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VenkataS

We need to exploit roof top solar power aggressively. We need EVs because of the amount of pollution in our cities. This level of pollution for example in Delhi will affect the health of the citizens. However we should be buying locally manufactured solar panels and battery packs. We must not rely o...

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I understand your perspective, but I'm afraid that's is an artificial construct assiduously created by the western press, specifically the European one (not in US - I'll explain). Exchange rates matter, to a point. What is the difference between a Rs.250 haircut and GBP15 haircut ? Nothing. There s...

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IMF WEO 2019 is out: IMF World Economic Outlook: GDP PPP ... India nominal GDP: $3 trillion Chinese nominal GDP surged from $2774.29 Trillion in 2006 to $11226.19 Trillion in 2015. That is a growth of more than 4 times in 9 years (doubling twice within that time-span). That means that they were gro...

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https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/1-in-works-railways-to-study-10-more-bullet-train-corridors/articleshow/68119972.cms New Bullet Trains routes in consideration. They should add Chennai - Hyderabad to it. Also Chennai - Bhubaneshwar. It shall be spectacular along the coast. Ignoring Hyderab...

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Interesting points Lilo.. can you explain a bit more about the t-series thingy? I didnt follow the entire mess. One thing though, as long as India was "poor", curries, yoga and call-center, many of these jokers were pretending to be civil. As we keep advancing and websites like WEF push t...

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Why are the Chinese producing (and perhaps consuming) more than 10 times as much steel as a similarly sized US economy (1.2 times US economy in PPP terms). Does it indicate the difference in manufacturing economies of the two countries or is it because of the scale of construction going on in China ...

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Yep. What works for the US would not work for India. When US offloads its manufacturing to China and gets benefited by cheaper good (they get more bang for the buck), they end up with large trade deficit. But the US can afford to run large deficit because of USD' status of reserve currency. If US s...

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Swimming is something that we should absolutely go for. There are a lot of medals to be had in swimming (123 in total and 41 golds)(Also this does not include Diving which has 14 events on its own). Japan and China each won 19 golds and 52 and 50 medals respectively from swimming alone at this years...

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According to IMF estimates for 2018 India is now a $10 trillion dollar economy ($10.385 Trillion to be precise) in PPP terms: http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2018/01/weodata/weorept.aspx?pr.x=48&pr.y=6&sy=2017&ey=2018&scsm=1&ssd=1&sort=country&ds=.&br=1&c=...

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This is a radical thing to consider but is needed so that we do not suffer from any import lobbies in the future and ensure that build a strong local defense industry. Tejas is sufficiently developed now for us to do this. Blanket ban on any foreign fighter imports from now onwards. Probably muster ...

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Yes if we continue to grow between 7-10% per year over the next 10 years, keep our inflation down and keep our merchandise trade deficit within control then we have a decent chance of being a ~$10 Trillion economy in nominal terms by 2028. Our services trade surplus coupled with remittances and FDI ...

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Suraj - Organizing CWG, AG, OGs or World Championships will boost the local economy of the city/state that it is held in. We do need international level sports infrastructure in every major city in the country. Big sporting events will boost public interest in sports and encourage further investment...

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BTW - Why aren't we hosting Asian games anymore. The last time we hosted AGs was in 1982. They have already been allocated until 2026. That is a long time without hosting games that should be within our reach. In the meantime between 1982 and 2026, South Korea and China would have been hosts three t...

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26 Gold, 20 Silver, 20 Bronze
Not a bad performance by India.

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I am wondering why India did not negotiate and ask for retaining the same number of medals in wrestling, shooting, weightlifting and boxing. They should have negotiated under the threat of leaving the Commonwealth if our core sports are not included at the same levels in the future. Our TV market sh...

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http://bwfbadminton.com/rankings/2/bwf- ... &page_no=1
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty are ranked 21st in MD
Sikki Reddy and Pranaav Jerry Chopra are ranked 25th in XD

This is an improvement from a couple of years ago right?

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I remember seeing a discussion about this several years ago. We were on pace to hit $1 trillion in trade volume in early 2010s but faltered along the way. Total merchandise trade volume actually decreased from $760 billion in 2011 to $758 billion in 2015. Hopefully that will not be the case going fo...

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If I am right about the rumors I am hearing - wait for the announcement by LIGO Team at 7 AM (California Time) on October 16. (It seems that CXO noticed a pulse when two Neutron stars merged and which may be officially confirmed by Gravitational Wave team and may be even by another optical telescop...

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If a war does happen we should grab twice the land that they have grabbed from us in the past before a cease fire is declared. This is so that when they eventually come to the negotiating table we would at worst only lose the additional half that we grabbed and retain the part that we have lost to t...

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2) Hold: Pragmatists want this We cannot cede anymore strategic depth to them, we have done that enough in the past. We have enough trump cards to play as well starting with de-legitimizing Chinese occupation of Tibet. If push comes to shove we should occupy Chumbi valley as well and hold on to it.

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Chinese only understand show of force. Us not showing it is considered a sign of weakness. We should publicly lay a claim to larger and larger land parcels in Tibet as our own until they stop with this foolishness. For every 100 SQ Kms of Indian territory that they lay a claim on we should lay a cla...

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The dark side of plummetting solar prices http://www.forbesindia.com/article/special/the-dark-side-of-plummeting-solar-prices/47357/1 According to the above the primary advantages for Chinese manufacturers is the availability of low cost debt at scale and the domestic sourcing of raw materials. I wo...

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I notice that there is only one road "Sriharikota Road" leading into SDSC and SHAR. For such a high profile installation shouldn't we have an additional road as backup?

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Mods : I am hoping that these inline images are not a violation and that you will allow them to remain as they are very illustrative. I collected some information and produced this table and chart (with help from Chacha and based on World Bank data). It shows the importance of sustained economic gro...

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In the most recent census, out of a list of 29 states & 7 UTs , Andhra Pradesh with 67% literacy rate is in the bottom five of this list of 36 territories. Telangana is just below at 66.5% . BIMARU state having lesser literacy rate than Andhra is Bihar with 63%. Forget India's avg literacy (74%...

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Assuming that our GDP is $2.6 Trillion this year. In 10 years (by 2027 and assuming average annual inflation rate is 3% and assuming a 2% average Rupee appreciation per year) we can be a: $8 trillion economy if we grow at an annualized GDP growth rate of 7% per year (total average growth rate per ye...

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Thanks Muppalla garu for the AP development forum twitter link above. I would urge the posters not to generalize an entire caste for the actions of the few or the many among them. Do remember that there are good and bad people in every human group. I do believe that moving towards a dharmic casteles...

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GMR/GVK are among the most rapacious companies in India. Profit alone does not define a company. In KAR they have shut down a fully working airport in the heart of Bangalore city and put a condition that no other airport can come up within a radius of 150 kms of their airport. A defence PSU has los...

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Excellent match by PV Sindhu to beat Wang Yihan and reach the semifinals. She beat her 22-20, 21-19. Her net play was excellent. She moved Wang Yihan around the court and probably tired her. She was down most of the first game but somehow pulled out a win in it. I really liked her temperament in the...

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It does not matter if the technology was handed to SpaceX on a platter. What is stopping ISRO from doing the same thing and cultivating capable private Indian players in the space market. What ISRO is doing is cool and what SpaceX is doing is cool as well. They are treading new territory with respec...

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First year they have crossed $100 billion exports. That is awesome.

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Godavari and Krishna rivers are being interlinked today: Engineers skip meals to meet Naidu’s deadline http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/engineers-skip-meals-to-meet-naidus-deadline/article7656923.ece This is awesome news! Hopefully AP will reap rich benefits from this in the year...

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According to this article Andhra Pradesh spends the least among major states on Education (as a % of total expenditure). It explains APs lackluster performance in Education and in total literacy rate amongst the major states. Bihar's improvement in literacy over the last decade 2001-2011 was 16.82% ...

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The Telugu states are at the bottom of the table in these literacy rate rankings:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_st ... eracy_rate

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^ A push on universal literacy is sorely needed in AP. AP has been one of the worst performing states on this front over the last few decades, the literacy rate only improved by 7% (from 60% to 67%) in the decade between 2001-2011. 100% by 2019 might be an unrealistic target at this point. I will se...

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One of the commentators in the broadcast mentioned that the target was to have 6 PSLV launches and 2 GSLV launches in a year in the near future.

The next GSLV MK II launch will be in June/July 2016 according to the mission director.

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Should I hold on to TTM or sell it. I bought (Tata Motors) here in the US about a couple of months ago as it looked like about the only stock that I could buy directly in the US. I have lost more than 20% on it over this time (from $42 to $34 now). I initially intended to hold on to it over the long...

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^ China went from $2 trillion in 2005 to a $10 trillion in 2014. I would be surprised if we do not cross $4 trillion in 2020 (unless the World economy tanks completely). If Modi is at the helm for 10 years we should be more than half the Chinese economy by 2025. Hopefully it is not all wishful think...

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Phone tapping of people including AP government!!!

Is TRS/KCR secretly running a spy mission?

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Australian Open Superseries: Kidambi Srikanth Advances, Parupalli Kashyap, PV Sindhu Exit

Strong showing as well by Sindhu and Kashyap in losses to higher seeds.

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