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Marten wrote: ↑

Wed Nov 08, 2017 5:40 am

Same thing happened to a friend of mine. His mom was physically pushed out of the queue despite being a very quiet and introverted person. He got someone high up to call and talk about bring video evidence about the staff being hostile (flight was full and they were trying to offload folks based on who could protest or not). Even then the Stn Manager was defensive and threatened to blacklist the passenger!

jamwal wrote: ↑

Wed Nov 08, 2017 9:19 am

Any suggestion for air purifier ?

jamwal wrote: ↑

Sat Nov 11, 2017 6:10 am

Is there any way of making them serve non-halal meat ?

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Indian students spent a massive $6.54 billion in the US in 2016-17, up 30% from the previous year, dwarfing the North American country’s foreign direct investment (FDI) of $2.37 billion in India. Of course, a large part of US FDI routed through low-tax jurisdictions like Mauritius is not counted here, although recent changes in tax treaties have made the route a bit less attractive. Among large countries, India was outstripped by China in 2009-10 to become the largest place of origin of students coming to the US, with correspondingly high spending. However, in recent years India has been bridging the gap with a scorching pace of growth in students it sends to the US — 29% in 2014-15, 25% in 2015-16 and 12.3% in 2016-17. Between 2010-11 to 2012-13, when the global financial meltdown hit the US economy badly, there was negative growth in Indian students going to that country. Chinese students spent $12.55 billion in the US in 2016-17, up about 10%.

According to Open Doors, a study by the Institute of International Education along with the US government’s education department, students from India and China now represent approximately 50% of the total enrolment of 1.08 million international students in the US. Indian students comprise 17.3% of all international students in the US, it added. The continued growth in international students coming to the US for higher education has had a significant positive impact on its economy. About 1.08 million international students studying at US colleges and universities contributed $36.9 billion and supported more than 450,000 jobs to its economy during 2016-2017, said NAFSA, an association of international educators.

Open Doors reported that about two-thirds of all international students receive the majority of their funds from sources outside of the US, including personal and family sources as well as assistance from their home country governments or universities. Interestingly, the number of US students coming to India to study for academic credit at their home university has been on the decline since 2013-14 and it fell by 5.8% to 4,181 in 2015-16, as they increasingly prefer European countries. India’s rank in terms of outbound destination for US students also declined to 15 from 13.

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Tue Nov 14, 2017 4:53 pm

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Mort Walker wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 16, 2017 6:17 pm

Looks like Vina got Surajsan pissed off about trolling about steel for IR and got banned on BRF. I disagreed with him on most things, but he did bring a good discussion in to ISRO space launch systems.

Mort Walker wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 16, 2017 6:17 pm

Looks like Vina got Surajsan pissed off about trolling about steel for IR and got banned on BRF. I disagreed with him on most things, but he did bring a good discussion in to ISRO space launch systems.

Raja wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 17, 2017 3:10 am

Mort Walker wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 16, 2017 6:17 pm

Looks like Vina got Surajsan pissed off about trolling about steel for IR and got banned on BRF. I disagreed with him on most things, but he did bring a good discussion in to ISRO space launch systems.

Bound to happen at some point. The very few minor interactions I had with him over email offline years ago, he seemed sane but his online persona was clearly a stereotype of a know-it-all obnoxious IIT munna.