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- 26 May 2020 21:57
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: 2020 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
- Replies: 10196
- Views: 2220057
Re: 2020 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
https://www.cnbctv18.com/technology/privacy-advocates-demanded-opensourceaarogyasetu-government-nowobliges-6006331.htm I don't understand why this government gives in to such loony demands. Isn't opensourcing such a bad idea for such public service software? Next what, code for Tejas flight control...
- 06 Dec 2019 09:47
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Internal Security Watch
- Replies: 6214
- Views: 1899334
Re: Internal Security Watch
This just seems too easy and too good to believe. Is there more? Police could have killed them in an encounter immediately following the incident. That would have been more credible. Rumblings of beef mafia connection, additional high-profile rapists, real criminals escaped, etc. on SM. Hope real ju...
- 14 Sep 2019 00:49
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Nov 27 2017
- Replies: 8518
- Views: 3118093
Re: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Nov 27 2017
1) Demonetization caused more harm than good. Most of Indian economy is informal. Sucking out liquidity from MSME in one go will have ripple effects around the economy. What was the use anyway of 100% of India's population standing in queues for days? Anyone who had anything remotely to do with dem...
- 14 Sep 2019 00:05
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Nov 27 2017
- Replies: 8518
- Views: 3118093
Re: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Nov 27 2017
Well, she is right about changing mindsets of folks about committing hard earned money on an EMI for a new car when it is more convenient to use Uber/Ola services to get around but she did not get in to why such a mindset is present in the first place. The impact of Uber, etc. is global. Car sales ...
- 30 Aug 2019 00:35
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Kerala, Andhra and Tamil Nadu - news and strategy thread
- Replies: 1964
- Views: 480109
Re: Kerala, Andhra and Tamil Nadu - news and strategy thread
It will take some good leadership in TN to sway TN away from the current narrative that is increasingly getting dominated by BIF. Social media war is being won by BIF but there is some fightback though yet to make an impact. PIF needs some popular figures to help change narrative Maridhas, the YouT...
- 15 Aug 2019 00:49
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: J&K Union Territory-2019
- Replies: 4384
- Views: 1502253
Re: J&K Union Territory-2019
Might want to find SuSwamy's explanation of how ISI gained leverage in India. All these clans have their hands tied. They have no choice.vijayk wrote: What makes the ITALIAN clan trying to provoke KMs so openly and try to side with ISI plan so non-chalantly?
- 05 Jul 2019 00:54
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: 2019 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
- Replies: 6664
- Views: 1394230
Re: 2019 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
The article says that the Aman Committee bears the cost of reconstructing the temple. Where does the money for the Aman committee come from?
- 31 May 2019 00:38
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Kerala, Andhra and Tamil Nadu - news and strategy thread
- Replies: 1964
- Views: 480109
Re: Kerala, Andhra and Tamil Nadu - news and strategy thread
He himself is a OBC person well versed in vedas. He is extremely articulate had phenomenal popularity hence got into crosshairs of non hindus. I personally am not a follower of Swami N, but can attest to this fact. I was in one sermon of his in a school in California. He held the audience, includin...
- 30 May 2019 22:40
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Kerala, Andhra and Tamil Nadu - news and strategy thread
- Replies: 1964
- Views: 480109
Re: Kerala, Andhra and Tamil Nadu - news and strategy thread
it all started during marina protests. there was a marked increase in the memes shared in FB and Whatsapp. Twitter was not even a thing in TN social media at that time. Gus Saar, amazing series of posts! Only minor flavor change I would add is that these started when it was clear that JJ was on her...
- 28 May 2019 02:04
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Kerala, Andhra and Tamil Nadu - news and strategy thread
- Replies: 1964
- Views: 480109
Re: Kerala, Andhra and Tamil Nadu - news and strategy thread
tOLOQYBRd6o This interview of Jagan to Times Now is very interesting. So many personal stories. Most notable is the number of time he mentions "God". IF God forbid a BJP/RSS personality mentions God even once or twice in an interview like this, the librandu mafia would have fallen over th...
- 28 May 2019 01:57
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Kerala, Andhra and Tamil Nadu - news and strategy thread
- Replies: 1964
- Views: 480109
Re: Kerala, Andhra and Tamil Nadu - news and strategy thread
There is a tweet doing the rounds. A woman (most likely EJ) visiting the town of Velankanni was asked to show her ID by the hotel she was staying in. Remember Velankanni is a famous church and would be at heightened security alert after the events in SL. Her reaction: opened her phone camera, record...
- 26 May 2019 22:12
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Kerala, Andhra and Tamil Nadu - news and strategy thread
- Replies: 1964
- Views: 480109
Re: Kerala, Andhra and Tamil Nadu - news and strategy thread
Those new excess waters from North will need details and more river-linking project details need to be shared. As I said if you bring real Ganga as envisioned in Vaypayee time, no problem. Whatever existing waters was all distributed which AP/INC/TDP governments laid out. There is broader assumptio...
- 26 May 2019 21:39
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Kerala, Andhra and Tamil Nadu - news and strategy thread
- Replies: 1964
- Views: 480109
Re: Kerala, Andhra and Tamil Nadu - news and strategy thread
Another titbit I got is that it seems Nirmala Seetharaman speaks better Tamil than Subramanian Swamy :!: and if someone like Mrs. Seetharaman can take over the state BJP responsibility, there will be more votes for BJP. This is a very good point that I have also been mentioning in my WhatsApp circl...
- 25 May 2019 22:01
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Kerala, Andhra and Tamil Nadu - news and strategy thread
- Replies: 1964
- Views: 480109
Re: Kerala, Andhra and Tamil Nadu - news and strategy thread
Collated numbers on TN from Election Commission website: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D7Yr60EXsAALQuX.png If I am interpreting this right, it is more the AIADMK than the BJP that has been decimated in this election. Massive desertion to DMK and Congress. Others have also seen a big gain. The strateg...
- 25 May 2019 07:18
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Kerala, Andhra and Tamil Nadu - news and strategy thread
- Replies: 1964
- Views: 480109
Re: Kerala, Andhra and Tamil Nadu - news and strategy thread
He should check with Kamal Haasan. That guy would tell him that Tamil had two religious affiliations - Shaivism and Vaishnavism .arshyam wrote:That's some bullshit of a high order. Wonder what he is smoking?We have existed on our own. We never had religious affiliation considering how ancient we are.
- 25 May 2019 03:35
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Kerala, Andhra and Tamil Nadu - news and strategy thread
- Replies: 1964
- Views: 480109
Re: Kerala, Andhra and Tamil Nadu - news and strategy thread
BJP is finished in TN. Even the name is closely associated with North India and Hindi. The best course of action is to promote a RW stalwart who completely avoids any association with BJP - electorally or otherwise. This person has to effectively win the 2021 state elections and put a stop to the EJ...
- 25 May 2019 01:37
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Kerala, Andhra and Tamil Nadu - news and strategy thread
- Replies: 1964
- Views: 480109
Re: Kerala, Andhra and Tamil Nadu - news and strategy thread
IMHO, TN deserves a separate thread. Perhaps, so do AP and KL. Here's why. AP is mostly overt EJ-ism and KL is a lethal combination of Leftism, EJ-ism and Jihadism. TN is a perfect storm of many BIF factors who are not necessarily aligned with each other but definitely have Modi as a common enemy. I...
- 11 Aug 2018 20:31
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Nov 27 2017
- Replies: 8518
- Views: 3118093
Re: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Nov 27 2017
You mean carpets or rugs? Carpets I was referring to this Earlier in the month of July this year, the government had doubled import duty on over 50 textile products including jackets, suits and carpets to 20 percent. It's the same. What is called Carpets in India is called Area Rugs in Massaland. S...
- 15 Feb 2018 01:06
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Nov 27 2017
- Replies: 8518
- Views: 3118093
Re: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Nov 27 2017
Punjab National Bank Reports $1.8 Billion Fraud At A Mumbai Branch 2011 is the year. http://www.firstpost.com/business/pnb-rs-11000-crore-fraud-nirav-modi-writes-to-banks-says-will-sell-firestar-diamond-to-repay-all-the-dues-4351407.html Sorry, where in these articles does it say that 2011 is the y...
- 29 Jan 2018 01:31
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Indian Roads Thread
- Replies: 3351
- Views: 766581
Re: Indian Roads Thread
130 Km Of Roads Constructed Daily Under Government Scheme: Nitin Gadkari "The pace of construction under PMGSY has also been speeded up in the last three years and the average construction reached the level of 130 km per day during 201617, which is highest in the last 7 years," Nitin Gadk...
- 11 Dec 2017 05:39
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Civil Aviation Development & Discussion
- Replies: 6031
- Views: 1368548
Re: Civil Aviation Development & Discussion
I envision this should be an airport like an ATL, ORD, DFW, LHR, FRA combined with a Memphis (FedEx). The airports mentioned here are all massive hubs, both domestically and internationally. India's airlines are almost entirely made for origin-to destination business models. This reflects both in t...
- 11 Dec 2017 05:33
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Civil Aviation Development & Discussion
- Replies: 6031
- Views: 1368548
Re: Civil Aviation Development & Discussion
Lack of runways, taxiways and apron parking spots I guess. Even a smallish airport like SFO has four runways. Compare that to Mumbai or Delhi. And then compare the huge terminals in Delhi and Mumbai with what SFO has. Jetway capacity is another factor. Most US airports board ALL their flights using...
- 07 Dec 2017 07:39
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Civil Aviation Development & Discussion
- Replies: 6031
- Views: 1368548
- 07 Dec 2017 07:37
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Civil Aviation Development & Discussion
- Replies: 6031
- Views: 1368548
Re: Civil Aviation Development & Discussion
Delhi and Mumbai airports are getting crowded. Perhaps it would help to make it mandatory to fly A380's between major Indian cities. Airlines could share the onboard capacity. a single A380 can take as many passengers as 5 737's in. Number of flights could be cut from 70 to 15. The same could be do...
- 26 Oct 2017 12:40
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Aug 26 2015
- Replies: 4573
- Views: 1107041
Re: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Aug 26 2015
There have been occasional chatter on BRF about GoI using Big Data Analytics and AI to catch tax evasion post-DeMo. Recently saw a news article where a Finance Ministry official say that AI was used to identify shell companies. However, there has been total silence about the history and roadmap of B...
- 26 Oct 2017 12:22
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Aug 26 2015
- Replies: 4573
- Views: 1107041
Re: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Aug 26 2015
Same request to vijayk.Suraj wrote:hanumadu, can you post the source link ?
- 24 Oct 2017 12:03
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Aug 26 2015
- Replies: 4573
- Views: 1107041
Re: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Aug 26 2015
I am referring to the basic ability to create an Indian branded mobile phone, tablet or smart watch with Indianized content with language localization capabilities and mass manufacturing it. Couldn't a Tata or Reliance create an Indian rival to the Galaxy series? China has already built many such br...
- 23 Oct 2017 18:24
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Aug 26 2015
- Replies: 4573
- Views: 1107041
Re: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Aug 26 2015
This is one of the biggest achievements of NDA-2. Along with this I can see assembly of other electronic items like TV has also significantly increased. There was an IPO of one of the electronics manufacturing company which does this assembly work for OEMs. It was a block-bluster and these companie...
- 08 Oct 2017 20:18
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Aug 26 2015
- Replies: 4573
- Views: 1107041
Re: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Aug 26 2015
From where are these job losses numbers coming from? India has very limited employment data. Big companies can report job losses but 200 big companies are not going to employ a nation of 1.3 billion. It will come from lakhs of small and medium sized companies. So flawed argument based on little dat...
- 08 Oct 2017 20:11
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Aug 26 2015
- Replies: 4573
- Views: 1107041
Re: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Aug 26 2015
Of course., if new data comes in you will question the metric if the data does not suit your outlook. And for creating a new metric., it takes time. Of course you completely ignored the rise in the provident fund contributors. Here both the metric and data was ignored! It was an official labor repo...
- 07 Oct 2017 12:23
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Aug 26 2015
- Replies: 4573
- Views: 1107041
Re: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Aug 26 2015
To me, the biggest two questions are: 1. When are we going to get solid metrics to measure ALL employment, including formal and informal as well as the entrepreneur count allegedly created by Mudra. I am not politicking with an agenda Saar. My ask is simple. If the traditional employment metrics do...
- 06 Oct 2017 05:58
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Aug 26 2015
- Replies: 4573
- Views: 1107041
Re: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Aug 26 2015
To me, the biggest two questions are: 1. When are we going to get solid metrics to measure ALL employment, including formal and informal as well as the entrepreneur count allegedly created by Mudra. 2. "Private Investment" technically includes FDI coming for "Make in India". What...
- 25 Jul 2017 10:40
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Civil Aviation Development & Discussion
- Replies: 6031
- Views: 1368548
Re: Civil Aviation Development & Discussion
A380 is ahead of its time. Currently the A380 is problematic because of the level of investment airports need to make. Most have not invested in supporting the A380 for an optimal passenger experience. Flying the 380 pretty much assures one of a long wait to wade through immigration and another int...
- 19 Jul 2017 04:01
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Internal Security Watch
- Replies: 6214
- Views: 1899334
Re: Internal Security Watch
Where is he now, KSA or Malaysia ? I don't think either of them will deny deportation, unless their governments have had any hand in his business. this creature is doing their wahabi work in India. Deportation will be a looooong process, if at all. Wasn't there a report a while ago that KSA was goi...
- 18 Jul 2017 09:08
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Civil Aviation Development & Discussion
- Replies: 6031
- Views: 1368548
Re: Civil Aviation Development & Discussion
is it possible to create a A350-Max to cover this hole? the 737 has morphed into a giant new avatar with 230 seats, up from the usual 180 in that segment. I doubt the A380 can be short-chassis in any form...its just too beefy I believe A350-1000 is as long as it can get without having to add weight...
- 18 Jul 2017 01:40
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Civil Aviation Development & Discussion
- Replies: 6031
- Views: 1368548
Re: Civil Aviation Development & Discussion
I wonder why Emirates is turning towards Boeing fleet from Airbus? Surely A350 is not a bad plane...perhaps Boeing is able to afford to provide massive discounts along with discounted maintenance support which Airbus could not match? I can understand A380 going in to extinction...perhaps they wante...
- 12 Jul 2017 04:13
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: India's Power Sector
- Replies: 1712
- Views: 498584
Re: India's Power Sector
Hoping this is (close enough to) the right thread for this. Hyundai’s new electric bus has 180 miles of range and fully charges in an hour Piyush Goyal's push for an All-Electric transportation sector in India can be taken closer to reality with the strides being made in Electric Buses. India is alr...
- 12 Jul 2017 03:32
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Amarnath Yatris killed in terror attack. Allahoakbar
- Replies: 434
- Views: 86250
Re: Amarnath Yatris killed in terror attack. Allahoakbar
Marten et al, Just to indulge me what are ten things you want to do that will give India upper hand in J&K? We can then rank them and see how implementable they are. 1. J&K is bifurcated/trifurcated into Kashmir Valley vs. Jammu/Ladakh. 2. Jammu and/or Ladakh independent admins retire Artic...
- 22 Mar 2017 23:44
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Indo-UK News and Discussion - April 2013
- Replies: 3962
- Views: 635854
Re: Indo-UK News and Discussion - April 2013
They already unequivocally called it a "Terror Attack", Saar. That implies it ain't Paki.Rishi Verma wrote:Cross post in paki forums as a paki link will emerge soon
- 04 Feb 2017 04:43
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions III
- Replies: 3964
- Views: 902402
Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions III
so ideally the rust belt is where these new plants should go... otherwise what will be achieved? The states that are most intent on winning those investments will win them. The rust belt states are the way they are for a reason. Same reason new investments in India continue to go to the states that...