2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1

[rsingh]

Such sepoy are still thriving because comments (about their shit) are blocked (most often). they do not have feed back. I suggest some site where such articles are pasted and readers are asked to comment.

[vimal]

I was reading some material regarding Indian history and was struck by the fact how Hindus have been systematically scrubbed off from all narrative. They are Pandits, Marathi, North Indian, South, Tamil, Telugu anything but Hindu. Especially true if they were at the receiving end of the peacefool bigotry.

[chetak]

I was reading some material regarding Indian history and was struck by the fact how Hindus have been systematically scrubbed off from all narrative. They are Pandits, Marathi, North Indian, South anything but Hindu. Especially true if they were at the receiving end of the peacefool bigotry.

even on a global scale, Hinduism is very very rarely mentioned, its all about the abhramics and buddhism

They are trying to wipe out all mention and traces and the Hindus have not only been marginalized but also made almost invisible.

[Manish_Sharma]

Are IITs another JNUs?

https://twitter.com/snehasneha173/statu ... -KdLg&s=19

@snehasneha173:

Chemical engineer from IIT Mumbai tried to snatch the self loading rifles.

He attacked the security personnel with chiseled weapon and tried to enter while chanting @ll@h hu @kb@r at Gorakshanath temple, Gorakhpur.

Name : Ahmed Abbasi Murtaza

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@DKRNamdeo1:
Obviously, If he was mentally unwell, he could enter in a Mosque/Church instead. Such a nice cover up for his crime. First team attack, 2nd team defend them in court, 3rd team covers up on media, and 4th so-called uninvolved personals take benefits. Terror Chronology.

https://twitter.com/DRVKNamdeo1/status/ ... 1wkig&s=19

[Tanaji]

In the meanwhile the agenda to bring back terrorism in Khalistan is on in full swing now that AAP is in power:

https://www.opindia.com/2022/04/bhagwan ... cal-truth/

https://dynastycrooks.files.wordpress.c ... /image.png

[Abhi_G]

Is crony capitalism relevant from strategic point of view? SBI underwriting 12000 cr loan to Adani?

https://www.thehindu.com/business/Indus ... 271859.ece

Same story with a different title:
https://www.deccanherald.com/business/b ... 95867.html

[chetak]

[chetak]

[sanjayc]

Many of us suspected this native sepoy and how he was parachuted into India, and how he keeps popping into India now and then to stay in the news. Americans are managing his career, just like they did of MMS and SG, and now RG

India sought probe into ex-RBI gov Rajan for helping ‘white man’
Indian government accused its RBI of setting interest rates to favour developed nations, pushing it to slash the rates.

New Delhi, India – A year after the government led by Narendra Modi’s BJP came to power in 2014, the top finance ministry official accused the Reserve Bank of India of setting interest rates to benefit developed countries and sought a probe into its conduct, a trove of official documents obtained by The Reporters’ Collective reveals.

Finance secretary Rajiv Mehrishi, working under the then-finance minister, the late Arun Jaitley, made the claim after the RBI opted to prioritise controlling rising prices over lowering interest rates, which would have made borrowing cheaper for businesses and citizens.
Although the government and the RBI having different views is not unusual, the revelations mark the first time a top government official has accused the RBI of working to benefit “the white man” in “developed countries” and sought an investigation into the “real purpose” behind the central bank’s decisions.

The documents, which were accessed by The Reporters’ Collective (TRC) under the Right to Information Act, are being made public for the first time as part of a three-part investigative series.

At the time in 2015, the RBI governor was Raghuram Rajan, an appointee of the previous, Congress-led government. The BJP government chose Urjit Patel as Rajan’s successor.

But the RBI didn’t cut the interest as sharply as the government wanted, even under Patel. So the finance ministry called a meeting with the bank’s newly set up monetary policy committee (MPC) to push it to cut interest rates, according to the documents. The unprecedented meeting fell through when committee members declined to attend, a development widely reported in 2017.
The attempt to influence the central bank came despite the Modi government having amended the Reserve Bank of India Act in 2016 to strengthen the firewall between the RBI’s primary function of controlling prices and the government’s political impulse to spur growth even at the cost of rising inflation.

The RBI’s then-governor Patel pushed back, wrote to the government saying it should stop trying to influence the RBI in order to preserve the “integrity and credibility” of the new monetary framework “in the public eye and our parliament”. Otherwise, the government would be in violation of the letter and spirit of the law that protected the RBI’s independence.

As disagreements piled up on this and other issues, Patel resigned on December 10, 2018, citing “personal reasons”. The government replaced him with Shaktikanta Das who, as a top finance ministry bureaucrat, had justified increasing the government’s influence in the RBI’s rate-setting function, official documents reveal.

Different roles

One of the RBI’s key roles is to control the amount of money and credit available in the economy through the interest rate at which it lends to banks – this is the central bank’s monetary policy function. Lower interest rates spur economic growth in the short term but can also lead to an increase in the prices of goods and services, or inflation. Untamed inflation erodes the value of money in the hands of citizens, particularly the poor, acting like a hidden tax that hits poorer and lower-income citizens more than the rich.

Monetary policy is typically kept independent of government control because politicians face the temptation to create more money and spend beyond their means on populist schemes and vanity projects. In the long run, excess spending by the government harms the economy.

Differing analyses of where inflation may be headed and how interest rates should be set often create tension between central banks and governments in many parts of the world, including India. But in New Delhi, the debate took an ugly turn when the Modi government came to power in May 2014 as India was witnessing one of the highest levels of inflation in the world.

Newly appointed finance minister Arun Jaitley announced that the government would establish a monetary policy regime that would focus on keeping inflation in check with transparency and accountability. This would be a departure from the existing system where the RBI governor alone set interest rates, without an inflation target at hand.

In February 2015, as a first step towards establishing an MPC, Mehrishi and then-RBI Governor Rajan signed an agreement outlining an inflation target for the first time. The central bank committed to bringing inflation down to 6 percent by January 2016 and 4 percent in subsequent years, with a goal of maintaining it within a range of 2 to 6 percent. If the RBI failed to meet the target, it would be required to send an explanation letter to the government.

‘Subsidised’ the rich abroad

In 2014, Rajan kept the repo rate – the rate at which the RBI lends to banks – unchanged at 8 percent due to inflationary concerns. As inflationary pressures eased in 2015, he started cutting the rate, bringing it down to 7.25 percent by June. But in the August 2015 meeting, he maintained the status quo.

The Modi government was not satisfied with the cuts, with Jaitley and chief economic adviser Arvind Subramanian often publicly criticising the RBI and complaining that borrowing costs were still too high.

Their public venting, however, was only a hint of the pressure being applied behind the scenes, documents show.

On August 6, 2015, two days after the RBI announced its latest rate decision, finance secretary Mehrishi wrote an internal note, asking for the interest rate to be cut sharply to 5.75 percent.

“I agree with neither the analysis nor the conclusion [of the Reserve Bank of India’s monetary policy committee] to keep interest rates higher by as much as 150 basis points [or 1.5 percentage points], if not more,” Mehrishi said in his note. “An incalculable damage has been done to the Indian economy and Indian growth prospects, by stunting credit, and therefore investment,” he added.

Mehrishi then accused the RBI of helping wealthy foreign businesses at the cost of Indian businesses and citizens, claiming the “only beneficiaries” of India’s high interest rates were developed countries.

“We have subsidised the rich and influential in the USA, Europe and Japan.”

In developed countries, interest rates are typically lower than in India, encouraging some investors to temporarily park their funds in the Indian financial system to mint profits from the higher interest.

“Under the cover of being ‘inflation hawks’, the real reason for keeping interest rates high in India – at the cost of credit flow, investment and growth – needs to be more deeply thought about, analysed and investigated,” Mehrishi said in his concluding remarks.

Finance minister Jaitley acknowledged Mehrishi’s note on the file and “desired a discussion”.

The MPC finally came into place in September 2016, days after Rajan moved back to the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business to teach finance. He was replaced by Deputy Governor Urjit Patel who was also involved in the making of the new monetary framework.

A month later, when Patel chaired the first MPC, it cut the interest rate by 0.25 percentage points. In its November board meeting, the central bank led by Patel approved Modi’s decision to invalidate overnight most of the existing currency, the so-called demonetisation, in which 500 and 1,000 Indian rupee notes ceased to exist as legal tender.

Some economists accused Patel of letting Modi railroad the RBI into approving one of the biggest domestic economic disasters and denting the central bank’s autonomy. Rajan would later claim that the government had consulted the RBI during his tenure on demonetisation but never asked it for the nod.

Almost as if responding to the criticism of diluting its autonomy, the MPC adopted a tough stance in its next meeting in February 2017 when it changed the “monetary policy stance” from accommodative to neutral. That change in “stance”, which surprised analysts, was a signal to the financial markets that the MPC would no longer be open to rate cuts.

The central bank kept the rates unchanged in the subsequent meeting of the MPC in April 2017, while the government scrambled to resuscitate an economy hit by demonetisation.

Rising tensions

With Patel resisting government pressure, the finance ministry attempted to influence the RBI’s independent Monetary Policy Committee which sets the interest rates.

On April 10, 2017, Jaitley held a meeting with his economic affairs secretary Shaktikanta Das during which they decided that then-chief economic adviser Arvind Subramanian and then-principal economic advisor Sanjeev Sanyal would hold a meeting with the “three government-nominated members of MPC, followed by a discussion with RBI, prior to the MPC meetings,” documents show.

In a note on April 12, Das wrote, “The idea is to convey MOF’s [ministry of finance] analysis to the MPC members and RBI. The final decision will be theirs [RBI].”

The MPC comprises three members from within the RBI, including the governor, and three external experts appointed by the government. MPC decisions, which are supposed to be made independent of government influence, are based on a majority vote. In a tie, the governor has a casting vote.

Under the Modi government’s law establishing the MPC, the government is only allowed to present its views to the committee in writing. Government officials cannot meet with the committee or influence it by any other means.

Ignoring the law, on May 17, 2017, the finance ministry sent a letter to each of the MPC members stating that “with the approval of the Finance Minister, it has been decided to evolve an institutionalised framework under which the government may, from time to time, engage with the members of MPC to provide the government perspective on macroeconomic situation including economic growth and inflation”.

The MPC’s external members were summoned for a meeting chaired by Subramanian on June 1, 2017, days before the committee was scheduled to meet. A separate letter was written to Urjit Patel telling him about the finance ministry’s decision to hold a discussion with the RBI officials on the MPC at its headquarters in Mumbai.

Three days later, the finance ministry reversed course and said in a file note that the discussions would only be informal because of the “sensitivities involved”.

“A revised letter may be sent to the MPC…without mentioning that we would like to institute a mechanism for informal discussion with them,” the note said.

A new letter was issued to all the MPC members, which specified that the meeting to be chaired by the government’s chief economic adviser is only to “discuss the overall macroeconomic situation in the country and developments in the global economy.” Any direct reference to interest rates, the real purpose of the meeting, had now been left out.

The letter

On May 22, 2017, Patel wrote back to Jaitley opposing the meeting. He said the RBI was “surprised and dismayed by this development on two counts”, according to the documents reviewed by The Reporters’ Collective.

“Firstly, we have not discussed the matter with each other, although we have interacted several times in recent weeks on work matters; and second, it is addressed to and seeks to set up meetings with MPC members, and separately so with non-RBI and RBI members,” Patel said.

He stressed that the move “violates the letter and spirit of the amended RBI Act (to set up an independent committee for monetary policy) and tarnishes the constructive engagement since 2014 between RBI and the Ministry of Finance on issues relating to monetary policy”.

“In fact, communication with or from (the) government should be scrupulously avoided if the integrity and credibility of the monetary policy decision has to be preserved in the public eye and our Parliament,” Patel wrote, adding that investors will “likely” take a dim view of any direct intervention in monetary policy.

“Frankly, this is avoidable as we seek, in the national interest, to nurture institutions befitting a modern economy,” the ex-RBI governor said.

Patel reminded Jaitley of the clause that the federal government can convey its views only in writing to the MPC from time to time and said that any other structure for communication will violate the law.

“This clause (where the operating words are “writing to the MPC”) was, you may recollect, precisely formulated so that, in a departure from the past, informal and non-transparent “direction” by government officials on monetary policy is disallowed,” his letter said.

Al Jazeera sent a list of questions to the Ministry of Finance, the RBI, Rajiv Mehrishi, Raghuram Rajan and Urjit Patel. None of them responded.

Das’s parting words

In the finance ministry’s final internal note on the matter, Das, the then-economic affairs secretary, wrote that an “interaction between (the) finance ministry and members of MPC cannot be interpreted as coming in the way of the RBI Act.”

“Ultimately, accountability about (the) functioning of the economy lies at the doorsteps of the government, particularly the finance ministry,” Das said in a note dated May 29, 2017, while giving the approval to send the finance ministry’s analysis of the economy to the MPC members in writing.

Das, toeing the government line, would become RBI governor one and a half years after his departure in May 2017 from the finance ministry. He was appointed barely 24 hours after Patel abruptly resigned in December 2018.

Part 2 of the investigative series will be out tomorrow.

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2022/ ... -white-man

[chetak]

^^^^^^^

Section 7 of the RBI Act 1934, provides authority to the government to give directions to the central bank in public interest from time-to-time with the consultation of the RBI governor

If push came to shove, and the gloves came off, these are the barest of the bare facts


the govt fully owns the bank

Govt is fully responsible for the state of the economy

a completely, absolutely and fully (in every sense of the term) "independent" RBI gov is a colonial era media myth. He has well defined limitations.

What happens if he slyly colludes with offshore entities...

The RBI gov is, at the end of the day, a sarkari appointed sarkari naukar onlee

The RBI gov can be hired/fired by the govt so he serves at the will and pleasure of the govt. He has a set term and extensions if any are decidedly at mutual convenience. Either party can say no and the matter ends there


and finally, dunderhead rrr, the doomsday darling, is the only economist in the world, who has successfully predicted six of the last two financial crises

and such perspicaciously entitled guys like RRR don't come cheap (or even go back cheap). In the midst of his ugly media war, he didn't forget to latch on to the five "Rs 10,000 paintings"

The maryada of the office has always demanded and prevented political commentary and racy interactions with the press on all and sundry matters, especially of the page three variety


https://www.sundayguardianlive.com/news ... uram-rajan

Spent more on transporting his household goods than what it paid him as salary in three years.


New Delhi: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) spent almost Rs 71 lakh in shifting the household items of its former Governor, Dr Raghuram Rajan from Chicago to Mumbai and back when he was appointed the Governor in August 2013 and continued in the position till his tenure ended in September 2016.

Interestingly, Rajan’s salary during his tenure was Rs 1.69 lakh per month, which means that the RBI spent more on transporting his household goods (Rs 71 lakh) than what they paid him as salary for the entire three years (Rs 61.2 lakh approximately).

As per its response shared by the RBI to an RTI query filed by this newspaper, an amount of Rs 2,226,416 was spent on shifting Raghuram Rajan’s household goods from Chicago, Illinois, US, to Mumbai, while an amount of Rs 4,941,253 was spent on shifting his household goods back from Mumbai to Chicago (Illinois).

As per the RBI, no specific rules are prescribed on transfer of household goods of the Governor/employees from anywhere in the world and hence the decision-maker at the RBI took an internal decision “specific to the case”, “keeping all relevant circumstances in view” in Rajan’s case.

The RBI also gifted five paintings to Rajan as a farewell gift, the reply received stated. As per rules, the outgoing Governor is entitled to farewell gifts to the value of Rs 50,000.

Responding to The Sunday Guardian’s queries, the RBI stated: “There was no demand made by Dr Rajan in lieu of a gift of the amount of Rs 50,000. However, as indicated by him, old paintings—four by Govind Dumbre and one by Gopal Adiverkar—from the Governor’s bungalow were gifted to him in lieu of a corporate gift.”

The painting by Dumbre measured 15×15, while the one by Adivekar measured 16×20. The price of the painting, which has been quoted by the RBI in its reply, is Rs 10,000 per piece. However, online platforms specialising in selling paintings, were selling Dumbre’s painting for more than Rs 1 lakh per piece.

The RBI also spent Rs 13,474 on fitting an air conditioner in the bathroom of the Governor House when Rajan was in office.

[rsingh]

I am skeptical about RBI posts.Not an Economist but my limited exposure to Macronomics (MBA Solvay Business School 1997 tells followings.
Leaders tend to use central banks as bottomless source of funds in printing money for projects. To prevent this Central banks even made autonomous.. that is first sign of country being serious about economy.
First sign of a good CB is its policy on inflation. Deutch Bank is known for its tight inflation targets making Germany prosperous. Same policy is followed by ECB. EU Countries pay fine if inflation is more than 2percent. For a developing country it is a sign that country is good place for investment.
You may have high inflation if you high growth. It reflect the growth in GDP. CB will be happy to inject more cash in economy.
In 1997 Bank interest rate wast in almost 20.we were told that this is sign of high risk for investment and that is why govt is ready to pay high return on FI.
I may be wrong with figure but basics are here. Rest I wait for some words of wisdom from our resident economists.. please do not mind bad grammar and spelling. Phone posts are always kamchalau sarkars.

[chetak]

[Pratyush]

The boast from Tamil Nadu that it will have a trillion dollar economy will prove to be an empty one.

This is the most foolish decision they could have taken. These people are not pro employment, not pro growth.

[chetak]

Utter BS

[Manish_Sharma]

Attack on Gorakhnath Temple is a probing experiment to attack Yogi Adityanath later?

@hujodaddy1:

Told such so.
Now trouble is, lone wolf pattern attack are dismissed but here there was another person with him...high chance a cell was working. Probe deep

How Long Indian secular state going to deny indian muslims link with g-had. Be it JK or anywhere!!
https://t.co/LpdxSG5mvi

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@SinghPramod2784:

Ahmad Murtaza Abbasi, arrested by @Uppolice for his attack on PAC personnel posted at Gate no.3 of Gorakh Nath Mandir has been found to be linked to #ISIS . Sources said, a breakthrough has been made in the investigation, more details will follow. @TheNewIndian_in


It was a planned attack. Murtaza had carried out a detailed recce of Gorakh Nath temple complex. He tried to enter from Gate No 3 which is used by Yogi Adityanathji.

https://twitter.com/SinghPramod2784/sta ... 1ZgMQ&s=19

[S_Madhukar]

The boast from Tamil Nadu that it will have a trillion dollar economy will prove to be an empty one.

What's wrong with the current TN economy that needs fixing? It is a good hub for IT and automotive, looks like before going to Trillion Stalin as his name suggests will ground it to dust . Another Chicom

[Sachin]

What's wrong with the current TN economy that needs fixing?

All these are attempts to prove that Stalin (CM) == Modi (PM) . They are trying to create an image that states like TN, KL, WB etc are a different entities and for their development a central government with BJP in power will not suffice. They need get TN & KL centric expertise . All gimmicks targetting the local voters that these Chief Ministers are running very independent territories. I have seen these kind of moves by KL government, and most likely WB under Momata Bannerjee is also trying the same thing. Basically an attempt to show that they are not dependent on BJP led establishments.

[Sachin]

Mean while at Karnataka..
Loudspeaker row: There are court orders, says Bommai, citing mandated Azaan decibel level. Looks like KA Government is relying on previous laws promulgated by secular forces and the judiciary, and just making sure that they are executed on the ground. The advantage is that they cannot be accused of inventing any new anti-Shantidoot scheme.

Karnataka govt asks BBMP to stun animals before slaughter as it’s ‘humane’, but.. it may be against Halal
Here is another one. It is not about banning halal, but enforcing the rules on stunning the animals at abbatoirs. Now you can see various Islamic clerics trying to re-interpret their rule books and say halal also works if the animal is stunned before slaughter .

Bengaluru vs Hyderabad debate: Not in rat race, says Karnataka IT minister CN Ashwath Narayan. Mr DK Shivakumar Karnataka Congress President - after firmly establishing a government in Goa - had also inked a challenge - "By the end of 2023, with Congress back in power in Karnataka, we will restore the glory of Bengaluru as India’s best city."

[Ambar]

There may have been multiple reasons for Raghuram Rajan's ouster but high interest rates were definitely not one of them. RBI's repo rate in Q1 of 2015 was 7.75%, well below the real inflation rate. Besides, the government's worry that the RBI governor was inhibiting growth by high interest rates makes little sense in a country where the government controls 80% of the banking. The PSU banks and the private banks don't lose a day in cutting deposit rates when RBI cuts interests but never fully pass the low interest rates to the borrowers. This is why the SBI prime lending rate has such a delta with the repo rate even today. The average poor and middle class Indians have been shafted by low deposit rates that are significantly lower than real inflation rate for over 2 decades now. The Indian household exposure to equity markets is one of the lowest in the world, most Indians still prefer to save their hard earned money in banks , this is especially true in case of the elderly, retired and those with little means of parking their savings in volatile investments like stocks, this is something that even Nirmala tai admitted in one of her recent interviews. As for Rajan or Urjit Patel's disapproval about demonetization plans, well, during the 2019 general elections campaign none of the BJP leaders including Modi spoke about demonetization, which probably tells you about how impactful it was in curbing corruption and blank money !

Raghuram Rajan was rightly fired because he was a man hired by the INC ecosystem to implement its policies. He was also on board with Rahul Gandhi's harebrained NYAY scheme when the country's economy was already in doldrums with record current account and budget deficits with double digit inflation. Al Jazeera as usual is trying to muddy the waters.

[chetak]

Mean while at Karnataka..
Loudspeaker row: There are court orders, says Bommai, citing mandated Azaan decibel level. Looks like KA Government is relying on previous laws promulgated by secular forces and the judiciary, and just making sure that they are executed on the ground. The advantage is that they cannot be accused of inventing any new anti-Shantidoot scheme.

Karnataka govt asks BBMP to stun animals before slaughter as it’s ‘humane’, but.. it may be against Halal
Here is another one. It is not about banning halal, but enforcing the rules on stunning the animals at abbatoirs. Now you can see various Islamic clerics trying to re-interpret their rule books and say halal also works if the animal is stunned before slaughter .

Bengaluru vs Hyderabad debate: Not in rat race, says Karnataka IT minister CN Ashwath Narayan. Mr DK Shivakumar Karnataka Congress President - after firmly establishing a government in Goa - had also inked a challenge - "By the end of 2023, with Congress back in power in Karnataka, we will restore the glory of Bengaluru as India’s best city."

the consequences of needlessly poking the bear

[chetak]

There may have been multiple reasons for Raghuram Rajan's ouster but high interest rates were definitely not one of them. RBI's repo rate in Q1 of 2015 was 7.75%, well below the real inflation rate. Besides, the government's worry that the RBI governor was inhibiting growth by high interest rates makes little sense in a country where the government controls 80% of the banking. The PSU banks and the private banks don't lose a day in cutting deposit rates when RBI cuts interests but never fully pass the low interest rates to the borrowers. This is why the SBI prime lending rate has such a delta with the repo rate even today. The average poor and middle class Indians have been shafted by low deposit rates that are significantly lower than real inflation rate for over 2 decades now. The Indian household exposure to equity markets is one of the lowest in the world, most Indians still prefer to save their hard earned money in banks , this is especially true in case of the elderly, retired and those with little means of parking their savings in volatile investments like stocks, this is something that even Nirmala tai admitted in one of her recent interviews. As for Rajan or Urjit Patel's disapproval about demonetization plans, well, during the 2019 general elections campaign none of the BJP leaders including Modi spoke about demonetization, which probably tells you about how impactful it was in curbing corruption and blank money !

Raghuram Rajan was rightly fired because he was a man hired by the INC ecosystem to implement its policies. He was also on board with Rahul Gandhi's harebrained NYAY scheme when the country's economy was already in doldrums with record current account and budget deficits with double digit inflation. Al Jazeera as usual is trying to muddy the waters.

rrr was not "ousted", his term had ended

supported by wokes, he was actively looking and lobbying for a short extension to fill the gap till the end of his sabbatical booth school and the govt wasn't interested.

It would have also embellished his "reputation" no end had that extension come about because the wokes were all set to spin it as though the Modi govt was desperate not to let rrr go and the unwashed bhakths had no other option or replacement to this eighth wonder of the world.

also heard that waiting in the wings was a very hopeful gita gopinath

[vijayk]

https://twitter.com/Iyervval/status/1511240080513376257. check this ... AAP is setting up Punjab

[Tanaji]

https://twitter.com/Iyervval/status/1511240080513376257. check this ... AAP is setting up Punjab

What is being said or why are they beating him ? Let me guess “be-adbi”?

[Cyrano]

Ayyub will promptly run away and seek political asylum with help from her nyt WaPo friends. She'll thank Indian courts for making it easy for her to jump ships.

[Vips]

In other words all dafaulters who have scammed Rs 10-12 crores be allowed to run away since it is a small amount. WTF!!!!!

[vinod]

Google has removed the Russian defence ministry website from their search results.

- This war has revealed everything is weaponisable when required. So, anyone who brings up the argument of freedom of expression with related to foreign influenced media should be looked into and blocked ruthlessly.

[SBajwa]

I don’t think many residents of Chandigarh, Hindu or Sikh, would want this. This is something the Panjabis won’t tell you.

It’s not difficult to see what.

But that’s sadly irrelevant. AAP has formed the government and it has to keep its election promises and balance the books. Both are opposite things and attention must be diverted when the government is on verge of bankruptcy. This is just background that is being laid….

When central government is doing a fine job of maintaining Chandigarh question to transfer does not arise. Bhagwant Maan is idiot and does not know that Chandigarh maintenance would come out of Punjab's budget

[Ambar]

Google has removed the Russian defence ministry website from their search results.

- This war has revealed everything is weaponisable when required. So, anyone who brings up the argument of freedom of expression with related to foreign influenced media should be looked into and blocked ruthlessly.

Weaponization of international media, movie industry, art and literature has been going on for decades now, its just that social media and high tech products like search engines and cloud computing are now being weaponized to set narratives , propagate political and cultural agendas, and suppress the voices that challenge these narratives. Whether one cares about US politics or not, but during the Trump years the way social media czars, celebrities of pop culture , the cinema industry and ofcourse the mainstream media went after his supporters should have raised alarm bells . Remember how alternative platforms to twitter were de-hosted by amazon without notice ? There were also calls for cable providers to block TV news channels that aligned with Trump ! All this was repeated again during the pandemic, question the origin of the virus ? Banned and silenced ! Question the government policies and lockdowns ? Banned and silenced ! Even curious about natural immunity ? Banned, silenced and loss of livelihood. The same (dis)information juggernaut now has a new villain and a new hero in form of Putin and Zelensky. The sheer irony of the situation when just 8 months ago in a spectacular set of event US and its allies hurriedly rushed out of Afghanistan abandoning billions worth of weapons, their guarded embassies and 3 trillion dollars of development funds after 20 yrs of occupation suddenly think Russia has done something unprecedented that NATO pretty much repeats atleast twice a decade !

[vimal]

https://twitter.com/Iyervval/status/1511240080513376257. check this ... AAP is setting up Punjab

They've become what they once fought.

[bala]

Yes, the weaponization is a concerted mass media assault on the Aam Aadmi of the world, so much of which is fake and false. Which in turn brings up the question for India, all the things taken for granted like Videshi Android Google Play, Operating systems, databases, enterprise software, FinTech products, payments and much more are all subject to Sanction. The CDAC should be driving the alternates for India, an independent system not subject to Sanctions. Otherwise we are going to be blackmailed constantly. Talking about media, news, TV, we should come up with a system that Rates and Ranks these organizations based veracity of reporting. A low score rating is subject to massive financial fines and/or suspension/removal permanently. These are things that India GOI needs to start right away.

[Ambar]

Loud alarm bells should have gone off inside the heads of our policymakers and senior bureaucrats the moment facebook acquired whatsapp. The GOI should have seen the writing on the wall in 2014 itself when twitter and facebook repeatedly allowed anti-India, anti-hindu content and allowed it spread but kept banning pro-India accounts and channels. But what was our reaction ? Other than the comical, pathetic, silly and weak "warnings" to these social media giants, we've done nothing so far. In 2021 we were presented with a golden opportunity to promote Koo and have a Indian tech company acquire Signal as alternatives to twitter and whatsapp, but we did nothing. China is what China does because they had the foresight to develop their cheeni ecosystem in all spheres, all we do is hand wave and grind our teeth. After JNU/DU riots, anti-CAA riots, farmer riots etc one would think the government and the intelligence agencies would have wisen to the threats of foreign technologies and foreign media platforms but no, they are still in denial, ignorant and rather proud that they havent taken any steps to "muzzle" the free media !

[vijayk]

I got new version of KOO. very good with Chat rooms/Cricket/Aadhar link ... Most BJP folks are moving and other politicians too. Soon we need to add Modi/Govt. official businesses and other folks ...
Hope someone is paying attention ...

[kit]

Google has removed the Russian defence ministry website from their search results.

- This war has revealed everything is weaponisable when required. So, anyone who brings up the argument of freedom of expression with related to foreign influenced media should be looked into and blocked ruthlessly.

US and UK seems hell bent on finding any and ALL options., but this nugget has a particular reason., the Russian MOD has direct evidence of the genocide by Uke Nazis in cahoots with the west.,among others., it would be quite inconvenient for western media to spin naratives if any enterprising arm chair warrior was to accidentally stumble on that material

[chetak]

@ANI·6h

West Bengal | CM Mamata Banerjee should take care of her state.

Sri Lanka is ruined; its total debt was Rs 6 lakh crore & WB's debt is Rs 5.62 lakh crore.

Had West Bengal been a separate country, its condition would've been worse than Sri Lanka: BJP WB chief Sukanta Majumdar

[Rudradev]

https://twitter.com/Iyervval/status/1511240080513376257. check this ... AAP is setting up Punjab

Look at the video closely.

The turbaned guys are hitting the floor next to the man in the pink shirt. Not the man himself.

The pink-shirt man himself makes no sound for most of the time, and his body does not react to the blows as if being hit by a stick with force. If you have ever seen an actual beating with a stick you would know what it really looks like.

Finally, the pink-shirt man is seen lying down on his face, and suddenly starts crying out loud even though he is not being "beaten" at that time.

This is a set up alright. Some sort of picture is being painted, so that social media outrage can be generated and leveraged. But what is that picture, who is painting it, and why?

[bala]

SriLanka, Nepal and even Bhutan: India needs to send out feelers, IMO, to these countries on whether they want to Join INDIA as another state. Yes, it is going to cost some money, but we absorb the countries practicing Dharma into our fold which the BritShits purposely segregated them into separate countries. There will be some amount of getting them adjusted to systems but that is par for the course.

[Karan M]

None of them will agree. Their elites loathe India.

[vijayk]

SriLanka, Nepal and even Bhutan: India needs to send out feelers, IMO, to these countries on whether they want to Join INDIA as another state. Yes, it is going to cost some money, but we absorb the countries practicing Dharma into our fold which the BritShits purposely segregated them into separate countries. There will be some amount of getting them adjusted to systems but that is par for the course.

Why? These people will take never agree

[chetak]

None of them will agree. Their elites loathe India.

what's with so many guys suddenly wanting to "absorb" these countries into the dharmic fold

why leave out the pakis, beedis, and the myanmarese

best to mind our business and make sympathetic noises when these guys fall into deep holes that they have dug for themselves

if a maiden like lanka runs off with a much married buzurg like the cheeni, why should we get our knickers all twisted.

na unse shaadi karna hai, na uski shaadi karna hai

[Sumeet]

None of them will agree. Their elites loathe India.

Karan I think if we grow dharmically, economically & militarily they will come on their own accord. India is only a natural destination for them. Otherwise growing China will eat them raw and spit them out naked. We need to have very big financial muscle to integrate them into our economy and absorb the shock without impacting our own growth trajectory. It may take another decade for India to reach that level. But in reality besides economy and military, its return of dharmic civilization in India which will draw their masses towards us. Their elites from 70's, 80's & 90's may not be around or will have less of influence then. The ones from 2000s/2010s and after we will somehow have to get them into our fold. We will have to cultivate new elite class (2020+) in these countries that is dharmically attached to new India.

Think how much are our own elite attached to dharmic India ? Their elites are no different than ours. If we want to pursue this plan it will take lots of preparations and preliminary steps before actual mission can begin. It will be dharmic spirit which will form bedrock of integration and not mere economy & elimination of current international boundaries.

However, actual integration into Indian fabric and nationalism will take few more decades.