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awesome-gautam-sandesh-blog · 5 years

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आईपीएस वीक में छा गये एसएसपी अशोक कुमार, डीजीपी ने किये सम्मानित बदायूं के वरिष्ठ पुलिस अधीक्षक अशोक कुमार की कार्यप्रणाली प्रदेश भर में उदाहरण बन गई है। सराहना करते हुए पुलिस महानिदेशक ओपी सिंह ने लखनऊ में आयोजित किये गये पुलिस वीक में एसएसपी अशोक कुमार को सम्मानित किया। उल्लेखनीय है कि वरिष्ठ पुलिस अधीक्षक अशोक कुमार ने पदभार संभालते ही महसूस कर लिया कि जनपद में अधिकतर अभियोग पेशबंदी के तहत लिखाये जाते है। अभियोगों में गलत नामजद होने पर कई बार व्यक्तियों में बदले की भावना जागृत हो जाती थी और हत्या तक वारदातें घटित हो जाती थीं। अभियोगों में गलत रूप से नामजद बेगुनाह व्यक्तियों को विवेचना के परिणाम की जानकारी ना हो पाने के कारण विभिन्न स्तरों पर उनका आर्थिक तथा मानसिक शोषण हो रहा था। एसएसपी द्वारा अभियोगों में झूठे फंसाये गये व्यक्तियों को न्याय दिलाने व मुकदमों में कमी लाने हेतु एक विस्तृत कार्ययोजना बनायी गयी तथा अपर पुलिस अधीक्षक (नगर एवं ग्रामीण) तथा समस्त क्षेत्राधिकारी व थाना प्रभारियों को स्पष्ट आदेश दिये गये कि किसी भी झूठे अभियोग में किसी भी निर्दोष को जेल न भेजा जाये बल्कि, जो व्यक्ति झूठा अभियोग पंजीकृत कराये, उसके विरूद्ध कार्यवाही की जानी चाहिये। एसएसपी के आदेश के परिपेक्ष्य में जनपद के सभी थानों पर व्यापक रूप से अभियान चलाया गया, जिसके परिणाम स्वरूप जनपद में माह अप्रैल, 2018 से दिसम्बर 2018 तक 1425 व्यक्तियों की नामजदगी झूठी पायी गयी,सभी को जेल जाने से बचाया गया। अभियोगों में नामजदगी झूठी पायी जाने पर अभियोगों से निकाले गये नामों को संबंधित थानों व पुलिस कार्यालय के नोटिस बोर्ड पर चस्पा किया गया, जिससे निर्दोष व्यक्ति अपना नाम थाने, क्षेत्राधिकारी कार्यालय व पुलिस कार्यालय के नोटिस बोर्ड पर देख सके और आर्थिक व मानसिक शोषण से बच सके। उपरोक्त कार्ययोजना प्रारम्भ करने के उपरान्त जनपद में झूठे अभियोग लिखवाने की प्रवृत्ति में काफी कमी आयी है, अप्रैल 2018 में 431, मई 2018 में 209, जून में 208, जुलाई में 188, अगस्त में 139, सितम्बर में 114, अक्टूबर में 53, नवम्बर में 47 तथा दिसम्बर में 47 व्यक्तियों की नामजदगी झूठी पायी गयी, अप्रैल से दिसम्बर तक झूठी नामजदगी लिखवाने वाले अभियोगों में भारी कमी आयी। एसएसपी द्वारा विवेचक को 7 दिवस में नामजदगी की सत्यता का निर्धारण कर झूठे फंसाये गये व्यक्तियों का नाम विवेचना से हटाने का निर्देश दिया गया था तथा यह सूची प्रत्येक सोमवार को अध्यावधिक की जाती थी, जिन व्यक्तियों द्वारा जान-बूझकर किसी को झूठे अभियोग में फंसाने के उद्देश्य से अभियोग पंजीकृत कराया जाता है। धारा 194, 195 आईपीसी में झूठा अभियोग पंजीकृत करा के दण्डित कराने का प्रयास करने वाले व्यक्ति को वही सजा देने का प्रावधान है, जिन धाराओं के अंतर्गत मूल अभियोग पंजीकृत कराया गया था। एसएसपी की कार्ययोजना से जनता में पुलिस की निष्पक्ष कार्य प्रणाली के प्रति विश्वास बढ़ा है तथा फर्जी अभियोग पंजीकरण पर अंकुश लगा है, जिससे विगत वर्ष की तुलना में 2018 में हत्या के अभियोगों में 31.76 प्रतिशत, बलात्कार के अभियोगों में 15 प्रतिशत तथा शीलभंग के अभियोगों में 23.14 प्रतिशत, डकैती में 25 प्रतिशत, लूट में 27 प्रतिशत, चोरी में 28.66 प्रतिशत, वाहन चोरी में 37.98 प्रतिशत तथा गृहभेदन में 30.68 प्रतिशत की कमी आयी है। एसएसपी की सक्रियता से यूपी- 100 के रिस्पांस टाईम सबसे कम होने के कारण बरेली जोन में जनपद प्रथम पायदान पर बना हुआ है, इन सभी कार्ययोजनाओं व सक्रियता से संपूर्ण उत्तर प्रदेश में जनपद का कुल लम्बित विवेचनाओं में प्रथम स्थान, कुल लम्बित विवेचना जघन्य अपराध में दूसरे स्थान, कुल गिरफ्तारी गैंगस्टर में तीसरा स्थान, कुल गिरफ्तारी/आत्म समर्पण में 11वां स्थान व जघन्य अपराध की गिरफ्तारी में 19वां स्थान है। एसएसपी द्वारा जारी की गयी कार्ययोजना का पुलिस महानिदेशक ओपी सिंह व मुख्यमंत्री कार्यालय द्वारा संज्ञान लिया गया तथा इस कार्ययोजना की प्रस्तुतिकरण हेतु आईपीएस वीक लखनऊ में आमंत्रित किया गया था। लखनऊ में इस कार्ययोजना को देखने के उपरान्त डीजीपी व अन्य उच्चाधिकारीगणों द्वारा इसकी बहुत सराहना की गयी। पुलिस महानिदेशक ओपी सिंह द्वारा एसएसपी अशोक कुमार को आईपीएस वीक में स्मृति चिन्ह देकर सम्मानित किया गया, इस योजना को प्रदेश के सभी जनपदों में लागू करने हेतु विचार किया जा रहा है। (गौतम संदेश की खबरों से अपडेट रहने के लिए एंड्राइड एप अपने मोबाईल में इन्स्टॉल कर सकते हैं एवं गौतम संदेश को फेसबुक और ट्वीटर पर भी फ़ॉलो कर सकते हैं, साथ ही वीडियो देखने के लिए गौतम संदेश चैनल को सबस्क्राइब कर सकते हैं)

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realtimeslive · 6 years

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Uttar Pradesh Police Chief Seeks "Forgiveness" After Constable Kills Lucknow Man

Uttar Pradesh Police Chief Seeks “Forgiveness” After Constable Kills Lucknow Man

OP Singh sought the public’s forgiveness and cooperation in the “journey of reformation ahead”.

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Hours after a 38-year-old employee of an international firm was shot dead by a constable for not stopping his car at a Lucknow checkpoint, Uttar Pradesh police chief OP Singh expressed grief over the incident and vowed to wean out “rogues in uniform” who bring dishonour to the force.

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thenorthlines · 2 years

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Anti-terror Ops would continue with more intensity for peace: DGP

Jammu Tawi: The Director-General of Police J&K Dilbag Singh today said that fight against terrorism and efforts to secure peace and tranquillity in J&K is a continuous process. He said that back to back successful anti-terror operations have been conducted in Kashmir in last few days. He said that anti-terror operations would continue with more intensity to consolidate the peace in Jammu and…

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thedailyexcelsior · 3 years

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2 Militants Killed In Separate Ops In Bandipora, Anantnag

Two militants were killed in separate operations in Anantnag and Bandipora on Sunday night, informed Jammu and Kashmir Director General of Police (DGP), Dilbag Singh, on Monday. Singh further said that one militant has been identified as Imtiaz Ahmad Dar, who was involved in one of the recent civilian killings in the Valley.

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kupwaratimes-fan · 3 years

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Kashmir not free from foreign militants, foreigners lying low: DGP Dilbagh Singh

‘Only 2 foreigners killed in Valley this year; fresh ceasefire pact has helped plug infiltration along LoC; Narcotics, weapon smuggling being done through Kupwara sector; Anti-militancy Ops in Sgr soon’ Srinagar, Jun 21: Jammu and Kashmir’s Director General of Police (DGP) Dilbagh Singh Monday said that this year only two foreign militants have been killed in Kashmir and that a good number of…

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marwahstudios · 4 years

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Meet ‘Top 50 Newsmaker Indians in 2020’ surveyed by Fame India & Asia Post Survey

New Delhi: India is considered as a land full of opportunities. Like most other democracies, this country too is very politically and economically charged. Everyone appears to have a view on how the nation should run. People here have created benchmarks of social service. Their efforts demanded us to prepare a list of newsmaker Indians that created ripples of impact. Hence, Fame India & Asia Post together came up with the list of ‘Top 50 Newsmaker Indians in 2020’.

This list is a survey of such famous countrymen, who created change through their efforts in the lives of people. There are hundreds of people who, from their own places, are working towards strengthening the nation. All these people have tried to change, develop and strengthen the possibilities in people’s lives with their excellent works and efforts.

The list includes people from all walks of life who are politicians, bureaucrats, film stars, journalists, artists, educationists, industrialists and spiritual leaders. Those who are involved in the public sphere, who are trying to make people’s lives simpler and more capable, those who are creating a benchmark of social work.

Fame India & Asia Post has tried to compile the list of these newsmakers together that will motivate more Indians to work harder for a brighter and better India. At the release of the list, editorial director of the Magazine Fame India, US Sonthalia said “These are those inspirational Indians who have tirelessly worked towards the betterment of common people. This positive initiative of Fame India, along with selecting them, makes other empowered people like them realize that they should move strongly on their duty path”.

Here is the list of ‘Top 50 Newsmakers in 2020’ by Fame India & Asia Post Survey:

Sandeep Marwah – Educationist, Philanthropist, International Media Person, Social Reformer (Chairman – AAFT), Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan – Chairman – National Education Policy Committee, K Parasaran – Law Advocate – Shri Ramlala Virajman, Gen. Manoj Mukund Narwane – Chief of Army Staff, MS Swaminathan – Agricultural Scientist, Manoj Modi – Famous Corporate & Industrial Strategist, Director – Reliance Group, Gupteshwar Pandey (IPS) – DGP, Bihar, Indian Police Services

Manan Mishra – Chairman – Bar Council of India, Dr Pratap Chandra Reddy – Health, Chairman – Apollo Hospital, Harish Salve – Senior Advocate – Supreme Court, Muthayya Vanitha – Scientist, Project Director – Chandrayaan Mission, Dr Devi Prasad Shetty – Founder – Narayan Hospital, BL Santhosh – Politics, National General Secretary – BJP, Girish Chandra Murmu – CAG

Sanjay Kothari – Commissioner – Central Vigilance Commission Shashikant Das – Governor – RBI, Rakesh Jhunjhunwala – Investment Banker, known for share market predictions, Jagdeep Dhankhar – Governor, West Bengal, Champat Rai – Social worker, General Secretary, Shri Ram Janma Bhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust, Ayodhya, Sourav Ganguly – BCCI Chief, Swami Awadheshanand Giri – Spiritual Guru, President – Juna Akhada, Madhu Pandit Dasa – Samaj Reformer, President – Akshaya Patra Foundation, Sant Balbir Singh Seechewal – Social Reformer, Environmental hero, Punjab

Jyotiraditya Scindia – MP – Rajya Sabh, Prof Dr Jagat Ram – Director – PGI Chandigarh, Prashant Kishore – Political Strategist, Founder – I-PAC, Dr Kishore Singh – HOD – Oncology, LNJP Hospital, Delhi, Dr Shiv Kumar Sarin – Director – ILBS, Delhi, Ravi Kalra – Social Reformer, Founder – Earth Saviors Foundation, Sambhaji Bhide – Social Reformer, Founder – Shri Shivpratisthan Hindusthan, Maharashtra, Dr MV Padma Srivastava – HOD – Neurology Department, AIIMS, Delhi, Dr Prakash Baba Amte – Social Reformer, Tribal Welfare – Maharashtra, Dr Uma Kumar – Head – Rheumatology Department, AIIMS, Delhi.

Ela Ramesh Bhatt – Social Reformer, Founder- Seva Foundation, Rajendra Singh – Social Reformer, Famous Environmentalist, MA Yusuf Ali – Businessman and philanthropist, Chairman Lulu Group International, Dubai, Ashok Bhagat – Social Reformer, Tribal Welfare, Secretary, Vikas Bharti, Jharkhand, Ajit Mohan – Youth Icon, Managing Director – Facebook India, Dr C. Rajkumar – Dynamic Educationist, Vice-Chancellor – OP Jindal Global University, Sunitha Krishnan – Social Reformer, Co-founder – Prajjavala

Ashish Dhawan – Entrepreneur, Educationist, Philanthropist, Chairman Trustee – Ashoka University, Manish Maheshwari – Youth Icon, Managing Director- Twitter India, Sonu Sood – Film Actor, social worker, Philanthropist, Abhinandan Sharma – Wing Commander – Indian Air Force, Mahesh Savani – Industrialist & philanthropist, Chairman – Savani Group, Mukesh Patel – Industrialist & Social Service, Director- Hindwa Group, Sharma – Journalism, News Director – TV9 Bharatvarsha, Pratap Chand Agrawal – Educationist, philanthropist, Sanjay Bihari – Social Reformer, Founder, Samarth Bihar, Manish Mundra – film producer, philanthropist

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itsfinancethings · 4 years

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New story in Technology from Time: Facebook’s Ties to India’s Ruling Party Complicate Its Fight Against Hate Speech

In July 2019, Alaphia Zoyab was on a video call with Facebook employees in India, discussing some 180 posts by users in the country that Avaaz, the watchdog group where she worked, said violated Facebook’s hate speech rules. But half way through the hour-long meeting, Shivnath Thukral, the most senior Facebook official on the call, got up and walked out of the room, Zoyab says, saying he had other important things to do.

Among the posts was one by Shiladitya Dev, a lawmaker in the state of Assam for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He had shared a news report about a girl being allegedly drugged and raped by a Muslim man, and added his own comment: “This is how Bangladeshi Muslims target our [native people] in 2019.” But rather than removing it, Facebook allowed the post to remain online for more than a year after the meeting, until TIME contacted Facebook to ask about it on Aug. 21. “We looked into this when Avaaz first flagged it to us, and our records show that we assessed it as a hate speech violation,” Facebook said in a statement to TIME. “We failed to remove upon initial review, which was a mistake on our part.”

Thukral was Facebook’s public policy director for India and South Asia at the time. Part of his job was lobbying the Indian government, but he was also involved in discussions about how to act when posts by politicians were flagged as hate speech by moderators, former employees tell TIME. Facebook acknowledges that Thukral left the meeting, but says he never intended to stay for its entirety, and joined only to introduce Zoyab, whom he knew from a past job, to his team. “Shivnath did not leave because the issues were not important,” Facebook said in the statement, noting that the company took action on 70 of the 180 posts presented during the meeting.

Eric Miller—World Economic ForumShivnath Thukral at the Moving to Better Ground session during the India Economic Summit in Mumbai, November, 2011.

The social media giant is under increasing scrutiny for how it enforces its hate speech policies when the accused are members of Modi’s ruling party. Activists say some Facebook policy officials are too close to the BJP, and accuse the company of putting its relationship with the government ahead of its stated mission of removing hate speech from its platform—especially when ruling-party politicians are involved. Thukral, for instance, worked with party leadership to assist in the BJP’s 2014 election campaign, according to documents TIME has seen.

Facebook’s managing director for India, Ajit Mohan, denied suggestions that the company had displayed bias toward the BJP in an Aug. 21 blog post titled, “We are open, transparent and non-partisan.” He wrote: “Despite hailing from diverse political affiliations and backgrounds, [our employees] perform their respective duties and interpret our policies in a fair and non-partisan way. The decisions around content escalations are not made unilaterally by just one person; rather, they are inclusive of views from different teams and disciplines within the company.”

Facebook published the blog post after the Wall Street Journal, citing current and former Facebook employees, reported on Aug.14 that the company’s top policy official in India, Ankhi Das, pushed back against other Facebook employees who wanted to label a BJP politician a “dangerous individual” and ban him from the platform after he called for Muslim immigrants to be shot. Das argued that punishing the state lawmaker, T. Raja Singh, would hurt Facebook’s business prospects in India, the Journal reported. (Facebook said Das’s intervention was not the sole reason Singh was not banned, and that it was still deciding if a ban was necessary.)

Read more: Can the World’s Largest Democracy Endure Another Five Years of a Modi Government?

Those business prospects are sizeable. India is Facebook’s largest market, with 328 million using the social media platform. Some 400 million Indians also use Facebook’s messaging service WhatsApp — a substantial chunk of the country’s estimated 503 million internet users. The platforms have become increasingly important in Indian politics; after the 2014 elections, Das published an op-ed arguing that Modi had won because of the way he leveraged Facebook in his campaign.

But Facebook and WhatsApp have also been used to spread hate speech and misinformation that have been blamed for helping to incite deadly attacks on minority groups amid rising communal tensions across India—despite the company’s efforts to crack down. In February, a video of a speech by BJP politician Kapil Mishra was uploaded to Facebook, in which he told police that unless they removed mostly-Muslim protesters occupying a road in Delhi, his supporters would do it themselves. Violent riots erupted within hours. (In that case, Facebook determined the video violated its rules on incitement to violence and removed it.)

WhatsApp, too, has been used with deadly intent in India — for example by cow vigilantes, Hindu mobs that have attacked Muslims and Dalits accused of killing cows, an animal sacred in Hinduism. At least 44 people, most of them Muslims, were killed by cow vigilantes between May 2015 and December 2018, according to Human Rights Watch. Many cow vigilante murders happen after rumors spread on WhatsApp, and videos of lynchings and beatings are often shared via the app too.

Read more: How the Pandemic is Reshaping India

TIME has learned that Facebook, in an effort to evaluate its role in spreading hate speech and incitements to violence, has commissioned an independent report on its impact on human rights in India. Work on the India audit, previously unreported, began before the Journal published its story. It is being conducted by the U.S. law firm Foley Hoag and will include interviews with senior Facebook staff and members of civil society in India, according to three people with knowledge of the matter and an email seen by TIME. (A similar report on Myanmar, released in 2018, detailed Facebook’s failings on hate speech that contributed to the Rohingya genocide there the previous year.) Facebook declined to confirm the report.

But activists, who have spent years monitoring and reporting hate speech by Hindu nationalists, tell TIME that they believe Facebook has been reluctant to police posts by members and supporters of the BJP because it doesn’t want to pick fights with the government that controls its largest market. The way the company is structured exacerbates the problem, analysts and former employees say, because the same people responsible for managing the relationship with the government also contribute to decisions on whether politicians should be punished for hate speech.

“A core problem at Facebook is that one policy org is responsible for both the rules of the platform and keeping governments happy,” Alex Stamos, Facebook’s former chief security officer, tweeted in May. “Local policy heads are generally pulled from the ruling political party and are rarely drawn from disadvantaged ethnic groups, religious creeds or castes. This naturally bends decision-making towards the powerful.”

Some activists have grown so frustrated with the Facebook India policy team that they’ve begun to bypass it entirely in reporting hate speech. Following the call when Thukral walked out, Avaaz decided to begin reporting hate speech directly to Facebook’s company headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. “We found Facebook India’s attitude utterly flippant, callous, uninterested,” says Zoyab, who has since left Avaaz. Another group that regularly reports hate speech against minorities on Facebook in India, which asked not to be named out of fear for the safety of its staffers, said it has been doing the same since 2018. In a statement, Facebook acknowledged some groups that regularly flag hate speech in India are in contact with Facebook headquarters, but said that did not change the criteria by which posts were judged to be against its rules.

Read more: Facebook Says It’s Removing More Hate Speech Than Ever Before. But There’s a Catch

The revelations in the Journal set off a political scandal in India, with opposition politicians calling for Facebook to be officially investigated for alleged favoritism toward Modi’s party. And the news caused strife within the company too: In an internal open letter, Facebook employees called on executives to denounce “anti-Muslim bigotry” and do more to ensure hate speech rules are applied consistently across the platform, Reuters reported. The letter alleges that there are no Muslim employees on the India policy team; in response to questions from TIME, Facebook said it was legally prohibited from collecting such data.

Facebook friends in high places

While it is common for companies to hire lobbyists with connections to political parties, activists say the history of staff on Facebook’s India policy team, as well as their incentive to keep the government happy, creates a conflict of interest when it comes to policing hate speech by politicians. Before joining Facebook, Thukral had worked in the past on behalf of the BJP. Despite this, he was involved in making decisions about how to deal with politicians’ posts that moderators flagged as violations of hate speech rules during the 2019 elections, the former employees tell TIME. His Facebook likes include a page called “I Support Narendra Modi.”

Former Facebook employees tell TIME they believe a key reason Thukral was hired in 2017 was because he was seen as close to the ruling party. In 2013, during the BJP’s eventually successful campaign to win national power at the 2014 elections, Thukral worked with senior party officials to help run a pro-BJP website and Facebook page. The site, called Mera Bharosa (“My Trust” in Hindi) also hosted events, including a project aimed at getting students to sign up to vote, according to interviews with people involved and documents seen by TIME. A student who volunteered for a Mera Bharosa project told TIME he had no idea it was an operation run in coordination with the BJP, and that he believed he was working for a non-partisan voter registration campaign. According to the documents, this was a calculated strategy to hide the true intent of the organization. By early 2014, the site changed its name to “Modi Bharosa” (meaning “Modi Trust”) and began sharing more overtly pro-BJP content. It is not clear whether Thukral was still working with the site at that time.

In a statement to TIME, Facebook acknowledged Thukral had worked on behalf of Mera Bharosa, but denied his past work presented a conflict of interest because multiple people are involved in significant decisions about removing content. “We are aware that some of our employees have supported various campaigns in the past both in India and elsewhere in the world,” Facebook said as part of a statement issued to TIME in response to a detailed series of questions. “Our understanding is that Shivnath’s volunteering at the time focused on the themes of governance within India and are not related to the content questions you have raised.”

Now, Thukral has an even bigger job. In March 2020, he was promoted from his job at Facebook to become WhatsApp’s India public policy director. In the role, New Delhi tech policy experts tell TIME, one of Thukral’s key responsibilities is managing the company’s relationship with the Modi government. It’s a crucial job, because Facebook is trying to turn the messaging app into a digital payments processor — a lucrative idea potentially worth billions of dollars.

In April, Facebook announced it would pay $5.7 billion for a 10% stake in Reliance Jio, India’s biggest telecoms company, which is owned by India’s richest man, Mukesh Ambani. On a call with investors in May, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg spoke enthusiastically about the business opportunity. “With so many people in India engaging through WhatsApp, we just think this is going to be a huge opportunity for us to provide a better commerce experience for people, to help small businesses and the economy there, and to build a really big business ourselves over time,” he said, talking about plans to link WhatsApp Pay with Jio’s vast network of small businesses across India. “That’s why I think it really makes sense for us to invest deeply in India.”

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But WhatsApp’s future as a payments application in India depends on final approval from the national payments regulator, which is still pending. Facebook’s hopes for expansion in India have been quashed by a national regulator before, in 2016, when the country’s telecoms watchdog said Free Basics, Facebook’s plan to provide free Internet access for only some sites, including its own, violated net neutrality rules. One of Thukral’s priorities in his new role is ensuring that a similar problem doesn’t strike down Facebook’s big ambitions for WhatsApp Pay.

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While the regulator is technically independent, analysts say that Facebook’s new relationship with the wealthiest man in India will likely make it much easier to gain approval for WhatsApp Pay. “It would be easier now for Facebook to get that approval, with Ambani on its side,” says Neil Shah, vice president of Counterpoint Research, an industry analysis firm. And goodwill from the government itself is important too, analysts say. “No foreign company in India wants to be in the government’s bad books,” says James Crabtree, author of The Billionaire Raj. “Facebook would very much like to have good relations with the government of India and is likely to think twice about doing things that will antagonize them.”

The Indian government has shown before it is not afraid to squash the dreams of foreign tech firms. In July, after a geopolitical spat with China, it banned dozens of Chinese apps including TikTok and WeChat. “There has been a creeping move toward a kind of digital protectionism in India,” Crabtree says. “So in the back of Facebook’s mind is the fact that the government could easily turn against foreign tech companies in general, and Facebook in particular, especially if they’re seen to be singling out major politicians.”

With hundreds of millions of users already in India, and hundreds of millions more who don’t have smartphones yet but might in the near future, Facebook has an incentive to avoid that possibility. “Facebook has said in the past that it has no business interest in allowing hate speech on its platform,” says Chinmayi Arun, a resident fellow at Yale Law School, who studies the regulation of tech platforms. “It’s evident from what’s going on in India that this is not entirely true.”

Facebook says it is working hard to combat hate speech. “We want to make it clear that we denounce hate in any form,” said Mohan, Facebook’s managing director in India, in his Aug. 21 blog post. “We have removed and will continue to remove content posted by public figures in India when it violates our Community Standards.”

But scrubbing hate speech remains a daunting challenge for Facebook. At an employee meeting in June, Zuckerberg highlighted Mishra’s February speech ahead of the Delhi riots, without naming him, as a clear example of a post that should be removed. The original video of Mishra’s speech was taken down shortly after it was uploaded. But another version of the video, with more than 5,600 views and a long list of supportive comments underneath, remained online for six months until TIME flagged it to Facebook in August.

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As Harry and Meghan Arrive, Canadians Wonder if They Should Dump the Queen

The celebrity couple abandons their royal duties and moves to Vancouver Island. For Canadians, that rekindles an old debate: Why is a British monarch still their head of state?

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s move to Canada has reopened a debate about the role of the British monarchy in Canadian affairs, Stéphanie Fillion writes.

By Stéphanie Fillion | March 05, 2020 | Foreign Policy

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are making Canada their home—but support for the monarchy is looking shaky.

When Justin Trudeau first met Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom after he took office as prime minister of Canada, she greeted him by saying, “Nice to see you again … but under different circumstances.” That’s because Trudeau had already met the British monarch as a one-year-old infant, when his father, Pierre Trudeau, also served as prime minister of Canada. For both men, the queen was no mere visiting dignitary, but their official head of state—to whom they had been required, by Canadian law, to swear an oath of loyalty.

“I, Justin P.J. Trudeau, do swear that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second, Queen of Canada, Her Heirs and Successors. So help me God,” the prime minister dutifully recited in November 2015 when he first took office, and again when he was reelected last year.

Canada, although it has been fully independent in all other ways since 1982, remains a constitutional monarchy with a British royal as the official head of state. When Elizabeth is not in her Canadian realm, her place in Canada’s political pecking order is taken by Julie Payette, the British governor general in Ottawa. Though the queen’s powers are mostly symbolic, her face is on Canada’s coins, Canadian citizens are officially subjects of the queen, and the loyalty oath to Elizabeth has to be sworn not just by prime ministers, but by every immigrant wanting to become a Canadian citizen.

The majority of Canadians don’t mind this state of affairs, a vestige of their pre-1982 history as a dominion of the British Empire. The royals are still popular, and Trudeau has kept a good relationship with them—not least because they offer great photo-ops.

So when Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, abdicated their royal roles and announced they’d live in Canada, they weren’t moving to an entirely foreign country, but one over which Prince Harry’s grandmother—technically, at least—still rules. Ironically, however, Prince Harry’s abandonment of his royal duties has rekindled an old debate over whether Canada, too, should liberate itself from genuflection before the British throne and finally become a republic.

The first wrinkle in Canadian-British royal relations was over who should pay for the duke and duchess of Sussex’s security detail. In the past, their frequent visits (Meghan lived in Toronto prior to their marriage) came at a substantial cost to the queen’s Canadian subjects. Now that the Sussexes are staying longer—they have rented a sprawling mansion on Vancouver Island—that bill looked set to rise to more than CA$10 million a year, about $7.5 million, which Canadians just didn’t want to pay. In January, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation launched a petition opposing public subsidies for the couple, quickly gathering 80,000 names. On Feb. 27, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, which had provided the couple’s security in the past, announced it would stop footing the bill in the coming weeks.

Quebec, the French-speaking province with a long history of separatism, has been a particular hotbed of republicanism. In October 2018, lawmakers for Québec Solidaire, a separatist, left-leaning party in the provincial legislature, refused to give the required oath to the queen in public, arguing that elected representatives genuflecting before a monarch was an undemocratic relic. Since they couldn’t legally take office as legislators if they refused the oath, the lawmakers decided to do it behind closed doors. “Ideally, we wouldn’t have had to swear an oath to the queen,” said Sol Zanetti, a member of the party in the National Assembly of Quebec. “But if we don’t, we cannot exercise our democratic mandate.”Lawmakers refused to give the oath in public, arguing that elected representatives genuflecting before a monarch was an undemocratic relic.

Québec Solidaire has now put forth a bill that would abolish the oath to the queen in the provincial legislature. Three permanent residents in the process of becoming citizens have also challenged the constitutionality of the oath as a requirement for naturalization. But Canada’s Supreme Court upheld the practice. “The oath is secular and is not an oath to the Queen in her personal capacity but to our form of government of which the Queen is a symbol,” the court decision read.

With its French heritage and unique brand of politics, Quebec does not completely reflect how the rest of the country feels. The queen is still relatively popular, and the majority of Canadians oppose abolishing the monarchy. But even at the national level, the anti-monarchists are pressing forward. Jagmeet Singh, the leader of the left-of-center New Democratic Party, which is currently the fourth-largest faction in the federal Parliament, has also called for abolishing the monarchy. “I’m a republican,” Singh said in a television interview in 2018. “It sounds a bit awkward saying that given the other connotation in the [United] States, but I believe that we should be a [republic]. I don’t see the relevance of [the monarchy], and I don’t think that most Canadians do.”

Singh’s push for a republic came after an even bigger controversy over the monarchy’s cost to Canadian taxpayers—in this case, the British governor general’s lavish expenses and pension. Figures from the past few years show taxpayers pay around 62 million Canadian dollars a year, close to $50 million, on the monarchy, mainly for the office of the governor general and the queen’s official representative in each province. Defenders of the monarchy point out that the total bill per capita is only around CA$1.68—the equivalent of about one cup of Canada’s beloved Tim Horton’s coffee a year.

Tom Freda, the national director of Citizens for a Canadian Republic, has campaigned against the monarchy for years, and he hopes the other provinces will soon reach Quebec’s level of discontent. The group wants Canada to replace the queen—and her representative, the governor general—with a president as the ceremonial head of state, similar to other parliamentary systems such as Germany’s. Canada would follow in the footsteps of other former British colonies that have abolished the monarchy and become parliamentary republics, including Mauritius in 1992 and Fiji in 1987. Australians voted in a 1999 referendum to retain the queen as their monarch.

But even if the debate over the monarchy has lately reignited, there seems to be little urgency to fix what most Canadians don’t feel is broken. “I feel like there’s a general consensus among politicians that abolishing [the monarchy] is an inevitability,” Freda said. “However, nobody is making it a priority.”Even if the debate over the monarchy has reignited, there seems to be little urgency to fix what most Canadians don’t feel is broken.

What’s more, even if Canadians agreed that the monarchy should be dropped, it would require a lengthy process of rewriting Canada’s constitution. The political will to tackle these onerous requirements seems to be missing, said Paul Heinbecker, a former diplomat and speechwriter in the premier’s office under Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. “Even in Quebec, people do not care enough to invest the political effort to disrupt the status quo,” Heinbecker said. “To drop the monarchy would require the unanimous consent of the House and Senate in Ottawa, and all 10 provincial assemblies. If dropping the monarchy could be done readily, it would likely have been done by now.”

Many politicians also fear that any broad debate over constitutional changes could take Canada down a slippery slope, forcing the government to also discuss power-sharing with Quebec and the indigenous First Nations, two everlasting political struggles in Canada.

For some, it’s now or never. As the 93-year-old queen will pass the throne to her son Prince Charles—or her grandson Prince William—in the foreseeable future, the transition offers an opportunity to make the break, Heinbecker argued. Canadians should therefore make haste and “dispense with the monarchy before we are locked in again for the reign of Charles,” Heinbecker said. Public opinion seems to bear him out: While the queen enjoys an 81 percent approval rating, 53 percent of Canadians say formal ties with the British monarchy should end with her reign, according to an Ipsos poll conducted in January.

In the end, Prince Harry and Meghan’s move to Canada might even have the effect of reconnecting Canadians with the monarchy. Because the Sussexes are perceived as a “relaxed, multicultural young couple,” said Rafe Heydel-Mankoo, a Canadian commentator on royal affairs, they are “able to connect with segments of society not traditionally known for their monarchist sympathies.”

Trudeau has also made it clear that he won’t press the issue. “There might come a time where a prime minister decides it’s a really important thing to crack open the constitution and rewrite it,” he said in 2018, “I don’t think I’m going to be that prime minister.” So if he is reelected the next time Canadians go to the polls, Trudeau will likely swear his oath to a foreign monarch yet again.

Stéphanie Fillion is a New York-based reporter specializing in politics and foreign affairs.

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Low key local militant recruitment on Kulgam, May 27: Jammu and Kashmir’s Director General of Police (DGP) Dilbagh Singh Thursday said that Covid pandemic has affected the anti-militancy operations in the UT to some extent as many policemen and security forces have tested positive for the virus while there is a huge deployment of policemen on roads to enforce lock-down. The UT police chief,…

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Over 350 people were detained in Delhi on Friday for trying to stage a demonstration outside the Uttar Pradesh Bhavan against alleged police excesses in the state during the turmoil over the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, or CAA, even as protests outside Jama Masjid after weekly prayers passed without any untoward incident amid a heavy deployment of security personnel.The day also saw demonstrations against the controversial legislation and the proposed National Register of Citizens (NRC) exercise at south Delhi’s Jor Bagh, Jamia Millia Islamia university and Kalindi Kunj in southeast Delhi and in northeast Delhi’s Seelampur. No detentions or clashes were reported at these protests, the police said.Keeping in mind the clashes that erupted in Delhi and in Uttar Pradesh after prayers last Friday, December 20, a dense security cover was clamped on sensitive areas to deter potential troublemakers. A large number of people took part in separate demonstrations against and in favour of CAA in Mumbai as well.The CAA has triggered a nationwide debate on whether the law violates the country’s secular nature by excluding a particular religious group from its ambit, as has the iron-fisted approach adopted by police in some areas, including Delhi, to quell protests. The law favours non-Muslim refugees from the Muslim-majority countries of Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan.At south Delhi’s Chanakyapuri, police on Friday foiled attempts by Jamia students to “gherao” UP Bhavan by detaining 357 protesters. The demonstrators were not able to assemble at the spot after they were detained from areas around Chanakyapuri and the varsity.The police had imposed prohibitory orders under Section 144 around UP Bhavan, where protests were also carried out on Thursday. Section 144 bars public assemblies of four or more people.Additional deputy commissioner of police (New Delhi) Deepak Yadav said, “The protest was being carried out in violation of Section 144, which was imposed in the area, and without prior permission by the police. The demonstrators were asked not to protest. However, when the protesters didn’t follow police directions, 357 protesters —282 male and 75 female — were detained.” Many among the detainees were students from Jamia, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), and Delhi University (DU) along with activists and residents. All detained protesters were released by evening.“Almost all the buses which left from Jamia Nagar were detained by the police. Individual protesters who came through other means of transport were also detained separately,” the Jamia Coordination Committee (JCC) said in a statement.At the iconic Jama Masjid, unlike last week, fewer people gathered after Friday prayers after a protest call was issued by former member of the Delhi Legislative Assembly and Congress leader Shoaib Iqbal. He was joined by Congress member Alka Lamba. The protesters dispersed from Jama Masjid around 2.45 pm.Heavy security was deployed around the mosque, particularly in light of the violence that took place in nearby Daryaganj after a similar protest turned violent last Friday.On December 20, a peaceful protest was held after noon prayers at Jama Masjid. Towards the evening, violence broke out at nearby Delhi Gate that left 46 injured. Bhim Army chief Chandra Shekhar Azad, who was present at the Jama Masjid protest, was later arrested after the police registered a case of rioting against him.Amid the heavy security arrangement and drone surveillance, 100 protesters, including Bhim Army members, started from Dargah Shah-e-Mardan in Jor Bagh and were stopped by police at a barricade en route to the PM’s residence on Lok Kalyan Marg. They were demanding the release of the Bhim Army chief and those arrested in Uttar Pradesh. Drones kept hovering over the protesters as they kept pleading with the police to allow them to march ahead. Entry and exit gates at Lok Kalyan Marg Metro station were closed for an hour in view of the protest.No untoward incident was reported at the march, police said.Rapid Action Force (RAF) personnel in Seelampur were seen with electric shock shields, a hi-tech anti-riot gear. The shield generates a 12-volt electric current and is used to temporarily immobilise violent protesters. Joint commissioner of police (eastern range) Alok Kumar said the new shields were not used against any protestors on Friday since no violence was reported.In Uttar Pradesh, where at least 21 people died during violent protests on December 20 and in the following days, a dense security cover was clamped on sensitive areas to deter potential troublemakers. “Entire UP was peaceful. There is no report of any untoward incident from anywhere in the state,” UP director general of police (DGP) OP Singh said.In Mumbai, students and social activists held a protest against the CAA and the NRC at the Azad Maidan, while a large number of people gathered for a pro-CAA rally at the historic August Kranti Maidan, where a massive anti-CAA demonstration was held last week. At Azad Maidan, protesters shouted slogans against the government with one of the protesters alleging that the act was aimed “not against just one community but against the whole country.” At the August Kranti Maidan rally, organised by the BJP’s Sanvidan Sanman Manch, supporters of CAA were seen carrying national flags along with placards with pro-CAA and NRC messages.More than two dozen people have died across the country, most in Uttar Pradesh, over the past two weeks in protests against the controversial law, which was passed by Parliament on December 11. The agitation against the law picked up pace after clashes broke out at a protest at Jamia earlier this month. The new law paves the path to naturalisation for “persecuted minorities” from the three Muslim-majority neighbouring countries who came to India before December 31, 2014.People in different parts of India are roiled over this law because it links citizenship with religion, which they argue is against the secular nature of the Indian Constitution; and because when connected with a proposed nationwide NRC, it paves the way for Hindus to remain as citizens while offering no such path to a Muslim who may be ruled as an illegal alien in the NRC process.(With agency inputs) Read the full article

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Shri Amarnathji Yatra-2019: Governor Reviews Security Arrangements at High Level Meeting

SRINAGAR: Governor Satya Pal Malik, Chairman, Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board, chaired a high level meeting at Raj Bhavan here today to review important security related matters with regard to the Shri Amarnathji Yatra which is scheduled to commence on 1st July 2019, from both the Baltal and Pahalgam routes. The meeting was attended by the Advisor (K) to Governor , Chief Secretary, Director General of Police, GOC XV Corps, GOC Victor Force, CEO of Shrine Board; Home Secretary; Heads of Central & State Intelligence Agencies; and senior most officers of Central Armed Police Forces, J&K Police & Air Force. Governor stressed the need for all concerned agencies to maintain a close watch and effective coordination to ensure the smooth conduct of the forthcoming Yatra. Detailed presentations were made by the Security Agencies regarding the obtaining and emerging security environment in the State, keeping in view the envisaged objectives of adversary external agencies. https://www.facebook.com/U4Uvoice/videos/326688964664824/ The meeting held extensive discussions with regard to preparedness for meeting any unforeseen situation arising in the Yatra area; deployment of ROP for safe movement of Yatris; Corridor security & Area domination especially beyond ROP hours; functioning of the Joint Control Rooms at every Yatra Camp; linking up Joint Control Rooms with the MET Department and the District Disaster Management Units; deployment of Mountain Rescue Teams (MRTs) of the State Police along with Rescue Teams of various Security Forces at identified locations on both the Yatra routes; deployment of well equipped Fire Fighting teams at pre-determined points; installation of X-Ray Baggage Scanning units at appropriate locations; Access Control Arrangements at Neelgrath, Panjtarni and Pahalgam helipads; Bar code enumeration points; telecommunication facilities along the Yatra routes etc. The meeting discussed the enforcement of an effective Access Control System at the Baltal and Nunwan Base Camps and at the Domel and Chandanwari Access Control Gates; effective traffic regulation from Lakhanpur Check Post onwards through augmentation of the existing strength of Traffic Police; Air Traffic Control arrangements for the heli-services from the Pahalgam and Baltal to Panjtarni; transit camps arrangements; installation of CCTVs at various Camps and at the Access Control Gates; etc. Governor directed DGP and the Divisional Administration to ensure rapid and unhindered movement of validly registered Yatris right from the time they enter into the State and travel to the Holy Cave, and to ensure against their facing any avoidable inconvenience. He emphasized that all agencies undertake a thorough review of all required arrangements for promptly dealing with any arising disaster situation and, for this purpose, evolve clear Standard Operating Procedures which would be strictly followed by all the stakeholders, including the District Administration and Security Forces. Governor also stressed that all security agencies should rectify the deficiencies, if any, observed during previous Yatras and provide fool proof security cover to yatris during their forward & return journey. Governor directed Director General of Police; Divisional Commissioners of Jammu & Kashmir Divisions; Inspector General of Police of Jammu & Kashmir Divisions to ensure wide publicity of the Advisories relating to safety & security of Yatris, including the cut-off timings through print and electronic media & particularly display these at Railway Station Jammu; Yatri Niwas Bhagwati Nagar Jammu; Lakhanpur Checkpost; the On- spot Registration Counters at Jammu & Srinagar and at Base Camps of Baltal,Nunwan and Panjtarni through Public Address System by the Information Department of respective District Administration. The meeting was attended by Shri K. Vijay Kumar, Advisor to Governor; Shri B.V.R. Subrahmanyam, Chief Secretary, J&K; Lt. Gen. K.J.S. Dhillon, GOC, Hqrs. 15 Corps; Shri Dilbag Singh, Director General of Police, J&K; Shri V.S.K.Kaumudi, Additional DG, CRPF, J&K Zone; Shri Umang Narula, Chief Executive Officer, SASB; Maj. Gen. J. P. Mathew, GOC, Hqrs, Victor Force; Shri Zulfiquar Hasan, IG, CRPF (Ops), Kashmir; Shri Shaleen Kabra, Principal Secretary, Home Department, J&K; Shri Abhinav Kumar, IPS, IG, BSF, Kashmir; Shri Muneer Ahmad Khan, Additional Director General of Police, Security & LO, J&K; Shri Baseer Ahmed Khan, Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir; Shri S.P Pani, IPS, Inspector General of Police, Kashmir; Shri Ravi Deep Singh Sahi, IG, CRPF, Srinagar Sector; Shri A.V. Chauhan, IG, CRPF Jammu; Air Commodore V.S. Mahida, Air Officer Commanding, Air Force Station, Srinagar; Shri Anup Kumar Soni, Additional Chief Executive Officer, SASB. Read the full article

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