The two armies jostled and hand-to-hand fighting broke out – neither side armed in line with decades of tradition supposed to ward off the possibility of escalation between the nuclear-armed neighbours.Then an Indian commanding officer was pushed, fell from the narrow ridge and plunged to his death in the gorge below.Reinforcements from the Indian side were summoned from a post about 4km away and eventually about 600 men were fighting with stones, iron rods and other makeshift weapons in near-total darkness for up to six hours, Indian government sources said, with most deaths on both sides occurring from soldiers falling or being knocked from mountain terrain.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 07:38 (three years ago) link
jfc!
― calzino, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 07:56 (three years ago) link
https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-asia-india-52990324?
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 10:56 (three years ago) link
Not even the well connected middle-class are being saved. The BJP will be ramping up their culture war etc. to max levels to get auntie voting for bigotry at the next election.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 11:03 (three years ago) link
afaict the main control in place to combat COVID is a 9pm - 5am curfew. idk what what's meant to do other than curb potential disorder.
― ShariVari, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 11:26 (three years ago) link
xpostok wow I hadn't realized the insanity of fighting in that kind of terrain
― dip to dup (rob), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 11:47 (three years ago) link
It's off-the-scale crazy. These are two advanced, nuclear-armed superpowers fighting with sticks in the dark for six hours.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 12:02 (three years ago) link
Looks like Modi has blinked. Says there was no incursion into Indian territory. China has subsequently reiterated that the valley is within their LAC.
Good to see it de-escalate.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Saturday, 20 June 2020 09:12 (three years ago) link
Indian government proceeding with criminalizing intermarriage: https://t.co/3hdeBSMXpL— Murtaza M. Hussain (@MazMHussain) December 5, 2020
Genuinely interested to see how far he can push stuff like this and still have Western leaders pal around with him.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Saturday, 5 December 2020 11:58 (three years ago) link
In a country where love was meant to be a celebration, Narendra Modi has criminalised interfaith love because it is a regime that has survived and sustained on hate. My take on legitimising the dangerous and fictitious Love Jihad theory in @PostOpinionshttps://t.co/agSPBTm7vF— Rana Ayyub (@RanaAyyub) November 29, 2020
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Saturday, 5 December 2020 11:59 (three years ago) link
Wtf? No way this is constitutional?
― actually-very-convincing (Sund4r), Saturday, 5 December 2020 13:30 (three years ago) link
Likely not, but it will have to go to court first
― rob, Saturday, 5 December 2020 14:44 (three years ago) link
Kerala High Court did rule this way: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/all-interfaith-marriages-not-love-jihad-court/articleshow/61147349.cms
― actually-very-convincing (Sund4r), Saturday, 5 December 2020 16:56 (three years ago) link
Heartbreaking and believable: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/23/pollution-killed-nearly-17-million-people-in-india-in-2019-study
― They sold me a dream of Christmas (Sund4r), Thursday, 24 December 2020 06:03 (three years ago) link
why aren’t we talking about this?! #FarmersProtest https://t.co/obmIlXhK9S— Rihanna (@rihanna) February 2, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 3 February 2021 15:07 (three years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/18/indian-mosque-bulldozed-in-defiance-of-high-court-order
― rob, Tuesday, 18 May 2021 16:20 (three years ago) link
Ugh, that seems shockingly brazen, even for the BJP.
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 16:48 (three years ago) link
In other shockingly brazen, even for the BJP news...
Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram have been put on notice in India and may cease to exist for failing to comply with Centre's new I-T Act. New social media rules to come into effect on May 26. @maryashakil shares more details with @ridhimb pic.twitter.com/wLvsSbbOqH— News18 (@CNNnews18) May 25, 2021
The short version seems to be that they forged some documents suggesting Congress was planning to run a campaign that would ‘tarnish the image of the country’ over COVID, Twitter labelled it as ‘manipulated media’ when senior politicians posted it, the police raided Twitter’s offices yesterday and now they, and Facebook, have 24 hours to comply with new laws or face closure.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Tuesday, 25 May 2021 07:19 (two years ago) link
Wow.
I got a FB msg from a cousin in India today so I'm guessing they either complied or the rules aren't being enforced?
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Wednesday, 26 May 2021 17:59 (two years ago) link
some follow up here: https://slate.com/technology/2021/06/india-silicon-valley-twitter-google-censorship.html
― trap door to hell opens underneath (rob), Sunday, 13 June 2021 17:18 (two years ago) link
Finally read this; it's as depressing as I feared.
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Monday, 5 July 2021 17:45 (two years ago) link
Went back to it after reading this: https://theprint.in/india/journalist-activist-jailed-under-nsa-for-45-days-over-cow-posts-in-manipur-its-not-unusual/684133/
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Monday, 5 July 2021 17:53 (two years ago) link
Sometimes writing editorials is not required. Just the placement of news is enough pic.twitter.com/9tyP9JkMym— Ghazala Wahab (@ghazalawahab) June 28, 2022
― rob, Tuesday, 28 June 2022 12:57 (one year ago) link
o_O
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Tuesday, 28 June 2022 13:16 (one year ago) link
more on Zubair and Alt News: https://restofworld.org/2021/fact-checking-modis-india/
― rob, Tuesday, 28 June 2022 13:53 (one year ago) link
Protesters occupy President's residence, burn down PM's and force both to resign in Sri Lanka: https://www.nytimes.com/article/sri-lanka-president-protests.html
While I don't question that there are good reasons to want a revolution in Sri Lanka, it's v unclear to me what will come next and nothing I've seen suggests that the protesters have a clear idea themselves. Also, one thing I've not seen addressed anywhere yet is whether Tamils or Muslims are represented among the protesters.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Monday, 11 July 2022 13:05 (one year ago) link
Indian government accused of attack on democracy as 141 MPs suspended:https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/19/indian-government-accused-attack-democracy-mps-suspended-modi-bjp
― rob, Tuesday, 19 December 2023 18:33 (five months ago) link
Really grim
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 20 December 2023 09:37 (five months ago) link
Modi has done so many fascist things over the years, it’s so expected
― mojo dojo casas house (gyac), Wednesday, 20 December 2023 09:55 (five months ago) link