Newsense: Recent Episodes
Roopika Lakshmipathy
Lately, news and the way we consume it has drastically changed. While the avenues for consumption have increased, so have the overtones on issues. Sometimes they are driven by ideology, sometimes by business. Claiming no objectivity, this is a little experiment to present news without stripping it of its context.
Digital Divide in India more prominently visible due to the pandemic, EU's requisite for a green pass to travel within EU has irked many countries, 'Eye of fire' in the middle of Gulf of Mexico, Ukraine's female troops marching in heels.
Issues on why governments seek regulation of Big tech companies; Heat waves in Western Canada- what is a heat dome; Singapore plans to treate covid as an endemic disease
Fake vaccination jabs conducted in Kolkata; Controversies over inter-faith marriages in Kashmir between Sikhs and Muslims; Dowry-suicides in Kerala seen with data on evolution of dowry payments; Jacobabad in Pakistan touches 52 degree celsius.
Drone attacks carried out on J&K airbase; Chinese Communist Party (CCP) celebrates its 100th anniversary- a brief history
Plans to raise mangroves in Odisha as a barrier for cyclones; Meghalaya HC holds that forcible vaccinations violate fundamental right to livelihood; Japan has proposed a 4-day working week for better work-life balance; Centre-J&K meet in the backdrop of Kashmir's history and Art.370.
Delta plus variant has been marked a variant of concern by GoI and WHO; Hong Kong government cracks down on a pro-democracy newspaper; What is Peter Pan Syndrome?
Central government plans to meet representatives from J&K parties on June 24; Massive increase in petrol and diesel prices across the country; Ramgarh Wildlife Sanctuary in Rajasthan has been notified as a Tiger Reserve- this will the fourth TR in the state.
Andhra Pradesh has necessitated all degree colleges to adopt English as a medium of instruction; Revisionary powers of certification vested in Centre according to Cinematograph amendment bill; How do states deal with Islamic State returnees
Mary Oliver's Wild Geese as an antidote for the times, Governor and CM of West Bengal at logger heads over law & order, China in the process of setting up a space station, Juneteenth officially recognised as federal holiday in the US.
CBSE and ICSE boards have put forth their assessment plans for class XII students; US and Russian presidents meet at the conclusion of G7 summit; What do net-zero emissions mean; Chausa variety and its origin story
UP police files FIR on Twitter for unlawful third party content, Delhi High Court grants bail to Natasha Narwal, Devangana Kalita and Asif Iqbal Tanha accused under UAPA act last year; Cheetah will be reintroduced to India from South Africa later this year
Patriarch of allegedly the largest family in the world, dies in Mizoram; Govt. flags concerns on Filovirus study undertaken by the National Centre for Biological Sciences; El Salvador makes Bitcoin a legal tender; Israel gets a new coalition ruling party; What does Mao Zedong have to do with Mangoes!
India puts forth a new declassification policy; G7 countries agree upon B3W projects, future pandemic preparedness; Why an Alphonso mango is named so!
Medical fraternity demands central law to stem violence against doctors; Shahid Abdullah, Foreign Minister of Maldives, elected president of UNGA; Turkey witnessing outbreak of Sea snot in the Sea of Marmara; Increase in post-covid Mucormycosis cases in Maharashtra
Diversity in appointment to the TN State Policy Development Council; Twitter suspended in Nigeria after platform blocks a tweet posted by the President; G7 proposes a minimum global tax rate of 15%; US FDA approves Aducanumab
Intersectionality of caste, gender and disability; World Environment Day- commitment of G7; Self-sustaining home in Chennai; COVAX and vaccine shortage
SC quashes FIR against journalist Vinod Dua; Biden officially acknowledges the Tulsa massacre of 1921; NASA announces two missions to Venus; Significance of Vaccine Maitri
Supreme court of India provides an explanation for its interference in implementing the vaccine policy, essentially a matter of the executive. Pulls up the Govt. to explain its rationale behind differential pricing of vaccines. This comes in the backdrop of states floating separate global tenders to procure vaccines.
Intermediary guidelines and Digital media ethics code 2021; Blogger journalist arrested mid-flight, forced to land in Belarus; Naomi Osaka withdraws herself from French Open, Earthquakes resulting from volcano eruption in Congo, Vaccine policy for COVID-19 in India- judicial lens.
Ongoing protests against Lakshadweep reforms; Chief Secretary of West Bengal ordered on central deputation; China has put in place a three-child policy after alarmingly low birth rates; Truth and Reconciliation commissions- France apologises to Rwanda, Germany apologises to Namibia, Canada in a state of mourning; a ship burns in the waters of Sri Lanka for 11 days.