Quick notes: Minority status, Russian link...

• Constitution discriminates against Hindus: Minority Commission has original jurisdiction to decide on the minority status of an existing educational institution.



• One more link with Russia is cut: Indo-Russian 5th-Gen fighter is dead. Ajit Doval asks the Russia to go ahead on their own. F-35 Lightning II's prospects brighten.



• Science education in English is exclusionary: Principal Scientific Adviser K. Vijay Raghavan



•  Why Israel decided to revive Hebrew: “Reclaiming the Jewish homeland and righting the wrong of Roman imperialism that led to our exile isn't just about location, it is also about mindset. The mindset of Yiddish is the same as the mindset of willfully and passively going like sheep to the slaughter during the Holocaust and during pogroms prior. To truly stand up for ourselves and be a free people in our land, our language must truly be our own, not a bastardized mix of Hebrew and another language of our exile”.



• Suicidal obsession with cars: The social cost of congestion stands at Rs 60,000 crore annually for Delhi while the number for Bengaluru is Rs 37,000 crore.



• Electric Buses Are Hurting the Oil Industry: About 279,000 barrels a day of fuel won’t be needed this year. Every five weeks, Chinese cities add 9,500 electric buses—the equivalent of London’s entire working fleet.



• DuckDuckGo: The private search engine standing up to Google



• India cannot get what Europe can: Facebook to put 1.5 billion users out of reach of new EU privacy law



• Don`t be afraid of emptiness: