The U.S. dollar is losing its status as a safe haven | Fall in Bond Prices https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8904I_WpKs | By Ankit Agrawal  For decades, the U.S. dollar has been considered the world's most reliable safe-haven asset—but that status may now be under threat. In this eye-opening analysis, Ankit Agrawal explains the shifting dynamics in the global economy, the fall in U.S. bond prices, and what it means for investors, countries, and emerging markets like India.

 ट्रंप का यूनिवर्सिटी पर हमला | The Great HARVARD Debate & what's in it for INDIAN UNIVERSITIES https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVOdFw1sJRc   Apr 16, 2025
हार्वर्ड ख़त्म हुआ तो इसका असर भारत पर भी पड़ेगा। ट्रंप अमरीका की यूनिवर्सिटी को क्यों कंट्रोल करना चाहते हैं? वहां की यूनिवर्सिटी अमरीका का ब्रांड हैं। भारत सहित दुनिया भर के छात्र पढ़ने का सपना देखते हैं। अमरीका में एक युद्ध छिड़ गया है। एक यूनिवर्सिटी ने कह दिया है कि वो अपनी सरकार के आदेशों के सामने नहीं झुकेगी। अमरीका की हार्वर्ड यूनिवर्सिटी में जो हो रहा है उस पर हर जगह चर्चा होनी चाहिए और ख़ास तौर पर भारत में। दस सालों में भारत के बेहतरीन विश्वविद्यालयों पर लगातार हमला किया गया, झुका दिया गया। इंस्टीट्यूट ऑफ़ एमिनेन्स के दावे ध्वस्त हो चुके हैं। हार्वर्ड, कोलंबिया और येल जैसे विश्व विद्यालयों पर सरकार का पहरा बढ़ेगा तो वहां पढ़ाने और पढ़ने का माहौल भी ख़त्म होता जाएगा। आप इस वीडियो को पूरा देखिए। 

 China’s DeepTech Vs India’s CowTech | Did BJP Unlock Any Ancient Secrets? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCB4gpW8heA | Akash Banerjee & Rishi
 Apr 16, 2025 The prestigious Delhi University saw some serious research this week - involving cow dung being used to cool down classrooms ... but while Minister Piyush Goel scolds Indian startups for failing to keep up with Chinese deep tech companies - what has the Govt done in its core focus area of Cow-Tech over the last 10 years .... after a decade of money / incentives and focus - what does the Govt have to show????  

As much as 80 per cent of the overall intelligence gathered by various agencies comes from open sources. It's no longer dependent on signals, field agents, and informants.

https://theprint.in/opinion/indian-universities-must-teach-osint-to-students-its-the-new-intelligence-currency/2589578/ 

When publicly available information is collected and analysed to produce actionable intelligence, it is known as Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT). The sources for collecting such information are wide-ranging, including, but not limited to, media outlets, social media, commercial satellite imagery, academic and grey literature, commercial aviation and shipping data, as well as the deep and dark web.

With more individuals and organisations actively engaging in digital platforms, the intelligence community found itself with a new and vast resource of publicly available information, allowing analysts to monitor digital resources for gaining insights into strategic and tactical events. In recent years, commercial satellite companies like Planet Labs and Maxar Technologies have launched fleets of high-resolution imaging satellites, making geospatial data publicly available. 

Many countries, including the US, the UK, Israel and France, have taken significant steps to institutionalise OSINT within their intelligence and national security frameworks.

Despite its growing importance, the OSINT ecosystem in India remains fragile. No public or private university in India offering courses in Political Science, International Relations (IR), Defence, or Security Studies has included Intelligence Studies in their curricula. 

As a result, most Indian students graduate without even a basic understanding of the intelligence framework. Meanwhile, intelligence agencies in the country primarily recruit candidates either through dedicated examinations such as the Intelligence Bureau – Assistant Central Intelligence Officer (IB-ACIO) or by deputing officers from police and defence services, who were originally selected through broader civil or defence examinations

Indian intelligence agencies should establish dedicated OSINT units and allow the lateral entry of experts in the domain. The growing community of self-taught youth on social media platforms should be recognised and harnessed through fellowships and training

by Mohit Vashisth and Nikita Vats

15/04/2025

Back in 2020, a bright IIT graduate had an idea. No, it wasn’t another biryani delivery app or an “Uber but for cows” pitch. He simply developed an app that could auto-fill your ticket details faster than the IRCTC app. Anyone who has tried booking a tatkal ticket during peak season, knows what a herculean task this is. But instead of acknowledging the efforts of this guy, the Indian Railways sued him. Yes, IRCTC filed a case and he got arrested. Interestingly, Piyush Goyal was in charge of the railway ministry during that time. He could have begun his start-up mission right there, but instead lost the opportunity. https://thewire.in/business/india-start-up-innovation-piyush-goyal-hate 

Now in the Startup Mahakumbh Piyush Goyal is forced to scold Indian entrepreneurs for making “only food delivery apps” and converting jobless youth into “cheap labour.”

China was also known for its cheap labour three decades ago, but its determination to change the lives of its people paid off. World Bank data tells us that in 1980, India’s per capita income was $266 while that of China was only $194. But by 2000, things took a turn, and India was at $1357 and China at $4450. In 2022, India’s per capita income was $2388 while China had raced much ahead at $12,720.

Piyush Goyal says our startups should work in deep tech, semiconductors, and AI.

A semiconductor startup-founder explained the problem with this grand plan on Reddit. Writing an open letter to Goyal, he said his startup was eligible for some tax benefits. But Goyal’s department kept his application pending for two years before finally rejected it, saying: “Additional documents required.” A few hours later, a facilitator called him and said, “If you take our help in preparing the documents, you’ll get guaranteed results.”

So there is a space for bribes in our system, but not for working by the rules.

An innovation climate doesn’t build itself – you have to create it. Abhijeet Kumar writes in Business Standard that in 2023, only 5% of Indian startup funding went into deep tech, whereas China invested 35% in deep tech. In 2024, China waived $361 billion in taxes and fees for high-tech firms. They also gave $80.7 billion in research and development deductions. In 2024, China’s total R&D spending was $496 billion. Meanwhile, in India’s 2025 budget, a fund of just $23.45 billion was made for private-sector-driven R&D. Indian startups are already suffering from a funding shortage – and on top of that, there are regulatory concerns. Whereas in China, the state itself backs startups – it even directly invests in many of them.

by Kavita Kabeer

16/04/2025

 Is Digital India a Failure? Are there Gaps in UPI, ONDC and OCEN? Detailed Analysis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnEyFSToGbg
Think School Today QR codes EVERYWHERE, chaiwalas accept digital payments, and as of 2025, more than 2 billion people in India have a bank account with UPI transactions crossing ₹23 TRILLION!! But it pains me to say that after the phenomenal success of UPI, there are gaps, failures and glorified announcements that the media forgot to follow up on!!! And 2 of these glorified initiatives are the ONDC and OCEN initiative!!! These 2 initiatives have failed so badly that ONDC's app is worse than a college student’s first-year project and OCEN has been ignored by the biggest banking players of the country!!
we (think school)ourselves made a video on how revolutionary this initiative was!!! 
Where are the biggest gaps in UPI?
Why are ONDC and OCEN slowing down?
And what are the lessons that we need to learn from this slowdown of ONDC and OCEN!!

 Gujarat’s Dalits Juggle New Patterns of Hate, Violence and Police Apathy https://thewire.in/caste/gujarat-dalits-caste-violence 15-4-25 Though Gujarat is very often advertised as a model, developed state, according to data tabled in Rajya Sabha, the conviction rate in cases of atrocities against Scheduled Castes between 2018 and 2021 was a mere 3.065 %, much lower than the national average. According to data acquired under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, acts of discrimination in urban Gujarat are extremely high as well. Ahmedabad city reported 189 cases – the highest number in the state – of atrocities against SC people in 2022. The state recorded a total of 1,425 such cases.

The situation of Dalits is only worsening since 2010, according to the data from Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe Cell. The National Crimes Bureau’s 2020 report put the number of crimes against Dalits in Gujarat at 1,313. In March 2019, Gujarat’s minister of social justice and empowerment Ishwar Parmar told the state assembly that the crimes against Dalits in the state had risen by 32% between 2013 and 2018. In 2018, 49 cases of atrocity were registered in the Ahmedabad district, 23 in the Banaskantha district, 34 cases in Junagadh, and 24 in the Surendranagar district.

Jignesh Mevani, MLA from Gujarat’s Vadgam Constituency,In 2023, Mevani launched the ‘Swabhiman Helpline’ (9724344061) to help people from marginalised sections of society with legal proceedings. This, he had announced, would aid people from various communities including the Dalits, tribals, Muslims, women and denotified tribes, who face atrocities and discrimination. “Our helpline has received 113 calls and has managed to get 150 culprits arrested, but this also shows that the people already exhibit a lack of faith in the justice dispensation institutions in the country,” he said.

While the atrocities are rising, the state administration as well as even judiciary are airing their prejudices in open that the atrocity act is misused” – though there is no factual evidence on such misuse. - Martin Macwan, a veteran activist from Gujarat, and the founder of Navsarjan Trust, Dalit Shakti Kendra and Dalit Foundation

 Why Are Dalits Getting Their Hands Dirty for a Hindu Nation? https://pucl.org/manage-writings/why-are-dalits-getting-their-hands-dirty-for-a-hindu-nation/    Noted writer and activist Bhanwar Meghwanshi ,  ‘Due to symbolic politics, the construction of huge memorials at places associated with Dr. Ambedkar is also a part of this thinking that Ambedkar should be removed from books and installed everywhere as a lifeless statue, the places associated with him, his statues should be made so big that Baba Saheb’s thoughts become dwarfed, people stop reading Ambedkar and start worshipping him, the thoughtful Ambedkar is a threat to the thinking of Hindutva, the Ambedkar statue does not create any problem for them…’

Brahmanism has returned openly, Manu Smriti is being taught, yagyas are being performed in universities. Instead of eradicating caste, it is being reestablished. Religious events have increased so much, that questions of basic rights are getting buried under them. Even scientific thinking and rational thinking is now landing people in jail. Limiting oneself to organizing Maha Kumbh and uncritically glorifying it and public honouring of rapist godmen is degrading constitutional morality.

Dalits are being used to spread hatred, incite violence, and lynch Muslims and Christians. the same unequal religious system of Hinduism that dehumanized Dalits, created the inhumane caste system, made the Dalits untouchable and reduced them to a condition worse than slaves, is now the one for which Dalits and backward classes are bent on getting their hands dirty

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PLUVJrFOOo  Modi अमेरिका में रंगे हाथों पकड़े गए, भारत में है सीलबंद लिफाफा! Hemant Atri | Ashish Chitranshi
The News Launcher 

There are no nationwide laws against it. The National Crime Records Bureau started collecting data on human sacrifice and witch-hunting as motives for murder in 2013, but stopped within two years. Even in that period, thousands of such crimes were recorded. The full spread and growth of such superstition-based crimes is unclear, but anecdotal evidence and the frequency with which such cases are reported in local newspapers suggest that they are flourishing. Godmen, many of whom believe in black magic and practice superstitious rituals, are getting more organised and growing in public stature. Ritual Killings: How Crimes of Superstition Thrive in the New India | Pulitzer Center 

“We got an anti-superstition law in Maharashtra, full of loopholes, after eighteen years of struggle,” Ranjana Gavande told me. “How can we even expect a central law?” Gavande is a grassroots worker with the Maharashtra Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti, an organisation founded by Dabholkar, and has been an anti-superstition activist for twenty years. “Getting a central law is a distant dream,” she said. Karnataka passed an anti-superstition law of its own in 2017, but this too was a diluted version.

by Srishti Jaswal

october 2021