Journalist. #FactCheck FB/AFP 2019-20. Past beats: airlines for Reuters, education for Mint, edited Biz Std. Delhi School of Eco alum. [email protected]

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Also, data collected through RTIs by lawyer @socialjurist Ashok Agarwal shows the Delhi Government has managed to push students out of school in alarming numbers to show better #boardexam results. My story: thewire.in/education/delhi-s…
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Apple’s iPhone Duo is the company’s first foldable device. While alluring for plenty of reasons, @nicnguyen found it comes with the trade-offs of a first-generation product. Read more: 🔗 on.wsj.com/4BoooS0
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Panipat 2047
Prague, Czech Republic 🇨🇿
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They put sharjeel in jail on 28 january for the delhi riots which happened on 23 February.
Sharjeel Imam is neither a liberal nor a leftist but an actual Islamist who believes that Republic of India itself is a Hindutva project of Gandhi and Nehru. He is currently in jail under UAPA not for his views but because of his alleged involvement in Delhi riots.
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Never doubt BATMAN. Batman knows EVERYTHING.🦇
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West Bengal: A Durga Puja at Mahishadal's MYCO Club, Purba Medinipur has photos of Mahatma Gandhi's Killer Nathuram Godse along with other Great Freedom fighters and Icons.
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JUST IN: Meta ordered to pay $25 billion to New Mexico after jury finds company misled consumers about data privacy reut.rs/4emaeGU
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.@NDTV employees think that data privacy is a joke. Firstly, they illegally insist on Aadhaar for contributors get paid. When I finally submitted my Aadhaar PDF as an encrypted file, they shared the decrypted version with many people. Such people should be prosecuted & fined.
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The US eliminated measles in 2000. It took scientists decades to do it, and influencers about ten years to undo it.
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Disculpen mi opinión de extrema izquierda, pero prefiero una sociedad donde nadie pase hambre a otra donde unos pocos puedan comprar diez yates.
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गुप्ता ब्रदर्स … ‘द प्रिंट’ के एडिटर-इन-चीफ़ शेखर गुप्ता का आज ‘दैनिक भास्कर’ में लेख पढ़िए। यह लेख सड़क पर संघर्ष को व्यर्थ बता रहा है। यह चुनाव आयोग, बेरोज़गारी, विदेश नीति की आलोचना को अर्थहीन बता रहा है। भारत में अब तक सत्ता परिवर्तन के केंद्र सड़क,संवाद और जनता ही रही है। यह पहली बार है, पत्रकार सरकार से समस्याओं के समाधान की जगह विपक्ष पर हमले कर रहे हैं । सड़क पर उतरने को व्यर्थ बता रहे हैं । यह लेख ‘मोदी नहीं तो कौन’ की संदर्भ सहित व्याख्या है। प्रधानमंत्री को विकल्प से परे दिखाने का प्रयास है। शेखर गुप्ता प्रधानमंत्री के समर्थन में , संजय गुप्ता को लगातार टक्कर दे रहे हैं। संजय गुप्ता कल ही नागपुर में ‘दैनिक जागरण’ की संपादकीय नीति की घोषणा करके आए हैं । संजय गुप्ता ने जो नागपुर में किया, शेखर गुप्ता उसे दूसरे रूप में ‘शब्दों की चाशनी’ में परोसकर जनता के सामने रख रहे हैं। प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी की विफलता पर सवाल नहीं किए जा सकते, इसलिए नेता प्रतिपक्ष राहुल गांधी पर निशाना साधा जा रहा है। शेखर गुप्ता की ‘रिजीम चेंज’ पत्रकारिता का उदाहरण4 अप्रैल 2012 का यह ‘इंडियन एक्सप्रेस’ है। ऐसी ख़बर जिसका कोई प्रमाण कभी सामने नहीं आ सका। लेकिन ख़बर से एक वातावरण तैयार किया गया, सेना में कथित नाराज़गी, असंतोष और सरकार की विफलता का। सब कुछ ठीक नहीं है, यह संदेश दिया गया। आगे चलकर इन सबका RSS-बीजेपी ने राजनीतिक दुरुपयोग किया। शेखर गुप्ता ने कभी इस पर अफ़सोस नहीं किया। भारतीय जनता की स्मृति कमजोर है। टेलीविज़न, नफ़रत की राजनीति ने उसे अल्ज़ाइमर दौर में पहुँचा दिया है । ‘गुप्ता ब्रदर्स’ इसका पूरा दोहन करते हैं । भारतीय अख़बार और पत्रकारों में ‘गुप्ता ब्रदर्स’ बनने की होड़ लगी है। इसलिए चैनल देखते समय, अख़बार पढ़ते समय सावधान रहें। अपने विवेक को सँभालिए, हर दिन उस पर हमले तेज़ होते जाएँगे। याद रहे, ‘भारतीय मीडिया IT सेल का एक्सटेंशन है।’
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But don't we use JCB more to demolish and less to build?
New Zealand will now build with a 'Made in India' JCB machine: Piyush Goyal
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Somanna, the elephant carrying the howdah with the idol of Goddess Chamundeshwari, ran helter-skelter along Kote Anjaneya Swamy Temple Road in Shivamogga within minutes of the Jamboo Savari procession beginning, causing chaos and tension. The howdah fell off the elephant, leaving its caretakers and Shivamogga City Corporation staff in shock. 📸 S.K. Dinesh
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Students in Italy hit the streets to demand their government fund education instead of war.
The Western world and its bourgeois governments value profits, property, and war more than people, which is why people are rising up en masse to fight for the birth of a better world.
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Genuine question to my seniors: I am very young into the profession and have only seen the present batch of Govt lawyers, that are Tushar Mehta, SV Raju, Chetan Sharma etc. They are all very very rude and arrogant. Is it something unique in this Govt or has always been the case?
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فرنسا قفلت متحف اللوفر خايفين المسروقات اللي فيه تتسرق
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A gentle physician who has spent years trekking up hills to save tribal children is now locked in jail under frivolous but draconian charges (attempt to murder, dacoity), for standing with Adivasis peaceful protesting the mining of their sacred hills in Sijimali and Kutrumali
My dear friends, please, I hope to demand your absolute attention to this matter: In 2018, my junior from St. John’s Medical College, Bengaluru, Dr. Randall Sequeira (middle in the pic), trekked up a steep, bauxite-rich plateau in Odisha to hold a monsoon health camp in the indigenous Kutiya Kondh village of Kutrumali. In a piece he wrote then titled "Kutrumali’s Demons," Randall described sleeping under a dripping school roof in freezing fog, borrowing utensils from a local health worker to cook khichdi, and waking up at 6 AM to a line of tribal mothers. He wrote with heartbreak about treating malnourished toddlers with protruding bellies and visible ribs, listening to stories of stillbirths and chronic fevers, while noticing the shiny new solar lights installed by a mining conglomerate eyeing the aluminium ore beneath the villagers' feet. Comparing his small medical team to hobbits sheltering in the night, Randall worried about the outside forces coming for that fragile village. Randall stayed with the tribal/ adivasi community to serve them. After St. John’s and an MD in Internal Medicine from SMS Jaipur, he gave up every comfort of urban medicine to live in Kalahandi, recognizing that clinical prescriptions are meaningless when indigenous communities are stripped of their forests, water, and dignity. On the night of October 16, Odisha police picked up Dr. Randall Sequeira and Dalit activist Laxman Naik at 11 PM from his home in Bhawanipatna. A gentle physician who has spent years trekking up hills to save tribal children is now locked in Rayagada sub-jail under frivolous but draconian charges (attempt to murder, dacoity), simply for standing with Adivasis peaceful protesting the mining of their sacred hills in Sijimali and Kutrumali. thewire.in/rights/randall-se… Odisha Govt. said it will cut down forests to connect tribal villages. But it was a way to bypass green laws and fast track London based Vedanta’s, and Adani's mining plans. Local organisations estimate that around 45 villages depend on these hills and would be affected. reporters-collective.in/trc/… The state has answered with repression rather than dialogue. In the last three years, at least 43 police cases have been filed and over a hundred Adivasis and Dalits, both women and men, have been incarcerated in Odisha jails. For example, from In March and april 2026, 8, 2026, to April 8, 2026, within one month, 24 people were sent to jail, 217 were made accused, and the number of “others” total 1,140. An activist who was not named in the original FIRs, but has since been implicated in about 12 cases, so that bail in one case is followed by arrest in another. This pattern of capture and releases have been used to crush rational dissent. Dr. Randall understood that being a good doctor means understanding that prescriptions cannot compensate for the denial of land rights, that surgery cannot undo displacement and that no medical can substitute for the basic infrastructure a government has failed to provide. thehindu.com/sci-tech/health… To my fellow medical fraternity, and every citizen with a conscience: a kind physician who embodies the highest ethics of our profession is being criminalized to clear the way for bauxite mining. Please do not let his voice be buried in a sub-jail. Amplify this, demand due process, and demand the immediate release. Please sign in this form to show solidarity: forms.gle/o2Rj2Uu3tXaoWu9dA If anyone can help out in this situation please reach out to Medico Friend Circle - mfcindia.org/
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There is a wilful blindness to this , a complete refusal to see that even if everyone enters the constitutional contract equally, it does not in reality operate like that. And this is precisely what the Indian liberal wants to fight for- the sanctity of that promise while failing to confront the lived reality that so starkly contradicts it, whose example is precisely Sharjeel’s case. Sharjeel, both through his words and his case, is demonstrating to you the gap that exists between the promise and the execution.
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No they aren’t and that’s precisely what I am saying. He enjoys the same constitutional protections that a person in power or a person subscribing to the ideology of those in power does. So he cannot be in jail without trial even if we vehemently disagree with what he is saying
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Only 8% women in regular salaried jobs in 2023-24, down from 11% in 2017-18.
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May your average everyday muslim blood-thirst drown you one day.
Anyone who speaks of "cutting Assam out of India" deserves same or worse. If Sharjeel Imam is released, @assampolice should give him the treatment they are infamous for. Let it be clear. Nobody. NOBODY, should ever dare to threaten Northeast people. And we, the people of Assam, across Party lines agree with Government on how they are treating Sharjeel Imam. Sorry, but anyone empathising with Sharjeel Imam viewpoint is an ISIS Sympathiser. Because every word out of Sharjeel mouth has been seditious, against unity and integrity of India. People like Sharjeel, inspired by Jihadi material within their rooms on internet. Go onto inspire other criminal elements and create lone-wolf attackers. They might sound non-threatening because they are expressing their free speech. But when the speech, itself becomes the greatest tool of religious indoctrination, it does not take formal training to create a Fidayeen. During my time in Guwahati Jail, I met this 22 year old young boy who was an IIT Guwahati Student. He was a shy kid who hanged around alone inside Guwahati Jail. One day, he came up to me knowing I was the only Lawyer - Jailee inside and wanted to know his legal rights. The Jailer Sir and Jail Superintendent, who observe everything on CCTV asked me to stay away from him, as they believed he was a gone case. I told them, I believe in reformation and let's see what got this boy from a JEE Topper into a IS recruit. The boy had a very touching story. His dad was a daily wage labourer while mother was a Tailor in a poor locality of Delhi. He was a childhood genius. Studied his way around Government Schools, cracked IIT JEE around 2020 after Delhi Riots. It was during this time, he came across Sharjeel Imam videos. Once he got into IIT, he used the privacy of his hostel room to explore further on chat rooms and dark web. Got in touch with so-called handlers in Bangladesh. He was one stop away from pulling a catastrophe. I would do my morning walks with him. Engage in debate for hours to feel his pulse. But the absolute religious mindwash of this boy, even after being in jail, was relentless. For him, Indian Constitution is un-Islamic and Constitutional ideals of equality and secularism, untainable. I would even bring examples from Quran like Abu-Bakr and the way Prophet justified equal treatment to slaves. Those principles are somewhere enshrined in Constitution,Article 14, minority religious rights etc. I would always tell him Indian Constitution is not perfect, and yes there are points which can be abused, but still it is the best thing for us. And we should trust in it, as it is drafted by rational men, not an interpretation of word of God. But this boy, would bring Kashmir in every other argument. Paint plight of Muslims in India in a picture worst than Palestinians in Gaza. And in his head, he still believed that in 1947, the right to choose or franchise was stolen from muslims. And that gives him or others the legitimacy to call for secession. Call us Kafirs. I loved Jurisprudence, so I would try to negate the grundnorm or source of his arguments. That Indian Constitution gives no right to secession. But he was always adamant on it. And if he lost an argument, he would say, Sharjeel Bhaiya spoke so. So it must be correct! He was a typical Andhbhakt but on the other side of spectrum. It is one example, there are multiple such examples of such wolves created by Sharjeel across University Campuses through his videos. I told Jailer Sir, I give up. He said, Singh Ji, you are a Guest for few days here. Why get involved with such people who have given up on life and see death as only solitude. I learnt my lesson. You cannot reform a Terrorist. Once they are outside, they will angst out years of anger subdued inside during their time in Jail. A released terrorist is more dangerous to society than a reluctant fundamentalist. Those released from Guantanamo Bay ended up becoming the most dreadest Al Qaeda operatives
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The whole point of using 'chaiwala' to make fun of a certain someone is that he never was a chaiwala in the first place. Nothing classist about it.
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