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With PM Gramin Awas Yojana under DBT, payout swells over two-fold NEW DELHI: The government has brought the Pradhan Mantri Gramin Awas Yojana (PMAYG), which has a Rs 50,000 crore payout in this financial year, under the direct benefit transfer (DBT) mechanism. This will result in a DBT of Rs 1.59 l...

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More good news: Industrial production expands at 7.5% for Jan, CPI softens to 4.4% for February ... The expansion was supported by growth in electricity sector which grew at 7.6 per cent. The continued expansion in industrial production has reinforced hopes of a healthy economic growth in the fourth...

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Hi everyone, Something has been bothering me about this 'Safran-ized' Kaveri. We have seen many articles highlighting serious technical issues with the current Kaveri design and how this M88 hybrid might be the best solution to get the engine running 'in time'. While it might give us a working jet e...

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I think the anemic growth in capital outlay for defence is this government's way to push MII. Just look at the dramatic increase in the R&D (which I am guessing is DRDO) outlay over the past three years (in crores): 2016-2017: 6771.50 2017-2018: 7552.32 2018-2019: 9734.45 That's almost a 29% inc...

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Don't know if this was posted before, but this 'Iceye' satellite was one of the many in the latest ISRO launch: A Suitcase-Size Satellite’s Big Image of Frozen Earth Below https://static01.nyt.com/images/2018/01/27/science/27TB-SATELLITE/27TB-SATELLITE-superJumbo.jpg This image is from a SAR on boar...

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^^^ As far as I can tell, GOI gets a view into the unorganized sector via National Sample Surveys; but the last one related to employment was 2011-2012!!!!!!!!!! PS: Excerpt from the 2016-17 Annual Report of the Ministry of Labour and Employment: http://labour.gov.in/annual-reports As per the surve...

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Thanks, found the report here . Should've read this first, it clearly says it ignores the SME sector. Adding to my previous question, is there any good information on employment in the SME sector or do we just have to go off of indirect indicators? (For example, are there any figures released by job...

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Jobless growth is for real, says rating agency Care Aggregate employees in 1,473 companies grew to 5.18 million in FY17 from 5.01 million in FY15, a growth of a little over 1 percentage point per year compared to over nearly 7 per cent economic growth. How accurate are these numbers, and is there a...

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Looks like the new DM is listening to private industry: Government mulling time-bound mechanism for granting licences for defence production The government is considering introduction of a time-bound mechanism for granting licences and various other regulatory clearances for defence manufacturing to...

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Sorry if this is OT, but I think it makes sense to be here in the context of what is being discussed. While we can discuss the current state of innovation (or the lack thereof) and what caused it, I think its also important to identify avenues to change the status quo. While India is far better off ...

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Trump’s Tough Talk on Nafta Raises Prospects of Pact’s Demise

U.S. Will Withdraw From Unesco, Citing Its ‘Anti-Israel Bias’

I guess no more Unesco sites for the US

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Factory output jumps to 9-month high in August, inflation eases NEW DELHI: Industrial production grew at a nine-month high of 4.3 per cent in August, mainly on account of robust performance of mining and power sectors coupled with higher capital goods output, official data showed today. ... The out...

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x-post Government gives green signal to build worth over Rs 20,000 crore In a major move to ramp up naval strength, the Defence Ministry has given an in-principle approval for construction of four amphibious assault ships, also called the Landing Platform Docks (LPD), in the private sector at a cost...

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Government gives green signal to build worth over Rs 20,000 crore In a major move to ramp up naval strength, the Defence Ministry has given an in-principle approval for construction of four amphibious assault ships, also called the Landing Platform Docks (LPD), in the private sector at a cost of ov...

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Thanks for the clarifications shiv and chola. The discussions on this and the other chinese threads have been great, really learned a lot... now back to lurk mode

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shiv sir, thank you for your recent posts on the Chinese buildup (or lack of it) in Tibet, they have been very informative. Now I am wondering - if China is maintaining a skeleton force in Tibet and does not really have warfighting capability, how would they hold off Indian mountain divisions? In th...

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I'd like to add that even though solar appears to be clean and renewable, there is a significant environmental cost of producing solar cells. Lithium-Ion batteries are even worse - both require environmentally unfriendly extraction techniques and must be replaced after a fixed period of time. When e...

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Cross posting:

The Secret Chinese Airstrip Emerging In Maldives

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The Secret Chinese Airstrip Emerging In Maldives

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^ Mk 1 testbed for jedi starfighter with hyperdrive docking ring

https://squir.com/42105/jedi-starfighte ... r-ring.jpg

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^ Looks like! The co-founders are from IIT Kharagpur according to their bio on the website

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disha wrote:Nobody asked the question - if HRC cannot use her own email., isn't she anti-tech?

Thanks for the responses, much more lucid than the usual ranting...

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^ I've been confused by this... I agree with what you said, it makes sense with the nationalistic narrative. But the general feeling I get from talking to people around me is that of gloom and doom - defunding of science and/or additional obstacles being placed for some fields, like medical research...

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Slightly OT, but what do the gurus think will happen to science funding under DT and the republicans? I feel that R&D will get the shaft, and some properly timed moves from GOI could help reverse some of the brain drain of the past few decades. If it does happen, it could be a silent but very me...

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RBI also identified certain components in the IIP calculation distort the metric. I had posted this two months ago: 72% hike, 84% fall: Rubber insulated cables play havoc with IIP despite 0.12% weightage http://img.etimg.com/photo/53731789/cables.jpg Don't know if they have corrected for this yet, b...

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Industrial output contracts 0.7 year-on-year in August NEW DELHI: India’s industrial prodution fell 0.7% in August, slighlty slower than 2.5% decline in July. Data released by the statistics office showed a 0.3% fall in manufacturing production in August and a sharp 5.6% decline in mining output co...

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Does it have to be a snub? What if they do their exercise and then later give intel about paki and chinese positions and readiness?

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If anyone had doubts...

Rahami Spent Nearly a Year in Pakistan

Ahmad Rahami traveled to Pakistan in 2005 and returned in January 2006, according to an U.S. official who spoke on condition of anonymity.

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From Livefist:

New Stealth Qualities In India’s P17A Frigates?

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While not exactly a weapons platform, something like this could be easily modded to create a sub-hunting network with hydrophones: No Sailors Needed: Robot Sailboats Scour the Oceans for Data https://static01.nyt.com/images/2016/08/31/business/00saildrone-1/00saildrone-1-superJumbo.jpg The Saildrone...

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Are we sure that this info is real? Maybe incorrect information has been released and it this release is more of a veiled threat... Need to wait for the official line on this.

Regardless, always best to go for desi maal

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Interesting: With minuscule IIP weightage, rubber cables pull down growth numbers An item with a mere 0.12 weightage on the Index of Industrial Production (IIP) has been playing havoc with factory data for years, distorting the real picture every month. This is the curious case of insulated rubber c...

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Happy independence day to everyone!

Special thanks to those who got the forums back up, much appreciated!

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Gurus, I have a (sort of) random question... Is there any room for improving upon the PSLV design to increase payload? Can weight be shaved anywhere with better materials etc. Just wondering if we can expect the payload to increase - if it did, would it make ISRO/PSLV the go-to vehicle globally for ...

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Have you guys seen this? Hillary in her finest...

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Kartik wrote:From AW subscription

Other projects being undertaken by the DRDO include the Astra air-to-air ballistic missile , which was successfully test-fired from a Su-30MKI fighter last May. The missile is expected to be completed by next December.

wow now thats a new one!

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I don't know if this has been posted here before, but came across this photo tour of the french ballistic missile sub the Le Redoutable . Check out the officer's mess! http://cnet3.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2014/06/23/81a30422-97f6-4c54-93b6-3cba01ebdc20/resize/1170xauto/5b9b2ef899ff0e7baf847339263cecc...

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JohneeGji, Didn't know about the Vikings - interesting read! I wonder how far up north they could go at the time. In the short run, deforestation is a much bigger environment problem which leads to floods and famines and desertification. Chemical pollution is a big problem. Plastic contaminating the...

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Disha saar, These numbers seem to start from 1979. So, we don't know what is the actual standard of the ice that should be on arctic. I just posted how in the past vikings used to grow barley greenland. Today greenland is covered in ice. Even in NASA's animation, there doesn't seem to be anything c...

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Satyaji, you have been claiming that there are 'vested interests' pushing for climate change research to show that humans are altering the environment, or that there is propaganda out there in favor of climate change: Big business and funding: This whole thing is a big business with many jobs involv...

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