Episode Transcript
This is the catch upon three Things by the Indian
Express and I'm Ichasharma. Today is the twenty sixth of
December and here are this week's headlines, starting with news
making major headlines this week. In stark contrast to its
order last month, the Supreme Court had rejected the State
(00:24):
of Rajasthan's one hundred meter definition for aravlis fifteen years ago.
The Court in twenty ten had ordered a survey by
the Forest Survey of India or FSI, which will not
be confined to peaks or parts of hills above one
hundred meters from the ground level. This FSI survey came
up with the three degree slope definition of Aravli, which
(00:45):
was ignored on twentieth November by the Supreme Court in
favor of the same one hundred meter high benchmark now
recommended by the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.
During multiple matters related to minings in Rajasthan, the Supreme
had noted on nineteenth of February in twenty ten that
according to the deemed definition given by the State of Rajasthan,
(01:07):
only peaks or parts of hills that are one hundred
meters above the ground level are to be treated as
Arabi hills and now we shift our focus to news
from Maharashtra. In a major political development, cousins Udaf t
Haakri and Raja Takre reunited on Wednesday after two decades,
(01:27):
announcing an alliance ahead of the riham Mumbai Municipal Cooperation
elections of BMC elections. Before formalizing the shivsna Ubt m
n s taie up, the two leaders paid tribute to
Balthakre at his memorial in Shivaji Park. The alliance is
expected to force the BJP led Mahayuti to rethink its
strategy for the fifteenth of January civic poals covering twenty
(01:49):
nine municipal bodies, including the BMC. Both leaders said they
would work together for the Maratimanos, which loosely translates to
people of Maharashtra and now in some news from the South.
Both houses of the Karnatica legislature recently passed the Karnataka
Hate Speech and Hate Crimes Prevention Bill or twenty twenty five,
(02:11):
which is the first such legislation in the country. The
debates on the bill in both the state Assembly and
Legislative Council, however, seemed luxture, even as the proposed law
touches upon the lofty idols of democracy and constitutionalism, at
the heart of which is the freedom of speech and
expression guaranteed under Article nineteen of the Constitution. During the debates,
(02:32):
there was barely any acknowledgment of the global cultural shifts,
particularly among the younger generations, where public affronts based on religion, ethnicity, nationality, race, caste, gender,
sexual orientation or other identity markers are increasingly deemed unacceptable.
(02:53):
In other major news, the Indian Space Research Organization or ISRA,
on Wedness Days successfully launched the Bluebird block to communication
satellite aboard its heavy lift LVM three rocket from the
Satish Dhawan Space Center in Shriharrikota, Andhra Pradesh. The forty
three point five meter tall rocket lifted off at eight
(03:14):
fifty am from the second launch pad and placed the
satellite into its intended low Earth orbit. ISRO said this
was the heaviest payload ever launched from Indian soil. The
mission marked LVM three's sixth operational flight and a dedicated
commercial launch for US based ASD Space Mobili in the end.
(03:37):
In newsmaking global headlines, the son of former Bangladeshi President
Ziahwurrahiman and first woman Prime Minister Kalida Ziya Tarikrahman returned
Thursday to the nation after a seventeen years self impose exile.
Dehman is also the BNP's acting chairman. Himan had been
living in exile since two thousand and eight and he
(03:58):
had claimed that a conspiracy was a for to kill
him through torture under the former government of Sikhsina. For
those who may not know already, he has been serving
as the BNP's acting president since twenty eighteen and he
was convicted in multiple corruption cases as Welldrahman will address
a BNP rally before going to meet his mother at
Evercare Hospital. The lynching of the Puchan Radas, a Hindu
(04:21):
man in Maiman Singh, Bangladesh, has sparked widespread protests in India.
In Bangladesh, students' activist group in Kalab Monco said if
justice is not delivered in the killing of the organization's founder,
Sharif for Smanhadi, it would launch nationwide protests and with
(04:41):
that this was all for this week. This was the
catch upon three things by the Indian Express,
Popular Podcasts
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com
The Burden
The Burden is a documentary series that takes listeners into the hidden places where justice is done (and undone). It dives deep into the lives of heroes and villains. And it focuses a spotlight on those who triumph even when the odds are against them. Season 5 - The Burden: Death & Deceit in Alliance On April Fools Day 1999, 26-year-old Yvonne Layne was found murdered in her Alliance, Ohio home. David Thorne, her ex-boyfriend and father of one of her children, was instantly a suspect. Another young man admitted to the murder, and David breathed a sigh of relief, until the confessed murderer fingered David; “He paid me to do it.” David was sentenced to life without parole. Two decades later, Pulitzer winner and podcast host, Maggie Freleng (Bone Valley Season 3: Graves County, Wrongful Conviction, Suave) launched a “live” investigation into David's conviction alongside Jason Baldwin (himself wrongfully convicted as a member of the West Memphis Three). Maggie had come to believe that the entire investigation of David was botched by the tiny local police department, or worse, covered up the real killer. Was Maggie correct? Was David’s claim of innocence credible? In Death and Deceit in Alliance, Maggie recounts the case that launched her career, and ultimately, “broke” her.” The results will shock the listener and reduce Maggie to tears and self-doubt. This is not your typical wrongful conviction story. In fact, it turns the genre on its head. It asks the question: What if our champions are foolish? Season 4 - The Burden: Get the Money and Run “Trying to murder my father, this was the thing that put me on the path.” That’s Joe Loya and that path was bank robbery. Bank, bank, bank, bank, bank. In season 4 of The Burden: Get the Money and Run, we hear from Joe who was once the most prolific bank robber in Southern California, and beyond. He used disguises, body doubles, proxies. He leaped over counters, grabbed the money and ran. Even as the FBI was closing in. It was a showdown between a daring bank robber, and a patient FBI agent. Joe was no ordinary bank robber. He was bright, articulate, charismatic, and driven by a dark rage that he summoned up at will. In seven episodes, Joe tells all: the what, the how… and the why. Including why he tried to murder his father. Season 3 - The Burden: Avenger Miriam Lewin is one of Argentina’s leading journalists today. At 19 years old, she was kidnapped off the streets of Buenos Aires for her political activism and thrown into a concentration camp. Thousands of her fellow inmates were executed, tossed alive from a cargo plane into the ocean. Miriam, along with a handful of others, will survive the camp. Then as a journalist, she will wage a decades long campaign to bring her tormentors to justice. Avenger is about one woman’s triumphant battle against unbelievable odds to survive torture, claim justice for the crimes done against her and others like her, and change the future of her country. Season 2 - The Burden: Empire on Blood Empire on Blood is set in the Bronx, NY, in the early 90s, when two young drug dealers ruled an intersection known as “The Corner on Blood.” The boss, Calvin Buari, lived large. He and a protege swore they would build an empire on blood. Then the relationship frayed and the protege accused Calvin of a double homicide which he claimed he didn’t do. But did he? Award-winning journalist Steve Fishman spent seven years to answer that question. This is the story of one man’s last chance to overturn his life sentence. He may prevail, but someone’s gotta pay. The Burden: Empire on Blood is the director’s cut of the true crime classic which reached #1 on the charts when it was first released half a dozen years ago. Season 1 - The Burden In the 1990s, Detective Louis N. Scarcella was legendary. In a city overrun by violent crime, he cracked the toughest cases and put away the worst criminals. “The Hulk” was his nickname. Then the story changed. Scarcella ran into a group of convicted murderers who all say they are innocent. They turned themselves into jailhouse-lawyers and in prison founded a lway firm. When they realized Scarcella helped put many of them away, they set their sights on taking him down. And with the help of a NY Times reporter they have a chance. For years, Scarcella insisted he did nothing wrong. But that’s all he’d say. Until we tracked Scarcella to a sauna in a Russian bathhouse, where he started to talk..and talk and talk. “The guilty have gone free,” he whispered. And then agreed to take us into the belly of the beast. Welcome to The Burden.