Paarth Shah

Abstract Robot manipulation has seen tremendous progress in recent years, with imitation learning policies enabling successful performance of dexterous and hard-to-model tasks. Concurrently, scaling data and model size has led to the development of capable language and vision foundation models, motivating large-scale efforts to create general-purpose robot foundation models.

On June 6, 1966, in one fell swoop, the Indira Gandhi government devalued the Indian rupee by 57 percent, from Rs 4.76 to Rs 7.50 to a dollar, triggering bitter criticism in the Parliament and media. The people, too, joined in claiming that this was the ultimate “sell-out to America and the World Bank”. The move, however, was in the offing for some time.

Lauded as one of the world’s largest rural development programmes, Operation Flood or the ‘White Revolution’ revitalised India’s dairy industry by turning the country into the largest milk producer in the world. Launched on March 4, 1970, by the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB), Operation Flood was the brainchild of Verghese Kurien, the NDDB chairman and a founding member of Anand Milk Union Limited (Amul).