Make in India: Indian and Turkish shipyards close contract for building FSS ships for the Indian Navy https://www.financialexpress.com/business/defence/make-in-india-indian-and-turkish-shipyards-close-contract-for-building-fss-ships-for-the-indian-navy/2037522/ Huma Siddiqui
July 28, 2020
The local industries of cable laying, zonal painting and blasting as well as related small scale industries will get a lot of work. This is the first time at a shipyard from Turkey is participating in a defence contract in India. As has been reported by Financial Express Online, the Anadolu Shipyard is part of TAIS industrial group. And the discussions were with the shipyard and not the TAIS group.
Context https://www.facebook.com/NationWithNaMo2019/posts/from-an-mou-with-china-to-an-overseas-office-in-turkey-congress-is-also-found-on/5018349908190475/ Nation with NaMo's Post From an MoU with China to an overseas office in Turkey, Congress is also found on the same side as those who seek to harm India & its national interests!
The internet in India turns 30— and we’re going back to where it all began. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO8pnOiP6Fg EDGE, a new podcast by the Museum of Digital Society × Digital Empowerment Foundation, kicks off with Episode 1 (1995–2000).
In this episode, Osama Manzar takes us back to the days of dial-up sounds, floppy disks, early newsrooms going online, and a time when the internet felt like pure magic. From curiosity and trust to the first moments of borderless connection, this is the story of how India met the web.
Comment: Around 30 years before that we had the SITE, the Instructional TV experiment at PIJ, which alongwith the B & W TV stations at Mumbai and Delhi promised programming which were developmental, Amchi Mati Amchi Mansa, Adult Education on TV, etc. Even today we have several opportunities for young people to make use of the digital for empowerment, yet they prder to go with the Corporate led algorythms
This is the story of people we barely know exist: they are the world’s uncontacted Indigenous groups. A stark warning, issued by Survival International, an NGO: these little-known and little-understood people may vanish within a decade. In its first global inventory of uncontacted people, possibly the most accurate count yet, identifies at least 196 groups in 10 countries across South America, Asia and the Pacific, including India. The report, Uncontacted Indigenous Peoples at the Edge of Survival, is unequivocal: more than 96 per cent of these groups face life-threatening danger from extractive industries. What is unfolding is not a natural decline but a slow-motion annihilation, driven by profit, state power and global indifference.
December 2025
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