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I’ve seen the original video in Japanese . What’s happening is that an E3 and E5 series trainset are being prepared for transfer. These are NOT the production vehicles but intended to serve the purpose of track service and maintenance, which historically repurposes older trainsets as Doctor Yellow t...

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xposting from the Econ thread: Does anyone know why the GDP data (Annexure B ) shows a 1.1% growth in rail freight net tonne-km in 2023-24 and a -0.01% in 2024-25 ? How much is this figure dependent on coal movement and to why extent do or don't the DFCs help here ?

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The Q4 official data is out: Official Q4 2024-25 GDP data * Full year GDP growth was 6.5% , but may be revised upward in the 2nd review. * Q4 growth was 7.4%, coming on the back of 6.4% in Q3 and 5.6% in Q2, meaning there's a strong accelerating momentum post election (Fig 4). * The past three fisca...

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Indian economy’s size more than half of US in PPP terms; stands at $15 trillion, says NITI Aayog Vice-Chairman The Indian economy’s size in Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) terms is $15 trillion which is more than half the size of the US economy, NITI Aayog Vice-Chairman Suman Bery has said. He explai...

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$10 billion for 112 ships is $90 million a unit. With a trivial assumption of all ships being the same size, that's already almost VLCC territory (200,000 - 320,000 DWT about 2 million barrels). Probably a range of sizes will be ordered, so even ULCCs may be procured. That's a large fleet of home-bu...

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BBC: Galileo satellites experiencing multiple clock failures The onboard atomic clocks that drive the satellite-navigation signals on Europe's Galileo network have been failing at an alarming rate. Across the 18 satellites now in orbit, nine clocks have stopped operating. Esa is also in contact wit...

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Without taking a position as to what might be likely reasons for ISRO's problems and solutions, I want to mention that listing a set of failed missions and ascribing reasons for it is fundamentally incomplete reasoning. What were the established causes of failure ? I assume ISRO has a published repo...

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The following post on Reddit is a great explanation of the challenges around Indian urban development, broken down into the procedural mess involved:
Why Urban Design Initiatives Are So Hard to Pull Off in India – An Insider’s Take

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Nothing can be confirmed until it's been officially denied.

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The social media battleground is moving to the AI space. ChatGPT has now more active users than Wikipedia.

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At the start of Indian economic liberalization in 1991, these were the top provinces across either country ranked by state GDPs in USD: 1. Punjab (TSP) 2. Maharashtra 3. West Bengal 4. Uttar Pradesh 5. Sindh (TSP) 6. Tamil Nadu 7. Andhra Pradesh 8. Gujarat 9. Madhya Pradesh 10. Karnataka Fast forwar...

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Meanwhile the Turks are in damage control mode while predictably missing the target of Indian anger entirely, same as PAF.

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The past few days have been very interesting. Lots of noise and very little signal on specific details. It's also clear that, having been mostly disconnected from BRF the past few days, the perspective here is more unique. Amidst the noise, a lot of important realities risk being lost, despite sever...

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Back down ? Hindenburg Research went out of business in January.
Short-selling firm Hindenburg Research is closing up shop
January 15, 2025

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One of the benefits of PPP GDP data is also the more single sourced data as opposed to everyone estimating nominal GDP with whatever exchange rate they prefer to apply.

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The main takeaways of that article are: - PPP offers a much clearer view of the growth in real purchasing power than nominal per capita, where the movement of exchange rates can add noise. - it answers the ‘are we growing well compared to peers’ question. We see that India outstripped almost all of ...

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Wrote this article for SwarajyaMag:
India’s PPP GDP Growth: Is This The Most Underrated Part Of Its Economic Story?

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Meanwhile, quietly the Jal Jeevan Mission dashboard ticked past 80% of the country now having a household water connection:

https://ejalshakti.gov.in/jjmreport/JJMIndia.aspx

It's almost impossible to imagine how bad it was less than 6 years ago.

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Thank you for your educative post Saar, learnt something. I suspect China is doing the same with India as well, and dumping a whole range of goods via other countries, which could explain at least in part our sluggish growth in MFG. Indian FTAs with SE Asia have been used as a conduit to route Chin...

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To the extent possible, please post reference material to cases where approaches have been tried, lessons learned and finetuning. Please avoid merely a cursory overview of a problem followed by an impressively elaborate solutions without first taking time to define the problem, the potential options...

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The tariffs do not apply to energy, semiconductors, metals especially auto parts, pharmaceuticals - all of which are things India exports to the United States. In fact the top items between April-Jan 2025 are: 1. Pharma ($7.5 billion) : exempt 2. Cellphones ($7 billion) : not exempt, but competing s...

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Mod Note Just because the posts were moved here is not a license for a free for all. Please discuss POLICY approaches, not a nukkad. For example, China has a huge number of social ills - many of them quite like ours - but have implement various policy measures that tackle them. Ditto for Singapore. ...

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Thread cleaned up. All the conversation on culture etc are moved into the nearest appropriate thread - the Urban Development and Public Policy one.

I'm glad at least some folks recognize the irony of complaining about people making a mess in public while derailing threads to discuss it.

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Only 2022-23 has a final figure - 7.6% . 2023-24 was preliminarily raised to 9.2% . For 2024-24 (the ongoing FY) the first report will be on May 31.

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Here's the GDP official press release: PRESS NOTE ON SECOND ADVANCE ESTIMATES OF ANNUAL GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT FOR 2024-25 QUARTERLY ESTIMATES OF GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT FOR THE THIRD QUARTER (OCTOBER-DECEMBER) OF 2024-25 This report is an eye-opener. There's been some kind of significant overhaul in...

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Contributed this article to SwarajyaMag:
Hacking the Human Development Index: Why UNDP's Latest HDI Scores For India Are Misleading

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Contributed this article to SwarajyaMag:
Hacking the Human Development Index: Why UNDP's Latest HDI Scores For India Are Misleading

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Unbelievable budget at first glance, from an IT perspective. Looks like a major reversion of the standard approach involving shaking down the salaried class. The continued buoyancy of GST probably plays a role here . Looking forward to early deep dive articles.

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Yes the SAE is released at the same time as the quarterly estimate dof Oct-Dec, i.e. Feb 28. They also revise the prior year (2023-24) data, called first revised estimate and two years prior (2022-23) data - the second revised estimate then. Those REs might help them address the topic of discrepanci...

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Ultimately, we will have to start building elevated tracks for High speed railways for long distances, most probably Standard gauge- Probably linking local metros and Delhi Ghaziabad type extended local traffic. Any Train traffic over 130Km will need elevated Ballast less tracks so that people, cat...

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Ultimately, we will have to start building elevated tracks for High speed railways for long distances, most probably Standard gauge- Probably linking local metros and Delhi Ghaziabad type extended local traffic. We will have to start ? Mumbai-Ahmedabad HSR already has the world's longest bridge in ...

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The official press release is a better source: PRESS NOTE ON FIRST ADVANCE ESTIMATES OF GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT FOR 2024-25 GDP data is always reported 2 months after the end of the quarter - it has been so for decades. However, the first advance estimate (FAE) is a newer release made prior to the bu...

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Actually the concept of multi use real estate surrounding stations should be pervasive , more so around metro stations . Follow the Japan model here .

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I have not yet been to Koyasan but have heard plenty of good things about it. The Japanese do take very good care of their shrines and temples everywhere. You don't even have to go to famous sites. Most people do not know about hatsumoude . If you go around Japan during new years eve close to and pa...

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I'm in Japan now. There are various pilgrimage and spiritual journeys here. What's notable is that it offers people options. Those who want to do it in luxury have AC options including bullet trains, cars, buses, whatever. Those who want to do a multiple day trek have a well maintained, demarcated a...

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Congratulations to Koneru Humpy for winning the women’s world rapid chess championship . Her second title after the one in 2018.

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Congratulations to Gukesh! What a clutch win with black on the last game with scores even. After that critical move from Ding, Gukesh spent so much time looking at the board in disbelief, hands shaking as he drank water and then looking like he was going to throw up. Terrific WCC between two great p...

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I've already posted about how UPI data showed a slowdown in Q2 but how it's since accelerated in Q3 due to the extremely strong performance in October: Update on UPI statistics from Oct 2024 November is decidedly slower than October which benefited from all the festival spending being compressed int...

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Great video on Chinese high speed rail and its dependency on critical foreign technologies:

Indian industrialization will be compelled to follow the same approaches China has taken - borrow, steal, or otherwise get hold of technologies that no one will share.

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GST collections in October was 9% YoY and November was 8.7% YoY .

I haven't found a good source or monthly ewaybill generation data, but that data might offer even more insight.

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