Trump-Backed Firm Signed Crypto Deal with Pakistan Days ​After Pahalgam

Quick notes: PM yojana | Kill chain...

• Pradhan Mantri Yojana to rescue UK's economy: Hasn't India enriched them enough already?
  
  UK gains: Because British exports are so much higher value than Indian exports of clothing, footwear, and food, this should be worth £15bn extra for British exports and £10bn for India by 2040. . . expect this to get even worse for India
  
  Roll out the barrel: Scotch makers toast UK trade deal with India. . Our riches attracted invaders and colonizers. Today it is our dhaaru culture that is drawing them.
  
  FTA Impact: Scotch to get cheaper, Indian liquor stocks dip
  
  Limeys and cheating: India's exports to the UK may be impacted by Britain's decision to introduce carbon tax from 2027. “If Indian exports still face CBAM levies while UK goods enter India duty-free, it risks turning a balanced FTA into a one-sided bargain”.
  
  Limeys and looting: Sotheby's halts Buddha Piprahwa Gems auction. The collection is described as one of the most astonishing archaeological finds of the modern era. Its sale had drawn criticism from Buddhist academics and monastic leaders.




• Kill chain: While a spendthrift IAF invested in prohibitively priced weapons platforms, like the Rafale, the PAF invested in the “kill chain” inclusive of a few J-10Cs, Saab AWACS and mostly long range A2A ordnance.
  
  The PAF has initiated a new method of air warfare — combat aircraft staying well back in their own air space, firing long range air-to-air (A2A) and air-to-ground (A2G) weapons with exceptional support. Rafales cost $250 million each. The fleet of 36 is now depleted.
  
  The US is keen to push the far more useless and expensive F-35 on Modi’s India.




• US tariffs come with a side of Starlink: The US is reportedly encouraging countries to adopt Musk’s Starlink in tariff trade talks. India, Lesotho, Bangladesh, and other countries have moved forward with Starlink adoption in recent weeks.



• Woke flight? Europe launches program to lure scientists away from the US



• Manufacturing juggernaut in serious trouble: China’s economy on cusp of a deflationary death spiral

Chinese Blackout On Economic Data: Signs of Growing Economic Crisis?

The Chinese regime 'does not want us to know what's going on': Gordon Chang

Trump Announces 100% Tariffs on Movies ‘Produced in Foreign Lands’

 Bollywood, Tollywood, Kollywood, etc will all have a fit over this.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/04/trump-tariffs-foreign-movies

Quick notes: Indus water | JetZero...

• Indus water treaty: Denying Pakistanis even “a drop” of any of these waters is not a practical proposition in the here and now, and cannot be engineered out of thin air in the near or even mid-term. Constructing the dam infrastructure and system of subsidiary dams, etc on the eastern rivers to divert them fully to flow through India — assuming it is at all, practicable, will take India some two decades to realise. In all this time, the western river waters will be available to Pakistan.




• Arm-twisting: US pressures India to give Amazon, Walmart full market access.



• Setback for domestic chips: Adani pauses talks with Israel's Tower for $10 billion India chip foray. "Did not make strategic and commercial sense for the group".



• Indian owned startup in Silicon Valley: These electric motors could help break the world’s dependence on China's rare-earths. Conifer technical lead Yateendra Deshpande spent years helping design some of the world’s most advanced electric motors, including the ones powering Lucid Motors luxury cars. He has worked at Apple on its ill-fated car project. His co-founder, Ankit Somani, worked on data-center designs at Oracle and Google.



• Blended wing aircraft: JetZero Secures $235M U.S. Air Force Contract As United Airlines Eyes 200 Orders For Revolutionary Blended-Wing Aircraft




• Land-grab: 50 Christian farmers embroiled in land dispute join BJP hours after Waqf Bill passed. They have been protesting for several months for revenue rights over their properties, allegedly claimed by the Waqf Board.



• 30% less jobs: Microsoft's CEO reveals that AI writes up to 30% of its code — some projects may have all of its code written by AI



• China's next-gen J-36: Tri-Engine Setup, No Tail: Inside China's New Sixth-Gen Fighter Jets



• Muslim brotherhood: Why is Pakistan deporting Afghans? Not Pakistan's 'jugular vein'?



• Bhajan - Hari Om Tatsat: Raza Ali Khan · Ustad Munawar Ali Khan

remembering shaji n karun and piravi

 Ep. 162: Remembering the reticent cinematic genius #ShajiNKarun and his staggering film #Piravi, a true masterpiece, deeply moving, about the real-life student Rajan, who was #disappeared during the #Emergency , and his father's heart-breaking search for him

https://open.substack.com/pub/rajeevsrinivasan/p/ep-162-remembering-the-reticent-cinematic?r=66qfh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Did CHINA make PAKISTAN do Pahalgam? China May Be Baiting India to Bog It Down in War With Pak