Bharat Rakshak

sinha

Measuring the effective reproduction number Rt in India and Indian states is here - https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1jdT7jnJtrs8PVgNL5ytMtihclPY5K8Bo . Some of the researchers in our labs are using Rt as a measure over Control Policies as a good measure of keeping the epidemic in check when...

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After the Japanese claims, this study shows effectiveness of anti-malarial drug chloroquine works works pre and post infection subject to Virus not mutating significantly Now I hope people do not rush and clear out anti-malarial drugs off the pharmacy shelves in India.... The coauthor claims are on ...

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This data driven analysis made a lot of sense - unfortunately the author has missed India - which I am trying to add https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-act-today-or-people-will-die-f4d3d9cd99ca The Model is available for trying out - should suggest when should you close shop! https://docs.go...

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^^^Hain?? Then why were Eye Eye Tea BTech munnas gettting offered 18L - 20L/annum even back in 2010? Is that special pricing? Even this year, most of them would have got into 7.5 to 15 Lakh bracket. Employers in this bracket are not IT services, but mostly Indian and some MnC product dev company or...

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First the Dharmics really have to see whether Islam and Christianity are logically consistent and philosophically complete enough to be considered a darśana . Here is one reason why Islam e.g. cannot be considered as logically consistent. By the same logic, wouldnt a lot of aastika/Vaidika darshana...

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There is some work on in pockets with a Govt agency + universities + Private players for taking OSS Private cloud offerings to usable level - things like Ubuntu Private cloud, OpenNebula and Open Eucalyptus. This work is more directed at establishing use of Cloud within Indian Govt PS: Most work I h...

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I persist, the apdrp paanwala came back with collected info "name, address, tel, meter no, both side neighbours, geo-code of dwelling unit, plot no" collected on dgps. Now a simple Location based iPhone app can pull in enough on demographics (ahem) with pattern filter for the cops to do wh...

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India should propose this before the UN, as a humanitarian solution to the suffering of flood-affected Pakistani people. why do we have to fall for this waiting trap again. Happens again and again with talks too. Beggars cant be choosers and the bluff has to be called. Find some other place on eart...

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well I am not asking COPS to share their data, but atleast they can pull in layers, outlays, PoIs and other info straight in from other sources like ULBs, land records, NRSI etc etc. I have asked some of my partners in crime who are doing eMunicipality stuff to enlighten me on scope of surveys and s...

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CCTNS development is going to be a quite, backroom affair. It will provide the base platform for intelligence sharing, trend analysis, advance warning etc. I though this was largely driven by NCRB - and having met them I dont think any of them there has any idea of advance warning systems etc etc. ...

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Sroy - I am konphoozed - wasnt the center/NCRB supposed to define the requirements for all-in-one base minimum app which will get rolled out to all the states. How come states are involved? I can see from CCTNS progress tracker here - http://ncrb.nic.in/CCTNSProgress_Tracker_060810.pdf - that but fo...

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bart wrote:If you are into serious off-roading, Safari is your best bet.

Really? Both scorp and safari are not really serious offroaders - at best good for trail driving and occasional plunge in the bush.

Wait for Mahindra Thar or make do with Older Jeeps and Gypsies for serious offroading

sinha

AjayKK wrote: Now what is the takleef of this jihadi qureshi?

Recently diagnosed Cancer ?

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X-post: Guys, need a quick answer for a friend of mine: Which are the major GoI( DRDO also included but not educational institutions like IITs etc) orgs doing quality work on Computer Sciences? Some names would be greatly appreciated. go through the list on right hand side frame under DIT organizat...

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Anyone here has any opinions on the Mahindra Scorpio Automatic ? Any driving experience ? Is there a newer model on the horizon ? I did not like the interiors though it is definitely in my upgrade list from the Santro as it suits Indian roads, especially the potholed Kerala Expressways with mad dri...

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why Indian govt is not using air power and satellite help? The choppers could not land because of terrain but more importantly they were using anti-aircraft guns! what surprises me is the count being reported - depending on what you see between 1000 to 500 maoists. That points to a huge local intel...

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application service provider concept has been around for a long time. did they just recently wake up to this idea or izzit just another marketing buzzword like extreme programming? but then did you have an option for asking for and deploying a file based storage or a database server on the fly. or ...

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This is the real reason Franchisees dont want to use Pakis - everywhere they go they create mess, including their owns Afridi fumes at lack of unity in Pak team Cricketnext.com - ‎20 hours ago‎ PTI Karachi: Flamboyant Pakistan all-rounder and vice-captain Shahid Afridi has opened up a new front with...

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Body count: You created the monster now deal with it Rehman Malik has said that 1,780 incidents of terrorism occurred in the country since April 2009, killing as many as 2,072 people, local media reported Tuesday. Malik told the National Assembly, Lower House of the parliament, that the casualties i...

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One more interesting thing on the site FAQ • How will the UIDAI protect against functional creep? The full board of the UIDAI may add additional data fields related to identity, and the law will contain a prescription against collecting any other information besides the information permitted, with s...

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The Biometric committee and the Demographic data standards and Verification Procedures committee have submitted their results. I think they should be up on the UIDAI site soon. One of the things which caught my attention was the use of "Introducer" system - see this for a challenge posted ...

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That he speaks in slow and unhurried motion and is not likely to put foot in the mouth and shoot like his glorious Baki counterparts....

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The missing point of view is that some Indian Muslims have kinship ties with people in Pakistan, and that in general, Indian Muslims have had a more supportive/forgiving attitude towards Pakistanis than other Indians. IMO, this general sympathy would have remained if Pakistan, though remaining host...

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could not help noticing "off-road capabilities" listed in Accent spec - what exactly is it - is that just a GC spec?

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Despite this massive coastline, how come, majority of Indian states /kingdoms were inwardly focused /inland empires. Why not sea power. True, Gujarat had maritime traditions. may be everything was available inside onlee - but for fish - no need to go sea faring - dangerous activity :D Jokes aside, ...

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what happened to CCTNS - apart from marketing blah blah seems to be hearing nothing much. SRoy - any updates? has the work on new system started or still doing rounds of procurement.

what is the first round of money being used for? Is it left to states to decide?

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I used to wonder seeing the Dhows at Port Rashid in Dubai as well as at the Creek Customs Counter whether they are built at all or not now a days. when I asked around, they all pointed to repairing center. Then I chanced upon this article in the pink paper. Wow - 30 dows/year. Disappointed that all ...

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Its all a lottery for the freshers. +1 : gone are the days when companies like TCS would ensure rotation across technologies, type of work (maintenance, support, development, testing), domains before allowing newbies to choose what they want to do. I guess I was lucky but then those were prehistori...

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The Aria looks pretty hot, seriously. This baby is well-equipped and has something for everyone - families (relatively decent space), young hotshots (great looks) and pretty much everything in between. There is clearly a LOT of innovation happening at Tata Motors, and the results are for all to see...

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Dec sales report: Honda Model wise sales break-up: City: 3269 - impressive success in cities; lets see what toyota etios can do Long wait, it will be confirmed tomorrow at auto expo, but aint hitting the road till late 2010. also rumours have it that it has 1.4 ltr diesel engine (and a petrol later...

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Wipro, TCS, Infy plan to follow rival Accenture's sales model AFAIK, this has been tried in the past with following catches The partners were end of shelf life in their existing company and looking for a retirement job They always blamed lack of followup/cultural compatibility/ lack of aggression/ ...

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The only thing he didnt change was his sex in the testimony so far - that may also not be far off.

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That is an excellent point Ajaykk, why did the sebi roll it back? Also it shows that we have the resources to put a similar plan into action. What was the major drawback of this system? Google Maharaj pulls up According to a Sebi appointed committee, substantive concerns of fingerprinting, cost and...

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Tanaji wrote:the Indian industry GETS PAID to implement something that earlier they would have to do themselves.

Tanaji, small correction - Indian Industry gets a small %age as majority of money will go to providers of the technology - US, Europe and Japan.

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Can one not take a hierarchical approach? Suppose you do 10 fingerprints, face, and iris scan. First have some encoding of the face (apparently they have standard techniques like measuring distance between eyes). The arrange the encodings in some lexicographic order. When a new person comes for an ...

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That said;Irrespective of what type of system is developed, the potential system should be build to hold more than 5 billion records (to accommodate duplicates, deaths and births over next 50 years) and this technology is already available. I have worked on systems of this size (credit card systems...

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Rahul Mehta wrote:Why cant policemen buy and use the helicopters, they way policemen in US do?
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Police in Megacities to get Helicopters -but doesnt look likely in Maoist infested area

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Too much heat - give the poor guy a break to atleast put something in motion a) Mixing an expirable travel document no with lifelong identity no is a bad idea. And the fact that we dont have e-Passport till now is a different story. expecting all Indians esp Poor to hold/apply for passport is imposs...

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and thankfully, it isnt exactly your "classic" J2EE by any stretch of imagination

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"We certainly think we will take all the ten finger prints. We will take a picture. The question we don't know whether at this scale of operation, 10 fingerprints will be adequate... we have not closed the option of an iris scan," he said when asked if his office was also looking at the p...

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