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Where do you see India in 2020?

A short fact check thread for the various pipe dreams Shri. @narendramodi & Co. has set and failed miserably. (1/9)

#Jumla2020

Claim: By 2020 no untreated sewage to be disposed in Ganga

Fact: NGT slams authorities for inability to stop sewage discharge 18-Dec-2019 (2/9)

business-standard.com/article/pti-st…

Claim: Statue of Unity to propel Gujarat tourism, 7.5 crore per year visitors expected by 2020

Fact: Statue of Unity attracted 27.1 lakh tourists till October 2019. (3/9)

thequint.com/news/webqoof/s…

Claim: Digital India to drive FMCG consumption worth $45-bn by 2020

Fact: Forget Digital India, FMCG performance in rural India worst in 7 years: Nielsen (4/9)

thehindubusinessline.com/economy/fmcg-p…

Claim: India seeks $500-bn BRICS trade by 2020

Fact: India traded $113.47 Bn with BRICS countries in 2017: Commerce Min Piyush Goyal. Latest data is not available. Our exports collapsed in fact. (5/9)

indusdictum.com/2019/12/05/ind…

Claim: #RailBudget2016's Vision 2020 will make the Indian Railways free from capacity constraints with higher train speed, punctuality & safety.

I don't have to tell you this 😃 (6/9)

No comments 🙃
(7/9)

Claim: Coal India's target of producing 1 billion tonnes of coal by 2020 is very much sustainable

Fact: Coal India aimed at producing 660 million tonne in 2019-20 and missed the target of 457.23 million tonne till December. (8/9)

moneycontrol.com/news/business/…

Claim: No State Power Distribution company (DISCOM) in the entire country will report a loss by 2019-2020
Fact: Power discoms suffered losses worth Rs 27,000 crore in 2018-19: RK Singh (9/9)

#Jumla2020

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I tried to tag and map the number of speed-breakers / road-humps inside Electronic City Phase-1 & 2 township.

I could spot 80 speed-breakers within 17.9 km, i.e., 4.5 humps/km. This analysis is to root cause the high traffic snarls in EC Phase-1.

(1/21)
Some context: Electronic City(EC) is an Industrial Township in Bengaluru, housing 158 companies including India's largest IT companies Infosys, Wipro, TCS and Tech Mahindra.

More than 1 lakh people work here.

(2/21)
EC is under Electronics City Industrial Township Area (ELCITA), not under the Bengaluru City Corporation(BBMP).

ELCITA has board members from Industries and has expert committees to manage various functions of the townships including traffic.

(3/21)

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Listen to this clip carefully. This is the radio broadcast from Rwandan Radio (RTLM) in 1993-1994.

Some background: There were two major tribes in Rwanda called Hutu and Tutsi. The Hutus were a majority and Tutsi minorities. Hutus were in power. (1/6)

In 1990, the army began arming civilians with weapons such as machetes, and it began training the Hutu youth in combat, officially as a programme of "civil defence" against the Hutu threat.
(2/6)
RTLM Radio was started in Mar-1993 and started with the broadcast of racist propaganda, obscene jokes & music, became very popular throughout the country.

The ground for genocide was being prepared since 1990. And a trigger occurred with Rwanda's president's assassination. (3/6)
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If BJP thinks that Savarkar deserves Bharat Ratna, let me tell that there are 965 more deserving souls who were jailed in the Cellular Jail, Port Blair.

Why are they more deserving? One reason: They didn't write any mercy petition to the British. (1/10)
First: The list of 19 souls who were tortured to death in the Cellular Jail.

If we are going to award the Bharat Ratna to Savarkar, then we are going to insult these 19 Bravehearts who faced inhuman tortures and died for our country without writing a single apology letter.(2/10)
Second: Members of INA and IIL, Andaman Branch incarcerated in the Cellular Jail under False Spy Cases & later killed during the Japanese Occupation of the Islands 1942-45.

7 were shot dead at Dugnabad, on 30.3.1943
44 at Homfraygunj on 30.1.1944
They didn't apologize!
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Thread #India #UttarPradesh In Muzaffarnagar, a woman told us how her home had been vandalised by the police in the dead of the night. Their car, windows, mirrors, electronic appliances, crockery all broken. Jeweller, cash stolen.
She says police told her and her family to leave, and that her home would soon become theirs. She says there were also some people in plain clothes with the police. She says #Muslim families are living in terror in #UttarPradesh
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It has been suggested that Private Equity firm KKR is responsible for #CafeCoffeDay founder #VGSiddhartha's suicide.

The firm has come under scanner in our research in many aspects of National Security as well.

Here is a thread on the various operations of KKR in India
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#India #Pakistan: Unprecedented heavy shelling all along the Line of Control has been reported by many sources in the last few hours. The Pakistani side of the LoC has been cut off from the internet. Casualties reported. Not clear what the reason is for the flare up.
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Thread: #India rejigs plans for conflict with #Pakistan, #China - Greater mobility and firepower are key to India’s war fighting capabilities against its traditional rivals 👍 Excellent analysis 👍  asiatimes.com/2019/06/articl…
India is undertaking major military reforms to enhance its capability to fight possible wars with Pakistan & China as PM Modi settles into his 2nd term. The reforms are redrawing military concepts & junking plans that prevailed for over 80 years in slow to reform institutions.
They are also moving forces up much closer to the front lines for quicker mobilization. Previously, this used to happen only when war was imminent.
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🚨#India #Crypto #ban #regulation🚨THREAD:

Imp pts for every observer in India/abroad in short clips:

Part 1 - Analyzing Leaked docs

1. Pg cites fine or 1-10 yrs for SPECIFIC activities
2. No definitions! Draft clearly not ready for legislation (1/n)
Part 2 - Understand the policy process

1. Draft doesnt = ban, until it clears Finance Minister & Parliament vote.

2. Public consultation NOT mandatory. Ask for it.

3. WRITE (>tweet) to folks mentioned in the vid

#India #Crypto #ban #regulation (2/n)
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Esp intl folks @PeterMcCormack

- Instant payments/settlement already exist
- Free/mobile banking already exist
- Crypto must solve the right probs from a govts perspective

#India #Crypto #ban #regulation
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See how @YouTube is getting involved in political process of #India under the garb of "fact check"

1. I searched for BJP in YouTube
2. On top of results page,a "fact check" by @TheQuint appeared which 'demolishes' some prediction about @BJP4India
3. Surprised I looked for more..
There is no option for general public to counter this biased and targeted "fact check" promoted by @YouTube , it asks users to contact @TheQuint

This is ridiculous!

I strongly feel not just party media managers @amitmalviya but people like @manakgupta @ShefVaidya must see this
Such actions hint at the level of engagement by several foreign players which are hell bent on playing with the thought process of India Voters. I will be writing to the EC about this and it's impact on voters if unchecked.

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