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The diaspora and disasters

8-20 Aug 2018: Kerala faced floods
Rebuilding task is ON.
Malayali diaspora across the world
3.4 million
These are Keralites who have direct connections to their households
India Millennium Deposit Scheme of year 2000
2010 earthquake in Haiti: Haitian diaspora’s support to get it back on track
2015 earthquake in Nepal: NonResident Nepali Association collected $2.69 million, mobilised over 300 volunteers including doctors and nurses, and pledged to rebuild 1,000 disaster resilient houses.
2004 tsunami in South Asia
2005 earthquake in Pakistan
As the diaspora is one of the greatest assets of Kerala, communities should improve relations with diaspora groups.
Return migrants should also act as liaison agents.

Time to avoid phrases that mock disabilities

What is common among these is that they all signify negative connotation, while referring to physically disabled people.
Undesirable or disappointing state.
There exist in the dictionary equivalent terms conveying the same meaning???
They end up mocking disables.
Languages reveal many important things about the mindset of the speakers.

Arise and a-woke

The case of Tech Mahindra
One ex employee posted his ordeal after the verdict of Supreme Court on Section 377.
Many corporates wrap up the complaints of victims to carry on with business as usual.
The environment is boss-driven, and employees are actively disbarred from speaking their mind and are penalised for going against the authorised and approved version of events.
Nike & Colin Kaepernick: American footballer who was the first to kneel during the U.S. national anthem in protest against police brutality.
Nike faced a bit of dip in business but at present it is thriving.
We need virtue warriors in India.

Hard Justice

Brett Kavanaugh nomination confirmed.
Sworn in as 9 th justice of the Supreme Court (SCOTUS)
Christine Blasey Ford, a Professor of Psychology alleged that he did sexual misconduct with her.
Control of the White House, the Senate and SCOTUS gives the Republican Party a magnitude of control rarely seen in recent times

Power politics at play

Relation between Electrical and Political power
Electricity Act 2003: GoI has proposed amendments.
Competition and multiple options in electricity services has always been an endeavor.
Same supplier different distributor: This is not going to help
Private suppliers could cherry-pick profitable locations and consumers; the state-owned incumbent supplier will be left with the obligation to serve low-paying consumers.
Abolition of the cross-subsidy surcharge.
Big industrial consumers will see no effective change, although small business consumers will escape payment of subsidy.
This leaves only the possibility of direct support from States.
India has among the highest electricity tariffs for industry.

SC tags Tripura NRC plea with Assam case
The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to the government on a public interest litigation petition to update the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Tripura, as is being done in Assam, in order to detect and deport the “illegal immigrants” from Bangladesh.
Two Indian oil PSUs place orders for Iranian crude
to be delivered in November
The move comes in apparent defiance of U.S. sanctions targeting Iran’s crude oil exports that come into effect on November 4.
Bihar, U.P. CMs speak to Rupani
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath have called up their Gujarat counterpart Vijay Rupani over the reported attacks on north Indians in the western State.
BrahMos engineer held for ‘ISI links’
Accused of keeping sensitive papers
India faces threat of deadly heat waves, says UN climate report
If the average global temperature rises by more than one degree Celsius from the present, India could “annually” expect conditions like the 2015 heat wave that killed at least 2,000, according to the ‘Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C,’ commissioned by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Study throws light on megalithic site
Enter ‘sextortion’, now a reality in India
Criminals are collecting browsing history of those visiting porn sites and using it for extortion
22 Zika cases in Rajasthan reported
Zika virus infection
J.P. Nadda, Minister of Health and Family Welfare, set up the seven-member Central team, which was deputed to Jaipur immediately after the detection of the first case, to assist the State Government in control and containment measures. The situation is being monitored on a daily basis. • Cases of Zika virus infection have been reported in 86 countries.
‘Ease filing of FIRs in child abuse cases’
Victims must face no age bar: Maneka