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My column in @the_hindu on some ideas for fire-safety on the 10th anniversary of the Carlton Fire incident !! Online ratings and monetary fines required to increase cost of non-compliance of Fire safety norms!! thehindu.com/opinion/column… @uday_vijayan @vasanthihari @beyondcarlton

@vijayshekhar Awesome!!

First full-year profit. ₹2,008 Cr EBITDA swing, in twelve months. #PaytmKaro

Hope all safe @beyondcarlton @bengalurupost1

Winston Churchill fought his depression with bricks. He'd lay them for hours at his country home in Kent. He joined the bricklayers' union. And in 1921 he wrote about why it worked. It took psychology another 75 years to catch up. He called his depression the "Black Dog." It followed him for decades. His method for fighting it back was as basic as it sounds: laying brick after brick, hour after hour. Churchill spelled out his theory in a long essay for The Strand Magazine. People who think for a living, he wrote, can't fix a tired brain just by resting it. They have to use a different part of themselves. The part that moves the eyes and the hands. Woodworking, chemistry, bookbinding, bricklaying, painting. Anything that drags the body into a problem the mind can't solve by itself. Modern psychology now calls this behavioral activation. It's one of the most-studied depression treatments out there. Depression sets a behavior trap. You feel bad, so you stop doing things, and doing less means less to feel good about. Feeling worse makes you do even less. The loop tightens until you can't breathe inside it. Behavioral activation breaks the loop from the action side. You schedule the activity first, even when every part of you doesn't want to. Doing it produces small rewards: a wall gets straighter, a painting fills in, a messy room gets clean. Those small rewards slowly rewire the brain. Action comes first, and the feeling follows. Researchers at the University of Washington put this to the test in 2006. They studied 241 adults with major depression and compared three treatments: behavioral activation, regular talk therapy, and antidepressants. For the people who were most severely depressed, behavioral activation matched the drugs. It beat the talk therapy. A 2014 review of more than 1,500 patients across 26 trials backed up the result. Physical work like bricklaying does something extra on top of this. It crowds out rumination, the looping bad thoughts that grind people down during the worst stretches of depression. Bricklaying needs both hands and gives feedback brick by brick: each one is straight or crooked. After an hour you can see exactly how much wall you built. No room left for the mental chewing. The line George Mack used in his post, "depression hates a moving target," is good poetry. The science behind it is sharper. Depression hates a brain that has somewhere else to be.

@AI4IndiaOrg @anewalok @shashidigital @MIB_India Congrats @shashidigital

A proud moment for all of us. We’re delighted to share that our Co-founder, Shashi Shekhar Vempati, @shashidigital has been appointed as the Chairperson of the Central Board of Film Certification by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, @MIB_India . Over the years, his work across media, public policy, and technology has been driven by a strong sense of purpose and a deep understanding of India’s evolving information ecosystem. This appointment reflects that journey and the trust placed in his leadership at a national level. We extend our heartfelt congratulations and wish him the very best as he takes on this important responsibility.

केंद्र सरकार ने शशि शेखर वेम्पति को केंद्रीय फिल्म प्रमाणन बोर्ड का अध्यक्ष नियुक्त किया है। वे कार्यभार ग्रहण की तारीख से तीन साल तक इस पद पर रहेंगे। इससे पहले प्रसून जोशी के प्रसार भारती के अध्यक्ष बनने के बाद यह पद खाली हुआ था। शशि शेखर वेम्पति पहले प्रसार भारती के सीईओ रह चुके हैं और मीडिया व प्रसारण क्षेत्र में व्यापक अनुभव रखते हैं। ख़बर विस्तार से पढ़ने के लिए जुड़ें #PBSHABD के साथ, अभी जुड़ने के लिए क्लिक करें:Shabd.prasarbharati.org #CBFC #Media #PBSHABD

অসমৰ ৰাইজৰ মাজত দিনে-নিশাই কৰা পৰিশ্ৰমৰ বাবে মই বিজেপি-এনডিএৰ সকলো কৰ্মকৰ্তাক অভিনন্দন জনাইছো। যোৱা এটা দশকত আমাৰ দল আৰু মিত্ৰজোঁট যিদৰে বিকশিত হৈছে, সেয়া সঁচাকৈয়ে প্ৰশংসনীয়। তেওঁলোকৰ প্ৰচেষ্টাই আমাৰ ইতিবাচক এজেণ্ডাই ৰাইজৰ হৃদয় স্পৰ্শ কৰাটো নিশ্চিত কৰিছে। @BJP4Assam

Wildest is @prempanicker predicting this result all the way back in Aug 2025. Do read. prempanicker.substack.com/p/the-star-who…

Ghaziabad: A massive fire erupted in slum huts in Vasundhara Sector-9, but a major tragedy was averted thanks to the swift response of the fire department. Firefighters rushed to the spot, contained the blaze that engulfed around five huts, and stopped it from spreading to nearby homes. No casualties were reported.

Mission Drishti by GalaxEye marks a major achievement in our space journey. The successful launch of the world’s first OptoSAR satellite and the largest privately-built satellite in India is a testament to our youth’s passion for innovation and nation-building. Heartiest congratulations and best wishes to the founders and the entire team of GalaxEye. @GalaxEye

Congrats @GalaxEye

Terrible .. so many fire accidents in the last few weeks leading to loss of lives!! @beyondcarlton

A fantastic VC that I had the opportunity to interact and work with!! All the best to Lt.Gen Venkatesh!! @MAHE_Manipal

Did this in 2021 !! Highly recommend it…

The team which mapped the human genome!! RIP

Bengaluru should be ready for another round of significant thunderstorms this evening and early tonight. There is a 95-100% chance of strong thunderstorm formation near (within 20 km) or over Bengaluru between 4-11 pm. Strong winds and rainfall are possible. Further updates later

What terrible news

Scary .. need to check on fire safety measures in PG buildings in Blore … @beyondcarlton

Wow!!

OMG

HISTORY HAS BEEN MADE 🫨 Sabastian Sawe becomes the first person ever to break the 2-hour barrier in official race conditions, storming to a historic 1:59:30‼️ @KejelchaYomif, on his marathon debut, also breaks 2 hours with a stunning 1:59:41 and @jacobkiplimo2 clocks 2:00:28, also faster than the previous world record 😤