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After Germany now Japan has decided to rearm aggressively. Maybe @suraj San can give better insights but we have been waiting for Japan to leave there pacifism for the past 15 yrs or so . I think what ever they do now will be too little too late. Sorry for the late response. I don't think Japan is ...

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Neeraj Chopra broke the national record on just his 2nd competitive throw after Tokyo 2020, throwing 89.30m to finish second in the Paavo Nurmi Games in Finland.

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I like this format - in past times we'd have been outmuscled here, but we have a tough bunch of lads now and they're the inaugural FIH Hockey5s champions.

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No one from China or Afghanistan is about to go to Japan right now. DEL-HND by Japan Airlines is still operating fine and I may take it later in summer during travel to both countries. Note that Japan does not yet accept general tourism - they only permit permanent residents and those with immediate...

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Japan is opening borders from June. There's a three tier classification of countries, which I find to be somewhat bogus but reflects the power of mRNA makers to set the agenda for booster doses: Japan MoFA Update Basically: Blue Zone: Countries with mRNA vaccines and 3x doses. Most of western world....

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Mod Note:

Please stop bringing politics here.

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Definitely good to have two top flight badminton academies both led by Indian All-England champions, offering a range of coaching capabilities and even competing. After two Uber Cup bronzes from the women, I was hoping they'd make the final. The men doing so and going all the way is a little unexpec...

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Shocking result. Definitely didn't expect the win, and I choked on my morning tea reading the margin. Indeed sweet revenge. Sukamuljo and Ahsan are individually alltime greats... but with their own teams. Indonesia were stupid to field a scratch combination and looked nervous and burdened by their o...

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Reminder n+1 that this isn't the politics thread. No one's been warned or banned. Let's keep it that way, ok ?

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Whole semifinal here. Epic.

Lakshya Sen needs to step up in the final. We need two, if not all the singles to be won. Indonesia have the world's two best double's teams - between the Gideon/Sukamuljo and Ahsan/Setiawan pairs, they have two all time great teams to pick players from.

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That's quite an article from an unlikely source. Of course the author can't help being who they are, but that's one of the meatiest articles on the Indian economy I've seen in a long time.

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18GW installed capacity is amazing. India adds that much or more per year and by March would touch 400GW installed capacity. I thought they were around 23-25GW, but they've gone in the other direction. This reflects what I posted on this thread originally - in several core infrastructure parameters ...

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Why does one need 4th vaccination? Particularly if one already had the virus? How does mask help in enclosed spaces like restaurants where one has to eat & drink? At this point, coronavirus has to be accepted as endemic, just like the European flu, we now have the Wuhan virus. Looking at Sangha...

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Heard from an informed source that Ma Beta were on the Chinese payroll since 2004. It got stopped only after 2019. They have done it openly, by signing a INC/CCP MoU. BJP should have agitated to make its contents public during Galwan standoff - they missed that opportunity. Based on that one can de...

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CEA is yet to update Feb and Mar 2022 data but we're approaching 400GW in grid connected installed capacity. The January figure was 396GW . Total capacity including off grid is well over 400GW already, but installed capacity even at this level is just half that of the #2 ranked US, which is approx 1...

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Indian mix and match trialing has focused on Indian vaccines for obvious reasons, e.g. can Corbevax be a booster for someone who had Covaxin for doses 1 and 2 ? Trials of other vaccines aren't easily feasible simply because the aren't enough candidates in India to trial on. I recommend that you also...

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V_Raman wrote:What happened to Indian covid vaccine exports to the rest of the world? Have they ramped up?

MEA Vaccine Maitri Site
175 million doses exported.

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Posted this on twitter - the 2021-22 finished with a stratospherically high $669 billion in total exports: https://twitter.com/surajbrf/status/1514299144860438528 Also the first time since 1949 India will make the top 10 list of exporting countries. India fell out of that list in late 1949, and out ...

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I think madela realized his mistake vis-a-vis JK. India was anti-apartheid and boycotted even cricket relationship with south africa during apartheid times India boycotted literally all sporting engagement and no South African aircraft could ever enter Indian airspace. India forfeited the 1974 Davi...

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Microfinance is addressed through the MUDRA scheme. It peaked at 62 million loans sanctioned in 2019-20, but has dropped since then during COVID to 49 million loans in 2021-22 which just ended. Total value is over 3 lakh crore disbursed . It should rise strongly again this fiscal years, hopefully to...

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Until June 2022. A GST compensation cess has been applied on luxury and demerit goods until March 2026 in order to pay for the borrowings that the center made in order to pay compensation shortfalls in 2020 and 2021 FYs - amounting to Rs.1.1 lakh crore and 1.6 lakh crore respectively. I don't see th...

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The following CDC study describes why Hong Kong had amongst the highest mortality rates worldwide, despite reasonably high vaccination - the emphasis on vaccinating the workforce over the old. Among the 60+ in HK, less than half had at least two doses. 96% of their deaths were in this demographic. F...

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The original PR is here: Precaution Dose to be now available to 18+ population group from 10th April, 2022, at Private Vaccination Centres It has been decided that precaution dose of COVID vaccines will be made available to 18+ population group at private vaccination centres. The administration of P...

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There are fallacies surrounding how Britain looted wealth from India. Sure plenty of physical artifacts were looted. But that is not the primary manner of wealth extraction. Only around 200,000 tonnes of gold have ever been mined in all human history. Approx 2.5K tonnes are mined annually. In compar...

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There are nice visualizations of the rankings on YouTube:

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Fiscal 2021 year was a good year for world trade in general . Many countries achieved all time high trade volumes . China crossed $4 trillion exports. India made it back into the top 10 overtaking several major trading countries (Singapore, HK, Canada, Italy, Belgium and more), likely to finish with...

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Some context on the export performance: a) At a likely $655-660 billion for the fiscal year ended March 31 2022, India will exceed its previous best ever performance in 2019-20 ($535 billion) by an enormous $120-125 billion. It will exceed the COVID-19 hit 2020-21 fiscal ($500 billion) by $155-160 b...

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Sen beat Axelsen quite recently in the German Open semifinal . He came back from 8-16 and then 15-19 down in the last game to win it 22-20 . Axelsen will be itching for revenge. Sen has had an amazing run this year, beating every major player - the reigning world champion, All England champion, Olym...

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20 year old Lakshya Sen enters All England semis in mens singles
Unheralded woman’s pair of Treesa Jolly and P.Gayatri (Gopichands daughter) beat SoKo’s world number two team to enter semis .

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The specifics of the green card process is not of much consequence to this thread. The simpler and more relevant take away is this - there's no predictable process or timeline to what is a paid service. There is little recourse to legal help except in particular situations. It is irrelevant which ad...

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I haven't been looking at it as closely I did once, but the problem with UP and Jal Jeevan Mission is the amount of basic water treatment infrastructure that needed to be set up in UP before it could offer large scale connectivity to households. In this regard its progress is likely to be non-linear...

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Yes I’ve heard things are much worse now . Same for UK and EU processing. Organized bribery is an ingrained concept in the western system. It’s simply about describing it in fanciful language. Even the internet cos apply opaque nonsense like ‘infrastructure maintenance fee’ on top of the regular bil...

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This is so impressive. Not only is the economy formalizing, but the bribery is also transparent and formalized with listed rates and everything. Hamara desh badal raha hain. philippines has a similar system they have reasonable and standard rates, very dependable with reliable time bound service de...

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This is so impressive. Not only is the economy formalizing, but the bribery is also transparent and formalized with listed rates and everything. Hamara desh badal raha hain.

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This isn't the free for all Nukkad thread. There's no such thread on BRF. Thread will be cleaned up. If you persist in adding more to clean up, you'll earn an appropriate timeout.

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7. While continuing on inflation he mentioned how cooking oil and petrol prices are soaring and hence we need to be atmanirbhar ( i did not understand this point). While the import bill of petroleum is well known, what's less known is that the import bill of palm oil per year is $20 billion (1.5 la...

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Law and Order, like what you call microeconomics, is an immediate political benefit path. It also addresses the opposition's likely pronounced effort to make the fight a state vs street one / andolanjeevi / manufactured protest based polity. It requires a bunch of deftly executed actions at the legi...

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The topic of UP and development reminded me of this post in 2019 . Development is a broad term. It can focus upon things with little electoral dividends for a while, e.g. arterial highway building or capital investments in building HVDC electricity lines. These do not get votes, mainly because they'...

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Please avoid continuing the discussion on tech here - the Indian IT Industry thread is more suitable.

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Caste and community comes before self interest. Muslims and Yadavs are firmly behind SP and that includes the women. Also, most Yadavs know this is the last chance for SP. So lots of Yadav consolidation for SP. A very perceptive view - the USHV (United Spectrum of Hindu Vote - Dr.PP's term) thrust ...

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