determination process and its governance framework remain robust and credible.
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27th Mango Festival at Dilli Haat, Janakpuri
MANGO EATING COMPETITION FOR MEN TOMORROW
Dear Sir/ Madam,
The 27th Mango Festival organized by Delhi Tourism in association with Govt. Of Delhi entered its second today at Dilli Haat, Janakpuri, the festival is scheduled to be slated till the 5th of July. The festival has over 500 varieties of mangoes on display and a wide range of mango products on sale.
The highlighting feature of tomorrow’s schedule is Magic Show, Mango Quiz Contest and Mango Eating Competition for men at 4 p.m. Participants are given 3 kgs of mangoes to consume in the mango eating competition within 3 minutes and the winner would be suitably awarded by Delhi Tourism.
We request you to kindly make it convenient to cover the event.
Sudhir Sobti
Chief Manager (PR)
98104-22633
Chief Manager (PR)
98104-22633
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