Bharat Rakshak

Suraj

Updating the earlier table: #. Player P W L D W/L 1. Graeme Smith 109 53 29 27 1.62 2. Ricky Ponting 77 48 16 13 3.00 3. Steve Waugh 55 41 09 07 4.55 4. Virat Kohli 67 40 16 11 2.50 5. Clive Lloyd 74 36 12 26 3.00 Just one behind Waugh now, and a part of the 4-member elite of captains with at least ...

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That's great news. I wasn't aware Bharat Biotech were that far along with their clinical trials of BBV154. A game-changer if they're able to get this into the market in volume quickly.

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Fully vaccinated count crossed 500 million on Thursday.

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Kohli now has 39 test wins as captain from 66 tests, with a 2.43 win/loss record, on par with the disgraced Hansie Cronje among captains with at least 25 wins, and behind only Waugh, Clive Lloyd and Ponting, who commanded all time greatest teams. #. Player P W L D W/L 1. Grame Smith 109 53 29 27 1.6...

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SBajwa wrote:India vs Germany in 1 hour 20 minutes. Watch hockey app on your phone for free live view

Lost 2-4 . The Germans were just too much bigger - almost a head taller and had far greater reach. We play France (again) for bronze.

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A link to the official guidelines are more useful here. MoHFW website maintains these: Guidelines for International Arrivals (dated Nov 30 2021, w.e.f. Dec 1 2021) List of Countries from where travellers would need to follow additional measures on arrival in India, including post-arrival testing Alg...

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Great PC improvisation from the juniors for the winning goal! GHWKEqpisTo These youngsters are really good at responding to top tier European style of play - doing a great job of man marking against opportunistic deflection attempts the Europeans love, and the goalie is spectacular. They'll take the...

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While gold imports are expensive, there's a fundamental value accretion here . I'd like to see gold imports drop yes, but there are specifically better options that can be import substituted through concerted policy action. I'll dive into that detail in article form.

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Q2 GDP data is out: ESTIMATES OF GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT FOR THE SECOND QUARTER (JULY-SEPTEMBER) 2021-2022 (pdf) Quarterly Data: Real GDP growth: 8.4% Nominal GDP growth: 17.5% Quarterly GDP: t ₹55.54 lakh crore ($745 billion) Gross fixed capital formation (GFCF): 32% of GDP (31.6% in Q1) Half year d...

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^^^^ Use this: https://archive.ph/JtW46 Ah the whole virion vaccine they're talking about here is Valneva. Valneva has a total of 160 million doses on order from UK and EU. They have delivered zero doses to date and are yet to receive Phase 3 approval: https://covid19.trackvaccines.org/vaccines/69/...

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Vaccination has picked up pace this week, on track to end the week with over 50 million doses. Both first and second doses have picked up. Approx 2.5m first doses and 5m second doses each day this week, with Wednesday seeing an all time high of 6.6 million second doses done, and 9.2 million total. I...

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Amber.G, thanks for your replies...sorry for late posting. This could be hearsay but I've heard that especially in rural areas, people who took their 1st dose and got more side effects are now hesitant to go for their 2nd one. So what purpose is served by bringing hearsay here ? Literally ALL misin...

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Thanks vsunder. What explains the delta between UP and Bihar right next to it ?

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Thanks for resuming the JJM dashboard, Varuna!

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OK, I do agree with you on most of that. Targeting people is ineffective, I completely agree. But what about the massive shift to almost 100% digital transactions with Alipay, etc., and the ongoing effort to make it more official and easier to monitor with the digital CNY? It used to be that to ope...

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Suraj, I know you don't believe anything that comes out of China. That's fine, I take everything the CCP says with a grain of salt too. With that said, if you just invent your own reality instead of trying to look for coroborating evidence then you won't be any closer to the truth than had you take...

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That's a pretty funny Chinese view of the matter. 'Anti-corruption' is a bog standard way to eliminate political opposition anywhere. Even a cursory view of the record here makes the argument look very shallow. For example, one can go into the details of whether Bo Xilai was or wasn't corrupt, but i...

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For one, you need different tools for different problems. For example, if an infection is localized to a finger, an amputation may be a good choice, but if it's spread everywhere, then systemic antibiotics would be a better choice. If harsh localized lockdowns can help avoid paralysis of the entire...

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The Chinese are usually seen as exemplars of inter-ministerial coordination towards major goals, e.g. the speed of their high speed rail construction with finance, power, rail and industrial ministries coordinating. Now you have this situation with Covid where case studies in many places, including ...

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Why is the caseload in Russia so high? Weren't they first in world to launch vaccine program? Vaccine hesitation. Only 30% of the population has taken the 1st shot. They don't have enough vaccines either. Cumulative Covaxin production has already outstripped Sputnik output. And Covaxin now has a WH...

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Also, 27.4 million doses through the first 8 days of November or 3.4 million per day, which is extremely good given peak festival season and the enormous retail sales data which means people went out to shop. Now that Diwali is done and the accumulated supply is a stratospheric 157 million, there wi...

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One of the fascinating data points from the UPI raw data is this: * Average monthly transaction value has been range-bound for the entire life of UPI. With a couple of months as exceptions, it has always been between Rs.1500-1800 . * All value growth is therefore volume growth. It's not that the Rup...

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An architecture like this needs a reference application that defines the use case . Without it, it is like pointing to a worker to a set of tools and raw material and tell them to build something with no blueprint or mockup. The BHIM app was never meant to compete as a FinTech solution against priva...

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Is it really the case that over one fourth of our GDP is transacted through UPI? What are the big payments here? Does this include business-to-business transfers, or salary payments for large segments of workers? Is UPI just a payment interface or does the term generically cover all sorts of online...

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^ with an expected snarky note that it believed the benefits far outweighed the risks. Doesn't matter. The poodle of China can whimper all it wants.. Fairly standard language for EUAs and EULs . Everyone has it in some form - the latest Pfizer EUA for 5-12 year olds included . Not having such langu...

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UPI transactions hit the $100 billion mark in October... Trailing 12 month data ending October in each of the last 5 years: Oct 2021: $852B Oct 2020: $397B Oct 2019: $218B Oct 2018: $56B Oct 2017: $5B Is it really the case that over one fourth of our GDP is transacted through UPI? What are the big ...

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UPI transactions hit the $100 billion mark in October. I recorded this on Twitter: https://twitter.com/surajbrf/status/1455295485518893058 Monthly transaction value: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FDI_iAJVQAEGk-Z?format=jpg&name=small https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FDI_iAIVIAAbHi3?format=jpg&name=...

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Please include the nature of the goods if you can find them. We often get total figures but not the breakdown. For example, finished goods give one picture while industrial machinery is another picture. That will be covered. This will be a proper analysis and not a superficial effort to fit some fl...

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HK has always been bucketed separately. I'm writing an article on the topic of India's trade balance.

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Vaccinations so far in Oct total 158 million doses done. The breakdown is 77m first doses, 81m second doses. This is the first month where 2nd doses will likely exceed first doses. In fact second dose total may exceed the September peak of 89 million. Cumulative total is almost 1050 million. We're a...

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Over 7.7 million just today for a cumulative total of over 1021 million. Suraj - Did you notice from MoHFW that 2nd dose given has exceeded 1st dose? This has been going on for some days now. Last update for Oct. 23rd morning showed 2.899 million 1st dose and 3.949 million 2nd dose. https://www.moh...

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No the point here is that we are not contributing to COVAX/Gavi at all - not even Covishield. We're cutting independent agreements with countries instead. The math here is simple - per dose cost of Covishield to India is Rs.205, Covaxin is Rs.215 and even Zycov-D is Rs.275 ( reference ) . The per-do...

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India has responded to the WHO action by pausing its participation in COVAX:
India delays COVID-19 vaccine supplies to WHO-backed COVAX, sources say
Good to see the government play hardball.

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Here are the first two of that series of articles I'm writing: https://swarajyamag.com/politics/why-bjp-should-be-considered-a-hindu-democratic-party https://swarajyamag.com/politics/hindu-democracy-punyabhoomi-and-the-idea-of-bharat There's a funny dichotomy where BJP's opponents accuse it of being...

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I posted about this in response to WHO: https://twitter.com/surajbrf/status/1450145810184691713

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Om Shanti. I'm among those who got to meet him in some Bay Area BR meetings in the mid 2000s. A legend in our circles even back then.

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Govt. did the wise thing by not doing something stupid (deploying reserve forces, lathe charge etc.), which would have led to more dead bodies, riots and completely turn the discourse against the govt. This is exactly pappu/pinky and kangressi cabal wants before the (UP/GE) elections. Instead, the ...

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Prasannasimha on Twitter mentions Covishield will likely never get approved for kids due to particular reasons to do with the nature of the vaccine, but that Covaxin does not have the same problem.

https://twitter.com/Prasannasimha/statu ... 7428446210

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How do you know that for a fact ? How much of MSM so far in the pandemic has been clear, unbiased and factual ? I've been tracking the news and data for months. I have very little reason to believe anything involving quoting someone's decisionmaking. It's always better to go to the source. At the ve...

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