5G trials: Modi sarkar allows Huawei to conduct 5G trials in India. . . . . . Huawei's flagship phone will launch without any Google apps. . . . . US Navy bans TikTok
The cold war no one is watching: China's ability to manufucture weaponry is much more efficient and advanced than India's.. It has consistently and aggressively underwritten the modernization of the arms industry in the form of steadily increasing defense budgets. This improved arms industry is, in turn, paying off in terms of making China a more formidable force to reckon with.
Displacing native tribals, bringing in Christists? How Kerala govt’s forced relocation has deprived tribal communities of their rights Many are now struggling to survive away from the forest area, which generations of tribal communities have relied on for resources and their livelihood.
Showing the way: Former students of NIT, Trichy commit $3 million for research activities at their alma mater and for the institute's scholarships programmes. . . . hope others will follow.
Power plant emissions: Mazda challenges our EV assumptions, claims long-range EVs are bad for the planet . . . . . India should focus on Hybrids for now
Trump lost the trade war: China stood firm and won. The sad truth is that the U.S. will continue to run huge wealth and technology transfers to China financed by America’s increasing net foreign debt that will show as net foreign assets on China’s books.
That's certainly how the Chinese see it. Trump tried to bully them; they hung tough; and are basically ending up where they started, buying agricultural products while selling us increasingly sophisticated manufactured goods 2/ https://t.co/akDz4MGiIz
If losing some $17 billion in agricultural exports to China due to the
trade war was tough for farmers, imagine a much larger market, with
China taking some $50 billion away from American agribusiness in the
future should relations deteriorate.
This is not France versus Germany. This is a capitalist democracy versus
a Frankenstein economy that’s one-part capitalist, one part
state-controlled, and run by a single political party — the Communist
Party — long considered the enemy of Western democracies.
“Sheltering Minority Refugees Act”: This govt simply does not understand the art of telling its story and managing the narrative internationally.
India creates an act for sheltering persecuted minorities.
It is slammed in global media for “persecuting” minorities. 🙄
Real-Time Translation: Google's Interpreter Mode is here, and it will listen and translate up to 44 languages in real time. . . . . amazing possibilities for India.
Afraid of their Han overlords: Pakistan halts investigation into sale of 629 Pakistani brides to China. Several women refused to testify because of threats from govt officials
Why is India squandering foreign exchange by sending students to study medicine in China?
Russian-Made Vikramaditya Was A Hunk Of Junk: With the job halfway done, and having already dropped $974 million, India could not afford to walk away from the deal. In 2010, India agreed to more than double the budget for the carrier to $2.2 billion.
If you are a meat eater, have the balls to say no to halal. Support jhatka meat, travel 5 km extra for it. Reject all halal certified products - chips, eye drops, oil. Halal is economy slavery. You came out of 700 years of slavery, don't go back into it.https://t.co/Sc7LrVvE5H
No English-medium burden: Chinese students far out-stripped peers in every other country in a
survey of reading, math and science ability. In reading, the 10%
most disadvantaged Chinese students tested had better skills than the
OECD average.
How China plans to lead the computer chip industry: China has made no secret of its desire to become self-sufficient in
technology. The nation is both the world's largest importer and consumer
of semiconductors. It currently produces just 16% of the semiconductors fuelling its tech boom.But
it has plans to produce 40% of all semiconductors it uses by 2025.
Google and Walmart Push India’s Billionaires Out of Mobile Payments: Not all of India’s tycoons are giving up on the business. Mukesh Ambani, India’s richest man, has been testing a payments service whose launch date is unknown. With an estimated net worth of $56 billion, Ambani has the firepower to take on giants like Google, Ant, and Facebook. But he may need plenty of patience, too. “This is an extremely competitive race. Only the companies that stay invested in the long run and win the trust of the customer will last.”
Realestate in post-car world: An apartment complex with 636 units in Tempe, Arizona will be the first in the country to ban private cars. There is no parking, either on-site or off-site, for residents. There will still be plenty of transportation options—just not private cars—and the developer intends to take this idea to other U.S. cities next.
VikAss: American waste ends up in Kanpur. 25 containers reached via Mundra Port by Adani Ports while the remaining 13 arrived via Navi Mumbai. Further, they were transported to Kanpur by a truck.
Bacteriophages
: The Virus That Kills Drug-Resistant Superbugs
Comfort cows: Cow cuddling is a practice from Netherlands called
"koe knuffelen," and it’s meant to
get people back in touch with nature. "You’d think interacting with a big
animal wouldn’t be relaxing, but it is shockingly relaxing."
Madhav Gadgil: Through his work, he realised how unscientific and irrational was the
manner in which development projects were often cleared in India.
“While on a committee to assess the environmental impact of a
hydroelectric project on the Bedthi river, I went on a field trip with an engineer from Rajasthan. I noticed that a large bloodstain was slowly spreading
across his spotless white shirt and quickly realised that a leech at
the project site must have bitten him. When I drew his attention to the
blood, the poor man got the shock of his life. Coming from dry
Rajasthan, he had no idea what a leech was. When I told him that such
creatures thrive in tropical rain forests, he was aghast at my foolish
notion that such forests were worth saving.”
“When I was 12 years old, I went on a trek to the Sahyadri
along with a friend. It was summer and we were very thirsty. We found a
temple on a hilltop that had a well. When we requested the priest for
water, he asked us if we were Brahmins. My friend belonged to the mali
[gardener] caste. I replied that neither of us was Brahmin. Hence, we
were refused water. That day, I decided not to have anything to do with a
religion that stops someone from giving water to a thirsty 12-year-old
boy.”
What makes this illegal? 'Tantrik' poojas at temple in Andhra Pradesh creates stir. Can someone explain why it is illegal?
Indian banks wrote off Rs 2 trillion in bad loans in 2018-19: Even if the loan recovery rate under insolvency
resolution were to improve to 50 per cent in coming years, India’s banks
would still never be able to recover Rs 5 trillion from various errant
corporate borrowers.
Get a house that lasts three lifetimes in just 3 days:
Light gauge steel, said to be rust-free and stronger than regular
steel, is used to build the house frame. The frame is then filled with
thermoforming, following which concrete is sprayed from the inside as
well as the outside to make six-inch-thick walls. These buildings are
environmentally-friendly, as there is no burning of bricks.
Throwing my garbage into your home: Bengaluru sends truckloads of trash – full of maggots, flies and
dengue-bearing mosquitoes – to the landfills in villages around us,
filling the air with stench, polluting their water, ruining their
fertile lands, poisoning their cattle, and destroying their health. The
trash dumps are conveniently located (for us, not for them) – far from
the city, so we don’t have to see where our trash goes.
VikAss: India's sacred groves are disappearing, taking biodiversity and culture with them. Over the last 60 years, the number of sacred groves in Kerala has shrunk from more than 10,000 to less than 1,500.