Quick notes: Mohammedan brothers | Paki reputation...

• Mohammedan Brothers: Afghan refugees in Pakistan concerned as deportation deadline looms



• How bad is Pakistan's image internationally? Couple of years back, I was at a place called Rouen, a pretty small town, about 3 hrs away from Paris. What was interesting was that there were a lot of Indian Restaurants in this small town, with names such as Rajasthan, Gandhi, Maharaja, Delhi, Namaste, etc. Each of these restaurants had a lot of symbols of India, Indian tradition & culture and things related to India.
  
  What was surprising was that all of these restaurants were owned by people from Pakistan. Every staff working there were also from Pakistan. And all of these restaurant owners received me & my team very warmly. On asking why do they have Indian names, it was a common answer - Restaurants with names or references to Pakistan don’t really work. Hence, they bank on Indian names.



• Chip Guru's Take: US can’t halt SMIC, Huawei’s tech advances to 5nm
  
  Beg, borrow or steal: Former ASML employee took stolen company secrets to Huawei
  
  Atmanirbhar China: China speeds up replacement of western PCs and other tech
  
  Back in the semiconductor race? Japanese Company Develops 32-Core 2nm Server Chiplet



• Sam Harris: Stop Christian Conversion in India




• Success story: How drones could be the future of Indian farming
  



• Lead and Cadmium: Heavy metal contamination in vegetables across Bengaluru



• Instagram and girls: Facebook knows Instagram is toxic for teen girls, company documents show... Instagram sued over harm to young people's mental health . . Meta pauses ads for users under 18 in Europe as it rolls out subscriptions. . . "Days Of Free Pass Over"
  
  
  

Quick notes: 5G hype | Sobriety is in...

• 5G was an overhyped technology bust: We can’t trust companies to be honest about how today’s buzzy technologies, including AI, driverless cars and the metaverse, will or won’t change our lives. The real world impact of technology aren’t always relevant to you.



• Nonalcoholic Beer Sales Are Soaring: Sobriety is in! New, better-tasting zero-alcohol beers are experiencing explosive growth as alcohol consumption by young adults declines



• NaMo's faux pas: Modi's claim that KCR wanted to join NDA, seems to have amplified anti-incumbency in Telangana to the benefit of Kaangress



• Video Analysis shows Gaza hospital hit by failed rocket meant for Israel. . Greta Thunberg's friends! . . .NYT cannot make up its mind




• Japan's return to big league? Canon Prepares Nanoimprint Lithography Tool To Challenge EUV Scanners. Canon says that further refinements of its technology, its tool can achieve finer resolutions that can enable 3 nm and even 2 nm-class production nodes.



• Defying US Restrictions: China's Phytium Launches 64-Core Server CPUs



• Cancel Harvard: Israeli billionaire quits Harvard board after school’s response to Hamas attacks



• Dr. Larry Goodson: Kautilya - Noon Time Lecture




• The 2,500-year-old sport: Wrestling, in its rawest form, continues to flourish in the rural heartland of India.



• Roundup herbicide ingredient connected to epidemic levels of chronic kidney disease



• Using toilet paper is grosser than you think: The hands of people who use bidets have profoundly fewer microbes than those who wipe.

Quick notes: Airlift | Harvard backlash...

• Tax payer funded PR stunt: Charter flights to facilitate return of Indian citizens stranded in Israel. Those who are returning will not be paying any fare and the tax-payer is bearing the cost of their return. Why? "Students were a little bit panicked". . . 'Indians don't want to leave Israel'



• Schools urge parents to delete Instagram, TikTok: Concern over Islamists' barbaric videos on social media. The warnings are circulating not just in Israel but also in the US, UK - with some singling out TikTok, Instagram.



• Harvard faces backlash over support for Hamas: Harvard silent after its students issue pro-Hamas declaration. A dozen CEOs back Bill Ackman’s call to not hire Harvard students who blamed Israel for Hamas attack

I have been asked by a number of CEOs if @harvard would release a list of the members of each of the Harvard organizations that have issued the letter assigning sole responsibility for Hamas’ heinous acts to Israel, so as to insure that none of us inadvertently hire any of their… https://t.co/7kzGOAGwp9

— Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) October 10, 2023




• Defund The BBC: Too woke to label Hamas as ‘terrorists’.



• One cure for diabetes, obesity, kidney disease? Ozempic shows promise treating kidney failure in blow to dialysis firms



• Chinese EV Suppliers Plan Side Doors Into U.S. Market: Chinese battery companies critical to electric vehicles are pursuing deals with US free-trade partners South Korea and Morocco, seeking to tap growing demand in America and bypass rules aimed at shutting them out of the market.



• Help from China? Russia aims to mass produce 28nm chips by 2027, 14nm by 2030... if China is helping, what are they getting in return? Wide-body aircraft?



• Papaji: Simply Keep QUIET




• Babus don't walk: They care only about ritzy airports.

Quick notes: Sanskrit connection | Coaching hub...

• Similarities Between Sanskrit and Lithuanian: Video explores some of the commonalities between Sanskrit and Lithuanian.
Here's a post from 2011 on this topic.



• Kota: From Coaching Hub To Suicide Cluster. "After 12 hours of study a student gets depressed and feels humiliated when s/he fails in the periodic tests. The coaching institutes should evolve a better teaching system to make studies stress free".



• Canada panics as Indian students look elsewhere for education. International students from India contribute $19bn+ to the Canadian economy.

Canada Panics as Indian Students Look Elsewhere for Education

Following 🇨🇦 PM Justin Trudeau's allegation of Delhi involvement in the murder of a Khalistani separatist, diplomatic relations between the countries have hit an all time low - threatening Canada's education… pic.twitter.com/hI2SV9tmjR

— RT_India (@RT_India_news) October 6, 2023




• Canada apologizes for awarding one of nation's highest honors to Nazi soldier



• Declining support: US public support declines for arming Ukraine.



• Different kind of Vikas: Some 47 percent of the 'garden city' of Singapore is now covered in vegetation. The city-state champions natural ventilation, tree-lined streets and more energy-efficient buildings. This policy is supported at the highest levels of government, making Singapore the greenest metropolis in the world and a laboratory for the city of the future.
Meanwhile Bangalore succumbed to car-craze.