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India bans 59 Chinese apps including TikTok, Helo, WeChat

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^^^^ Yes & its perfectly ok. The key thing is to get into the supply chain of global electronics. Once you do that, increasing the local content will be much easier. Start with single digit local manufacturing and gradually increase it to 30-40%. Even China has ~50%(?) local content and rest com...

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Apple wants to make India iPhone export hub, charmed by Modi’s scheme for mobile phone companies

Foxconn and Wistron already applied. Waiting for Samsung to also join the club (which will happen soon in all likelihood).

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Next 5 years will tell us whether India can become a merchandise export superpower or will forever remain a midget in that category. Although plastic items & toys provide massive domestic employment, if you really want to move the export needle, you need to focus of assembling phones, computers ...

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US visa suspension likely to boost demand for offshoring, captives

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H-1B visa ban may not make that big a dent in top IT firms' revenues. Here's why I agree with this assessment. In fact this H1B visa ban might be a big blessing in disguise for India. An incremental outsourcing of say 5% by big companies will be phenomenal. Post Covid-19, a lot of companies will be...

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India can reduce $8.4 billion imports from China over fiscal FY22: Acuite Ratings The ratings agency analysed the current import portfolio from China and found 40 sub-sectors that have the potential to lower their import dependency on China. These sectors contribute to $33.6 billion worth of import...

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Another 5 terrorists killed in Shopian, yesterday. That is 14 in the last 4 days and maybe 27 in the last 15 days or so. Some serious clean up is being carried out in south Kashmir. https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/encounter-in-kashmir-shopian-terrorists-killed-1687352-2020-06-10 Big Statement...

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Big Statement by IGP Kashmir: In next 12 days, we will wipe out militancy from South Kashmir.

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PM Modi's comments during all party meet ===================================== Neither have they intruded into our border, nor has any post been taken over by them (China). 20 of our jawans were martyred, but those who dared Bharat Mata, they were taught a lesson: PM Narendra Modi at all-party meet ...

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Railways creates history, successfully runs double stack container trains in electrified territory

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Defence reforms are a dream come true, says Baba Kalyani of Bharat Forge ==> Currently working on air defense systems. ==> BK says his biggest (personal) dream is domestic jet engine which can power next generation fighters. He thinks that a consortium of 6-7 companies can pull it off in next 7 yea...

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When will SP-22/18 fly?

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What Holds Back Indian Military Aviation Development – Historic Perspective By a Retired Surgeon

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Our own Shiv garu wrote it. The above touches the same points Shiv garu made in this BRF thread long back in 2012 (Must read thread for new BRFites)

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What Holds Back Indian Military Aviation Development – Historic Perspective By a Retired Surgeon

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Our own Shiv garu wrote it. The above touches the same points Shiv garu made in this BRF thread long back in 2012 (Must read thread for new BRFites)

==> Link

--Vamsee

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Trump postpones G7 summit, seeks to add countries to invitation list U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday he would postpone a Group of Seven summit he had hoped to hold next month until September or later and expand the list of invitees to include Australia, Russia, South Korea and India.

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Video of Bhadauria ji's speech while inducting FOC Tejas ==>

Tejas best in its class, take my word: IAF Chief Bhadauria

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India's forex reserves soar to record high of $490.04 billion

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It's now or never: IAF Chief’s Sulur speech is a wake-up call to all Tejas stakeholders “You are amongst the best in the IAF so that you will have to operationalise the squadron at the shortest span of time. Tejas today what you are getting is the best in its class in the world. Take my word for it...

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Pompeo says Hong Kong is no longer autonomous from China The move does not carry any immediate penalties, which would have to be decided by President Donald Trump in consultation with Congress. But the administration sees it as putting China on notice that Hong Kong’s perks are in jeopardy. =======...

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Flying Bullets Is Also Set To Become The Second IAF Tejas Squadron The Flying Bullets will be commanded by Group Captain Manish Tolani , a veteran of the LCA Project and someone who was till recently the Flight Commander of the No.45 ‘Flying Daggers’, currently the only operational Tejas squadron i...

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Smriti Z Irani @smritiirani PPE Update as on 18 th May — today we have crossed per day production of 4.5 lac PPE suits .. India now has over 600 companies who are lab certified to manufacture PPE Folded hands Link =============== We will probably start exporting PPE suits pretty soon. Out of no wher...

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Chola & Suraj, Thank you both for the stimulating discussion. It is very frustrating to see how utterly obvious the path for prosperity is and yet we as a nation prefer political grandstanding, Create laws as if we are rich Scandinavian countries. Glorify rural agrarian subsistence existence rat...

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anantha krishnan
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#TejasUpdate

* SP21 to have 2 more sorties followed by 3/4 CAFs, then to AFS Sulur.
* SP22 couple of tests + LSTT + HSTT-cum-1st flight. Now getting the painting done.
* SP23/SP24 got into #Covid delays, awaiting some components.
* SP25/SP26 on coupling stage.

Link

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Modiji just now announced 20 Lakh Crore economic stimulus (10% of GDP). Goal is Self-reliant India. Land, Labor, Liquidity & Laws will be changed. Hinted at big push to local manufacturing/ infra development.

Details will be out in few days.

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Indian Apparel Manufacturers To Start Producing PPE Kits Amid Expanding Global Market For Medical Textiles Badly hit by Covid-19 pandemic, Indian apparel exporters are gearing up to start producing personal protective equipment (PPE) to help fight the infection and also make India hub for sourcing ...

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ramana garu, I don't agree with the comparison of Apple manufacturing deal with EIC. Samsung already has worlds largest phone manufacturing plant in Noida & this apple deal, if it goes thru, will create similar facility in South India (Chennai?). It is a good thing. We badly need industrializati...

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Apple may shift a fifth of its production capacity from China to India: Report A senior government official told The Economic Times; “We expect Apple to produce up to $40 billion worth of smartphones, mostly for exports through its contract manufacturers Wistron and Foxconn, availing the benefits u...

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Suraj garu, since we are on HDI topic, I wrote a twitter thread on HDI few months ago. Reproducing it here with some edits. The only true wealth of nation is its high skilled citizens! That's why Germany & Japan were able to very quickly bounce back from devastating world war II where as we stil...

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@CNBCTV18Live The Uttar Pradesh government exempts industries in the state from ALL LABOUR LAWS for the next 3 years. Only these labour laws will apply: *Building and Other Construction Workers Act *Section 5 of Payment of Wages Act *Workmen Compensation Act *Bonded Labour Act Link =================...

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Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump · 1h Extraordinary times require even closer cooperation between friends. Thank you India and the Indian people for the decision on HCQ. Will not be forgotten! Thank you Prime Minister @NarendraModi for your strong leadership in helping not just India, but humanity, ...

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The Marine Corps’ Radical Shift toward China

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chola wrote:Well, Amreekis are hell bent on catching and dethroning the chinis for the Corona crown. Already passed Italy. Should overtake Cheen by tomorrow.

The Spectator Index
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JUST IN: US now has 82,000 coronavirus cases, most of any country

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Rakesh wrote:Vamsee Saar, you rock! Thank you. Updated Page 1.

BTW, do we have the link of HVT Sir's tweet?

https://twitter.com/hvtiaf/status/1242151451708624896

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@Rakesh, Time to update the first post :-) ============================= @hvtiaf Previously, HAL's first FOC series production aircraft SP-21 rechristened as SP-17 (AF tail number LA-5017). SP-1 to 16 (LA-5001 to LA-5016) are IOC single seat variants SPT-1 to 4 will be LT-5201 to LT-5204 & so on...

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Up...

Once in a while a reset button is pressed and the old world order dies and a new world order is born. World War II is a good example. ChinaVirus is probably one of those reset buttons.

Key question is who will rise and who will fall after the reset?

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schinnas wrote:
ramana wrote:Again close to 80 years old. Most likely has underlying conditions.

Did they say how he got the infection?
I believe he returned from Haj.

Yes. His name is Mohammad Hussein Siddhiqui. He returned from Saudi recently and fell ill.
(Source: Eenadu)

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Ministry of Health @MoHFW_INDIA Important decisions taken at the 2nd meeting of GoM on #COVID19 today. 1. All existing visas, except diplomatic, official, UN/International Organizations, employment, project visas, stand suspended till 15th April 2020. This will come into effect from 1200 GMT on 13th...

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@Reuters
Death toll in Italy from coronavirus rises to 463 with total number of cases rising to 9,172

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I personally wouldn't like any new name for MWF.
Tejas-1 (Will be upgraded to Tejas-2)
Tejas-2 (This should be the name for Mark 1A)
Tejas-3 (MWF)
Tejas-4 (AMCA)
Tejas-5 (TEDBF)

Similarly
Astra-1 (current Astra)
Astra-2 (Dual pulse)
Astra-3 (SFDR)

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