Deccan Chronicle Holdings Limited (DCHL) publishes the largest circulated English newspaper in South India -- Deccan Chronicle, bringing you every day the most comprehensive bouquet of news and analysis. Its fearless and unbiased journalism over 75 years has won the Deccan Chronicle a mature and dedicated readership from all over the world. And, it is growing.The Deccan Chronicle has a circulation of over 1.45 million copies each day across Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala. There are eight editions in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana -- Hyderabad, Vijayawada, Rajahmundry, Vishakapatnam, Anantapur, Karimnagar, Nellore and Coimbatore. The paper also has a robust presence in Chennai, Bengaluru and Kochi.
DCHL also publishes The Asian Age, an English daily with editions in Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, and London. The group's financial daily is the Financial Chronicle which publishes from Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bangalore and Chennai. Also in the stable is the very popular Telugu paper Andhra Bhoomi.
DCHL also operates Odyssey - a neighbourhood leisure store that keeps close to its heart the aspirational needs of the consumer and offers a whole gamut of lifestyle products such as books, CDs, stationery and gifts. There are several stores in Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Maharashtra and the National Capital Region.
This Deccan group sounds interesting. I was particularly struck by the comment “Instead of restoring stability, Caesar’s assassination plunged Rome into years of political chaos. Rival factions fought for control and civil wars followed across the Roman world.”
I find myself becoming increasingly worried about the outcome of our leader’s sudden entry into the attack on Iran, not on his own time scale but because another’s attack was imminent. Now we have another dozen+ countries being attacked and drawn into this conflict, so who knows what additional conflicts are going to result from stirring up this mess on land and at sea?
Recently I encountered an interesting question on what would happen if the Chinese Three Gorges Dam (TGD) failed or was attacked. Concerned scientists argued strongly against the TGD as being a very real danger. Structural problems and leaks have already been reported. Unusually heavy rains could overtop any of the 4 dams upriver, as well as the TGD itself and cause collapse of the other dams and then the TGD. A giant bunker buster bomb could also take out the TGD, and even Taiwan could drop such a bomb. India is very concerned because China plans to build a similar huge hydroelectric dam at a lake which is the outlet to India’s sacred river. India has objected, and could also bomb the TGD.
The immediate result of the collapse of this dam would be at least 25 million deaths, and destruction of 40% of China’s industrial low land. A lot of our products, probably including much of our medical supplies might be lost to us for years. We used to have a 5 mile square drug industrial park in Puerto Rico. It failed when a tax law was changed. We should restore that law, and resurrect or rebuild this huge industrial resource on US controlled territory. I hope Trump succeeds in bringing home many of the industrial resources that we need that would be lost if something or someone destroys the TGD structure. Collapse of this dam would be an economic disaster for the world. Off to see how bad AI suggests it could be.