Nitin Gupta

Sobha Singh was also a prosecution witness against Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt in the Legislative Bombing Case of 1929. He was apparently the only person who saw Bhagat Singh and Dutt throw the bombs, although even the magistrate didn’t really believe him. Sobha Singh was later knighted by the British.

Here is how pathetic @airindia is 👇 They finally moved us to a flight on 2nd May instead of 3rd May. But here is the catch: 1) It is a connecting flight via BOM. We paid for a direct flight. 2) The original flight was cancelled after web check in, so we had already paid for seats of our choice. Yet we were made to pay again for seats. How is this allowed? @RamMNK @MoCA_GoI Where does this extra money go? 3) We had to book a hotel for an extra day, paying a premium for a last minute booking. Why am I being punished for Air India's fault.

How does losing looks like in numbers? - 1 Bloomberg columnist, 188 articles, 1% positive over three years. (@KutnitiFNDTN) - A bankrupt neighbour at 1/10 size outspending us three to one in Washington. - A sovereign rating frozen at the lowest investment grade for eighteen years while our GDP tripled.

Minus the Malacca strait logic, the other very compelling reason is this. India loses approx $2-3 bn a year in just forex losses. Congestion in these ports, extra transit time etc all add another 0.25% of our gdp annually in hidden costs. As of today this works out to $10-11 bn. We essentially are spending $12-14 bn a year today just to fill the ports of Singapore, Colombo and Malaysia. Given the topography of the east coast we don't have any port with a draft of 20m. Vizag the average is 16 m. Chennai is at 15m. Singapore is at 18 m but expanding to 23 m. Colombo is at 19 m. The draft of some of the largest container vessels ULCV ("Mother vessels) is already at 16.5m. this will continue to climb as larger vessels hit the waters. Vizhinjam (22m) and Galathea Bay (20m) are the only way we can stop relying on foreign transhipment ports. Another huge strategic vulnerability here is that tomorrow we don't even need a strait of Hormuz type chokepoint. Just get Singapore and Malaysia to block our cargo and we are effectively rendered helpless.

Last night, a 45-year-old clinic manager, Mohd Shehzad, was arrested by Delhi Police for raping, impregnating and forcibly trying to convert an 18-year-old Hindu girl who had joined the clinic as a trainee The girl, who belongs to SC community, was facing threats from him for avoiding him, until @BhaiPreetSingh learnt about her and stepped in Now, we - Preet and our organisation @sewanyaya - are working together on her rehab and justice Details are as murky as TCS Nashik case: The clinic is owned by a Hindu doctor. Shehzad was manager - in charge of staff salaries and general upkeep The girl, fresh out of school, joined as unpaid intern on the assurance she would get a stipend after 6 months if she worked well Shehzad, who everyone in office knew as “Shabbu”, began by calling her “baccha” and buying her clothes, telling her it was to “compensate” for unpaid work Within 4 months, fatherly act turned into sexual exploitation. Before the naive girl could realise, she was trapped Even when she learnt that Shehzad was married with two children, she could not immediately leave nim. When she got pregnant, he offered to make her his second wife. That’s when she learnt that “Shabbu” was Muslim (In fact, when I called the clinic to ask about the case, even the new manager knew him as “Shabbu Kumar”) Meanwhile when the girl finally tried to cut him off a few months ago, he began harassing and threatening her with leaking all the pictures and videos he had made of her That is when Preet stepped in. FIR was filed at Badli police station. Shehzad has been remanded to judicial custody The girl is now under our collective care.

This is what happens when a country decides brick is not a basic material but a design language. Prestige University. Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India. Designed by Sanjay Puri Architects. Completed January 2026. 30,843 m². The defining feature is a 9,000 square metre walkable roof comprising 463 stepped platforms, usable as individual social spaces or as a single open auditorium for up to 9,000 people. The design was modelled on India’s ancient stepwells civic gathering spaces that existed for over 1,100 years before the building typology was ever theorized. The brick screens on the east, west and south facades are not only decorative. They are a ventilated climate skin, reducing heat gain in a city that sits between 30°C and 40°C for eight months of the year. Landscaped courtyards pull indirect natural light through every level. Minimal air conditioning. Minimal artificial lighting. This is brick doing structural work, climatic work, spatial work and cultural work simultaneously. Africa has the same soils for brick and enough resources to produce it. The same need for spaces where 9,000 people can gather. The question is when we start investing in our materials with the same seriousness. Architects: Sanjay Puri Architects | Indore, India | 2026 | Photo: Vinay Panjwani

We are resolved to ruthlessly crush the narcotics cartel. The @narcoticsbureau has cracked down on a major international narcotics ring seizing 349 kgs of High-Grade cocaine worth Rs.1745 crore in Mumbai. This is a trailblazing example of bottom to top approach where the agency traced back a smaller consignment to net a massive network. Congratulations to Team NCB for this monumental success.

There is one news story that I will never forget in this lifetime. It is about a man named Avijit Sarkar. He was the first person to be killed by the TMC after winning the 2021 West Bengal Vidhan Sabha election. Minutes before his gruesome murder, Avijit Sarkar took to Facebook to narrate that he had been surrounded by a mob of TMC workers. He did not know what was written in his destiny on that fateful night. Look at the date - 2nd May 2021. This was the last time Avijit posted on Facebook. In the following weeks, TMC workers killed a dozen more people as part of a coordinated wave of political violence. But the story of Avijit Sarkar never left my mind. Avijit was holding a puppy in his hand and narrating his ordeal. At that point, he did not know that he would be killed. I was tasked to translate his dying testimony from Bangla to English so that non-Bengalis can know his story. Bangla is my mother tongue, and every word he spoke captivated the anxiety that a man experiences when his life is in danger. While writing the news report, I broke down several times because I knew what happened after the video ended. It was a traumatic experience. Death has always been a triggering subject for me. The fact that I was new to this industry and that I was already suffering from mental health issues made it worse. It has been 5 years since that incident. Tears have dried up, but not the rage that continues to stir inside me. This is why I have taken a pledge. As long as I am alive, I will make sure that the story of Avijit lives on. I will leave you with something I wrote in my diary back then - "Ek din bichar hobe. Ek din sasti hobe, adalat e na hole rastai" ( One day, there will be justice. One day, the perpetrators will be punished, either in court or on the road).

Our #50WordEdit on the relatively peaceful, fatality-free election in West Bengal

I was reading Telegraph and a few other papers today. Just wanted to know when was the last time, a major election happened in West Bengal, without a murder. At least not since 1977!! CEC Gyanesh Kumar deserves the highest possible award for 2026 West Bengal elections 🎉🍁

I am a Naval Veteran and Merchant Navy officer, and this is why I think @RahulGandhi is wrong on Great Nicobar. From an Indian national interest standpoint, Great Nicobar is not a “scam”; it is a strategic port located astride one of the most critical maritime chokepoints on earth, close to the Strait of Malacca, where a huge share of global trade moves every day. India cannot afford to treat Great Nicobar as a sentimental issue when it is a rare natural asset for maritime power, deterrence, and economic security. Yes, Great Nicobar is ecologically sensitive. India respects that. But national strategy is about balancing environmental safeguards with long-term security, logistics, and sovereignty. The current project is designed around an international container transshipment terminal, a dual-use airport, power infrastructure, and a planned township -all of which strengthen Indian Navy’s ability to monitor international sea lanes, improve military response times, and reduce commercial dependence on foreign transshipment hubs. To dismiss this as “destruction dressed in development’s language” is politically convenient, but strategically shallow. This kind of language suits our adversaries rather than us. India’s maritime future cannot be secured by empty slogans. It will be secured by developing ports, airfields, logistics nodes, surveillance, and persistent military presence in the Indo-Pacific. That is exactly why Great Nicobar matters. The real question is not whether development should happen, but how to execute strategic development responsibly while protecting our National interest. We can and should demand strict environmental compliance, tribal safeguards, and transparent implementation not reject a project that strengthens India’s maritime security simply because it is complex and uncomfortable. Great Nicobar is not just an island. It is a test of whether India can step up to its destined role as a great maritime power or remain trapped in slogan politics.

Trump admin, you have a problem. Your good friend Pakistan appears to have just opened six overland links to Iran, helping the regime bypass your counter-blockade in the Strait of Hormuz. This will help Iran continue to resist US pressure. Islamabad double deals America...AGAIN!

No one was rattled when people were strung up from trees and electric polls during elections in West Bengal - suddenly tough talking cops on the streets to prevent such incidents are the problem? Political violence is almost always state sponsored.

The Economist magazine is disappointed that India did not celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Mughal conquest of India. Oh, those ungrateful natives who do not celebrate the gift of civilisation. Who knows, they may even refuse to celebrate the Battle of Plassey. Dangerous trend.....

Walking through Pune today. You would not guess this city has 399 deeptech startups. 96 funded. 20 at Series A+. Bangalore got SaaS. Mumbai got fintech. Delhi got consumer. Pune got hardware muscle memory. The real moat for India's deeptech decade. PS: Pic from German Bakery in Pune. Forgot to click pic, so AI helped. :-) #DeepTech

A college in Karnataka taped the traditional nose ring worn by girls students before an entrance exam College - MES College in Chikkamagaluru Exam - CET held on Thursday The management covered the nose rings with adhesive tape before entering exam hall. Many bled after trying to remove it later Similar incidents keep repeating across Indian schools and colleges - even Janeu thread was removed from students recently. At the same time, more and more institutions are allowing hijab just to avoid mob pressure @KanoongoPriyank, please take note The institute must be asked to provide, in writing: - What exact rule allowed this and why? - Why was adhesive tape used on students’ bodies? - Who authorised it? If the college cannot give a satisfactory written explanation, strict action must follow

They won’t go Viral , because they don’t suit the narratives of people who want to defame Bihar.

"South Asia" accounts trying to create controversies and incite Indians using caste, religion, region differences = BLOCK. Do not engage please. Destroys their reach and psyops capability even if a few do it. Takes 1 min to go check the account, report for hate, and block.

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.@atomberg_tech introduces 1st Generation Drone Propulsion Systems. An excellent step towards becoming 'Atmanirbhar' in drones. Presently most of these propulsion systems are imported. Keep up the great work Manoj and team! linkedin.com/feed/update/ur… #Pune @TiEPune @iitbombay