Dev Kachari

Journalist with @ET_Infra.
I write on aviation, shipping, logistics, supply chain.
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[Dev Kachari @KachariDev]

Professional knowledge has to be acquired the hard way and without professional knowledge you can never have professional competence. And if you haven't got professional competence, you cannot be a leader. - Sam Manekshaw.

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Jantar Mantar this week.

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Bond investors are now factoring in rising risks with AI frenzy and hence higher yields. All signs of an inevitable AI Bubble Burst.

[Financial Times @FT]

FT Exclusive: Bond investors are looking for significantly higher yields on a new BlackRock-led deal compared with the terms secured just nine months ago, as markets price in higher risks around AI exposure. https://t.co/iprhwWRNXg

[Siddharth Upasani @SiddharthUbiWan]

No attempt to even veil the threat

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Brokerage fee for the so called 'Islamabad MoU' which as of now is up in smokes!

[The Hindu @the_hindu]

Pakistan’s Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb has asked U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to provide Islamabad with a $10 billion Exchange Stabilisation Support Facility to help strengthen its economy, according to a media report.
https://t.co/LBhIeB9L6L

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SKYROOT: Among the payloads of India’s first privately built @SkyrootA Vikram 1 orbital rocket is Cosmoserve Space's Embrace, a robotic arm designed to capture orbital debris. I interacted with Cosmoserve’s founder and former @ISRO scientist Chiranjeevi last year in November, wherein he shared the business potential of capturing space debris, which is estimated at 50,000 large objects and millions of smaller debris fragments in orbit as well as recovering end-of-life satellite retrieval. Sharing the story again in the link below

https://t.co/Yj1rl66kEl

#Vikram1 #MissionAagaman

[Annie Jacobsen @AnnieJacobsen]

Very first U-2 flights over the Soviet Union in 1950s used Kodak film, owing to the fact that Col. Leghorn, the father of overhead espionage, was founder of Itek (Kodak’s optics partner).

Can’t wait to see The Odyssey tonight.

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NEWSBREAK: Under the revamped UDAN scheme, the Ministry of Civil Aviation has extended the period of VGF scheme from 3 to 5 years. I broke the story in April last year that the Ministry of Civil Aviation is looking to increase the VGF period up to 5 years. Link below

https://t.co/MmOWbpMJtH

@RamMNK @MoCA_GoI #civilaviation #udan

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In my experience, PR firms, in many occasions end up doing reputational damage for their clients by their uprofessional conduct rather than create good brand image. #Odyssey

[Chandra R. Srikanth @chandrarsrikant]

Account of so called #Odyssey *press conference* by @rohitkhilnani
Unfortunately, some Big Techs also behave like this when their CEOs are in India!

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Australia's largest pension fund @AustralianSuper to invest another $500 million (Australian dollar) in India’s National Investment and Infrastructure Fund @NIIFIndia. Story link below #indiaaustralia #PMModiInAustralia

https://t.co/G7xjeaXc60

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India's civil aviation authority has paved the way for Brazil's @embraer to offer its E-Jets range of narrow-body regional aircraft (E190, E195, and the E195-E2) to Indian airlines. The air worthiness approval bodes well for the company whose E175 aircraft is already operated in India for regional air connetivity by @OfficialStarAir . India has a requirement of nearly 100 aircraft annually, out of which there is a demand of atleast 30 aircraft which are in the 80 to 150 seater category.

Full story in the link below
https://t.co/hivgqxxWdW

[Dev Kachari @KachariDev]

@idrwalerts You have plagiarised the above story. The original source is below
https://t.co/4zYQtMDKoU

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India is now gearing up to undertake the manufacturing of indigenous Saras MK-II aircraft (prototype). Senior official from @CSIRNALOFFICIAL shares with me that the design phase of the aircraft is complete and next step is undertaking the manufacturing, comprising both composites and metallic structures. Full story in the link below.
https://t.co/W5wSZCGX2m

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And this is exactly what India wanted, to bring Pakistan under the conventional space.

[Sahar Khan @khansahar1]

“It was due to Pakistan's restraint and responsibility that its Babar cruise missiles or the longer-range Shaheen Missiles, designated to deliver nuclear weapons, were not used in the 2025 crisis to avoid unintended escalation. This is also the reason for Pakistan now developing its conventional rocket force as distinct from its strategic missiles.”

An excellent piece by Amb. Zamir Akram: https://t.co/3aSTuOsxKB

[Dev Kachari @KachariDev]

@SandeepUnnithan Operation Opera carried by IAF against nuclear research facility in Iraq till date remains unprecedented in terms of air attack boldness. Americans had a free run in Desert Storm because of the Israelis.

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@sujoy_sikdar @somnath1978 😆

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Washington realised that India is not as stupid as Ukraine. If the US along with Israel cant militarily subdue Iran, what strategic benefit does US offer to India vis-a-vis China.

[Ken Moriyasu @kenmoriyasu]

The dropping of “Indo” from PACOM signals the decreasing significance of India in Washington’s strategic thinking.

There were already hints of this in Hegseth’s Shangri-La speech. “India was mentioned last,” an Asian diplomat said.

Hegseth praised the efforts of South Korea, the Philippines, Japan, Australia, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam before finally turning to India.

https://t.co/R81CvlVJzg

[Dev Kachari @KachariDev]

@ashishsphotos Its a good shot.