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While on this point, @Jairam_Ramesh should also ask Rajnath on the MoD's view re casinos springing up near the naval base. Seismic zone, offshore. Casinos, on-shore. (Read this for a longer critique: frontline.thehindu.com/environment/gr…)

The most accurate IPL logo for this season :

A real confederacy of dunces. Both policy makers and their gaggle of cheerleaders. 1. If we start prospecting now, when does production reach market? 2. Why not pivot into renewables + put hard money into R&D/rid renewable sector of cronies/revamp SECI/rooftop solar, etc?

Insane: A farmer sold 1262 kg of onions. And ended up giving one rupee to the man he sold it to.

For global food prices, this is the most important map for the next 45 days: the onset of the South-West Asian monsoon amid an El Niño (and so far, it’s arriving to the Bay of Bengal on time, even a bit earlier than normal). Still a long way until it fully covers all India.

“meat” Our Education minister. 😭😭😭😭😭

"2025-26, wearing apparel contracted by 5.3%,leather by 4.1%, while textiles...grew by just 1.2%. Other manufacturing collapsed by 14.9%, and food products grew by less than 1%...while labour-intensive, export-oriented sectors are stagnating or shrinking." m.economictimes.com/opinion/et-com…

How a Rs 1 lakh complaint exposed a Rs 152-crore cyber scam indianexpress.com/article/cities… via @IndianExpress

#BREAKING | Andhra Pradesh announces cash incentive for third, fourth child @KP_Aashish reports

India is already facing serious pressure on its balance of payment: Oil prices have risen recently, remittances from overseas Indians have fallen, and foreign capital has been fleeing the country. On top of that, as an emerging economy, capital is the scarcest resource it needs for its development anyway. So why are Indian companies still committing to huge investments in the United States? It seems the US really treats India as its “blood bag”—a source to suck blood from and keep itself alive. Through a series of geopolitical maneuvers that were not aimed at India but weakened India greatly anyway, Washington made it much easier to do three things: 1) sell high-priced oil and natural gas to India; 2) sell expensive weapons systems to India; and 3) squeeze out large investment commitments from Indian tycoons. in.usembassy.gov/record-20-5-bi…

Superb article by @existsfortea highlighting the marginalisation of cyclists on the road and in policy in Delhi

The study, which was used by EY consultants in Canada to market their cyber security business, used made-up data, mis-attributed citations and referenced a McKinsey report that doesn't exist. ft.trib.al/Ab4x6JN

Someone please Credit to 180 IQ babu Somanathan

feminism is when women like @GitaGopinath get to manage the IMF and enforce austerity across the world and privatise drinking water for working women in the global south🥰

“Modi’s regime is only a partial realisation of Shourie’s later vision for India. For the ways in which it isn’t, we should be grateful.” Mihir Dalal read through damned near all of Arun Shourie's 30 or so books (no mean feat!), plus articles and interviews and more, to write this incredibly deep and perceptive intellectual biography of perhaps the most influential Indian journalist of his era. Shourie traded repute as a leftist dissident to shape the intellectual scaffolding of the Hindu Right – and took much of the country’s elite with him. Along the way, he prophesied many of the themes that define India as we know it today: in Mihir's words, "the unlikely union of capitalism and Hindutva, the spectre of leftist treachery, the rationalisation of dominant-caste superiority on the basis of 'merit', the presumed regressiveness of Islam in contrast to the putative greatness of the Hindu tradition, a paranoid fear of real and imaginary threats to the Indian state." Even that is a partial list. There's much, much more that Shourie wrote about in theory that has come about in practice, and many features of the Emergency he criticised that are today everyday features of Modi's rule. One way to read the piece is as a treasure hunt: see how many parallels you can spot between the perfidious prophet's visions and the realities of India today. Dive in and try it -- you'll understand Modi's India much better after reading this piece. himalmag.com/politics/arun-…

This is the most artfully constructed and well-planned humiliation I have ever seen.

India now has 130+ Heat Action Plans across cities. But many still sit on paper, reduced to a guiding document. spoke with @down2earthindia about what’s missing in the real world response to extreme heat. Most plans focus on alerts and short term response, while the deeper work like protecting outdoor workers, redesigning streets for shade, and building heat resilience systems remains weak. downtoearth.org.in/climate-change…

Starlink terminals are active in Jammu, coastal Gujarat. near Delhi, Odisha and Siliguri corridor. Mostly "sensitive areas". Why can't I buy one then? haaretz.com/israel-news/se…

And it becomes amply clear why the IAS lobby wants to get rid of RTI. It’s not the politicians but the bureaucrats who stand to gain the most by the watering down or removal of acts like RTI - a full carte blanche to go back to 1980s style corruption with no checks or inquiry.

On the subject of foreign trips, we had found a startling pattern in the prime minister's travels scroll.in/article/107345…