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Aj Duggal saab Shivji bane hain 🙄 when will this drama stop? As the man gets older this just looks like the musings of a senile mind

This was Mehdi after the Charlie Hebdo massacre in 2015. Big free speech guy, he is. huffingtonpost.co.uk/mehdi-hasan/ch…

Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi has offered to step in as mediator between Kabul and Islamabad, which itself is mediating between the US and Iran amid the war in the Gulf. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/ac…

Left "liberals"

Folks, she is an Olympic medallist. To ask her what she thinks of Vaibhav Sooryavanshi is unfair on her achievements and her sports. Cricket anyway is the ruling passion of the country, your sports editors do not need another celebrity quote to spin a headline on Sooryavanshi. Optionally, the next time ask Vaibhav Sooryavanshi about Manu Bhaker and see the looks you get.

True sign of a mature democracy! 🤣 #Indyeah! #WestBengalLegislativeAssemblyelection2026

@mujoo_karan a day early! wish u the same! 🙃

@iCurius Also, Happy Birthday bro!

Just the best bookstore ever.

- mix 85% ethanol in petrol to reduce oil imports - import american corn to make ethanol - charge Indians same price as 100% petrol for lower mileage

An official railway handle mocking poor migrants trying to earn a living, this is a new low. Every year, despite drawing hefty salaries, officials fail to manage the same predictable crowd situations. The same failures repeat, again and again. And instead of taking accountability, you choose to mock those who leave their homes in search of a livelihood. This isn’t just insensitive, it’s deeply irresponsible, hope you have some shame left @WesternRly

“Racists are always going to be racist.” Thanks for reminding us, I guess.

Saddest scene - we saw one year ago in Pahalgam .. It was our security failure ..How come Pak terrorists entered 200 km inside .... then India responded with Operation Sindhoor.. But we soon stopped due to US Pressure .. Trump first Tweeted the ceasefire ... Then we shameless played Cricket with Pakistan - because Cricket is a big business 😎

Such laws should exist for no religion. Blasphemy laws have no place in a modern Democratic country.

The only world leader who can open the Strait of Hormuz

🇮🇳 Vaishali Rameshbabu: FIDE Women’s World Championship challenger, with her FIDE Women’s Candidates winner’s trophy 🌟🏆♟️ #FIDECandidates #FIDEWomensCandidates #FIDE #Chess #Cyprus

The best story about The New York Times this week didn’t appear in the paper. In fact it wasn’t an article at all, but a web site created by a freelance journalist named Ted Alcorn. Alcorn tapped into the paper’s public API to create a dashboard that provides some extraordinary insights. The first was that over the past 25 years, the Times employed – at various times – a total of 26,000 reporters who wrote 1.5 billion words to produce 2.2 million articles. You can use the dashboard to drill down to see which beats, topics and people have been covered the most and how that coverage has fluctuated. A few examples of the kinds of things Alcorn cited that he noticed: ➡️Trump dominates headlines vs everyone ➡️Maggie Haberman has the most bylines recently ➡️India has been undercovered per-capita ➡️China coverage peaked around 2014 ➡️Iowa stories surge every four years Political partisans will mine the site for ammunition to argue the paper of record is pro THIS or anti THAT. But that debate misses larger truths unearthed counting the number of stories in so many ways over such a long time period. The volume provides a measure of attention largely independent of ideology. Whether a news story about Trump is positive or negative doesn’t change the fact it is about Trump. And the fact that a story was published about Trump reflects interest in hm. It’s not a perfect system, but at this scale, breath and consistency, there is probably no better public dataset to measure what is on everyone's mind. What Alcorn built – whether he realized it or not – was effectively a better version of Google Trends. Google Trends provides comparisons based on search but they don't give you the actual data. It's normalized so you get relative percentages and that limits the comparisons you can make. The Times archive comes from a single institution with a mostly consistent editorial policy over 25 years. That makes apples to apples comparisons possible. It’s a clean cohort in a world where good data is hard to find. It provides a useful signal for understanding how attention has shifted among countries, companies, or individuals. Times reporters jumped on the site when it appeared, mostly to see where they ranked on the leader board. Times editors will likely use the tool to better understand how coverage has shifted. Given its utility, it’s sort of insane that it took an outsider to build it. But in an open API world, the best analytics often are built by people outside the wall. Alcorn explained the difficulty of reconciling data: Categories shift and reporters change names. The same subject gets coded differently over time. Some Times reporters flagged bugs and suggested features. But so far the paper hasn’t commented on the project, which he cheekily called Below the Fold. Here is the link to the @tedalcorn site tedalcorn.github.io/nyt/

💡🚨📊So, in my previous thread on the Delimitation bill draft, I had suggested a weighted model to better allocate Lok Sabha MP seats for each states in a much fairer manner. let us see how we can do this? x.com/saikirankannan… 👇👇👇

Terracotta head of Goddess Durga from Ghazni, Afghanistan, c. 200 CE currently in the National Museum of Afghanistan in Kabul.