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December is Coming

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Coming Winter will be the month of many uncertainties. Indian and Britain political diaspora are on a roller coaster ride, as both the nations are encountering the similar crisis. As 2019 Lok sabha elections are approaching in India, political blame game is on the front page of any national daily. Opposition is trying to expose the incompetence of NDA govt. and projecting many issues such as Fiasco of Demonetisation - lead to loss of Rs. 5000 Crore (approx.). Improper implementation of GST - lead to unsatisfied businessman. Over price Rafale deal - Price uncovered after supreme court intervention. NDA is also defending their stand by projecting their good steps (mentioned as follows) towards stronger Nation. Jan Dhan Yojna - Total amount deposited Rs. 65,844.68 crore Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana - 2 crore LPG connections to BPL households. Rural area Electrification - Availability of electricity in each village area. Naga Peace Accord - lead to peace in North east

Rice Size Microchip

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Bloomberg article dated October 4, 2018, 2:30 PM GMT+5:30, has created a sensation in the world over security services, as reported ‘a rice size microchip for surveillance was found in China make Supermicro’s motherboards’ and almost all nations in the world procure electronic items manufactured in China. It has first come in to the notice in 2015, when Amazon.com Inc. was evaluating ‘Elemental Technologies’ (Based in Portland-Ore). Elemental Technology fit nicely with Amazon’s government businesses, such as the highly secure cloud that Amazon Web Services (AWS) was building for the CIA, hence Amazon consider it as a potential acquisition. During Third party evaluation, the testers found a tiny microchip, not much bigger than a grain of rice, that wasn’t part of the boards’ original design. The chips had been inserted at factories run by manufacturing subcontractors in China. With this an another level of war by supply chain attack has initiated. It is also noticed that a state-b

Modi’s Master Stroke (#MMS)

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As 2019 elections are approaching, all the political parties are getting active. All non NDA groups are aligning for a common cause & NDA projecting their achievements to get the second term. We all know that upcoming election will be one of the toughest fights for #modishah to win. To ensure the win they must have a winning strategy but to my understanding #modishah has already played their card to win the next Lok Sabha election. Indian diplomacy is setting an example for all the nations especially for Turkey and China as India has managed to sign two important defense pact with two old rivalry countries: COMCASA with USA in Indo-US 2+2 Dialogue and high-tech S-400 missile defense system, during a bilateral meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. A good diplomat can understand that these pacts complement each other and maintained strategic relations with both Russia & USA. But #MMS lies in the pact signed in the month of Oct’2018 with Iran for supply of Crude oi

India’s Future Fortune

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India could be the next blue eyed nation for electronic industry all over the world and this can happen over a decade. You must be thinking, Why is it so? It has many aspects to understand, let’s take them one by one. Today’s China is the biggest manufacturing market in electronic industry, all over the world, and also known as the world’s factory, but this was not true in Twentieth century. In 1980s India’s Electronic export was more than that of China. Both India & China were almost at the same platform but China takeoff from there and never look back. In 1980s Industries in US and Europe were scaling up and looking to develop facilities around the world to reduce their production cost. As in Europe and US, the labour rates were high as 12-15$ per hour however, in Africa, India & China the labour charges were much lower.  Also the establishment in Africa was much riskier than that of in India or China. As India was a young nation that time, the leadership was not very