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India deserves better. A Road was Cleared for a CM's Convoy, an ambulance is forced to struggle through heavy traffic.

SHE REPORTED NHS FRAUD. THEY GAVE HER CANCER AND A P45 Sharmila Chowdhury @sharmilaxx spent 30 years working in the @NHS without a single disciplinary mark. Then she caught two consultant radiologists at Ealing Hospital NHS Trust billing the NHS for sessions they were spending at a private hospital down the road. Double-dipping on public money. Straightforward fraud. She reported it. To her line manager. To the Medical Director. To the HR Director. To Counter Fraud. To the Chief Executive. To Number 10. To the Treasury. She had a paper trail so solid that ITV later sent undercover cameras to the hospital and caught the same consultants still at it years later, taking cash from patients for private ultrasounds inside an NHS building. The Trust's response? They sacked her. On fabricated counter-allegations. The man who raised those allegations later sent an email signed off "0800-F***-YOU-B****." He received a 'Top Mentor' award from the Trust that same year. Sharmila won at tribunal. She won her appeal. The judge asked the Trust to reinstate her. The Trust said no. She was blacklisted across the NHS. One job offer was withdrawn the moment they found out who she was. Her legal costs hit £130,000. She developed breast and lung cancer, which her doctors believe is linked to the years of sustained stress. The consultants kept their jobs. George Osborne couldn't get involved. Andrew Lansley couldn't get involved. David Cameron couldn't get involved. Because everyone decided it was an "employment matter." A proven fraud case, covered by ITV, the Guardian, Daily Mail and Channel 4, and the official position of Her Majesty's Government was: not our problem. This is what the UK does to people who try to protect public money. It destroys them and promotes the people they were trying to stop. Read Sharmila's full case: sharmilachowdhury_com Sources: Health Select Committee written evidence | @DailyMail | @Independent | @BBCNews | @Channel4 | @guardian | @thetimes | @DailyMirror | @Channel4News |

Came to Hyderabad after 41 yrs. Small civil airport at Begumpet was shared with IAF. Now there s sprawling new airport Shamsabad. Cityscape changed. What has not changed is sweet Dakkhni dialect spoken and the sweet nature of people. God bless Hyderabad and its people

It now costs 6% more daily to travel on TfL than it did in 2025 and 35% more since 2021 Another fact: TfL is the most expensive transport system in the world.

@paulg So far...great for high quality prototypes and early versions. Ongoing incremental updates are far trickier

In retrospect I was seeing the future, but I didn't fully grasp it at the time, because it just seemed so weird.

India has lost a global pioneer in anaesthesiology, Dr Seshagiri Mallampati, who gave the world the famous Mallampati Score -a universally adopted tool to assess airway difficulty before intubation. Born in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, he was an alumnus of Andhra Medical College. His contribution continues to guide anaesthesiologists worldwide, strengthening patient safety across operating rooms globally. #MedTwitter RIP🙏

🚨 Hyderabad has more skyscrapers than Gurugram, Noida, Bengaluru, Pune and Kolkata put together. 🤯

70s Telugu magazines cover art looks kinda similar to some 80s manga covers 🥴

Visiting the ruins of Nalanda was an awe-inspiring, moving and humbling experience today. To stand amid and around the bricks that housed teachers and students nearly 1600 years ago sent a frisson through me. That India hosted the world’s first university, which attracted students from far and wide, seems scarcely credible today. We have to revive that lost glory!

Burgeoning Indian trade with the Roman Empire financed almost half the Empire’s defence expenses from Augustus’ reign. When this trade collapsed after the empire-wide plague of 166 which killed perhaps a third of its population, Europe’s maritime world fell silent. By 700 AD, Indian Ocean goods had vanished from Europe. But trade didn’t die - it shifted east. Indian, Persian and Omani merchants forged vast sea routes from the Gulf to China. A 6th century mural at Ajanta depicts a three-masted ship - a design Europe wouldn’t use for another 900 years. An 8th century Tamil text describes ships “bent to the point of breaking” under heaps of spices, pepper, ginger and gems. The 8th century Phanom Surin shipwreck near Thailand carried ivory, antler horn and Abbasid jars - proof that long before Europe’s “Age of Discovery,” the Indian Ocean was already the world’s greatest highway of trade.

London murders have fallen to 89 in the last 12 months. The lowest rate on record.

On my way to the ground in Delhi and my heart sank when I saw people feeding a whole army of pigeons. Doctors have been shouting from the rooftops about the dangers of inhaling pigeon droppings and the severe lung disease it could lead to. Please, let us stop feeding pigeons.

NPCI made ~₹1,500 crores in profits on ₹4,000 crores of revenue in 2024–25, with EBITDA margins above 50%. And they did this while spending just ₹210 crores on tech and another ₹290 crores in depreciation. In other words, just ₹500 crores to run UPI, IMPS, NACH, which is basically the entire country’s payments infra. Wildly efficient. ❤️

Leaving the ECHR doesn't just strip asylum seekers of rights - it's strips EVERYONE of their rights.

Ignore the haters. London is the 🐐

1 in 3 doctors were born overseas. 1 in 2 builders were born overseas. 1 in 6 nurses were born overseas. 1 in 4 transport workers were born overseas. 1 in 7 UK business founders were born overseas. 1 in 5 university academics were born overseas.

Saying India has a “dead economy” is hilariously wrong. If it weren’t overshadowed by the focus on China’s rise, more countries would be studying how India brought about a revolution in living standards for 1 billion+ people within a generation.

Morning. Weekend was alright... #CPFC

Crystal Palace are the @EmiratesFACup 2025 CHAMPIONS 🏆 #CPFC