Tiwary says in his book, Ramachandaran creates a counter-current, especially when the prevalent India-China discourse is set within the binaries of a zero-sum game
Son Excellence Subrahmanyam Jaishankar a parlé à la Débat de la 78ème session de l'Assemblée générale.... le dignitaire a expliqué, en conclusion, que son pays est passé du non-alignement au « Vishwa Mitra » (un ami du monde).
SK 19.3.24 ”Intiassa asuu noin kuudesosa ihmiskunnasta. Se miten siellä eletään ja miten kansalaisia hallinnoidaan ja miten yhteiskunta organisoidaan, se on koko maailman normaali. Pohjoiseurooppalainen tyyli on pientä kikkailua siihen verrattuna”, väitöskirjatutkija Matias Castrén sanoo.
Att vara inflytelserik på YouTube är avgörande för Modi när Indien förbereder sig för allmänna val senare i år, där 73-åringen strävar efter en tredje mandatperiod i rad. Den Google-ägda videodelningsplattformen har visat sig vara ett starkt verktyg för politiska budskap i landet, delvis på grund av sin stora användarbas: YouTube har 467 miljoner användare, medan Facebook har 314 miljoner och X (tidigare Twitter) har 27 miljoner, enligt den digitala insiktsplattformen DataReportal.
The genesis of the problems faced by the library, which is named after the legendary freedom fighter and scholar Lala Hardayal ( 1884- 1939) – which has a unique collection of more than 170000 books in Hindi, English, Urdu, Arabic, Persian and Sanskrit. ..one of the few Libraries in the world with a collection of at least 8000 rare books ((https://amritmahotsav.nic.in/district-reopsitory-detail.htm?2771)) – has its roots in the bickering among people who are supposed to manage the institution. What one learns that the intransigence shown by someone owning allegiance to Hindutva Supremacist viewpoint has precipitated this unforeseen situation (https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/should-i-have-made-your-wife-cm-instead-of-rabri-lalu-yadavs-jab-at-nityanand-rai/cid/1980987)
May be as you read these lines, wiser sense might have prevailed there and the library might be slowly limping back to normalcy.
M. K. Bhadrakumar July 6, 2023 To be out of sync with the contemporary life anywhere at anytime becomes indeed a despairing situation
Det sorgligaste är att Modi inte verkar vara medveten om Shanghai-andan, även om hans regering av en slump kom att skörda den tidigare Manmohan Singh-regeringens utrikespolitiska initiativ att söka medlemskap i SCO för Indien. Modis tal på de multilaterala plattformarna har vid det här laget fått ett välbekant drag - att rikta spydigheter genom insinuationer mot Pakistan och Kina. De entusiasmerar de antimuslimska och sinofobiska lobbygrupperna i Indien, men de kommer inte att ha någon användning för SCO-kollektivet.
James Meadway , Jan 30, 2023. Are we seeing the collapse of the dollar-dominated global economy?
Financial shocks in recent years are forcing the global monetary architecture to change, say some economists
Nature, July 2019. -- A giant data store quietly being built in India could free vast swathes of science for computer analysis — but is it legal? A giant data store quietly being built in India could free vast swathes of science for computer analysis —but is it legal?
Over the past year, Malamud has — without asking publishers — teamed up with Indian researchers to build a gigantic store of text and images extracted from 73 million journal articles dating from 1847 up to the present day. The cache, which is still being created, will be kept on a 576-terabyte storage facility at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi. “This is not every journal article ever written, but it’s a lot,” Malamud says. It’s comparable to the size of the core collection in the Web of Science database, for instance. Malamud and his JNU collaborator, bioinformatician Andrew Lynn, call their facility the JNU data depot.
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Prabir Purkayastha26 Dec 2020
Three academic publishers are asking for blocking of Sci-Hub and Libgen in India, two websites who provide free downloads of research publications and books to research scholars and students. The three—Elsevier Ltd., Wiley India Pvt. Ltd., American Chemical Society—have filed a petition in Delhi High Court, which is now scheduled to be heard next on January 6.
in recent years IP Professional has gained significant role in innovation industry. Main task of IP professionals is to protect Intellectual property.
"In recent years IP Professional has gained significant role in innovation industry. Main task of IP professionals is to protect Intellectual property. IBM recently reached a target 7000 patents with the help of these professionals."
Mishi Chowdhary: It's perfectly possible for a contact tracing app to help us fight COVID-19 while taking our right to privacy seriously. That is what we should demand.
To sum up India’s current situation, the government can order its citizens to use any piece of software without taking any responsibility for its accuracy, security or privacy architecture; it can eliminate the entire system of standards and architecture of the internet by moving fast, breaking things and as its an emergency, citizens can never ask for any review or rights but must feel very proud about this feat.
BAS by By Frank O’Donnell, Alexander K. Bollfrass, February 26, 2020
India is pursuing nuclear-armed submarines and ICBMs. It could save money, bolster its global image, and still credibly deter its rivals by doubling down on its existing missile forces instead.
Prabir Purkayastha
30 Jun 2017
Today, algorithms decide who should get a job, which part of a city needs to be developed, who should get into a college, and in the case of a crime, what should be the sentence. It is not super intelligence of robots that is the threat to life as we know it, but machines taking over thousands decisions that are critical to us and deciding social outcomes.
Locally known as Rampal power project, a joint venture between India and Bangladesh, it has created tremendous resentment in the affected areas. In a chat with Nidheesh J. Villatt, Professor Muhammad says the project will destroy the Sundarbans. He says Indian and Bangladeshi big business would make a huge profit at the cost of the camaraderie between the people of two countries.
By Fu Xiaoqiang Source:Global Times Published: 2016-6-16
"As long as all NSG members reach a consensus over how a non-NPT member could join the NSG, and India promises to comply with stipulations over the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons while sticking to its policy of independence and self-reliance, China could support New Delhi’s path toward the club."
When 40-year-old Faisal Khan, a devout Muslim, decided to revive an organisation, that had been active in the pre-Independence days in the field of social reform, about five years back, he had something different in mind. It was serving the humanity through propagating the message of peace and love and bringing together the Hindus and Muslims in the country.
Parminder Jeet Singh, February 13, 2016
NET NEUTRALITY : As most public services go digital, it makes sense to ensure access to them free of data charges, as a citizen's right.
In its ruling on “Prohibition of Discriminatory Tariffs for Data Services”, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has held that data services over the Internet are a commodity business whereby data cannot be discriminated on the basis of the content it carries. It also asserted its regulatory control over data services, which would be provided as a regulated public utility.
This is a historic decision setting a high bar for maintaining complete Net Neutrality, and thus sanctifying the Internet in the Indian law, as a model of equal and non-discriminatory communication, information-exchange and networking.
The trauma being experienced by Sundar’s men in the control room of KKNPP-1 are not teething troubles of a new technology. There are enough evidence to show that the reactors at Kudankulam are made of counterfeit and sub-standard equipment and spares rendered surplus due to post-Chernobyl cancellation of two dozen VVER-1000 reactors in Eastern and Central Europe. As Gopalakrishnan said, “a very large amount of public funds have been spent on this reactor, with very little benefit accrued to the people in return. The reactor is known to have suffered continuous and unprecedented problems during the construction, erection and commissioning phases as well as during the present initial operation period till date.”
In the recent past, there have been instances of large scale corruptions involving politicians, administrators, industrialists and scientists and technologists, even frontier-science driven government enterprises like space research. In all these scams, all what happens is flow of public assets to private pockets. Not a single child is going to suffer from thyroid cancer or mental retardation and hence we tend to forget these the moment a new scam surfaces, which is a cyclic process in modern times. Nuclear corruption may end up in catastrophe of global level, and the impacts can be trans-generational. India and Russia have enough experts and wise women and men to understand that the dips in the graph above and events since its grid connection reported earlier are worthy of an independent investigation. Fortunately it is possible now as the decisions on Kudankulam are taken at the highest political level and the “Prime Minister Narendra Modi firmly believes that transparency and accountability are the two cornerstones of any pro-people government”
Social networking giant Facebook has added 13 million users in six months to take its user base to 125 million in India, its second-biggest market globally.
“In India, Facebook has 125 million average users (MAU), while the number of mobile MAUs stands at 114 million. On a daily basis, 59 million users in India are accessing Facebook and 53 million are accessing us from their mobile phones,” Facebook head of Products (Facebook Lite) Vijay Shankar told PTI.
Talking about the Facebook Lite app, announced earlier this month, he said the product has been “built ground up for markets like India” where internet speeds are slow.
Facebook Lite will feature all core functions of the standard app like news feed, messaging, photos, links and notifications among others but does not show videos on the news feed.
Mark Zuckerberg is feeling the force of critics who believe his effort to provide Indians with free access to a limited number of internet services hurts India's democracy and violates net neutrality.
The airwaves, the newspapers and even the online space are now saturated with a Rs. 100 crore campaign proclaiming that Internet connectivity for the Indian poor is a gift from Facebook which a few ch
Scientists say nuclear workers, village residents, and children living near mines and factories are falling ill after persistent exposure to unsafe radiation
By Adrian Levy 5:00 am, December 14, 2015
Workers, village residents, and children near India's nuclear-related mines and factories are falling ill at high rates
Make In India: Now government to have its own operating system, may replace Microsoft Windows in future - Aware of the pitfalls of vulnerabilities in its cyberspace following Snowden reports and countless attacks by Chinese hackers on key government websites, Centre has taken a vital step towards having its own operating system (OS) with which it plans to replace all other OSs, including the most popular Microsoft Windows in future.
In a strange twist of irony, the person who was responsible for stalling India's plan to bomb Pakistan's nuclear weapons facilities in 1983 was none other than the father of the Indian nuclear bomb, Raja Ramanna.
The Narendra Modi government signed an agreement with the French company Areva that a report says is 'technically bankrupt' with 'few credible prospects'.
S'ils ne répondent pas à ton appel, marche seul S’ils ont peur et se retournent lâchement face contre mur Ô toi le malchanceux Libère ton esprit et exprime toi seul S’ils se détournent et t’abandonnent au cours de la traversée du désert Ô toi le malchance
Jodi Tor Dak Shune Keu Na Ashe (Bengali: Jodi tor đak shune keu na ashe "If they answer not to thy call") , often shortened to Ekla Cholo Re (Bengali: Êkla Chôlo Re Walk Alone) is a song written by the Nobel prize winning poet Rabindranath Tagore, and is
according to government rules, it is mandatory for parents to submit the child’s birth certificate at the time of school admission. "This creates pressure on the poor parents to buy these certificates from touts who charge a premium. If a daily wager queu
It is because his own Party stopped taking Gandhi seriously that most young people in India grow up thinking of him as a pious crank, used only as a meaningless icon, writes Madhu Purnima Kishwar. (India Together (IT) is an electronic publication devoted
"A fully functioning Gwadar port would be the most strategically devastating ‘pearl’ in China’s chain of naval bases. [...] Pakistan would, by going forward with its Sino-dependant long-term economic plans, become intricately bound to maintaining Chinese
Paths To Knowledge (dot NET): "The 16 January 2010 issue of New Scientist is really interesting as New Scientist admit that they published “non peer reviewed speculations” as if it was science (rather than soothsaying) and that those speculations were tre
"his sexual hang-ups caused him to carry monstrously sexist views" - kolumnisten Connellan, som bl a hävdar , att G godkände hedersmord, citerades av Sven Strandén i Radio Vega 11.2.
Dr. Jayati Ghosh is Professor of Economics and currently also Chairperson at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Educated at Delhi University, Jawaharlal Nehru University and the
Bernard Bigot, Chairman of the French Atomic Energy & Alternative Energies Commission, says France would be happy to work within the framework of India's nuclear liability legislation, and he hopes to ink contracts worth Euro 11 billion for two 1650 MW Eu
MUMBAI: Retired supreme court judge P B Samant, former admiral L Ramdas, retd high court judge B G Kolse-Patil and Vaishali Patil, the Medha Patkar of Konkan, are among those who have been banned from entering Ratnagiri district in view of the `jail bharo
"They asked how a government that professed its inability to resettle even a fraction of the 50 million people who had been displaced by "development" projects was suddenly able to identify 1,40,000 hectares of prime land to give to industrialists for mor
"So the movements against new industrialisation engulfing Eastern India is intimately connected to the war on terror, both because the metals’ apex use is in manufacturing arms, and because the attempt to set up new mining-metals projects is escalating co
Writing about India's booming economic performance and growth potential has become its own cottage industry over the last several years. Indeed, a report out this week predicts that India will become the world's fastest growing economy by 2012 and, by 203
"Madhusree Mukerjee geht dokumentarisch und analytisch vor. Sie zeigt, wie Churchill die eigenwillige »britische Kronkolonie« bekämpfte: indem er Indien währungspolitisch systematisch pauperisierte (britische Kriegskosten inflationär auf Indien abwälzte),
"La fin de l'idée de progrès n'est que l'effet lointain sur les Européens de cet immense soulèvement de l'Asie qui clôt bien sûr la parenthèse de la modernisation, mais qui ouvre aussi à une négociation, de dimension planétaire, sur la nature d'une vie ci
Kalam. Comments GE: "India exploded its first atomic bomb in 1974, usingplutonium produced in a research reactor which wasgiven to India as a gift from the Government of Canada. Canada announced that it was breaking off all nuclear cooperation with India
Friday, Dec. 3, 2010India's first ballistic-missile submarine is slated to be ready for use by 2012, a development that would enable New Delhi for the first time to field land-, air- and sea-based nuclear weapons, Indian navy head Adm. Nirmal Verma said y
* The Lokpal Bill, 2011, was introduced in the Lok Sabha on August 4, 2011Justice. ... The report of the Committee is expected within three months. * The Bill provides for establishment of the Lokpal for inquiring into complaints of corruption agains
Micahel Collins: "[...]for Tagore the nation was distinctively modern and exclusively Western. Its ‘mechanical purpose’ implicates an instrumental rationality in its political and organisational form and the purposeful element of the nation is reified in
kinesisk gas- och oljeutvinning i sydkinesiska sjön samt polymetallic sulphide ore i indiska oceanen. "stratifierade (stratiforma, skiktade) anhopningar av sulfidmineral som fällts ut från hydrotermiska källor på eller under havsbotten, i rikliga förekom
AsianScientist (Sep. 20, 2011) – It is a nuclear clash between New Delhi and Tamil Nadu, plunging India’s nuclear power program into a deeper crisis. The clash was initially triggered by a strong opposition to the proposed French-aided nuclear power plant at Jaitapur in Maharashtra’s Ratnagiri district. On Monday, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, J. Jayalalitha, wrote to PM Manmohan Singh, asking the PM to shelve the Kudankulam atomic power project near Kanyakumari until all the fears and apprehensions of the local population regarding nuclear power were addressed. The first unit of the 1000 MW Kudankulam reactor is expected to become operational later this year.
Among other things, if the United States pressured Burma it would be at odd with India and China, both of which trade with Burma. Once again, a nascent nuclear-weapons program is used as an implement with which to bludgeon states when it serves our purpose such as Iran. But when dealing with it puts the United States at odd with states that it doesn't wish to alienate (further, in the case of China), it's all too willing to turn a blind eye to its nuclear program. Burma no doubt banks on that." Russ Wellen 25 oktober
Colin Hallinan on their Diverging Objectives. "Pakistan and the United States may have profoundly different views of one another, but on at least one issue they agree: slightly over 90 percent of Pakistanis would like U.S. troops to go home, and 62 percent of Americans want an immediate cut in U.S. forces. Common ground in this case seems to be based on a strong dose of common sense."
"As many as 1,000 government services are likely to go online by the end of the current fiscal year. The department of information technology (DIT), under the national e-governance plan (NeGP), is likely to deliver services such as registering births and deaths and accessing land records electronically. The plan will help the government achieve goals that were set as part of a $150 million long-term World Bank loan approved in March to support the national e-governance plan. The targeted number of services is double of what was provided up till now by the DIT. Services that are likely to be offered online include farm updates, commercial taxes, registering on employment exchanges and municipal services, among others." In India, 1000 services / 1 billion people =1 service / 1 million peple?
The global arms trade has grown by nearly a quarter over the last four years, with new growth mainly in poorer countries and India now officially the world's biggest importer of arms, research has revealed. Statistics published on Monday by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute show that demand from emerging economies – in particular India – drove the volume of worldwide arms transfers between 2007 and 2011 to a level 24% higher than in the previous four years. Alongside India the five largest arms importers today are all Asian states, according to the data, prompting fears of an arms race in a region still blighted by deep poverty.
Founded by Siddharth Jonathan, engineering graduate of SVCE Chennai in 2005 and Vijay Krishnan, graduate of IIT Mumbai and student of SBOA, Infoaxe.com acts like a personal web-search engine archiving the personal web-usage of a user such that it throws up more accurate relevant results. Yes, the striking similarities between Infoaxe.com, the recently launched personal search engine and Internet super-power Google are many; there is one striking difference however, unlike the American / Russian origins of Google’s founders; both Infoaxe’s founders hail from India.
The proposed law makes it mandatory that every unsanitary latrine will have to be demolished or converted into sanitary latrines within nine months of the notification of the law. It prohibits any agency or individual from employing manual scavengers and those already in this kind of job — directly or indirectly — will have to be discharged irrespective of any contract, agreement, custom or traditional commitments. The State government will give assistance for conversion of unsanitary latrines into sanitary ones to occupiers of a premise which has more than one owner, but non-receipt of financial assistance will not be a valid reason for continued maintenance or use of an unsanitary latrine, beyond the period of nine months.
BRUSSELS, Feb 15 (Reuters) - Transparency campaigners have hauled the European Union's executive to court for withholding documents about free trade talks with India, intensifying pressure on the bloc to make its policy-making less secretive. The lawsuit, lodged with the EU's second-highest court on Tuesday, accuses the EU Commission of breaking transparency and democracy rules by refusing to disclose to campaigners details of plans shared with EU industry on how to open Indian markets.
S. Anand on Ashis Nandy's recent statements in Outlook India, Feb 11, 2013: "In the US today, even Republicans would not say something so derogatory of all Hispanics, Blacks or First Nation peoples."
Guardian Povertu matters blog 25.2.2013: " It was to challenge this form of south-south co-operation that the Oakland Institute, in partnership with Indian civil society groups the Indian Social Action Forum (Insaf), Kalpavriksh and Peace, organised an Indian-Ethiopian summit on land investments in New Delhi in February. Obang Metho of the Solidarity Movement for a New Ethiopia and Nyikaw Ochalla from the Anywaa Survival Organisation, members of the Anuak community of Gambela, Ethiopia, travelled to India with shocking testimonies of how their community has been dispossessed of livelihoods, ill-treated and subjected to misery while the Ethiopian government leases land to Indian corporations at giveaway prices."