My name is A.K. Raja, I am the owner of a local online news source in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India called “CHENNOW: Your news NOW”. We have a very large following of working class citizens and university students throughout the city. Chennai is a working class city as India’s largest producer of automobiles and second largest provider for IT services in the entire country. Though we are the automobile hub of the country, our leading cause of death is road accidents. We also have poor public transportation. To top all of this off, we are facing a real water crisis, and the government is not even able to provide even half of the amount of water necessary for our population of 4.6 million. Below you will find some of our Headlines for February 15th.
16 people were either injured or killed in an automobile/bus crash on Chennai’s National Hwy
45, yesterday afternoon. This is the 6th notable crash in the last 4 days in Chennai.
Tomorrow,the Indian National Cricket team will be practicing at the Chemplast Cricket Ground. Attend to Meet the team before they head to Sri Lanka for their next test.
At least 2.5 of Chennai’s 4.6 million residents could be facing water shortages in the next month. The
Chennai Square reservoir inflow is decreasing each day which poses a major problem for the city.
For the first time in history, the Pollution rates in Chennai have passed those of New Delhi.
Peaceful talks take place in the Indian territory of Jammu & Kashmir, Pakistan seeks to cooperate.
Expressions of love line the faces of Chennaiites as they celebrate happiness throughout the day
Of Our Public holiday Maha Shivaratri on 2/14.
Rights for women continue to make progress throughout the country
HR:https://propstory.com/top-5-infrastructural-problems-in-chennai/
It has been a very rough past few years for FC Saffron of Bangladesh, and their fans, and The Cows have been hampered and heckled by their longtime rivals, the Lions of Green FC at every turn, both on and off the field. In Dhaka today, crowds of rowdy Lions Fans were seen assaulting the Homes of the Cows and their very small fanbase in droves. FC Saffron had 15 Pubs and homes of more than 100 fans looted by Green’s Mobs. These mobs were allegedly triggered by an offensive facebook post on the homepage of a small FC Saffron group, which depicted the Saffron Cow grazing on the grass at FC Green’s Stadium. Authorities are being criticized for not taking steps to protect the FC Saffron fans, as large mobs mobilized at FC Green Pubs and attacked Cow fans with “long, hard sticks and locally made sharp weapons.” At least 20 people, including a player for the Cows, were wounded. Authorities have downplayed the damage, and the FC Saffron fan who posted the ‘offensive image’ was arrested Saturday. Saffron fans only make up 11 percent of football club fans in Bangladesh, where FC Green fans are the vast majority.
I pretty much just copied the article/pertinent bits of the article, tweaking bits here and their to make it sound like a run of the mill, albeit violent, dispute between two rival soccer teams. Fan disputes are not uncommon in the footballing world, and it is a popular sport in Bangladesh.
HR: None
Source: Julfikar Ali Manik and Ellen Barry. “Hindu Temples and Homes in Bangladesh Are Attacked by Muslim Crowds.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 2 Nov. 2016, http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/03/world/asia/hindu-muslim-bangladesh.html.
In order to maximize the opportunity to get something out to the public in Pakistan with considerable coverage and speed, one will have to look at many variables and obstacles. Most of the grievances expressed by progressive writers/ citizens involve politically or religiously charged themes. Whenever the government senses criticism or feels like their authority is being challenged, they promptly monitor, even shut down, levels of Internet access to its citizens. Beyond the basic challenge of fear for personal safety, Internet activists must pursue a means of exposure and expression that will reach the masses quickly, and with some sort of lasting or permanent effect. People have been killed or threatened for something as seemingly innocent as liking a Facebook post, so anonymity would be optimal as well. This would potentially require the activist to hold a position with access to a mass number of points of contact to everyday citizens, such as cell phone numbers or email addresses. Ideally, this could also be reached through some sort of hacking, which is above my head. If somebody could somehow send a mass message through email or text message (which the government may not be able to immediately remove or censor, especially with screenshots and all those types of things) with the various government wrongdoings or common grievances of the people, traction could be gained. Some sort of action plan could also be formulated, but might be even more optimal at a later time after the initial message has had time to develop and seep into the cracks of the population without immediate Internet access.
HR: https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-net/2017/pakistan