PUBLIC’S EASILY OBTAINABLE AND PARTICIPATORY LEGITIMATE E-MEDIA 06 Sept, 2020 Contact us at : [email protected] “In the end,it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in @thepeopleassam your years. –Abraham Lincoln Guwahati, Assam ‘BAT VIRUS’ “REVIVE! REVIVE! AREY, NOT GDP!” HITS BATMAN FAU-G, THE “OG” AFTER PUBG BAN ndia’s latest debate has been the Government’s ‘Digital-Strike’, by banning another 118-Chinese Mobile Applications, which include PUBG Mobile, one of the most popular games among the youth in Itoday’s time. Previously, the Government’s first ‘Digital Strike’ led to “havocs” among the TikTokers when the TikTok application was banned. Meanwhile, the GDP of India has seen its biggest fall since 1996. But that’s barely a topic discussed in the ‘burning debates’. On Wednesday, The Ministry of Information and Technology bans more Chinese apps including popular PUBG Mobile in the country. Days after this ‘Digital Strike’, the next big move that comes in is the announce- ment of “FAU-G”, by Bollywood star Akshay Kumar. The most probable replacement of PUBG Mobile will be FAU-G, an Indian-made game, which is expected to be 99.9% similar to the banned PUBG Mobile. Ranging from the national level to the local, PUBG is now the “burning issue”. Knocked out by the Pandemic, seems like nobody looks to ‘revive’ the GDP. However, that’s the reality so far. Continued On Page: 09 Image source: www.google.com X obert Pattinson, the lead actor for the Batman, Indian was tested positive for RCOVID-19. Following which, the filming was temporarily paused. Filming began in Glasgow earlier GDP Fall this year but was halted due to the Y Representation pandemic. Continued On Page: 09 SORRY, THE GDP FELL SO LOW, THAT IT OVERLAPPED Continued On Page: 09 HOW WILL WE ADJUST? ACT OF GOD OR FAILURE TO ACT? GDP FALLS ANYHOW! By: Biprajit Roy Chaudhury to the top pf the Covid-19 charts globally. What substantiates it also is the graph of positive cases during the lockdown as the lockdown was supposed to constraint and reduce the growth of cases but nothing happens in India as promised especially if the 8 PM slot is used by the PM to spread philosophies and assertions (with assumptions) and not the real statistics wrapped with Image source: www.google.com real-time solutions. From the Editor The systematic denial of its ise in COVID-19 cases ‘adjusting’. Every work needs to responsibility and the setting of a are now ‘normal’, with resume, the economy needs to precedent based on force majeure work unforced to resume. function, or else how long will the – the Centre has explicitly shown RIndia recorded 90,000 new Government hold upon? that all the responsibility that the Image source: www.google.com COVID19 cases in a single day. With the prohibitions removed, it Indians have invested on their This by far, is the highest by is the people’s part to enforce their hen Nirmala Sitharaman towards substance-less appreciation elected government is rather being any country in the world. On own safety and precautions now. invoked the Act of God – the IT cells were put to task on turned into an invisible context the top, all the precautionary The idea of COVID-19 being clause, she explicitly hid all platforms to assert how the that is gradually being eliminated behindW a façade that had “failure” economic shrink was borne out of in the air of assumed and swaying measures of prohibition are lifted, ‘fake’ is now ‘dumb’ to believe which includes night curfews upon. ‘Adjusting' now is the next written over it in bold and capital the so-called stringent lockdown disruptions in the form of assertive & weekend lockdowns in the struggle. How will you ‘adjust’, letters. Moreover, adding an even that was imposed nation-wide. To and false lockdown success stories state. The Pandemic has led to it's your call. more blinding factor to sway the add truth to the repertoire of lies, and sympathy gaining PR stunts. a time when the entire world is public discourse from criticism India is set on the track that leads Continued On Page: 09 International PUBLIC’S EASILY OBTAINABLE AND PARTICIPATORY E-MEDIA 2 Sunday, 06 September, 2020 LEBANON TO UNDERGO COVID-19 TO INCREASE POVERTY SEVERE FOOD CRISIS RATE FOR WOMEN, ERODING AMIDST HUGE ECONOMIC DECADES OF PROGRESS: UN DISRUPTION Image source: www.google.com By Pallavi Dey employment of women in the infor- of wealth and power in the hands mal economy is large, typically in jobs of a few which worsened during the Image source: www.google.com he report, “From In- such as daily wage earners, food ser- pandemic. The pre pandemic pov- By Pallavi Dey the Children. But given the current sights to Action: Gender vices, domestic workers and cleaners erty ratio if female in South Asia for circumstances in Lebanon, absolute Equality in the wake of which comes with little or no health- 2021 was expected to be around 10% he 4 August blast in Leb- starvation may become the norm. COVID-19”,T published by UN, said care, unemployment benefits or other which is now recorded to rise up to anon’s Beirut port killed “More than half of the country’s that the gender poverty gap will wors- social protection schemes, thus mak- 13%. The report said that Central and more than 150 people population is at risk of failing to ac- en further still in South Asia hit in ing the employment scenario much Southern Asia and sub-Saharan Afri- andT injured many more. The blast cess their basic food needs by the few specific sectors. The UN Wom- bleaker for females. ca (where 87 per cent of the world’s occurred at a time when Lebanon year’s end,” the UN Economic and en and the UN Development Pro- UN Women Executive Director extreme poor live) will see the largest was struggling against Covid-19 and Social Commission for Western Asia gramme (UNDP) reported that the Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka said that, increases in extreme poverty, with an a deep economic downturn which (ESCWA) said on Sunday. The acute COVID-19 pandemic will dispropor- the increases in women’s extreme pov- additional 54 million and 24 million has pushed unemployment and infla- food shortage in Lebanon is worsened tionately affect women and push 47 erty are a stark indictment of deep people, respectively, living below the tion very high. The blast had not only by the erosion of purchasing power of million more women and girls into flaws in the ways we have constructed international poverty line as an out- exacerbated the economic downturn the Lebanese people due to soaring extreme poverty by 2021, altering de- our societies and economies and thus come of the pandemic. but also created a new humanitarian food prices and thus they are “trapped cades of development to lift this de- it requires constructive policies to The concerns regarding the rise crisis in the country. It had destroyed in poverty and struggling for bare ne- mographic above the poverty line. It address the critical aspects of gender in extreme poverty is narrowed down the Beirut sea port which is the coun- cessities”. stated that the poverty rate for women inequality. The projections show that only to the idea of downturn in Gross try’s largest grain storage facility and Lebanon is also on the brink of an will increase to a 9.1 per cent, which while the pandemic will impact global Domestic Product (GDP) of the through which around 85% food im- acute humanitarian crisis due to grow- was expected to reduce by 2.7% in be- poverty generally women will be ad- countries, however aspects of women ports come to Lebanon. ing starvation, mass protests and po- tween 2019 and 2020. versely affected, especially women of unemployment which might affect Lebanon heavily depends upon litical instability. The United Nations The crisis has affected both men reproductive age. By 2021, for every the sex distribution of poverty is kept imports for its food needs but with has projected that Lebanon will need and women in several aspects, how- 100 men aged 25 to 34 living in ex- aside. Thus, in order to reverse the the 80% depreciation of Lebanese more than $47 million to ensure food ever women have been hard in nu- treme poverty (living on USD 1.990 a impact of the pandemic on poverty, it currency and the annihilation of the security in the immediate future. merous specific areas. The projection day or less), there will be 118 women, is essential to invest in policies aimed Beirut sea port, the country will face ESCWA executive secretary Rola pointed that overall women’s employ- a gap that is expected to increase to at reducing gender inequality. Exten- an alarming situation, experts have Dashti suggested that Lebanon’s gov- ment is 19% more at risk than men. 121 women per 100 men by 2030. sive research on the gendered impact warned. “Already we were in a sit- ernment must focus on rebuilding the During the pandemic, women have In South Asia, on an average, near- of the pandemic should be used in uation where in many families the grain silos in the Beirut sea port, set lost their jobs at a faster rate than ly 31.7 percent of the total population formulating comprehensive plans to parents and the children would go ceilings on food prices and encourage men have, as they are more likely to (around 433 million) is living in ab- address occupational segregation and to bed hungry, but it was a manage- direct sales from local producers to be employed in the sectors hardest ject poverty in the various countries economic packages for vulnerable able hunger,” said Jad Sakr, Lebanon consumers.