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#SchengenVisa As of now there is no way to check if the Schengen Visa has been approved or rejected until you get your passports back. With the new EES System you can find the same but only while your passport is processed and in transit to you. Now that the data is online the EES website has an option on their website to > Check how long you can stay This option lets you know the below details - Visa Approved or Rejected - If approved, then for how many days? - Day remain out of 180 for the 90/180 rule But most importantly you get to know if it's an acceptance or rejection before the passport reaches you. Link: travel-europe.europa.eu/ees/check-how-… Note: Data of time spent is from 10 April 2026 onward only Add in the details in the form and it gives you the results. The result is populated only post the file has been processed. Like for the below case I processed I knew the passport no + start date of trip and end date of trip. Result shows 90 days and 73 days, as the traveler had used 17 days earlier in the Schengen Area in the last 180 days + it tells me the visa is approved. The below traveler got a 1 year visa validity which got to know only on passport receipt. While the answers to this have not been 100% true in all cases I have been checking + even the site has the disclaimer > 1 - Please note that the answer 'OK' or 'NOT OK' cannot be interpreted as a decision to grant or refuse entry to the Schengen Area. As this is integrated with the Visa Information System (VIS) I am hoping in the near future countries will be giving out the decision online over how the process is manual as of now. I am also hoping to see a lot of processes go online which will be helpful for the travelers #DakuKaGyaan

There is a very deliberate campaign right now to paint Indian tourists as rude, loud and disrespectful. And the worst part? Many Indians are falling for it. STOP INTERNALIZING propaganda. Hard facts: Indians are now one of the world’s most important outbound tourist groups. Countries compete for Indian tourists. Hotels customize food, services and experiences for Indian families. Every country has badly behaved tourists. Every nationality has loud, entitled people. But only Indians are expected to collectively apologize every time one viral clip appears online?? That is stereotyping. Hold individuals accountable, yes. But stop putting 1.4 billion people on trial because some groyper account found a video to farm engagement. Indians do not need to shrink, self-hate, or beg for approval from people who already decided to look down on them. Keep your self-hatred away.

@screwnorth22360 @EchoesOfOrder @hvgoenka Thanks a lot mate. I am in no way defending my countrymen and serious introspection needed there. I wish All of us show a little bit more sensitivity to cultural nuances and develop mutual respect for all despite differences.

@EchoesOfOrder @shanks201082 @hvgoenka My dear friend, I fully agree with you. Unfortunately, many of my countrymen fail to understand the values of civility. Having said that, we too have a few Indians who perfectly conduct themselves in a civilized manner both at home and abroad. Please spare your goodwill for them

A Swiss hotel once displayed a list of special rules exclusively for Indian guests which I personally saw and was appalled. Today, videos of garba in restaurants, loud conversations in airports, and turning aircraft cabins into picnic spots keep doing the rounds. Even in Davos, an Indian businessman blasted Punjabi music in a club so the whole town could hear it, calling it “soft power” but to everyone’s annoyance. Japan earned global admiration through their courtesy and civic sense. If India wants to be a true global superpower, the world should remember Indians for its excellence, consideration and respect for others. Our civic sense seriously needs to be upgraded.

@richirich1981 @hvgoenka It seems this happened in 2019 & hotel apologised after backlash. I agree tourists behaviour needs improvement but it's not isolated. I live here & I know. Loud jarring music after 22h despite ban, substance abuse, road rage - Indians are singled out & there are far worse things

@shanks201082 @hvgoenka They have really addressed to what we indians do when travel abroad. Lots of ppl I have also seen doing this.there is no racism we are number no 1 coming to conclusions when things happen .Consider this as an msg to improve ourself .

A statue of Dinesh Karthik in front of the Chinnaswamy Stadium for bringing Bhuvi to RCB 😭🙏

Omar-bhai is right. I would add that no other civilization has been as resilient in the face of so many attacks. No other civilization has as much diversity - in language, food, culture, art, music, dance and spirituality - as we do. We have to fight to protect, nurture and sustain this for the ages.

@SpacBobby It's better management keep the cards close to themselves, work out & reveal launch cadence slowly. Let the bears enjoy a few days & allow long term investors to buy the dip. Straight line growth is no fun!

$ASTS - Nobody knows the full launch schedule AST has in the queue for the remainder of the year. What can be certain is satellites are being built at an ever increasing cadence (6 BB's/month). That was the main bottleneck AST had to solve along with stacking. The satellites will get to space regardless of provider. AST had contingencies in place which is why they stated they OVERBOOKED launches for 2026 in the last few earnings calls. In just 2 weeks time, Falcon 9 will deploy BB 8-10. We probably have another 3-4 launches with Falcon 9 this year. Maybe more. Panicans don't deserve the life changing gains that are incoming!

@Nichola55465324 @EchoesOfOrder @hvgoenka Emigration will happen but timing will be on my terms. I didn't demand - I was welcomed for lack of local skills. I have no hate for whites btw. I am calling out white supremacists of your kind. Regarding where Europe stands w.r.t. India you will see in a few years. Good day!

@shanks201082 @EchoesOfOrder @hvgoenka Use your high skilled talent to make India liveable. You hate whites but demand to live in their countries. I don't care if you think we owe the colonies anything. I do not want Europe to become like India.

@Nichola55465324 @EchoesOfOrder @hvgoenka You make too many assumptions. Do you have any idea how legal immigration works for high skilled talent? Why are they even sought? Inhabited? Wow. Little rich coming from your ilk which conquered colonies & looted them. You owe these colonies & not the other way around! Face it.

@shanks201082 @EchoesOfOrder @hvgoenka And yet, you have moved to France because you cannot bear to live in the country created by and inhabited by your people.

A person at his age having this much of a divine and deep rooted understanding of life is very rare! Hope he reaches greater heights! #Annamalai

Kural 25 directly refers to "Indra". ஐந்தவித்தான் ஆற்றல் அகல்விசும்பு ளார்கோமான் இந்திரனே சாலுங் கரி. Kural  610: மடியிலா மன்னவன் எய்தும் அடியளந்தான் தாஅய தெல்லாம் ஒருங்கு. The reference அடியளந்தான் is the Vamana avatar of Mahavishnu. It is a wilful negation of the very text to claim that Kural has nothing to do with Hinduism.

Non, la France n’est pas le seul pays européen à connaître des violences après des matchs de foot. L’Angleterre a une longue histoire de hooliganisme (incidents à Wembley lors de l’Euro 2020). L’Italie avec ses ultras, les Pays-Bas (émeutes à Amsterdam en 2024 après Ajax-Maccabi), la Pologne, la Serbie et d’autres ont aussi des problèmes récurrents. L’affirmation de Pascal Praud est inexacte.

@coastallife22 @Nichola55465324 @hvgoenka But your country wants their share of money from tourism. And they find productivity of locals low & need high skilled immigration workers from India. You should work hard & be more productive to avoid seeking foreign tourists & workers.

@shanks201082 @Nichola55465324 @hvgoenka They should.

@DavidLewis30091 @EchoesOfOrder @hvgoenka Of course. Your fellow men have seen easy money from colonial loot & are used to living life on booze, drugs, cigars, multiple partners. You guys don't know what hard work is & needs foreigners to do meaningful productive work for ur economy. So you see others with same lens.

@shanks201082 @EchoesOfOrder @hvgoenka Hard earned 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@leuco1776 @CptMeanster07 @hvgoenka Here I am calling out hotel management in selectively pointing out "Indian guests" as if others have the highest standards of hygiene & behaviour. There's no justification from my side - I am aware of the need of Indian visitors to embrace better civic sens

@EchoesOfOrder @hvgoenka You could do them a favour by begging your govt in denying visas. They would be spared of the stench of smoke, booze & drugs in the air of European streets. More importantly their hard earned money.

@shanks201082 @hvgoenka Can you guys boycott the whole of Europe so that we never need to see, smell or hear any of you ever again? Boycott at will

@Nichola55465324 @hvgoenka Well they have a choice to deny visa which is never an obligation.

@shanks201082 @hvgoenka Great. I'm sure the Swiss aren't that worried about Indian tourists not coming.

@CptMeanster07 @hvgoenka Seen enough mocking on Indians eating with hands. We are mindful of not using eating hand to serve. I have seen locals use hands taking bread from the oven in Europe. Problem is in "Dear guests from India" when it could be a generic message. If msg is fair, boycott call is fair.

@shanks201082 @hvgoenka I don't see anything wrong with point 2. Why would you even use your hands to serve food onto plates from the buffet trays ?? It's shockingly disgusting. The cutlery have 1 purpose and you wish to make them jobless ! Sadly, most Indians think like you.

“Ravi Shastri wanted to go for draw but Rohit Sharma wanted Rishabh Pant to go for the win” - Ashwin on the Famous GABBA test win

$ASTS ✨ Why this matters for $ASTS investors An AST SpaceMobile employee highlighted a key technical issue for the future of NTN and direct-to-device satellite networks: “Launching more satellites alone does not solve everything.” The core issue is aggregate interference. In a simple model, one satellite talks to one user. But in a dense NGSO constellation, many satellites may be visible to the same user at the same time. Even if each satellite individually follows the rules, the combined interference can still increase at the user level. That matters because higher interference can lead to: • Lower SINR • Lower throughput • Weaker edge performance • Worse user experience The key message: Future NTN success will not depend only on satellite count. It will depend on: • Network design • Beam management • Spectrum efficiency • Constellation-wide interference control • Real user experience This is why “more satellites” is not the full answer. For ASTS investors, the bigger takeaway is that the long-term winner in direct-to-device may not simply be the company with the most satellites. It may be the company that can design the best coexistence between satellite networks and terrestrial mobile networks. $ASTS #ASTSpaceMobile #NTN #DirectToDevice #Satellite #Telecom #SpaceTech #5G linkedin.com/posts/aliesswi…