Vikas Panicker

Anyone! Are the two defence lawyers shown on #IndiasDaughter available on #Twitter? Volunteer to troll them for life.

@EzzyMUFC Otherwise too...

Dalot in front of goal is the worst player ever

That’s literally Dalot’s signature miss lmaooo

@mooncastic The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Govt. of India.

What’s stopping every Indian street from looking like this?

@Nagaland_India Undeniable! Magnificent voices and artists. A bit disappointed that they are lip syncing it here, though...looks a bit out of place, with all the adulation around.

Once again I am deeply grateful to Indian cinema for bringing artists from the Northeast to the attention of a global audience.

😂😂

@GabbbarSingh Is it because one didn't get VIP tickets for IPL?

How the Babu shows the rich their place. DLF phase 1 Gurgaon. Kohli’s house is here.

The kind of bulls*** that is given a free ride in this country!

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@ruchitgarg Can it be used for organic waste generated from kitchen?

HFN का मॉड्यूलर बायोगैस प्लांट सिर्फ़ 2 दिनों में लगाया जा सकता है; इससे समय और पैसे की बचत होती है, और यह भविष्य के लिए भी सुरक्षित है। HFN बायोगैस क्यूब द्वारा उत्पादित ऑर्गेनिक स्लरी, डीएपी यूरिया की आपकी आवश्यकता को भी कम कर देगी। यदि आपके पास अधिक मवेशी हैं, तो आप एक से अधिक HFN बुइगास क्यूब का उपयोग कर सकते हैं और अधिक बचत कर सकते हैं। अधिक जानकारी के लिए हमें 1800-891-8903 पर कॉल करें। Leave No Farmer Behind #HFN

India has ~ 6,200 names in the SCOPUS/Stanford "world's top 2% scientists" list, generated on the basis of the number of papers published in a year. But, in the more selective, 'human-vetted' world's top 1% "Highly Cited Researchers" list, India has only 6 names. We also have the dubious distinction of leading the world in terms of the number of retractions per 1,000 papers. Between 2020-2024, Indian researchers had to retract over 4,800 published papers, mostly due to "deliberate academic misconduct." In 2025-26, Indians published 5% of all academic papers, but accounted for 21% of all retracted papers. Indian researchers have been known to operate in 'citation rings' where they cite each other to increase their rankings. They are also known to frequently publish papers by paying money to predatory journals that have virtually no peer review filtration. It is a method of gaming the system that is now rampant everywhere. The most unethical people rise through this method of faking academic excellence. That, in turn, puts pressure on others who have to publish or perish. Like in every field, mediocrity rules here too.

Proud of my old newspaper, @the_hindu, take a bow @nambath, the only paper to have the correct headline for what transpired in parliament yesterday. All other newspapers seem to have bought the government’s spin that the ‘opposition defeated women’s reservation’!

Our daughter, Rachel Corrie, was killed in 2003 in Gaza, while trying to protect a Palestinian home facing illegal destruction by the Israeli military. She was 23 years old. The massive, armored Caterpillar D-9 bulldozer that crushed her was operated by two Israeli soldiers and manufactured in the United States. It was the same type of militarized bulldozer that US presidents from George W. Bush through to Donald Trump have delivered to Israel. Today, as the destruction of Palestinian homes has only become more commonplace, not to mention the horror of Israel’s genocide, Senator Bernie Sanders will force a vote in the Senate to try to end this cycle of death by banning the transfer of D-9 bulldozers to Israel. We hope he will not take this stand alone. No policy can bring back those taken from us by these actions—children and other loved ones. But the Senate now has an opportunity to honor the memories of our daughter, other Americans, and thousands of Palestinian civilians killed, and to show that their deaths, and all the destruction, will no longer be condoned and funded. We hope those elected to represent us, the American people, understand the message that voting to block these D-9 bulldozers will send. This will not be a symbolic gesture, but a concrete step toward the protection of human life. thenation.com/article/politi…

I would really want people from north India, the shrill voices of meritocracy, comment on this: If meritocracy is all about rewarding individuals for performance, why shouldn’t we reward states the same way? Linking delimitation to GDP would change the game for India. Political power would follow economic contribution. States would compete to grow, create jobs, and govern better and not just get rewarded for its population growth. The current system risks penalising performing states and rewarding demographic expansion which isn’t sustainable. India needs representation that rewards contribution.

Asha Bhosle was cast out by her own family at 16. She’d eloped with her elder sister Lata Mangeshkar’s secretary, a man twice her age. The marriage turned abusive. She walked out with two children and a third on the way, returning to a family that barely wanted her back. To survive, she took every recording job the top singers rejected. In Indian cinema, actors don’t sing their own songs. Singers record in a studio, and the actors lip-sync on camera. In the 1950s, the big films went to established voices. Bhosle got the leftovers: B-grade soundtracks, cabaret numbers, songs for the villain’s girlfriend. Between 1948 and 1957, she recorded more songs than any other singer in the country, but almost none of them mattered. Her break came from composer O.P. Nayyar, who gave her the lead songs in Naya Daur (1957). For the first time, she was the voice of the heroine. By the mid-1960s, she’d partnered with a young composer named R.D. Burman. Their first major collaboration nearly didn’t happen. When Bhosle heard the westernized dance number “Aaja Aaja” for Teesri Manzil (1966), she told Burman she couldn’t sing it. He offered to rewrite the music. She refused, rehearsed for ten days, and delivered one of the decade’s biggest hits. That professional partnership became a marriage in 1980. Burman died in 1994. In 1981, composer Khayyam asked her to sing two notes lower than usual for the film Umrao Jaan. The ghazals (traditional Urdu love songs) she recorded won her India’s National Film Award and shattered the idea that she could only do pop. At 62, she recorded the Rangeela soundtrack with A.R. Rahman. At 79, she made her debut as a film actress. Guinness World Records certified her in 2011 as the most recorded artist in music history. She put out over 11,000 songs in more than 20 languages across eight decades, and no other recording artist on Earth has come close. Her voice crossed borders in ways almost no Indian artist had before. Cornershop wrote “Brimful of Asha” about her in 1997, and a Fatboy Slim remix sent it to No. 1 in the UK. The Black Eyed Peas sampled her vocals. The Kronos Quartet, a classical string ensemble, recorded an album of R.D. Burman compositions with her and earned a Grammy nomination. Earlier this year, at 92, she appeared on a Gorillaz track. She outlived the people closest to her. Her daughter Varsha died in 2012 at 56. Her son Hemant died of cancer in 2015. Her sister Lata, the most famous singer in Indian history, died in 2022, also at 92. After Varsha’s death, Bhosle told reporters the pain would stay with her until her last breath, but added: “You should always laugh with others but cry alone.” Asha Bhosle died today in Mumbai at 92. She recorded her first song at 10, her last collaboration at 92, and spent the 82 years in between proving that the woman they once threw out could outlast every voice that came before or after her.

Important: While Justice Yashwant Varma has finally resigned, the Qs remains: Will we ever know whose cash it was that was found at the judge’s house in March last year? Why was no FIR filed at the time, with no police investigation? And what happens now to the report on impeachment that was to be submitted in Parliament’s monsoon session? Why resign now after pleading innocence for over a year? Who will hold judges accountable? Many Qs, few answers.

@PakPMO @khushboo228 How does one felicitate the other on a phone call?

Islamabad : 9 April 2026 Prime Minister’s Telephone Call with the Prime Minister of Italy. Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif received a telephone call from the Prime Minister of the Italian Republic, Her Excellency Giorgia Meloni, today. Appreciating Pakistan’s successful diplomatic efforts for the U.S.-Iran ceasefire and resumption of dialogue, Prime Minister Meloni felicitated the Prime Minister on hosting the forthcoming peace negotiations between the U.S. and Iran, in Islamabad. While underscoring the genuine and sincere desire of Pakistan for peace and stability in the region, Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif welcomed the joint statement issued by key European and international leaders, including Prime Minister Meloni, in support of Pakistan’s peace efforts. The two leaders also expressed their serious concern over the ongoing hostilities in Lebanon, and agreed on the need for coordinated international efforts to prevent further escalation, so as to pave the way for lasting peace and stability in the region.

"You are hated. Not because you're jewish. It's because you slaughter innocent people."

The strait was open. He starts a war. The strait closes. The world economy gets fucked. He doesn’t know what he’s doing, he gets bored, he declares victory, and he tells the rest of the world to open the strait, to clean up his mess. He’s such a prick. He’s such a destructive prick.

@WhiteHouse Can't believe this is an offical handle representing the President of USA. Looks as good as 4th grader has been given the responsibility. Actually, he might even do a better job than this tweet.

“All of those countries that can’t get jet fuel because of the Strait of Hormuz, like the United Kingdom, which refused to get involved in the decapitation of Iran, I have a suggestion for you…” - President Donald J. Trump

My sister was a Surgeon Rear Admiral in the Indian Navy. To erase her service and reduce her to a stereotype says more about the mindset behind the comment than anything else. We are proud of our upbringing and our service to the nation which you are obviously incapable of understanding. From inventing a “secret MoU with China” to misrepresenting professional records, this is a pattern of assertion without evidence. Public debate deserves better than conjecture dressed up as fact.