Don’t conflate issues. Renovating government accommodation isn't the problem here. It is also not possible to create hostel space for every student. What is possible is that people who are raking in tons of money by building these death traps are made to follow all building codes and cater for fire safety etc. Thats the job of MCD and Delhi government to ensure that regulations are followed. And if the are not followed, then these death traps (and I include those fancy Khan Market restaurants) should be sealed and officers under whose watch these death traps came up, and under whose watch they continued to function are thrown in jail and the key is thrown away. Linking this with government housing is to give the blood sucking landlords and corrupt and venal municipal officers an exit route.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has taken a compassionate decision to allow police dogs to remain with the police force even after retirement.
A police dog retires after completing 10 years of service. Previously, retired police dogs were often given up for adoption elsewhere, which could adversely affect their mental well-being, with some even refusing to eat.
Fadnavis said a dog that has served the police force for 10 years should not be made to suffer after retirement. He emphasised that such animals should be cared for and allowed to spend the rest of their lives comfortably.
Under the new decision, police dogs will retire from active duty after 10 years but will continue to remain with the police force and their handlers. The Home Department will bear the expenses for their food and other associated requirements. The decision aims to ensure the welfare of retired police dogs while preserving their bond with their handlers.
(Source: Maharashtra Govt)
THE COPS SAW THE DANGER. DID CJP LOOK AWAY? NEW VIRAL VIDEO DOING THE ROUNDS appears to show New Delhi DCP Sachin Sharma and Joint CP Deepak Purohit repeatedly warning CJP leaders Saurabh Das and Abhishek Ranka that the Jantar Mantar protest was spiralling out of control. The officers point out there were no volunteers to manage the swelling crowd, caution that "criminal elements" had entered the gathering, and say they had been urging the organisers for days to take corrective action.
Mesopotamia was never the cradle of civilisation. India was.
I spent forty years in international shipping, not academia. When I began researching the history of maritime trade, I had no orthodoxy to defend. I followed the evidence, and it kept arriving in the same place: the Indian subcontinent.
Nineteenth century archaeologists dug in Mesopotamia because the climate preserved artefacts, the biblical sources pointed them there, and the Ottomans allowed the excavations. That is the entire basis for the myth of Mesopotamia as "the cradle of civilisation."
Nobody applied the same rigour to India. Mohenjo-daro was not discovered until 1922. By then the narrative had already hardened.
What was actually there was the largest civilisation of the ancient world. Three hundred cities. Fifty thousand people in each, by 2600 BC. Two thirds of them stood on the banks of the Sarasvati, the central and greatest of the seven rivers described in the Rig Veda, flowing down from the Himalayas before the river vanished entirely by 1900 BC. The Vedic kings claimed territory stretching "sea to sea," from Afghanistan to Maharashtra, some 1.5 million square miles, against Egypt's 13,000. A dock at Lothal built to handle thirty ships of sixty tons, unmatched in Europe for four thousand years. When it was first excavated, it was recorded as a bathing pool.
When the scale became impossible to dismiss, the theory was not corrected. It was replaced with a story of pale-skinned nomads from the steppe who supposedly arrived around 1500 BC and brought civilisation with them. There is no evidence. The chronology doesn't work. The Vedas describe no invasion.
In 2019 a Harvard-led genetic study revived the claim, and the press reported it as confirmation. It was not. The same study found the builders of these cities were indigenous. The Sarasvati river that the Rig Veda described had already dried up before these newcomers arrived. What the study also found is that a small group of men, arriving after the Sarasvati had already dried up, interbred with the existing population and left a genetic signature. That is all.
So, where they chose to dig was mostly an accident of climate and access. The Aryan invasion theory was constructed because an Indian civilisation that owed nothing to Caucasians was a fact the late nineteenth century could not accommodate.
Link to full Substack essay with sources in the comments below.
@sougat18@Iyervval Capital punishment is the only way to stop these rapists and discourage others in the future. The police and the judiciary in the country also needs to have a special division to swiftly take such criminals to justice
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