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Yep. Just got logged out and cannot log back in. It redirects to logout immediately after login.

sumatra uses a mupdf backend. Same as zathura on linux.

It's a potential situation India is always worried about from a strategic aspect. India is neither strategically aligned to the US nor against it. Historically US strongly supporte…

MDR problem can be solved as you indicated. It also needs a solution pretty soon too. EU and developed countries' banks live and finance their profits on fees as they don't make mu…

Yes, some basis exists for such assumptions. RuPay and UPI were originally conceptualised by RBI and Govt of India to solve the overdependence problem. Otherwise RBI and GoI had no…

I don't agree with your interpretation on this being a stealth tactic but even if this was one it's just the state institutions acting in the interest of their mandate. This might …

Please understand the context behind the rules before ranting. PayPal restrictions exist because india doesn't have free capital account convertibility and forex providers need to …

UPI primarily uses a virtual private address in the form of an email address. You only need to disclose this vpa to the merchant. It looks like username@statebank You don't need to…

Not a problem since the last two years - widely available but expensive. They are irradiated at BRIT, Navi Mumbai and shipped of directly to Atlanta. India now has many irradiation…

It's actually called Paracetamol in the rest of the world except USA. It's in the list.

Since 2017, India has abolished state VAT by a constitutional amendment. Now there is a single consumption tax system called the GST across all states. A GST council collects all t…

I am neither an expert nor familiar with US constitutional law, but in most other countries the federal power trumps the power of any states/provinces and is not limited by a singl…

In Most countries, the National legislature can restructure states, impose nationwide simplification of tax policy etc within the limits of the federal structure they have. US is o…

They actively use IMF as a tool and their own trade policies as avenues to force smaller countries to to remove or not implement capital controls although it's disadvantagious to t…

True. This is hypocrisy at its finest

Don't conflate regulation with authoritarianism. Capital restrictive make sense as long as countries don't permit free labour movement. If you permit capital flight from developing…

Western countries don't need capital controls because they have widely accepted reserve currencies. This is a developing country risk

Expectation of difficulties of enforcement is not a legitimate concern that can exceed or override the need for regulation. Lack of regulation can be much worse. False dichotomy

Capital controls are necessary to prevent complete failure of the financial system of developing countries due to hyperinflation where the rich can extract the maximum from the eco…

Legitimate business are allowed to exceed capital controls after verification of intent and is a long standing practice among many countries

These restrictions will be more common among developing countries. This is legitimate financial regulation and has nothing to do with bombastic statements by some media accusing th…