Is India becoming a digital colony? Unlike China which has its own
internet platforms and controls its domestic data, India is a major user
of US internet services. Indian citizens’ and govt data are
vulnerable because they are hosted in USA. GOI does not understand the
terrible consequences of such dependency on the economy and national
security.
China Mines Silicon Valley for Tech Talent: Alarmed that a brain drain to China may erode the U.S.’s technological edge and weaken national security, the Trump administration is trying to restrict Chinese ownership of some tech companies.
Parking lots over fresh air:
The decision to cut trees have sparked off much furore and public
agitation in Delhi. Many areas witnessed reverberations of the Chipko
Movement.
Own goal: By imposing 43% tax on hybrid cars, govt has killed the Indian electric vehicle industry. India hurts itself even as China has become the world’s largest EV/hybrid car manufacturer
By imposing 43% tax on hybrid cars, govt has killed the Indian electric vehicle industry. Sales plunge to near zero. Another own goal by @FinMinIndia. Read how India hurts itself even as China has become the world’s largest EV/hybrid car manufacturer pic.twitter.com/35XhbwEbzN
Not so global: Cricket has over one billion fans globally, with the Indian sub-continent alone constituting more than 90 per cent of them
Why Swami Laxmanananda was killed: Noting that most of the cadre members and supporters in Orissa belonged to Christian community, Panda said, 'It is a fact that Christians are in majority in our organisation. Our supporters in Orissa's Rayagada, Gajapati and Kandhamal also belonged to Christian community.'
Germany fears massive job loss due to electric cars: The EV powertrain utilizes only about one-sixth of the components of an ICE powertrain. Battery production will require only a fifth of the workforce, when compared with an engine plant
Curbing tech exports to China: Trump plans to bar many Chinese firms from investing in U.S. technology and by blocking more technology exports to Beijing. “Made in China 2025” is Beijing’s industrial plan to dominate high-tech
industries including robotics, aerospace and computer chips.
Wooden cycle: Coimbatore-based PK Murugesan has crafted a bicycle using Boiling Water Proof engineering plywood .
Benami properties: Income-tax dept attaches over 1,500 unaccounted properties worth Rs 43 billion across the country. The benami legislation was reworked and made more stringent by the current govt from November 2016.
Corporate loan defaults: First steel, now power sector - Indian banks stare at $38 billion hair-cut.
IndLangs: “Startup's Skype classes aimed at bringing Indian languages to the fore”.
Reciprocal tariffs: India slaps tariffs on 29 items from the US. However, ‘motorcycles above 800cc’ dropped from the list.
Dust Bowl: Rising temperatures, changing weather patterns, depleting groundwater, unsustainable agriculture and deforestation are turning large parts of North India into a Dust Bowl.
Two-Wheeled Gyro Car: The two-wheeled electric car of the future is being tested in China: During a test drive, the gyrocar was quiet and stable, and more nimble than a traditional car when making turns.
EVs in India: Kia to build electric cars in India by late 2019
Vegan footed: As customers turn away from leather shoes, the beef industry is left with a glut of hides
Water Purification: Scientist create cheap and effective water filtration medium from the Moringa Oleifera (drumsticks), a tree native to India. Kills microorganisms and reduces turbidity, adhering to particulate and organic matter.
Invented at Duke, financed in China:
After failing to win financial backers, hitech spy camera startup moves
to China. The technology, never picked up by the US govt, is being used
by Chinese police to identify people from nearly a football field away.
Chinese emergence pioneering technologies.
Ireland takes on the Catholic Church:
Under a school admissions bill that passed the lower house of the Irish
parliament, Catholic elementary schools would be barred from
discriminating in favor of children of their own “religious ethos.” ...
when will secular India do this?
New dimension: Chariot From Pre-Iron Age Found During Excavation in UP's Sanauli
Ather Energy: The launch of this e-scooter is a moment of reckoning for India’s EV market.
Bike-friendly: Contributing to the larger movement of making Bengaluru roads friendly for cyclists, residents of Sanjaynagar plan to restrict motor vehicles to designated hours on certain days of every month.
Reality check:
Unlike the US and China which have hundreds of educational programmes
in data science and AI, India has next-to-nothing. Only 4% of AI
professionals in the country have worked on cutting-edge technologies
like deep learning and neural networks.
Wipe out:
Cumulative losses at public sector banks were large enough to wipe out
almost all of the govt's capital injections of $13 billion in 2017-18
