khaskhabar: December 2020

While connected and circular lending, and credit misallocation and conflict of interest are real risk scenarios, credit crunch especially for MSMEs is also real.

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PM-WANI Policy: Implementing steps outlined crucial, it can accelerate our mission to become atmanirbhar

With more access to Wi-Fi, job opportunities will boom—and not just in the overcrowded metros and their suburbs. With this move, India leapfrogs into the future, just like we did with mobile broadband.

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In the New Year, a new UPI Beckons

In the case of UPI, the model was so successful, Google recommended that the US Fed use a UPI-based system to build a new inter-bank real-time-gross-settlement service (RTGS), and the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) recommended that other countries emulate the Indian approach. Happy New Innovations!

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Under The Radar? French Covid-19 surveillance programme failed with many infected going undetected

Researchers at the Pierre Louis Institute of Epidemiology and Public Health modelled transmission between mid-May (soon after the first lockdown was lifted) and late June and found that some 90,000 cases escaped the radar even as infections in the country were reported as declining.

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Citing pandemic, prosecutors in case against officers in George Floyd’s death want trial delay.

By BY TIM ARANGO from NYT World https://ift.tt/381IFks

In Dakar, the usual soundtrack of fireworks on every corner was muted.

By BY RUTH MACLEAN from NYT World https://ift.tt/3pBsZKI

New Year’s Eve in Europe

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The Best Movies and TV Shows Coming to Amazon, HBO Max, Hulu and More in January

By BY NOEL MURRAY from NYT Arts https://ift.tt/3o6tgVx

Klara Kasparova, Mother of Chess Champion and His Guide, Dies at 83

By BY DYLAN LOEB MCCLAIN from NYT Obituaries https://ift.tt/2X153UU

Georgia Republicans Deliver Persistent Message: Fear the Democrats

By BY ASTEAD W. HERNDON AND RICHARD FAUSSET from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/3rLMu50

MF Doom, Masked Rapper With Intricate Rhymes, Is Dead at 49

By BY JULIA JACOBS from NYT Arts https://ift.tt/384CrQV

Chief Justice Praises the Courts’ Responses to the Pandemic

By BY ADAM LIPTAK from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/3rJmwzi

There will be a late-night delivery of a venerated sardine in Maine.

By BY ELLEN BARRY from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/2JF9EJq

Wednesday, 30 December 2020

Critics Say Nashville Police Could Have Done More With Tip About Bomber

By BY STEVE CAVENDISH, JAMIE MCGEE AND RICK ROJAS from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/3814mBd

The Small Colorado Town Shrugged Off the Pandemic. Then Came the Coronavirus Variant.

By BY DAVE PHILIPPS from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/2WX72cP

A Dallas-Fort Worth air traffic control center was closed for disinfection, and big flight delays soon followed.

By BY NEIL VIGDOR from NYT World https://ift.tt/3rEa181

Closing of Air Traffic Control Center for Virus Cleaning Halts Flights in Dallas

By BY NEIL VIGDOR from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/2L94sO4

The Morning

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The Bomb That Struck the Heart of Nashville

By BY MARGARET RENKL from NYT Opinion https://ift.tt/3o3y7H5

Life went on as it always had in Simla, Colo., until the virus came to town. And then the variant.

By BY DAVE PHILIPPS from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/37YwNzQ

‘No Realistic Path’ for Quick Vote on $2,000 Stimulus Checks, McConnell Says

By BY CATIE EDMONDSON from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/3aX8ap0

Dairies hike milk prices, cite shortage

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First three sets of DRDO-designed 10-metre-mobile bridge handed over to Army

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Q2: Current account surplus moderates to $15.5 bn

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Explained: Why Argentina’s legalisation of abortion is historic

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Looking back: Three terms that misdefined 2020 – “witch hunt,” “black swan,” and “exponential”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s eponymous 2007 book turned black swan virtually into a household expression, because it appeared to describe the 2007-09 financial crisis so well.

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An outro for 2020—The varying notes: A look at the big things economic in the year gone by, drawing from music

‘Top of the charts’ is the Delhi rondo, with farmers gathered to protest against the farm Bills. Everyone is arguing with everyone else on this issue, and a fairly pragmatic policy put up by the government has now been opposed by nearly everyone.

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Oh no, not again — another history lesson: Follow a systematic process for hedging your risk

Since 2014, the periods of strength have been shorter (354 days, on average) as compared to the period between 2006 and 2014 (502 days); correspondingly, the periods of weakness have been longer—the average since 2014 was 451 days, as compared with 364 days earlier.

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Getting Swachh Bharat statistics right: Moving sanitation outcomes from access to use will represent true state

Declaration of India as an open-defecation free nation was based solely on access to toilets. The outcome measured does not line up with the intent behind the launch of the Swachh Bharat Mission

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To get young students back in classrooms, California plans to offer a financial incentive to districts to reopen.

By BY JILL COWAN from NYT World https://ift.tt/3pGKMjP

This New Year’s Eve, Times Square Will Be Filled With Hope. But Not People.

By BY DAN BARRY from NYT New York https://ift.tt/38MGq3H

Don’t Let the Games Begin

By BY THE EDITORIAL BOARD from NYT Opinion https://ift.tt/3mZ7x0E

Death Transformed a Year, and What May Lie Ahead

By BY WILLIAM MCDONALD from NYT Obituaries https://ift.tt/3aUAZCs

As the Pandemic Took Lives, It Also Stole Hopes

By BY DANIEL J. WAKIN from NYT Obituaries https://ift.tt/38IBM6Q

Rita Houston, WFUV D.J. Who Lifted Music Careers, Dies at 59

By BY RICHARD SANDOMIR from NYT Obituaries https://ift.tt/3htY2Fv

Stimulus, Virus Variant, Georgia: Your Wednesday Evening Briefing

By BY DANI BLUM AND JEREMIAH M. BOGERT, JR. from NYT Briefing https://ift.tt/2KFCDgM

Tuesday, 29 December 2020

Innovators Growth Platform can increase Indian capital availability significantly & address issue of listing

The IGP as a platform has the promise to increase Indian capital availability significantly and address the key issue of listing. It has the added advantage of enabling exits for early-stage investors

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Seeds of change: New farm Acts are the need of the hour

The government should steadfastly articulate, and spread information on the merits of the laws, supplemented with action on the ground to create the required agri-infrastructure

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DNA tracing for rhinos could help check poaching, can be a template for conservation efforts for other animals

While instances of rhino-poaching in India have reduced over the years, there is still significant poaching activity in the country.

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A vote for democracy: Allowing remote voting for migrants a good idea

The ‘dynamic ballot’ EVM would be a sea-change from migrants getting disenfranchised by economic compulsions—travelling back home, incurring spending and loss of income and, potentially, even employment often forces them to give up their franchise—with each such machines allowing the voters of multiple constituencies.

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