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Re: Modi 3.0 - Bharat
Posted: 01 Jul 2025 20:59
by chetak
Rare earth elements found in Telangana coal mines, search expands nationwide: Report
N Balram, Chairman and Managing Director of Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL), told CNBC-TV18 that government-backed studies by the Non-ferrous Materials Technology Development Centre (NFTDC) have found 1 kg of Scandium and Strontium in every 15 tons of clay at the Sathupalli and Ramagundam open-cast mines. He added that the supply of these elements from both mines is expected to start in August
While Scandium is used in aircraft components, fuel cells and high-performance sports goods, Strontium has applications in alloys, ferrite ceramic magnets, medicines, vacuum systems, and cathode-ray tubes.
https://www.financialexpress.com/busine ... t-3898014/
Re: Modi 3.0 - Bharat
Posted: 01 Jul 2025 22:20
by Amber G.
Historic decision today for private sector industries and startups by the Cabinet !
The Union Cabinet, under the leadership of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi ji, has approved the Research Development & Innovation (RDI) Scheme with ₹1 lakh crore fund (Rs 20000 allocated in this year’s budget). It is a bold vision to transform India into a tech-driven, innovation-powered economy on the road to Viksit Bharat by 2047.

Re: Modi 3.0 - Bharat
Posted: 01 Jul 2025 22:26
by Amber G.
There were a few posts about REE's and its importance for India in other dhagas. For example in
, in nuclear dhaga >
Re: Modi 3.0 - Bharat
Posted: 02 Jul 2025 16:35
by chetak
tissue paper doesn't know that there is Wellington in India, where some of the best officers of Indian Armed Forces are trained
Field Marshal Sam Bahadur is buried in the Parsi Zoroastrian Cemetery in Udhagamandalam, Wellington (Ooty), Tamil Nadu, adjacent to his wife's grave

Re: Modi 3.0 - Bharat
Posted: 02 Jul 2025 17:36
by drnayar
chetak wrote: ↑01 Jul 2025 20:59
Rare earth elements found in Telangana coal mines, search expands nationwide: Report
N Balram, Chairman and Managing Director of Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL), told CNBC-TV18 that government-backed studies by the Non-ferrous Materials Technology Development Centre (NFTDC) have found 1 kg of Scandium and Strontium in every 15 tons of clay at the Sathupalli and Ramagundam open-cast mines. He added that the supply of these elements from both mines is expected to start in August
While Scandium is used in aircraft components, fuel cells and high-performance sports goods, Strontium has applications in alloys, ferrite ceramic magnets, medicines, vacuum systems, and cathode-ray tubes.
https://www.financialexpress.com/busine ... t-3898014/
brittanica says : An economically viable source should contain more than 5 percent rare earths, unless they are mined with another product—e.g., zirconium, uranium, or iron—which allows economic recovery of ore bodies with concentrations of as little as 0.5 percent by weight
Re: Modi 3.0 - Bharat
Posted: 02 Jul 2025 18:07
by chetak
drnayar wrote: ↑02 Jul 2025 17:36
brittanica says : An economically viable source should contain more than 5 percent rare earths, unless they are mined with another product—e.g., zirconium, uranium, or iron—which allows economic recovery of ore bodies with concentrations of as little as 0.5 percent by weight
drnayar ji,
let's not be picky.
If this is the form in which it is available, let's simply go for it, until a better alternate shows up
britannica is not the authority on anything. What with the internet dominating, this tome belongs on the shelves onlee.
May make for a bit of light and casual reading on a wet sunday afternoon, if at all.
“For the want of a nail the shoe was lost,
For the want of a shoe the horse was lost,
For the want of a horse the rider was lost,
For the want of a rider the battle was lost,
For the want of a battle the kingdom was lost,
And all for the want of a horseshoe-nail.”
Re: Modi 3.0 - Bharat
Posted: 03 Jul 2025 19:10
by bala
PM Modi gets his 24th Global Honour in Ghana. Here's a list of all the honours he has received till date:
https://x.com/Defencematrix1/status/1940641922814705778
Re: Modi 3.0 - Bharat
Posted: 03 Jul 2025 21:59
by chetak
British colonial settlers committed genocide on #Aborigines in #Australia.
Four-year investigation by Royal Commission finds mass killings & land theft of indigenous Australians.
Calls for financial compensation.
This strengthens case for reparations for colonialism & slavery

Re: Modi 3.0 - Bharat
Posted: 03 Jul 2025 22:14
by chetak
Re: Modi 3.0 - Bharat
Posted: 03 Jul 2025 22:59
by chetak
VI@WA
After a petition called Mohandas Gandhi racist, his statue was removed from the University of Ghana
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/20 ... ity-ghana/
Can we really blame African black community?
so pujya bhopu's pecking order was:
gora
mullah
hindu
kaala
Weirdly, that is still what congress party follows today
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denzil_Ibbetson
Re: Modi 3.0 - Bharat
Posted: 04 Jul 2025 04:07
by Amber G.
Prime Minister Modiji ,
in an unprecedented gesture, was welcomed by Trinidad and Tobago PM Kamala Persad Bissessar and the entire cabinet of Trinidad & Tobago. 38 T&T Ministers and 4 MPs were at the airport to receive PM Modi. PM Modi to receive highest honour of T&T soon.

Re: Modi 3.0 - Bharat
Posted: 04 Jul 2025 23:58
by A_Gupta
“During his address, PM Modi also announced that individuals of Indian origin in Trinidad and Tobago, up to the sixth generation, will now be eligible for Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) cards, granting them the right to live and work in India without any restrictions.
"Today, I'm happy to announce that OCI cards will be given to the sixth generation of the Indian diaspora in Trinidad and Tobago. We aren't just connected by blood or surname. You are connected by belonging. India welcomes, and India embraces you!" he said.”
Re: Modi 3.0 - Bharat
Posted: 05 Jul 2025 00:58
by Yayavar
Chetakji, this doesn't hold much water.
1893 - Gandhi was 24. Even Savarkar, refers to AIT. He makes the point that after 2.5k years there is enough mixture in I dia. This in his book Hindutva. At the time that is what people had access to and believed. Rahul sankrityayan or gokhale all try to reason this in their writings.
Re: Modi 3.0 - Bharat
Posted: 05 Jul 2025 03:06
by Vayutuvan
@Yayavar ji, the sticking point for Ghana students was not AIT but Gandhi being racist. MKG considered Africans inferior to Indians. Classical racism that.
Re: Modi 3.0 - Bharat
Posted: 05 Jul 2025 04:27
by Yayavar
@Vayu A 24 year old clerk, narrowly focused on his own ilk, wrote a prejudiced letter. No doubt about it. He even used AIT to plead equivalence to the Anglos. I am suggesting that the words of the 24 year old rookie clerk do not define him. Are there later statements?
Re: Modi 3.0 - Bharat
Posted: 05 Jul 2025 12:57
by chetak
Yayavar wrote: ↑05 Jul 2025 04:27
@Vayu A 24 year old clerk, narrowly focused on his own ilk, wrote a prejudiced letter. No doubt about it. He even used AIT to plead equivalence to the Anglos.
I am suggesting that the words of the 24 year old rookie clerk do not define him. Are there later statements?
Yayavar ji,
The point being made is that ghundhy agreed with and endorsed his views, the rest is mere window dressing
He implied that Indians were higher than the kaffirs and lower than the britshits, and ghundhy endorsed those deeply racist views unreservedly
why did he poke his unwanted nose into the khilafat movement and how did that stooopidity help the beleaguered majority who were anyway being oppressed by the jihadis and the britshits. WHO were the ungrateful scum that it did benefit and why was he so keen to do so when he was told by so many of his well wishers to drop the matter and move on
when ghundhy was booted out of the first class compartment in south africa, do you know what he did thereafter. ..... ...
do you know why he is called the "stretcher bearer of the empire" in so many quarters
India existed aeons before ghundy was born, so it did not need a "father", so which country was he the najais father of and the only one birthed during his lifetime was on the eastern and western wings of India
And finally, what are you talking about when the AIT is still being "taught" in India, despite being universally acknowledged as a fraudulent and self serving theory designed by britshit imperialist scum to validate, and vindicate their presence in India and to justify the concept of the superior race and defend their right to over India.
Why did he suddenly move back to India, (or was he transplanted by his venomous and cunning masters with devious and malevolent intent) and how did he so suddenly bloom in the political arena of those days, especially when there were already far better leaders than himself handling the freedom struggle quite well
Ye kis khet ki mooli tha
Ghundhy never differed with this view, neither in his writings nor his public expositions where all he did was glorify the jihadis, and his colonial masters, and constantly demonize the majority. Who was he to agree to Indian soldiers fighting for the britshits in both the world wars, where many many tens of thousands died for a country that wasn't theirs and didn't "have a dog in the fight"
did he even once mention the dead and wounded, the very people he had callously sent out to die, without even asking them if they wanted to go, all for his petty political gains.
Did he get us freedom or did he simply grab the victory that was crafted and carved out by subsash chandra bose and his INA, where the britshits ran scared, petrified of the violence that would have been unleashed on them, had matters gotten out of hand after the Naval mutiny gave them a taste of what was to come if they stayed on
So, what exactly was his role and who benefited most of all.
It certainly wasn't India
It's always the "Cui bono?" analysis which leads you to the truth
Gandhi suggested to British Viceroy Lord Mountbatten that India’s unity (during partition) might be saved if Jinnah were made PM of India and India’s cabinet was made exclusively Muslim. Mountbatten, taken slightly aback, politely told the Mahatma he would think about it, knowing full well that he wouldn’t!!
- Excerpt from Sam Dalrymple’s ‘Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia’
This is while Gandhi kept a small statue of the three wise monkeys representing "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil" and preached non-violence to Hindus!!
And, look where it got us finally: Saddled with a christian constitution in a Hindu Nation
Re: Modi 3.0 - Bharat
Posted: 05 Jul 2025 13:59
by chetak
-Ghana has world’s 10th largest lithium reserves
-Trinidad & Tobago hydrocarbons
-Argentina 2nd largest lithium, 2nd largest shale gas
-Namibia 3rd largest uranium reserves
#India’s PM Modi is visiting all countries in addition to #BRICS2025

Re: Modi 3.0 - Bharat
Posted: 05 Jul 2025 14:35
by SRajesh
^^Wonder what we are stabilising vis-a-vis trade in these 5 Nation visit!!
Argentina ??Uranium
Ghana ??firming up some sweet crude and Gold??
Trinidad again Oil and firming up on ?Ethnic contacts
Namibia Hmm Uranium again
Re: Modi 3.0 - Bharat
Posted: 05 Jul 2025 16:18
by chetak
Re: Modi 3.0 - Bharat
Posted: 05 Jul 2025 17:54
by A_Gupta
From my blog:
On March 31, 1947, Gandhi suggested to Viceroy Lord Mountbatten that Jinnah and the Muslim League be given the opportunity to form a Cabinet for India, the Congress would not be in the government but would cooperate. Mountbatten was taken aback by this, but this was not a new proposal. It has been proposed in 1940 and 1942, in 1946, and possibly on one other occasion. {If we believe Wali Khan, Gandhi had made such an offer from prison in a letter to Jinnah in 1943, which caused some anxiety to the British that Jinnah might accept.}
…
…
Incidentally, if we believe V.P. Menon, Jinnah was wary of such proposals, because he was afraid that the Congress would genuinely cooperate with the Muslim League and that would put paid to the Pakistan scheme.
The Viceroy recorded in the same note, that per Nehru, “ Mr Gandhi was immensely keen on a unified India, at any immediate cost, for the benefit of the long term future......”.
This Sam Dalrymple - does he mention any of the above?
Re: Modi 3.0 - Bharat
Posted: 05 Jul 2025 18:06
by A_Gupta
Google AI summary:
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has spoken and written on several occasions about Mahatma Gandhi and his impact, emphasizing various aspects of his life and teachings.
PM Modi's key points regarding Mahatma Gandhi:
Gandhi as a transformative leader: Modi has highlighted Gandhi's role in awakening the nation and fostering a mass movement for India's independence, driven by the principles of truth and non-violence.
Emphasis on "Jan Andolan" (People's Movement): He emphasizes how Gandhi empowered ordinary people and integrated them into the freedom struggle, viewing every task as a vital contribution.
Inspiration for his own initiatives: PM Modi has stated that Gandhi's vision inspires his own initiatives, particularly those focused on involving the common man and fostering "Jan Bhagidari" (people's participation).
Promoting Gandhi's legacy: He has expressed the importance of making Gandhi's legacy known globally, stating that the world did not fully grasp Gandhi's significance until films were made about him. This comment, however, sparked some debate and criticism.
Focus on cleanliness, self-reliance, and rural empowerment: Modi has also pointed to Gandhi's thoughts on cleanliness, self-reliance, and empowering rural India as continuing sources of inspiration.
Sharing Gandhi's values globally: PM Modi has aimed to share Gandhi's values of peace, non-violence, and simplicity with the world, according to MyGovIndia.
Personal Connection: He has even shared that he keeps a personal diary featuring Gandhi's quotes, suggesting a personal connection to his teachings.
Points of Note and Discussion:
While Modi frequently invokes Gandhi, some commentators suggest that Gandhi's values might not align with certain aspects of Modi's political ideology.
Modi's statement about Gandhi's global recognition being linked to the film "Gandhi" has drawn criticism, with some arguing that Gandhi's influence was already well-established internationally.
Re: Modi 3.0 - Bharat
Posted: 05 Jul 2025 19:06
by Supratik
Maharashtra should declare Sanskrit as the third language and end the language controversy. Many if not most northern states have chosen Sanskrit as third language.
Re: Modi 3.0 - Bharat
Posted: 05 Jul 2025 20:48
by chetak
A_Gupta wrote: ↑05 Jul 2025 17:54
From my blog:
On March 31, 1947, Gandhi suggested to Viceroy Lord Mountbatten that Jinnah and the Muslim League be given the opportunity to form a Cabinet for India, the Congress would not be in the government but would cooperate. Mountbatten was taken aback by this, but this was not a new proposal. It has been proposed in 1940 and 1942, in 1946, and possibly on one other occasion. {If we believe Wali Khan, Gandhi had made such an offer from prison in a letter to Jinnah in 1943, which caused some anxiety to the British that Jinnah might accept.}
…
…
Incidentally, if we believe V.P. Menon, Jinnah was wary of such proposals, because he was afraid that the Congress would genuinely cooperate with the Muslim League and that would put paid to the Pakistan scheme.
The Viceroy recorded in the same note, that per Nehru, “ Mr Gandhi was immensely keen on a unified India, at any immediate cost, for the benefit of the long term future......”.
This Sam Dalrymple - does he mention any of the above?
So, A_Gupta ji, who is to be believed then....... .......
everyone or no one
I know what many people believe and one tends to agree with their views
These is overwhelming evidence for that belief to have taken serious root, from different authors, and from different countries
Collusion is statistically impossible, coordination is out of the question, and cooperation is inconceivable, given that the writings emanate from different geographies and time lines spread over multiple decades and continents
just because one is now willing to go against the common (and hypocritical) view, it does not mean that Modi ji is always right but what is to be appreciated and expected is that political correctness still rules. Any occasion can be cynically sanctified by a mouthful of meaningless ghundhyisms to set the mood and evoke a sense of intellectual and spiritual flourish. No one takes it seriously, but at the same time no one will dare to criticize it either. It is the perfect political tadka that goes well with politicians of every hue, flavor, caste, creed, and taste, be it left, center, or right wing, and it easily accommodates urban naxals and toxic woke extremists of the desert cults and similar persuasions
what other successful politico will espouse a contrary view, if he is to succeed at his profession, every one will have to say: peace and goodwill on earth, but immediately after that they will very quietly authorize the dropping of bunker busters on their "friends and allies"
That BS about ahimsa and turning the other cheek has never worked and it never will, but it does make for good copy and media hype
Real politik, in its essence, often boils down to saying one thing and then doing just the opposite.
Remember what Dr Ambedkar said: ‘Gandhi’s politics is hollow and noisy, full of treachery and deceit’: This is what Dr Ambedkar said about the ‘mahatma’
(from the article ‘Is Gandhi A Mahatma?’ Dr Ambedkar wrote for a Marathi Magazine Chittra.
It was published in its Dipavali Special Number, J 938.
It is also available on page 66 of ‘Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar – Writings and speeches volume 17 part II‘ available on Ministry of External Affairs website.)
https://www.mea.gov.in/Images/CPV/Volume17_Part_II.pdf
VI@ op India

Re: Modi 3.0 - Bharat
Posted: 05 Jul 2025 23:19
by Amber G.
Wishing Indian team all the best as they head towards Dubai, UAE for the 57th International Chemistry Olympiad from July 5-14, 2025!

Picture credit: TIFR/HBCE
Sharing picture of the team in in HBCSE labs to prepare for the IChO to be held at Dubai
Re: Modi 3.0 - Bharat
Posted: 05 Jul 2025 23:24
by Amber G.
Re: Modi 3.0 - Bharat
Posted: 05 Jul 2025 23:45
by Vayutuvan
Yayavar wrote: ↑05 Jul 2025 04:27
@Vayu A 24 year old clerk, narrowly focused on his own ilk, wrote a prejudiced letter. No doubt about it. He even used AIT to plead equivalence to the Anglos. I am suggesting that the words of the 24 year old rookie clerk do not define him. Are there later statements?
He was admitted to bar 2 years before in London. He was in Africa in 1893. American Civil War ended in 1865. I read somewhere that Lincoln was one of his role models. Given that he was a lawyer, he would have read enough legal history about slavery. He still held those beliefs when he was 24.
Re: Modi 3.0 - Bharat
Posted: 06 Jul 2025 07:27
by Yayavar
Vayutuvan wrote: ↑05 Jul 2025 23:45
Yayavar wrote: ↑05 Jul 2025 04:27
@Vayu A 24 year old clerk, narrowly focused on his own ilk, wrote a prejudiced letter. No doubt about it. He even used AIT to plead equivalence to the Anglos. I am suggesting that the words of the 24 year old rookie clerk do not define him. Are there later statements?
He was admitted to bar 2 years before in London. He was in Africa in 1893. American Civil War ended in 1865. I read somewhere that Lincoln was one of his role models. Given that he was a lawyer, he would have read enough legal history about slavery. He still held those beliefs when he was 24.
Yes, and the year is 1893. I am not arguing that the letter is not racist - he also believes the mythical Aryan race. But then didn't he evolve to have more balanced views? In this forum one has witnessed multiple veterans talk of how their opinions changed from being 'aman' to jingos on joining BRF. People learn and evolve. Or,.did your egress from college fully formed? So unless he kept his racist views in later years I would rather oppose this characterization even in Ghana.
Would be interesting to see what Mandela or other SA leaders thought of Gandhi. Gandhi did narrowly focus on the Indian condition in SA though.
Re: Modi 3.0 - Bharat
Posted: 06 Jul 2025 07:44
by Yayavar
chetak wrote: ↑05 Jul 2025 12:57
Yayavar wrote: ↑05 Jul 2025 04:27
@Vayu A 24 year old clerk, narrowly focused on his own ilk, wrote a prejudiced letter. No doubt about it. He even used AIT to plead equivalence to the Anglos.
I am suggesting that the words of the 24 year old rookie clerk do not define him. Are there later statements?
Yayavar ji,
The point being made is that ghundhy agreed with and endorsed his views, the rest is mere window dressing
He implied that Indians were higher than the kaffirs and lower than the britshits, and ghundhy endorsed those deeply racist views unreservedly
why did he poke his unwanted nose into the khilafat movement and how did that stooopidity help the beleaguered majority who were anyway being oppressed by the jihadis and the britshits. WHO were the ungrateful scum that it did benefit and why was he so keen to do so when he was told by so many of his well wishers to drop the matter and move on
when ghundhy was booted out of the first class compartment in south africa, do you know what he did thereafter. ..... ...
do you know why he is called the "stretcher bearer of the empire" in so many quarters
India existed aeons before ghundy was born, so it did not need a "father", so which country was he the najais father of and the only one birthed during his lifetime was on the eastern and western wings of India
And finally, what are you talking about when the AIT is still being "taught" in India, despite being universally acknowledged as a fraudulent and self serving theory designed by britshit imperialist scum to validate, and vindicate their presence in India and to justify the concept of the superior race and defend their right to over India.
Why did he suddenly move back to India, (or was he transplanted by his venomous and cunning masters with devious and malevolent intent) and how did he so suddenly bloom in the political arena of those days, especially when there were already far better leaders than himself handling the freedom struggle quite well
Ye kis khet ki mooli tha
Ghundhy never differed with this view, neither in his writings nor his public expositions where all he did was glorify the jihadis, and his colonial masters, and constantly demonize the majority. Who was he to agree to Indian soldiers fighting for the britshits in both the world wars, where many many tens of thousands died for a country that wasn't theirs and didn't "have a dog in the fight"
did he even once mention the dead and wounded, the very people he had callously sent out to die, without even asking them if they wanted to go, all for his petty political gains.
Did he get us freedom or did he simply grab the victory that was crafted and carved out by subsash chandra bose and his INA, where the britshits ran scared, petrified of the violence that would have been unleashed on them, had matters gotten out of hand after the Naval mutiny gave them a taste of what was to come if they stayed on
So, what exactly was his role and who benefited most of all.
It certainly wasn't India
It's always the "Cui bono?" analysis which leads you to the truth
Gandhi suggested to British Viceroy Lord Mountbatten that India’s unity (during partition) might be saved if Jinnah were made PM of India and India’s cabinet was made exclusively Muslim. Mountbatten, taken slightly aback, politely told the Mahatma he would think about it, knowing full well that he wouldn’t!!
- Excerpt from Sam Dalrymple’s ‘Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia’
This is while Gandhi kept a small statue of the three wise monkeys representing "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil" and preached non-violence to Hindus!!
And, look where it got us finally: Saddled with a christian constitution in a Hindu Nation
Chetak, that is a long list to address. I am aware of the events.In any case it is the letter - do you have the complete original - that is the subject of my response. He was entering the fray to remove the restrictions on Indians. He chose an approach that we certainly find objectionable and prob any others did too. Did he continue to be prejudiced against the Africans? Stretcher bearer brigade was not racist, khilafat was not. One may disagree or consider these reprehensible even, but that is not racist.
Another facet which the PM also follows - Gandhi name is a kind of soft power. Use it. Gandhi the person had many flaws and made many errors but that doesn't mean that soft power is unreal. So why let some student, probably 24 and angry, spoil it. No need to defend the letter though which I am not.