Quick notes: Cellphone chips, Russian help...

• How Cellphone Chips Became a National-Security Concern: The U.S. makes clear that containing China’s growing clout in wireless technology is now a national-security priority.... US fears China winning on 5G: “A shift to Chinese dominance in 5G would have substantial negative national security consequences for the United States.”



• Pakistan is warming up to Russia: Russian engines for JF-17 fighter jets that Pakistan's military assembles on its own soil.



• Some good sense, finally: Ministry invites suggestions from public on move to trim school curriculum



• Flying Officer Avani Chaturvedi: India's first woman to fly a fighter aircraft is a product of vernacular medium.

I've done my schooling from a Hindi medium school. The journey of being a fighter pilot has been about a lot of learning. I'm still in the training phase of being an independent pilot: Flying Officer Avani Chaturvedi. #WomensDay pic.twitter.com/EJff1udyPJ

— ANI (@ANI) March 8, 2018




• India’s non-English literature on the internet: Bengaluru-based Pratilipi is building a bridge between writers and readers looking for fiction, non-fiction, poetry and more in Hindi, Gujarati. Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Malayalam, Kannada, and Bengali.



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• Balkrishna Doshi: The Pritzker Prize finally recognizes the genius of Indian architecture. Balkrishna Doshi, a 90-year old architect and academic is the recipient of this year’s Pritzker Architecture Prize, the “Nobel prize of architecture”



• Hydrogen Train: Britain is the latest on a small but growing list of countries eyeing hydrogen trains.