Bharat Rakshak

Atmavik wrote:

rsingh wrote:In the end Bojo managed to get a press conference with Modi ji. That is a big achievement for him.

its better to have leaders like Bojo who will occasionally make a fool of themselves rather than a 'zelensky or kejru'

kit wrote:

Atmavik wrote:

its better to have leaders like Bojo who will occasionally make a fool of themselves rather than a 'zelensky or kejru'

uk pm is having a bad time in uk .. so

titash wrote:

Cyrano wrote:Agree, "global mobility of talent" I keep hearing often from our otherwise excellent MEA Jaishankar always sounded dissonant to me. We need to transition to "becoming a global magnet of talent" mentality in the next few years. When talented students or high skilled workers queue up in front of Indian consulates, we'd have truly arrived once again.

There are some benefits to GMOT:

1) foreign exchange remittances (substantial)

2) the average Joe gets familiar with Indians, and develops a sense of their capabilities, their non aggressive demeanor, and gets familiar with their culture and perhaps some intermarriage etc.

3) Builds an economic dependency. No US company today will get anywhere without India based offshoring today. Most firms are too invested to decouple overnight

Cyrano wrote: Agree, this is our long lasting export. The downside is India pays for this talent and their further studies and the host country benefits for years if not decades from their lifelong output specially in high end work and R&D.

'UK Has Set Up Anti-Extremist Task Force To Help India'

Saam Daam Dand Bhed

Cyrano wrote:
Agree, this is our long lasting export. The downside is India pays for this talent and their further studies and the host country benefits for years if not decades from their lifelong output specially in high end work and R&D. With 1.4 billion people, perhaps we can afford this to some extent. If all this talent came back, we currently don't have the capacity and investments to benefit from their talent as much as their host countries do. Thats why I said we need to transition out of this model in future, not stop it completely today.

Monsieur Cyrano how do we transition out of this model. Appreciate a long term view.
Just back from India and there are aspect of our fabric that need deep societal change for some of what you say to happen.

Just back from India and there are aspect of our fabric that need deep societal change for some of what you say to happen.

Palki Sharma Upadhyay gets you a report.

After partygate & a tax scandal, UK's Finance Minister Rishi Sunak is facing another controversy.

A pandemic relief scheme he introduced has become the victim of fraud.

The British govt has lost £17 Billion.

Vaiseshika Sutra of Kanada Muni:
वेगः निमित्तविशेषात कर्मणो जायते |Every object will remain at rest or in uniform motion in a straight line unless compelled to change its state by the action of an external force.
वेगः निमित्तापेक्षात कर्मणो जायते नियतदिक क्रियाप्रबन्धहेतु |In an inertial reference frame, the vector sum of the forces F on an object is equal to the mass m of that object multiplied by the acceleration a of the object: F = ma
वेगः संयोगविशेषविरोधी |That if two objects A and B collide in an isolated system, the total momentum of the two objects before the collision is equal to the total momentum of the two objects after the collision
वेगः संयोगविशेषविरोधी |Whether leaf falls on thorn or thorn falls on leaf effect is same

Inflation will top 10% by the end of the year, the highest rate since 1982, the Bank of England warned today.

It also said the UK risks sliding recession due to higher energy prices, as it presented one of the most negative outlooks many in the City can remember.

The Bank offered the glum assesment as it put up interest rates for the fourth time in a row.

Inflation is forecast to peak at 10%, up from a prior estimate of 8%, due to soaring energy and commodity prices that will deliver a historic hit to family incomes and company profits.

“Household disposable income is projected to fall in 2022 by the second largest amount since records began in 1964,” the Bank said in its May Monetary Policy Report.


Policymakers warned company profits would be squeezed and unemployment was likely to climb to 5.5% in the coming years. At best, economic growth will flat line in the years ahead. The Bank expects the economy to shrink by 0.25% next year.

Kallum Pickering at Berenberg said: “If we are unlucky, the UK is already in the early stage of a recession.”

The Bank of England said there was little it could do to prevent the growth crunch and its job was to focus on inflation.

Rates today went from 0.75% to 1%, a 13-year high.

Three of the nine strong Monetary Policy Committee -- Jonathan Haskell, Michael Saunders and Catherine Mann – voted to raise rates even faster to 1.25%.

Yael Selfin, Chief Economist at KPMG UK, said: “Weakening economic growth makes it harder for the Bank to orchestrate a smooth return of inflation to target, with the risk that a steep rise in rates triggers an unnecessary recession just as price pressures ease.

“A tight labour market will be a key concern for the MPC this year, as it could translate into further pressures on pay.”

In March, UK inflation hit a 30-year high of 7% as food and energy prices jump.

Many in the City think the Bank was too slow to act on rates, not beginning to move them up from crisis-level lows of 0.1% until December.

The Bank is supposed to hit an inflation target of 2%, but was initially sanguine about exceeding that, insisting inflation would pass by the summer. That now seems unlikely.

@ruchirsharma_1

The British did so in India and Sri Lanka too. As proudly reported by an ex-officer of the British Army,

“We used to have a great sport in India going out after crocodiles with Hindu babies as bait.”

These reptiles would be tempted to devour “a delicate morsel of a brown baby.”

g.sarkar wrote:I vaguely remember I came across this (crocodile and babies) in the writings of Swami Vivekananda, when he was in the US.
Gautam

SriKumar wrote:

g.sarkar wrote:I vaguely remember I came across this (crocodile and babies) in the writings of Swami Vivekananda, when he was in the US.
Gautam

Vivekananda said that missionaries to India came back and told the Americans that Hindus fed their babies to crocodiles. In his public speeches, reporters asked Vivekananda about it and he had to debunk this outrageous story repeatedly, as something completely manufactured.
The news item linked by Primus casts a different light on how this story came to be about.
I have to believe that if something like this is true there would be reports of similar behavior by the Brits in Africa as well.

British Huntsmen Used To Rent Sri Lankan Babies for Crocodile Bait
A native baby’s life value was less than a dollar

From 1796 to 1948, the island of Sri Lanka, formerly called Ceylon, was under the British Empire’s ruling. During the nineteenth century, news reports circulated in Great Britain about a famous sport that European huntsmen could get addicted to in the South Asia region. That sport was crocodile hunting.

It became a famous sport as crocodile skin during that era became an in-demand raw material for producing accessories. However, what made this sport extremely troubling was the reports that native babies were used to lure these dangerous crocodiles.

suryag wrote:Can Modi ji announce food aid of 10 million theplas/murukku/sesame ladoos/roasted poha to the Brits, these are ready to eat and do not need to be cooked or frozen.

suryag wrote:Can Modi ji announce food aid of 10 million theplas/murukku/sesame ladoos/roasted poha to the Brits, these are ready to eat and do not need to be cooked or frozen.

suryag wrote:Can Modi ji announce food aid of 10 million theplas/murukku/sesame ladoos/roasted poha to the Brits, these are ready to eat and do not need to be cooked or frozen.

vimal wrote:

suryag wrote:Can Modi ji announce food aid of 10 million theplas/murukku/sesame ladoos/roasted poha to the Brits, these are ready to eat and do not need to be cooked or frozen.

FCI has enough 1947 vintage grain that she can give to the brishits. Put in some dalda ghee from same period and all set.