Bharat Rakshak

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Thanks Cyranoji. Thanks to perplexity.ai for the numbers and the arguments I had with it. One thing it kept insisting was that conversion from FCA to gold would increase Current Account Deficit (CAD) by the amount converted, and accordingly impact India's ability and cost of raising external funds. ...

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How Can India Protect Its Forex Reserves from the West? In the face of rising geopolitical risks and the “weaponisation” of foreign reserves, India should actively work to safeguard its forex reserves. India’s foreign exchange reserves, valued at approximately $702.78 billion as of June 27, 2025 , ...

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https://x.com/ajaykraina/status/1923257524704182624?t=4uTnIOxkx3nXAwzlnP1evw&s=19 Experts, pl help decode. Is it an underground fuel facility or a nuclear storage cooking without detonation? .... See the video in the link, a huge fireball after the missile hit on Kirana hill nuclear weapons sto...

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There was a news article today saying that a company which owns majority stake in Bytedance (maker of TikTok) was going to invest $300 million in a few cryptos including $TRUMP. Brazen corruption.

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I feel that there is something wrong with the mental makeup of our foreign policy establishment. In the press briefings during Op Sindoor, they kept repeating "non-escalatory", "measured" etc. We will not get any brownie points from any country for this. No country would be happy...

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^^^
I wasn't saying they gifted it for pak. Obviously they did it for their own purposes. But could have also asked for a favor on behalf of pak, later on.

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I wonder if Qatar's gift of $400 million luxury jet to Trump (Air Force One) has anything to do with US intervention on behalf of pak. Also, I read somewhere that the US AG Pam Bondi was a Qatar lobbyist.

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I would have been perfectly happy with just the IWT suspension, if the government speedily worked on water diversion and storage projects. Taking out the terrorist bases as part of Op Sindoor is a bonus. But, after seeing the weakness of paki air defences and our ability to strike anywhere in pak , ...

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What's in this ceasefire agreement for India to let go of the golden opportunity to sort out the pakis? Did we fall for some carrot/stick regarding trade deal with the US?

Next time Pak may not be this weak.

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Instead of citizens launching campaigns, bharat sarkar should make it clear: no indian airline shall fly to turkey, turkish airlines shall be banned from indian airports, any turkish plane overflying bharat shall be blown outta the sky, and suspend all economic and diplomatic ties. I don't have con...

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I read somewhere that K.V. Subramanian committed some impropriety related to promotion of his book India@100. Union Bank of India purchased 1 lakh copies of his book at a cost of Rs. 7 Crore. I think a probe is on. a_bharat ji, Just scroll back a few posts and I have posted the details there Oops, ...

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I read somewhere that K.V. Subramanian committed some impropriety related to promotion of his book India@100. Union Bank of India purchased 1 lakh copies of his book at a cost of Rs. 7 Crore. I think a probe is on.

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Govt should offer an incentive to encourage public to report suspected illegals. A small incentive of Rs. 5000 per confirmed paki/beedi would be good.

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^^^ Why do we even need to look into legalities and technicalities? A compromised/incompetent/stupid PM can't bind the country forever by signing a lopsided treaty, giving away rights of his country for perpetuity. Enough of seeking approvals from others. Country should just ignore the hypocrites an...

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Thank you all for the answers. I understand the case of ballistic missile + torpedo against submarines. Can Ballistic missile + Glide/Smart bombs mentioned by Manish_P above defeat ship's air defences and hit the target? All of these (glide/smart bombs or torpedoes) are slow moving. For anti-ship ro...

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A noob question: why combine ballistic missile and torpedo? can a smaller cruise missile be used as a payload of a ballistic missile, with the ballistic missile releasing the cruise missile in the end phase? Are there any such missiles? I understand usage of torpedoes against submarines, but for ant...

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I agree that there are limitations to AI. Even so, given the incompetent and corrupt judges and the time it takes to get a final resolution for a case, the results of an AI driven justice system would be far better than what we have. The people that go into legal profession in India are mostly those...

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If we replace the judges at all levels with AI, we would get better justice in most cases, and most importantly quick closure. Currently, we neither have quality judgements nor closure in a reasonable time. Even if a proper judgement is given, it may take decades at which point it is as good as losi...

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I submit Modi factor in AP 2024 is 55.24- 45.54 = ~10% Analysts might say its only 2% the delta between 2.83 and 0.84. Ramana garu, with all due respect, I say that BJP/Modi didn't have positive contribution in AP, in terms of votes; the alliance with BJP may have helped in terms of setting up a fa...

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This picture is doing rounds on SM. BJP is quick to adapt LIC's tagline against Pitroda's inheritance tax idea.

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Here's my two cents on the AP scenario: BJP's vote share in last elections was less than 1% and it is highly unlikely to improve on that if it goes all alone, with the uninspiring local leaders it has. The central BJP leaders are viewed by most AP people as having cheated AP post bifurcation. So, ev...

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Indeed. If things work out, BJP may double its vote share to 2% in AP by 2029, all by itself.

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The spring semester 2024 at many US universities is about to start in 2-3 weeks. The MEA needs to put out a US Travel Advisory for students and families going to the US. A warning of hate crimes against Hindus, violent gun crime, and violent crime in general in many large metropolitan localities ac...

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Chetak ji, yes, there could be money coming through hawala channels. But, that money doesn't add to India's forex account and may be causing more harm than good.

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Looking at the source of remittances, it is a paltry 0.6% from Canada. So, the money-flow is one way. High time that India severely restricts the forex outflow and bank loans to students going to Canada and all other western countries. There should be a list of top schools and departments where stud...

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madhu wrote: ↑21 Sep 2023 14:09 Visa to India by indian embassy in Canada is back. It's a technical glitch...

Just checked the BLS website. It still shows the suspension notice.

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Is it 33% of current numbers or 33% of the (to be) increased numbers?

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Vayutuvan wrote: ↑16 Sep 2023 05:59
a_bharat wrote: ↑15 Sep 2023 13:03 The trade-off being unproductive weight. May be there are ways to minimize this.
OProbably that can be arranged with some obvious engineering gizmos. Your post made me visualize a system. I have it my mind's eye.

I am curious. Please explain. Thanks.

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Another model one can think of is entire goods trains directly loaded on ship (so, no time or labour wastage trasferring containers between ship and train twice each way). Train ferries existed for a century.

The trade-off being unproductive weight. May be there are ways to minimize this.

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Any transhipment of a ship based cargo to a land based transport via trains or trucks seems impractical. One Evergreen class container ship is 20000 TEU each 40Ft or 12.2m long. The length of a double stacked train pulling this over land ~(20000/2)*12/1000= 120km long train for ONE Evergreen class ...

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Didn't they show middle finger to India by allowing Chinese spy ship despite strong protest by India. This, just a few months after receiving (and continues to receive) generous aid from India?

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I really don't think there's much to gain for India from the tiny Srl Lankan economy. Strategically, Sri Lanka has become a China wh**e, and will remain so. We are better off without providing easy access to Lankans to India, be it Sinhalese or Tamils. Even the Hindu Nepal has become a pain. Enough ...

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GoI seems eager to score worthless brownie points by giving away or open sourcing India's digital platforms. I don't see much upside to this, but a big downside: making it easy for the enemies to find the security weaknesses and launch cyber attacks.

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In India, it is not possible to short a stock directly (except intraday). Shorting is done through derivatives (futures and options). But, there is liquidity only in current month futures and options for individual stocks, that too limited for most of Adani stocks. There is very little liquidity in ...

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I don't quite understand why the elected government is unable to exercise its legitimate authority and tell the IAF: well, we have carefully considered your view point and decided that it is in the best interest of the nation that only Indian made planes will be made available to you and you will ha...

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I read somewhere that they shorted bonds issued by Adani companies in the US market.

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Some twitter user posted chatGPT summary of Hindenburg report on Adani:

https://twitter.com/Prashanth_Krish/sta ... 37/photo/1

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With all the buzz about chatGPT in the last few days, I just wanted to try it out. I typed in this single line "write a letter to NYT criticizing hinduphobic articles written by their brown slaves". It generated the following letter: Dear New York Times, I am writing to express my concern ...

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Different GSTs are not necessary. India can set high import tariff rates and penalize under-invoicing. a_bharat ji, and what will we do when others retaliate in a similar tit for tat fashion Our biggest problem is Chinese imports. The trade is heavily imbalanced in China's favour. Indian merchandis...

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I am wondering if Govt. can reduce GST on domestic Make in India products and leave same rates on imported item. Would that be possible? Would that benefit Make in India products? That would be difficult, I think. If India did that it would be against the WTO rules and the affected nations can take...

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