Lakshay Narang
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Tech Policy | Views are personal
Joined September 2014
What else does one do when normal life is depressing for most?!
Indians are drinking, smoking and intoxicating themselves more than they ever have. In just the last decade, spending on alcohol and tobacco has tripled. Rural Indians increased monthly spending from ₹46 to ₹143, urban Indians from ₹42 to ₹157.🧵👇
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Just wanted to remind everyone of TNM's investigation in 2023- which also focused on assembly segments in Bangalore Central seat including Mahadevapura. We found that a Bengaluru NGO- recruited by the BBMP- working with the ECI- was stealing voter data. Chilume NGO also ran
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1. Is it a complete abdication of sense that leads to the cheerleading of today’s action? Let us look at it from the limited context of tactical & strategic security, before we return to political stupidity.
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Can AI & Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) work together to improve public services? While AI can automate welfare, policing & smart cities, real-world risks – like biased outcomes & incorrect welfare exclusions – raise serious concerns. In an article for @livemint, Lakshay
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“The most popular use of UPI [is] making payments at local shops and merchants,” observe @KwatraNikita, Principal and @Lakshay_N, Senior Associate, @Artha__Global in @htTweets, based on a survey conducted by the Centre for Rapid Insights. Read more: https://t.co/lrJ9i0E3YP (1/4)
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The SC demanded data-backed evidence to identify marginalized sub-castes, inadvertently suggesting states should collect and process more data than they already do. Social registries just got judicial backing—great, more ‘single sources of truth’ without any checks and balances
SC verdict allowing sub quotas within SC/ST is to be welcomed. The focus now should be to ensure that the classification is evidence based and fair. And that ‘creamy layer’ exclusion doesn’t become a route to not filling reserved vacancies. Pranav Dhawan and I write in the
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Theory of justice - John Rawls Idea of justice - Amartya Sen The winner tho is “illusion of justice” Stick to finance bro
Reverse discrimination is discrimination. Robbing meritorious students of their rightful opportunities might:- 1) Might help politicians win votes in the short-term. 2) Might give an illusion of justice. 3) But, in the long-term it drives merit away. These are plain facts.
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exams are the bedrock of our education system, if we can’t conduct exams then what even are we?
Government is committed to ensure the sanctity of examinations and protect the interest of students. Ministry of Education has decided that the UGC-NET June 2024 Examination be cancelled on the basis of inputs from Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C) under the Ministry
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While it’s a legitimate concern, but opting to move to a monarchy is a testament to big capital’s disdain for democracy
when you tax them almost 1/3 of their salary even before it hits their account and then charge another ~ 20% on GST, then toll tax, road tax and in return they get potholes and swimming pool on road, horrible govt healthcare services and schools which their kids can't go. And
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a fantastic movie and ahead of its time… it was a better ‘wake up sid’
20 years ago, we were reminded that good films need not make money, & films that make good money need not be great! On June 18, 2004, Lakshya was released, telling the story of an aimless rich youngster who joins the Indian Army & discovers his true goal. A thread🧵
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Modern day Fraudsters don't need to take unnecessary risks by printing fake currency notes. All they need to do is to upload a configuration file to redirect ISO-8583 messages to a different TCP/IP Port. That is the lesson from the UCO Bank case. https://t.co/lFWVbhy4lS /1
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We’re delighted to announce the launch event of ‘The DPI Academy’, dedicated to capacity building and knowledge sharing on DPI. We invite you to join us virtually for a keynote address by R. Chandrashekhar, followed by a panel discussion. Register here: https://t.co/7MyfUa9CQD
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Florentino Perez playing fifa in real life
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capital of the country… hoping that it is not long before the disproportionate effects of climate change on the poor becomes central to delhi’s politics. Summers - water crisis, normal or better monsoon - flooding/dengue/malaria, winters - pollution/air quality crisis.
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#ArthaExplains | “Quantum computing can efficiently address optimisation problems due to its ability to compute multiple variables simultaneously,” writes Raja Chettiar, intern, @artha__global in his latest blog. Read more here:
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