Quick notes: Indian surrender, TVR Shenoy...

• Accepting defeat: India has sought China's assistance to speed up Bengaluru-Chennai railway corridor besides redevelopment of Agra and Jhansi railway stations.



• Trade deficit with China doubles in a decade. “Chinese exports mostly manufactured items while India’s exports to China are mostly primary products like ores, slag and ash, cotton etc”



• Unhealthy state: Share of exports in GDP at 14-year low of 19.4%



• Corporate debt to equity is at all-time high: The biggest ever fire sale of Indian corporate assets has begun, to tide over bad loans crisis



• Corporates make 73% of bad loans: Rs 4.70 lakh crore worth of public sector bank bad loans were due to loans extended to industry.



• TVR Shenoy: India's first 'Sangh journalist'... Editor who saw the future.
  
  
  



• Next East India Company: Amazon's India bet is paying off big time



• China is winning the 5G race: “When you control telco networks, you can control everything”.



• Grasshopper: A learn-to-code app from Google’s Area-120 incubator



• Water From the Sun: Solar-powered water pumps offer farmers a way out of poverty



• Language route to tackle Maoist issue: The govt can't talk in tribal languages and doesn't understand what's the largely Gondi-speaking sons and daughters of the soil wished to convey. The tribes on the other hand consider Hindi as a language of the upper caste. Because of the language divide, welfare schemes don't percolate to them in forests.