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by A_Gupta
02 May 2024 18:28
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Nov 27 2017
Replies: 8461
Views: 3057676

Re: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Nov 27 2017

https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2019262 The Gross Goods and Services Tax (GST) collections hit a record high in April 2024 at ₹2.10 lakh crore. This represents a significant 12.4% year-on-year growth, driven by a strong increase in domestic transactions (up 13.4%) and imports (up 8.3%)...
by A_Gupta
02 May 2024 18:26
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]
Replies: 765
Views: 188658

Re: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]

https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2019294 ECI’s efforts, over last two years, for inclusion of PVTG (Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups) communities and other tribal groups in the electoral process have borne fruit with scenes of tribal groups in various States/UTs participating enthu...
by A_Gupta
02 May 2024 06:53
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]
Replies: 765
Views: 188658

Re: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]

jalal sanitized him completely, but later fell out with the paki army on another book that she wrote and ran away to britshitland for safety. She is married to a bengali Indian who hates India.
Jalal vs Siddique confusion. Both Ayeshas.
by A_Gupta
02 May 2024 00:56
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Environment, Sustainability Circularity Solutions
Replies: 23
Views: 13863

Re: Environment, Sustainability Circularity Solutions

https://india.mongabay.com/2024/04/indian-ocean-headed-for-a-near-permanent-state-of-marine-heatwave-cyclones-to-intensify-fisheries-at-risk/ The findings of this new research, led by Roxy Mathew Koll, scientist with Climate Research Lab, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune, are pu...
by A_Gupta
02 May 2024 00:30
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Replies: 8876
Views: 2524224

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV

https://abcnews.go.com/US/nyc-officials-allege-agitators-opting-columbia-university-protest/story?id=109821934 American Urban Naxals: Protests at Columbia University against the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza have been allegedly "co-opted" by what New York City police officials described as prof...
by A_Gupta
01 May 2024 18:06
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the US - Again
Replies: 7509
Views: 1760327

Re: Understanding the US - Again

The Poll conducted by Heartland Institute ... https://heartland.org/opinion/heartland-rasmussen-poll-one-in-five-mail-in-voters-admit-to-committing-at-least-one-kind-of-voter-fraud-during-2020-election/ Twitter article - Justin Haskins https://twitter.com/JustinTHaskins/status/1784279942743867480 F...
by A_Gupta
01 May 2024 17:59
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the US - Again
Replies: 7509
Views: 1760327

Re: Understanding the US - Again

Without comment:
https://www.wbrz.com/news/archdiocese-o ... g-coverup/

Archdiocese of New Orleans under investigation for decades-long child sex trafficking coverup
by A_Gupta
01 May 2024 17:36
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Nov 27 2017
Replies: 8461
Views: 3057676

Re: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Nov 27 2017

The speaker in the video clearly explains the magnitude of the problem and the time scale within which it needs to be solved. Any solution that can address the sheer scale of the problem is welcome.
by A_Gupta
01 May 2024 05:39
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Replies: 8876
Views: 2524224

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV

....Maulana Fazlur Rahman points out how India & Pakistan got independence together, & while one is trying to be "superpower", another one is on the way to "default".
It was Allah's wish, why can't they accept it?
by A_Gupta
01 May 2024 04:59
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Nov 27 2017
Replies: 8461
Views: 3057676

Re: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Nov 27 2017

A good presentation on the jobs situation in India. India needs policies that grow labor-intensive industries, in addition to the hi-tech sector.

https://youtu.be/c4nngkiBd1M?si=_GUaQL5O-WJX9Vik
by A_Gupta
30 Apr 2024 23:53
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Replies: 8876
Views: 2524224

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV

I took that "Jai Shri Ram" to mean solidarity against Islamists.
by A_Gupta
30 Apr 2024 21:50
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Terroristan - March 31, 2022
Replies: 4440
Views: 1356477

Re: Terroristan - March 31, 2022

^^^ Pakistaniyat in full display. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/supervisory-control-data-acquisition-scada-system-y-k-dixit History of SCADA in Indian Power System The requirement of SCADA in the Indian power system was felt in the early eighties when the Central Electricity Authority took the lead...
by A_Gupta
30 Apr 2024 17:30
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Replies: 8876
Views: 2524224

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV

^^^ Puzzling. White House officials warned the Modi government this month that The Post was close to publishing an investigation that would reveal new details about the case. It did so without notifying The Post. The claims: "In reports that have been closely held within the American government...
by A_Gupta
29 Apr 2024 18:24
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]
Replies: 765
Views: 188658

Re: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]

Because this is politics.. You cannot wait for voters to change their minds simply based on the good work you have to convince them and if that requires effective use of media and subtle propaganda then so be it. Every other "democracy" in the world does it and in many cases better than u...
by A_Gupta
29 Apr 2024 09:11
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]
Replies: 765
Views: 188658

Re: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]

The failure of Indian policy and Indian right wing policy specifically is that we do not have 1 single such publication/content creator who can make effective reports/documentaries/in depth analysis pieces that can be shared with the wider world. IMO, there are quite a few good content creators. Th...
by A_Gupta
29 Apr 2024 05:04
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]
Replies: 765
Views: 188658

Re: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]

OmkarC wrote: 28 Apr 2024 11:49 So, overall, very conservatively it seems like a +22 seat gain for NDA.
If the NDA falls short of 400 by 25-30 seats, what happens to the Opposition complaints about EVMs?
by A_Gupta
28 Apr 2024 20:19
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Global Media Watch
Replies: 125
Views: 42295

Re: Global Media Watch

Good podcast - Smita Prakash and Shashi Shekar
EP-165 | Exposing Global Media's 'Bias' on Modi & India with Shashi Shekhar
https://youtu.be/Yyrioxqv6CE?si=fNaBz-m6Oet5pJpc
by A_Gupta
28 Apr 2024 05:50
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Replies: 8876
Views: 2524224

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV

^^^ Yes, Indian-American. After being born in Tamil Nadu's Coimbatore, Achinthya Sivalingam was raised in Columbus, Ohio, according to the university's official website. Before enrolling into Masters in Public Affairs in International Development at Princeton, she studied international politics and ...
by A_Gupta
27 Apr 2024 23:59
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]
Replies: 765
Views: 188658

Re: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]

(Hindi). Jaishankar On Sam Pitroda : सैम पित्रोदा के संपत्ति वाले बयान पर एस जयशंकर ने क्या कहा ? Loksabha https://youtu.be/Y7pNCQASsDc?si=fg9ZnUTNarOeP2Rl He says, to understand what Pitroda said, you have to look at the big picture. This is not Pitroda, or Rahul Gandhi alone, this is the longstand...
by A_Gupta
27 Apr 2024 18:56
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Global Media Watch
Replies: 125
Views: 42295

Re: Global Media Watch

> One of those: Himal Southasian is supported by the Open Society Foundations and our membership programme. Our funders have no influence over the editorial direction or output of Himal Southasian. The kind of stuff they publish: https://www.himalmag.com/politics/india-modi-election-2024-pakistan-ka...
by A_Gupta
27 Apr 2024 00:27
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]
Replies: 765
Views: 188658

Re: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]

> jinnah's antecedents are well known in India. there is nothing new in ahmed's book for an Indian audience @chetak, on this one point, I disagree. Well-known to most, but apparently not to the Leftist-Marxist ecosystem. It is very good to refute them with a Pakistani author -- their usual charge of...
by A_Gupta
26 Apr 2024 22:22
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]
Replies: 765
Views: 188658

Re: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]

@chetak - Ishtiaq Ahmed has pretty much demolished Jinnah as he is understood in Pakistan and the basis for Partition in his recent books. So in that he has done a service. Even in the attached video, he tells Durdana Najam that Indians have a basis for their hostility to Pakistan, e.g., Vajpayee wa...
by A_Gupta
26 Apr 2024 16:09
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]
Replies: 765
Views: 188658

Re: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]

This Dr. Ishtiaq Ahmed came to India and stayed for 4 months on behalf of International conspiracy to dislodge Modi and praise Congis. He gave interview to snake Paki women called Durdana and said that Modi is most evil in India and he will destroy Indian democracy He went to Rama mandir and did dr...
by A_Gupta
26 Apr 2024 00:53
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Ram Temple Consecration: News and Views
Replies: 153
Views: 56765

Re: Ram Temple Consecration: News and Views

Not to get "theological" or any such thing, but in Tulasi Ramayana (Ramcharitmanas), the sage Kak Bhusundu narrates how he traversed many worlds and in each of them there was an Ayodhya and a Rama; so, presumably, they all have their own Ramayanas, too.
by A_Gupta
25 Apr 2024 18:43
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Pakistani Economic Stress Watch
Replies: 7956
Views: 2262406

Re: Pakistani Economic Stress Watch

Ahsan Iqbal - OCTOBER 1 2014 In August {2014}, professor Ahsan Iqbal, Pakistan's minister for planning and development, launched the 'Vision 2025' programme, which aspires to make Pakistan one of the world’s top 25 economies by that year. (Two years ago, Goldman Sachs forecast that the country would...
by A_Gupta
25 Apr 2024 18:32
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Pakistani Economic Stress Watch
Replies: 7956
Views: 2262406

Re: Pakistani Economic Stress Watch

https://tribune.com.pk/story/2463713/3tr-economy-possible-by-2047-ahsan-iqbal $3tr economy possible by 2047: Ahsan Iqbal “Pakistan targets a 9% growth rate to realise this goal,” he said, underscoring the current favourable climate for international investments, with notable commitments from China ...
by A_Gupta
25 Apr 2024 11:09
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Pakistani Economic Stress Watch
Replies: 7956
Views: 2262406

Re: Pakistani Economic Stress Watch

A century after independence Pakistan will have more people than India had at independence.
by A_Gupta
24 Apr 2024 06:34
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]
Replies: 765
Views: 188658

Re: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]

Still on the light note, how well a person performs their role is more important than whether they can perform someone else's role. Pappu may get a few crore votes but is overall a failure. Ranganathan and Abhijit do their commentary job well and don't want or need a few crore votes - they are succe...
by A_Gupta
23 Apr 2024 22:08
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]
Replies: 765
Views: 188658

Re: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]

Pappu is ill, apparently.

But I am with commentators like Anand Ranganathan and Abhijit Iyer-Mitra, that Modi by himself can barely get BJP to a majority; it is Pappu that gets the BJP to well above majority.
by A_Gupta
22 Apr 2024 09:12
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]
Replies: 765
Views: 188658

Re: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]

All is well with the world. Dommaraju Gukesh (born 29 May 2006) from India is the youngest ever challenger for the world chess championship.
by A_Gupta
21 Apr 2024 08:12
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]
Replies: 765
Views: 188658

Re: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]

This is a headline: Turnout down by 4 per cent points in Phase 1 over 2019, EC looks at ways to bring more voters out

How is 68.3% 4 percent below 69.6%?

The media is misleading us.
by A_Gupta
20 Apr 2024 04:56
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]
Replies: 765
Views: 188658

Re: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]

Dhoti-shiver.

The "चार सौ पार" seems to have created a complacency, which will turn sure wins into nail-biters.
by A_Gupta
20 Apr 2024 03:15
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]
Replies: 765
Views: 188658

Re: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]

Social media and regular media are full of contradictory data.
I guess trust it if and only if you can get it from the Electoral Commission of India website, and make sure you haven't reached a spoofed site!