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Is there any truth in the opposition's concern that bypassing APMC will not ensure MSP for the farmers ? The MSP with exception of wheat and rice and to some extent, cotton, is an academic exercise. Because the government doesn't have the infrastructure and resources for aggressively ensuring that ...

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Is FedEx or for that matter, Bluedart in the Indian context, really a proxy for the local manufacturing sector? Could it be that FedEx is really some kind of a backend for Services sector? If Amaxon imports some gadgets from China, FedEx may well be providing the transportation service to the Amazon...

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If ending the APMC monopoly is beneficial to the ordinary farmers how come the BJP has not gathered the farmers to rally in support of these reforms?

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^^^ Some data on above Segment Tax rate pre-GST Tax rate post-GST Small cars 28% 18% Mid-size cars 39% 18% Luxury cars 42% 28% SUVs 45% 28% https://www.bankbazaar.com/car-loan/how-gst-has-affected-car-prices-in-india.html You need to take into account the GST compensation cess rate which wasn't the...

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Govt. policy has hurt the auto industry and particularly the auto parts industry even before the pandemic. The auto parts industry was developing skilled labor within India and establishing a manufacturing chain. India has extensive parts suppliers for Hyundai and Suzuki along with at one time ramp...

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Gujarat govt approves letter of intent for world’s first CNG terminal in Bhavnagar https://www.deshgujarat.com/2020/09/15/gujarat-govt-approves-letter-of-intent-for-worlds-first-cng-terminal-in-bhavnagar/ Gandhinagar: The Government of Gujarat has approved a letter of intent for setting up world’s ...

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Very distressing incident in Bikaner, loss of two Army officers in stupid accident. https://www.hindustantimes.com/jaipur/two-army-officers-killed-in-accident-on-bikaner-jaipur-highway/story-pJmUCn4DJShO3Dr0DPHs7O.html Wouldn't they have been wearing seat belts? Not that seat belts are 100% proof a...

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The Indian Express story is not very convincing. To quote the crucial part: However, The Indian Express has learnt that the tender for the most crucial section — a 21-km underground stretch, including a seven-km section under the sea near Mumbai — did not find Japanese participation and could not be...

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Monika Aroraji's 'Delhi Riots' is now on Amazon. https://www.amazon.in/dp/1942426291/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_apa_i_SN3uFbXB6S3C1 Those who have bought it or intend to buy it please rate it on Amazon. ..and for those in Europe and US still facing toilet paper shortages, Arundathi Roy has a new book on "...

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If there is an audit remark there is also an 'auditee' response. Standard internal audit practice. With out the Defence Ministry response, the picture is not complete. Mind you I am not saying that T90 was not favoured. It is just that viewed purely on technical grounds the allegation is not fully e...

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Yes, true. It doesn't have to be at the center of a 7000 acre land. Ideally, it should be close to a highway where a lot of commercial traffic passes through. There are other parameters which have to be taken in to account. From a facilities location optimization POV, centroid is the best place to ...

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If there's a patch where there's 10000 acres of agricultural land and you want 3 acres in the middle to be converted to industrial land, it's just stupidity. Not really. 2nd gen Biogas plants which can take in rice straw require exactly something like this - 5 acres with 7000 acres to feed the plan...

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The Supreme Court imposing Re 1/- fine is a master stroke. Payment of fine would be an act of 'own volition'. What that implies is that a contemnor can't pay the fine and still claim that you have not accepted the verdict of Contempt of Court. Even the gloss that PB is putting on by saying that he w...

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According to Government regulations you need between 3000 to 5000 patients to be administered across 25 centres for phase III human trials..

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Japanese politics are hard even for Japanese to parse... for a country of such modernity, they've have about 60 Prime Ministers since 1945. Yes you read that right - SIXTY. Abe is an anomaly - just 65 and already the longest serving Japanese PM ever. Normally they change PMs every 9-12 months. It w...

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Would Suraj weigh in with his comments on Abe's resignation and what a possible successor could mean for India-Japan relations?

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Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe announces retirement says BBC.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-53943758

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My daughter with a six year old boy and a four month old baby left Chennai for Guwahati. The plane landed in Guwahati at 11.15 am. First they were taken to Government designated hospital from the airport. That itself took 3 hours. By the time they came out of the hospital with Covid negative test re...

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Technicality, not China link, led to scrapping of Vande Bharat tender: Railways NEW DELHI: The tender for manufacture of 44 semi-high speed Vande Bharat train sets was scrapped because three bidders had revealed the price in their technical bids and not because a Chinese company had bid for the pro...

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That is a consequence of US law, specifically Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act . This indemnifies the underlying website or host from legal penalties associated with anything indecent, libelous or illegal posted online their websites. In fact the Trump administration has targeted this ...

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I have never understood this 'platform' concept. Whether you are a platform or content creator in the original it matters little. You are responsible for what appears in an asset owned by you. By this 'platform ' logic a newspaper can take the plea that it is not responsible for any scurrilous writi...

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Not sure I buy all the "go to war with China NOW!" war-cries. War is expensive. We are in a financial hole right now. If we start a war with China, the end game is not clear. Even if we somehow "make them sign" this and that, everything the Chinese sign is worthless. They are no...

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I am just curious. Is there any TV talk shows, YouTube discussion involving an armed forces personnel where these points are raised and what has been their response? Including their response to the oft mentioned criticism that they give a free pass on specs when it came to imported items. I raise t...

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Never-ending user trials, unexpected new demands for modifications / improvements quite late in the development cycle, and rejecting the whole system by citing a problem with some peripheral capability are common strategies used to thwart Indian items. These deliberately created delays are then use...

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Another point I have wondered: how is it that Pakistanis have such a disproportionate influence on Democrats in US and Labour in UK? Indians in these countries take pride in the fact that they are one of the highly educated, financially well off and successful minorities in their countries, ahead o...

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https://www.indiatvnews.com/business/news-rbi-board-approves-transfer-rs-57128-crore-surplus-to-govt-fy21-642075 The RBI Board on Friday approved the transfer of Rs 57,128 crore as surplus to the central government for the accounting year 2019-20, the central bank said in a statement. something coo...

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I have a question about "Himalayan Rock Salt" , this item is selling quite well in western markets as a premium product. Most of it comes from the salt mines in Pakistan and nothing to do with "Himalaya" . Are there any viable sources for this product in India ? It only comes fr...

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:mrgreen: The seniors also did their bit, keeping the Resignation letter pending for such a long time. this is what the terrorist calls it and so, the "authorities" say all is forgiven, come home. My ‘innocuous dissent’ was seen as act of ‘treason’: #ShahFaesal on quitting politics http:/...

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This map published by the Pakis makes the Indus water treaty invalid I doubt very much. The Indus Water Treaty is a treaty between two sovereign nations. It deals with obligations and rights of two nations as to what they can do and cannot do with regard to Indus river water. It doesn't say, "...

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^^ Exactly, same with laptops as you have pointed out. GoI can even sign deals with some of the local/Indian manufacturers. Way to do this is to specify quality benchmarks, define baseline feature sets and ask for certification requirements. I'm confident even these small players will commit to add...

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Ambar
My heartfelt condolences to you and members of your family at the loss. Makes the loss even more tragic as the deceased as a member of the medical fraternity could have been even more useful to the society in these challenging times.

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Bit late to the discussion. Most IS Codes are verbatim adaptation of European or IEC codes in about 90% of the cases. Infact the fact is stated in the very first few pages of the IS Code booklet that this code is equivalent of"XX code". This will not affect anything used in manufacturing,...

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News aggregation sites like Google are clearly keeping china specific news as much away from eyeballs as possible. This is called hard power. Google, Twitter and most of other SMs have no presence in China yet they can control their behavior. Not the loosey-goosey chai biskoot yoga day power of Ind...

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TWITTER @TheWolfPackIN: Crisis has erupted in a major Chinese research institute as 90 nuclear scientists resigned in a short period. CCP has launched an inquiry after calling it ''brain drain'' They had access to extremely sensitive information & their sudden resignation has raised many conspi...

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The notion that better road connectivity to the Chardam would reduce these places to another Simla, is misplaced. I haven't been to Kedarnath, Badrinath etc. But many of my close relatives have. From their accounts what I gather is that tourists are almost exclusively pilgrims. For them just steppin...

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I understand and agree with you SRoyji... My friend's wife having a delivery and in labour pain was made to run around for 4-5 hours between hospitals since he didn't have he certificate which wasn't given even after test was done 1 week back and no reasons provided even when desperately contacted ...

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Unbelievable & simply unacceptable. Even considering lockdown due to ChinaVirus19 issue, still 1 year or say 10 months (whatever the exact travelling time we consider, taking ref from Opindia or HT quoted articles) to cover 1,700 km is too much........ Other than infrastructure issues (weight o...

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Very good questions, nandakumar. I think posters are focusing on an objective and not the procedure. "Free temples from state control" is an objective. It doesn't explain how to go about it. I think this government has shown the ability to implement solutions to seemingly intractable long...

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Have a question for those demanding freeing of Hindu temples from Government. Let us assume that this is granted. Then who does the Government hand it over to? It is not enough to say , Oh, let the Hindus manage it'. The real question what would be the contours of a governance structure under an alt...

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In the Indian context there are two distinct challenges for inter linking of rivers. One is the challenge of rivers North of the Vindhyas and linking it to the rivers to its South. Dr K.L. Rao, who was the Irrigation Minister in the Indira Gandhi Csbinet was a vociferous supporter of this programme....

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