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"We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented": Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech 1986
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New Delhi, India Katılım Temmuz 2008
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Today's TOI reports amazing incentives for #EV users!
GROUND REALITY IS DIFFERENT:
My wife, among India's first Tesla owners, faced a nightmare on her Jaipur trip (Mar 12-15). Apps like PlugShare/others showed highway chargers—all non-functional.
Todanagar: Dead on arrival.
Return stops: Volttic (Pinan Jodhpura), IOCL & Jio BP Pulse (Ferozpur), Statiq, Charge Zone, Plug share —nothing worked!
Apps misled, chargers failed 😡
Money paid lies unused in these wallets!!
We planned a full family switch to EVs. Needs total rethink.
Is this how we push electric mobility? Ground realities crush progressive macro policies. Inexcusable for IOCL, JioBP, and others
Who fixes this mess? @Tesla @reliancejio @IndianOilcl
Without reliable infra, #EV adoption will remain a dream
@nitin_gadkari @PiyushGoyal
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Helium isn't the only element that escapes the atmosphere permanently - hydrogen does too, though we can make hydrogen, unlike helium.
Much of this is true, some overstated. The risk to semiconductors, MRI, aerospace, and research infrast is real, but claims about total supply loss, exclusivity of use, etc are overstated.
Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡@shanaka86
Helium is the only element that escapes Earth’s atmosphere permanently. Once released, it rises through the troposphere, passes the stratosphere, and leaves the planet. It cannot be manufactured. It cannot be synthesised at industrial scale. It accumulates over billions of years in the same geological reservoirs as natural gas. And one third of the world’s supply just went offline because Iran hit the facility that extracts it. Qatar produced roughly 63 million cubic metres of helium in 2025, accounting for 30 to 36 percent of global supply from a total of approximately 190 million cubic metres. QatarEnergy’s three large helium purification plants at Ras Laffan form the world’s biggest helium production base. When LNG production stopped after Iranian drone strikes on March 2 and the subsequent missile damage on March 19, helium extraction stopped automatically because helium is recovered during natural gas liquefaction. You cannot produce helium without producing LNG. The byproduct dies with the primary product. Spot helium prices have roughly doubled since the crisis began. Industry consultants warn that prolonged disruption could push contract prices toward $2,000 per thousand cubic feet. A major industrial gas supplier has already begun assessing customers a helium surcharge. Phil Kornbluth, the most cited helium market consultant, stated the assessment directly: the world cannot compensate for the loss of a third of its helium supply. South Korea imports 64.7 percent of its helium from Qatar. SK Hynix and Samsung operate high-volume fabs producing the DRAM and high-bandwidth memory that power every AI accelerator, every data centre GPU, and every cloud computing cluster on Earth. Helium cools silicon wafers during fabrication. It serves as a carrier gas in deposition and etching tools. It enables leak detection in vacuum systems. Modern extreme ultraviolet lithography requires helium-cooled environments for precise temperature control. Without helium, the fabrication process degrades or stops. SK Hynix and Samsung hold two to three months of helium inventory. Two to three months is not a buffer. It is a countdown. If Ras Laffan remains offline beyond that window, South Korean memory production faces rationing. TSMC in Taiwan is somewhat more diversified but still uses Qatar-linked supply chains. The entire AI hardware supply chain, from HBM3E memory stacks to advanced logic chips, sits inside helium-dependent ecosystems. Beyond semiconductors, helium cools the superconducting magnets in more than 14,000 MRI machines operating worldwide. It pressurises rocket fuel tanks and purges propulsion systems in aerospace. CERN’s Large Hadron Collider depends on helium cryogenic systems. There is no substitute for helium in any of these applications at industrial scale. The United States and Qatar together account for more than 70 percent of global production. The US federal helium reserve and private suppliers offer partial relief, but global prices and spot availability are still governed by Qatar’s market share. Japan’s Iwatani has drawn on US reserves. Canada and the Rockies are seeing renewed investor interest. None of this replaces 63 million cubic metres in weeks. The war hit uranium first. Then oil. Then nitrogen. Then water. Then plastic. Then medicine. Then sulfur. Now helium. Eight layers. Each one deeper. Each one closer to the infrastructure that sustains modern civilisation. The chip that processes your data, the magnet that scans your body, and the rocket that launches your satellite all depend on an atom that leaves the planet when you lose it. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…
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Your Falcon 9 still runs helium COPVs for upper stage pressurisation. Two failures (CRS-7, Amos-6) came from that exact system. Starship solved it with autogenous pressurisation. But the chips in every Tesla, every Starlink terminal, and every xAI training cluster were fabricated using helium at TSMC and Samsung. SK Hynix imports 64.7% of its helium from Qatar. Qatar is offline. The “Hmm” is correct.
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The Municipal Police of Madrid has published the video of Paco's training exercises, the hero dog who saves and performs cardiac massage (CPR) on the officer who fainted (as a simulation),
and it's winning hearts worldwide. ❤️
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@tehseenp My 30-yr-old 98100.. number is from 1996, a few months after Airtel's service launch in Delhi. Initially on a bulky Ericsson handset
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How long has my SM fam used the same mobile number continuously for?
I got my present number in 2002 so about 24 years (Airtel when launched in Pune).
Prior to that I had BPL, if anyone remembers that with the Nokia 8110, I think 1997 or 98 odd & that mobile phone was famously nicknamed the "banana phone" during the 90s.
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@ie_legalnews @IndianExpress Dead link / page not found?!
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How single RTI query toppled Rs 10.63 crore CBI case: Delhi court discharges accused in 15-year CBI case
Read👇
indianexpress.com/article/legal-…
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Mr A B Patel, 31, and Mr Hitesh Patel, 32, were fined £1,391 each for spitting paan in public spaces in the UK, and not paying up the £100 initial fine. They didn't show up for this hearing either. Vive le Gujarat!
Naomi Canton@naomi2009
Paan and gutka spitting might be a regular occurrence in India. But in the UK Brent council has had enough of it. If you get caught, you pay £100 and if you don't pay, you get taken to court and have to pay over £1,000 in court fines, as happened to these two Indian-origin men. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/uk/counc…
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India in January privately proposed preloading of Aadhaar app on smartphones. Apple, Samsung, others resisted the proposal.
In January, smartphone industry body MAIT emails show, UIDAI requested that Apple, Samsung and Google preload national ID Aadhaar's app on smartphones; UIDAI believed pre-installation would allow citizens to "readily access essential Aadhaar functionalities". Apple, Google, Samsung-backed MAIT were of the view that pre-installation "would not drive greater public good", and that such mandates require companies to maintain separate production lines for India and exports
Govt has made six such requests in two years, but industry has consistently opposed them, one MAIT letter says.
Tussle over apps preloading has become a recurring flashpoint between Modi's government and tech firms
tinyurl.com/mv6n3b8e With @MunsifV
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Very sharp and clear message for drunk passengers. "Intoxicated passengers should refrain from traveling on the Delhi Metro." Any drunk passenger will carefully watch the scrolling message, read and understand it, and decide to refrain from travelling on the Delhi Metro.
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From AI anchors to real-time multilingual storytelling, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting is building a future where content is not just created—but intelligently adapted for every Indian. But here’s the real question:
Can AI-driven scale coexist with the public service soul of Prasar Bharati—or will efficiency quietly redefine what “public interest” means?
#onlinestreamingservices #MIB #AIanchors&translators
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I am sorry everyone, we all know who is coming after me. Maybe goodbyes are in order.
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Two Indian-origin men have been fined over £1,000 each for paan-spitting in the London borough of Brent.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/uk/counc…
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THE MEDIA FOUNDATION JOURNALISM AWARDS 2025
The Shortlist
20 March | 6 pm | IIC Delhi
@annavetticad, @ekta_sonawane, @NidhiSuresh_, @shivnarayan01m @sukanyashantha, @teajust @queerbeat_media, @newslaundry, @thewire_in @bbcnewsgujarati
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If you know me, you’ve heard me talk about this story for months.
@HeraRizwan reported from 3 states. We obsessed over every detail.
Google's AI, designed for phones, is now rationing food to pregnant women. Read. Get angry. Share
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Spot on. "Donald Trump does not think strategically. Nor does he think historically, geographically, or even rationally. He does not connect actions he takes on one day to events that occur weeks later. He does not think about how his behavior in one place will change the behavior of other people in other places.
"He does not consider the wider implications of his decisions. He does not take responsibility when these decisions go wrong. Instead, he acts on whim and impulse, and when he changes his mind—when he feels new whims and new impulses—he simply lies about whatever he said or did before."
Ruth Deyermond@ruth_deyermond
This is very, very good on (though she doesn't use the term) the extraordinary stupidity of Donald Trump, the end of European reluctance to recognise Trump's stupidity, and the consequences of his stupidity for Iran and everything else. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/…
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This is very, very good on (though she doesn't use the term) the extraordinary stupidity of Donald Trump, the end of European reluctance to recognise Trump's stupidity, and the consequences of his stupidity for Iran and everything else. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/…
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Kenny Patel
wanted by Kash Patel
@FBIDirectorKash
FBI@FBI
Kalpeshkumar Rasikbhai Patel, also known as Kenny Patel, is #wanted by the #FBI for his alleged participation in a nationwide scheme to defraud multiple victims into transmitting large sums of money, usually in the form of cash and prepaid debit cards, to addresses throughout the United States between 2017 and 2021. Many victims were contacted via telephone communications and deceived into believing their personal information or identities were associated with criminal activities: fbi.gov/wanted/wcc/kal…
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