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[Sanjeev Sanyal @sanjeevsanyal]

I have come around to a similar view. With all knowledge freely available on tap - college is not needed for lecture based learning. Ambitious 18 year olds should get to work and do the degree on the side (a few fields may still need in-person full time but they will be exceptions).

[Anuradha Tiwari @talk2anuradha]

"I could never have become CEO in any other country, including India. It was only possible because America rewards merit," said former PepsiCo CEO Indira Nooyi.

A tight slap on India's Reservation Politics !

[Revant Himatsingka “Food Pharmer” @foodpharmer2]

The biggest Indian tea companies export high quality to Europe, but sell inferior quality tea in India often containing banned pesticides.

I’ve seen the reports myself. Since Europe has extremely strict quality standards, Indian tea companies ensure they follow all safety norms while exporting but don’t follow these norms for Indian teas.

Tea is consumed daily by millions of Indians, often multiple times a day. Which means this is not about one cup. It’s about long-term exposure.

This issue is being taken far too lightly right now.

But I’m confident that in the coming months, quality of tea in India is going to become a national issue.

[Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72]

Dr Muzaffar Ahmad. Paediatrician. Popular among parents, kind to children. Yesterday, NIA chargesheeted him as one of the prime architects of the Red Fort terror attack that killed 11. He was secretly manufacturing, testing and safekeeping TATP-based IEDs.

You can't do anything.

[Keh Ke Peheno @coolfunnytshirt]

This is why people should not take all statements of youtube educators like Vikas Divyakirti seriously!

[Def Tallks By Aadi Official @dtbyaadi]

WhatsApp CEO Kunal Shah says time management and productivity are not Indian concepts. Hear @MisraNityanand giving it back to him.

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

This is Iranian singer Parastoo Ahmadi. She has been sentenced to 74 lashes for performing without a hijab.

If the same singer were banned from performing "for wearing a hijab" anywhere in the non-Islamic world, the whole world would be screaming about human rights. Why? Because the hijab is only called a "choice" when women want to wear it, not when they are forced to by Mullahs.

[Ge(r)ms of Bollywood बॉलीवुड के रत्न @GemsOfBollywood]

In Raakh, halos of honesty and moral superiority are conveniently awarded to characters named 'Murtaza', 'Saleem' and 'Nisar'.

Meanwhile, a hawaldar named Mishra is crafted to be lazy and incompetent.

Observe how Urduwood's celebrated 'creative liberty' engineers its scripts to decide who gets the virtue and who gets the vice.

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

The 1978 Ranga-Billa case involved the brutal kidnapping and murder of teenage siblings Geeta and Sanjay Chopra in Delhi by career criminals Kuljeet Singh (Ranga) and Jasbir Singh (Billa).

The horrific crime shocked the nation, leading to a massive manhunt and the swift conviction of both killers, who were ultimately hanged in 1982.

The investigation was led by Inspector VP Gupta of the Delhi Police, with SI Ram Chander serving on the team. A bystander, who had tried to save the children, and later helped the police identify the killers by providing their descriptions was Babulal. The journalist who covered the case was Prabha Dutt.

Amazon Prime's series Raakh, which is based on this incident, replaces Inspector VP Gupta with SI Jayprakash Jatav, explicitly portrayed as a Dalit officer navigating institutional bias. Furthermore, SI Ram Chander is replaced by SI Javed Murtaza, Babulal by Saleem, and Prabha Dutt by Nisar, while a lazy hawaldar character named Mishra has been added to the narrative.

This isn't creative liberty. Creative liberty is meant to enhance a story, not distort historical facts to fit a specific ideological agenda. Another stark reminder of how easily history can be rewritten in plain sight under the convenient guise of creative freedom.

[Upword @upword_]

How many creative liberties does it take before a “true events-inspired” story becomes pure propaganda? That’s the question “Raakh” leaves viewers asking!

[Rima Sarkar @_RimaSarkar]

■ The Doctor Who Created Life, Only to End His Own: India’s Tragic Scientific Story. On October 3, 1978, in a small nursing home in southern Calcutta, a baby girl named Kanupriya Agarwal affectionately called “Durga” was born. She was India’s first child conceived through in-vitro fertilization (IVF) and the world’s second, arriving approximately 67–70 days after Louise Brown, the first IVF baby, in the UK on July 25, 1978.

■At the center of this achievement was Dr. Subhash Mukherjee, a physician and endocrinologist working at Kolkata’s Nil Ratan Sircar Medical College. He collaborated with cryobiologist Sunit Mukherji and gynecologist Dr. Saroj Kanti Bhattacharya. Using rudimentary laboratory facilities and limited resources, the team successfully performed IVF.

■His approach differed notably from the early British work by Patrick Steptoe and Robert Edwards, who initially relied on natural menstrual cycles for single-egg retrieval. He pioneered the use of gonadotropins (such as human menopausal gonadotropin) to stimulate the ovaries and produce multiple eggs, an innovation that later became the global standard in IVF protocols. Even more remarkably, his team cryopreserved an eight-cell embryo (frozen for about 53 days in this case) and transferred it, resulting in a live birth. This is widely recognized as the world’s first successful pregnancy and birth from a frozen embryo, a milestone replicated in the West several years later.

■Rather than celebration, his announcement faced intense skepticism and institutional hostility. The West Bengal government formed an inquiry committee dominated by specialists outside reproductive biology including a radio-astronomer/radiophysicist (chair), a nuclear physicist, a gynecologist, and a neurophysiologist. The committee subjected him to interrogations and ultimately dismissed his claims as unproven or bogus. He was barred from presenting his work at international conferences, denied permissions to publish formally in scientific journals and subjected to transfers, including one to the Regional Institute of Ophthalmology, far removed from his field of expertise.

■Isolated, professionally ostracized, and under immense psychological strain, he died by suicide in 1981, at his Kolkata residence at the age of 50.

■For years afterward, credit for India’s first IVF baby was attributed to the Mumbai team led by Dr. T.C. Anand Kumar and Dr. Indira Hinduja, whose baby Harsha was born in 1986 and was the first extensively documented case at the time.

■However, in 1997, Dr. Anand Kumar examined Mukherjee’s preserved handwritten notes, lab records, and spoke with the parents of Kanupriya Agarwal. Convinced of their authenticity, he publicly acknowledged Mukhopadhyay’s priority at a national conference and later published a paper titled “Architect of India’s First Test Tube Baby: Dr. Subhash Mukerjee” in Current Science. This act of scientific integrity corrected the historical record.

■By the early 2000s, ICMR and other bodies formally recognized Dr. Mukherjee’s contributions. His name was added to the Dictionary of Medical Biography, and a bust honoring him now stands at Nil Ratan Sircar Medical College in Kolkata. Kanupriya Agarwal (Durga) has herself spoken publicly about his pioneering role.

■Dr. Subhas Mukherjee's story remains a poignant chapter in the history of Indian science, one of remarkable ingenuity under constraints, followed by tragic institutional failure, and eventual posthumous vindication. His work helped lay the foundation for the millions of IVF births that have occurred worldwide since.

■Today marks the 45th anniversary of Dr. Mukherjee's passing. #OnThisDay 1981, India lost a visionary who achieved what the world’s leading centers had only just begun to explore yet was failed by the very system that should have celebrated him. His legacy endures in every IVF family, a reminder of the price sometimes paid by those ahead of their time.

[Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72]

Days shut in a year:

Hospital: 0
Border post: 0
Police station: 0
High court: 155
Supreme court: 159

[Vijay Shekhar Sharma @vijayshekhar]

This happened yesterday in DEL !

[Shefali Vaidya. 🇮🇳 @ShefVaidya]

Halal certified housing project with a special slaughter lounge for Eid I am guessing. But why would they call this ‘Mahalaxmi’? @life_spaces

[iamdeath @03m21c]

@KhabtiG @RBI https://t.co/DNxlYHprZD

[ReserveBankOfIndia @RBI]

स्वर्ण धारिता संबंधी स्पष्टीकरण
Clarification on gold holdings
https://t.co/JrCUhWWEHo

[PIB Fact Check @PIBFactCheck]

A news report published by @Bloomberg states that RBI may have sold gold amounting to approximately USD 12 billion.

#PIBFactCheck

❌ This claim is FAKE

✔️ According to @RBI, the share of gold in India's foreign exchange reserves rose from 13.92% at end-September 2025 to 16.70% on March 31, 2026, and further to 16.85% as of May 22, 2026.

▶️ The physical stock of gold is also disclosed by RBI in its Monthly Bulletin. The latest edition is available on the RBI website at: https://t.co/ygyDJLIBvH, the status of which remains unchanged as on date.

→ For authentic information, always visit the RBI's official website: https://t.co/y6f20liouT

[Anuradha Tiwari @talk2anuradha]

Meet Priya Raj Yadav

> RJD Spokesperson
> Promotes Reservations
> Supports SC/ST Act

Today, she herself has been booked under SC/ST Act.

Poetic justice at its peak !

[Anshul Saxena @AskAnshul]

India Today reported that 8,056 people died in 5 days, with Uttar Pradesh emerging as India's deadliest state during the heatwaves.

Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair also amplified the claim.

Later, when it was found that the report was misleading, India Today first deleted its post and then removed the article.

Now, the fact-checking brigade has suddenly lost interest in facts.

[Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72]

Today, as on every single day, remembering Dr Darshan Ranganathan, my mother, my inspiration. She authored 16 @J_A_C_S papers from India, when just 1 can make a career; never received a single Indian award, never cared.

She died of cancer on her sixtieth birthday, June 4, 2001.