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Not a single Muslim chief electoral officer in any State or Union Territory in India right now. eci.gov.in/ceo-contact-detai… – at Bengaluru, India
Our foreign policy establishment has made us the leading destination for conscience arbitrage. – at Bengaluru, India
STORY | Israeli PM Netanyahu warns of potentially hostile future US president, calls for alliances with India, Latin America
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday warned that a future US president could be hostile towards Israel, calling for new alliances with countries such as India and those in Latin America to strengthen his country's position.
Netanyahu made the remarks during an event at which he presented his security doctrine, nine days before Israel's October 27 election.
(Story by: Harinder Mishra/PTI)
READ: ptinews.com/story/internatio…
How does the 18-year minimum age for getting a SIM card survive this observation? – at Bengaluru, India
#BREAKING #SupremeCourt declares that right to access and use the internet is a fundamental right of every individual, including children.
Children, irrespective of their age, enjoy the same right to access and use the internet.
Wow. The new Expectations music video is only unavailable in five places in the world. This is the company we have. @oliviarodrigo @ChappellRoan – at Delhi, India
Interesting – at Delhi, India
A mindset of abundance automatically means a tolerance for a central percentage of fraud and mistakes with the calculus being that the outcomes form the rest will far outweigh the negatives from these two aspects.
This is something the Indian state doesn’t get. Hence all policies are tailored for zero errors/frauds in mind ending up with underutilised policy and underperforming national missions. Like the AI mission.
🔹Ideally the govt should’ve bought and paid for at a higher rate more subsidized GPU hours from the CSPs so that they don’t have to rush to high margin markets to cover up for the unrealistic low rates given to GOI.
🔹They should’ve kept a lower threshold for entry of AI project teams to utilise the India AI stack. The rules seem to have been kept with a presumption that many out there are to use subsidized GPU hours for irrelevant stuff.
🔹 There’s no sync or ability of free flow of capital between the different funding channels. Let’s say the commercial GPU compute cost estimate for a project is ₹2 cr. And at subsidized rates it is available to an academic project for ₹30 lakhs. The project team still has to find the ₹30 lakhs from some funding source. Where? PMRF? RDIF? Ministry grants? CSR funding? Industrial consultancy? Where?
These gaps left infilled lead to inefficient mission outcomes. You have a bunch of CSPs with unused GPUs looking for high margin markets and a bunch of AI startups and academic research groups with no GPU compute access to pursue their research.
Penny wise pound foolish.
Fait accompli concession. Every party worth its salt has already figured out how to download the rolls and run a decent OCR pipeline. End result being that a bunch of AI credits were squandered for no good reason. – at Delhi, India
After blocking dozens of films, the I&B Ministry is denying blocking even one film. – at Delhi, India
I’m shocked to learn of the denial of permission by @MIB_India for 31 films that had been selected for screening at the prestigious 18th International Documentary and Short Film Festival in Kerala, which is scheduled in Thiruvananthapuram next week. This is not only a betrayal of India’s proud tradition of offering a home to the best of world cinema, but an assault on the freedom of expression that is amongst the greatest assets of our democracy.
The government risks shredding our country’s already frayed image globally amongst creative artists, film-makers, writers and those who want to admire their work. @AshwiniVaishnaw please overrule the bureaucrats who have taken such an appalling decision!
Other countries are worried about Starlink switching off access. We're worried about Starlink refusing to switch off access when told to. Demented mindset – at Delhi, India
Checked how Hindi print media is doing. Protests completely blacked out in one paper. As a cherry on top, a Bret Stephens editorial syndicated and translated in Hindi in the opinions page. – at Delhi, India
Ahh the ol' Wangchuk snatcheroo – at Delhi, India
#Breaking
Delhi Police tells Delhi High Court that the decision to denotify Jantar Mantar as the designated protest site was taken pursuant to the Supreme Court order of October 9.
In the order, SC had said that essential facilities must be provided at protest sites and that appropriate sites must be identified and designated.
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In this 1st hand account of detention, the profiling in Delhi police aggression is quite horrific — how a detainee was treated if visibly Muslim.
Plenty literature on how that’s not a new problem; just taken to next levels in how much this hate has been normalized more broadly
"...for protest organisers, simply managing to evade preventive detention, getting your feet on ground, getting chased & eventually being detained is what defines a protest — a tactic which AISA has been successful at"
@NidhiSuresh_ on how they did it:
newslaundry.com/2026/10/12/a…
The moral arc of the universe bends toward free financial transactions – at Delhi, India
UPI MDR on Select Merchant Transactions Shall be Implemented Post Diwali
Press Release Link: npci.org.in/uploads/UPI_MDR_…
1% of people participate in protest: "look, people are going about their business nobody cares outside this 1km stretch"
5%: "man these people are holding entire city ransom"
50%: "looks foreign funded"
90%: "people are unable to go about their business, this has to stop!"
Lol didn't even take 50%. xitter.cf/JethmalaniM/status/210…
Make no mistake: these protests are funded by foreign forces. Their local enablers are playing it out.
Why? Because Prime Minister Narendra Modi refuses to work for any foreign interests and only further the cause of BHARAT. Fullstop, that's the only cause. And the other one which prompted such arson under the garb of protest: the FCRA bill. IYKYK
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Most Indians don't know this, but the Dreze family are literally academic royalty in Belgium.
Jean's brother the late Xavier Dreze was a highly regarded Marketing professor at UCLA's Anderson School of Management. He was one of the very very few who could do both modeling and consumer behavior research. He died very young at age 48. His obituary says he was a true polymath with multiple academic and sporting talents.
Jean's father the late Jacques Dreze was an economist at the Université Catholique de Louvain. He was a highly regarded economist and the first president of the European Economic Association. He has collaborated with nobel laureates Robert Aumann and Franco Modigliani and his publication record is comparable with the best in the field.
Jean Dreze could have had a very cushy life with his family legacy, white skin and European passport. Even in India, he could have been a social butterfly flitting in and out of five star hotels and running think tanks funded hy veated interests. Instead, he took Indian citizenship, learnt Hindi and roughs it out in rural Jharkhand. He designed many schemes and his footprint is all over Indian economic policy.
You may like him or hate him. But Jean Dreze is more Indian than anyone who was born Indian, including you and me. He chose to be Indian. And he has dedicated his life to India.
Think of this the next time some illiterate journalist asks "Who is Jean Dreze?"
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Right-Wing groups assault protestors in the presence of Delhi Police
Read this story by @kaurlavpreet_ thehindu.com/news/cities/Del…
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Post-370, in 2019, several people in Jammu and Kashmir were made to sign such "peace-bonds."
Preventive arrest u/s 126/170 BNSS of Sh. Abhijeet Dipke, Sh. Ashutosh Ranka and Sh. Saurav Das was done on 10.10.2026. All due legal procedures were followed and they were produced before the SEM Court, Delhi Cantt on 11.10.2026.
A bail bond as Surety Bond of ₹50,000/- was filled for maintaining peace and good behaviour, for a period of one year, and they were released by the SEM Court.