The Indian budget every year has always been an eagerly awaited event. For many decades, the best minds in economics, finance, tax, business and industry throng the media house to analyze the provisions shared by the Financial Minister.
Sometimes major events completely disconnected may be data points for the plans of the different powers around the world. The challenge is to discern what purpose they serve? More critically, what are we moving towards?
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The analysis of the 5.1 richter earthquake in historic Murcia town of Lorca in southeast Spain last year has brought up an interesting finding, that could prove disastrous to India as well. Scientists now believe that it wasn’t created by natural reasons, but due to man-made stress on the earth’s crust.
Now, scientists say they have evidence that the disaster was not caused by nature, but can be attributed to a controversial technique to suck water out of the ground to feed domestic supplies. It is believed the loss of water in the ground surrounding Lorca caused stress changes in the Earth’s crust along a major faultline. The disturbance was enough to trigger a rupture in the rock, leading to the earthquake.
The findings, published in the journal Nature Geoscience, highlight the extent to which human activity can influence seismic shocks.
This area has seen a drop of 250 mtrs in the ground water level since the 1960s. On examination, the fault patterns correlated with stresses due to loss of groundwater.
India also has been losing groundwater in a big way across all regions. Specially in the North, where the fault lines are already there.
Many studies in the past have related earthquakes to the Oil & Gas extraction as well, specifically when using Fracking technique.
The Indian budget every year has always been an eagerly awaited event. For many decades, the best minds in economics, finance, tax, business and industry throng the media house to analyze the provisions shared by the Financial Minister.
When the US Ambassador threatened India's "Strategic Autonomy" policy over India's friendship with Russia - much more than meets the eye was at stake. Let us unpack how the Ukraine war has fundamentally changed the US and the world. And why are we here anyway?
This visit of India left me with many questions. Many observations and inputs from different people and sections. Food for thought that I have tried to contemplate on and make sense of. Sharing all that with you.
When you analyze the last 60 years of the economic miracles of Singapore, South Korea and Malaysia versus the continued impoverished Indian economy, you get very interesting lessons. Can Indians have the wherewithal in them to do in one generation so that the coming generations may rise?
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