Quick notes: Digital colony, Reverse brain-drain...

• Is India becoming a digital colony? Unlike China which has its own internet platforms and controls its domestic data, India is a major user of US internet services. Indian citizens’ and govt data are vulnerable because they are hosted in USA. GOI does not understand the terrible consequences of such dependency on the economy and national security.




• China Mines Silicon Valley for Tech Talent: Alarmed that a brain drain to China may erode the U.S.’s technological edge and weaken national security, the Trump administration is trying to restrict Chinese ownership of some tech companies. 



• World's envy, but not anymore: Why are cancer rates so low in India? 



• Parking lots over fresh air: The decision to cut trees has sparked off much furore and public agitation in Delhi. Many areas witnessed reverberations of the Chipko Movement.



• Own goal: By imposing 43% tax on hybrid cars, govt has killed the Indian electric vehicle industry. India hurts itself even as China has become the world’s largest EV/hybrid car manufacturer

By imposing 43% tax on hybrid cars, govt has killed the Indian electric vehicle industry. Sales plunge to near zero. Another own goal by ⁦@FinMinIndia⁩. Read how India hurts itself even as China has become the world’s largest EV/hybrid car manufacturer pic.twitter.com/35XhbwEbzN

— Minhaz Merchant (@MinhazMerchant) June 18, 2018




• e-commerce policy: Walmart faces backlash in India; massive protests planned on July 2.



• Persian wonder: Alireza Beiranvand




• Not so global: Cricket has over one billion fans globally, with the Indian sub-continent alone constituting more than 90 per cent of them