- India looks to curb U.S. tech giants’ power: India wants to slap new rules on Amazon, Google, Facebook and other firms, using a page from China's playbook to take control of citizens' data. Draft rules call for companies to store local user data in India and make it accessible to govt.
- Jittery Islamabad: India to help build a dam in the Kabul river basin in Afghanistan. Islamabad views the proposed dam, as well as similar projects on the Kabul river and its tributaries in Afghanistan, reducing the flow of water into Pakistan.
- Jakarta, the fastest-sinking city in the world: When groundwater is pumped out, the land above it sinks as if it is sitting on a deflating balloon - and this leads to land subsidence.
- Swachh Bharat should recruit these: A crew of crows has been trained to pick up trash
- Poison or cure? Arsenic can help treat cancer, study finds. That’s ironic because arsenic itself is a carcinogen
- Major Success: India's missile defenses can now take on decoys. That's a Really Big Deal.
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar: The man behind Nasa's mission to touch the Sun. "Chandra, as he was popularly known, is another astrophysicist with his name tagged to a space mission, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory"
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Wednesday, August 15, 2018
Quick notes: Citizens' data, Sinking Jakarta...
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