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Mexican first lady sparks uproar on Twitter

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Preetika Parashuraman
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Mexican first lady Beatriz Gutierrez was the center of tension on social media regarding her response to a tweet about children diagnosed with cancer.

She published a post on Twitter celebrating the second anniversary of her husband, Andres Manuel Lobez Obrador elected as the President of Mexico. In response to her tweet, she was questioned about what she was doing to help parents of children with cancer. She responded by saying, “I am not a doctor, maybe you are. On you go, you help them.” Her tweet stands deleted.

People were quick to criticize her action by calling it “insensitive.” They even trended the hashtag #LaBrujaDelPalacio which translates to ‘The Witch of the Palace.’ However, she had her supporters on her side who wanted people to respect her in this situation.

She later posted an apology – “If my expression ‘I’m not a doctor’ offended anyone, I apologize. I just want to express that I am deeply human and I wish the best for everyone,” she wrote. Besides, it seemed that she was pointing fingers at the President’s opponents when she added, “My husband’s adversaries are very inquisitive.”

Earlier this year, the President was criticized for a shortage of medicines to treat children with cancer. It had a detrimental effect on his popular image. The President’s office refrained from commenting on the row that diverted attention from his anniversary celebration.

 

Source: Reuters

PM’s appeal of ‘Vocal for Local’ inspires people for local products

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The Commune
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The apps developed and launched by Indian IT professionals are gaining popularity among the people. This has come after the growing trend to boycott Chinese products and the banning of 59 Chinese apps by the government.

AIR correspondent reported that inspired by P.M. Narendra Modi’s appeal to go ‘Vocal for Local’, more people are now preferring local products. They have also started opting for the apps developed by Indian IT professionals over the Chinese apps.

In this, recent development is Chingari app. This app is very similar to Tik Tok and developed by IT professionals from Chattisgarh and two other youths from Orissa and Karnataka. The government on Monday has banned 59 apps including Tik Tok.

According to the Chief of Product of Chingari app Sumit Ghosh, the app is continuously gaining popularity, and around 30 lakh people have already installed it. He welcomed the decision of the government to ban Chinese apps. As sentiments for Atma-Nirbhar Bharat are at a peak in the country. Other ‘Desi’ apps are also gaining popularity and receiving an overwhelming response from the Indian users.

Google photos to no longer auto-backup media files

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The Commune
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Tech giant Google said that it will no longer backup media from chat apps like WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitter to Google Photos.

According to Mashable, Google tested this change earlier this month and has now rolled it out. The company is only changing default settings in Google Photos to ensure that it does not backup media content from messaging apps.

Earlier Google Photos would backup all photos and videos saved on your smartphone by default. It included the pictures shot from your device’s camera as well as ones saved from the internet. The user had to manually turn off the automatic save mode. However, the new move is a temporary one by Google. In its announcement, it notes that since people are sharing more photos and videos, it is changing the default Google Photos settings “to save internet sources.”

In Google Photos app the notification about this change will also pop up. The full list of apps was not announced by Google but the confirmed apps include WhatsApp, Messenger, Kik, Snapchat, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and LINE.

An important thing is, users, existing chat media that is already backed up to Google Photos will remain unaffected. You can also manually change the setting if you wish to backup media files in Google Photos. This will be exactly opposite to what it was earlier.

Aarogya Utsav replaces Ganeshotsav at Lalbaug

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Preetika Parashuraman
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Mumbai’s famous Ganesha idol at Lalbaug will not be celebrated for the first time in over 85 years, as the Lalbaugcha Raja Ganeshotsav Sarvajanik Mandal has decided not to conduct any celebrations amid the COVID-19 pandemic. 

The Mandal has decided to set up a blood and plasma donation camp throughout the 11 days of the festival to encourage people to donate blood and plasma for those who are fighting against COVID-19. 

“Considering the COVID-19 pandemic, the  Lalbaugcha Raja Ganeshotsav Sarvajanik Mandal would not be celebrating the 2020 Ganesha festival. We would instead be celebrating it as Aarogya Utsav,” said the Mandal. 

They will donate the amount from the donation camp to the Chief Minister’s Relief fund instead of grandly celebrating the festival to prevent the spread of COVID-19. They will also felicitate the families of the martyrs who lost their lives at Line Of Control (LOC) and Line of Actual Control (LAC). 

Lalbaugcha Raja (The King of Lalbaug) is the legendary idol Lord Ganesha kept for public display during the auspicious festival of Ganesh Chaturthi. Over a million people visit the renowned Mandal at Lalbaug, Mumbai during the festival. The unveiling of the idol takes place magnificently as a significant number of people line up to receive blessings and catch a glimpse of this larger than life idol. 

Source: ANI

TN Govt takes measures to directly transfer money in children’s accounts for mid-day meals

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The Commune
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As schools remain closed across the state due to the lockdown, the Tamil Nadu government has been taking steps to ensure that children’s mid-day meals entitlements are not affected. The Department of Education has started collecting bank account details to transfer the money directly required for mid-day meals.

Schools in Tamil Nadu have remained closed from March 17. As a result of this, disadvantaged children who go to government schools found it difficult to get nutritious food which they were getting as part of mid-day meals.

After consulting domain experts to resolve the problem, the Tamil Nadu government has come with a plan to ensure that no children go hungry. Accordingly, the government has given orders to transfer money for equivalent to amount required for mid-day meals right from the date of closure till date to the education department.

For this purpose, the Government of Tamil Nadu has instructed all District Education Officers to collect the names, age, address and bank account numbers of the students who are part of the mid-day meals programme in Government Schools and Government Aided Schools.

Tamil Nadu is the first state to come out with such a measure and could be a role model for other states to follow suit.

Pastors in AP grab lands of Dalits to build Church, LRPF comes to the rescue

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The Commune
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In Dorasanipalli village of Proddatur block in Kadapa district, families of Budaga Jangala community, have been threatened and forcefully evicted from their homes by Church pastors to build a Church.

These families have been living on a Poromboke land in make-shift tents, for more than 15 years. Now, the land is being claimed by 2 pastors who are also getting a Church constructed nearby.

The Budaga Jangala community comes under the Scheduled Caste category. Members of this community earn their livelihood by weaving mats, selling itinerant items, fortune-telling and even alms seeking. They go to the nearby villages and town and return to their homes by evening.

The two pastors – Ashok and Krupakar – reportedly started the Church construction illegally and stealthily when the community members were not at their homes. When they were confronted later by some of them, the two pastors hurled abuses at them and got them evicted using force. In the video shared by Legal Rights Protection Forum (LRPF), a woman and a man can be seen resisting attempts by the pastors and to get them evicted.

Along with the pastors, revenue officials and police officers can also be seen. It was reported that some of the protestors who took on the pastors were taken to the police station.

LRPF had written to the Chairman of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes Dr Ramshankar Katheriya and the Collector of Kadapa to take strict action against the pastors and those involved. They had met the Collector on July 1 to seek proper accommodation for the marginalized community.  The Church construction has now been halted and revenue authorities have initiated a land survey.

Sydney becomes 100% renewable

By
Preetika Parashuraman
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Source: www.sydneyrenewable.com

Clover Moore, Sydney Lord Mayor announced that the city of Sydney is completely powered by renewable energy on July 1, 2020, calling it an “exciting day.” In 2019, the city negotiated with Flow power, a $60 million, 10-year contract to provide 100% renewable electricity for the city’s operation. 

This will include 115 buildings such as libraries, community halls, office buildings, parks, pools, and 23,000 street lights.

The city is expected to save half a million dollars every year, over a period of ten years for ratepayers, and reduce their emissions by 20,000 tonnes a year. 

The renewable energy is said to come from a wind farm in Glen Innes and solar farms in Shoalhaven and Wagga Wagga. This step is a testament to addressing climate change and reducing emissions. In addition, it will also provide jobs in New South Wales contributing to a transitional phase to renewable energy. 

In order to support new projects, they partnered with a community energy group that required help with a project. With the help of their investment,  Repower Shoalhaven became operational. The aim was to not only buy renewable energy but to aid in growing the renewable energy sector.

“We have shown that the emissions-reducing renewable-use at scale is not only possible, it is also good for the growth of jobs and the city’s finances,”she says. She also hopes that other governments watch and follow. 

 

Source: The City of Sydney

 

Father of Swayamsevak murdered in cold blood in Kumbakonam

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The Commune
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Gopalan (68), father of Vasudevan, an RSS worker and in-charge of Madavilagam area of Nachiyar Koil, was brutally murdered in cold blood on Tuesday (June 30) outside his residence late in the evening at around 9 PM.

Gopalan was a retired teacher and was serving as a manager in the Uttaradhi Mutt overseeing the properties held by the Mutt in Nachiyar Koil and Kumbakonam areas.

In one of the properties, Saravanan, a BJP man was running his tailor shop. For quite some time, Gopalan had urged Saravanan to vacate his shop as it encroached the Mutt’s property. He said that a settlement of 2 lakhs would be done to vacate his shop. However, Saravanan refused to arrive at a settlement. Later, Gopalan had filed a case at the court which gave the order in his favour (Mutt’s favour) and asked Saravanan to vacate from the Mutt’s property.

Saravanan had reportedly asked for the 2 lakhs that was earlier offered which Gopalan had refused saying that he was ready to settle before going to court but now it can’t be done.

This had angered Saravanan. On the night of June 30, when Gopalan was outside his house, Saravanan hacked the former to death and fled the spot. Neighbour had taken Gopalan to the hospital and was declared dead.

Saravanan was caught by the police within an hour.

Source: Vikatan

Father who raped his own daughter by giving sleeping pills arrested

By
The Commune
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A 19 year old girl was raped by her own father by making her have sleeping pills in the name of treating her with cough and fever tablets.

The girl had come to her father’s place where he lived with his second wife and daughter. The first wife reportedly lives separate.

The girl is said to have developed symptoms of cold and fever. Her father brought instead of treating her gave her sleeping tablets. After having the tablets she fell unconscious and her father sexually assaulted her. When she knew that she was being sexually assaulted by her father she tried to complain about it to her stepmother.

As it fell on the deaf ears of the stepmother, she became depressed and drank bathroom chemicals. Later she went to the nearby police station to complain about it.

A complaint was registered with the Bellandur police and the father was arrested immediately under POCSO.

Tiktok caught red-handed for spying on iPhone users in India and abroad

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The Commune
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iPhone users recently found  that TikTok was recording what they were typing on their phones, ranging from non-sensitive information to passwords and even sensitive emails, from TikTok accounts in India and around the world.

The whole issue revolves around iOS’ clipboard function which lets a user copy text/ image and pastes it on another app. The clipboard can also be used to copy-paste text and images from one Apple device to another Apple device, like from an iPhone to an iPad or Mac computer.

Apple software designed is in such a way that, any app was able to record all text and images that were copy-pasted via the clipboard function. There would be no warning or notice to the user that a particular app is recording information the user was copying via the clipboard function.

TikTok on an iPhone can read anything and everything one copies on another device like passwords, financial information, work documents, sensitive emails, etc.

Now, Apple has released a beta version of the upcoming iOS 14 software. The beta version alerts a user whenever an app copies what the user has pasted on the clipboard.

In April TikTok claimed that it would stop the ‘invasive practice’, but users testing Apple’s upcoming iOS 14 have caught it copying from clipboard functions.

Source: Business Today

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