Quick notes: Water export | EV reality...

• India is the biggest exporter of water: The country is the world’s biggest exporter through its crops, despite suffering shortages in urban areas.



• Lifestyle disease: Bengaluru to send its solid waste 500 km away! . . . US top of the garbage pile in global waste crisis



• UPA-era excesses: After PNB, more lenders may report misappropriation of funds. Bhushan  availed various loan facilities from 33 banks/financial institutions during the year 2007 to 2014 to the tune of Rs 47,204 crore and defaulted on repayments.



• Pakistan is Hell for Hindus: Arif Aajakia




• EVs will not solve transport problem: Electric cars will not address traffic jams, urban sprawl and wasted space for parking.



• EV Battery Shortages: “It’s dawning on North America and Europe that there’s a raw materials issue that needs to be addressed here”.



• Sunroof: Toyota covers Prius Prime with solar panels to test mileage



• Cruise ships going hybrid: The hybrid system can reduce fuel consumption by about 20 percent.



• VK Saraswat: Hike R&D investment up to 2% of GDP

Quick notes: Church planting, Spider friends...

• Church planting: All Nations, the group that backed a missionary’s trip to Andaman, claims that every year, its representatives train around 3,500 missionaries in 35 cities to learn “church planting,” so that “churches rapidly multiply through people groups” across the world.



• File criminal charges:

Why haven't Indian authorities filed criminal charges as yet against the U.S.-based All Nations missionary agency that broke Indian laws in sending evangelist John Allen Chau to his death? His exploits may have imperiled a highly endangered tribe's future. https://t.co/o4GMU4wSBa

— Brahma Chellaney (@Chellaney) November 28, 2018




• S Gurumurthy shaking up RBI: "Shift the West-centric narrative into a world-centric and Asia-inclusive one".



• Remembering UPA: The Praful Patel Guide to destroying Air India



• OK to have spiders at home: Spiders regularly capture nuisance pests and even disease-carrying insects. If you truly can’t stand that spider, instead of smashing it, try to capture it and release it outside.



• Dr Dolittle and his orphanage for wild animals:

"I feel very lucky to have these animals in my life"

Meet India's Dr Dolittle who runs an orphanage for wild animals.
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— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) November 25, 2018




• Multiple worlds: Where Our Views of Reality Go Wrong



• Reality isn't real:




• Huawei: NZ bars Chinese firm on national security fears

Quick notes: UPA-3, Road runway...

• UPA-3: Govt retains UPA's decision to allow 51% FDI in multi-brand retail



• And worse: Govt's environment policy encourages deforestation leading to ecological imbalance



• Taking on greed: How tribal Indians beat big coal firms



• India's first: IAF to convert Agra-Lucknow Expressway into India's first road runway



• My Chevy Volt May Outlive Me: Chevy Volt will have a lifespan much longer than an ordinary gas car or even a hybrid. 



• 'American Football Is Like a Nuclear Explosion': Nine former NFL players have committed suicide since 2010. What they all have in common is that they were defeated by life post-football. I get aggressive, the way I was on the field. I could hurt someone very easily.
  
  You make a mistake, the head coach sees it and yells at the co-coach and he yells at you. Shit rolls downhill. So the next time you give it your all so the coach praises you. It's a brutal business. If you want to make it, you have to eat shit.



• Venkat Panchapakesan: YouTube Engineering Chief Dies Young



• Shia Slaughter:  Dozens killed in Karachi bus attack

Quick notes: Indian ID, Origami microscope...

• UPA's "game changer" is punctured:  Nandan Nilekani's Aadhar card is now sold to non-Indians for Rs 600.



• Manu prakash: A 50-cent microscope that folds like origami:
  
  
  
  
• Super-Cheap Paper Microscope Could Save Millions of Lives

• An Atheist in Varanasi: Chora Ganga kinare wala!

Is Ashant Bhushan in charge of the Aadhar card authority?

Because while one is talking about conducting a plebiscite in Kashmir and 

promoting its secession from the Indian Union; the other, an agency of the government of India already recognizes Pakistan occupied Kashmir and China occupied Kashmir as foreign territory.

This is a significant departure from the officially stated position of GOI and the standing Parliamentary resolution on the issue - which asserts Indian sovereignty over all parts of Kashmir and mandates that Indian governments make all efforts possible to restore Indian sovereignty over that territory.

While the idea of a unique national identification number is laudable, the agency has not implemented any safeguards to prevent its issuance to the 5 crore illegal Bangladeshi Moslem infiltrators in India - who are being rewarded for their illegality with government doles under NREGA, FSB etc.

Is it any surprise then that Nandan Nilekani is being considered as the Congress candidate from the Bangalore Lok Sabha seat? I hope he is soundly defeated by the BJP candidate.

http://www.aadhar-card.com/about.html#.UvbJSHi9LCT

Quick notes: Bling Bishop, Mars Orbiter...

• Bling Bishop’s €15,000 bathtub: The bishop of Limburg, Germany, is also accused of giving false statements related to an expensive flight he took to India to visit poor communities. There has been a sharp increase in local Catholics formally leaving the Church.



• Victimized by Haryana govt for taking on Robert Vadra: Ashok Khemka



• Tripura CPM leader, seen lying on 'a bed of cash': "I am not a hypocrite like other party members"



• With much better rains than the NDA, UPA had only marginally higher farm growth but double the food inflation.



• How did Reliance power manage to get clearances for use of excess coal from the government?



• Around 75% of the Tavera MPVs made by General Motors, as recently as May this year, were non-compliant with the country’s emissions standards.



• Boost to SDN from Tilera



• The main goal of the $73 million Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) is to prove that India can put a working probe into Mars orbit. That is no small feat – more than half of all Mars missions so far have failed. "It's a stretch goal".

Quick notes: Costly Indecision, Pricey Onion...

• Sam Pitroda on Kaangress Raj: : "When UPA government came to power at the Centre, the country's growth rate was eight per cent. During UPA-II, the growth rate started tapering down which had been largely a result of corruption, indecision and policy paralysis." 



• Worried about political cost, Kaangress govt to import onions: Food inflation accelerated to 11.91 percent last month. Onion prices in Delhi surged to 60 rupees a kilogram from 16 rupees three months ago. Potatoes have rocketed to 20 rupees a kilogram from 12 rupees in six months, while tomatoes quadrupled to 56 rupees in July compared with January.



• Google launches Hindi (Devanagari) handwriting support.



• The mineral content of jaggery is impressive— it has magnesium, potassium, calcium, phosphorous, iron and copper and is rich in Vitamins B1, B2 and vitamin C. One of the biggest benefits, stemming from its rich potassium content is that it helps maintain the acid balance in the body by reducing accumulation of acids and acetones.”



• Guru Stuthi by Sri M

UPA does the expected, favors RIL

In a major victory for Reliance Industries, the Union Cabinet approved doubling of natural gas prices to $8.4 per million BTUs from April, 2014. Steep hikes in Power tariffs and fertilizer prices to ensue.

Deccan Herald: Govt doubles natural gas price

GOI Dhimmis order Indian troops to withdraw from Indian territory!

Absurd outcome of the Chinese aggression into Ladakh: Indian troops withdraw from Indian territory encroached upon by Chinese 19 kms inside the LAC!
No clarity on Chinese withdrawal to their side of China occupied Kashmir (Aksai Chin).

Apparently, Salman Khurshid's
"acne cream" will leave behind a
strategically located permanent scar in close proximity to the Siachen glacier. The Dhimmis in the GOI owe an explanation to the country on their latest exhibition of docility at the border.

http://m.rediff.com/news/report/india-china-end-stand-off-armies-withdraw-from-ladakh/20130505.htm#


A battalion of Chinese troops estimated at about 50 and accompanied by vehicles and dogs had intruded 19 km inside the Indian territory across the Line of Actual Control in the Daulat Beg Oldi sector on April 15 and set up five tents.

The Indian troops had also established tented posts facing the Chinese forces at a distance of 300 metres.

The troops of the two sides held four flag meetings, the last one being yesterday. However, there was no positive outcome from these meetings, which went hand-in-hand with high-level diplomatic efforts to break the impasse.

An agreement was reached late on Sunday for both sides to pull back their troops simultaneously from the face off point, which was completed at 1930 hours, the sources said.

Indian and Chinese commanders at the local level shook hands before withdrawing, the sources said. However, it was not clear whether the Chinese would withdraw all the way back across the LAC to the position that obtained on April 15 as was demanded by India which pressed for restoration of status quo ante.

Army Jawan's eyes gouged out by Jihadis in Kashmir

Will this barbaric act of Jihadis
elicit an emotional display of tears by Omar Abdullah in the
Jammu & Kashmir assembly?

Will it cause the insomniac "Prime minister" to lose any sleep?

How long will the Indian armed forces tolerate such gruesome atrocities on their own personnel?

This is a question of national dignity. The perpetrators of such outrages cannot go unpunished,
"civilian authority" need not be paid obeisance to until infinity.

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/jandk-jawan-found-with-eyes-gouged-out-cops-suspect-militants-role/1097390/

Islamists rally in Kolkata - in support of genocidal Bangladeshi war criminal

This is a naked expression of solidarity with a convicted genocidal Islamist war criminal right across the border. More ominously, this constitutes a re-assertion of genocidal intent with respect to the defenseless and docile Hindu community in West Bengal and Assam.

In the recent past, we have seen Jihadi mobs protest on the streets of Mumbai - in solidarity with illegal infiltrators from Bangladesh and alleged Rohingya victims in Myanmar.

Is this what the Indian army fought for, in the war to liberate Bangladesh? Did they expend countless lives only to have Razakar butchers belligerently declare their intent, under the benign gaze of the entire pseudo-secular political spectrum - to massacre Hindus.

This is a repeat of the "call to direct action" by Jinnah and a precursor to a "great Calcutta killngs" of Hindus in the 21st century.

How long will the Indian army defer to civilian authority and meekly tolerate such brazen threats to peace, national security and sovereignty?

http://m.rediff.com/news/column/a-rally-for-war-criminals-why-are-tmc-left-silent/20130403.htm#


Something unprecedented happened on March 30 in Kolkata. Sixteen Islamic organisations came together at the Maidan, the second largest public ground in the city, in protest against the ongoing war crimes trial in Bangladesh, against the Shahbag sit-in and in support of the vice-president of the Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh, Delwar Hossain Sayeedi, one of the prime accused in the 1971 genocide in Bangladesh.

It was astounding to see a huge and belligerent crowd gather from all over the state to support one of the best known razakars and collaborators with the Pakistan Army in its genocide against Muslims and Hindus in East Pakistan.

UPA hard at work

Debt rises faster than reserves. Short-term debt rising even faster. UPA, the one-trick-pony, wants more hot money flows.

Business Standard: External debt rises to 20% of GDP

Business Standard: Current account deficit zooms

Gangrape accused to "represent India" at papal inauguration!

Quite appropriate too - given the occasion, the individuals and the
global organisation concerned.

After violating Indian sovereignty
with impunity by blatant contempt of the Indian judicial system (not that GOI or the Supreme court covered themselves with glory by facilitating the escape of the murderous pirates) - in the curious case of the Italian marines - this should be seen as a deliberate assertion of power by the Vatican intended to show the uppity Indians (Hindus) their place and demonstrate that - with the support of the global church, criminals can not only get away with murder, rape and more - but, indeed will be celebrated, lionized and accorded a hero's welcome.

The natives of India are as helpless today as when Francis Xavier brought the genocidal inquisition to Goa or when the Portuguese demolished the Mylapore Shiva temple to build the "Santhome Cathedral" and concocted wicked stories about
"Brahmins murdering the alleged St. Thomas".

Is this not an issue worth protesting for the various advocates of Women's rights?

http://m.rediff.com/news/report/pj-kurien-heads-indian-team-to-attend-popes-inauguration/20130318.htm#


An Indian delegation led by Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman P J Kurien on Monday left for the Vatican from Delhi to take part in the installation of Pope Francis as the 266th Pontiff of the Catholic church.

According to Kurien's office in his hometown Pathanamthitta, the delegation include his wife Susan Kurien, and MPs Anto Antony of the Congress) and Jose K Mani of the Kerala Congress-M.

Reality check for BJP

Where will the BJP's gains come from in the next Lok Sabha elections? Karnataka seems to be slipping away. The party's stagnation that LKA referred to recently, is real. If the next leader cannot bring profitable alliances for the party, UPA-3 nightmare can become a reality... heavens forbid!

Billed as the semi-finals ahead of the forthcoming assembly elections, Congress is showing clear signs of returning to power in Karnataka if the ULB results are anything to go by, indicating the voters' mood in the state. The BJP has received drubbings even in its traditional bastions like the coastal and northern regions of Karnataka.

DNA: BJP takes severe beating in Karnataka

GOI should take cognizance of enemy action by Italy

Once the Italian ambassador gave his undertaking to the Supreme Court of India to bring back the murderous undertrial marines, "diplomatic immunity" became inapplicable.

By wilfully reneging on the commitment made on paper -
he stands guilty of contempt of court. Therefore, the ambassador should be arrested
and thrown into Tihar Jail.

Actually, I'd like to see the fellow
being picked up by RAW agents at midnight and slapped around a few times prior to his arrest.

What can a bankrupt PIIGS country like Italy, realistically do in retaliation? Would they dare contemplate bombing India?

There are several precedents of
western nations ignoring diplomatic considerations with regard to Indian diplomats - America's TSA detaining a Sari clad Indian consul general for interrogation, detaining at the airport & ordering the Indian representative to the U.N to remove his turban, allegedly "strip searching" the then Defense minister George Fernandes and questioning the former President Kalam - all singled out for special treatment,
merely due to their physical appearance - without even a remote involvement in any criminal wrongdoing - unlike the Italian diplomat.

http://m.timesofindia.com/india/Forget-diplomacy-this-is-enemy-action-Jaitley-on-Italy/articleshow/18950368.cms

Seditious jester bats for Jihadis, yet again

This jester's atrocious and toxic statements have become unbearable. The champion running dog of the Islamo-fascist imperialists in India - in a way is quite representative of the anti-national, anti-Hindu Indian media. The right treatment for this jerk would have to be solitary confinement in a psychiatric institution. If that fails to produce any results, he should be deported to Taliban controlled territory in the North West Frontier Province.

http://m.rediff.com/news/report/reinstate-mirza-in-drdo-if-no-evidence-against-him-katju/20130307.htm#


Press Council Chairperson Markandey Katju has demanded that the government reinstate Defence Research and Development Organisation scientist Aijaz Ahmed Mirza who was arrested on terror charges but released on bail as the National Investigation Agency did not file a chargesheet against him.

In a letter written to Defence Minister A K Antony and Karnataka Chief Minister Jagdish Shettar, Katju said that if there is no evidence against Mirza,

"I would request you to look into this matter immediately, and if it is true that there is no evidence against he should be reinstated forthwith on the post he was holding before he was sacked, otherwise a wrong message will be sent throughout the country that Muslims are terrorists and are fair game for being persecuted and victimised by the communal forces," the PCI Chief said in his letter.

Katju said that he had already issued a press note criticising the false implication of Muslims in bomb blast cases. He also said that Mirza had in a TV interview said that he was tortured and made to suffer indignities in jail.

"Hence I request you to ensure that apart from reinstating him, adequate compensation is awarded to him by the central and state government and an open apology is issued by Central and State governments to Aijaz Ahmed," Katju said.

A.P farmers selling organs to escape debt

Yet, what does the state government of A.P do?

Continue Samuel Reddy's outrageous scheme of Christist Haj subsidy, of course at taxpayers' expense.

Pressured by agricultural debt, on the verge of suicide and willing to sell your organs for a little money?

Uncle Samuel aka "Rajanna" has mandated nothing to alleviate your suffering. If you convert, though - you'd be eligible for an all expenses paid trip to Bethlehem!

http://m.timesofindia.com/india/Distressed-Andhra-Pradesh-farmers-selling-organs-to-escape-debt-trap/articleshow/18838852.cms

GOI proposal: lower age of consent to 16!

Stunning choice for the government of a third world country with a largely under-nourished population of
1.2 billion and growing.

What next? Ban contraception because the Vatican frowns on it?

Or lower the age of "consent" to
9 - in conformance with certain scriptures and in emulation of certain countries in West Asia?

This is rather too "liberal" even by "progressive" western standards. Even fundamentalist
American evangelicals advocate
"abstinence", on paper.

16 is an age when children should be pursuing their education, not procreating.

This is a deliberate assault on
national character intended to destroy what little moral fiber remains.

http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_govt-proposes-to-lower-age-for-consensual-sex-from-18-to-16_1807712


The government has proposed to lower the age for consensual sex from 18 to 16 and reintroduce the word 'rape' instead of 'sexual assault' in the new criminal law amendment bill.

Kerala court: No basis to reinvestigate secular rape

Of course, there is no basis to investigate any possible crime, howsoever grave the accusation.

Just read the names of:
1) the accused,
2) the official responsible for prosecution
3) the journalist reporting the story
4) the TV channel reporting

They are all innocent, by definition - merely by virtue of their "secularism".

Any educated guesses regarding the honourable judge's name?

It is only in sensational cases such as the Best Bakery/ Zahira Shaikh/ Bilkis Bano "rape" where the accused are "communal" that the judiciary chooses to order trials to be shifted out of Gujarat, "in the interest of justice". The Congress Bureau of Intimidation (CBI) also gets injected into the proceedings to do a hatchet job on the "right wing communalists"
and becomes an inadvertent (hopefully) accomplice of professional perjurers such as
Teesta Setalvad, Javed Anand et al.

Any bets that the powers that be will order this trial shifted out of Kerala - and into say, Karnataka - in the interests of serving justice?

How come the usual suspects -
Susan "Arundhati" Roy, Cedric Prakash, John Dayal, Ambika Soni, Margaret Alva, et al are
conspicuously silent in this case? Are there no human rights in Kerala? Or are they
reserved for people with certain names?



Suryanelli rape case: No basis to reinvestigate PJ Kurien, says Kerala court
Reported by Sneha Mary Koshy



Idukki, Kerala: A plea by a woman abducted and raped by 42 men in 1996 that Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairperson
PJ Kurien was one of her assaulters and should be made an accused was rejected by a Kerala court today.

Mr Kurien, a Congress politician, was exonerated by the Supreme Court in 2007 in the Suryanelli case, which gets its name from the place in Kerala the woman belongs to. She filed the petition against him last month.

The court said today that in light of state Director General of Prosecution T Asif Ali's report, there was no basis for a reinvestigation against Mr Kurien.

The woman, who was 16 when abused, is likely to challenge the verdict in the Kerala High Court. She had last month also approached the police to file a case against Mr Kurien but it was turned down.

In 2005, the Kerala High Court tried 35 men in the case and convicted only one - a lawyer named Dharmarajan. This January, the Supreme Court set aside the verdict and ordered a re-trial within six months.

Since then, there has been a clamour by the opposition in Congress-ruled Kerala and at the Centre for Mr Kurien's resignation. The 72-year-old leader has refused to step down, saying he was cleared by the Supreme Court. The union government has also defended Mr Kurien, telling Parliament that three separate police investigations had cleared him.

IAF Operation Iron Fist at Pakistan border

http://m.rediff.com/news/slide-show/slide-show-1-pics-iaf-s-firepower-at-iron-fist-along-pak-border/20130222.htm


Aimed at providing the nation the reassurance that the IAF will deliver whenever called upon, a demonstration of this magnitude was carried out for the first time by day, dusk and night.


Emough of these dress rehearsals. The time to act is NOW. There needs to be swift and telling punitive action against the Jihadi establishment in Pakistan, Bangladesh and their accomplices and enablers
within India. Of what utility are all these advanced weapons platforms - if they are not deployed to pulverize to dust Hafiz Saeed, Maulana Masood Azhar, Gen. Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, Gen. Shuja Pasha, Yasin Malik et al?

What other outrage are we WAITING for before any form of retaliation? Are we expected to follow the false creed of "Non-violence", "Restraint", "Secularism" etc until the very last Hindu has been killed by a terrorist blast?

Are Indian lives not worth anything at all? Is Hindu blood just water to be spilled casually?

The Indian armed forces need to
USE that Iron Fist NOW. It is not meant merely for DISPLAY during exercises and "Republic Day" (sic) parades.