Quick notes: Trade-deficit | Self-preferencing...

• Hindi-Chini-Bhai-Bhai: India-China trade to touch record $100 billion this year. India's trade deficit reached $46.5 billion and is expected to climb further by the year-end.
  
  Trade deficit widens to highest level In 14 years



• Barring Tech Companies From ‘Self-Preferencing’: Legislation to bar internet companies from favoring their own products on their platforms is gaining support. Threat to the business models of tech giants like Amazon.com Inc. and Apple Inc.
  
  Amazon puts its own “brands” first above better-rated products.
  
  Copying, rigging and killing Indian brands: “Amazon is causing a great disadvantage to the small manufacturers. They are eating the cake that is not meant for them,”



• $7 billion - 22ULP/28nm: TSMC to build semiconductor fab in Japan co-funded by Japanese govt and Sony. TSMC is also constructing an R&D center in Japan and cooperates with the University of Tokyo. . . . Screw-drivers won't cut it, India



• Mohan Bhagwat: “There is no control over what is shown on OTT platforms. Even children are getting addicted. The use of narcotics is rising. Money from such businesses is used for anti-national activities”.



• Evangelical snakes: Akal Takht says missionaries forcibly converting Sikhs into Christianity


• Sajeesh Pulavar: Using Robotics to revive Tholpavakoothu, a form of shadow puppetry




• Targeting telecom and internet scams: One of the world’s most popular iOS apps right now was developed by Chinese police
  
  Apple takes down Quran app in China: RoP meet Peaceful Rise... Peaceful Rise, RoP




• Violence surges in Pakistan's tribal belt: "We are at war with Pakistani security forces. We are hoping to take control of Pakistan's border tribal region and make them independent".
  
  Pakistan suspends flights to Kabul over 'inappropriate' Taliban behavior.
  
  Pakistanis arrested after 13-Year-Old boy raped in public park in Italy