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===== Undersea cables are vulnerable to sabotage – but this takes skill and specialist equipment ===== | |||
[https://theconversation.com/undersea-cables-are-vulnerable-to-sabotage-but-this-takes-skill-and-specialist-equipment-259417?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=The%20Conversation%20UK&utm_campaign=publer by Dolores M Harvey 7/7/25 THE CONVERSATION] | |||
Countries have come to rely on a network of cables and pipes under the sea for their energy and communications. So it has been worrying to read headlines about communications cables being cut and, in one case, an undersea gas pipeline being blown up.. | |||
===== As Angry Farmers Take to New Delhi’s Streets, Protests Turn Violent ===== | |||
[https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/25/world/asia/india-farmers-protests-delhi.html By Mujib Mashal, Emily Schmall and Hari Kumar Published Jan. 25, 2021] | |||
At the city’s border with the village of Ghazipur, where farmers have been camped out for months in protest, tractors pushed aside a shipping container placed to block their route as police stood by helplessly. Elsewhere, thick clouds of tear gas rose over approved march routes as farmers on tractors, on horses and on foot forcefully began their rally hours ahead of schedule. | |||
=====Two of India’s richest men face farmers’ ire over new laws===== | =====Two of India’s richest men face farmers’ ire over new laws===== | ||
[https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/1/18/bbtwo-of-indias-richest-men-face-ire-over-its-new-farm-laws By Bhuma Shrivastava, Bibhudatta Pradhan and P.R. Sanjai Bloomberg 18 Jan 2021] | [https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/1/18/bbtwo-of-indias-richest-men-face-ire-over-its-new-farm-laws By Bhuma Shrivastava, Bibhudatta Pradhan and P.R. Sanjai Bloomberg 18 Jan 2021] | ||
For weeks, tens of thousands of farmers have camped outside the nation’s capital, demanding the withdrawal of recently passed legislation they say, without evidence, was designed to allow billionaires such as Mukesh Ambani and Gautam Adani to enter farming. The tycoons say they have no such interest. More than 1,500 phone towers of Ambani’s wireless carrier were vandalized last month and some farmers called for a boycott of their businesses. | For weeks, tens of thousands of farmers have camped outside the nation’s capital, demanding the withdrawal of recently passed legislation they say, without evidence, was designed to allow billionaires such as Mukesh Ambani and Gautam Adani to enter farming. The tycoons say they have no such interest. More than 1,500 phone towers of Ambani’s wireless carrier were vandalized last month and some farmers called for a boycott of their businesses. | ||
The fight between the government and the farmers has revived the debate on what Modi’s critics call cozy nexus between the magnates and the popular leader — accusations they all have denied. The protests, one of Modi’s toughest political challenges yet, follow an eventful 2020 when the combined fortunes of Ambani and Adani swelled by almost $41 billion, even as millions of Indians lost their jobs to the pandemic that pummeled the $2.9 trillion economy. | The fight between the government and the farmers has revived the debate on what Modi’s critics call cozy nexus between the magnates and the popular leader — accusations they all have denied. The protests, one of Modi’s toughest political challenges yet, follow an eventful 2020 when the combined fortunes of Ambani and Adani swelled by almost $41 billion, even as millions of Indians lost their jobs to the pandemic that pummeled the $2.9 trillion economy. | ||
=====Farm bills: Are India's new reforms a 'death warrant' for farmers?===== | =====Farm bills: Are India's new reforms a 'death warrant' for farmers?===== | ||
