From Doppa Day โช๏ธ๐ต
"What does it mean to you that Uyghur valuable thinge like this are being banned?
This is our Turkic tradition, our 3000-year old 'urf wa 'adad. Them banning this means nothing. We are Tรผrks, we will wear them!"
๐ Top 10 Oldest Universities in the World:
1. ๐ฒ๐ฆ University of al-Qarawiyyin โ 859
2. ๐ฎ๐น University of Bologna โ 1088
3. ๐ฌ๐ง University of Oxford โ 1096
4. ๐ซ๐ท University of Paris โ 1150
5. ๐ฌ๐ง University of Cambridge โ 1209
6. ๐ช๐ธ University of Salamanca โ 1218
7. ๐ฎ๐น University of Padua โ 1222
8. ๐ฎ๐น University of Naples Federico II โ 1224
9. ๐ฎ๐น University of Siena โ 1246
10. ๐ต๐น University of Coimbra โ 1290
Source: Guinness World Records
Most Powerful Civilizations in History
1) ๐ฎ๐น Roman Civilization
2) ๐ฌ๐ท Ancient Greek Civilization
3) ๐ช๐ฌ Ancient Egyptian Civilization
4) ๐จ๐ณ Chinese Civilization
5) ๐ฎ๐ณ Indus Valley Civilization
6) ๐ฎ๐ท Persian Civilization
7) ๐ฒ๐ณ Mongol Civilization
8) ๐ฎ๐ถ Mesopotamian Civilization
9) ๐ฒ๐ฝ Aztec Civilization
10) ๐ต๐ช Inca Civilization
11) ๐น๐ท Ottoman Civilization
12) ๐ฌ๐ง British Civilization
13) ๐ช๐ธ Spanish Civilization
14) ๐ต๐น Portuguese Civilization
15) ๐ซ๐ท French Civilization
Note: These civilizations are considered among the most powerful and influential in history based on their impact on military strength, territorial expansion, culture, technology, and global historical influence.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, World History Encyclopedia and different Web sources
#WAYCJ | TVK candidate from Kolathur constituency, VS Babu, collects his winning certificate at the Loyola College counting centre, defeating Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin.
"Keep this video and played when the result comes in Tamil Nadu"
Prashant Kishor- man who could rightly predict everybody's political future except his own.
A groom from the Gaza Strip celebrated his wedding atop a bulldozer with the participation of relatives and attendees. His act shows a powerful symbol of resilience and joy amid the devastation resulted from the Israeli genocide.
Divorce rate:
๐ฎ๐ณIndia: 1%
๐ป๐ณVietnam: 7%
๐น๐ฏTajikistan: 10%
๐ฎ๐ทIran: 14%
๐ฒ๐ฝMexico: 17%
๐ช๐ฌEgypt: 17%
๐ฟ๐ฆSouth Africa: 17%
๐ง๐ทBrazil: 21%
๐น๐ทTurkey: 25%
๐จ๐ดColombia: 30%
๐ต๐ฑPoland: 33%
๐ฏ๐ตJapan: 35%
๐ฉ๐ชGermany: 38%
๐ฌ๐งUnited Kingdom: 41%
๐ณ๐ฟNew Zealand: 41%
๐ฆ๐บAustralia: 43%
๐จ๐ณChina: 44%
๐บ๐ธUnited States: 45%
๐ฐ๐ทSouth Korea: 46%
๐ฉ๐ฐDenmark: 46%
๐ฎ๐นItaly: 46%
๐จ๐ฆCanada: 47%
๐ณ๐ฑNetherlands: 48%
๐ธ๐ชSweden: 50%
๐จ๐ตFrance: 51%
๐ง๐ชBelgium: 53%
๐ซ๐ฎFinland: 55%
๐จ๐บCuba: 55%
๐บ๐ฆUkraine: 70%
๐ท๐บRussia: 73%
๐ฑ๐บLuxembourg: 79%
๐ช๐ฆSpain: 85%
๐ต๐นPortugal: 94%
Note: This compares the number of divorces in a given year to the number of marriages in that same year (the ratio of the crude divorce rate to the crude marriage rate). For example, if there are 500 divorces and 1,000 marriages in a given year in a given area, the ratio would be one divorce for every two marriages, e.g. a ratio of 0.50 (50%).
Data is from last available year by country. As an example Portugal data is from 2020, Germany is from 2017.
Even when the divorce rate is around 1% in India, while domestic violence rate is between 30โ 40%, Indian men are the loudest when it comes to crying about divorce and alimony. Dramebaazi to dekho inki.
Ramzan... We Salute You
In the Bargi Dam tragedy in Jabalpur, "Ramzan" saved the lives of four people.
Construction work was underway just a short distance from the spot at the Bargi Dam where the cruise accident occurred. Laborers engaged in the bridge construction project witnessed the cruise boat sinking.
At that very moment, Ramzan who was present at the scene leapt into the water to save lives, disregarding his own safety and without the aid of any equipment or resources.
Ramzan pulled six people out of the water, of these, four were alive, while two had already perished.
Look at this map.
Nagpur 45ยฐ. Ahmedabad 44ยฐ. Prayagraj 43ยฐ. Delhi 42ยฐ. The entire country is a single dark red mass. This is not a heatwave. This is a country that was told its forests were fine.
And this is April. Not May. Not June. The hottest months have not even arrived yet.
The past few days have been hell. So I did what I always do when something bothers me. I went looking for answers.
What I found was a policy con job that has been running for over two decades.
But before I explain what happened, let's clear some definitions.
A garden is not a forest. An orchard is not a forest. A plantation is not a forest.
A forest is a living system. Soil, water, fungi, insects, birds, mammals, decades of accumulated complexity, specific to its land and climate. It cannot be designed. It cannot be harvested. It regulates water, cools land, shelters hundreds of species. It takes decades to become what it is.
You can plant a forest. But it will take decades to become one.
In 2001, India's forests were disappearing. The Indian state, led by the Vajpayee government, faced a choice. Protect what remained, or change what the numbers said.
It chose the numbers.
The Forest Survey of India quietly changed the definition of what a forest means. Any land with 10% tree canopy cover and more than one hectare in area was now a forest. Your mango orchard. A coconut plantation in Tamil Nadu. A tea garden in Assam. Lodhi Garden in Delhi.
All forests, on paper.
The FSI will tell you that 10% canopy cover follows international norms. The FAO also uses 10% as its threshold. But the FAO's definition comes with a crucial exclusion that India's FSI quietly dropped.ย
The FAO explicitly states that fruit tree plantations, oil palm plantations, olive orchards, and agroforestry systems are not forests. The World Bank says the same. India adopted the number but discarded the exclusion.ย
It took the cover of international legitimacy while gutting the standard that gave it meaning.
The government will also tell you this was never hidden. That it was publicly stated in every report, disclosed in Parliament. That is technically true. But a disclosure buried in a technical government document is not transparency. It is the appearance of transparency.ย
I did not know any of this until I went looking. Neither do most Indians whose forests, whose land, whose air this directly concerns. The con is not in what was hidden from experts. It is in what was never explained to the people it was done to.
This is not a technicality. This is the con.
It was a trick as old as power itself. If you cannot fix the problem, fix the measurement.
For ten years after 2001, Congress governed India. Two terms, two environment ministers, including Jairam Ramesh, one of the more serious ones. They saw the numbers. They knew what the numbers meant.
They did nothing.
Because the lie was convenient. India looked good in international climate negotiations. The fiction of a greening India served everyone in power, so everyone in power kept it. Congress did not create this lie. It simply chose, year after year, to live inside it.
The BJP is different.
When they returned to power in 2014, they came with something Congress never had. An absolute majority, and no coalition compulsions. They did not merely inherit the lie. They built on it. And in 2023, they legislated it.
The Forest Conservation Amendment Act of 2023 removed legal protection from "deemed forests." Forests that existed outside the official definition but were ecologically real.ย
Forests that Adivasi communities had lived in and depended on for generations. Forests that cooled land, held water, sheltered species. They were not on the right list. Since the amendment, forest destruction on Adivasi land has accelerated.ย
The people who knew these forests best, who had protected them longest, now watch them being cleared. Legally.
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Spanish-Speaking Countries and Territories
๐ช๐ธ Spain
๐ฒ๐ฝ Mexico
๐ฌ๐น Guatemala
๐ญ๐ณ Honduras
๐ธ๐ป El Salvador
๐ณ๐ฎ Nicaragua
๐จ๐ท Costa Rica
๐ต๐ฆ Panama
๐จ๐บ Cuba
๐ฉ๐ด Dominican Republic
๐ต๐ท Puerto Rico
๐จ๐ด Colombia
๐ป๐ช Venezuela
๐ช๐จ Ecuador
๐ต๐ช Peru
๐ง๐ด Bolivia
๐จ๐ฑ Chile
๐ฆ๐ท Argentina
๐ต๐พ Paraguay
๐บ๐พ Uruguay
๐ฌ๐ถ Equatorial Guinea
Note: Map shows places where Spanish is an official or nationally recognized language; some countries use it de facto without formal constitutional status.