Quick notes: e-yuan | Young scientists...

• The world's first govt backed crypto currency: China aims to make the remninbi a global reserve currency to rival the US Dollar... “e-yuan” will be distributed via commercial banks, Tencent, and Alibaba-backed Ant Financial, national giants of online payments.. Digital currency will give Chinese authorities unprecedented ability to track and monitor online spending flows to check fraud, tax evasion and money laundering.




• DRDO Young Scientists Laboratories: DRDO moves into emerging tech: AI, Quantum computing, Cognitive technologies, Asymmetric technologies and Smart materials.



• We lack hardworking, devoted scientists: “The youngsters want money and all sorts of things but would do only a little bit of science”: C N R Rao, eminent scientist and Bharat Ratna . . . . . . Average Indian spends over 1800 hours a year on their smartphone . . . . get a life, young Indians!



• Vikass: Forest land divesion by Modi sarkar in the last three years amounts to 588.20 sq km--larger than the union territory of Puducherry



• York to ban cars from city centre: Private cars are to be banned from York's medieval city centre by 2023.



• Slave to votebank politics: Prime Minister Indira Gandhi watched helplessly the unfair treatment of Pandits and Buddhists in J&K

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— Dr Krishna Hande (@krishna_hande) December 29, 2019




• ‘Ghar Wapsi’ First Conceived in Udupi in 1969: “The name was different but the spirit was the same,” according to Pejawar Mutt Swamiji



• Ya Devi Sarvabhutheshu: Deepti Varsha - 'Vande Guru Paramparaam'