ही बातमी समजली का - भाग १५६

This Is How Sexism Works in Silicon Valley My lawsuit failed. Others won’t. _____ Ellen Pao
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Trump, Af-Pak, India

पण मोदींनी हे मिळवण्यासाठी काय "दिधले" हे जाणून घेणे महत्वाचे आहे.
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(पण गब्बर, मोदींनी नेमके काय मिळवले ??? व ते जे मिळवले ते मोदींनि मिळवले कशावरून ?? )
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http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/live-sc-to-pronounce-verdict-on-t…

ट्रिपल तलाक सहा महिन्याकरिता, जोवर संसद कायदा बनवित नाही तोवर अवैध..
योग्य निर्णय, हे संसदेतच व्हायला हवे. आता, जबाबदारी सरकारची, त्यांनी जेंडर न्युट्रल कायदा बनवावा.

The Rajasthan government is set to create a record of sorts next Tuesday, August 29, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi rolls out more than 9,500 road projects, including national highways, state roads and rural roads under PMGSY and the state's flagship programmes. These will altogether cost over Rs 27,000 crore.

अरे फोकळीच्यांनो ... किमान पटतील अशा तरी थापा मारा, लेको. ९,५०० प्रकल्प ??????.... ते........ सुद्धा एका राज्यात
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Imran Khan to US: Never again will we fight your wars for you

हॅहॅहॅ. नीतीवान, चरित्रवान पाकिस्तान ने केवढा मोठ्ठा त्याग केला !!!!

We fought 2 wars in Afghanistan at the US behest paying heavy human and economic costs both times. We sacrificed 70000 Pak lives in US WOT

Our economy suffered over $100 billion in losses. In addition, there were intangible costs on our society. Time for Pak to say: Never again

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राजकारणातले मवाळ लोक नेमके कोण व कसे असतात त्याबद्दल - What Moderates Believe

Moderate ला मवाळ म्हणतात असे गृहित धरून.

Partisanship is necessary but blinding. Partisan debate sharpens opinion, but partisans tend to justify their own sins by pointing to the other side’s sins. Moderates are problematic members of their party. They tend to be hard on their peers and sympathetic to their foes.

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Raghuram Rajan pens book on RBI stint in 'turbulent times'
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Titled "I Do What I Do", the book is published by HarperCollins India.
The book will hit stores on September 4.

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/privacy-is-a-fundamental-right-un…

आधार का क्या होगा???

Is Pakistan losing friends in Gulf due to terror taint?

Kuwait, another GCC favourite, has placed visa restrictions on Pakistanis since 2011. While they don't call it a visa ban, Pakistanis have to go through much stricter scrutiny than other countries' citizens. Former Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif personally intervened in March 2017 with the Kuwaiti leadership, but despite promises of review, Pakistanis continue to stay on the restricted list.

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Noting that technological development had enabled social networking sites and online service providers to invade privacy of the users by collecting and processing their data, the Supreme Court on Thursday said non-state actors needed to be regulated to protect the rights of citizens in the digital age. They should not be allowed to exercise control over people like "big brother", the apex court said.

Facebook knows our friends, Uber knows where we go, says SC bench

अगदी.

सरकारकडे पण या कंपन्यांबद्दलची प्रायव्हेट माहीती असू शकते व सरकार सुद्धा या कंपन्यांशी "बिग ब्रदर" स्टाईल वागू शकते. व म्हणुन या कंपन्यांकडे सरकारला रेग्युलेट करण्याची अथॉरीटि असायला हवी. उद्योगपतींना हवं तेव्हा त्यांना सरकारची हवा टाईट करता यायला हवी.
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If Govt should have authority to regulate market then market should have authority to tightly control Govt.
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Right to privacy verdict: A fundamental shift on gay rights
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The court said the rights of LGBT persons were not a charity. "Their rights are not 'so called' but are real rights founded on sound constitutional doctrine. They inhere in the right to life. They dwell in privacy and dignity. They constitute the essence of liberty and freedom. Sexual orientation is an essential component of identity," the judgment said while criticising the 2014 order's use of the term "so-called" in the context of gay rights.

सर्वोच्च न्यायालयाने जोरदार निर्णय दिला आहे. झक्कास.

पण तांबड्या रंगात रंगवलेला भाग हा न पटणारा वाटतो.
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आजच्या इंडियन एक्सप्रेसमध्ये काही चांगले लेख आले आहेत. सर्वोच्च न्यायालयाच्या निर्णयामुळे नक्की काय काय झालं आहे / होऊ शकेल हे समजून घेणं त्याद्वारे शक्य होईल -
Fundamental rights redefined - Alok Prasanna Kumar

यात लैंगिकता आणि खाण्याबद्दलच्या सवयींचा उल्लेख आहे आणि त्याबद्दल उदारमतवादी धोरणं राबवणं शक्य होईल असं म्हटलं आहे. उलट आधारवर नक्की काय परिणाम होणार ते समजत नाही असं म्हटलं आहे.

A Brake On Government - Indira Jaising
डेटा प्रोटेक्शन आणि आणिबाणीसारख्या अनेक गोष्टींवर या निर्णयाचा परिणाम होईल असं इंदिरा जयसिंग म्हणतात.

A right for the future - ARVIND P. DATAR
परवानगीशिवाय घरात घुसून झडती घेण्यासारखे किंवा फोन टॅप करण्यासारखे प्रकार पोलीस किंवा इतर यंत्रणा करू शकणार नाहीत असं दातार म्हणतात.

आयकॅन आजोबांनी ट्रम्प ॲडमिनिस्ट्रेशनातून आपले उखळ अधिक पांढरे करुन, त्यापुढे डाळ शिजत नाही असं दिसल्यावर यथावकाश काढता पाय घेतला; त्यामागची ही पार्श्वभूमी:
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/08/28/carl-icahns-failed-raid-on…

In the months after the election, the stock price of CVR, Icahn’s refiner, nearly doubled—a surge that is difficult to explain without acknowledging the appointment of the company’s lead shareholder to a White House position. The rally meant a personal benefit for Icahn, at least on paper, of half a billion dollars. There was an expectation in the market—an expectation created, in part, by Icahn’s own remarks—that, with Trump in the White House and Icahn playing consigliere, the rules were about to change, and not just at the E.P.A. Icahn’s empire ranges across many economic sectors, from energy to pharmaceuticals to auto supplies to mining, and all of them are governed by the types of regulations about which he would now potentially be advising Trump.

काढता पाय अशासाठी की (आयोवा रिपब्लिकन्स + बिग ऑईल + कॉर्न ग्रोअर्स/इथेनॉल) लॉबी आयकॅनला भारी पडली -

Senator Chuck Grassley not only represents corn growers; he also chairs the Judiciary Committee, which helps confirm Trump’s appointments of judges. This is the reason that traditional policy negotiations are so overcrowded. Washington is a city of vying constituencies, many of which happen to be very powerful. Coleman believes that “someone probably walked into Trump’s office and said, ‘Here’s why you need Chuck Grassley more than you need Carl Icahn.’

अधिक

These assurances notwithstanding, Icahn could be in legal jeopardy. “He’s walking right into possible criminal charges,” Richard Painter, the Bush Administration ethics lawyer, said. He cited a federal statute that makes it illegal for executive-branch employees to work on any matter in which they may have a direct financial interest.

शिवाय वर हा नेहमीचा खोटारडेपणा, बनवाबनवी इत्यादी:

On August 14th, I asked the White House to confirm that Icahn was still a special adviser to the President. The spokeswoman e-mailed me back: “Icahn is NOT ‘a special adviser to the president for regulatory reform.’ ” This was certainly news. In my conversations with Icahn and his lawyer, I had not developed any impression that his status had changed. Was the Administration cutting him loose?
I wrote back to the spokeswoman, asking when Icahn had been let go. She replied, “There was no ‘effective’ end date, because there was never a formal appointment or title after January 20.” This was transparently false; Icahn had been named a special adviser to “the President,” not to “the President-elect.” On March 1st, Icahn’s company told the S.E.C. that he was “currently” a Trump adviser. And why had the White House lawyer, Stefan Passantino, recused himself on January 20th from “any matters related to Carl Icahn” if, as of that very day, Icahn had no role in the Administration?

Instead of simply breaking off a questionable liaison, the White House seems intent on going further, insisting that the liaison never happened in the first place. But, in the event that state or federal investigators do examine the legality of Icahn’s role in the early days of the Trump Administration, this heedless revisionism is unlikely to withstand scrutiny. After all, if Icahn had really been dismissed on the first day of the Administration, it might have behooved the White House to tell Bob Dinneen, or the senators who wrote all those letters. Or Icahn.

On Friday, August 18th, four days after the White House disavowed Icahn to me, he tweeted, “Today, with President Trump’s blessing, I ceased to act as special advisor to the President on issues relating to regulatory reform.”

मोबाईलचं प्रसिद्ध ब्राऊजर ही संशयाच्या कचाट्यात
Alibaba’s UC Web Browser may face ban in India over data theft

DRI authority strikes down proceedings against Adani Group firms
Adani firm moves Singapore court in attempt to block information to DRI

नोटाबंदीविषयी अजूनही कुणाच्या मनात काही चांगलं असलं तर रिझर्व्ह बँकेकडून आलेली माहिती पाहा -
Small is definitely not beautiful, especially after demonetisation

५०० कोटीच्या खाली वार्षिक विक्री असलेल्या (लिस्टेड) कंपन्या धुपल्या आहेत असं हे म्हणताहेत.

चीनमध्ये युजरनेम बाद
China implements
real identity procedure to comment online

भ्रष्टाचार होण्यास कोणत्याही राज्यपद्धतीत वाव असतोच. शिवाय एकहाती सत्ता आडमार्गानेही कोणाला मिळवता येते. आधार किंवा इतर नियम कॅाम्युनिझम असते तर एका झटक्यात अवतरले असते.

नवीन पुस्तक प्रकाशित झालेले आहे -

Where India Goes: Abandoned Toilets, Stunted Development and the Costs of Caste

More than half the people who defecate in the open live in India. Around the world, people live longer, better lives than in centuries past, in part because of the rapid adoption of latrines and toilets that keep faecal germs away from growing children. India is an exception. Compared to the rest of the world, latrine and toilet adoption in India has been very slow and open defecation remains far too common. This is one reason why infants in India are more likely to die than in neighbouring poorer countries like Bangladesh and Nepal, and are more likely to be stunted than children in sub-Saharan Africa. Where India Goes demonstrates that open defecation in India is not the result of poverty but a direct consequence of the caste system, untouchability and ritual purity. Coffey and Spears tell an unsanitized story of an unsanitary subject, with characters spanning the worlds of rural development policy: from mothers and babies living in villages to local government implementers, senior government policymakers and international development professionals. They write of increased funding and ever more unused latrines. This important and timely book calls again for the annihilation of caste and for a fundamental shift in policy perspectives to effect a crucial, much overdue change.

जालावर लिहिताना, वाचताना बरेचदा (मला) दिसतं की एखाद्या समाजावर टीका केली की त्या समाजाचा भाग समजणारे लोक ती टीका स्वतःवर ओढवून घेतात. 'ब्राह्मणी पुस्तक - शामची आई - बालसाहित्य म्हणून नको', असं म्हटलं की ब्राह्मणांनी ती टीका स्वतःवर, व्यक्तिगतरीत्या ओढवून घेणं, किंवा पुरुषप्रधान संस्कृतीला नावं ठेवली की समस्त पुरुषांनाच आरोपीच्या पिंजऱ्यात उभं केलं आहे असं वाटून घेणं, किंवा ऐसीवर घडलेलं उदाहरण (दुवा) म्हणजे, विनोदानं 'य-गुणसूत्र नष्टच झालं असतं, पण क्ष गुणसूत्रानं वाचवलं हो', असं म्हटल्यावर त्यावरून भावना दुखावून घेणं, अशा छापाची उदाहरणं आपण सगळ्यांनी आजूबाजूला बघितली असतील.

अशा प्रकारचे सांख्यिकी निष्कर्ष, सोयीचे वा गैरसोयीचे कसेही असतील तरीही, व्यक्तिगतरीत्या कोणीही, कोणावरही ओढवून घेऊ वा ढकलू नयेत. एरवी कामाच्या ठिकाणी वस्तुनिष्ठता दाखवणाऱ्या संशोधकांनाही लिंग-असमानतेबाबत अशी वस्तुनिष्ठता दाखवता येत नाही; विज्ञान-तंत्रज्ञान-गणित या क्षेत्रांमध्ये स्त्रिया पुरुषांपेक्षा पिछाडीवर आहेत, त्याची कारणं सांस्कृतिक आणि परिस्थितीजन्य असून मुळात स्त्रियाही पुरुषांएवढ्याच सर्वसामान्य किंवा असामान्य असतात, असं मत सप्रमाण^१ मांडणारा हा लेख:
Why Men Don’t Believe the Data on Gender Bias in Science

१. कार्पे दियमवरचं एकचएक चित्र फिरवून फिरवून वापरणं, किंवा आगापिछा न देता कसलेतरी आलेख म्हणजे प्रमाण नव्हे.

किचिनमधली यंत्र डिजाइन करण्यात स्त्रीएंजिनिअरांचा पुढाकार असायला हवा.

The internal squabbles within the Pakistani diplomatic establishment over India got exposed on Tuesday when an official letter sent by Islamabad's former high commissioner in New Delhi, Abdul Basit, surfaced online, describing Pakistan's ambassador to the US, Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry, as "the worst foreign secretary ever".
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Lockheed is offering to make India the sole F-16 production centre.
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The US defence giant and Sweden's Saab are in a two horse-race to equip the Indian military with at least 100 single-engine jets that have to be produced locally under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 'Make-in-India' plan. Randall L Howard, who leads F-16 business development, said Lockheed is offering to make India the sole F-16 production centre, so eventually it will make the planes not just for India, but also for other countries. Lockheed is closing its F-16 production line at Forth Worth, Texas+ and will supply new orders from a new facility at Greenville, South Carolina. But the plan was to eventually build the planes in India, Howard told Reuters. "Our next customer, which we believe to be very soon ... we will produce those aircraft out of that (Greenville) facility," he said. "As you look beyond that, the opportunity for India is to then move all of that into India and that's what's being proposed ... to have a single production line in India that would service the new production requirements of global demand, the global market."

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Citizens slam authorities for hailing the oft-repeated 'Spirit of Mumbai' to hide their incompetence

थँक गॉड ... कमीतकमी काही लोक तरी ह्या स्पिरिट ऑफ़ मुंबई च्या बकवासाविरुद्ध बोलत आहेत.

आता लगेच "मुंबई महाराष्ट्रापासून वेगळी होऊन देणार नाही... १०६ हुताम्यांचे बलिदान".... चा आरडाओरडा करणारे मेणबत्तीवाल्यांच्या नावाने शंख करायला सुरुवात करतील. आणि मुख्य म्हंजे --- "महानगरातल्या गरिबांची परवड, मुंबईतल्या झोपडपट्टीतल्या लोकांचे हाल, वंचितांना तातडीची मदत वगैरेंकडे लक्ष द्या .... मेणबत्तीवाल्यांचं जास्त ऐकू नका .... त्यांच्यामुळेच ही समस्या निर्माण झाल्ये" चा बकवास सुरु होईल.

पंधरा वर्षात सी बी आय ला हे शोधता नाही आलं?

http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/gurmeet-ram-rahim-men-sacrifice-live…