📣 OUT NOW: Net Earth Episode 3 🌏 How is Climate Change linked to your Chapatis?
🌎 ANNOUNCEMENT: The latest episode of Net Earth, our series dedicated to covering the climate crisis, is out!
🌎 ANNOUNCEMENT: The latest episode of Net Earth, our series dedicated to covering the climate crisis, is out!
📣 WHAT: The second episode of Net Earth is playing on our Youtube channel. We got the introductions out of the way in the first episode.
What happened: Nupur Sharma made hateful remarks about Prophet Muhammad during a Times Now debate on the Gyanvapi mosque controversy last week.
📌 CONTEXT: Hollywood actor Johnny Depp sued his ex-wife Amber Heard for defaming him when she called herself “a public figure representing domestic abuse” in a Washington Post opinion piece. She countersued him for publicly calling her accusations a “hoax”.
📣 WHAT: Our new series, Net Earth will put climate change front and centre, where it belongs.
🇱🇰 WHAT: Sri Lanka has been going through its worst economic crisis for weeks now, with dwindling foreign reserves leading to a shortage of all essentials on the import-dependent island nation.
🥵 WHAT: As if it wasn’t hot enough, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted heat wave conditions for at least the next five days, with large parts of the country reporting temperatures around 45 degrees Celsius.
🇷🇺 WHAT: Russia has accused NATO, specially the US, of fighting a proxy war by supplying military aid to Ukraine.
❗️WHAT: The World Health Organisation (WHO) is investigating the mysterious rise in severe cases of hepatitis in children around the world. Cause still unknown, the disease has infected at least 190 children across twelve countries, including the US, UK and Spain.
🌴 WHAT: Indonesia, the world’s biggest palm oil producer is shutting down all exports from April 28.🧭 WHY: Indonesia is facing domestic shortages and soaring prices. By banning exports, it wants to prioritise the needs of its people first. ☎️ IMPACT: Palm oil is ubiquitous; it’s used in everything, from from cooking oils to processed foods, cosmetics, detergents and biofuels. 🇮🇳 India is the largest importer of Indonesian palm oil—importing four million tons a month. This ban will lead to surges in rates of edible oil and food prices, in general. 🇺🇦 Russia, the world’s largest exporter of crude oil, continues to bombard and attack Ukraine, the world’s largest exporter of sunflower oil, leading to an oil crisis, across the board.
🍾 WHAT: UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has concluded his two-day trip to India today, having signed commercial deals worth over £1 billion in areas from software engineering to health.
❗️WHAT: On Wednesday, North Delhi Municipal Corporation razed several shops and structures in Jahangirpuri claiming that they were illegal encroachments, and without giving any notice to owners who were mostly Muslim. The drive began four days after communal violence in the area.
😷 WHAT: As Covid-19 cases continue rising in India after weeks of steady decline, UP, Haryana and Delhi have reimposed mandatory mask mandates in certain areas.
🇷🇺 WHAT: After weeks of retreating and regrouping, Russian forces have launched an all-out offensive against Ukraine in what Kremlin has declared as “another phase of this operation.”
➡️ WHAT: The Supreme Court has set aside the Allahabad High Court order granting bail to prime accused in the Lakhimpur Kheri violence, Ashish Mishra, son of Union minister Ajay Mishra.
Russia has been waging war on Ukraine for 50 days today, and shows no signs of stopping. If anything, things are getting worse.
📌 WHAT: The Delhi Police, in an affidavit has told the Supreme Court, that no anti-Muslim hate speech was made by Suresh Chavhanke, the editor-in-chief of Sudarshan News at a religious conclave organised in Delhi in December by the Hindu Yuva Vahini.
❗️CONTEXT: On April 4, a 14-year-old was allegedly gang-raped at a birthday party organised by Braja Gopal Goala, the son of local Trinamool Congress leader Samar Goala, in West Bengal's Nadia district. The girl died due to excessive bleeding the next day.
Who said what at the virtual meet between POTUS Biden and PM Modi, and the 2+2 talks between Indian Defence Minister and External Affairs Minister and their US counterparts?
🇵🇰 CONTEXT: Imran Khan was ousted from the office of Pakistan’s PM after he lost a no-confidence vote in parliament on April 10.⭐️ NOW: The joint Opposition of socialist, liberal and radical parties named 70-year-old Shahbaz Sharif for the post—and he was elected as the new PM today.