GENESIS OF MILITARY RANKS

AN INTERESTING ACCOUNT OF THE GENESIS OF MILITARY RANKS, OR RATHER ARMY RANKS.
       Rank Insignia Comments
                       Field Marshal http://www.alanharding.com/Military/ranks/field_marsh.gif The rank evolved from the title of marescalci (masters of the horse) of the early Frankish kings. The importance of cavalry in medieval warfare led to the marshalship being associated with a command position.
          

INDIAN TO CORE

The Ambedkar They Don't Want You To Know About Aravindan Neelakandan Apr 14, 2017, 9:44 am

   Maybe Baba Saheb's ideas were first ignored and then misrepresented precisely because the intelligentsia knew that those ideas would not fit into the 'left-liberal' narrative. Being a prolific scholar and a patriot, Dr Ambedkar recorded his observations on a myriad of topics, events, problems and debates of his times. Here are seven aspects of those which the Old Media and the leftist academic cartel do not want Indians to know about.

INDIA AWEs THE WORLD

Consumers set for heady days as world's richest find India too alluring to ignore

Tech development in India will be unpredictable, but the potential payoff could be too huge. Expect the billionaire battle in India to continue.

Some of the world's richest people also happen to be combatants in the expensive war over the future of technology in India.

AADHAAR BENEFITS

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Benefits of Aadhaar are real but so are fears of biometric theft. Here's why

By Shelley Singh, ET Bureau | Apr 13, 2017, 06.31 AM IST

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Technology could make Aadhaar vulnerable. It needs to be further strengthened as devices can be compromised to extract biometrics if the target is high value.

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As far as identification technology for citizens goes, nothing in the world rivals or even comes close to Aadhaar. The biometric-based (fingerprints and iris scans) 12-digit unique identity, now used by almost 1.1 billion Indians, is the most advanced of its kind. Jaijit Bhattacharya, partner, strategy and economics, KPMG India says, "India is at least a decade ahead of any other country in terms of using biometrics as an identity."