NaMo's faux pas: Modi's claim that KCR wanted to join NDA, seems to have amplified anti-incumbency in Telangana to the benefit of Kaangress
Video analysisshows Gaza hospital hit by failed rocket meant for Israel. . Greta Thunberg's friends! . . .NYT cannot make up its mind
Nonalcoholic Beer Sales Are Soaring: Sobriety is in! New, better-tasting zero-alcohol beers are experiencing explosive growth as alcohol consumption by young adults declines
5G was an overhyped technology bust: We can’t trust companies to be honest about how today’s buzzy technologies, including AI, driverless cars and the metaverse, will or won’t change our lives. The real world impact of technology aren’t always relevant to you.
Japan's return to big league?Canon Prepares Nanoimprint Lithography Tool To Challenge EUV Scanners. Canon says that further refinements of its technology, its tool can achieve finer resolutions that can enable 3 nm and even 2 nm-class production nodes.
India to clear 45 investment proposals from China: India dropping barriers to Chinese investment and trade that were set up in the aftermath of the Galwan Valley clash. . . . . . . Chacha Modi says 'Hindi-Chini-...'
China Back as Top India Trade Partner: China regained its position as India’s top trade partner in 2020, as New Delhi’s reliance on imported machines outweighed its efforts to curb commerce with Beijing after a bloody border conflict.
Dr Bharat Karnad: 'Indian Army's advantage has been lost.. Losing out in both symbolic and substantive terms, how is any of this a success for India?'
'Uberize' = To Eliminate Salaried Positions: California’s vote to classify Uber and Lyft drivers as contractors has emboldened other employers to eliminate salaried positions—and has become a cornerstone of bigger plans to “Uberize” the U.S. workforce. “There’s nobody backing you”. The Gig Economy is coming for millions of American jobs.
Tony West, Uber’s top lawyer, is Kamala Harris’s
brother-in-law. Several of Biden’s cabinet picks have consulted for
Uber, and his national security adviser previously helped
the company try to cut a deal with unions. One of Biden’s key campaign
advisers on labor, former Deputy Labor Secretary Seth Harris, co-wrote a 2015 paper
with a fellow Obama alum advocating the creation of a middle-ground
employment status that didn’t include a minimum wage.
UK and Canada to follow Australian model: The UK may follow the lead of Australia and Canada in forcing Facebook to pay news publishers for hosting their content,
Pagan Revival led by Hindus: Christianity is a “religion of the Book”, an artificial construct, whereas the ancestral religion was based on nature. Wherever there is reality, Pagan religion has to come up, inevitably. No presumed revelation was needed, nor any frantic attempt to preserve this revealed religion intact and impose it on the next generations. If ever we forget all about it, we can rediscover it for it is ever-present all around us.
Sweatshop Nation: Governments in BJP-ruled states pushing for 12-hour shifts. Businesses may reduce from three shifts-a-day to two. . . . . . . . These kind of laws were brought in by Vasundhara Raje's govt in 2014. Six years later, business in Rajasthan has not picked up and employment has not grown. . . . . . . . . .Economic revival through labor exploitation?
Memo to those cheering the UP labour laws removal "to attract companies fleeing China".
UP needs agri labour more than any state. It grows 19% of our total foodgrain (32% of wheat).
Entire Ganga basin needs to shift to organic crop production - that has a future beyond 3 years.
On Modi's watch, China's trade surplus with India has more than doubled. India's stringent lockdown, by crippling the economy, has further boosted Chinese exports. The import lobby is a major funder of BJP. So, how does Modi intend to promote self-reliance by action, not talk?
Beijing opening new fronts: China's aggressive moves in Ladakh and Northern Sikkim do not augur well for the coming summer months. The new Chinese-made ZTQ-15 light tank could be a game changer. The Nepal Communist Party is dictated to by Beijing about what to do or say..
The Coming Disruption: The strongest brand in the world is not Apple or Mercedes-Benz or Coca-Cola. The strongest brands are MIT, Oxford and Stanford. . . A handful of elite cyborg universities will soon monopolize higher education.
We need foreign technology in manufacturing, electronics, vlsi.. Not just money and not coca cola, and potato chips
No harmful chemicals: Electrolyzed water uses electricity to change the chemical structure of salt, water and vinegar into a cleaner disinfectant as effective as bleach.
Paki-North Korean connection? Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant's network was hacked, officials confirm... KKNPP said that the plant "and other Indian Nuclear Power Plants Control Systems are standalone and not connected to outside cyber network and Internet... Any Cyber attack on the Nuclear Power Plant Control System is not possible."
Lessons from Maharashtra: Voters have not forgotten the state govt's proposal to set up a Muslim burial ground near the 11th century Shiv mandir in Ambernath and a Ganapati immersion ghat. At various times, the Fadnavis govt proved itself more 'secular' than the Congress-NCP.
God save this nation: India keeps buying pig extract from China to make drugs despite swine flu in the dragon's belly.
Bringing Cauvery Back: Efforts of local youth raise the hope of a bumper crop in Tamil Nadu’s Cauvery delta. “While some made fun of us, others tried to discourage us, saying we will not be able to go on with our initiative beyond a week, as only the PWD was best equipped to do the work,” says Nimal Raghavan, a techie by profession and a resident of the area.
Czechs get a taste of Han "friendship": "It was quite obvious that the only thing that the Beijing side was focused on was their propaganda, and not the political or cultural exchange we were interested in".
There's Just Nothing: "There is no such thing as a person. The person merely appears to be, like the space within the pot appears to have the shape and volume and smell of the pot".
Housing crisis and corporate responsibility: While Google is showing responsibility for the Bay Area housing crisis, Apple built its 175-acre “Spaceship” campus with
no housing or access to major transit lines. Not everyone thinks Google
is doing enough, but few housing experts have any kind words for Apple. “They have walled themselves inside their mini-Pentagon as if they
don’t participate in community life here. So I welcome Apple to come to the table and be part of the
community that they benefit from.” . . . . . . atleast Apple paid market rate for the land unlike Infosys in Karnataka.
Making farmers dependent on MNCs: SJM seeks change in patent act after pro-Monsanto court verdict. . . . Judges committing massive blunders. Of all the three judgments, this one is the most distasteful.
Christism exposed: Catholic Church threatens to expel nun for protesting against rape-accused Bishop “Your deeds on 20th September 2018 and on the following days were of most grave external scandal and harm to the Church and the FCC. You went to the Ernakulam High Court junction and participated in the protest held by the SOS Action Council on 20-9-2018 without the permission of your superior.”
The old RSS did a lot for Hindus in the deep South when it was still Hindu. But that merit doesn't carry over into the present, now that its "secular-national" central leadership makes common cause w/ the enemy & humiliates its local chapter for siding with the Hindu resistance. https://t.co/VUJ9F1CZxn
the big government push to make sure all women deliver in hospitals will make the % go even higher than 42% and cost the nation a ton of money in insurance. that's a crock because giving birth is not a disease. midwives usually competent to deliver. #AllopathsBehavingBadly
Outflow of foreign funds: Foreign Portfolio Investors withdrew a record Rs 80,919 cr from Indian markets during 2018, almost double the amount witnessed during the 2008 global recession.
Esther Dhanraj: Ghar Wapsi queen takes on soul vultures. . (do share)
Sri @narendramodi, this may mean your chances of winning in 2019 have evaporated too. People like me will still vote for you, but our hearts won't be in it. You failed us on Rte, textbooks, dahi handi, Diwali, Sabarimala, every Hindu cause. Back to #NehruvianStalinism. Cry, india
This silence on #Sabarimala issue will cost @narendramodi , sorry to say this openly, waiting for Courts to deliver favorable judgement will not help fix this issue.
Constitution, which is written for Christians, does not protect Dharmic society.
Wake up atleast NOW.
Courting trouble on the Rafale: The detailed configuration of weapon systems on the Rafale needs to be a
closely guarded secret. Giving out the details of pricing will surely
help our adversaries to guess the configuration and take
countermeasures......... A small piece of advice to the legal
fraternity. Now that you have entered the dangerous terrain of security
policy making, educate yourself by at least reading these two books -- Arms and Influence and Strategy of Conflict.
A market for straw: Ikea wants to turn rice straw into household wares in a move that could end up reducing a major source of pollution in India.
Dieselgate: NGT directs Volkswagen's India unit to deposit Rs 1 bn in emission case
Bibek Debroy: For 95% commuters, Bullet train means nothing.
Financial viability: An IIM Ahmedabad study estimated the bullet train would have to
ferry 88,000-118,000 passengers a day for the railways to keep it financially
viable.
Diabetes reversal hope: Reversal of diabetes is now "clearly attainable" for some, possibly
many, but most patients and doctors remain oblivious to these
developments
Is BJP losing support?
RSS alerts the BJP to credible signs of a shift in the public mood over
govt's failures -- economic slowdown, job losses and dismal job
creation, the failure of demonetisation to throw up immediate results
and unrest among farmers.
Did ISI poison CIA chief in Pakistan? The cause of his ailment was so mysterious, the officials said, that both he and the agency began to suspect that he had been poisoned.
'Google tax': MNCs that move profits offshore to avoid tax will be penalised under new measures in Australia's budget.
"Continuum": Intel may have totally sunk Microsoft's latest plan to conquer smartphones
'Kohinoor, a symbol of British loot': "When the last Mughal court moved to Lahore, many artefacts, paintings
and manuscripts were taken by the British. Cultural diplomacy must follow distinct laws of repatriation,"
Cleaner future: Netherlands joins Norway in plans to end new gas, diesel car sales by 2025
Drug abuse: White Americans Are Dying Younger as Drug and Alcohol Abuse Rises
Punjab's real problem:
The nexus of drug cartels-the police-the BSF must be broken. Punjab is
not going to be vulnerable to terrorism per se. It is going to be
vulnerable to unemployment, drugs and lawlessness. But the ISI is bound
to exploit narcoterrorism.
Merkel under pressure: "More than 1,000 Arab and North African men gathered on New Year's Eve near Cologne cathedral and the main train station. Among them were many refugees that came to Germany in the past months". 516 criminal complaints had been registered, 237 of which were of a sexual nature.
EV popularity a threat to established automakers: Because they can be readily purchased from suppliers, electric powertrains facilitate the entry of companies like Apple into the car industry. So if electric powertrains really are contributing to disintermediation, they may also be making it possible for a host of new competitors to challenge established carmakers.
uberPOOL: More people in fewer cars.... Uber pushes into public transit with new app partnership
Distributed propulsion: Rethinking the Airplane, for Climate’s Sake. Dr. Laskaridis and Dr Devaiah Nalianda, are studying the feasibility of hybrid turbine-electric systems that might use batteries and a single jet engine to generate electricity for the motors.
In 5 Minutes, He Lets the Blind See: Dr. Sanduk Ruit has pioneered a simple cataract microsurgery technique that costs only $25 per patient and is virtually always successful. Indeed, his "Nepal method" is now taught in U.S. medical schools.
Good to know: Bihar government currently spends 24 per cent of its budget on education, higher than any other state government... How Bihar changed under Nitish Kumar
Defeat dents BJP's Rajya Sabha hopes: The party cannot even hope to retain its current four MPs in the Rajya Sabha from Bihar, let alone increase its tally.
Internet Blackouts by 2020: The global population's eagerness to get itself and everything it owns online is leading to a data explosion that is consuming 40 percent more power every year and the Internet's power demand could soon rival the world's available power resources.
Automatic Emergency Braking: “Forward-collision warning with automatic emergency braking is the biggest safety advancement since the introduction of stability control over two decades ago”.
Public Interest: ‘In public interest’, Rajasthan govt slashes tax on cigarettes, gutka
More Public Interest: Two months after surgery of Lalit Modi’s wife, Rajasthan govt signed MoU with Lisbon hospital. Approximately 35,000 sqm of land, located on the Rajasthan Health Science University premises in Jaipur, was allotted for the institute right away..
Just as the security agencies forewarned: No cooperation' from Telangana government in fight against maoists. "Before bifurcation, Andhra Pradesh had put up a strong offensive against Maoists on the Chhattisgarh-Odisha-Andhra Pradesh-Maharashtra axis. This is now missing in the case of Telangana".
Miracle!: BJP passed BBMP resolution to name road after Tipu, now says 'don't know how this happened'.
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Cooked veggies healthier: “Many nutrients in fruits and vegetables are bound in the cell walls. Cooking helps release them, so they’re more bioavailable and absorbed by the body.”
Song: ninuvinaa naamadi raagam: navarasa kannaDa pallavi:
ninnu vinA nAmadi endu niluvadE shrI hari hari anupallavi:
kanulaku nI sogasentO grammi unnadi ganuka caraNam 1:
nIdu kathalu vInulandu niNDi unnadi rAma shrIda nI nAmamu nota jElagi unnadi ganuka caraNam 2:
nEnu ecaTa jUcinanu nIvE unnadi rAma bhAnu vamsha tilaka nIdu bhaktuDanucu pEru ganuka caraNam 3:
kapaTamu mATa lella kammanainadi nA tapamu yOga phalamu nIvE tyAgarAja sannuta
Meaning:
Pallavi: Excepting you, my mind rests on nothing else, Oh lord (Shri Hari)
Anupallavi: Because my eyes are filled with your beauty ...
CaraNam 1: Because your stories fill my ears, Raama Your name is constantly being resonated in my mouth ...
CaraNam 2: Wherever I look I see only you, Raama, descendant of Surya vamsha, since I am known as your
devotee.
CaraNam 3: Even deceitful words have become sweet, you are the fruit of my tapasya and yoga sadhana.
