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I just had an aha! moment. Demonetization was not directed against Pakistan counterfeiting operations. Pakistan had no reason to accumulate cash in Indian rupees - they would put it into circulation as soon as possible. Once put in circulation, there is no way to withdraw it. The RBI would find the...

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For the 2014 and 2019 election there are nice charts showing how the polls evolved over time leading up to the election. In both cases, the actual election results gave NDA 50-60 seats more than the opinion and exit poll averages. For the 2024 election there may be one or two more opinion polls to ...

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No accountability, No retrospection? Where is the accountability or retrospection for all the screw ups Air HQ, the MoD, GoI has done to date? Which officer, babu or politician is going to face the music? The circle of incompetence and mismanagement will always happen with zero accountability. Govt...

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LCA Mk1A sabotaged? By whom? GE? Who is at fault if GE has issues with their own suppliers after COVID and isn't able to deliver as fast as it originally thought? Bureaucrats? the IAF? HAL? Yes, either it is HAL or IAF or the MoD. If they didn't forsee the risk and devised suitable strategy it's th...

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https://x.com/IndianTechGuide/status/1750467053910405239?s=20 ---> Tata, Airbus has signed a deal to manufacture H125 single engine helicopters in Vadodara, Gujarat. Rakesh ji, what will this deal do to our own LUH. We are at the cusp of completing trials and entering series production and I'm afra...

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Akash is an Indian first generation effort. Imagine the performance characteristics of the subsequent missiles designed by DRDO. Quite optimistic. What motivation will they have for upgrades, their salary or promotion won't depend on it. Anyone thinking of upgrade will have to get lot of ducks line...

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I think US is playing both sides of the game They are selling weapons and funding the war They are funding the academicians and letting media to do propaganda and rile up Arabs. Wokes get paid to rile up Muslims It can't be played for long. Media shapes the narrative. Soon it would become difficult...

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The # of Indians living in Canada is 3X that of Indians in Qatar. They send same/more money home as remittances than what the diaspora in Qatar does. If we can show these White-Pakis their place (them being even more closer to the Anglo world than Qataris), then we can do the same to Qatar as well....

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Israel has Iron Dome which is purely a defensive system. Do Israel don't have anything to calculate the trajectory of incoming rockets and then fire back to flatten that area. The kind DoS attack would have been suppressed soon after enough if there was counter fire destroying all the rocket launch ...

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Yesterday, on PGuru, Sumit Peer claimed that Russia is negotiating a deal between India and China that the other will not intervene in PoK and Taiwan. That's only China will benifit, for one I don't think India will attack to recapture it. Second China would not like to see India consolidate PoK as...

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Yesterday, on PGuru, Sumit Peer claimed that Russia is negotiating a deal between India and China that the other will not intervene in PoK and Taiwan. That's only China will benifit, for one I don't think India will attack to recapture it. Second China would not like to see India consolidate PoK as...

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vijayk wrote: ↑17 Oct 2023 22:22
It was also announced the other day that George Soros closed offices across his $24 billion philanthropy empire.

When there is so much money how ppl who just want money n no effort don't end up with such empires.
Next is fraudsters, how they not taking interest in these funds ?

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^ Will they put a hijab on the sculpture, after the unveiling of the veil ? Birmingham to unveil sculpture celebrating women who wear hijab A new sculpture celebrating women who wear hijab will be unveiled in Birmingham next month. This bust will be one of those to be taken down when the Islamist f...

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The author sets it up as a zero-sum game between India and China when India does not play that game. Further, it is amply clear that primarily internal problems in Beijing that kept XJP from attending G-20. And to be frank, XJP could not come until the border incursions are resolved. Despite all th...

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vijayk wrote: ↑16 Sep 2023 07:15 https://twitter.com/Sanjay_Dixit/status ... 4097885386
See the feedback in jammu

Modiji must act. Not sure if they are getting this feedback

Bite the hand that feeds.

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Cyrano wrote: ↑14 Sep 2023 13:13
Wonder what SHOs and above and IPS officers are measured on... how is their performance assessed ?

Count of FIRs or incidents

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https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/world-economy/pleading-for-money-chinese-economy-in-trouble-as-xi-jinpings-leadership-falters/news-story/acf7ed08281249ce91e9db1cff1f76eb ’Pleading for money’: Chinese economy in trouble as Xi Jinping’s leadership falters Retail sales are down, exports are sl...

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Fighter squadrons depleting, IAF eyes 100 more Tejas Mk1A http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/103037265.cms 25 August 2023 Finally someone is thinking about the cost incurred by the nation, when a PSU holds a line in place...but without any orders to keep it running economically. If this...

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The scheme, called ‘mera bill mera adhikaar’, will be launched in Haryana, Assam, Gujarat and the union territories of Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, and Puducherry, the ministry said. It said the scheme will offer citizens the chance to win ₹1 crore, ₹10 lakh or ₹10,000 in a lucky draw. Wh...

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Snip .... However, it would up to the government and Parliament to peruse the report and inspect the reasons for the failures to meet the target..., CAG is neither competent nor empowered to do that. Nor are the parliament or the government for that matter. Much of the advance technology is depende...

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There is no permanent enemy or friend in geopolitics. , only shared interests. Where India's and Chinas interests coincide we need to support this. The biggest enemy for decades , if not centuries has been western imperialistic powers looting and pillaging Asian countries, China and India were thei...

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Why do we need PSU banks if they are charging non minimum balance fees, cash deposit charge, more than 5 atm transactions cost? Is there a strategic need for them to remain as PSUs? See the coverage in Tier 2, 3 towns and rural areas. They are much more social than people like to admit. But the ben...

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Unlike Brahmos, if we export Artillery & Tejas, it would be in spite of the Services Leadership, not because of them. We cannot win wars, cannot build an MIC complex or become a superpower with such powerful forces dragging us down from within. If we are able to export enough artillery, lca, lc...

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So today Kalyani flagged off teh first 3 ATAGS for Armenia. What a sad state of affairs This is the good news part. IA orders should not be linked to our manufacturing capability. Eventually industry will produce lot of wares and enhancements that IA will not use. But yes it would be sad if still I...

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Happy ignoring the 34 lac crore NPAs UPA rule bought, people are repaying borrowed loans, that's why PSU banks have become profitable Here again, NPA recovery from Corporates has been dismal ~30%. Surely future NPA would have been reduced due IBC.The PSU banks has not become more efficient suddely,...

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Sliced any which way, this ha got to count as a big achievement of the Modi govt https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F3KehE1aUAACcdv?format=webp&name=900x900 I doubt it should be called achievement. A PSU with monopolistic nature if sets profit as measure then it's conflict of purpose. SBI reduced its ...

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Full horror of mewat riots coming to light now! many Hindu women possible raped & disappeared Shocking report coming from #Mewat where people are finding blood soaked torn clothes of womens & girls near the hills of Nallahad temple. Locals are fearing that they have been r@ped & kidnapp...

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https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/indian-army-adopts-new-common-uniform-for-senior-officers-to-enhance-identity-and-unity-in-service-matters-101690897086858.html A noob question Common Uniform above the Rank of Brigadie: how good is this?? My question is: will it not make them easily identi...

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Additional Rafales also opens the door to AMCA and possibly even TEDBF, due to the JV that Safran wants to undertake with GTRE. More Rafales are key to this, as much as we may not like it. Not feasible to have multiple vendors for strategic programs/acquisitions. Wouldn't that be conflict of intere...

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I am confused with the highlighted point. does that mean 36% of women agree with Mutta and nikka halala? mutta is not followed by Sunni and majority in India are Sunni but what about Halala. are they so blind that they are ok with it just coz it comes in Quran 2.230. Why would you imagine that 100%...

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What is the availability, and prevalence of usage among middle class households, of canned tomatoes (chopped or paste) in India today? During my bachelor days in the US, I found them to be convenient and cost-effective for all my Indian cooking. In India packaged food is expensive compared to what'...

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the biggest concern/factor for 2024 would be monsoon rains. going by past trends, whenever rains are bad in an election year, govt has lost. how the govt handles a bad monsoon will determine the outcome. with all the insurance schemes and proactive & pro-farmer govt., I would assume they will h...

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Pratyush wrote:
I was scratching my head.

If it's possible to do Kaveri 2 with 95 Kn thrust. Why go with 414 in the first place?

414 is real, demand for TejasMk2 is real,
Kaveri 2 is possibility. That's not too difficult to comprehend.

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krithivas wrote:Good news, China and TSP to "boycott" G20 meetings at J&K -
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/5/1 ... in-kashmir

Why China is boycotting, is it just to support TSP or they have other interest in this region too ?

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GST collection for April highest ever at Rs 1.87 lakh crore. India’s gross GST revenues hit a record high in April at ₹1,87,035 crore, 12% higher than the same month last year which had clocked the previous highest tax tally of ₹1.67 lakh crore. . With increasing revenues, should the GST council st...

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[quote In the same light, bishops in Kerala want rubber MSP to be Rs 300/kg. Global rubber price is $1.54/kg which is Rs 127/kg. Why on earth should GoI subsidize a non-essential commodity by such a big amount?[/quote] Does fixing MSP also obligate GoI to buy the item ? If so to what extent. Farm co...

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Strike First and Strike Farthest is the updated terminology from ACM PV Naik's (retd) days --> See First, Shoot First, Kill First . Admiral, G Is this perhaps an indicator for the reason for the reluctance in inducting more LCA's? Why, when the enemy is just at the gate, why go farthest. Pure rheto...

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https://www.rediff.com/news/report/beijing-issues-chinese-names-of-11-places-in-arunachal/20230403.htm Beijing issues Chinese names of 11 places in Arunachal K J M Varma, April 03, 2023 Can India not set some automatic steps like - if further names are out we go set embassy in Taiwan - on next we r...

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Rana Kapoor - Bianca useless-art-purchase was pioneered by Mamta Banerjee. Nice way to give bribe. Since art-price is completely subjective, I can buy a painting of poop from you for $1 Million and its all legit. But what surprises me is the low-level of this corruption. The sums (2 Cr) would be fr...

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While Pakistan starves, Nawaz Sharif arrives in Bentley, shops at Louis Vuitton.. Given there is high inflation for food, health care will take a hit. Life sustenance for poor will be difficult. Would it lead to lower birth rate in Pak or poor will reproduce more ? Any studies on the inflation and ...

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