Quick notes: Loan restructuring, Gun homicides...

• Ambani privilege: Reliance Gas to repay loans by 2031 instead of the next four years. The company currently has a total debt of Rs 16,010 crore.



• India's English advantage: Cisco to invest $60 Million in India, $10 billion in China.



• FII privilege: FIIs are not investors but "arbitrageurs" engaged in buying and selling of financial assets globally in order to realize gains from price differences. By expanding their space, the govt is reducing its own autonomy of policy making.



• Making Pakistan Proud: Mamata government practically ignored Yoga Day event.



• Guns in America: For every criminal killed in self-defense, 34 innocent people die





• Meditate on the Sun:

If anything comes close to god, as a giver & sustainer of life on Earth, it is the Sun. People prefer to worship imaginary stuff and shun it

— The Penguin (@Moskvaa) June 21, 2015

Quick notes: Top Universities, Promoting the Vernacular...

• Macaulay's legacy: Only one Indian institute in the top 500 world universities. Indian Institute of Science is the only institution that figures somewhere between 300 and 400 in the list.



• Some MNCs better than corporate India in promoting the vernacular Samsung to support more Indian languages



• Alarm at child-abuse incidence in some Hindi states: North Indians targeted in Kolhapur after child's rape



• Han juggernaut: Six Chinese Megaprojects Across the Globe



• Canine Diagnosis: Dogs sniff out ovarian cancer in new study



• Fake sugar ain't cutting it: Diet-Soda Sales Have Fallen at Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and Dr Pepper Snapple

Quick notes: Punish the murderers

Ramesh is the second senior party functionary in Tamil Nadu to be murdered in the last nine months. BJP state medical wing secretary Dr V Aravind was killed in front of his clinic in Vellore by a gang in October, 2012.

TimesNow: TN BJP General Secretary murdered

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"Walmart masqueraded the investment as FDI in services sector, schemed and hoodwinked the Government and the RBI. After nine months of the case not moving ahead at the Enforcement Directorate, I wrote to the CBI and asked them to intervene and investigate and they have found violations," Achuthan told Reuters.

Reuters: India police agency says Wal-Mart violated investment rules


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On Demand Yoga


Streaming sites cater to busy schedules.

Nation wakes up to the car burden

Due to the growing number of cars, parks have been informally converted into parking spaces in some residential colonies. And traffic snarls are a common sight in the middle of residential colonies as parked cars eat into walkways and driveways.

NYT: Seven-and-a-Half Million Cars Trigger Parking Wars in Delhi

Atrocities - Some Numbers

State wise Statistics

Rape Map

WSJ: New Delhi Attack: The Victim's Story

"Bhagwat is right"

Social scientist Ashis Nandy supports RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat's remark on rapes and says there is a connection between modernisation, urbanisation and violence against women.
“These are typical characteristic of anonymous cities. Highly individualized, personally thin cultures and it is so not only in India, I repeat, but perhaps all over the world from which we have data. In anonymous societies kinship dies and community ties weaken and become superficial. It is in these circumstances that you see the kind of rape that you are seeing today,” Nandy says

Tehelka: Ashis Nandy says Bhagwat is right

Father of Jyoti Singh Pandey Wants Her Remembered

The father of Delhi rape victim Jyoti Singh Pandey wants the world to know his daughter's name.

May She Rest in Peace.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/victim-of-indian-gangrape-is-named-8439740.html

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/jyoti-singh-pandey-will-become-a-standard-1521344

http://www.rferl.org/content/india-gang-rape-name/24816551.html

http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_want-world-to-know-daughter-jyoti-singh-pandey-was-delhi-braveheart-father_1786106

http://news.oneindia.in/2013/01/06/delhi-horror-british-newspaper-reveals-victims-name-1126184.html

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2013/01/we-now-know-name-india-gang-rape-victim/60640/

UPDATE: Based on feedback from you all, I've taken down the photo which I believed to be of her. Apologies for any error on my part. I'll try to find out more as more facts become available.