Akkala Rami Reddy found that a parcel of his family land, which had been temporarily given to a distant relative for use as a cattle shed, had allegedly been converted into a Christian prayer hall. The relative had converted to Christianity and changed the site into a place of worship.
Solar is winning the energy race: The world's cheapest power source is scaling at warp speed, pushing coal, gas and nuclear aside. In 2015, Pakistan and South Africa each produced less than 1% of their electricity from solar. Ten years later, that has risen to 20% and 10% respectively.
India the big loser in the US-Iran War: At the core the issue is of India being strung out between strategic subservience to the US — that has led to its Gulf policy ending in a cul de sac, and economic dependence on China, with both Washington and Beijing now hanging Modi-Jaishankar and India out to dry.
"Washington will strive to keep India down, preferably under its thumb, economically and in the technology sphere, prop up Pakistan as its main agent in the region, but will expect Delhi to help the US counterpoise China in the Indo-Pacific! The Indian govt is sufficiently spooked by the China threat to want to rely on the US strategically and to do so on American terms. And sure India should arm itself with American weapons, and reproduce any US military goods it wants but under license, thus lighting fire to the atmnirbharta pyre".
🇫🇷🇮🇳 France just drew a hard line… and it hits India’s airpower strategy directly.
Paris is refusing to give India access to Rafale’s core source codes, which means New Delhi cannot independently modify the jet’s most critical systems, including its radar, mission computer, and… https://t.co/YJ3H46rst0pic.twitter.com/0Nl22cWZa7
The UAE has withdrawn from funding the development of the new Rafale F5 after France refused to transfer advanced technology. The message is clear: Real partnership with genuine technology transfer — or no deal. pic.twitter.com/MUTheN8DHB
— سيف الدرعي| Saif alderei (@saif_aldareei) April 3, 2026
🇨🇳 Chinese civilians with technical backgrounds are increasingly posting detailed military analysis online aimed at helping Iran counter U.S. forces, in a growing grassroots trend across Chinese social media, according to the South China Morning Post.
Showing some spine: Malaysia exits US reciprocal trade deal. Becomes the first country to abandon a pact negotiated under Washington’s reciprocal tariff strategy after a court ruling removed the legal basis for the policy.
Protein myths: “There is no evidence that habitual exercise increases protein requirements; indeed protein metabolism may become more efficient as a result of training.” ..just because it’s post workout, doesn’t mean you need oodles of whey
Bike Bus: "One of the benefits of the bike bus is that when you're cycling as a group you feel a bit safer.
"There's been a lovely buzz watching the bike bus arrive each week and the children who participated have been really happy, enthusiastic, really energised by their bike ride here to school".
"I think it's great for kids mental health as well as their physical health plus I think it's great for parents too.
"I think for the community more broadly too because there's less cars on the road, less congestion, it's better air quality, so there's a lot of benefits."
'The myth about SIPs': At the end of the day, in order for me to win, someone else must lose. Now, in order to create that population of losers, you need the millions of retail investors, the millions of SIP participants, for their capital to flow somewhere.
End of Bitcoin? Google research suggests encryption technique used by Bitcoin will be cracked by quantum computers around 2029 — search giant says quantum attacks need to be prepared for now
Google unveils TurboQuant, a new AI memory compression algorithm — and yes, the internet is calling it 'Pied Piper'. . . A simple explanation of the key idea behind TurboQuant
Pakistan to start second phase of Afghan deportations: Beginning Sunday, authorities are likely to expel more than 800,000 Afghans from the country, after about 541,000 were forced to leave in the first phase in November last year
The reality of "Muslim Brotherhood": Syrians in Turkey face deportation into an unknown future. "You could tell that Turkey wanted to get rid of us Syrians". "Turkey has always used Syrian refugees as a political pawn, whether through its EU-Turkey deal and the billions of euros associated with it, or to exert influence on the reorganization of Syria if the regime were to fall".
Why RICH people will leave India: a. Quality of living b. Crony capitalism c. Stockholm syndrome-- people adjust to everything -- gas chamber pollution, pot holes, deforestation..
Anna University to rope in int’l faculty: “Our faculty members are working with many international faculties in various universities as part of their research collaborations. We will try to bring in some of these international faculty members for a period of one to two years”.
The dark side of light: Light exposure at night may raise the risk of type 2 diabetes. Reducing light exposure in the evening and maintaining a dark environment could be a cheap and easy way to prevent or delay the development of diabetes, even for those who are high risk.
Semi-success: India approves three chip plants with over $15 billion in investments to realize semiconductor ambitions. Tata Electronics will partner Taiwan's Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp and will focus on 28-nanometer technology.
Tata Semiconductor Assembly and Test Pvt Ltd will set up the second plant in Morigaon, Assam with focus on packaging technologies.
CG Power, in partnership with Japan's Renesas Electronics Corporation and Thailand's Stars Microelectronics will set up the third factory in Sanand, Gujarat. All three factories will start construction within next 100 days.
India makes progress with US$21bn chip proposals: The Indian government, after years of watching from the sidelines of the chips race, now has to evaluate US$21 billion of semiconductor proposals and divvy up taxpayer support between foreign chipmakers, local champions or some combination of the two.
Both Tower and Tata’s facilities would produce so-called mature chips — using 40-nanometer or older technology — that are very widely used in consumer electronics, automobiles, defense systems and aircrafts, the people said.
The Tata Group is also planning to build a 250-billion-rupee (US$3 billion) chip-packaging plant in eastern India that would assemble and export chips.
Masterclass: Ashwini Vaishnav's masterclass On India's semiconductor ecosystem
Toy design? India’s homebrew RISC-V CPU goes on sale in new development board. The CPU is 32-bit and operates at up to 100 MHz, using only 256 KB of SRAM. This doesn't come close to competing with modern Raspberry Pi solutions
The Magic of R+Cu: Tata Institute Claims Success In Cancer Treatment - With "Rs 100 Tablet". The 'R+Cu' when taken orally, generate Oxygen radicals in the stomach which are quickly absorbed to enter blood circulation. The oxygen radicals destroy cfChPs released in circulation and prevent 'Metastases' - The movement of cancer cells from one part of the body to another. The researchers claimed that R+Cu prevents Chemotherapy toxicity.
Magnificent 7 profits now exceed almost every country in the world: The meteoric rise in the profits and market capitalizations of the Magnificent 7 U.S. tech behemoths — Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and Tesla — outstrip those of all listed companies in almost every G20 country. Only China and Japan have greater profits when their listed companies are combined.
America sees surge of Chinese illegal migrants: Chinese migrants often take special “VIP” routes across the jungle that are led by guides working for the Gulf Clan, Colombia’s largest drug cartel, and are quicker and less strenuous for higher prices than the most basic routes.
#southtaxmovement: Why south Indian states have started a tax movement
"Nvidia armed China single handedly": "If you think about Chinese AI capabilities, Nvidia gave them extraordinary amounts of Nvidia GPUs. There's no other way to look at it. It was legal, but that doesn't mean it doesn't carry a moral responsibility."
Microsoft wants to be less dependent on Nvidia: Microsoft unveils its first custom-designed AI, cloud chips. . . . . Why no chips from India, the "design powerhouse"? Waiting for domestic 28nm fabs to come online? By then, leading-edge tech will go past 2nm.
Serious issues nobody discusses: 1. How many billions spent by the 2,68,000 Indian students annually in USA & would it be better spent improving Indian universities 2. Impact on brainwashing them with Breaking India narrative.https://t.co/VpgbBvKieM
Traffic Acquisition Costs: Alphabet pays Apple 36% of Safari search revenue, Sundar Pichai confirms. Google spent nearly $49 billion in Traffic Acquisition Costs in 2022. Google’s TAC costs include all of Google’s payments to companies like Apple and Samsung to place its search engine in front of users.
SriLanka redux: Nepal Is Investigating New Airport Made by China. Nepal’s $216 million international airport in Pokhara, the country’s second-biggest city, opened in January. The airport has failed to attract any regular international flights, raising concerns about whether it will generate enough revenue to repay loans to its Chinese lenders. Nepali officials have asked Beijing to change the loans into a grant to ease the financial burden, but China has not agreed to do so.
Pasta and Rice May Be Healthier as Leftovers: Cooking and cooling causes the food’s starch molecules to become “resistant,” meaning its sugar molecules aren’t as easily broken apart and absorbed into your bloodstream as they normally would be. Because resistant starches aren’t easily digested, they don’t spike your blood sugar as much as regular starch does. Instead, it continues on in your intestines, where it can feed the good microbes in your gut.
Put a billion-dollar hole in the University’s books: Wall Street titans help to fuel Ivy League donor revolt. Billionaires plan to stop donating to their preferred universities to protest how they have responded to the war.
Law Firms Warn Universities About Antisemitism on Campus: “We look to you to ensure your students who hope to join our firms after graduation are prepared to be an active part of workplace communities that have zero tolerance policies for any form of discrimination or harassment, much less the kind that has been taking place on some law school campuses,” the firms wrote. Elite law firms send a message.
$26.3 Billion: Google spent a staggering $26.3 Billion to maintain default search engine status on browsers and phones in 2021 according to a slide made public in a federal antitrust trial. Bernstein previously estimated Google could pay Apple as much as $19 billion this year for the out-of-the-box default placement on Apple devices.
Alcohol Might Be Ruining Your Orgasm: “It does make you think, ‘Oh, I feel hornier!’. But the irony is that, in fact, it’s a central nervous system depressant.” While it may contribute to relaxation and inhibition reduction initially, it can hinder the brain’s ability to process sexual stimuli and coordinate muscle contractions, which are central to the orgasmic response
AI for Chip Design: Nvidia has unveiled ChipNeMo, a specialized large language model with 43 billion parameters aimed at bolstering chip design productivity. The tool promises to streamline various aspects of chip design by answering questions, condensing bug reports, and crafting scripts for electronic design automation (EDA) tools.
Chinese tech: Chinese Phytium's New CPU Claimed To Rival Arm's Neoverse N2
Tone it down on Khalistan: To be sure, there is no longer an active Khalistan insurgency in India, and Sikh extremist violence is rare now. One can ask what is gained by focusing so much attention on a relatively small group of people thousands of miles away who are committed to a cause that has essentially petered out in India itself.
Kids Addicted To Social Media, OTT: Majority of Indian parents say their kids addicted to social media, OTT. "Gadget addiction by children between ages 9-18 has become the new reality. The addiction, in some children, is leading to emotional, mental and physical disturbances".
'Coaching industry is toxic': It is unnatural to study without any purpose day and night. Your personality gets stunted. "Many of my engineering friends who are following the typical definition of success, have an elevated 'unhappiness level'. Many who have cracked these exams are now planning to go into business. They are realizing this much later after having run too far into this race. They join the corporate world and some feel burnt out".
The coaching industry is the byproduct of a third world country. Since there are so many unemployed, it creates a competition among the unemployed. The institutes make you feel that if you clear the entrance exam you are very special.
NYT features Anand Malligavad: India’s ‘Lake Man’ relies on ancient methods to ease a water crisis... After Anand Malligavad tumbled into a lake, he thought he might die. Not from drowning, but the stench. Like hundreds of other lakes in Bengaluru, the one Mr. Malligavad suddenly found himself in was a receptacle for sewage, plastic debris and construction waste.
Millets for all: The pitfalls of growing too much wheat and rice can no longer be denied. The dominant varieties of these staples require large quantities of fertilizer, chemicals and water. They have been linked to lifestyle diseases. Meanwhile, the natural resource economy and nutritional benefits of millets are beyond dispute.
Layered AI: Huawei vows to build 'Computing Backbone' for China's AI ambitions. . . . China stimulates investments in chips with massive R&D incentives
. . . . . China's third Exascale supercomputer reportedly comes online. Meanwhile, the US currently only has two exascale machines, Frontier and Aurora, in operation.
Risk of 'Superbug' infections at Kumbh Mela: Clinics at Kumbh Mela have prescribed an excessive amount of antibiotics to the tens of thousands of pilgrims, primarily arriving with respiratory tract infections.
Antibiotics disrupt gut bacteria: Every course of antibiotics disrupts our gut bacteria because antibiotics aren't targeted enough to only kill the pathogenic bacteria causing the infection. Instead, they go after all bacteria in our guts - 'Collateral impact'.
The 'go barefoot' movement: Your shoes are harming you... "Earthing is your birthright because you live on the earth".
AI Scraping: Big Tech wants to "digest" copyrighted works. Google is training its bots on millions of copyrighted works without permission. The company wants to change copyright laws so that it can grab any content it wants from the Internet, use it as training data for its AI products, and argue “fair use” if anyone objects to its plagiarism.
The Economic Losers in the New World Order: Giant subsidies and rising protectionism are upending decades of free trade. The world’s biggest economies are offering huge subsidies in a cutthroat race to win the industries of the future. The losers: all the countries that can’t pay up. Smaller countries, from the U.K. to Singapore, are getting left behind
R Thyagarajan: Indian tycoon gave away $750 million. He doesn't even own a mobile phone. RT founded the Shriram group in Chennai in 1974
India is a rising force in Southeast Asia: India is taking major strides to expand its influence in Southeast Asia, a move that will allow countries to counter China’s dominance in the region. “Since China hasn’t budged on the border issue, India now feels there has been no real return for its cautious attitude towards Southeast Asia”.
For several states that most distrust China in the region — namely the Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, and Singapore, India is an additional partner to help counter Beijing.
Decouple: India bars makers of military drones from using Chinese parts. India relies on foreign manufacturers for both parts and entire systems as it lacks the know-how to make certain types of drones. "There has to be coherent national strategy to fill the technology gaps" to deliver commercially viable products.
Stop feeding your enemy: U.S. bans future investments in Chinese AI, Semiconductor, and Quantum Computing
Sunway supercomputer: China builds Exascale supercomputer with 19.2 Million cores. Despite sanctions, Chinese supercomputers continue to develop.
Toxic pharma exports from India: A cold medication made in India and sold in Iraq is tainted with toxic chemicals. The Cold Out label indicates it was made by Fourrts (India) Pvt. Ltd., a Chennai-based exporter of medicines.
It’s the fifth time in a year that testing has found an Indian exporter’s drugs to contain excessive levels of ethylene glycol. Cases of Indian-made tainted cold syrups have been reported in Indonesia, Gambia, Uzbekistan and Cameroon, and have killed about 300 children in the past year.
What alcohol does to a woman’s body: For a variety of reasons, women can’t metabolize alcohol as fast as men, meaning they have more of the toxic substance in their systems for longer. Women have lower amounts of the enzyme, alcohol dehydrogenase, needed to break their drinks down, so they are left with higher levels of a substance that is toxic to organs like the liver. Moreover, women have less body water to dilute the alcohol they’ve consumed — the end result is that alcohol in their systems becomes more concentrated
China's loss in India could be Elon Musk's gain: Chinese automakers face heat. Tesla has had a red-carpet welcome from India for its proposal to invest in the country, while its largest rival in electric vehicles, China's BYD, has been stopped cold by increased scrutiny from New Delhi.
Explained: How India has clamped down on Chinese products, investment
Drone ships: A new form of drone tech has been gaining momentum in the Black Sea.
Child deaths due to Indian cough syrup: Riemann Labs, which operates out of Indore, has been banned from manufacturing medicines following an inspection by drug regulators. A batch of cough and cold syrup sold in Cameroon under the brand name Naturcold contained extremely high levels of a toxic ingredient.
Earlier, the licenses of three cough syrup manufacturers – Maiden Pharmaceuticals Ltd, Marion Biotech and QP Pharmachem – were suspended and their exports were stopped after two of the firms were linked to the deaths of at least 70 children in Gambia and 19 in Uzbekistan last year.
Horse gram: Best drink to burn cholesterol naturally and effectively
Woke priorities: New York Times dedicates massive amount of time to reviewing vibrators. Refers to women as “people with vulvas.”
Chinese Firm's lithography breakthrough: Shanghai Micro Electronics Equipment Group (SMEE) is on track to reveal its first scanner capable of producing chips on a 28nm process technology by the end of 2023
Semi setback: Vedanta-Foxconn setback shows cracks in Modi's $24 bn manufacturing push... A $3 billion proposal that had Israeli foundry Tower Semiconductor Ltd. as a tech partner has also stalled, while a third plan is stuck because Singapore-based IGSS Ventures Pte wants to re-apply
Stalled: Tower ISMC's India chip plan stalls after Tower-Intel deal in setback to Modi. . . "No country ever succeeded in launching a viable semiconductor industry without doing some research on its own". . . . . . busy in history research and debates.
China’s EV Juggernaut Is a Warning for the West: China rocked the auto world twice this year. First, its electric vehicles stunned Western rivals at the Shanghai auto show with their quality, features and price. Then came reports that in the first quarter of 2023 it dethroned Japan as the world’s largest auto exporter.
Ford CEO On EVs: "We see the Chinese as the main competitor, not GM or Toyota"
No to Huawei and ZTE: India has no plans of providing trusted source certificates to Chinese telecom equipment manufacturers
India Pauses Plans To Add New Coal Plants: Indian govt will not consider any proposals for new coal plants for the next five years and focus on growing its renewables sector. “everything related to water, air pollution, resource management has been removed.
Jaali buildings are gaining popularity globally: Jaali’s cooling feature relies on the Venturi effect in a similar way to an air conditioning unit. "When air passes through holes, it picks up velocity and penetrates afar. Due to the small apertures, air gets compressed and when released it gets cooler".
Could ultra-processed foods be harmful for us? Aimee, 24, has spent two weeks on an ultra-processed diet. Her identical twin, Nancy, was consuming raw or low-processed foods. Aimee gained nearly a kilo in weight - Nancy lost weight. Aimee's blood sugar levels also worsened and her blood fat levels - lipids - went up. "It's a bit scary isn't it after only two weeks to see those results."
Fragile Himalayan ecology: Respecting religious sentiments doesn't mean constructing 6-Lane highways. Let us not anger the deities that reside in the sacred mountains and protect us from harm. Tourism must take the form of homestead tourism, rather than the building of luxury eco-lodges.
Tiger culling: Kerala padres occupy tiger habitats, Marxists want them culled
Abrahamic mercilessness: "Shoot wild jumbos on forehead if they enter human habitations": Kerala Congress leader C P Mathew
Budget 2023: Centrally sponsored environment schemes have witnessed a cut in allocation in this budget.
Escalation: Russia and Ukraine have incentives to negotiate. The U.S. has other plans. It is replacing Ukraine as Russia’s main battlefield adversary.
Here's Why: Prediabetes and Diabetes are the same thing. It's just where you draw the line.
Capitalism does *not* work in healthcare. If a pharma co found a drug that cured chronic disease (rather than keeping ppl sick for a lifetime), it wouldn't make $billions.
US healthcare is a prime example of the limits of capitalism as a force for good.https://t.co/pAVzfqzfqj
Minority status for Hindus: Delhi was the only govt that openly backed granting minority status to Hindus in any form at the state or UT level.
Delhi said, "The central govt may declare the 'migrated minority status to the followers of Hinduism who are the religious minority in their origin state (i.e. J&K, Laddakh etc) and residing in Delhi after migration from their home state." . . . Why are BJP states opposing this?
U.S. vs. China: The race to develop the most advanced chips. After working for years to catch up on U.S. technology, China has developed a chip that can rival Nvidia’s powerful A100.
China has quickly emerged as one of the best producers of some of the top engineers in the world. It spent 2.40% of its huge GDP in 2020 for the purposes of R&D. Its Chinese Academy of Sciences and Tsinghua University are two of the top go-to universities in terms of quality engineering education.
TSMC Might Cut 3nm Prices to Lure AMD, Nvidia: N3 is an expensive technology to use. N3 extensively uses extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography for up to 25 layers and each EUV scanner now costs $150 million - $200 million, depending on configuration. Increased costs mean lower profits for companies such as AMD, Broadcom, MediaTek, Nvidia, and Qualcomm. . . . TSMC's 3nm Journey: Slow Ramp, Huge Investments, Big Future
India joins lithium hunt: Not only Argentina, India is also eyeing lithium reserves in Chile and Bolivia. The Andean Plains straddling Argentina, Chile and Bolivia – collectively called ‘Lithium Triangle’ – have about 56 per cent of the world’s total identified reserve of Lithium.
Dr. Jason Fung: Author of The Cancer Code: A Revolutionary New Understanding of a Medical Mystery.
Why is alcohol so harmful? The main way alcohol causes health problems is by damaging DNA. When you drink alcohol, your body metabolizes it into acetaldehyde, a chemical that is toxic to cells. Acetaldehyde both “damages your DNA and prevents your body from repairing the damage. Once your DNA is damaged, then a cell can grow out of control and create a cancer tumor.”
Even a little alcohol can harm your health, research shows. Alcohol also creates oxidative stress, another form of DNA damage that can be particularly harmful to the cells that line blood vessels. Oxidative stress can lead to stiffened arteries, resulting in higher blood pressure and coronary artery disease. “It fundamentally affects DNA, and that’s why it affects so many organ systems.”
Nepo (nepotism) babies: Those who use their parents' wealth and popularity to build their own careers. "I don't know anybody who becomes anything if they're just handed money".
Warren Buffett wrote in 2021 that "after much observation of super-wealthy families, here's my recommendation: Leave the children enough so that they can do anything but not enough that they can do nothing".
‘Respect the Laxman Rekha’: : Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar criticises SC. . . . . .More power to you, Sir! No one relinquishes power voluntarily. It takes force. Finally, someone steps up to put India's SC in its place, which has been making a mockery of separation of powers.
FTAs and their discontents: Do free trade agreements benefit India? India's balance of trade has worsened with countries with which it has signed free trade agreements
3nm by 2026: TSMC Commits to $40 Billion investment of Arizona Fab.
Pointing to high costs and a US skills shortage, TSMC has reported challenges to the completion by next December of its new 4 nanometer semiconductor plant north of Phoenix
The eight negations: Nagarjuna's eightfold negations are that there is no becoming, no not being, no annihilation, no persistence, no unity, no diversity, no coming, and no departure.. "Substance does not exist, non-substance also does not exist, nothing that is to be designated by words exists at all. All the things that are designated by words similar to 'nirvan' are void of an own being".
The eight negations are actually four pairs of neither birth nor death, neither end nor permanence, neither identity nor difference, neither coming nor going.
Journalism Competition and Preservation Act: US legislation pits Big Tech against news outlets.. Big Tech benefits tremendously from journalism content, yet they refuse to pay local publishers fairly for the content that fuels their platforms.
Shahed-136 drones: Iran’s drones are cheap, plentiful and helping Russia in Ukraine. The Shahed can fly hundreds of kilometers (Iran claims in excess of 2,000 km) and loiter for hours before locking onto a target.. Israel has a near perfect record in shooting down even more sophisticated Iranian drones.
Fisker considering India production: U.S. startup Fisker Inc will begin selling its electric SUV in India and could begin manufacturing its cars locally within a few years... Fun-fact: Dr. Geeta Gupta-Fisker co-founded Fisker Inc with husband Henrik Fisker.
Tech Talk: Peter Rawlinson, Lucid CEO and CTO with Dr Emad Dlala - How Lucid leaps past Tesla with smaller motors.
Apple's Tech Supply Chain Shows Difficulty of Dumping China: It will take about eight years to move just 10% of Apple’s production capacity out of China. “The region has a well-developed supply chain that will be difficult to replicate”.
Benefits of eating on leaf plates and metal plates
JioMart morphs into e-marketplace to take on Amazon and Flipkart: “As part of our commitment to India’s rich culture and heritage, we will soon start marketing quality goods produced by tribals and other communities across India. This will help preserve the incredibly rich talent, skill sets, and knowledge base of our traditional Indian artisans, especially women.”
Decline of UK: Markets are now treating UK bonds like Greek and Italian debt
“Doctor, is this really necessary?”: Prevent unnecessary medical care — by asking your Doctor these 4 questions first: "Is this really necessary? What are the risks? Are there other options? What happens if I don’t do anything?"
Bribe to overtreat: The makers of Dolo tablets gave freebies worth Rs 1,000 crore to doctors for prescribing their 650 mg anti-inflammatory drug.
Chinese Exascale Supercomputer: OceanLight, operated by the University of Science and Technology of China, races neck and neck with crowning jewels of Western supercomputing achievement such as Frontier and Summit, as well as Japan's Arm-based Fugaku.
Fastest-charging EV: China's Xpeng G9 SUV claimed to be world's fastest-charging mass-produced EV
Bride trafficking along the China-Pakistan economic corridor: Cases of fraudulent marriage between Pakistani women and girls — many of them from marginalized backgrounds and Christian families — and Chinese men who had travelled to Pakistan. The victims were lured with payments to the family and promises of a good life in China, but reported abuse, difficult living conditions, forced pregnancy, or forced prostitution once they reached China.
The first laptop with a RISC-V processor is coming: The “Roma” laptop comes from a collaboration between China’s DeepComputing and Xcalibyte. It’s expected to begin shipping toward the end of the fourth quarter of 2022.
The Idol Thief: Nehru’s aide who turned into an art dealer in the US. Sadly, we see many Hindu murthis from “Jaipaul galleries” still coming up in auctions, though all of them have dubious provenances. . . . India Pride Project.
One of the sculptures, about three and a half feet tall, depicted Shiva, his lips in a hint of a smile, sitting cross-legged across from Skanda, who was rendered as a small boy extending his hands upward to clasp his father’s. Another statue of about the same height showed Skanda in his adult role as a god of war, sitting astride Paravani, a thick-bodied peacock, carved in such detail that each feather was distinct.
Toek Tik and his men were probably the first people in centuries to lay eyes on these works. “For us it’s the heritage of a thousand years of ancestors. We see that material and also a spirit”. While Angkor Wat and its environs were eventually secured, few other temples were, and thieves secreted thousands of Khmer objects out of the country, leaving shattered pedestals and empty alcoves.
Professor E Balagurusamy: "As a person who has studied in a village in Tamil Nadu in Tamil medium, I can confidently say that rural students are on par with or better than students from the urban areas. I will go on to say that rural students are more motivated to excel than urban students. What the state government has to do is, improve the government schools instead of blaming entrance examinations".
Using drones for reforestation: DroneSeed uses seeds as well as seedlings, or young plants, from its own nurseries. It then uses heavy-lift drone swarms to spread them across the scorched land. The drones drop the seeds in contained vessels, called pucks, where they then root and begin to grow into seedlings. These pucks are made out of plant fiber and contain nontoxic elements, such as spicy pepper, to deter rodents and other mammals.
Bird apartment: Pinjara Pol Goshala builds 6-storey ‘bird apartment’ in Jaipur
Father Sebastian Keezheth: Kerala Catholic priest sends sleazy video to WhatsApp group of women and nuns; faces music
India orders investigation into Tata Motors EV fire incident: The incident follows a spate of e-scooter fires. Initial findings of the federal probe into three e-scooter makers found faulty battery cells and modules to be the leading cause of fires
- Ola Electric slips to 4th spot as EV registrations fall amid fire fears
ONDC is inevitable, to democratise ecommerce: The smallest Kirana store can be discovered and it will be worthwhile for many to enable such digitisation. Enablement and democratization is happening. . . . ONDC can become next UPI
High Enzyme Foods: Your intestines and pancreas create many kinds of enzymes, but many foods also contain enzymes or the bacteria that produces them. However, because the modern diet is primarily made up of cooked and processed foods, we don’t reap much of the potential benefits of dietary enzymes. This is because when you cook food (above 118 degrees), process or pasteurize it, you destroy its natural digestive enzymes.
We must therefore rely on our bodies to produce most of the enzymes we need to help us break down and utilize the food we eat. This is why adding raw, non-pasteurized, unprocessed and high-enzyme foods to your diet can be advantageous in the quest for optimal health.
Doing nothing can be harder than doing anything: How to Do Nothing is not about inaction, staring at the ceiling or relocating to an isolated cabin on the beach or the hills; rather the contrary. It is an active “act of resistance”, an “action plan”, skewed to free people from the shackles of the attention economy and vulgar capitalism.
It is indeed high time to drop off the high-tech social-engineering assembly line, away from the herd mentality. Technology, like money, is a “useful servant but a bad master”.
America and 'NATO expanders' revived the cold war: Not many paid attention to the expansion of NATO in the late 1990s and early 2000s to countries in Eastern and Central Europe. “At that time, we were working closely with Russia and they were beginning to get used to the idea that NATO could be a friend rather than an enemy … but they were very uncomfortable about having NATO right up on their border and they made a strong appeal for us not to go ahead with that. I think it is the beginning of a new cold war. There was no reason for this whatsoever.”
“Don’t people understand? Our differences in the Cold War were with the Soviet Communist regime. And now we are turning our backs on the very people who mounted the greatest bloodless revolution in history to remove that Soviet regime. And Russia’s democracy is as far advanced, if not farther, as any of these countries we’ve just signed up to defend from Russia.”
Semiconductor pitfalls: The fact that the world’s third-largest, GlobalFoundries Inc., can barely string together a few quarters of profit highlights the pitfalls even for those with years of experience.
Sunlight for COVID patients: Oxidative Stress...
"Vitamin-D isn't everything. It is just a marker of sunlight exposure".
Needless suffering: Animal welfare fight reaches McDonald's boardroom. With Carl Icahn teaming up with the Humane Society, McDonald’s Corp. is facing the most high-profile attack on its animal-welfare policies to date.
Learning from nature: Scandinavian-style forest schools are booming in Europe and the US – and spreading in Asia, too.
Privacy hits Zuck's pocket: Apple iOS privacy change will decrease Facebook’s sales this year by about $10 billion.
‘Sold by Amazon’ program shut down: Amazon shuts down ‘Sold by Amazon’ program in the US following antitrust investigation. Amazon engages in unlawful price-fixing and restrained competition in order to maximize its profits.
Han dirty tricks: Fake Tibetan group sponsors event featuring Olympics promo with exclusively Han Chinese cultural elements. “That’s not even our logo. Looks like a fake group”.
Mindfulness: The 10-minute hack that is as ‘good as 40 minutes extra sleep’
Light Therapy and Melatonin: Optimize Health and Immunity with Sunlight.
1. View early morning sunlight.
2. Get more light throughout the day. Preferably sunlight.
3. Minimize bright light (screen time) after sunset.
4. There is more to sunlight than Vitamin-D
5. Oral melatonin is not a substitute
6. Oral Vitamin-D is not a substitute
7. LED bulbs bad - no Near-Infrared-Radiation. Incandescent bulbs better.
