A nation that can’t build its own jet engine can’t claim true airpower. Kaveri is India’s shot at propulsion sovereignty.
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1/9 India doesn’t build its own jet engines. Tejas runs on GE F404s. Rafales need French support. If geopolitics turns hostile, our skies are vulnerable. That’s why Kaveri matters.
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2/9 After years of stagnation, Kaveri is back on track. The Dry Kaveri variant is ready for inflight testing. Progress is real—but funding will decide whether it matures or stalls again.
90% of freight traffic along the Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor (EDFC) has shifted to the DFC network this year. This equates to about 90 trains per day, nearing the corridor’s capacity of 100 trains per day. On the Western DFC (WDFC), the shift has been around 60%-70%.
The net tonne kilometers (NTKMs) reached 62,282 million between Apr and Oct 2024, translating to an impressive 291 million NTKMs per day. This is a substantial increase from 66,719 million achieved during the entire FY23-FY24, at a daily average of 182 NTKMs per day.
At the same time, the average number of daily trains on the EDFC and WDFC combined has increased from 241 during FY24 to 339 during April-October this year.
A new global money laundering network has evolved that marries two powerful financial forces — the huge stockpiles of cash being accumulated by the Mexican drugs cartels from selling drugs in the US, and the rapidly growing volumes of capital seeking an escape route from China.
The money laundering groups are made up of networks of Chinese nationals living in the US and Mexico as well as individuals in China.
As fentanyl revenues have surged over the past few years, the officials say, their relationship with the Mexican cartels has expanded dramatically.
Japan Bank for International Cooperation has released 35th survey on "Survey Report on Overseas Business Operations by Japanese Manufacturing Companies" for the year 2023.
Here are some of the interesting trends on India from the report.👇
The objective of this survey is aimed to research and analyze the current status and future prospects for overseas business development of Japanese manufacturing companies.
987 companies have been surveyed with a response rate of 54%. These companies are across sectors and headquartered across Japan. These also include Japanese SMEs.
On Twitter, there is a common refrain that Modi is unable to achieve the same speed of development as China. There is a comparison between how China built its bullet train network and the current plan for the bullet train network in India.
The other comparison is with regards to how China continues to dominate manufacturing and how India still lags behind on the same.
I wanted to write a thread on why it is unfair to compare a democratic country like India to China and why it is impossible in a democracy to achieve the rapidity of progress in China.
If there’s an overarching truth in the workplace right now, it’s this: Many workers don’t want to go back to the office. Plenty of bosses say they should.
The result is a stalemate. Office-occupancy rates have stagnated around 50%, even as more companies step up in-office work mandates.
Everything from daycare to public transportation, toll roads, fuel and fuel taxes, auto purchases and maintenance, dry cleaners, nail spas, restaurants, clothiers, hair stylists, dog walkers, nannies and office leases suffer when people work from home,