Is ISRO Doing Its Homework?

In its recent PSLV-C40 mission, ISRO has apparently launched 4 small satellites for a small US startup, even though US authorities had deemed those satellites to be unsafe:

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/aerospace/satellites/fcc-accuses-stealthy-startup-of-launching-rogue-satellites


The satellites were declared to be unsafe because their small size would lose problems in tracking them - something which is essential in forecasting collisions and preventing them.

Under international law, if satellites are launched into orbit and collide with others causing them damage, then the launch provider can be liable for the damages.

Quick notes: Cellphone chips, Russian help...

• How Cellphone Chips Became a National-Security Concern: The U.S. makes clear that containing China’s growing clout in wireless technology is now a national-security priority.... US fears China winning on 5G: “A shift to Chinese dominance in 5G would have substantial negative national security consequences for the United States.”



• Pakistan is warming up to Russia: Russian engines for JF-17 fighter jets that Pakistan's military assembles on its own soil.



• Some good sense, finally: Ministry invites suggestions from public on move to trim school curriculum



• Flying Officer Avani Chaturvedi: India's first woman to fly a fighter aircraft is a product of vernacular medium.

I've done my schooling from a Hindi medium school. The journey of being a fighter pilot has been about a lot of learning. I'm still in the training phase of being an independent pilot: Flying Officer Avani Chaturvedi. #WomensDay pic.twitter.com/EJff1udyPJ

— ANI (@ANI) March 8, 2018




• India’s non-English literature on the internet: Bengaluru-based Pratilipi is building a bridge between writers and readers looking for fiction, non-fiction, poetry and more in Hindi, Gujarati. Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Malayalam, Kannada, and Bengali.



• Study Skills - Spaced Repetition:




• Balkrishna Doshi: The genius of Indian architecture is the recipient of this year’s Pritzker Architecture Prize, the “Nobel prize of architecture”.



• Hydrogen Train: Britain is the latest on a small but growing list of countries eyeing hydrogen trains.

maybe raghuram rajan isn't the paragon of virtue he's been made out to be

https://www.news18.com/amp/news/business/pnb-scam-jewellery-industry-had-warned-raghuram-rajan-about-8020-gold-scheme-1682253.html?__twitter_impression=true

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was finacle imposed on psu banks to enable LoU scam?

indian businesses want software that will enable them to do 'off-balance-sheet' stuff to do tax-dodging etc.

in an extreme case of this, sree iyer alleges that infosys software finacle was forced upon PSU banks. 

http://www.sundayguardianlive.com/news/12894-banking-scam-has-upa-era-roots

let us also remember that infosys people implemented aadhar. #justsaying

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compare trudeau's visit to macron's

trudeau's was an extended photo opportunity

macron's signing defense agreements, selling planes.

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Pak Requires Disclosure of Religion to Get a Job

The courts in Pakistan have declared that a person must disclose their religion in order to get a job:

Quick notes: Next Pakistan, Spaced repetition...

• Betrayal as state policy: Turkey is turning into the next Pakistan 



• “Spaced Repetition”: The scientific, efficient way to learn languages.



• Investigate the RBI: When questions were raised how Harshad Mehta functioned, the RBI blamed everybody except the RBI. If you start an honest investigation, the first stop is the role of the RBI.  If you are not going to investigate the RBI now, we are putting our banking system into turmoil.... The system has been designed carefully to ensure this is not audited or even when audited not much comes out and even some one points out something, the officials within the system connive to bury the matter.



• A bear and tiger fight at Tadoba Reserve in Maharashtra: Maybe a friendly, not much blood




• China dangles carrots to lure foreign talent: The talent pool at Zhongguancun Science Park has over 10,000 foreign hires. The goal is to attract top-notch scientists and their innovation teams from all over the world.



• Right priorities: China is beating back traffic in its most congested cities. More than half of the top 30 most-congested cities in 2016 saw a decline in the time drivers spent in rush hour traffic one year later.



• Chinese Stealth: How China's Geely spent months stealthily building a $9 billion stake in Daimler



• On caste: The religion of the Hindus is divided into two parts: the ceremonial and the spiritual. The spiritual portion is specially studied by the monks. In that there is no caste. A man from the highest caste and a man from the lowest may become a monk in India, and the two castes become equal. In religion there is no caste; caste is simply a social institution --Swami Vivekananda



• Ban Church Superstition:

Church superstition losing ground in America. Burial should be banned in india under anti superstition acts (the superstition is that one will rise bodily, mouldering bones and all, to heaven or hell on so called judgment day and so bones must be preserved) https://t.co/ky3D1UnRxr

— राजीवः श्रीनिवासः (@RajeevSrinivasa) March 3, 2018