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US hints at oil for India on concessional terms.

Ahh!! That further explains eye ran sunctions and timely fireworks on KSA facilities. Doing bizzness good ole sopranos style. Uncle is bery naughty. Large Defense deal with uncle was tough, may be o&g deal is a decent alternative.

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There won't be a waar in this region anytime soon. Although, the mil types would continue to curiously explore how and what hit the oil facilities, the chances are that the actual details will never come out in the public domain. Lot of blame game, rhetorics, and accusations; but no evidence. I thin...

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Not trying to distract the reader by bringing in a third country here, but I couldn't stop and wonder how green responds when the same protest-game is played on them. Remember the protest incident against Turkey's Erdogan incident in Washington D.C? Although, there are no direct parallels between th...

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Carney Urges Libra-Like Reserve Currency to End Dollar Dominance

Mark Carney laid out a radical proposal for an overhaul of the global financial system that would eventually replace the dollar as a reserve currency with a Libra-like virtual one...

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... They can offer India (i) full diplomatic and possibly intel support for a campaign to retake all of J&K (ii) a diplomatic blank cheque to dismember Pakistan as we like (iii) full support against Chini aggression if necessary (iv) opportunity to extend our influence into Afghanistan and cont...

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I know 5 kids, from Maharashtra, who joint the USAF maintenance team and deployed to A'stan, maintaining Apaches. Got their GC, as promised, and after leaving now work for a pvt company in CA making good money maintaining helos. They claim they had a blast. Never faced combat. Curious, what is the ...

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X-posting from understanding unkil dhaaga African swine fever (ASF) is decimating China's pork industry, by far the biggest in the world. Dutch bank Rabobank, which lends to the global agricultural sector, estimates the country's pig population could shrink by a third in 2019 -- up to 200 million an...

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Manu wrote:...
(2) American Support to India / Pressure on Pakistan, IS important -- even though it may hurt our egos a bit.
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Manu Saar, uncle has no choice. Blood and market access to India can’t go together. I doubt anyone in top echelons of goi is bissing in chaadi with respect to bahadur.

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Straight from horse’s mouth, us and nato forces to leave Afghanistan by November 2020: ... Krishna-ji, RD saar provided a nice analysis, but from a timing perspective, such headlines in MSM have consistently proved one and only thing and that is "elections are just around the corner". &qu...

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@CRamS, why does one believe that unkle really really wants to get out of afg? And, if not then the whole argument of needing Baki services falls apart. 18 years and counting.

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And, Sajid Javid became Britain’s finance minister (chancellor) succeeding Hammond. Pretty intense...

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German Defense Minister Ursula Von Der Leyen to Succeed Jean-Claude Junker as EU President (November 1)

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5G chipset belongs in handheld devices (mobile phones) as well as towers which receive such signals from the phone. First mover advantage that @kit mentioned, can give massive boost to Huawei because it will beat all Western manufacturers on price. All that income effectively goes towards further R&...

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Williams Saar, dt’s re-election chances has little to do with quality of dem candidates. Yes there will be A candidate. Trade/technology fight with cheen is like a heart surgery still in progress; and it would be foolish to change the surgeon in the middle of the surgery. Looks like All this was alr...

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Vietnam attracts record FDI Vietnam has drawn FDI worth $16.74 billion in the first five months of the year, the highest in the period since 2015. The registered foreign direct investment, which includes newly-registered capital, capital supplements and stake acquisitions, represents an increase of...

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A recent map from BBC: What's up with that map of India? Is Kashmir using Huawei, but India is hesitant? Those blokes at BBC. OK, hear me out on this contrarian thought.... But who will buy them outside china? India (provided Chinese are willing to setup manufacturing fab, design etc. in a joint ve...

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U.S. tells India it is mulling caps on H-1B visas to deter data rules

Govt, RBI promise to address concerns on data localization rule

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Even if people were packed like sardines, is it fair to say that it would be difficult to pack more than 10,000 people on world's largest carrier? Anyway. Eye-ranians are on record saying that if they can't export oil, no one can (i.e. sabotage) transport 30% of oil/gas moving thru strait of hemorrh...

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ramana wrote:Folks, I would like to track corporate director ship of top 200 companies by value in India.

Any volunteers?

By tracking, you mean names of directors by company? At 7-9 directors per board, you are looking at over 1600 people. And, directors can be re-elected/changed frequently.

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Is NSR just warming the seat for Jaitley to come back soon? In which case, she will follow the road already charted... Doubt Jaitleyji is coming back. My armchair guess is that NSR will use the underlying bureaucracy to keep financial system plumbing clean and flowing, while most of the important d...

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The modern day Ministry of Finance has five Departments (for a reason) —

Department of Economic Affairs
Department of Expenditure
Department of Revenue
Department of Investment and Public Asset Management
Department of Financial Services

Wishing NSR all the best in her new role.

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...Essentially he is saying that its the bureaucrats who will deliver and the ministers are potted plants? Ramana garu, “potted plants” is bit extreme :D Now that 12 hrs are passed, and we know who is getting which portfolio, i can’t Speak for all appointments, but looking at the appointment of NSR...

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With respect to who gets which berth, following article from Swarajya helps understand what to watch for... Modi’s Cabinet: The Other Names Are Not Quite Important This Time Around ... The Real Deliverers Two central sector schemes that have delivered rural India to Modi are that of provision of toi...

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Who will be President? Suni Deodhar or HBS? Saw somewhere that BJP President need to be a member for at least 15 years. So that probably rules out HBS. It is tough to imagine AS completely getting out of BJP President responsibilities. Chances are some mild mannered person ends up as BJP president ...

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srin wrote:No Suresh Prabhu or Rajyavardhan Rathore or ~~Gen VK Singh~~or Jayant Sinha

Updated after below post.

Out of curiosity, did Jayant Sinha fall out of favor because of his own doing or foul mouth Y Sinha, or perhaps perception on too much western soft corner (20+ year residence in khan land)?

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INSTEX: Europe sets up transactions channel with Iran Germany, France and the UK have set up a payment channel with Iran called INSTEX, to help continue trade and circumvent US sanctions. Washington has cautioned EU nations against such actions. ... What is INSTEX? - A "special purpose vehicle...

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Modi Season 2, Episode Pakistan: Give pressure a chance The image of Pakistan's foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, who not long back had not only boasted about the ‘googly’ that the Imran Khan government had bowled by opening the Kartarpur corridor but also displayed his toxic sexism while refe...

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KL Dubey wrote:Antonia officially winner in Rae Bareli. But margin reduced by half (down to 1.6L) from 3.5L last time.

We will get her in 2024. Does Jayant sinha replace Jaitleyji?

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Credit goes to jinx master @Dilbu. And, we demand special status to Bharat Chowkidar Forum

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What a sweet coincidence. Today inkompetent brit$hit prime minister May announced her resignation, and new and rising India gave second and strong mandate to modiji.

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And, long faces on NDTV shows lots of deaths in the family. Aiyoo, total breakdown

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Election results watch parties are taking place in Texas, Illinois, Massachusetts, Florida, Washington DC, Virginia, California and other states, mostly with large populations of Indian Americans.

Coming to a theatre in US: Indian election results, live

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I don’t think I was so excited or anxious for my 10th or 12th exam results many moons ago. I blame it on Bharat Chowikdar Forum...

Modi will lose onleeee

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US warns EU over 'poison pill' defence plans (france24) The United States has sent a stern warning to the European Union that its plans to boost defence cooperation within the bloc could unravel decades of transatlantic cooperation and damage NATO. A May 1 letter from two of President Donald Trump'...

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Technology and trade have now been fully weaponized. Did Chinese know that the manufacturing privileges awarded to them 30+ years ago would come back and haunt them? Is Wipro, TCS, Infosys next in his second term? China's Huawei, 70 affiliates placed on U.S. trade blacklist What if uncle said to cou...

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Is Trump's calculation that blue collar jobs will shift to the US, a realistic one? Why would smart phones, colour TVs etc consumed in the US from Chinese exports relocate to US? Transferring bulk of manufacturing back to US is NOT part of any calculation. It doesn’t make any sense. May be a small ...

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It will work provided they have 274 letters of winning MP's from TRS, YSR TDP INC CPIM , NC, BJD, RJD, BSP, SP together. Independants will probably wait to be courted by NDA. Well if people of India give a mandate wanting such a Govt Here is for BJP IT cell. Start spreading rumors information befor...

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Indo China move to make buyers club, remove Asian Premium etc is on possibility to get out this oil price trap .AFAIK, Chinese dignitary is visiting Delhi in about 2 weeks to discuss this and hopefully add JAPAN & SOKO to this initiative. Conceptually this makes a lot of sense. Chinese have bee...

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Nice timing of letter to RaGa from Ministry. May be a sign that the "Juggernaut"'s wheels have got over static friction and are now rolling. The Rafale and Chor lies may have done it, and orders gone out to start prosecuting. Whole pharen citizenship thing is a nice surgical strike on RaG...

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Re Chaturvedi; Spewed hate against Hindus for all these years then joins the Shiv Sena. Why even let her join, not as if she’s some political heavyweight? Good move by Shiv Sena. For someone like P-Chat there are not many national parties where she can count on any future. She can be used leveraged...

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