1-Best movers, not 1st mover, score more in digital age: PM Modi
That is great for an individual who became leader
-from pre industrial family background to digital nation
- real achievement
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2-CENTRE AMENDS LAW TO END MANUAL SEWER CLEANING :-
To stop manual scavenging, Govt to amend law, make ...
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Kunal Kamra: Why weren't Kamra's tweets on SC taken down ...
Shashi Tharoor, Meenakshi Lekhi in war of words as House panel questions Twitter
The panel asked representatives of the micro-blogging site as to why it did not remove stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra’s tweets on the Supreme Court and a judge, and sought a reply
SOCIAL MEDIA giant Twitter was in the cross hairs of the Meenakshi Lekhi-led parliamentary committee on personal data protection Bill once again on Thursday. The panel asked representatives of the micro-blogging site as to why it did not remove stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra’s tweets on the Supreme Court and a judge, and sought a reply from it in a week.
The move was questioned by Shashi Tharoor, head of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology. “Dear @M_Lekhi, as far as I am aware your Committee was formed for consultations on the Data Protection Bill & its mandate is to report on the statutory provisions continued in the draft Bill. Could you clarify if you have taken on additional responsibilities & on whose authority?,” he tweeted.
Congress’s Rajya Sabha MP Jairam Ramesh, who is a member of the Lekhi-led panel, agreed. “I could not attend the meeting today, but had I been there I would have raised this very issue Shashi Tharoor. It is not the first time this has happened,” he tweeted.
Hitting back, Lekhi tweeted: “Travesty that I have to respond to people who are busy exhibiting their lack of understanding. I refuse to run law tutorials specifically when Sr Advocate from Congress Party Mr Vivek Tankha was present in the committee & has already concurred with me.”
Interestingly, Tankha grilled Twitter officials the most at Thursday’s meeting . He is learnt to have asked how Twitter can allow use of abusive language against a Constitutional functionary. He told the officials that India was a conservative society and does not tolerate disrespect of constitutional functionaries.
Last week, Attorney General K K Venugopal had granted consent for initiation of criminal contempt of court proceedings against Kamra over his “highly objectionable” tweets on the Supreme Court and a judge. Kamra had posted the tweets the day a vacation bench of Supreme Court granted interim bail to Republic TV editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami in an alleged abetment to suicide case. Kamra has made it clear that he does not intend to retract his tweets or apologise.
Earlier, the panel had pulled up Twitter for wrongly showing Ladakh as a part of China in its local setting. Twitter has submitted an apology to the panel.
Speaking to reporters, Lekhi said, “It is shameful that Twitter is allowing its platform for obscene remarks like the one by stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra….”
When reached out for a reaction, a Twitter representative said, “We have no comment to share.”
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It’s also cleaner, sharpening its appeal. Readings in New Delhi for deadly particulate matter, known as PM 2.5, soared above 900 micrograms per cubic meter in early November, according to pollution monitoring site Air Visual. The readings were well above the World Health Organization’s annual exposure guideline of 10 micrograms.
A key hurdle is supply. Natural gas demand in India is expected to increase by four-fold to 190 billion cubic meters in 2040, though domestic production may rise to only 90 bcm, according to the IEA. Imports will need to fill the 100-bcm gap, according to the agency.
“The challenge in the long run is the availability of gas from domestic sources," Mahanagar Gas Ltd. managing director Rajeev Kumar Mathur said, adding that if production doesn’t increase, India will need to import more. In the year ended 31 March, domestic natural gas production fell to a nine-year low. Of the country’s total gas consumption, about 46% was met through imports.
“If suppose tomorrow we import more and the prices rise, then the attractiveness of this as opposed to alternate fuels may diminish," Mathur said.
That hasn’t stopped India’s oil ministry from working with other departments such as the federal road ministry and state governments to push the use of liquefied natural gas in transportation. “If we are able to convert heavy, long-haul vehicles to run on LNG, it will help cut pollution and also lower costs," oil minister Dharmendra Pradhan said on 10 November.
Trials
Petronet LNG Ltd., India’s biggest importer of the chilled fuel, along with Indian Oil Corp., the country’s top fuel retailer, have a trial program in the southern state of Kerala to run long-haul buses on LNG. Petronet has also said it is also in talks with automakers such as Ashok Leyland Ltd. to conduct trials on trucks that run on LNG.
Mahanagar Gas Ltd., the nation’s third-largest city gas distributor, is building gas retailing stations along highways in the western state of Maharashtra to promote the use of compressed natural gas for long-distance transport. It is also working on a kit that can make a diesel engine run on gas and will soon commence trials of gas-fueled scooters in Mumbai.
“We consume about 70 million tons of diesel annually," said Prabhat Singh, chief executive officer of Petronet, which is targeting large and small trucks. “Even if we’re able to replace half of it, that will be a big success." Bloomberg
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