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The LDF leadership also distanced itself from the attack on Gandhi’s office
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Sarma outrightedly rejected charges of aiding a coup against Maharashtra CM Uddhav by hosting rebel MLAs at a five-star hotel in Guwahati
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Sources said she called them up personally and spoke to them before filing her nomination for the July 18 presidential election
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Thackeray refuses to quit as 1 more MLA rebels
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Murmu is pitted against former Union minister Yashwant Sinha, who is the joint candidate of the Opposition camp
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India will hold the G20 presidency from December 1 this year and convene the G20 leaders’ summit in 2023 for the first time
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The online exam will be held between July 24 and 31. The provisional select list is expected to be out by December 1
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UNITED NATIONS, Jun 24: Ambassador Munir Akram, Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the UN on Thursday said that India had denied the right of self-determination to the Kashmiri people, in violation of multiple Security Council resolutions.
Also, he blamed India for its continued widespread and systematic violations of human rights and international humanitarian law, including war crimes and crimes against humanity in the occupied Jammu & Kashmir.
While addressing to a thematic debate in the 193-member UN General Assembly on the doctrine of responsibility to protect (R2P), Ambassador Munir Akram said the concept of R2P rests upon three pillars: the responsibility of each state to protect its populations; the responsibility of the international community to assist states in protecting their populations; and the responsibility of the international community to protect when a state is manifestly failing to protect its populations.)
“One specific circumstance where those provisions would apply is in situations of foreign occupation or alien domination,” the Pakistani envoy said, adding that such situations were often rife with pressing human rights emergencies and could easily spiral to genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
“Yet, we have not heard from the concept’s sponsors about the need for ‘collective action’ to protect the people of occupied Palestine or of Indian-occupied Jammu & Kashmir,” Ambassador Akram added.
For more than seven decades, he said the proponents of R2P have observed a deafening silence on these Indian crimes in occupied Jammu and Kashmir”.
The concept of R2P should also be invoked to prevent the danger of an impending genocide against the 200 million Muslims of India, the Pakistani envoy went on to say.
“No one can be unaware of the systematic campaign underway in India by the ruling adherents of Hindutva to suppress Muslims and to eliminate the rich legacy of Islam in India,” he said, adding, “Muslims are murdered by lynch mobs; subjected to periodic pogroms; robbed of their livelihoods and citizenship under the patronage and with the encouragement of the ruling BJP-RSS government.”
Most recently, the ambassador said, hundreds of thousands of Muslims, who took to the streets to protest the Indian government’s complicity to the denigration of the Holy Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him), have been subject to the worst form of violation of their basic human rights, with the homes of Muslims protestors having been unlawfully bulldozed as a form of collective punishment.
“These Indian crimes fall squarely within the ambit of the World Summit’s decisions on R2P. We call upon the international community, in particular the proponents of R2P for the sake of their own credibility, to come forward and offer protection to the people of Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmir, and Muslim and other religious minorities in India,” he said.
“Universal and consistent adherence to the purposes and principles of the UN Charter is imperative to ensure the legitimacy of doctrines like R2P, and to ensure universal accountability and justice for all grave and systematic violations of human rights and international law.”
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Her nomination papers are being prepared at Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi’s residence
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As on date, 10 states — Maharashtra, Kerala, Delhi, Karnataka, TN, Haryana, UP, Telangana, W Bengal, Gujarat — have over 1000 active cases
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With this, seven more MLAs have joined the rebel group in the last 24 hours
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Modi likely first proposer; other leaders to accompany her
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Modi suggested that the BRICS Business Forum can set up a platform for exchanges with Indian start-ups
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Uddhav Thackeray has also offered to quit as the president of the Shiv Sena
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Mamata Banerjee may send her nephew MP Abhishek Banerjee
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Indian vegan seafood startup SeaSpire has unveiled a plant-based snapper fish analogue created using bio-printing. The company says the seven-ingredient alternative is clean label and the first of its kind in the APAC region. It was created using a proprietary printing platform that has sought to capture the texture of conventional fish using AI for precision results.
The startup was founded to fill a gap in the alternative protein sector. SeaSpire cites a lack of whole-cut products that can act as a 1:1 substitute for conventional seafood as its driving motivation. Tackling what it identifies as a major challenge within the APAC region, SeaSpire has developed technology that can combine plant and synthetic biomass into one realistic whole-muscle analogue, on a commercial scale.
SeaSpire’s co-founders. Bringing alternative seafood to the APAC region
SeaSpire is currently working on creating a fully operational base within India, specifically to cater to the APAC region as a whole. To date, it has undertaken its R&D activities in New Zealand. An expansion to India is key, as the country has been specifically noted as a key driver for the plant-based meat sector. SeaSpire is hoping to replicate the trend with alternative seafood.
“We see greenfield opportunities when it comes to alt-seafoods in the largest seafood consuming regions like India and south-east Asia and aim to drive category growth in this region with a range of healthy and delectable alt-seafood starting with our whole-muscle whitefish filets,” Shantanu Dhangar, co-founder of SeaSpire said in a statement.
The company hopes to benefit from product development and testing within New Zealand, a country renowned for its seafood with commercial-scale manufacturing to follow in India. From here, it claims it will look to roll out finished products across both. It has also named Australasia and Singapore as markets it is keen to move into as part of an APAC-wide expansion.
“We need smart proteins and even a smarter production infrastructure to address sustainable food transition for future generations,” Varun Gadodia, co-founder of SeaSpire Said in a statement. “Reducing supply chain stress, ingredient innovations and upcycling feedstock are supporting pillars for our success at SeaSpire.”
SeaSpire will be debuting its snapper analogue at the Tomorrow’s Protein Summit, an event hosted by XPRIZE, later in the year. 2023 is slated for the startup’s first commercial launch.
The new wave of alternative seafood
2022 has seen multiple new seafood analogues unveiled by startups from around the world. Each is looking to remove the need for commercial fishing by developing increasingly realistic alternatives that look, taste and function like their conventional counterparts.
With up to 90 percent of the world’s fish stocks already depleted, the need for alternative protein sources is clear. Marine biodiversity is in a perilous state but so is human health. Consumers are starting to understand that seafood, while often touted as a healthier alternative to red meat, contains toxins, heavy metals and microplastics that have an impact on wellbeing.
Taking a different tack from many, tempeh startup Better Nature is looking to use traditional fermentation techniques to create mycelium biomass-based alternative seafood products. The company is looking to use food industry by-products in its process and has been awarded a £350k grant from Innovate U.K. to continue its R&D. Better Nature says that its seafood will be equivalent, if not superior to conventional fish across all metrics, including nutrition.
Paris-based startup Seafood Reboot closed a €3.2 million pre-seed funding round in May to support its alternative seafood efforts. The company is looking to leverage seaweed as a key ingredient in its developments and hopes to have a pilot production facility completed by early 2023. So far, Seafood Reboot has been careful not to release too much information but it does state that its end products will be vegan and non-GMO.
All photos by SeaSpire.
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There must be a sense among the citizens that rule of law prevails in the country, the apex court observed
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ASEAN is considered one of the most influential groupings in the region, and India and several other countries are its dialogue partners
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In Muzaffarpur town, a large number of Army aspirants vented their ire by placing burning tyres on the roads
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The daily positivity rate was recorded at 2.35 per cent while the weekly positivity rate was at 2.38 per cent
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Opposition leaders will again meet on June 21 to finalise their common candidate for the President’s post
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Ashok Gehlot said these past eight years would be marked as the ‘black chapter in India’s history’
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The bidders would be given an option to surrender the spectrum after 10 years with no future liabilities with respect to balance instalments
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The leaders who would likely to take part in the meeting include HD Deve Gowda, HD Kumaraswamy and Mehbooba Mufti
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Mamata arrives in Delhi to galvanise opposition effors
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After the completion of four years, up to 25% of the Agniveers from a batch would be selected to serve as regular cadre in the armed forces
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Senior Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge pitched for Pawar’s name as the opposition’s joint candidate for the presidential polls
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Delhi Police personnel were deployed in huge numbers and section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure was imposed around the ED’s office
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The direction from Modi came following a review of the status of human resources in all government departments and ministries
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Congress talks to Mamata on joint strategy for Presidential polls
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