Quick notes: Indian surrender, TVR Shenoy...

• Accepting defeat: India has sought China's assistance to speed up Bengaluru-Chennai railway corridor besides redevelopment of Agra and Jhansi railway stations.



• China is winning the 5G race: “When you control telco networks, you can control everything”.



• Unhealthy state: Share of exports in GDP at 14-year low of 19.4%



• Corporate debt to equity is at all-time high: The biggest ever fire sale of Indian corporate assets has begun, to tide over bad loans crisis



• Corporates make 73% of bad loans: Rs 4.70 lakh crore worth of public sector bank bad loans were due to loans extended to industry.



• Trade deficit with China doubles in a decade. “Chinese exports to India rely strongly on manufactured items while India’s exports to China are mostly primary and intermediate products (ores, slag and ash, cotton etc)”.... Chinese ports have hoarded enough steel to produce 100 million cars.



• Feeding our next East India overlords: Amazon's India bet is paying off big time



• TVR Shenoy: India's First 'Sangh Journalist'... Editor who saw the future.
  
  
  



• Grasshopper: A learn-to-code app from Google’s Area 120 incubator



• Water From the Sun: Solar-powered water pumps offer farmers a way out of poverty



• Language route to tackle Maoist issue: The govt can't talk in tribal languages and doesn't understand what's the largely Gondi-speaking sons and daughters of the soil wished to convey. The tribes on the other hand consider Hindi as a language of the upper caste. Because of the language divide, welfare schemes don't percolate to them in forests.