Quick notes: Chinese apps | Satellite comms...

• Tiktok ban: “It looks like the Chinese internet companies have cracked the code of getting into India. The speed and the rate at which some of these apps are growing, that is alarming”



• China can strike India's satellite system:While India has demonstrated its ASAT interceptors can destroy Chinese satellites with kinetic (direct impact) strikes, Beijing’s highly sophisticated ASAT programme provides it with several non-kinetic options to disable Indian satellites without physically striking them.  Beijing’s ASAT capabilities “include the capacity to mount sophisticated cyberattacks directed at (Indian) ground stations with the intent of either corrupting or hijacking the telemetry, tracking, and command systems used to control various spacecraft on orbit. They also involve huge investments in developing ground-, air-, and space-based radio frequency jammers that target the uplinks, downlinks, and crosslinks”.



• Han deception: Google pulls popular Chinese Android apps over large-scale ad fraud. They were collecting data and sending it back to China, as well. 



• Losing to locals: Amazon is shutting down its China marketplace business. 



• Cross-LoC trade: How Pakistani traders use California almonds to fund terrorists in India



• Foxconn to start manufacturing iPhones in India: Apple plans to locally manufacturer newer iPhone models to boost sales in the country. Focusing is on India as the China market for iPhone is saturated.



• Anita Moorjani: Dying To Be Me




• An effortless way to improve your memory: Doing nothing at all for a brief period after initially learning something can help memory processes to better assimilate the material.



• Indians vulnerable to air pollution linked zinc deficiency: The prevalence of inadequate absorbable zinc intake has increased from 17.1% in 1983 to 24.6% in 2012.



• Ganga has higher proportion of antibacterial agents: That the Ganga may contain unique microbial life, which makes it relatively more resilient to putrefaction, was suggested by British colonial scientists about 200 years ago