Bharat Rakshak

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The theory of 40-50% people not being susceptible to the virus has many counter examples. Can't explain mass infections at TTD or Tablighi event etc. But it also has supporting data and examples of NYC and stockholm which seem to have reached Herd Immunity at 20% infection rate.

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Came across some information, based on which it looks like: ⋅ Not all people are susceptible to Covid-19 ⋅ Some 40-50% unexposed people already have immunity from T-Cells (from earlier corona viruses, so this virus is not so "novel") ⋅ 80-90% of family memb...

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^^^ Japan, South Korea and Taiwan developed technology and were able to manufacture goods useful for the rest of the world. Once you are able to produce things competitively, you automatically become a huge trading nation. In India's case, we just gave away the huge prize of Indian market to everybo...

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I would like to understand the benefits of WTO membership for India. I only see the downside and not much upside. Indian domestic market will be huge in a decade. We are giving foreign entities access to this huge market and what are we getting in return? We mostly export raw materials and low value...

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It is very important for the App ban to continue for atleast 1 more year so that good desi alternatives get established. Even after that, Govt should ban app bundling by OEM which would favor Chinese who control 80% of the market. Otherwise whenever the ban is lifted, all Chinese apps will be back ...

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A few months back there was some discussion (probably on EV thread) about Aluminum-Air batteries and Indian Oil Corporation's collaboration with Israel's Phinergy on this technology. Here is an update on this: IOC-Phinergy to begin metal-air battery field trials; in talks with auto companies Metal-a...

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Top leadership of the country is squarely responsible for the stupid restrictions leading to unnecessary deaths of security personnel. Everybody wants to be a Mahatma in this country, sacrificing others' lives.

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Gyan wrote:Once Upon a time even if BRF everyone was RRR fan. I was given a Board warning for posting an article written by MD Nalapat Critical of RRR, even though I did post any additional comments.

Once upon a time, MMS was a revered figure on this forum -- I think right upto the S-e-S moment.

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GOI can't absorb more pressure on the deficit. That is the problem - unlike the US, we can't print money against bonds that China will buy, so that US will buy more of their goods. Only other options are foreign borrowings (sovereign bonds at low interest), cracking down heavily on the high value d...

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Saar, I hope you are right and I am wrong.

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GoI (and state governments) appear unnerved and clueless as to how to deal with Muslims, be it the Shaheen Bagh protesters, Tablighi a****les or the aam crowd pelting stones on cops and healthcare workers. How shameful is it for a country of India's size to send the NSA at 2:00 AM to convince plead ...

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Crossed 800 today. Rapid rise. I expect the next 2-3 days to see rapid rise, as lot of people came in between 21-23. 5 days incubation period cases coming up. Reporting 843 now. https://www.covid19india.org/ The official site https://mohfw.gov.in/ has not yet updated the count (still 724). https://...

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Came across a 3 year old story about an inexpensive, full-featured, portable ventillator created by an AIIMS doctor and an engineer to help patients needing ventilator support get care at home. They have since productized it: https://www.agvahealthcare.com/ . Here's a video on the quint: https://fit...

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Currently, no company manufactures 100 percent indigenous ventilators in India. Most companies either import, assemble or partially produce it with components sourced from Europe, US and China. But this supply has been hampered with the countries restricting critical exports owing to the COVID-19 p...

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A Deshmukh wrote:we were at 197 in the morning. 250 now.
https://www.mohfw.gov.in/

223 (191 Indian + 32 Foreign)

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https://www.livemint.com/news/india/govt-planning-to-launch-lottery-offer-under-the-gst-from-1-april-11583064993731.html Looks like Smt. Nirmala'jis ministry is monitoring this pages and copying ideas from here. Total lift and drop. I think BRF should open a whine thread where its ideas are copied ...

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^^^ Thanks for the answer. The way I see it, GoI doesn't want to show any leniency towards the telcos for the fear of being charged with bribery. DoT did give some extra time (2 years?) and today SC got angry with that. Interpretation of the contract by SC may be OK when the issue is seen in a narro...

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I am surprised by SC's attitude on the AGR issue, forcing Vodafone to go belly up and severely damaging Airtel's financial position. The obvious beneficiary is Reliance Jio.

Can somebody with better insights into the issue explain?

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Found this in my twitter feed: Taiwan's innovation to prevent tax evasion

GoI should adapt similar ideas or come up with some original, creative mechanisms, instead of meaningless/ineffective tinkering in every budget.

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https://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2020/jan/03/govt-studies-if-rte-exemption-to-minority-schools-helping-children-2084320.html Centre studies if RTE exemption to minority schools helping children “This study is mainly aimed at missionary schools as they are paid institutions where a large numb...

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For a benchmark, Nissan Leaf with 40 kwh battery claims a range of 240 kms.

a_bharat · Re: Indian Missiles News & Discussions - 17 Dec 2018

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Death Sentence to Musharraf in high treason case

Pakistan court hands death penalty to former president Pervez Musharraf on charges relating to the imposition of extra-constitutional emergency in November 2007

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^^^ Sure, there was public anger, but I don't think that was the reason. The police tried to cover up their inaction from the time the victim's family sought police help (around 11:00 pm) till the time a burning body was reported by a villager at around 5:00 am the next morning. Actually, it was muc...

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Googly. Though there was speculation on this, this was unexpected at this time.

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^^
You still have to go through the paper work. I had done this for my children when PIO was phased out.

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Was expecting a cop out judgment from SC. Glad that they didn't try to showcase their psecular, fiberal credentials to the world by trampling on majority sentiments.

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Beautiful speech by young CRPF jawan: watch the last 1 minute if you are in hurry.

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Maria Wirth @mariawirth1 10h10 hours ago Sometimes truth shows up: today's paper IANS: in UK a high of 58k rapes in 2018/19. Conviction rate: 3 %. Compare 34k rapes in India (2015). conviction rate:26% UK has 5 times the number of rapes when related to population. yet India is rape capital for Brit...

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What exactly is a "1 GW battery plant"? Is there some DDMitis somewhere here? Do they mean that they will produce enough batteries every second, to store 1 GJ of energy? Or is the plant going to consume 1 GW of power to make the batteries? Not making sense, somebody please enlighten me. E...

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That is what the ex-RBI governor Bimal Jalan led committee looked into and came back with the answer that for this fiscal, 1.78 lakh crore can be transferred to GOI* Of course now everybody is clamoring that GOI must: 1. Put the money into banks and clean up their balance sheets 2. Pay down its exi...

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Last 5 years hard work is beginning to pay dividends. I read about this a lot. Still can't figure our where RBI got all this surplus. Take a look at this link that nicely explains RBI reserves: Summarizing from the above link: RBI makes money in different ways: Print money and lend to banks, earnin...

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“Give me a chance”, Rashid Engineer begged his interrogators (Former J&K MLA arrested by NIA in terror-funding case) According to the sources in the army, Engineer cried over the phone and begged the army commander to help him “get away”. In return, the source said, Engineer expressed his willi...

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When Governor's rule was there in J&K after the fall of BJP-PDP govt, GoI went to SC that, milords SC-STs of J&K cannot get benefits like other SC STs of India, bliss to do something. SC in all it's glory to help SC - STs asked GoI what options were available. Cunning Baniya Modi said since...

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Since GoI got support of more than 2/3rd legislators in each house on the issue of making 370 inoperative, I wish it goes ahead in the next parliament session to make the constitutional amendment to completely remove it. A future GoI should not be able to make the 370 operative again by simply issui...

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A twitter thread on the events: Aayush Narayan @AayushNarayan3 16 hours ago, 21 tweets, 14 min read Read on Twitter Step 1. Withdrawal of support from mehbooba mufti Government. This was Important so that the power to give consent moves to Governor. Live: BJP quits J&K govt.; Mehbooba resigns, s...

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Finance Ministry needs to move away from Socialist policies: Surcharge on rich was wonky enough, new CSR norms are beyond ridiculous But the budget made a catastrophic blunder by the imposition of the surcharge on the rich. When it became apparent that the surcharge would also apply to trusts, that...

a_bharat · Re: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Nov 27 2017 Deleted

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The plot is a bit confusing. Horizontal axis is time in seconds. White vertical axis shows rel velocity. What is the red vertical axis? Is it altitude? But it doesn't correspond to the read out. At 944.5 secs, read out says altitude is 171.4 km but graph corresponds to 550. It would seem like under...

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This forum is becoming increasingly intolerant to views other than Modi/BJP bhajan. There used to be a time when people used to say "Indira is India". Now it has become "Modi is India" on this forum. For me no individual or party is above criticism. All have their warts. In 2014,...

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