10 days on, my ear plugs are getting breached.

China : South Asian countries’ independent choice should be respected

China : Choices of Philippines are wrong.

“MSMEs biggest tax evaders” -

1- Tax policies are anti tax compliance.

2- Its not the small biz that pocket tax. It’s the buyer (poor & middle class, small workshops, contractors etc) who don’t want to pay the tax. Small biz dependent on them are forced to factor this. This

The UK will increase defence spending to 2.5% of national income by 2030, the prime minister is expected to announce in a hardening of military policy at a time of growing threats news.sky.com/story/uk-to-in…

UK police charge two men with spying for China voanews.com/a/uk-police-ch…

I am participating in an exhibition. I will be out there to vote early, which has anyways always been the case, and then proceed for the exhibition 😊

Why is urban governance in India so messy? Can citizens meaningfully participate in urban governance? How can India’s urban governance challenges be addressed?

“some of this may fall under EoDB.” - All of them Sir, not some 😊

This is hilarious! Tenant verification section in UP Police mobile app lists professions like ‘Hired Killer’, ‘Drug Smuggler’, ‘Gambler’ et al! By Advitya in The Times Of India

Not limited to, but universal quality education, healthcare, skilling, infrastructure, ease of doing business, lower taxes - work creation. twitter.com/anidiptobi6412…

SMEs contribute 55% to EU economies. Are they disorganised?

BJP is a mix of supporting big biz and socialism. MSMEs have suffered. twitter.com/mananhindustan…

Heard this many years back - Jeni dukan hoi aey kursi par baithey ae saru chhe, na ke jene kursi ne apni dukan banavi hoi.

Translates to - Its better that those who have a shop, sit on the chair. Rather than those who want to make the chair their shop.

Such people will shift to another country along with their money. People they employ will be out of work. The tax the gvt gets, will also go. Prosperity wont come with redistribution. It will make everyone equally poor.

10 days on, my ear plugs are getting breached.

TDP's candidate for Guntur Lok Sabha seat P Chandra Sekhar has declared his family assets - both movable and immovable - at ₹ 5,785 crore, in his election affidavit, making him the wealthiest contestant in the current electoral race so far.
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Good to know. More of highly

ISRO tracks notable expansion of glacial lakes in Indian Himalayas : A monitoring of the catchments between 1984 and 2023 revealed that of the 2,431 glacial lakes larger than 10 hectares, identified during 2016-17, 676 have notably expanded since 1984.

These bodies of water

In parts of East Asia, roughly half of adults or more view China’s power and influence as a major threat, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted between June and September 2023.

pewresearch.org/short-reads/20…

UNCLOS says hi.