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☆ India's Gen Z grapples with Modi's dark past in clashes over new documentary
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-28 | by ( Yashraj Sharma | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +8 min

Modi denies being complicit in the attacks, and India’s Supreme Court upheld a ruling last year that he should be cleared of all charges. The first part of the documentary is about Modi’s political career before he became prime minister. The second half of the BBC documentary, which aired in Britain this week, focuses on his leadership since then. Critics say Modi has promoted discrimination against India’s Muslim minority and quashed dissent, especially since his re-election in 2019. Students at Jamia Millia Islamia defied university warnings not to screen the BBC film.

☆ Elon Musk’s Twitter risks opening floodgates of hate speech and extremism in India
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-01 | by ( Yashraj Sharma | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

SRINAGAR, India — For five years, Alt News has fought India’s rise in disinformation tied to Hindu nationalism, with Twitter as one of the main battlefields. All that is now in jeopardy amid the chaos at Twitter since its takeover last month by billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk. With 24 million users, India is Twitter’s third-largest market after the United States and Japan, as well as one of its greatest challenges. But more than 90% of Twitter’s 200-odd employees in India were reportedly among the thousands worldwide who have lost their jobs under Musk’s ownership. “Like all companies, Twitter needs to understand the harms associated with its platform and take steps to address them,” he wrote.

☆ At COP27, a young climate activist from India demands historical dues
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-11 | by ( Yashraj Sharma | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

Growing up in India, Licypriya Kangujam has already felt the impact of climate change. The 11-year-old, known as Licy, is one of India’s most vocal climate activists as well as one of the youngest people at the United Nations climate talks in Egypt this month. “They keep blaming each other for climate change and fail to take up collective efforts.”About one billion children around the world are at “extremely high risk” of exposure to climate and environmental hazards, according to Unicef. Prakash Singh / AFP via Getty Images fileOf the world’s 50 most polluted cities, 42 of them are in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, according to Swiss technology company IQAir. Speaking at the climate summit on Monday, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said his crisis-hit country needed debt relief and climate compensation after the floods, which caused $30 billion in damage.

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