Bharat Rakshak

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The tariff on movies helps California. Puzzling to say the least why El Presidente is helping an opposition state.

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The usual comeback for this data is that the job that's going for $149,000 in that list would otherwise have paid $249,000 in the absence of additional labor supply. Note that $149,000 is middle income and less than comfortable for a family of 3 and 4 respectively where Amazon is headquartered. I su...

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In tennis India was not exactly a super power ( then or now). But not so in Cricket (now). But they should have never agreed for neutral venues. India should have used its power to tell nay order ICC to act according to its (India's) convenience (a la OM). Without India in these games there is no f...

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If you remember, India did not play Davis Cup international fixtures against South Africa in the apartheid era.

Don't understand why India plays cricket against Pakistan with the excuse of needing to play international cricket.

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saip wrote: ↑22 Sep 2025 23:36 Few days back my SiL came from Blore. The flight was empty she said. So much so, she was able to sleep on her row. The flight interestingly took a detour via Kolkata (refueling - Paki problem I guess) and then came non-stop to SFO.

Boeing plane perhaps? People may be avoiding them.

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what they did in the above was holding the ticket, as in they filled in the details but did not checkout, this triggered a 15 minute holding period for the seat selected, and they brute spammed this multiple times, some even created a script to auto fill the details and hold, this in actuality caus...

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Agree. IMO it would have been better for one of the Kirks or Robinsons to call ABC out to have Kimmel taken off air. To preserve the First Amendment fig leaf.

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Well, this is a surprise.
Have always been reading that Kaveri has a FADEC, not realizing that it was not a true FADEC as used in other engines.
It has never come up in the various reports or discussions around Kaveri, so kudos to the reporter for digging this up.

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This is a tactical move targeted at India. The same crowd that is supporting this move wrt H1B also went to the Supreme Court against DACA. Primary source of DACA beneficiaries are Mexico and other South American countries. So no, I don't think the move is against India. The timing may be chosen to...

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Not really. It is trying to clamp down on the "people coming to work for a while" under the assumption that these people have been unfairly preferred over US citizens for IT jobs. That part of it serves to drive a wedge between support for employment based immigration on the left. Unions ...

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This a blatant attempt by that ******** Lutnick to make Modiji and India bow down. The L visa is not similarly treated. The unique thing about the H visa is that it allows people to transition to US citizenship eventually. That tells me, this is about reducing legal immigration to the US. They are ...

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Of immediate importance, I learnt that anyone outside the country needs to get back in before the order takes effect on 9/21.

So people have 1 day to get back to the US or risk being stuck outside until the ransom is paid or the order is blocked.

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What has changed under Trump is that Trump wants the Saudis, rather than the US treasury itself, to fund the transfer of these weapons to Pakistan. Sparks a thought wrt the Trump admin action on India wrt tariffs because of Russian oil purchase. Moving India away from purchasing Russian oil would b...

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Meanwhile: Congrats to BCCI for providing LeT with the requisite funds to rebuild its Muridke Headquarters. Thanks for this reporting this by Aditya Raj Kaul "Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) rebuilding its Muridke headquarters, which was destroyed in airstrikes during Operation Sindoor." Food for t...

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AI 171 - New theory that plumbing defects may have caused the FADEC to reset.

Lawyer for Air India families says one key theory has emerged to explain crash

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pravula wrote: ↑12 Sep 2025 03:37 The weapon was a bolt action rifle. What kind of gun control? Even the most liberal lawmakers/judges cannot outlaw that…

Plenty of shades of gray between a handgun and an AR15.

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Vayutuvan wrote: ↑12 Sep 2025 03:00 As I predicted, AOC is calling for gun control laws.

Can't quite fault her on this given the Pakistan-lite situation in the US these days.

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A_Gupta wrote: ↑11 Sep 2025 02:26 200 yards away.

Same MO as the first assassination attempt on Trump. Did they get the wrong guy then?

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Having a hard time imagining a pot bellied special forces soldier. Although, the picture may be a stock image.

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The CDG is also nuclear powered with catapults. Must be a marvel of engineering to fit all that in.

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This is similar to the narrative building done by Bush Jr. and Colin Powell of Iraq having WMD. Parade a bunch of lies to make it seem like the truth and rally all the 'coalition of the willing' (i.e. Global West/ NATO) to join the tirade to do their dirty works. The US will need a firewall of demo...

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It emerges that the even the trivially small land / property taxes have NOT been been collected in most places in India since 1947. Even if collected, they are not paid. Two generations after my grandfather transferred land to tenants as part of the post-1947 land reforms, I was able to get it back...

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He should not cede anything.

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There's usually a long line of people in wheelchairs, some very clearly not needing it. The regulator clamped down because wheelchair service was being abused.

Wheelchair service

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I suspect that's why they derated it to IRBM. Heavier payload due to increase in the number of warheads.

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Is it true that Trump will travel to Moscow for the next round of talks?

Odds are that this is all leading up to to the grand announcement of a Trump Towers project.

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Won't work. OPEC has committed to increasing output, and US demand will start going down with the end of summer.

Global energy review 2025

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Looked this up because of the graphic posted earlier. Wasn't aware of the connection to India. The Tea Act The Tea Act, passed by Parliament on May 10, 1773, granted the British East India Company Tea a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies. The Tea Act was not intended to anger American co...

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S-400 is just the cover for unannounced Indian weapon system that was used here. We'll find out in time.
Pakistan operates the Chinese made equivalent of the S-300, and that had no to minimal effect defending.

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Alright. Deep state will not want Russian investment in India, since it drives up the price of assets they might covet. India-Russia oil trade makes such investment possible and potentially very lucrative if India is willing to let Russia acquire equity.

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If Russia accepts the rupee for purchases by India, it can spend those rupees only in India, and likely UAE; or otherwise convert it to another currency, e.g., USD, to spend it elsewhere. The purchase of a stake in that refinery shows they have things they want to buy in India, so this is not as mu...

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As long as the USD is the premier global currency the US will be able to dictate terms Sparked a thought. All this may be an effort to prop up the USD. Is India helping Russia pay its war bills despite Western sanctions? Trump thinks so More importantly, Indian banks are reportedly bypassing US san...

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Posting for the comment. Haven't seen this perspective before. If this is the reason, it means tariffs on India foreshadows increased movement of US production to India. Trade revolution It's necessary because the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 let our companies repatriate their overseas profits back...

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This latest bit looks to be a fight between Donald bhai and Mukesh bhai. India and USA along for the ride.
Did Mukesh get richer than Donald perhaps by re-exporting Russian oil?

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Its an advance for AI in the math domain.

Here's more -

Google and OpenAI get 2025 IMO gold

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Google Deepmind achieves gold medal score at the IMO

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Check out openLDAP for Active Directory. Today, there are open source alternatives to most anything to get started with. Trick with any IT business is that it requires heavy capital spending to sustain losses until a sufficiently large customer base is built up. Advent of AI may make it easier if AI...

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Think this was more about IBM rather than Bill.

Lotus Notes is now owned by HCL, and the download is functional.

Vayutuvan wrote: ↑01 Aug 2025 00:29 The motto of Bill Gates was "Windows ain't done until Lotus doesn't run".

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This is how Microsoft is able to offer services in China.
Unknown, but very likely that India does not have something similar due to a different legal framework.

Microsoft 365 operated by 21Vianet

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I have low trust on the press and even lower on social media.

Doesn't change the fact that Indians == Native Americans or in this case Cleveland Indians.

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