Congratulations to the ISRO on this incredible accomplishment - the first mission in human history to ever soft land on the south pole of the moon! A short while ago, the Pragyan rover exited the Vikram lander and is now exploring the southern polar surface. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F4OouRqbcAA0e...
Jump to postI find it appalling that a moderator here drives discussion trying to question or undermine data of other countries. Understand this - every single country is collecting the data is needs and acts upon it accordingly. The US has done [b]poorly]/b], given that it was allegedly the best prepared count...
Jump to postI 100% agree excess deaths must be tracked. The stat quoted is confirmed Covid deaths/day/million . Excess death forecasts are not data - they are a forecasted estimate, because no one knows how much of a year ago data was Covid or otherwise, and no Covid test is 100 % reliable either. As pointed o...
Jump to postExcess death modeling is a forecast. Forecasts are not official data of any kind, for any country. The github image itself screams 'FORECAST' in caps. CDC has trouble getting reliable daily vaccination count data. You want to hang your hat upon their forecasts ? Be my guest - it's your country. You'...
Jump to postSo your 0.10 claim at best in not verifiable. It's not 'my claim'. It's official Covid death data from MoHFW reported by ourworldindata. You don't like it ? Get THEM to remove it. That's the only acceptable barometer here. US official deaths/day/million is almost 40x that of India. No amount of han...
Jump to postIt is Indian government responsibility to track and report, not mine There is no anti-science, this is vaccine exclusive thread, even others don't follow rules, I do. https://github.com/dkobak/excess-mortality What are you talking about ? The ourworldindata figures literally are Indian government d...
Jump to postExcessive deaths is a metric used to validate COVID-19 death numbers. Both China and India claim they don't keep track of annual deaths(in year 2020 imagine) and no way of reporting excessive deaths, so low mortality claims of both countries are not verifiable. Then find the source to prove your cl...
Jump to postThe U.S. Is Sitting on Tens of Millions of Vaccine Doses the World Needs Tens of millions of doses of the coronavirus vaccine made by the British-Swedish company AstraZeneca are sitting idly in American manufacturing facilities, awaiting results from its U.S. clinical trial while countries that hav...
Jump to postSource? https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations "Source ?" You didn't have any trouble making up numbers about India that are a fraction of the link you quote, but want others to prove it ? An acceptance of the fact that you were very wrong would have been nice. When I look at publi...
Jump to postIndia is going to have six vaccines available soon: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/much-protection-one-shot-pfizer-150303777.html India now seems to be administering just under a million doses per day. In a country of its population, not great (that is over 6 years of vaccines administration i...
Jump to postAn Intellectual Biography of India’s New Farm Laws/ These farm laws are the result of 20 years of policy making , across five different administrations - Vajpayees NDA, two UPA administrations and now successive Modi administrations. The current farm laws reform all three major laws discussed over ...
Jump to postAnd what deals would they be? The Paris Climate Accord? A non binding deal that the two biggest offenders of world pollution namely China and India you know damn well will not abide by. We live in a world together I am all for trying to find better and cleaner solutions but not at our expense only....
Jump to postThe second SSBN INS Arighat was captured by Google Earth during harbour trials: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EpgfZVnUUAAg1U_?format=jpg&name=small It is due for commissioning in 2021. Meanwhile, the next two are under construction and are stretched versions with 8 full size silos. Both are due to...
Jump to postI'm not sure what you try to say. Nothing more than the thread topic. Leaders are quoted as examples. You quoted mine. I added your own country's leader to the list. She matches all the parameters by which you chose India's leader as an example. Plenty of basis: We must stop Angela Merkel’s bullyin...
Jump to postDemocratic India's Modi is interesting in this context. He pushed enormous important reforms. I believe because of his massacre early in his career people within his party opposed to him shut up. You're a German working in India, correct ? I'll apply your basic standard here back towards your count...
Jump to postInterestingly the bill permits Christians too - probably because they're a rounding error in terms of numbers, but offering them the gesture is good political optics. They should be encouraged to convert back to Hinduism as a corresponding gesture on their part. No, they shouldn't. No believer in a...
Jump to postIf India truly wanted to protect minorities from Pakistan, they’d include the Ahmadiyya faith and Shia Muslims in that list. The fact that they didn’t shows a tad bit of ignorance. Your diagnosis itself is wrong, so the prescription is irrelevant. The bill is not aimed at minorities in neighbouring...
Jump to postYeah it is. Some kind of catastrophic failure with the lander for all comms to be lost all of a sudden just 2km from the ground after getting that far perfectly. Both Madrid and Mauritius reporting comms stopped at that point. There's some intermittent news about the orbiter hearing comms but that s...
Jump to postISRO states comms lost at 2.1km altitude . Status of lander unknown. Orbiter will soon survey the area with its camera.
Jump to post2AM and the country is awake watching all this. It's great to see the PM made the effort to be there too. Hopefully amongst all those young kids who were also invited to ISRO mission control and those watching on TV like me, we will have our future moon mission director or the first Indian to step o...
Jump to postIt's not looking good. The deviation from the path is too significant, and it appears the lander went into a tumble it didn't recover from.
Jump to postThat's correct - ISRO is livestreaming the whole thing. The '15 minutes of terror' they say. So far all orbit maneuvers have been perfectly executed, but those were things that needed math and good rocket technology to accomplish - both of which ISRO have mastery over. The next step is something wit...
Jump to postMeanwhile a status update on the topic: * BBC got itself into an enormous controversy for using doctored footage to claim 'large scale violence and abuses' on the ground, a statement not corroborated by any Indian press source, on either side of the political spectrum. This is rather standard "...
Jump to postTherein lies the fundamental basis by which India includes every entity: Everyone loves power. Everyone loves money. The very last guy to keep screaming about the poor Kashmiri Muslim will be offered money to shut the cluck up, probably by a Kashmiri Muslim. All the Indian state has to do is offer t...
Jump to postRe: "Indians can't own property in Nagaland" https://www.realestateindia.com/nagaland-property-for-sell-rent.htm Nagaland is a lively state, surrounded by Assam to the west, Arunachal Pradesh to the north, Myanmar to the east and Manipur to the south. Nagaland is considered the land of fol...
Jump to postBoth Nagaland and Mizoram prohibit people not from those respective states to buy land.. Wrong. Nagaland and Mizoram have legislative power to determine the extent of ownership laws, but superceded by a super-Governor who can and does override the legislature when national imperative dictates. The ...
Jump to postArguably, Art 371 was crafted as a means to not repeat the mistake of Art 370 while still enabling India to absorb new territory or restructure states. All of the Northeast states were created in the 1960s through 1980s. Some were straightforward. Some involved first crushing decades long insurgency...
Jump to postLooks like some people don't quite get that there's no 'Article 371' involving anything in the Northeast. Here's some non-rhetorical reality: * Article 369, 370 and 371 are the first three articles of Part XXI of the Indian Constitution: PART XXI [TEMPORARY, TRANSITIONAL AND SPECIAL PROVISIONS] * Ar...
Jump to postA summary of international responses so far : * US - Modi apparently informed Trump of his plans on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Osaka a month ago. Some say India provided further information on plans a week ago, but there's no clarity. Apparently the POTUS doesn't brief his own executive on 1...
Jump to postI don't know enough to really have an opinion. Obviously what China is doing in Tibet (and now in its Muslim parts) is wrong, but that's not just letting people relocate freely to these regions. It's above all oppressing the "native" population, banning their culture, etc. If that isn't d...
Jump to postAnd the commercial push begins: Maharashtra govt plans MTDC resorts in Ladakh, Kashmir With the scrapping of Article 370 opening fresh avenues of investment in Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh, Maharashtra government is looking forward to quickly grab the opportunity and open resorts in the region under th...
Jump to postOh, you know. Anyone who pretends that this is about equality and economic development and blah blah when it's really just about petty vindictiveness driven by an inferiority complex traceable to wrongs committed hundreds of years ago. Oh, we all know that for you, the equality of every citizen bef...
Jump to postAnd there it is. After all that nonsense about the issue being about economics and equality and rights for Indians, you shy away from implementing the same measures in other states in India. Who is 'you' in this context ? Me ? I'm a private individual, not Modi himself. The BJP ? You understand how...
Jump to postI'm sorry but when someone's justification for constitutional changes Halfway into your first sentence and you're already wrong. This is NOT a constitutional change. It is: 1. a Presidential Order enabled by Art 370, with similar Presidential Orders passed approximately FIFTY times between 1950 and...
Jump to postOr article 371 for that matter. By all means (assuming you are an Indian national, which I don't think you are), form a party advocating elimination of Art 371. Get votes in support. Get it done. The problem with your argument is 'So BJP's done A. Why hasn't it done B C D ... Z ??' The answer to th...
Jump to postBtw, I feel great about thinking that I can now own a home in Heaven on Earth tooo wohooo !! Its literally the best gift I could give to my parents for their retirement. Many Indians are eager to have a 2nd home in Kashmir. A major boost in property rates and jobs and economy for locals is on the o...
Jump to postGo on. Explain how a hindu in Kashmir today is safer than he was last week. The terrorism isn't going to go away (Pakistan still exists), and the communal tensions aren't going to go down - hence the Pakistan-style martial lockdown clone going on there. Ok, you do not appear to understand the India...
Jump to postI don't follow. Are you arguing that Kashmiri Muslims are not a minority in India because they're a majority in Kashmir? Grasping for straws there, buddy. Easy group to throw under the bus when there's hundreds of millions of votes to be gained. Ah, but Kashmir is 'different' - it was a whole 'coun...
Jump to postIt's also farfetched to say India is as developed politically as a Western country, but it's certainly a stable modern democracy. Oh, which western country is more developed politically ? The US ? * Unlike India, the apex judiciary in the US is not autonomous but appointed by the executive. Every v...
Jump to postAnd yet it is an indisputable fact that minorities tend to be more vulnerable than majorities. Which is exactly why you should be supporting the elimination of Article 370. It makes the minorities of J&K safe. The minorities in J&K aren't Muslim, but the Hindus and Buddhists who were terror...
Jump to postRight. Political parties agree that it is politically expedient to throw a minority group under the bus, therefore it's ok. Yeah no. See above. That's not democracy; that's a tyranny of the majority. Except that the 'large minority group' isn't complaining. Do you see angry agitations by Muslims al...
Jump to postThe "so what", then, is ethnic cleansing. Whether one supports that or not is down to personal values. I find it morally reprehensible. Evidently many Indiams don't. What I find odd is the obfuscation - that this is somehow about something more noble than ethnic cleansing. It's not. Why l...
Jump to postAnd the people in Ladakh and Jammu were actually asking for separation because of overbearing dominance of Kashmir in adminstration. Also, on a per-capita basis, J&K got the most aid from central government compared to any other state. I don't know how it can be claimed to be discrimination! In...
Jump to postIn fairness, none of those states have witnessed (military presence and all) anything close to what Kashmir has witnessed, nor is there any risk of their demographics being changed completely. The areas where those risks exist are, it would seem, protected by sections of Article 371 (Mizoram, Nagal...
Jump to postWell, yes, I think it's fair to say that Kashmir's situation has always been a little "special". After all, parts of that state have had a military presence unlike anything seen in real democracies. For what, three decades and counting? I doubt it comes as a surprise that this is linked t...
Jump to postI find it puzzling that you don't want to admit that this is about turning India's only Muslim majority state into a Hindu majority state. That's a very simple answer - because their religion matters to YOU, not to me. If YOU want to cheerlead the rights of Muslims as a special goal, that's your ow...
Jump to postTamil Nadu? The seven sisters? Punjab? Don't know which part of India you're referring to. I'm referring to prepartition of course - when a group of people demanded they cannot live within a Hindu majority. J&K, as everyone knows, is a leftover from that - a territory that did not complete the ...
Jump to postReligion bro. You know that. I know that. In any case, they are afforded special dispensations - they're allowed to function in their own languages and run their own school boards, all of which have been given official status. I don't get the gist of the rest of your arguments. Yes India can do wha...
Jump to postThere are plenty of Himalayas outside Kashmir. Like I said, go ask the folk in Dharamsala what they made of the arguments you're now adopting. This will turn India's only Muslim majority state into a Hindu one. That's the end goal. The rest of the explanations are obfuscation. This isn't about prop...
Jump to postWhy? For the same reason that Canada affords special status to First Nations. Recognition that they have as much of a right to exist and maintain their culture as anyone else, and make special provisions for them to do so in their ancestral homelands. Not wiping them out and engineering demographic...
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