 Hello and welcome to News Clicks Daily Roundup. Due to some technical difficulty, we're having to record this episode again. Well, I am Aditi. I am Surangya and here are today's top stories. In the second round of privatization of airports, government plans to hand over 25 airports to private owners. Tribals in Urissab protest against Vedanta's box-site mine in Urissab. 29 workers' unions together in a joint forum demand minimum wages. Six activists in Venezuela assassinated. Thousands march in Colombia in defense of social leaders and more. Our top story today is that the government is working on a proposal to privatize 20 to 25 airports currently being managed by the Airport Authority of India, said Guru Prasad Mohapatra, chairperson of AAI. AAI is in the process of identifying airports with a traffic of 1 to 1.5 million passengers annually. This is the second round of privatization as six airports are already in the process of being privatized. Out of these, Adani enterprises had won the bid to take over the operations and management of three airports. Bangalore, Lucknow and Ahmedabad earlier this month. In February, the Adani group had applied for the contract of all six airports. The AAI had chosen the winner on the basis of the per-passenger fee offered by the bidders. Though the Adani group had emerged as the highest bidder for all the remaining three airports, the government is yet to finalize the decision. Among these in the case of Tiruvananthapuram airport, the center has been facing strong resistance from the left democratic front government in Kerala. Soon after the center's in-principle approval, the state government had approached the Kerala High Court, challenging the AAI's arbitrary and illegal attempt to opt a private entity for the management of the airports. On March 5 this year, in a red petition, the state government had stated, the AAI's move to hand over the airport to Adani group was a violation of the provisions of the AAI Act, as well as the property rights of the state government in regards to the airport land. For a second story, thousands of tribals are braving the reins in Kodingamali Hill of Orissa to ensure that the bauxite mining by Vedanta Group be stopped. An indefinite strike has been launched by the tribals from across 22 villages. The villagers are currently blocking the road leading to the mines, which is resulting in the suspension of the transport of bauxite from Kodingamali to the Kakariguma railway station. The residents of these villages claim that they were tricked into surrendering their land in the name of infrastructural development and employment generation. During the previous protests, the petition was also filed in the National Green Tribunal against the land acquisition by social activist Prafulla Samantra, who had stated that the land acquisition by the government violates the 2006 Forests Rights Act. The project had started in 2018. The Orissa Mining Corporation signed an MOU with Indian mining company Vedanta to supply 70% of the bauxite obtained from Kodingamali to Vedanta's refinery in Kalahandi district. Vedanta had earlier been importing bauxite from countries like Brazil and Guinea, as well as neighbouring states like Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh to feed its 2 million tonnes per random refinery. In 2017, the Orissa Mining Corporation received forest clearance for developing a new bauxite mine in 435 hectares of forest land in the Kodingamali Hill region. Villagers now allege that the mining project had been started against the wishes of the residents of the area and without the consent of the Gram Sabhas. Moreover, the project and the movement of the trucks is destroying the fields of the locals with small water bodies being polluted from the waste generation of the plant. Today, in protest against the indifference of the West Bengal state machinery, the Joint Forum, which is a platform of about 29 workers' unions, held a meeting and decided to send a memorandum to all fitting authorities of the government and the Planters Association on August 1. The tea plantation workers will also observe a united peaceful rally on the same day to press for their long-standing demands. Their grievances include non-enforcement of minimum wages, non-implementation of Food Security Act and an absence of a provision of land deed to landless tea garden residents, among other things. Minimum wages for the tea workers in West Bengal remains a dream despite 5 years of solidarity movements, more than 20 committee meetings with the state government and numerous strikes and lockouts. In February 2015, a tripartite agreement was signed with the Mamta Banerjee Government to implement minimum wages. A wage advisory committee was created to review the minimum wage, which in August 2018 proposed Rs 172 per day, which included compensation for procuring food grains. The Joint Forum, however, made a counter-proposal of Rs 239 per day to also include fringe benefits such as housing, medical facilities and other such necessities. The state government though, in December 2018, agreed to these demands has not acted upon the deliberations put forth by the Joint Forum. The Unnau rape survivor who had accused BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar of raping her in 2017 and her lawyer were critically injured and two of her aunts were killed when a car in which they were travelling collided with a truck in Gorbakh Shkanj area of Rai Bareilly on Sunday afternoon. The rape survivor's mother has claimed that this was a planned attack and not just an unfortunate coincidence. This was done to try and wipe out the family, she added. She also claimed that the son of the co-accused, in the rape case, threatened to kill them earlier. The accident happened while the family was on its way to meet the woman's uncle who is lodged in Rai Bareilly jail in a separate case. Take a look at what senior journalist Abhisar Sharma has to say on the issue. There comes a truck in front of it, that truck which has no number, whose number is given to the driver, and the truck puts the car in the wrong direction. The result? The death of the two relatives of Gangre Pidda, the lawyer and himself Gangre Pidda's condition is very serious. Today we would like to ask you a question. What if this is not Gundar Raj? If this is not Jungle Raj, then what is it? In the Hindi films of the 70s and 80s, there used to be a truck like this and the relatives of Naik and Naika would go to Rond. What is going on in Yogi Raj? Today we would like to ask you a question. If we look at the case, the CBI was doing it. According to some reports, Gangre Pidda's family said that we were being suppressed and that we should take the case back. Then why didn't the CBI do the work? How did this happen? Gangre Pidda was protected by four people, three women constable and one gunman. How did this happen? Suddenly these four people are not with them? What is being done? Because there were so many people in the car, so we couldn't go. It is said that you can fool the people of the country who have the power of religion in their mind. But not those who are looking for the logic and logic in every issue. Do we have any answer to this incident today? You will have to pay attention to some questions today. Despite Gangre Pidda being R.O.P, why didn't Kuldeep Singh Sengar get out of the BJP party? This person was in jail. And despite being in jail, Sakshi Maharaj went to jail to meet this person. Shameless and shameless. And now this happens with Gangre Pidda. But the time when Gangre Pidda is passing by is not now. First of all, I would like to tell you that when this incident came out, Gangre Pidda tried to burn himself in front of the Chief Minister's office with his family. After that, Kuldeep Singh Sengar's friends destroyed his father. Do you remember those pictures of the police station? After those pictures, his father died. Then, in a secret way, the witness of Gangre Pidda dies. One question is that why didn't R.A.A. get out of Gangre Pidda? Why didn't R.A.A. prove that he was a political party member? This Gangre Pidda is facing torture for a long time. Then why is the National Commission for Women silent? Teachers of Jawaharlal Nehru University have voiced their criticism over the imposition of Central Civil Services or CCS conduct rules 1964 saying they are against the spirit of a university. These rules that apply to all government officials were on the agenda of the 147th Academic Council meeting held on Saturday and guide the conduct and service for teachers and staff based on the government's regulations. Professor Surajit Mazumdar said under these rules economic professors can be punished for discussing economic policy. Political scientists can be punished for discussing politics. Scientists can be punished for discussing government science policy and so on. The teachers explained that the strictures on publication mean that routine academic work of writing and publishing papers becomes a violation of service conditions. The universities are autonomous bodies and the nature of the work of the teachers is not the same as other government officials they added. This is Professor Avinash Kumar highlighting exactly why the implementation of CCS rules on teachers is a problem. The current Vice Chancellor has come here. Since then we have seen and we have also seen evidences that he has made a parliamentary act of the JNU Act. The protest call of the JNU Act on July 31, 2018 was also against the fact that you are doing the JNU Act. You are not able to hear what the students are saying about the contribution of the JNU Act. So we gave this protest call to save the JNU Act. In the past 4 years, our Vice Chancellor has invited CCS conduct rules. Now you know that CCS conduct rules were tried once again in 2018. This was against the country. CCS conduct rules are not defined in any way by the university teachers according to their rules. Now look at Rule 1 and Rule 2 in CCS conduct rules. You will see that teachers do not count according to their own definition. Now you have seen that CCS conduct rules are established in 1964. Now if the university teachers come under CCS conduct rules, then this was said in 1964. But for the first time, CCS conducted this in July-August-September in 2018. After that, the students tried to explain to the students how they do not come under the government. Because if you read the rules of CCS conduct rules, then even if the rule is 5, it is said that according to rule 5, no student can be a member of any political party. Now you know that if the students do not contribute to the politics, then the politics will be different. Now you know that even now, there are many such students who contribute to the politics. As you can see, the previous government adopted the policy of demonetization. So, the benefits and losses of demonetization. If the benefits and losses are not studied on both the things, and especially, there are many benefits of demonetization that you cannot see while staying under the government. Because we are not a government servant, the students who do research with them understand new benefits and losses. There are a lot of political parties. Apart from that, if you read the rules, then it tells the CCS conduct rules that you cannot publish articles. You cannot publish the output of the research. So, if the university teachers do not do all this, then what will they do? In an emergency meeting of the Palestine Liberation Organization, after Israel raised down several residential buildings in the Palestinian village of Surbahar. Agreements between the Palestinian Authority and Israel signed over the last 25 years. Cover matters ranging from water usage, electricity, economic relations, security, etc. In a speech in Ramallah, Abbas said, We announced the leadership's decision to stop implementing the agreement signed with the Israeli side. We will not bow to the dictates and imposing a faith accompli by force in Jerusalem and elsewhere. Earlier last week, Israel had demolished residential buildings in the village of Surbahar, situated between occupied East Jerusalem and occupied West Bank. Abbas said that hundreds of people from Surbahar have ended up displaced and that it is a clear breach of international law and a clear breach of international resolutions and all the peace agreements signed between the Palestinian Authority and Israel. Meanwhile, last week in Gaza, Israel shot and killed a 23-year-old Palestinian man during the weekly Friday protests at the Gaza-Israel border. The Gaza Health Ministry said on Saturday that Ahmad Al-Qaeda died as a result of wounds sustained from the Israeli occupation forces fired the previous day. 56 other Palestinians were injured in the protests, 38 of which were hit and injured by life ammunition. 22 of the injured were under the age of 17. Moving on to the second story, on Saturday, July 27, in Bahrainas, Venezuela, unidentified armed men, shot and killed six activists from the organization La Corriente and the popular defense brigade Hugo Chavez. The organization La Corriente denounced the assassination early Sunday and wrote that the armed men were likely mercenaries paid by sectors of the right-wing large landowners in the zone. They said that due to the way that the massacre was perpetrated, it would appear that the armed men had military training and it is likely that some of them were from Colombian paramilitary groups, ex Venezuelan police or were common criminals. They highlighted that the group called the Colombian Venezuelan Autodefense had systematically attacked military units of the National Bolivarian Armed Forces and threatened Chavez the activists. They classified the attack as part of the imperialist intervention in the country. The massacre was denounced widely by organizations across Latin America. Moving on to Colombia, on July 26, tens of thousands of people took to the streets in over 100 cities in the country and over 30 cities worldwide in defense of the lives of Colombia's social leaders and human rights defenders. Dozens of social movements, organizations, political parties, trade unions and civil society organizations participated in the massive protests to call attention to what many are deeming a genocide against Colombia's social leaders and impunity for those responsible. Colombian organizations have estimated that over 800 social leaders, human rights defenders as well as ex-combatants of the revolutionary armed forces of Colombia and their family members have been assassinated since 2016. The mobilizations in Colombia and across the world were an important moment not only to denounce government in action on the plight of social leaders but also to remember those who have been assassinated. In many cities people read out the names of the over 800 social leaders who have been killed displayed over 10 meter long panels with all of the names of the assassinated written down. One of the largest marches was in the Colombian capital Bogota. At one point during the March Colombian right wing president Iván Díuc attempted to join but protesters heckled him yelling assassin. The right wing government of Iván Díuc has failed to protect the social and peasant leaders of Colombia who are repeatedly being targeted and killed by paramilitary forces operating in the country. He has also failed to carry out the peace process with the National Liberation Army and is considered responsible for the impunity being enjoyed by the killers of social leaders. Finally, the island of Negros in southern Philippines witnessed its 83rd extrajudicial killing yesterday. On July 28th, Ana Ciancino Rosalita was murdered by unidentified gunmen in front of dozens of witnesses at a marketplace in Calao and city in Negros Oriental. This is the 15th civilian reported to have been murdered this month on the island. The day before the murder of Rosalita, two activists including city council members were murdered in broad daylight under similar circumstances. Activists and civil society members came forward yesterday to condemn the violence while church leaders ordered to begin a daily demonstration of ringing church bells every evening until the killing stops. Even though violence is common across the Philippines, Negros has been particularly affected with activists present in trade union leaders being specifically targeted by unidentified gunmen who are suspected to be proxies of the police in military. Ever since Rodrigo Duterte assumed the presidency in 2016, 84 murders have taken place on the island under suspicious circumstances. And with this, we wrap up the international news for the day.