Despite 'regular mock drills', fighting the blaze was an uphill task. Fire safety personnel & residents had to deal with obstructions, locked houses & infra issues.
Apps like MyGate, NoBrokerhood, ADDA, and Gatekeeper have changed how gated communities function. They offer security and convenience, but fears are growing over data security and privacy.
The newest among the new rich are arriving in NCR's wealthy, rarified, self-contained condos. But for the old residents and the working class, they don't have enough 'civility'.
In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.
India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is that BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.
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