Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Quick notes: Stolen idols, Business incubator...

  • S Vijay Kumar: An unlikely detective is fighting to bring back India’s stolen idols ... India Pride Project urges UK to ‘give back illegal Indian artefacts


  • Bhamashah Techno Hub, Jaipur: India’s largest business incubator. Seating for 700 startups. All facilities will be available free of cost for startups. Also hosts a digital museum and a tinkering lab for development of products, adaptive learning, and computational thinking


  • India made 160 kmph train: Semi-high speed 'Train 18' to be rolled out for testing in Sept 


  • Deluge of 1924: Kerala flood of 2018 less intense than deluge of 1924: So why was damage as great? ... According to an IISc study, the state lost 906,440 hectares forest land between 1973 and 2016. The hills became bald as trees were cleared for constructions, mining and quarrying, and plantations.... Partly a man-made calamity


  • Totalitarianism gives China it's high-tech edge: “A country like China, a more totalitarian regime, will perform better than the democratic countries,” said Tadashi Maeda, governor of the state-owned Japan Bank for International Cooperation. “We have a lot of problems gathering big data because of the privacy issue. China doesn’t have such an issue. So obviously they have some advantage. Democracies including the U.S., European nations and Japan need to counter the Chinese effort by establishing common rules for data use”


  • Muslims nations' silence on Uyghurs: Has China simply become too powerful for the world to protest its human rights abuses? “Business speaks louder than a humanitarian crisis”.


  • Ek nishad bihagda:



  • Telangana: Priests at Hindu temples to get salaries at par with govt staff


  • Weed Killer in your breakfast: Popular oat cereals, oatmeal, granola and snack bars come with a hefty dose of the weed-killing poison, Glyphosate, a herbicide linked to cancer...  Glyphosate use in India increased 1500% since genetically modified crops were introduced.


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