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@mulund_info @mashrujeet Even a bridge can fall down - there is no responsibility because laws are for …. People who can’t afford it

@shaziailmi Twisted - even the GOI profiteers what world are you living in

Remember how I had flagged Guardian pharmacy at T2 Terminal, Delhi for not keeping Paracetamol and Crocin generic ones which affordable .. Pushing expensive alternatives while denying basic generics is not just unethical, it raises serious regulatory concerns. Had flagged this with @askguardian earlier. Meanwhile, @ApolloPharmacy at T3 maintained availability & MRP discipline. Thanks Apollo Pharmacy for not profiteering from Passengers’ pain . @MoCA_GoI @JM_Scindia @AAI_Official @DelhiAirport @MoHFW_INDIA Patients cannot be exploited. 💊

@_sabanaqvi Is there a valid Q anywhere - KSA doesn’t ans to anyone - ME is well on it’s way to becoming a effective GCC a better EU in concept

The insult to Saudi crown prince by Donald Trump is not an ordinary matter to be ignored and passed over. The Saudi monarchy is the custodian of the two holy mosques at Mecca and Medina. Osama bin Laden emerged from Saudi Arabia, first for Jihad against the Soviets and then raging against his own country’s proximity to US. The 9/11 operation had many Saudis involved. How can the Saudi monarch just swallow this insult? Indians may be interested to know that when members of the royal family including crown prince have visited India, they never visit Gandhi Samadhi or any Sufi shrine due to their interpretation of Islam. But that’s an aside. The main point is can the custodians of the 2 Holy Mosques ignore this grave insult…

@Martina throw the key that’s what the government’s do - then they walk free / what you need is swift solid irreversible action to avoid reoccurrence

Lock him up and throw away the key

@iamankitpande Why shouldn’t healthcare like any other business be not a money making machine ? Every business has to milk revenue and every decision has ripple effect some are more in your face some not

Healthcare in India is becoming a money making machine. A friend’s grandmother is in ICU for the last 4 days. Daily medicine cost alone is around 40–50K. He is not allowed inside ICU. He cannot see the treatment. He cannot see which medicines are actually being used. He can only stand outside and keep paying. Medicines go from pharmacy to ICU. Families don’t know what is used, what is not. Maybe some goes back from the back door. But there is no transparency. Only bills. Private hospitals know families won’t argue when their loved one is in ICU. This is not just treatment. For many families, this is financial destruction in the name of healthcare.

@VishalBhargava5 Shift Mantralaya to Palghar - “I” = “WE”@Dev_Fadnavis

No infrastructure project in Mumbai has changed my daily life like the Mumbai Metro Aqua Line. I barely take the car out. My Uber/Taxi usage has become 60-70% lesser. And I reach my most frequently visited places - always on time & without any stress.

@elonmusk We have no insanity plea and people still get away with it - Sane or Insane - quantum of punishment should be equal and delivered

This is insane

@raghav_chadha Hmm - this is nice / finally a MP of opposition shaping up - awesome

₹19,000 crore. That is what Banks collected in last 3 years just for not maintaining ‘Minimum Account Balance.’ Not from the rich. Not from big borrowers. From the poorest accounts in the system. Their crime? They didn’t have enough money. A farmer misses the minimum balance - Penalty. A pensioner withdraws money for medicine - Penalty. A daily wage worker falls short by a few hundred rupees - Penalty. The poor keep money in banks for safety. Not to be quietly fined for being poor. Financial inclusion should protect small savings, not punish small balances. In Parliament today I proposed ending minimum balance penalties so the banking system stops charging people for their poverty.

Haven’t read the article nor do I agree with a lot things in short the supply chain of the P5 and Silent partners are reliant on the parcels they have carved out in the world and in the process few or only China rises above it so it is only time when new sourcing is required and allows shelf life of armaments to be used up - but what a brilliant piece written above

I read your article, and I understand the argument clearly: you see the Strait of Hormuz crisis not as an isolated event but as the fourth major supply shock of this decade, after Covid, the war in Ukraine, and China’s restrictions on rare earths and critical minerals. Your point is that the West needs greater economic resilience, strategic reserves, stronger deterrence, and faster defence production. On that diagnosis, there is a fair amount of truth. Disruption in Hormuz does threaten global energy flows and trade, and even the British government has warned that a prolonged conflict would mean wider economic damage, higher prices and more inflation. But the problem begins when you jump from diagnosing the fragility of the global economy to offering the old imperial remedy: if you want peace, prepare for war. At that point, the piece feels less like a serious 21st-century strategy and more like polished Roman nostalgia. The world is not short of politicians who know how to quote Latin. What it lacks are leaders who know how to stop strategic chokepoints from becoming permanent theatres of fire. Yes, deterrence matters. Yes, strategic stockpiles matter. Yes, supply chains should not remain hostage to a single waterway or supplier. But what your article never says plainly enough is that militarising every crisis in the name of deterrence often helps create the next crisis. When the default answer to every geopolitical bottleneck is more ships, more munitions and more military logic, you are not building stability so much as building a global economy that lives permanently on the edge of emergency. Even your call for stronger reserves and faster defence production is wrapped in language that suggests war is the natural condition, and peace merely a pause between mobilisations. More importantly, trade routes do not become “safe” simply because great powers decide to flex their muscles around them. Real security comes from four things working together: diversifying energy sources and supply chains so that Hormuz or anywhere else cannot hold the world economy hostage; proper strategic reserves rather than speeches about toughness after every shock; serious de-escalatory diplomacy before protecting shipping lanes becomes a pretext for widening the conflict; and measured deterrence, not deterrence sold to the public as though it were a complete philosophy of civilisation. There is also an obvious contradiction running through the piece. You are right to say that the West has spent too long living under the illusion of geopolitical certainty, yet your remedy is to lean even harder on one of the tools that has repeatedly produced instability: open-ended military posturing. That is not a grand strategy. It is a more sophisticated way of extending the age of anxiety. And with a little necessary sarcasm: British politicians do seem terribly fond of summoning the Romans whenever geography tightens and markets begin to wobble. But markets do not calm because some Roman senator smiled in a columnist’s imagination. Gas is not stored in warehouses of rhetoric. And commercial shipping does not pass through dangerous straits on the strength of Latin quotations. So here is the point plainly: I read your article, and I agree that the West needs resilience rather than slogans, reserves rather than illusions, and faster industrial capacity rather than sleepy bureaucracy. But I part company with you on the central question: not every economic threat is best answered through military mobilisation, and not every argument about peace needs a Roman helmet perched on top of it. If the real aim is to protect the global economy, start by building a world less dependent on war, not one more practised at managing it.

Iran is attempting to put a dagger to the throat of the world economy. We in Britain must remember what the Romans taught us: if you want peace, prepare for war. My column in @thetimes 👇 thetimes.com/business/econo…

@Samhitab4u you can divert a plane not the other way

At airports, security checks are very strict. Bags scanned. Multiple checks. Railway stations handle far more passengers every day, yet security is much lighter. Why are airport security checks so strict compared to railway stations?

@AmitShah when will we start with capital punishment which is implemented as a reward for such noble acts

@clashreport @AmitShah will we also ban social media for under 16 ?

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez: Starting next week, my government will implement the following actions: First, we will change the law in Spain to hold platform executives legally accountable for many infringements taking place on their sites. Second, we will turn algorithmic manipulation and amplification of illegal content into a new criminal offense. Third, we will implement a hate and polarization footprint system to track, quantify, and expose how digital platforms fuel division and amplify hate. Fourth, Spain will ban access to social media for minors under the age of 16. Platforms will be required to implement effective age verification systems — not just checkboxes, but real barriers that work. Fifth and last, my government will work with our public prosecutor to investigate and pursue the infringement committed by Grok, TikTok, and Instagram.

@DjokerNole @Lorenzo1Musetti @AustralianOpen Novak - just maybe they want you there and are retiring all players because of your acheivements so get rid of your cockiness and display of your “24” etc your self advt don’t work - advt when you hang it in

I was on my way home. Heal well my friend. ❤️‍🩹

@priyankac19 @MarkJCarney come on best speech ?? Only when it rains down on everyone do they squelch / this is a silent progression since last 100 years -

One of the best speeches I have heard in recent times. Must hear @MarkJCarney

@ARanganathan72 what a history - thanks @ARanganathan72

The year is 1988. Terrorists have barricaded the Golden temple. An ISI agent laden with explosives slips in to meet Khalistani commander Penta. He is let in. Over the next week he passes on vital intel. To Indian forces. That ISI agent was Ajit Doval. Today is his 81st birthday.

@TRobinsonNewEra I always say - any people any religion who commit crimes should be stripped of chance to defend in such cases because the victim has been permanently labelled and no protection can undo it -

Pakistani invader in the UK, Muhammad Iqbal attempted to rape a 14-year-old British Christian girl. His excuse when caught: "I am Muslim. We have our own Islamic rules. Talk to my embassy".

Only self goals BJP Maharashtra has done is increasing FSI - without due process for water and waste services in general - we have the same systems underground no capacities were increased - we cannot even build a desalination plant But we want taller buildings

@Dev_Fadnavis resp CM - congrats - only thing I would point out is you promised commuter ease 8 years Bk in women awards @IndianExpress held in Mumbai and you have been delivering / slow for sure but yes

@FoxNews this a problem in all countries - human rights for the accused / convicted but not for victims- at least the US is leading the way in taking control of their ecosystem

WORST OF THE WORST: ICE arrests Afghan immigrant Waheed Allah Mohammad, 39, convicted of stabbing his sister for being a 'bad Muslim girl.' He was ordered deported in 2012 but remained in U.S. pending removal. foxnews.com/us/afghan-ille…

@WallStreetApes 100% correct but why does it take for any country to realise it so late ? this should be the norm in the world - Work Earn Live - countries probably release it late due to mis guided sense of being humanitarian

US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick says our immigration system is broken. Anyone coming to America should not be eligible to receive any handouts, zero government benefits He explains immigration only works if you end the Welfare State “You can’t really open the border and say, ‘I’m gonna give my money to anybody who wants to come in — That’s getting it wrong.” “So when people say, ‘Open immigration is how we built America,’ they are right.” “And open immigration would be something interesting if we gave people nothing.” “Because if we gave them nothing, if they weren’t smart enough, capable, entrepreneurial enough, driven enough, they would starve to death. And so they wouldn’t stay here. They would self-deport and leave.” “But if you’re gonna give them welfare, and you’re gonna give them food stamps, and you’re gonna give them housing, and you give them this, that, then everybody’s gonna come and just leech off of us and we’re gonna pay, and pay, and pay.”

@Rainmaker1973 - ME-

Name one.