This is their second attempt. The first one in 2019 failed at the last stage and crashed on the moon surface. This time it has landed well. Now hopefully the rover will be deployed and we get to the science part of the mission.

This is their second attempt. The first one in 2019 failed at the last stage and crashed on the moon surface. This time it has landed well. Now hopefully the rover will be deployed and we get to the science part of the mission.

The same can be said for the other side. Yet the perception spread by articles like this story.

While we may wish to believe that Wikipedia is free from misinformation, it just a belief. The truth is that all recent political news and some history and religion articles are battle grounds between Right and Left. With most Wikepedia editors being mostly Left leaning have captured articles and have been doing motivated edits to slant the information in them.

One such example is recent riots in Delhi during president Trump's visit to India.

It looks like India is making a fair demand from Silicon Valley companies. When it invited them with open arms it was expected that the warms would be reciprocated It looks like India is making a fair demand from Silicon Valley companies. When it invited them with open arms it was expected that the warms would be reciprocated.

It is not one way street, that all companies get access to Indian markets and India don't even get a say on their users data security and privacy. Expecting financial data of Indian users to be stored locally is a reasonable demand. Another regulation that separates market place and manufacturer i.e., restrict monopoly power of market place provider is also reasonable. It provides level playing field to everybody.

If Silicon Valley companies expected to be given open field without any regulations, then it can be only termed as their fault. If they term this as turning back on Silicon Valley, it is their choice.

It is expected that companies like Twitter and Facebook remain impartial in the upcoming elections. Not take any sides and try to meddle in the election processes. Otherwise, they will have to be ready to face more stronger regulations.

Within two paragraphs the summary makes contradictory claims. It begins with "India, the world's second largest internet market" and ends with saying that Silicon Valley companies that count India as one of their biggest markets is generating very little revenue.

Stick with any one of the narrative.

If I were the funding agency, this would be reected instantly. You can heat your house better by doing random switchings of transistors rather than this round about way. It would have been better if these researchers were honest in their request. I am not even sure they have any case or even trivial computation like Fourier transform through their method.

True about Bangladesh. I also agree that the reason about open defecation may also be cultural. Yet, Indians are more pragmatic than what you think. Until now there was no focused effort to address this problem. Not any more. Just like this 1000 day target to electrify all villages, the target to get all villages and cities open defecation free is Oct. 2019. It is progressing well as far as I can tell.

Changes in Indian society occur at much faster rate than you can imagine. Indians are not zealots, can adopt quickly and see the logic. What Indians lack is ability to put efforts in a single minded manner like Chinese. There are always hundreds of opinion and each one pulling in different direction. By some random circumstances there is one decade every century where you see dramatic positive changes, other wise languishing in whatever state the previous cycle left them. This has been the story of India since last 1000 years.

In previous two cycles we eradicated Sati and Untouchability. Exceptions are still seen even today, but on the whole these are gone. Now it is time for toilets.

Politicians who are sincere in keeping their promises to deliver, plan their work before making public announcements. What is wrong with this?

In two words you have captured the essential part of this news. It is not only toilets tomorrow but also cooking gas for all liberating women from smoke and related health issues. Next is moving the mass of people to formal banking, with potential change over less cash economy.

The impact of this will be felt worldwide in the next 10 years. If USA is exhausted of Indian coders when India has just 40 % toilet coverage, 60 % electricity access and less than 50 % families with a bank account, imagine the scenario 10 years from now with 100 % population having middle class facilities. India is massively cleaning up its streets and rivers. Building road and rail infrastructure.

It is going through the phase which China went through three decades ago.

You are right in your assessment. The last few villages were tough. They were located in dense forests or in higher altitudes of himalay. Some were even in the places affected by terrorism.

See for example this case. Chhattisgarh's Maoist-hit village gets electricity after 15 years. . The light vanished from the Chintalnar village when Maoists, in a bid to disrupt the development activities in the district, uprooted electricity poles. Bringing back electricity to such villages was a tough job. I am happy it is done.

However, as the summary mention, electrification of a village just means public places are electrified. The next job is to provide electricity to all and ensure 24x7 supply. This part is what you have said :

spend forever on the last 5% to make sure everything works -together-

So Sri Lanka has a bit of a history of violence and oppression towards non-buddhists.

I agree with the history of civil strife in Sri Lanka. However in this case it is the government ( mostly Buddhist) that is doing its best to stop spread of violence, hence the blame on Buddhists is unjustified.