apparently #India only has 18% lactose tolerance, but they use the European (therefore maybe Indo-European?) gene for it
on 02026-05-20#ebook of Dale Carnegie’s “How to Win Friends and Influence People” because in #India it’s in the public domain
on 02026-05-04Apparently #Benjamin-Franklin and #John-Adams admired #Haidar-Ali, the king of #Mysore in #India, who was fighting the English too. #history #toread
on 02026-04-29wow, the #Aghoris are a Shaivite cult practicing #cannibalism in #India today. #religion
on 02026-04-22#news from February: “#Micron Celebrates Opening of #India’s First Semiconductor Assembly and Test Facility” in #Gujarat. But not a fab: “converts advanced DRAM and NAND wafers from Micron’s global #manufacturing network into finished #memory and storage products”.
on 02026-04-10#India is retracting its ultimatum to install #Sanchar-Saathi in the face of resistance from #Samsung and #Apple. #human-rights
on 02025-12-03A claim that #India has 484 GW of electrical #energy generation capacity.
on 02025-09-01#Sci-Hub has been blocked in #India today. #censorship #copyright
on 02025-08-27#news “A television sting claimed to expose a thriving “arms-for-alms” trade in #India yesterday when journalists apparently caught doctors on screen agreeing to amputate the limbs of beggars for as little as 10,000 rupees (£125). (...) There appears to be a thriving trade in Delhi where gangs kidnap beggars and force them to undergo surgery so that their deformities attract sympathy.”
on 02025-07-11#electronics distributor in #India.
on 02025-05-28#UK and #India sign a deal to drop #tariffs. #news
on 02025-05-10“#Pakistan’s government said it had “credible intelligence” that #India intends to carry out military action against it in the “next 24-36 hours on the pretext of baseless and concocted allegations of involvement in the Pahalgam incident.” #politics #news
on 02025-04-30#news #video about #India and #Pakistan coming closer to war after #Kashmir attack by the Baloch Liberation Army (or Lashkar-e-Tayyiba?); #Modi suspends the Indus Valley Water Treaty. Shahbaz Sharif has summoned the National Security committee in Pakistan. In Hindi. #politics
on 02025-04-23#video “Wheel of Prosperity” a black-and-white documentary from probably sometime in the 01960s about spinning wheels #charkha in #India
on 02025-03-07#TTK on the Arjun #tanks of #India and the better Al-Khalid program in #Pakistan.
on 02025-01-31#India Central School Organization "Kendriya Vidyalaya" has 1253 schools following a uniform curriculum. #schooling
on 02024-12-13#video about #China crossbow #weaponry, funded by crossbow manufacturer (!!) Tenpoint, who is giving away a Siege 425 crossbow, which shoots 16-“inch” carbon-fiber composite arrows, mass not disclosed, at 425 “feet” per second (thus the name). One reason for China sending soldiers through two years of crossbow training might be the #India border dispute, though the armament limitations don’t seem to cover ordinary automatic rifles and no #crossbows have been observed in use in the border dispute area. Pretty worthless damn video by #TaskAndPurpose. Plonk.
on 02024-10-30#Modi is acting as a Hindu religious authority and the BJP proclaimed him “King of the Gods”, though himself he only claims to be nothing but an instrument of Lord Ram. #India #politics
on 02024-10-24one of the last gun factories in Kashmir #machining #video. Basically #India’s #gun-control wiped out the industry
on 02024-05-01#India has 4G cellphone coverage in 93% of its villages
on 02023-07-19Indian Crab syndrome led Subhash Mukhopadhyay to commit suicide after serious harassment by authorities in #India
on 02023-03-09#sci-hub #India #copyright #lawsuit #fair-dealing
on 02021-12-14#India #censorship of #WhatsApp for #copyright
on 02021-05-29#India’s Supreme Court establishes a legal right to #privacy in a decision against Modi’s #Aadhaar program, overruling the 1961 Kharak Singh verdict. #human-rights
on 02017-08-27#India’s “1.5 million strong armed forces are now slowly but steadily making it mandatory for its new officers to be engineering graduates.”
on 02017-07-17a time-motion study #paper on cataract #medicine from #India, published in 2008 in the Indian Journal of Public Health
on 02017-05-02Kiran is not happy about #Aadhaar. #India #politics #privacy
on 02017-03-11National Geographic documentary #video about Adani’s new #solar #photovoltaic #energy plant that was built in 8 months in #India. Seems like they graded the site but didn’t concrete it, and use a dry robotic brushing system to clean the panels.
on 02016-12-21Discussion of #India’s #demonetisation
on 02016-11-21unmarried women in a couple of villages in #Gujarat, #India are banned from using cellphones. #human-rights #feminism
on 02016-03-03Chris Stucchio got #health-care in #India and reports on his experience being better.
on 02015-12-16#microfinance #suicide in #Andhra-Pradesh, #India, in 2010, often via #public-shaming.
on 02015-11-11MSF is trying to save #India’s patent law exemptions that have stoppped the #AIDS epidemic from pressure by the US and other related countries. #patents
on 02015-09-01The Forme P9 #smartphone #hardware has a 3.5” touchscreen, Wi-Fi, a 3Mpix camera, an extra SIM slot, an FM radio, 256MB RAM, a MicroSD slot, no 3G, and a 1GHz CPU, for US$32 (Rs 1989) on Flipkart, with WhatsApp, Facebook, and Google services preinstalled on #Android 2.3.5. But you can only buy it in “tier 4 cities”, of which there is apparently at least one in #India.
on 02015-08-16