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✊ @Evening: Private Sector Too Needs 'Jai Anusandhaan'
1. 📰 Catch Up
Russia launched massive attack against Ukraine, fired over 120 missiles from air, sea.
India-Australia free trade agreement comes into force, will take bilateral trade to $50 billion in five years.
Negative RT-PCR mandatory for flyers coming to India from China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Singapore and Thailand.
Election Commission to bring remote electronic voting machine for domestic migrant voters.
PM Narendra Modi to flag off Vande Bharat Express, launch projects worth over Rs 7,800 crore in West Bengal tomorrow.
2. 🔍 India Needs Private Sector R&D
PM Narendra Modi added Jai Anusandhan to the troika of Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan, Jai Vigyan during his independence day address this year.
He stressed on the need for research and development (R&D) and innovation to drive Indian economic dreams.
R&D helps in finding scalable solutions to uniquely troublesome Indian day to day problems and creating ideas that can lead the world.
What's needed: So far we have seen how assets like public digital infrastructure evolved through direct public–private partnerships, government sponsorship, enabling process reforms or a combination of these factors.
Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu suggests that if private sector invests in R&D, we can keep talented people here and they can be nurtured for country's good.
Currently, Indian private sector is not investing sufficiently in R&D, neither we have created the culture and mental habits of being R&D driven companies, that culture needs to be built first, Vembu tweeted.
3. ⚙️ Army's First 3D Printed House
The first 3D Printed House Dwelling Unit (with Ground plus One configuration) was inaugurated at Ahmedabad Cantt yesterday.
It has been constructed by the Military Engineering Services (MES) in collaboration with MiCoB Pvt Ltd incorporating the latest 3D Rapid Construction Technology.
Construction work of the dwelling unit measuring 71 sqm with garage space was completed in just 12 weeks by utilising the 3D printed foundation, walls and slabs.
Earlier too, the Indian Army had constructed permanent defences at the Line of Actual Control in eastern Ladakh using 3D Printing technology.
These structures are able to withstand blasts and can be erected within 36-48 hours and relocated from one place to another.
Indian Army’s Corps of Engineers constructed and trial tested them against a range of weapons from small arms to the main gun of T90 tank.
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5. 🎬 Ramanand Sagar's Birth Anniversary
Ramayan serial began its telecast on 25 January 1987 and Ramanand Sagar got barely nine days to prepare for it.
But it became a reality and for 78 weeks, Ramayan was telecast without a break or hurdle and got unprecedented viewership.
Ramanand Sagar's son Prem Sagar wrote An Epic life: Ramanand Sagar: From Barsaat To Ramayan which narrates various incidents related to it.
Ramanand Sagar was honoured with Padma Shri in 2000 for his contribution to Indian cinema and art and passed away in 2005.
How he overcame many administrative and practical hurdles to deliver the Ramayan series is an interesting read.
Another interesting aspect is what happened in the streets and at homes when Ramayan was telecast first that you can read here.
6. 📘 Arun Krishnan's Nandi's Charge
Nandi's Charge is the first book of the Battle of Vathapi series.
It takes us through the riveting tale of preparations on the Pallava side for an eventual campaign against Pulikeshi and the Chalukyas.
The book is about whether a young king, Narasimhavarman can keep a promise made to his dying father.
The equations: The book is set in 7th century CE when Bharat was a land in ferment, politically, socially and ideologically.
It was a time when Santana Dharma was trying to reassert itself with the start of the Bhakti movement in the South.
King Harsha at Kannauj, King Pulilekeshi at Vathapi and King Narasimhavarman at Kanchi loomed large over the Indian political horizon at that point.
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