Millet Man of India - Dr Khader Vali: “Dietary preferences were changed during the green revolution.
Traditional food grains like millets took a back seat, as they were
being considered too primitive for the modern population”.
“Any food that takes a longer time to break down the glucose and
fructose to be absorbed by the blood is truly healthy. While Ragi takes
almost two hours to break down, positive grains or millets take more
than six hours. As opposed to this, rice only takes 45 minutes to be
absorbed by the blood, thus increasing the risk of diabetes.” . . . . Millets— India's age-old super-food.
English medium burden on India: Indian students scored lower than those in China, Russia and the US in Computer Science skills
In monotheistic traditions the One Deity excludes all other deities. In Hindu Dharma the One Deity includes all other deities - and dwells as the Self in the hearts of all beings.
The issue is not one of conversion to a belief but of an inner Self-realisation.
Caliphate gone but ISIS is alive: About 14,000 ISIS fighters are still in Syria and Iraq and are believed to have blended in with the local population.
Syrian Kurds under threat after IS 'caliphate' falls: The presence of American troops in areas held by Kurdish-led SDF had acted as a shield against any Turkish offensive. But Trump in December shocked Washington's allies by announcing a full withdrawal of all 2,000 US troops from Syria."The Kurds are facing an uncertain future. The most urgent threat appears to be from Turkey".
Standing upto the US:
China refuses to concede on U.S. demands to ease curbs on tech firms.
Rejects requests to reduce limits on overseas data transfers and to
relax a requirement for companies to store data locally.
Google is helping China and their military, but not the U.S. Terrible! The good news is that they helped Crooked Hillary Clinton, and not Trump....and how did that turn out?
Don't be evil: Google is helping China's People's Liberation Army, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has told Congress on Thursday. "The work that Google is doing in China is indirectly benefitting the Chinese military. Frankly, 'indirect' may be not be a full characterization of the way it
really is. It's more of a direct benefit to the Chinese military". Google announced last year that it will cease working with the Pentagon on a project to have artificial intelligence analyze footage from drones, yet it has opened an artificial intelligence center in Beijing. "I have a hard time with companies that are working very hard to engage in the market inside of China, and engaging in projects where intellectual property is shared with the Chinese, which is synonymous with sharing it with the Chinese military, and then don't want to work for the U.S. military".
$5 trillion of the Chinese economy comes from state-owned business, which share their technology with the PLA. "The fusion of commercial business with military is significant. The technology that is developed in the civil world transfers to the military world – it's a direct pipeline. Not only is there a transfer, there is also systemic theft of U.S. technology that facilitates even faster development of emerging technology." In June 2018, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said his company is "not developing AI for use in weapons." Yet China expert Patrick Cronin said the U.S. govt is only beginning to understand China's military-industrial complex and how the PLA accesses information. "Technological mastery is a core element of the CCP's indirect and largely unrestricted warfare campaign to challenge the US. Stealing know-how, accumulating big data, aiding national champion corporations, coopting foreign friends in high places, identifying vulnerabilities in U.S. telecommunications, and perpetuating the mythological narrative of 'peaceful rise' are among the specific goals of Beijing."
DRDO shelving the Kaveri turbo-jet engine project? Until India can design and produce its own aero-engines, the performance and capabilities of any indigenously designed/built aircraft will be seriously limited by the technology that we are permitted to import.
Indians clinging to their daily newpaper: India might be known around the world as a centre of the high-tech industry, but it's also a country where the print media is booming. Annual newspaper and magazine sales have soared from 40 million in 2006 to nearly 63 million in 2016. The main reason India is bucking the global trend is that although access to the internet via smartphones, laptops and tablets is widespread, many Indians still prefer to have their news delivered to their homes every morning in the form of a daily newspaper.
Our charity rarely begins at home: Indian mathematician VS Varadarajan and wife Veda donate $1 Million to establish 'Ramanujan Visiting Professorship' post in UCLA
Air chief marshal Anil Yashwant Tipnis: "Converting the initial deal for 36 Rafales to the original IAF requirement for 126 aircraft is the crying need of the hour to counter emerging Chinese capabilities in stealth technology, cruise missiles and airborne early warning systems".
Following India's footsteps: France targets Google, Amazon and Facebook with 3% digital tax. Germany, Spain and UK may follow.
Geothermal power: Swedish technology could make geothermal as mainstream as wind and solar. . . produces just 3% of the emissions of a coal plant generating the same power. . .Off-Grid Energy Access.
Google's learn-to-read app: "Bolo" is essentially a reading assistant for elementary school children that harnesses Google's speech recognition and text-to-speech smarts.
— Principal Scientific Adviser, Govt. of India (@PrinSciAdvGoI) March 7, 2019
Max Planck: "Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve". . . . “When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
How jihadists bought and sold their Yazidi captives : “They took women, abused them and killed them. A woman was shifted from one man to another unless it was to one who had a bit of mercy” . . . . . Women of Islamic State assault others they deem “infidels” at a camp where they are being held in Syria. “After being segregated to avoid problems, they fight among themselves”.
Access to markets: Want to terminate preferential trade status for India, Trump tells US Congress
India is caught between an unpredictable and transactional Trump administration and an overambitious and predatory China. In fact, Trump and Xi are birds of the same feather. Defiant unilateralism binds the U.S. and China. https://t.co/9mrhygLnc0
Sad turn: Many schools curtailing summer holidays. “The idea of giving a break is to make them feel refreshed. This helps students grasp better. In turn, their learning ability improves. Children have the right to relax and play and to join cultural, artistic and other recreational activities. With fewer holidays, there is little time for extracurricular activities”.
That stubble burning is estimated to cause India $30 billion in economic cost of exposure to pollution! That's a staggering ₹2,10,000,00,00,000 economic cost as farmers don't
want to wait for a few weeks to clear the old crop's remains manually or using machines.
