Since Mount Kailasa is in China, tell them it used to be part of India but occupied by China in later years. The reaction such a claim will evoke will be priceless to watch
- Varma
Since Mount Kailasa is in China, tell them it used to be part of India but occupied by China in later years. The reaction such a claim will evoke will be priceless to watch
Chinese media reporting as a big "win" for them.sameerph wrote: ↑Mon Aug 28, 2017 3:22 pm In a related issue, there seems to be some breakthrough on Doklam stand off today and looks favourable to us -
Doklam standoff ends: What made China agree to restore pre-June 16 position of troops
I don't keep up with this stuff, but I assumed IBM was pretty much an inconsequential company now. Now, that I wouldn't have thunk 25 years ago, but I probably thank wrong just now too.... Are they all we really have, to brag on?prasen9 wrote: ↑Fri Sep 29, 2017 12:44 amIBM has more employees in India than US! [Twenty five years ago] Who would have thunk?
IBM became a consulting, software and services company more than a decade ago, shifting its focus from hardware (where it was the originator of the "IBM-PC", the minicomputer and one of the biggest producers of mainframe computers). As part of this process, IBM bought PriceWaterhouseCooper's software and related consulting business in India, which gave it a large proportion of its India employees. PwC's business was Calcutta-headquartered, and so IBM is now a major employer in Kolkata -- and was the hub around which a relatively large software/services cluster has emerged in the New Calcutta (Salt Lake and Rajarhat).jayakris wrote: ↑Fri Sep 29, 2017 5:18 amI don't keep up with this stuff, but I assumed IBM was pretty much an inconsequential company now. Now, that I wouldn't have thunk 25 years ago, but I probably thank wrong just now too.... Are they all we really have, to brag on?prasen9 wrote: ↑Fri Sep 29, 2017 12:44 amIBM has more employees in India than US! [Twenty five years ago] Who would have thunk?
Just a rhetorical question with no info to back any of it, of course.
It is not a law, but apparently a policy that the Manmohan Singh Government started at the tsunami time in 2004, that the Modi Government decided to continue. I believe they have refused other foreign offers during the Chattisgarh flood etc. I think the Government is okay with funds being given as loans to India or to the states though. Just no donations.suresh wrote: ↑Thu Aug 23, 2018 12:10 pm It is not a law that we can't accept donations from abroad. Now political parties are permitted to get donations from abroad with BJP and Congress being the major beneficiaries of this largesse. I don't see why Kerala cannot be allowed to do the same. In particular, UAE has benefited immensely from people from Kerala working there. Hopefully, common sense prevails and our Central government lets the donation through.