Episode Transcript
This is a catch up on three things by the
Indian Express and I'm Flora Swine. Today's the thirty first
of December, and here are the headlines on New Year's
Eve for one last time in twenty twenty five. In
top story today, a twenty five year old married woman
was allegedly gang raped inside a moving van and later
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thrown onto the road, suffering serious head injuries. According to
police today, the incident took place late on Monday after
the two accused offered her a lift while she was
waiting for transport. According to a complaint filed by the
woman's sister, the accused, who are natives of Uttar Pradesh
and Madhe Pradesh who were living in Faridabad, have been arrested.
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Police said the woman, who had been staying with her
parents due to marital discord, had visited a friend in
Sected twenty three on Monday evening. While returning late at night,
she accepted a lift offered by the doo. In other
news of the day, after an initial round of strikes
on Christmas Day that disrupted operations delivery workers from platforms
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such as Swiggy, Zomato, Blinket and Zepto, launched a second
wave of protests on New Year's Eve today, demanding a
ban on ten minute deliveries. In a letter to Union
Labor Minister mansukmand Via the Indian Federation of App Based
Transport Workers that is, the IPAT, which is leading the protests,
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called the rapid delivery model unsafe. The union also demanded
fair and transparent wages, regulation of delivery platforms under the
newly notified labor codes and formal recognition of workers' rights
to organize and collectively bargain. Moving on, as Mumbai approaches
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civic elections scheduled for the fifteenth of January, an investigation
by The Indian Express has found that the bj P
led Mahayuti alliance has been strongly favored in the allocation
of development funds. Records obtained under the RTI Act show
that over the past three years, more than ninety nine
percent of the Brihan Mumbai Municipal Corporation funds earmarked for
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civic works were directed to wards represented by Mahayuti legislators.
Between February twenty twenty three and October twenty twenty five,
the BMC sanctioned over one thousand, four hundred and ninety
point sixty six prow rupees for projects including road repairs,
drainage upgrades, health facilities and neighborhood beautification and in some
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international news of the day, Chinese Foreign Minister Vangi said
yesterday the tensions between India and Pakistan were among the
global hotspot issues mediated by China this year. Speaking at
the Symposium on the International Situation in China's Foreign Relations
in Beijing, Wang said China had taken an objective and
just stance to address both the symptoms and root causes
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of conflicts. He listed Northern Miyamar, the Iranian nuclear issue, Palestine, Israel, Cambodia, Thailand,
and India Pakistan among the cases. Meanwhile, New Delhi has
consistently maintained that the seventh to tenth of May conflict
earlier this year was resolved solely through direct talks between
the dgmos of the two countries that is India and Pakistan.
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Moving on to West Asia, Iran has seen widespread protests
over the past few days after its currency hit record
lows on the unofficial market. The demonstrations began with shopkeepers
in Tehran who shut their stores for a second consecutive
day yesterday to protest economic hardship. By today, the unrest
has spread to universities, with students joining bizarre merchants. According
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to Reuters, Iran's real has lost nearly half its value
against a US dollar in twenty twenty five, while inflation
rose to forty two points five percent this month. Today,
the currency fell to one point four million reals per dollar,
compared with eight hundred and seventeen thousand, five hundred at
the start of this year. That's all for today. This
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was a catch up on three things by the Indian Express.
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