mayuresh modak

@KirkLubimov Khalistan is not even a peripheral thought in India. Its just the propaganda tool balooned by Pakistan's ISI with some gullible ill informed non residents in Canada and UK. Those thugs are gangsters and will only cause harm to Canadian and British society.

The joke in India is that Khalistan will be made a country in Canada before anywhere else, never mind India, because Canada is a joke with no self respect. Now, we have municipalities flying a foreign separatist group's flag of a made-up country that threatens our ally and their leaders. Absolutely insane what is happening here.

@alpha_defense Suna ke mk2 bhi 1st chakkar maar chuka aasmaan mein

@alpha_defense April fool ki shubhkamnaye aapko bhi

@KP24 Bigger of course.. It will bring sensibility to T20 which currently is carnage.. It will priorities batting skills over raw muscle power. Also leg side wide ball rjles are ridiculous. A millimeter outside leg stump these days is called a wide.

Question - do you guys like the size of the boundaries currently or would you prefer bigger boundaries?

@alpha_defense Even Tejas MK1A is not getting delivered.. Very bleak situation.. Our defence is Ram Bharose..

India's fighter aircraft pipeline: CURRENT: Rafale (operational) APPROVED: 114 more Rafale (DAC approved, replacing MMRCA) IN DEVELOPMENT: LCA Tejas Mk-2 (IAF fully participating) 5th GEN: AMCA design complete, manufacturer being decided. 6th GEN: India exploring joining UK-Italy-Japan OR France-Germany consortium.

@sabeer Hmmm while this so called deal is more sounding a rhetoric more than substance, so is ur twitter usage..no luck beyond hotmail??

If India had competent negotiators, wouldn’t the deal be tariff 0–0 with the US buying $500B from India?

@DerekJGrossman Unbelievable.. doesn't make sense..can't be true..

Modi celebrates a reduced 18% tariff on Indian-made goods when prior to Trump such tariffs were merely 2-3%. Plus, India now has to buy Venezuelan oil to wean off Russia. America came out on top.

@EvanFeigenbaum @CNBC Trump has decimated US credibility. It will pinch US even after. Europe and Canada may forget this episode but rest of the world will never engage with US like before ever ..

My advice on the U.S.-India deal ... everyone seriously needs to take a deep breath and calm down. First, the situation was utterly unsustainable, which is why my base case since last August has been that there would ultimately have to be a deal. I've been saying this on @CNBC and in other media for months. I was surprised it didn't happen sooner. Second, it is, in fact, good news that there has been a deal. If you care deeply about U.S.-India relations and are invested in it, then having the floor fall out, as it did, is bad news. This is good and we should celebrate it. Third, props to @USAmbIndia Sergio Gor. He has managed to seize the moment since his arrival to reset the tone and move the ball downfield. Well done indeed. Fourth, 18% is better than 50% but the tariff rate never should have been 50% in the first place and we had better hope it stays here. The President of the United States loves tariffs, full stop. And we should recall that he has used or threatened them for a lot more than just trade disputes. They have been used or threatened now over counternarcotics policy, because he doesn't like country X's foreign policy choices, because he doesn't like how a U.S. company has been treated, because he'd like to roll back other countries' domestic regulatory regimes, because he thinks countries should buy American only, because he wants them to ditch supply chain relationships with third countries, because he doesn't want anyone to do deals with countries that he himself is doing deals with, and even when he objects that others dare to object to his interest in annexing a piece of territory. In short, tariff "deals" have foundered because he changes his mind or layers on new issues. Don't believe me? Go talk to some South Koreans. Then ask a few Canadians. But fifth, 18% is a smooth landing for India because if American tariffs are going to be a fact of life then relative advantage over competitors is what matters. A lower tariff rate than ASEAN - most of them stuck at 19% and Vietnam at 20% before we even get to the transshipment issues - is competitively good for Indian exporters. (As a side note, it’s perversely entertaining that 18 percent is now considered an awesomely “low” tariff rate. "Wow, only 18%!? So cool!!" But I guess taxes are the new normal.) Sixth, don't sleep on China. Beijing has no realistic chance of reducing tariff rates to prior levels but it doesn't need to - it just needs to get close enough to the ASEAN and India tariff rates to shape the medium-term calculations of manufacturers and complicate all the "China plus X" talk of the last decade. And that outcome hardly seems inconceivable since we are heading for at least two (and maybe more, per Scott Bessent) U.S-China leaders meetings this year and President Trump clearly craves a deal with Beijing. Seventh, ignore some of the numbers. Sorry, but how is India going to buy $500 billion of anything from the United States anytime soon? U.S. goods exports to India in 2024 were $41.5 billion. U.S. services exports to India in 2024 were $41.8 billion. So a 500% increase from $83 billion to $500 billion seems like, well, kind of a stretch. But U.S.-India trade has undershot its potential forever, so ambition is good. Eighth, the devil is in the details. I have a hard time believing the government of India is going to make any Russian oil-related commitment explicit. Prove me wrong. Ninth, and most important: Those of us who care about U.S.-India relations, have worked hard on it, have struggled, and have spent years believing in it should be happier than we were a few months ago. But please, let's not talk as if the last six months never happened or somehow just went "poof" in a magical puff of fairy dust and smoke. International politics and domestic politics are not populated by unicorns and leprechauns living under rainbows, so there really is such a thing as collateral damage. The biggest bipartisan achievement on both sides since the 2000s had been a depoliticized relationship. Because of all that has happened in recent months, this relationship has become politicized again. And after a lot of work was put in by a lot of people over the decades to ensure that third-country relationships to which either side objected did not bleed back into U.S.-India relations (namely, India's relationships with Iran, Myanmar, and Russia, to which Washington often objected; and America's relations with China and Pakistan, to which India often objected), the 25% oil penalty tied to third-country choices set a bad precedent. Last August, I wrote that these are the three most fundamental facts: (1) domestic politics nearly always trumps foreign policy, (2) foreign policy arguments almost never prevail unless they are anchored by a strong domestic political foundation, and (3) trust is much easier to lose than to build. I hope the politics get stronger on both sides. And I hope the ceiling of trust hasn't been lowered as much as I think it has. We're in a better place than we've been since August. Modi and Trump should take the win. Props to Gor and his counterparts. But I still think folks should take a big deep breath and see where we go from here. Here's what I worried about last August: carnegieendowment.org/emissary/2025/…

@ShivAroor This sounds bad..hope we will not act upon whatever is mentioned to have been agreed. Bully won. We threw in the towel. Hope we build our economy basis this hard lesson and not find ourselves again in such a vulnerable and hopelessly dependent situation on any country.

BIG BREAKING ⚠️ Trump announces Trade Deal with India, announces immediate slashing of tariffs, calls Modi "one of my greatest friends, a powerful and respected leader of his country."

@sneheshphilip Mind boggling..why???

American #Stryker among options we’re looking at to bolster northern front, says Army chief Gen Dwivedi India and the US are planning joint production of the Stryker theprint.in/defence/americ…

@alpha_defense Performance based logistics (read as Rafale contract) 😀

Had a 30-minute conversation with a Royal Thai Air Force pilot strictly work related, and limited to declassified material. ✅ At first glance, the Thailand–Cambodia conflict looked like a straightforward run-over by the more capable Thai Air Force (and in outcome, it was). But what stood out in the pilot’s account was not just combat power it was what the pilots, ground crew, and maintainers achieved during the campaign. ✅ The effort put into aircraft serviceability and availability was exceptional, and it reinforced a hard lesson: operational success depends as much on OEM and ecosystem support as on the platform itself. ✅ I’ve heard strikingly similar things on Su-30 operations during Op Sindoor, where HAL and its teams delivered quietly but effectively. In contrast, some other aircraft manufacturers operate under performance-based logistics models that look good on paper, but struggle to consistently meet real operational demands.

@TheReal_Jassi Yes footballer is any day better than pappu

Wish we had such a cool PM. Rahul meets Messi.

@mrjethwani_ Thanks for revealing ur creed...

Can you identify the caste of this dog?😛

@rose_k01 You have to improve on your straight drive..

What is Pappu Telling Messi??

@clary_co Spare parts or new frames; the point here is, US is not bothered to support a state sponsor of islamic terrorism by providing fighter jets to fight 'terrorists'. And the west wants India to stop buying Russian oil. India has to make choice of 1 camp & US sells weapons to both.

Pakistan has about 75 F-16s. Yet spare parts are a thing that exist. Have to hold both ideas in your mind.

@clary_co Replenishment of war losses

"Pakistan had requested upgrades to its F-16 fleet in 2021... The country is now less dependent on the F-16s, having acquired & jointly developed other platforms... “Pakistan still welcomes the US offer, as it will enhance the shelf life of its F-16s until 2040,” a source said.

@thewirepak Gir gaye fir bhi tang upar🤣

Pakistanis are struggling to digest what’s unfolding and understandably so as some of the things are completely new to them: 1.Beating India in May, 2.Real foreign-policy leverage, 3.Strikes inside Afghanistan, 4.Ending decades of proxies, 5.Even generals being sentenced. A new era has begun.

@sabeer This is indeed a problem in our India. Please stay in cleaner environment ever after.

This is exactly how I feel every time I land in Delhi in winter. Andh bhakts don’t want to acknowledge that this problem even exists because they don’t think they’ve done anything wrong.

@AntiWokeMemes Both

@iihtishamm Fakir log 🤣

Indian film “Dhurandhar” has been banned across the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council), including Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE, and will not be screened in cinemas due to its “anti-Pakistan” content.