When you’re on your way to a wedding in your fancy socks, hydrate & glow. #juice #wedding #coconutwater #lemongrass #coldpressed #posh #hydration #socks #alwaystimeforRaw #rawpressery

Pomelo citrus iced tea, with a touch of lemongrass. #icedtea #tea #pomelo #refreshing #iphonephotography #mumbai #tea

Smoke ‘em. #dubai #nightlife #whiskey #oldfashioned #cocktails #tgif #iphonephotography

I’m excited to share the launch of something that took my life by both shock and perhaps a little surprise.

Presenting ‘The Two Vegans’, a podcast about trying to be vegan where we hope to share thoughts, feedback and tips for making changes you might be considering or just want to know about.

Do tune in and share your comments, we’d love to hear from you. If you like what you hear, do spread the ❤ & subscribe (Apple Podcasts • RSS).

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Special guest & drone specialist Sheban Naim joins us to break down India’s draft regulation for drones, available for public comment until December 1, 2017. Full notes here.

It’s not easy being green. #kale #avocado #greenApple #kiwi #vegan #toomuchGreen #healthy #recovering

All it takes is a little light within. #shubhdiwali #festival #diwali #lights #flowers #fresh #newyear

Here we go. #opera #jerseyboys

शक्ति #durgashtami #navratri #havan #durgapuja

Ready 🙏🏼 #durgashtami #durgapuja #havan #navratri

Is ginger the only flavour in Ginger Breeze? “Yes just ginger”. Sigh, now it’s time for licorice. #sick #recuperating #tea #complicated #iJustWantTea #healthy

Fruits, and contemplation. #navratri #fruit #fasting #healthy #overactivemind

MB. #shopping #nostalgia #navratri #dubai

My favourite time of the year. #navratri

I’d enjoy having this at my dinner table. #designNerd #friyay #spoons #forks #interiordesign #outAndAbout #friday #cantStop #wontStop #nacho

Chipkale fevicol se. #workInProgress #navratri #glue #holdittogether #artsy #artsandcrafts #bollywood

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Special guest Bhushan Shah returns to the show to talk nuclear power in energy, why we’re faltering on our targets set in 1950 and the mysterious deaths of nuclear scientists. We also follow up on the end of the Doklam standoff with China.

Full show notes and links to subscribe in your favourite podcast player are available on our podcast homepage.

Cold pressed juices all the way from Mumbai! #healthy #coldpressedjuice #kale #doodhi #amla #vitaminc #raw #vegan #delicious #breakfast #howmanytagsistoomany

Talk 107: Secularism, with Dimple Kaul

On the latest episode of Drishti talk, we discuss the “most misunderstood, misinterpreted, misused and abused” word in India—secularism, with Dimple Kaul, author of ‘Soul Call Of Love and More!’.

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Abhimanyu Ghoshal, writing for The Next Web:

…it’s [sic] latest stunt is perhaps the most audacious to date: blocking the Internet Archive.

Leaving out the cold opening to paint a picture, the problem with the piece is here:

It’s possible that the block is an effort to prevent web users in the country from viewing these documents, including one that lists a number of private companies tasked with seeding and verifying Aadhaar data. It might also be the result of a court order that has nothing to do with censorship — but at this point, there’s no way to know for certain.

Good thing he gave himself an out considering couldn’t resist throwing around a grand total of one speculation — about Aadhaar. As Medianama — the site he references — points out in a separate piece:

The orders came following cases filed by Red Chillies Entertainment and Prakash Jha Productions, who filed motions for the block to protect their films, “Jab Harry Met Sejal” and “Lipstick Under My Burkha” respectively. 2,650 URLs were blocked as a part of the order: the exact same list of sites was used by the both the plaintiffs.

What is impressive is that Medianama updated the original piece with 2 different updates to include comments from the Internet Archive, but chose not to add an Update 3, or linking to its separate piece on the actual reasons and the Court orders.

For those curious about what happened, the Court order seems to be in effect for a period of one week.

We’ve got a new podcast episode covering recent developments between India and China — specifically, the Doklam standoff and the Belt & Road Initiative:

If this is something you find interesting, you can find our previous episodes. You’ll also find subscribe links and our Patreon page if you’d like to support us.

On this week’s episode of Drishti talk, we discuss the recent developments between India and China—the Doklam standoff and India’ s objections to the Belt & Road Initiative/OBOR:

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Export of finished steel grew 102%

Production

Finished steel production (for sale) saw over 10% growth year-on-year in FY2016–17 at 100.74 million tonnes (mt), while crude steel production grew 8.5% to finish at 97.44 mt. This is in stark contrast to the YoY growth in FY2015–16 which sat at –1.3% and 0.9% respectively.

The trend seems to be continuing into the current financial year, with the provisional growth numbers for FY2017–18 until the month of May showing a 6.4% rise in production compared to the same time last fiscal for finished steel, while crude steel is up 4.8%.

Exports

Domestic steel consumption grew 2.4 during FY2016–17 against the 10% growth in production. In turn, India’s steel exports grew 102% to reach 8.24 mt as compared to a 27% decline in FY2015–16. The top 10 countries exported to account for more 73% of India’s export during the last year.

Exports made up nearly 10% of all production

A further analysis of export data showed a significant change in export trend—8 out of the top 10 countries by growth in FY2016–17 saw a negative growth of exports just the previous year, while the remaining two saw grow rates above 200%.

The top 3 countries by growth are all in India’s eastern neighbourhood—Vietnam, Malaysia and Taiwan.

Anti-dumping duty to stay

In 2015, the Central Government extended the anti-dumping duty on stainless steel products — instituted in April 2014 — by five years. The duty is based on the margin of dumping and affects the following countries:

• China (57.39%)
• European Union (29.41–52.56%)
• South Africa (12.34–36.91%)
• Chinese Taipei (15.93%)
• Korea (5.39–13.44%)
• USA (9.47%)
• Thailand (4.58–5.39%)

A review of this duty was recently concluded found that while dumping has continued, the net volume has declined since 2014. The Government has decided that the duty will not be revoked in light of this effect and the expected negative impact of such revokation on the domestic steel industry.

Times of India:

Consumer inflation in June cooled to a new record-low of 1.54 per cent, driven by a drop in food and oil prices, government data showed on Wednesday. In May consumer price inflation stood at 2.18 per cent, which was also a record low.

This follows a consistent decline in inflation rates since 2014, and record decreases since the start of January 2017.

Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) CEO Ajay Bhushan Pandey has written to the states asking them to identify centres within government premises for enrolment and updation activities by July 31.

Great. I had hoped for this in my initial Aadhaar notes now that Aadhaar enrolment has crossed 95%.

UIDAI has said the process of shifting enrolment operations to such centres should be completed by August 31, 2017