""The US currently produces roughly 10% of the global supply of semiconductors, which are key to everything from cars to mobile phones, down from nearly 40% in 1990."
"US chipmakers are already experiencing the impact of Washington's crackdown on selling US technology to China. Earlier this month, Nvidia and AMD were told by US officials to stop the sale of artificial intelligence chips to China."
"Dan Ives of Wedbush Securities called the restrictions a "gut punch" for Nvidia.
"This is really a shot across the bow at China and it's really going to fan those flames in terms of geopolitical (tensions),"
#TeestaSolution
"Experts say there are things India can do to ease the situation, short of a treaty.
Gauri Noolkar-Oak has suggested that better management of releases of water from dams in Sikkim, for example, can theprint.in/opinion/securi…
make more water available for use in both West Bengal and Bangladesh. The two countries could also work to enhance groundwater availability, and rationalise agricultural water demand."
"Ever since she took office, Hasina has extinguished jihadist threats, provided unprecedented counter-terrorism cooperation and crushed anti-India insurgencies. The prime minister’s failure to do a deal on the Teesta, though, hurts Bangladesh farmers, and is weakening her hold."
@narendramodi@PMOIndia Cabinet likely to pass proposal to change category of land allotments for party offices in Delhi, made between 2000 and 2017, from 'institutional' to ‘central govt-to-govt’ transfer to slash rates. @INCIndia@RahulGandhi@jairam_ramesh
"Cabinet likely to pass proposal to change category of land allotments for party offices in Delhi, made between 2000 and 2017, from 'institutional' to ‘central govt-to-govt’ transfer to slash rates."
#ATrueMuslimReformist
People glibly talk about men who are ahead of their times. But Hamid Dalwai was truly such a one. A fearless Muslim reformist who unfortunately died at the early age of 44. daijiworld.com/news/newsDispl…
Hamid Dalwai's name is unknown to most Hindus and most Muslims MAY NOT WANT to remember him.
"Born on September 29, 1932, in Mirjoli village of Ratnagiri district in Konkan, Maharashtra, he is most famous for the March that he organised without any political
backing for the rights of Muslim women, in 1966 on April 18 against the triple talaq, (oral pronunciation of divorce in Muslim Personal Laws banned in most Muslim majority countries except India till a recent Supreme Court ruling)."
#CastelessSociety
As she graduated from the University of Oxford with a master’s degree in Comparative Social Politics, Juhi Koré took to LinkedIn to write a note on her late maternal grandfather.
"her grandfather, who belonged to a lower-caste family in Maharashtra, had to fight for his right to study throughout his childhood."
Juhi’s grandfather made a deal with his parents that he would work on the farm from 3 am so he could make it to school for the second half of the
morning. Unfortunately, even after walking for nearly 1.5 hours every day, without even a good pair of shoes to wear, the young boy was not allowed to sit inside the classroom."
Despite all the bullying from his upper caste peers, discrimination from his upper caste teachers,
"For example, coating ripe tomatoes increased the shelf life of tomatoes by close to one month when compared to uncoated tomatoes, when stored under ambient temperature."
"it is difficult to keep strawberries fresh for more than 5 days. But with our coating, ripe strawberries can be preserved for more than 20 days,” Vimal Katiyar told indianexpress.com over email."