"Minorities have the first right to the country's resources": Kaangress releases ‘Minority Declaration’ in Telangana, promises Rs 4,000 cr budget for welfare. Additional Rs 1,000 crore per annum to provide subsidised loans to jobless minority youth and women. Newly wed couples belonging to minority communities will be given Rs 1.6 lakh each.
Countering Belt and Road: US commits $553 mln financing for Adani terminal venture at Colombo port
MusIim man in Germany:” when MusIims are in majority, we would take over Germany with force. Sharia law will be instead of Germany laws. When Germans stand against our sharia they will be attacked. Christians and Jews have to pay Jizya,Hindus,Buddhists have to leave or be killed” pic.twitter.com/OiN19m6DYR
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.
A disease called KKKaangress: Telangana Congress chief calls upon Congress activists to take 'Sonia Deeksha' similar to 'Ayyappa Deeksha' to bring the party to power. "Like Ayyappa and Shiva Mala, embrace 'Congress Deeksha' by wearing 'Sonia Mala' and strive towards attaining 'Indiramma Rajyam'”.
Feudalists are Nehru family's biggest ass lickers.
Trump lost the trade war: China stood firm and won. The sad truth is that the U.S. will continue to run huge wealth and technology transfers to China financed by America’s increasing net foreign debt that will show as net foreign assets on China’s books.
That's certainly how the Chinese see it. Trump tried to bully them; they hung tough; and are basically ending up where they started, buying agricultural products while selling us increasingly sophisticated manufactured goods 2/ https://t.co/akDz4MGiIz
If losing some $17 billion in agricultural exports to China due to the
trade war was tough for farmers, imagine a much larger market, with
China taking some $50 billion away from American agribusiness in the
future should relations deteriorate.
This is not France versus Germany. This is a capitalist democracy versus
a Frankenstein economy that’s one-part capitalist, one part
state-controlled, and run by a single political party — the Communist
Party — long considered the enemy of Western democracies.
You can't win against Walmart (or Amazon): U.S. considers withdrawal of zero tariffs for India -- strongest punitive action since Trump took office. The trigger was India’s new e-commerce rules that restrict Amazon.com Inc and Walmart-backed Flipkart. Also a factor is India's data localization drive against MNCs such as Mastercard and Visa.
Sharia too? Kaangress says it will scrap triple talaq law if voted to power
The miracle mineral the world needs: Compost can do something that mineral fertiliser cannot. It doesn't just provide phosphorus and other vital nutrients – it can also restore the soil structure by adding organic matter.
Ultracapacitor: Tesla's clever acquisition of Maxwell. One way that ultracaps can be recharged in a vehicle is through regenerative braking, wherein the kinetic energy of braking is captured and used to generate electricity that is then stored in the ultracap. This is something that Lamborghini is doing with Maxwell technology. Another use of an ultracapacitor in a vehicle is to take care of peak transient load requirements. When the battery system alone just can't get it done, then the ultracap can kick in to handle the electrical demand.
Physics suggests that the future has already happened: Our intuition tells us that the future can be changed, but Einstein's theory of relativity suggests that there is no real difference between the future and the past. The future, present and past may actually not be as different as we think.
Nuns 'sex slaves' scandal: Fresh blow to Catholic church. It is the first time that the pope has publicly admitted this abuse is taking place
RCom Bankruptcy: How India’s banks ran up a $7 Billion phone bill
Urgent need to connect bank databases: Shell companies have been used extensively for laundering the proceeds of crime. They thrive as bank databases are unconnected. In the Nirav Modi case, there was a Swift database, Punjab National Bank’s core banking system and the foreign exchange transactions database. All the three databases were not automatically connected.
How London's streets are paved with dirty money. .The City of London: Capital of an Invisible Empire. .London’s Laundry Business: Billions of pounds of corruptly gained money has been laundered by criminals and foreign officials buying upmarket London properties through anonymous offshore front companies – making the city arguably the world capital of money laundering.
.The tax haven in the heart of London: It is the hub of a global network of tax havens sucking up offshore trillions from around the world and sending it, or the business of handling it, to London.
'Complete Streets':
Planning should factor in all people using our streets, not just
drivers. "When you
plan just for cars, you get cars, and we now have so many that traffic
is
horrendous and getting worse, it just won’t work anymore". It translates
to roads being reduced and lanes narrowed, parking spaces eliminated,
bike lanes added and the walk from curb to curb shortened.
China Is A Naval Powerhouse: China shipyards build civilian and military ships at the same time and most if not whole R&D and staff cost is dumped on civilain market. US navy shipiards not only don't do civilian ships but mostly have narrow specialization.
Health sector mess: Without addressing the issue of pricing, Modicare will become unsustainable over the years.
Pay back: Panel recommends fixing of 'minimum compulsory period' of working within country for doctors
Will China stab Qualcomm in the back? Qualcomm's purchase of NXP has received regulatory approval in all jurisdictions except one: China. The decision could hurt America’s sole company (Qualcomm) fighting Huawei for dominance in 5G wireless technologies.
Is Kannur, India's political murder capital? "The CPI-M leaders are in real life not pro-poor. They fight against foreign universities coming to Kerala, but they send their children to study abroad. They fought against self-financing colleges. Now the CPI-M is the largest owner of self-financing colleges in Kerala. The rank and file understand this."
Inciting violence: KKKangress caught fomenting caste conflict in Haryana
Ditch Urdu, UNESCO advises Pakistan. "The continued use of Urdu as the language of instruction, even though it is spoken at home by less than 8% of the population, has contributed to political tensions". ... similar to English in India
Fixing traffic congestion: What happens in Delhi is important to the whole country because Delhi is facing problems which will affect other cities over time as their incomes, number of cars and level of pollution increase in tandem.
Jim Rogers was hardly ever an India bull: Rogers has always been an India skeptic -- going so far as to predict the country will break up in 30-40 years in his book.
Bosch eClutch, the no-stall transmission. : The driver can roll away from a standstill or slow to a halt without using the clutch -- making driving in heavy traffic much easier. Cheaper, more fuel-efficient automated manual gearbox. Now testing in India!
ATF costs less than diesel: Jet fuel has a higher octane than petrol and diesel, but is cheaper in India today.
Legislation would raise smoking age in California from 18 to 21
"Can I have skimpy women gyrating in a U movie?"
Censor Board: "Sure"
"Can I include the word Bombay?"
CB: "lol. No."
— shravya (@Shravya_Jain) February 1, 2015
No funds for govt schools, but..: Karnataka govt allocates Rs 47 crore to give honorariums to chief imams and muezzins (who call people for prayer).
Vibgyor school rape: The CCTV camera footage showed Mustafa dragging the six-year-old student into a room on July 3 afternoon. The camera footage also showed the girl crying. A Bihar native, Mustafa's laptop had videos of schoolchildren being raped. According to the police, a school in Whitefield had terminated Mustafa’s services after his alleged involvement in a sexual assault case. But the matter was not reported to the police.
Frazer Town Rape: Nasir, 28, the main accused in the case, had sexually assaulted at least 20 other women in the past. He is believed to have shot videos of the incidents and had blackmailed the victims into silence. "None of them have come forward to report the incidents," the officer said. Police have arrested three others who were involved in the 'Frazer Town horror' incident - Mohammed Hafeez (32), Mohammed Ishaq Sawood (32) and Shoaib Shiek Mohammed (27).
SC to Binani Cement: If you can pay crores to Amitabh Bachchan, why can't you pay tax?
Good Job, Chennai: Two major pedestrian projects approved by Chennai Corporation.
Google Glass for Docs: "We no longer need bulky cameras or a special cameraman in the theater to record procedures," says Kumar. He is currently developing a telemedicine app for the glass where patients sitting in far away corners can be consulted by doctors and their records saved.
Decarbonize: Opting for coal-based energy 'wasteful approach' by govt
Methan Digester: Renewable energy and less greenhouse gases - just what rural India needs.
China's Tianhe-2 supercomputer remains the world's most powerful. The development of the C919 airliner and drug testing in the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica were both helped by Tianhe-2's super powers.
Why People Eat With Their Hands in Kerala: "Our hands and feet are said to be the conduits of the five elements.
The Ayurvedic texts teach that each finger is an extension of one of the
five elements. The thumb is agni (fire) -- you might have seen children
sucking their thumb, this is nature's way of aiding the digestion at an
age when they are unable to chew; the forefinger is vayu (air), the
middle finger is akash (ether -- the tiny intercellular spaces in the
human body), the ring finger is prithvi (earth) and the little finger is jal (water)".
Rape has become an epidemic. Ramayana&Mahabharata is about going to war for women's honour, so let us devise a deterrent punishment for it
— Subramanian Swamy (@Swamy39) June 5, 2014
RIL stole our natural gas worth Rs 30,000 cr: ONGC in its plea has contended that Reliance Industries has drawn out 18
billion cubic meters of natural gas from the combined reserves of both
companies since 2009.
(ONGC insiders have been claiming that Reliance's KG Basin 'find' came after years of painstaking exploration by them. Ambanis obtained data from a mole in the Oil Ministry and then got into this business).
Muslim outfits slam Cong’s ‘secularism’: The minority status created a psychological shell in the minds of Indian Muslims. If for 65 years someone keeps telling you that you are a minority, what will your mind be like? Congress wallowed in electoral gains earned by demonizing the 'political other', the BJP. Now, that dark era of pseudo-secularism is over."
Real-time translated conversations : Near real-time audio translation from English to German and vice versa, combining Skype voice and IM technologies with Microsoft Translator, and neural network-based speech recognition. Great technology for Indian context.
