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Me while eating a croissant - No Stopping!

I dont have an issue with Guwahati getting games. BCCI has historically had games given to the states represented by their office bearers. Mumbai got games when Sharad Pawar was at the helm. So I get it. The issue is which games you are giving. Giving a Test match when you already saw the bad light issue with early sunset there last year vs South Africa. Ranchi Ahmedabad getting BGT tests ahead of Mumbai and Eden Gardens is a joke too. Anyway we have to get used to it I guess.

@ThePuneMirror मूर्ख लोकांना बसवला सत्तेत तर हेच घडत राहणार. फालतूचे ropeways कोणासाठी? त्यापेक्षा पुण्यात सगळीकडे उद्याने आणि मैदाने बनवा आणि maintain करा, सोबत चांगल्या रस्ते आणि footpaths, ज्याचा नागरिकांना उपयोग आहे. आणि हे पाहायला रोपवे पेक्षा जास्त लोक पण येतील. @PMCPune

Standing Committee Chairman Shrinath Bhimale will present the Pune Municipal Corporation’s budget for 2026–27 in the municipal assembly hall, with an expected outlay exceeding ₹13,995 crore. An increase of approximately ₹1,000 to ₹1,200 crore is likely to be proposed in the budget. This comes days after Municipal Commissioner Naval Kishore Ram presented the administrative budget pegged at ₹13,995 crore. Notably, for the past four years, the budget had been presented by the municipal administration. With the Standing Committee now taking charge, attention is on potential revisions and enhancements in allocations. Pune residents are closely watching which departments will receive special provisions in the revised budget. #PMC #Budget #latestnews

@GLegament369 @pjraj2391 @ShubhenduMurari Don’t be a troll, learn to use Google or ChatGPT.

@pjraj2391 @ShubhenduMurari Fake sachin has average 57 after 100 test

Wrong comparison to start with Sachin's sample size is 66 tests bigger than Sangakara It's tough to maintain that average in longer run Secondly, Sachin has faced late 80's as well as all 90's bowlers while Sangakara has played only after 2000

In the early 1950s, Russia was offering crude oil to India in rupees. The US opposed it even then. 95% of the market was in the control of three Western MNCs - Burmah Shell, Stanvac, and Caltex. They refused to accept Russian oil. It was then that Minister Keshav Dev Malviya moved the proposal for oil exploration and production in India itself, which got active support from PM Nehru. US and Britain refused technical help and financial support for oil exploration, arguing that a poor country like India didn’t need to venture out for such an expensive adventure. But India went ahead. ONGC was established in 1955. Within two years, KD Malviya ensured that 100 geologists and geophysicists were trained. By 1959, India struck oil! Since then, ONGC has led India’s energy security programme. It became India’s most profitable company. By 2014, it was debt-free, with cash reserves of 13,000 crore rupees. India produced 27% of its domestic oil needs. Now it is 13%! Come 2025. ONGC is under a debt of 78,000 crore rupees. The money for exploration was diverted to write off loans and dead investment of Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation worth nearly 26,000 crore rupees and fund the deficit of the Union Government by forcing ONGC to buy stakes of HPCL for 36,000 crore rupees, which went to the union budget! So the exploration suffered, and our domestic production of crude oil is falling. I write for National Herald that how the Modi government strangulated oil exploration, profiteered from oil imports, and squeezed money out of the common people in the form of taxes. Now is the time to protect them from rising crude oil prices by giving subsidies, by taking a cue from the UPA government and Dr. Manmohan Singh’s policies. @NH_India @INCIndia @RahulGandhi @kharge

A tech consultant in Sydney spent $3,000 and two months to do what Moderna has spent billions trying to scale. Paul Conyngham adopted Rosie, a staffy-Shar Pei cross, from a shelter in 2019. In 2024, tumors started growing on her back leg. Mast cell cancer, the most common skin cancer in dogs. He tried surgery, chemo, immunotherapy. Nothing shrank the tumors. Just slowed them down while the bills stacked into the tens of thousands. So he opened ChatGPT and asked it how to cure his dog’s cancer. The AI didn’t cure anything. What it did was compress months of literature review into hours. It suggested genomic sequencing, walked him through neoantigen identification, helped him build a research pipeline that would normally require a postdoc and a lab budget. He paid $3,000 to sequence Rosie’s tumor DNA at UNSW’s Ramaciotti Centre, then ran the mutations through AlphaFold to model the protein structures. A computational biology professor at UNSW saw his analysis and was, in his own words, gobsmacked that someone with zero biology training had assembled the whole thing. Then came the part nobody expects. The science was the easy half. Australian ethics approval to run a drug trial on your own pet took three months. Two hours every night after work, filling out a 100-page application. The red tape was harder than designing the vaccine. Once he cleared that, Páll Thordarson at the UNSW RNA Institute built a custom mRNA vaccine from Conyngham’s data. Sequencing to finished vaccine: less than two months. Conyngham drove 10 hours to deliver Rosie for her first injection in December. One month later, the tennis-ball-sized tumor on her leg had shrunk 75%. Here’s where the numbers get interesting. Moderna and Merck just reported five-year data on their personalized mRNA cancer vaccine for melanoma. It encodes up to 34 neoantigens per patient. The Phase III trial is fully enrolled. Projected cost per patient: $100,000 to $300,000. Their pipeline is worth an estimated $2.3 billion in annual sales by 2031. Conyngham did a version of the same workflow for his dog. Sequenced the tumor. Identified the neoantigens. Built a custom mRNA construct. Total cost: $3,000 for sequencing plus university lab time. The gap between those two numbers is where AI is about to rearrange the entire cost structure of precision medicine. The regulatory moat is real. Conyngham could do this because veterinary experimental treatments face lighter scrutiny than human medicine. There’s no FDA Phase I-III gauntlet for a one-off compassionate use case on a dog. But the technical workflow, tumor sequencing to neoantigen prediction to mRNA synthesis, is converging toward something a motivated person with the right AI tools can orchestrate in weeks instead of years. One guy, a rescue dog, and a $20/month ChatGPT subscription just produced a proof of concept that the pharmaceutical industry has spent a decade and billions of dollars building toward. The vaccine worked. The tumor shrank. And the only reason it happened is because a dog owner loved his dog enough to spend three months fighting paperwork.

“Breathe freely” 😂 Modi collected ₹38.89 lakh crore from petrol/diesel taxes, 2014–2024. Total UPA oil bond burden? ₹3.23 lakh crore. He “cleared” it using 12x the amount squeezed out of every Indian at the pump. Seva or tax heist? You decide. Now the part he won’t tweet: India’s crude oil import dependence (PPAC, Govt. of India): 🔴 2014: 77.6% 🔴 2026: 88.6% - HIGHEST IN HISTORY Modi promised at Urja Sangam 2015 to cut it to 67% by 2022. It went to 89%. Under his watch. His policy. His failure. UPA issued bonds in 2005–10 when global crude crossed $140/barrel; to protect the poor from price shocks while OMCs stayed solvent. That was the “sin.” Modi hiked excise on petrol 9 times in 15 months when global prices CRASHED; pocketing the windfall instead of passing it on to you. Excise on petrol: ₹9.48/L (2014) → ₹32.98/L (2021). +348%. UPA’s “foreign bondage”? We now import 9 out of every 10 barrels of crude oil from abroad. That is the deepest foreign energy dependency in the history of the Indian Republic. Built entirely on Modi’s watch. 🤫

At least now they’re not hiding it n are sending foreign heads to the actual PMO of Modi Govt! Long live Cronyism 👍🏼 This is what they meant by AAM aadmi ki sarkar (AAM = Adani, Ambani n Modi) 🪷 #BJP

Ahmedabad is not a sporting city, it never has been. That’s why every time there’s a final played there, more than 50% crowd is from outside the city. There’s no sporting culture, vibe. Just making the largest stadium might bring you gate revenues but it doesn’t bring you support or success for India.

Modi has completely messed up India’s foreign policy. In just one year: hugged Trump → ignored by Trump → pivot to Russia for oil → tried a Russia-China-India axis → ran back to Trump → ditched Russia & China → now war, fuel scarcity, and back to Russia again. Absolute strategic confusion.

Iranian missiles have pushed the U.S. navy close to Indian waters. This is precisely one of the scenarios for which the US signed the LEMOA (logistics agreement) with India. But the repercussions for India to be even an inadvertent war party in an aggressive & unprovoked intervention by the U.S. would be dangerous. This is the time for the Indian government to act independently and intelligently to safeguard Indian interests.

What India's non-negotiables are: protecting commerce and energy routes, avoiding entanglement in US–Iran escalation, and preventing any normalisation of third‑party kinetic actions so close to its maritime periphery. All of them have been challenged by the US naval action.

Escalating hostilities between the United States, Israel and Iran are pushing a fragile region toward wider conflict. Crores of people, including nearly a crore Indians, face uncertainty. While security concerns are real, attacks that violate sovereignty will only worsen the crisis. The unilateral attacks on Iran, as well as Iran’s attacks on other Middle Eastern nations, must be condemned. Violence begets violence - dialogue and restraint remain the only path to peace. India must be morally clear. We should have the courage to speak plainly in defence of international law and human lives. Our foreign policy is rooted in sovereignty and the peaceful resolution of disputes - and it must remain consistent. PM Modi must speak up. Does he support the assassination of a head of state as a way to define the world order? Silence now diminishes India’s standing in the world.

15 years in power is not a short term. It’s enough to build systems that actually work, clean cities, proper footpaths, effective waste management. Yet we’re still living around garbage dumps and chaos. We deserved better.

Very third world coded. It’s hard to find functional countries where visiting heads of state meet oligarchs at their homes. Professionally run countries restrict such interactions to neutral venues and if private visits do happen, they are either made casual or not publicized in the first place. With these images, Reliance is attempting to muscle flex and portray itself as the principal commercial gatekeeper of the country.

For decades India was a voice for those who were wronged, for those against whom international law was violated. No longer. Now we are just another country that has no qualms in supporting bombing of sovereign countries, assassination of their leaders and worse. And what we have got in return for such craven obeisance is beyond me. You can condemn the Iranian regime for oppressing its people AND condemn the US-Israel aggression against them. These are NOT mutually exclusive. #Iran

Irrespective of who wins in India vs WI today, this T20 World Cup will have four semifinalists from four different continents. For all the “why call it a World Cup?” rhetoric sparked by that viral map tweet, this hasn’t happened ever in 22 editions of the FIFA Men’s World Cup.

Every sensible person already knew that the Liquor Scam was Fake Putting opposition leaders in jail before elections on false charges is a crime against nation and India’s democracy that Narendra Modi has committed. Also: PM Cares Fund is the Real Scam.

Went down the rabbit hole on this one. The answer is actually wild. 5,000 years ago, Sumerian merchants in modern-day Iraq needed a number that's easy to divide. They picked 60. It has 12 divisors (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, 30, 60). Base-10 only has four. That's 3x as many ways to split something evenly, which matters when you're dividing grain and wages and can't handle repeating decimals. The counting method is the best part. They used their thumb as a pointer on the three bone segments of each finger. Four fingers, three segments, that's 12 per hand. Track multiples of 12, on the other hand, and you hit 60. No pen needed. Merchants in parts of Asia still count this way today. The system spread from Sumer to the Babylonians, then eastward to Persia, India, and China, and westward to Egypt and Rome. By 1800 BC, Babylonian students were using base-60 to calculate the square root of 2 to six decimal places on clay tablets. One student's homework from 4,000 years ago, now at Yale, holds the most accurate computation found anywhere in the ancient world. The Greeks adopted it for astronomy, which locked it into navigation, cartography, and eventually clocks in the 14th century. People have tried to kill it. During the French Revolution in 1793, France mandated decimal time: 10 hours per day, 100 minutes per hour, 100 seconds per minute. New clocks, new laws, the whole thing. Lasted 17 months. Workers hated getting one day off every ten days instead of one every seven. They tried again in 1897. Scrapped by 1900. The metric system replaced feet and pounds across most of the world. But 60 minutes in an hour? Untouchable. 60 is just too good at being divided. You can split an hour into halves, thirds, quarters, fifths, sixths, tenths, twelfths, or twentieths and land on a whole number every time. Try that with 100, and you get ugly decimals for thirds, sixths, and most common splits. 5,000 years of civilizations looked at that math and came to the same conclusion: 60 wins.

Tried to dig deeper. This is what I found. Rasen: No website. No founder. No LinkedIn. No funding. No news. Just a name on the PMO press release. Sypha AI: Incorporated May 2025. 9 months old. One known customer, a government visa outsourcing company. Father of the founder: Ashish Chauhan, MD & CEO of the National Stock Exchange of India. Origin Bio: About a year old. Zero customers. Still in research stage. Zero revenue. Mother of the founder: Ashwini Bhide, Additional Chief Secretary to the Chief Minister of Maharashtra and MD of Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation. In the same room: Glean ($4.6 billion). Rubrik (NYSE listed). Miko (140 countries, IIT founders). One company doesn’t exist on the internet. One is 9 months old with a single government client. One has a parent running Maharashtra’s biggest infrastructure project. 100,000+ AI startups in India. Somebody decided these three deserved a seat at the table. I am not saying anything. I am just telling you what I found.

A simple reminder. For India’s currency to remain valuable, India must have something valuable to export to the world. Historically its has been cheap labour and growth story but when western countries replace that with AI and discover high growth industries in their home ground, rupee value could drop significantly and evening India imports would become dramatically costly. And we do import a lot! Oil, electronics, gold. All of it would become expensive. This is why India must remain competitive on the global stage. Our population will quickly go from being a growth driver to being a liability if we don’t ramp up on innovation and R&D. It’s honestly an existential matter for the country’s future.