Solar thermal breakthrough: Heliogen makes high-temperature industrial heat from sunlight, replacing fossil fuels in steel and other big-polluting industries.
“The potential to humankind is enormous. The potential to business is unfathomable.”
Heliogen employs computing power to keep the mirrors precisely aligned, thus generating even more heat. Using this approach, temperatures of more than 1,000 Celsius are achievable. And that was on its first try. The company believes it can produce temperatures above 1,500 Celsius--enough to split water molecules and produce hydrogen fuel.
But wait, there is more! After pastor honourarium, Jagan govt hikes financial aid for Jerusalem pilgrims by whopping 50%
Chilukuru Balaji temple’s ‘pradhana archakaulu’ Sri Rangarajan garu on article 26.
Worth listening... pic.twitter.com/FU9wzlToIt
Rules don't apply to MNCs:
The Centre has prohibited the use of sachets for storing, packaging or
selling gutkha, tobacco and pan masala under the plastic-ban-law but the
packaging of chips, salted items and noodles by MNCs face no such ban.
China-Pakistan Economic Corridor: Chinese companies are importing materials and equipment from China rather than giving that business to Pakistani companies. They are bringing in Chinese workers amid rising unemployment in Pakistan. Chinese workers who earn money in Pakistan, take the wages back to China, leaving very little in the local economy.
Solar parks promote biodiversity: In addition to helping reverse soil erosion, ground-mounted PV systems
can also attract myriad insect and plants species, thus reintroducing
natural genetic exchange, much of which has been wiped out with
intensive agriculture practices.
Afghan proxy war - India is the big loser: The Four-Party format crystallises Pakistan's crucial role as a factor of Afghan security and stability. This works in China's favor and, paradoxically, makes Pak an indispensable partner for the US (and Russia) as well. A revival of Pak's moribund strategic ties with the US is already under way. China's shadows lengthen over the Hindu Kush and Afghanistan transforms as a hub of the Belt and Road Initiative.
Han Love Jihad: China promoting marriages among Han and Tibetans
Comparing Indian and Chinese startups: Nine of India’s top 10 unicorns by value are in the online-consumer space. In China, three of the top 10 are online consumer companies, two are bricks-and-mortar businesses, and the rest are a mix of hardware and B2B.
pSecular utopia: 50% nominated posts in Andhra Pradesh for SCs, STs, BCs, minorities
Aiding the adversary: Google is helping China's People's Liberation Army, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has told Congress on Thursday. "The work that Google is doing in China is benefitting the Chinese military. I have a hard time with companies that are engaging in projects where intellectual property is shared with the Chinese, which is synonymous with sharing it with the Chinese military, and then don't want to work for the U.S. military". Google announced last year that it will cease working with the Pentagon on a project to have artificial intelligence analyze footage from drones, yet it has opened an artificial intelligence center in Beijing.
$5 trillion of the Chinese economy comes from state-owned business, which share their technology with the PLA. "The fusion of commercial business with military is significant. The technology that is developed in the civil world transfers to the military world – it's a direct pipeline. Not only is there a transfer, there is also systemic theft of U.S. technology that facilitates even faster development of emerging technology." In June 2018, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said his company is "not developing AI for use in weapons." Yet China expert Patrick Cronin said the U.S. govt is only beginning to understand China's military-industrial complex and how the PLA accesses information. "Technological mastery is a core element of the CCP's indirect and largely unrestricted warfare campaign to challenge the US. Stealing know-how, accumulating big data, aiding national champion corporations, coopting foreign friends in high places, identifying vulnerabilities in U.S. telecommunications, and perpetuating the mythological narrative of 'peaceful rise' are among the specific goals of Beijing."
DRDO shelving the Kaveri turbo-jet engine project? Until India can design and produce its own aero-engines, the performance and capabilities of any indigenously designed/built aircraft will be seriously limited by the technology that we are permitted to import.
Indians clinging to their daily newpaper: India might be known around the world as a centre of the high-tech industry, but it's also a country where the print media is booming. Annual newspaper and magazine sales have soared from 40 million in 2006 to nearly 63 million in 2016. The main reason India is bucking the global trend is that although access to the internet via smartphones, laptops and tablets is widespread, many Indians still prefer to have their news delivered to their homes every morning in the form of a daily newspaper.
This should be a human rights issue. Karnataka priests get paid $20 per month in government controlled temples! They are fighting to get $60 a month and nobody seems to listen. https://t.co/GIFwnbqDJt via @TOIBengaluru
You might not want that omelet for brunch. A new study finds a link between eggs and higher risk of heart disease, suggesting dietary guidelines should be revisited https://t.co/vA2Ls7LC2S via @WSJ
Pro-booze govt: Uttarakhand amends excise rules to allow bars near highways
Subsidized by taxpayer: For every Amazon package it delivers, the Postal Service loses $1.46
Why is the United States Post Office, which is losing many billions of dollars a year, while charging Amazon and others so little to deliver their packages, making Amazon richer and the Post Office dumber and poorer? Should be charging MUCH MORE!
Micro-grids are the future: A network of about 20,000 homes with solar panels and energy-storage
batteries lets its members buy and sell excess energy to each other.
No point taking calcium and vitamin D supplements:
"Vitamin D is synthesized in the skin in response to ultraviolet-B
radiation in sunlight, and dietary sources of vitamin D are limited".
Exercising out in the sunshine should provide a person with all the
vitamin D they need.
Battle against smog:
Beijing’s improving air quality stands in stark contrast to India’s
capital New Delhi, where pollution has steadily become worse over the
past few years, and is now well above Beijing‘s.
Minorities to decide fate of Hindus: SC declines to entertain PIL seeking minority status for Hindus in seven states and one Union Territory. Directs the petitioner to approach the National Commission for Minorities. The Indian Constitution nowhere defines a community as a minority.
A simple executive order would suffice: Modi govt can easily give minority status to Hindus in 8 states.. It is astonishing that the Supreme Court thinks it perfectly fine for a sectarian body to adjudicate on matters concerning the fate of millions of Hindus.
Abolish discrimination: Our goal is NOT to get minority status. It is to abolish all laws and rules that make this "status" a coveted possession.
With all this talk about Minority status for Hindus in 8 states. #TeamCore wants to make it clear - our goal is NOT to get minority status. It is to abolish all laws and rules that make this "status" a coveted possession.
KCR announces number bonanza for Telangana Muslims.
1)Promise of 12% reservation in edu & jobs
2)4% reservation in all welfare schemes
4)9000 maulvis to get 1000 rs per month honorarium.
5)Money for expanding Haj house complex.
6)Choice to select Urdu as second language. pic.twitter.com/kJKgAavf1J
India becoming world's top sulphur dioxide emitter: India's emissions of sulphur dioxide increased by 50% since 2007, while China's fell by 75%.. Sulphur dioxide is an air pollutant that causes acid rain, haze and many health-related problems.
India tops climate toll: India lost more people to the impacts of climate change than any other country during 2016.
Land of the pure: Telangana to set up IT corridor, industrial estate for Muslims. Chief Minister says minorities should have a 10% quota in the state’s double-bedroom housing scheme for economically weaker sections.
Overdue: SC bans petroleum coke, furnace oil to clean up toxic air in Delhi-NCR
Lucknow-Agra Expressway: Aircraft of the IAF land on a stretch of the Lucknow-Agra Expressway
Basis for calculus: Five ways ancient India changed the world – with maths
India unwittingly aiding North Korea in cyberattacks: “Large, large, large amounts of data transfers between a number of
Indian science and technology research centers and Philippine government
research centers. It’s not clear what was happening there, but it
certainly looked like the organizations themselves, and maybe their
researcher technology is certainly of interest to some North Koreans"
Reverse diabetes with Intermittent Fasting: Intermittent fasting is an increasingly trendy diet that involves going without food for anywhere from 14 hours to several days. The fad has picked up fans in Silicon Valley, including author and podcaster Tim Ferriss, Y Combinator partner Daniel Gross, internet entrepreneur Kevin Rose (who created an app that lets fasters track their progress), and nearly the entire team at "smart drug" startup HVMN.
Interesting that krishna is dark skinned like most Indians. But Jesus (if he existed) was brown, has been reimagined as white guy, a Borgia https://t.co/YfW25hj36x
— राजीवः श्रीनिवासः (@RajeevSrinivasa) October 23, 2017
Chinese threat: India tightens power grid, telecom rules. Local firms have long argued against Chinese involvement in the power sector, raising security concerns and saying they get no reciprocal access to Chinese markets.
China role in floods? "There was no unnatural rain in neighboring Arunachal Pradesh to trigger such a massive flooding in Assam. We need to know where the water came from. There was also no warning from China. Unnatural release of river water could be a ticking hydrogen bomb".
Killbots: Elon Musk urges the UN to limit AI weapons
Lesson for Modi Sarkar: Economists still can’t decide whether the minimum wage is a good thing. A recent study found that a sharp rise in the minimum wage in Seattle led to job losses and fewer hours for low-wage workers—exactly what supply and demand theory would predict
171 temples under GST: Guest houses provided to pilgrims on nominal rent and other services to be adversely affected by GST. Not so for Muslim and Christian organizations.
When can we see Indian drones? The future of the Air Force is fighter pilots leading drone swarms into battle. Cheap, unmanned wingmen could add punch and protection to fighter formations.
A Ticking Time Bomb: The presence of the Rohingya Muslims in Jammu and nearby areas poses a threat to the national security
Church endorsement of political candidates: GOP wants churches to have the right to endorse political candidates while keeping their tax-free status. Some worry that the measure could allow churches to use their tax-free status to funnel money to political candidates.
Ford GoBike: Dock-based bike-share program starts in Silicon Valley. To have a fleet of 7,000 bikes soon.
Celebrity endorsements of fairness products: A pale skin is associated with the exercise of power. The Bollywood-crazed nation has more idols perpetuating the notion than those who do not.
Muslim personal law: According to Nehruvian secularism, the “majority” can do no right and the “minority” no wrong. Hence, when laws designed to bring some of the traditional practices of those professing Hinduism into the 20th century, any effort at ensuring a similar modernising exercise on the Muslim community was discarded. Since that time, much of the policies of the Indian state have had the unintended effect of distancing Hindus and Muslims from each other.
Dieselgate: EU passes rules that could spell 'much faster' end of diesels
I support army action to parade stone pelter on top of jeep. Barbarians should not expect to be treated like civilized people pic.twitter.com/Go91w1LBE9
Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), ally of Congress wins a constituency with 75% Muslims, but hey it is a clear message to communal forces 😂 pic.twitter.com/W2xSPDcHDk
Land of the pure: 12 per cent quota for Muslims in next budget session: KCR.
U.S. sues Oracle: Their sin? "Oracle was far more likely to hire Asian applicants - particularly Indian people - for product development and technical roles than black, white or Hispanic job seekers".
Apple's demands:
Indian govt wants Apple, but not all officials are biting. "Apple is
coming here because it sees a lucrative market, this is not a favor
being done to India."
Low-Cost Medical Diagnostics: Manu Prakash, who won a 2016 MacArthur "genius" award, is a leader in the so-called frugal science movement, which aims to devise low-cost solutions for complex technologies. Prakash is best known for developing the Foldscope, an origami-like paper microscope that costs about $1.50.
IIT Bombay study: Air pollution killed 81,000 in Delhi & Mumbai, cost Rs 70,000 crore in 2015. Air pollution was also responsible for 23 million cases of restricted activity days — either less productive days or days off work for individuals — in the commercial capital in 2015.
Land of tolerance: For conducting a puja, Indians shunted out of Kuwait. They had to leave with nothing but the clothes on their backs.
Who let them into the Indian Armed Forces? A rifleman of the Army Farid Khan was arrested in connection with the espionage racket taking the total number of arrests to five.
As the story goes, Devi, the goddess, asks Siva to reveal the essence of the Way to realization of the ultimate reality. In his answer Siva describes 112 meditation methods or centering techniques (dharanas) to enter into an all-encompassing and transcendental state of consciousness. These are collectively known as the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra.
This is a long story that started in 1835 when a politician called
Thomas Macauley pleaded in the British Parliament to replace the
Sanskrit gurukuls in India with English education. He argued that if
Britain wants to successfully subdue Indians, they need to be cut off
from their culture.
Macauley got his way. From then on, the Indian elite had to send
their children to English medium schools, if they wanted them to make it
in life. Naturally, the kids didn’t hear much about their own great
culture and whatever little they heard, was negative.
It suited the colonial masters to
have “educated natives” who held them and their lifestyle, including
their religion, in high esteem. In return, they, especially those who
had converted to the western religions, were allowed to feel superior to
the ‘superstitious Indian masses’.
This
is not a healthy state of affairs, but it plays out often on Indian
news channels: Macauley’s children (or should I call them ‘anti-Hindu
brigade’?) accuse and insinuate about Hinduism what the British convent
schools had taught them.
Missionaries have always maligned Hinduism, but in the recent
decades, a new, dangerous insinuation is noisily propagated. Christian
leaders support it and the international media eagerly picks it up.
Hindus (other Indian traditions included) are by
far the most tolerant people on earth. There is no other country, where
minority Christians, Jews and Muslims are as safe as in India. And yet
there seems to be a coordinated effort by Indians and westerners, which
is gleefully supported by the media, to paint Hindus as hateful of other
religions.The point is that the anti-Hindu brigade is not interested in the
truth. They want that ‘Hinduism’ evokes
disgust. What could be the reason?
While
Christianity and Islam indeed have a terrible historical record, Indian
traditions do not. There were many different ways of worship in India
yet all lived peacefully together – till the dogmatic religions, Islam
and Christianity, arrived on the scene, and Hindus became their victims.
Obama did nothing: How Iraqi 'Fat Cats' and a liberal US president watched ISIS gain strength. PBS Frontline's 'The Rise of ISIS' airs on Tuesday night.
The Problem With M/s Mishra and; Roy: Pankaj admires Jamaluddin Afghani and his fantasies of Muslim power and its conquering warriors so much, he promoted him as one of the great thinkers of Asia in his last book. This is a recurring pattern. Strong men and their cults become heroic and admirable when an “anti-Western” gloss can be put on them, especially if they are not Hindus.
Ramnad Address: This is the motherland of philosophy, of spirituality, and of ethics, of sweetness, gentleness, and love. These still exist, and my experience of the world leads me to stand on firm ground and make the bold statement that India is still the first and foremost of all the nations of the world in these respects.
I have heard it said that our masses are dense, that they do not want any education, and that they do not care for any information. I had at one time a foolish leaning towards that opinion myself, but I find experience is a far more glorious teacher than any amount of speculation, or any amount of books written by globe-trotters and hasty observers. This experience teaches me that they are not dense, that they are not slow, that they are as eager and thirsty for information as any race under the sun; but then each nation has its own part to play, and naturally, each nation has its own peculiarity and individuality with which it is born. Each represents, as it were, one peculiar note in this harmony of nations, and this is its very life, its vitality. In it is the backbone, the foundation, and the bed-rock of the national life, and here in this blessed land, the foundation, the backbone, the life-center is religion and religion alone. Let others talk of politics, of the glory of acquisition of immense wealth poured in by trade, of the power and spread of commercialism, of the glorious fountain of physical liberty; but these the Hindu mind does not understand and does not want to understand. Touch him on spirituality, on religion, on God, on the soul, on the Infinite, on spiritual freedom, and I assure you, the lowest peasant in India is better informed on these subjects than many a so-called philosopher in other lands.
I have said, gentlemen, that we have yet something to teach to the world. This is the very reason, the raison d'être, that this nation has lived on, in spite of hundreds of years of persecution, in spite of nearly a thousand year of foreign rule and foreign oppression. This nation still lives; the raison d'être is it still holds to God, to the treasure-house of religion and spirituality.
If Muslims are so fond of Garba, why don't they arrange Garba dance in Muslim society? What's the need to dance with Hindu women only?
— Tapan Ghosh (@hstapanghosh) September 16, 2014
Fully convinced that real goal behind creating Telangana is 2 revive Nizamiyat in Peninsula.RSS as usual clueless
https://t.co/3g4cNZaw8Y
— Sushupti (@Sushuptii) September 14, 2014
Wake up, TN:: Stalin's Vinayaka Chaturthi Greetings a "Mistake". DMK leadership refrains from greeting people during Hindu festivals, though they do not fail to wish Muslims and Christians
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).
