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nandakumar

what happens to all that if the US freezes our reserves This is exactly the question many govts could be asking, shaking the fundamental trust in the current USD based, US controlled global financial system. Without thinking through the consequences US & Europe have gone berserk with sanctions ...

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chetak We have far more in dollar denominated debt/ portfolio investments besides direct investments than what we own by way of dollar denominated deposits. While a freeze would be a messy affair, I doubt we would end up taking a loss. Let's say, US Government imposes a freeze on deposits with Feder...

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Thanks rsingh. Yes you are right. It is off topic. No more from me on this.

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This may not be the ideal thread. If so I apologise. I am looking for some information on behalf of a friend about German work visa, permanent resident and later, grant of German citizenship. His daughter is going through a troubled matrimonial relationship with her husband. She had gone to Germany ...

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We are all COVID positive. Myself and wife double vaccination plus booster shot ( total 3) of Pfizer and down with infection. Both boys have Pfizer one dose and were due for 2nd shot this weekend. Most probably got it from after school care of children. No severe complaints just body aches and runn...

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^^Chetakji There is a rumour about 'Boris the Blonde' visiting KSA. Rumoured to ask the Sheiks to increasing the output!! But is there an ulterior motive as two pronged attack on the non-complier's like India A. ask KSA and the gulf to shut supply of juice to India B penalize for buying russki juic...

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... https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/indias-top-refiner-ioc-buys-3-mln-bbls-russian-urals-crude-via-tender-sources-2022-03-14/ Interesting thing is that the trading company from which IOC bought oil is Vitol, a Dutch energy trading company. One of the largest companies in the world, who freq...

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How much taxes do foreign IT services co.s like Accenture, IBM, CapGemini etc pay in India? How much profits from India do they expatriate to their HQs ? Can anyone please throw some light on this? Would there be tax on export of services. Most of them are into software/services exports. My underst...

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The normal GPS signal available to all has a very complex jitter built into it which degrades the signal. It is also the very same signal from which the MIL GPS output can be decrypted, derived, processed and used for mil purposes by special Mil GPS receivers. The commercial GPS receivers cannot de...

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The joint official statement issued by the EU and the US says it will sanction the Russian Central Bank. ".... we commit to imposing restrictive measures that will prevent the Russian Central Bank from deploying its international reserves in ways that undermine the impact of our sanctions."...

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What is Ayci's track record? Turkish airlines is no Singapore AirLines or Emirates A, Delta or any big international airline serving Americas, Europe, ME & Asia. Turkish airlines has primarily grown due to Turkey becoming a popular tourist destination thanks to Turkey's attraction, and the gene...

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Hindi is my second language but this interview should be on the first page of this thread :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: https://twitter.com/BesuraTaansane/status/1494039021378740226 P.S. Please delete if unacceptable. My knowledge of hindi is smattering at best. There was a question about inflation and t...

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jaysimha wrote:
vijayk wrote:Key Budget Highlights
Sir,
permit me to share this with my friends with due credit to you.
Regards
Jaysimha

I second that. It was a crisp and succinct summary. Great job by vijayk. I too would like to share it with a bunch of journalism students that I teach. Hope vijayk would permit.

nandakumar

Unfortunately Canada seems to have it's own Supreme Court. To add insult to injury they don't seem to have the Collegium System, nor the expanded notion of Public Interest Litigation or the Basic Stucture Doctrine which pretty much allows the judge of the moment to declare 'chaka jam' road blockade ...

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Need Dilbu to work his magic from now itself!! Dilbu Saar has lost it a bit...........just like most of financial gurus.It is difficult to be correct every time. :(( Dilbu is the Warren Buffet of the polical dhaga. He can do no wrong. What seems like he getting it wrong for the moment is that the G...

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Need Dilbu to work his magic from now itself!!

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People intuitively understand Blockchain method as a 'Store of Value'. But conventional Money performs a very useful function as a 'Medium of Exchange'. What will be the transaction cost of validating a cryptocurrency for putting through a commercial transaction? Let us say I want to buy a litre of ...

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Lt. Gen. Ms Kanitkar was also the driving force behind setting up innumerable Army Referral Units for treating Covid cases at the height of the Second Wave.

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I heard in Prof Kamakoti's (Diro of IITM now!) interview a couple of years ago that he (experimented in his ancestral land! and) found good yields for rice with single strand clod instead of the bunch that they usually replant - any other studies? Would it be feasible with good mechanized planters?...

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But why would India need hydroponic farming? It is not as though India lacks the soil suitable for cultivation. Of course increasing soil productivity and better crop protection against pest attacks is something else. Here again the current technology is self perpetuating. Productivity requires appl...

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Thanks Suraj, for the clarification. I understand now that every product needs a vibrant component manufacturing base for the product to be successful.

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disha
A question arising from your comment on Suraj's article. What exactly is the demand for air purifiers? I thought it is something that people in Delhi use perhaps in increasing numbers. But outside of key Metros? I don't know.

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Wonder if India will have vaccine Tourism! Americans who have the means can fly down take a shot and throw in Taj Mahal, Kashi as bonus.

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Yes first time. I escaped the last time though I travelled in late June 2021 by air and again in July 21. Both time it was unavoidable.

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Think viral load might be playing tricks with the tests. A colleague reported that the test he took on day 1 barely turned positive almost near the end of the 15 minute reporting period. But the next day when his symptoms were more acute, the test reported positive right away. Yes, that's probably ...

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In my case, the self test kit turned in a 'negative ' result one night. But the next day morning nose and throat swabs were taken. The following day RT PCR test showed positive.

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There is a difference between American usage of tomato and Indian's usage. The former uses it principally as a Sandwich filling while the latter uses it principally in cooking where heat mashes it up. So, the hard to squeeze tomato so essential in the US is not actually needed in Indian cuisine. Tha...

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Delhi Police's salary cost is borne by the Central government as the police comes under the Ministry of home affairs. I don't know what else is charged to Central Government. Is it any surprise that Delhi government is running revenue surplus?

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The man who took a rabbi and other people hostage at a Dallas-area synagogue Saturday night in an hours-long standoff with law enforcement has been identified as 44-year-old British citizen Malik Faisal Akram, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Seems to be a South Asian man of Britis...

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Saw interview of Mr Tyagi ex-muslim Wasim Rizvi on Jaipur dialogues. When asked about how muslims perceive China and Uyghyrs. He responds with something on the lines of .... Bete waise Chini to hamare dushman hain, par unhone is kaum ko sahi pehchan kar ilaaj kar rahe hain. Wont get into the what h...

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India's forex reserves to face $256 billion overseas debt challenge in next 12 months. India's enormous foreign exchange reserves faces its biggest test in the next 12 months as a record $256 billion of total overseas debt comes up for repayment amid a possible flight of capital due to monetary tig...

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M Vidyasagar is also a member of the Fellow of the Royal Society- one a handful of few Indians to make the list. Incidentally with the exception of the first one (Parsee, I think) all the rest of are South Indians.

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If any thing in the next few years the process of investment led GDP growth is only going to sustain if not grow even further. A sneak preview of SBI economic outlook report (it should be out today or tomorrow) tells me that companies are looking to expand their capacities. This is as it should be. ...

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^^ Even I've never understood how our judiciary is able to poke its nose into executive's domain all the time. It is like this. As long as you can cloak any issue with an element of Life and Liberty guaranteed under the Constitution of which the Supreme Court is the ultimate guardian then the judic...

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Hats off to rohitvats for a brilliant and painstaking analysis of the situation. I am educated beyond measure.

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Looks like Ergodan spent USD 8 Billion of UAE 10 Billion gift to lift the Lira from 18.4 to the USD to 11. Now that the funds are getting exhausted its getting back to normal. I am sure someone must be making a killing out of the Turkish Lira fluctuations https://money.usnews.com/investing/news/art...

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Sudarshan Ji, I have the author's explicit permission to share two chapters from the book since he being a still serving officer, wouldn't want to do so himself. It just so happens that he is related to my wife, so that made this part a bit easy to do. In fact, with the post above, I have just fini...

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Slightly OT. I had read somewhere that when General Sundarji took action against Chinese, Rajiv Gandhi summoned him to a cabinet briefing as south block had panicked. The good general explained why such action was required. But Rajiv Gandhi was still uncertain. So he looked around and asked what wa...

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stephen I am not disagreeing with any of your points. I would additionally make a couple of observations. One, I have visited Guwahati from time to time over the last 7 years. I know at this time of the year it gets quite dark by even as early as 4.30 in the evening. The incident happened at a place...

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It is a novice's question. The vehicle was asked to stop. It didn't. Why was the option of shooting at the tires and front radiator grill/ engine not tried in the first place? If the vehicle did not stop, it strengthens the assumption that it's carrying militants. Those militants know the army is g...

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