Aparna Panwar

Ex-Banker | Fauji kid | Flower lover

[DAE India @DAEIndia]

🇮🇳 India Tops the World at the 56th International Physics Olympiad 2026!

🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇India's young physicists deliver an extraordinary performance at #IPhO2026 in Colombia. All five members of the Indian team win Gold Medals. 1/3
@PMOIndia @DrJitendraSingh @HBCSE_TIFR @TIFRScience

[Aparna Panwar @Aparna_Pwr]

@theskindoctor13 Also wonder why Eknath Shinde was admitted to a private hospital and not a government one when he fell ill last week.. these guys will do nothing to improve government hospitals but come and assault poor doctors

[Shiv Aroor @ShivAroor]

Shameless Shinde Sena Corporator Ramesh Mhatre caught on camera slapping lady doctor & on-duty medical staff at KDMC Hospital, FIR still not registered.

Doctors protest, but zero action against Mhatra who has other criminal cases against him.

[Mohammed Zubair @zoo_bear]

BREAKING: INSTAGRAM HAS BEEN RUNNING PAID ADS PROMOTING CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE MATERIAL IN INDIA!
This is causing harm to children in the real world because @instagram is providing a marketplace for child sexual abuse. When BBC reporter @divyaconnects questions Head of @Meta in India. This is how he responds. Investigation by @bbcworldservice.

[Vishal Bhargava @VishalBhargava5]

The Municipal Corporation of Mumbai is unleashing a ruthless attack on the city’s open spaces. It must be stopped.

[Paranjoy Guha Thakurta @paranjoygt]

The Telegraph editor’s passport not being renewed in Kolkata

Note from R. Rajagopal
Former Editor, The Telegraph
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In March this year, my name was deleted from the Ballygunge constituency electoral roll in Kolkata, apparently because the Special Intensive Revision process could not trace either my name or that of my late father in the 2002 voters' list. My father, a Gandhian, retired professor and former State Secretary of the Gandhi Smarak Nidhi in Kerala, passed away in 2016. I remain unable to understand how a conscientious voter like him could have been absent from the rolls.

Like nearly 27 lakh other residents of West Bengal, I was excluded on account of what were described as “logical discrepancies”. No reason was furnished even after I submitted my matriculation certificate, and my appeal is now pending before one of the tribunals constituted pursuant to the Supreme Court's directions. As a consequence, I was unable to vote in the recent election.

More distressing has been the fate of my passport renewal application. Although I completed the biometric formalities on March 19, 2026, police verification has not been cleared because my name no longer appears on the electoral roll. Despite submitting several alternative documents, I have been informed that they are insufficient. In fact, today (June 27, 2026) is the 100th day since my biometrics for passport renewal were taken. I was formally informed last week by the passport-issuing authority that Kolkata Police sent an adverse report, citing the deletion of my name from the voters' list. I have been asked to appear before the Regional Passport Office in Calcutta "immediately" but when I sought an appointment, without which it is difficult to gain entry, the date granted is July 17, 2026.

In between, our daughter, a journalist in California, got married in San Francisco on April 17. Needless to say, it would have been impossible for me to attend the wedding in the absence of an active passport, notwithstanding my possession of a valid ten-year US visa.

For all practical purposes, I find myself in a state of civic uncertainty although recently the government iterated that a passport is no proof of citizenship. Much of my time is now consumed by efforts to reconstruct family records and secure documents dating back several decades….

My days begin with checking my voting right appeal status and then the passport tracker. Then I write to the college where my mother taught in 1965 and to her school from where she passed out in 1959, asking for any document that proves she existed. The school has been very helpful but not the college. Similarly, I speak to prohibition campaign activists in Kerala, running down a list I collected after coming across an activist's name in a group by chance, asking for any news clipping or photographs that show my father campaigning against illegal liquor vends and communalism.

Some close friends and public figures have helped me in all these efforts. However, I am unaware if any media outlet or journalists' association or guild (of which I am not a member) has shown any interest in my situation. A senior journalist reminded me that this situation is by no means unique as "rejection" has been the daily certainty confronting millions of Indians for centuries. I accept that point.

My intention has never been to project myself as a victim. Rather, I have wanted to underline a larger point: if someone who spent his professional life in journalism and edited a relatively known newspaper can encounter such difficulties, one can only imagine what the truly marginalised must endure. Did I approach any newspaper? No, because I do not want it to become an issue concerning me. Do editors and journalists know about my issue? Of course, several do. If they don't, they should not be in the profession, don't you think?

Yet, the complete silence of newspapers on this issue has confirmed my suspicion, now reinforced with personal experience, that so-called mainstream journalism has little to do with my life. I do not "read" any newspaper now. I glance at some but hardly find anything that piques my interest.

[Aparna Panwar @Aparna_Pwr]

@VishalBhargava5 All to benefit BJP’s builder friends

[Vishal Bhargava @VishalBhargava5]

Ladies and Gentlemen: We are witnessing the most brazen and shameless land grabs in the history of any major city in the world.

[Mr Sharma @sharma_views]

INDIAN EXPRESS DROPS A LAND BOMB ON BJP CM 🔥

After Mohan Yadav became Madhya Pradesh CM, his family and real estate companies reportedly bought at least 137 plots spread over 168 acres in and around Ujjain.

This is the same Ujjain being reshaped for Simhastha 2028 with highways, road widening, townships, riverfront projects, medical city, IT park and new commercial zones.

The most damning part is this: out of the 168 acres bought after he became CM, 111 acres are reportedly located along roads announced by CM Mohan Yadav himself.

His family already had land. But after Dec 2023, the land buying saw a sharp jump, right when Ujjain’s development map started turning into a goldmine.

Indian Express repeatedly asked the CM for answers. He stayed silent.

This is how BJP turns religion into a business model 😡

[Rajdeep Sardesai @sardesairajdeep]

Super story by @mazoomdaar at @IndianExpress that only confirms another of the worst kept secrets of Indian politics. Across India, those in power are making windfall profits in private real estate deals by simply getting a change effected in land use. Only difference: no punitive action if it’s a ‘DOUBLE ENGINE’ state! 🙏

[वरुण 🇮🇳 @varungrover]

In any other country (even 3rd world like us, forget a country claiming to be a Vishwaguru), even a single such incident in a year would have caused massive uproar.

But for us, it’s probably 50th case in this year of being killed by the all-pervasive corruption-nexus of govt, IAS, and business.

Nothing will change and next time it would you be you or me or our families perishing in this hellhole created by cruel systems.

[DrSauce ☭🔻(Sign petition in bio!) @DrSauceX]

No water in Mumbai. Pune is getting dirt water. People in Haryana, Madhya Pradesh protesting in huge droves over water. Hospitals in Hyderabad not working properly due to water

Meanwhile Gadkari and Adani using tonnes of water for ethanol and data centres to fill their profits

[Ankur Bisen @AnkurBisen1]

Let’s say if you ask Antilla folks to move to Bundelkhand lock stock barrel. Let’s say you ask all stock market traders from dalaal street to borivali to move to samastipur bihar and operate from there (they are not even moving to dholera city). Let’s say if you ask senior lawyers in sunder nagar and power brokers of Lutyens to move to churu in Rajasthan and work from there.

Well that’s precisely the plan of Indian state with the CORALS of NICOBAR. It wants to gouge these extremely sensitive life form from shallow ocean waters from their colonies that are millennia old and place them elsewhere. If in this “elsewhere”, nature has not allowed corals to exist, why will they just coz. Nicorbar project executioners are wanting to convert this pristine bio-diversity hotspot in a Pattaya kind of resort.

Coral relocation has had practically no success at all, world-over and yet babu led “expert team ” are pretending to play gods.

@pankajsekh

[Rajdeep Sardesai @sardesairajdeep]

BIG: So @rautsanjay61 goes public with a sensational charge that was only until now being whispered in Maharashtra power corridors. One of the Sena (UBT) MPs Om Raje Nimbalkar he claims was told that if he wants a favourable verdict in his father’s murder case in special CBI court, he has to switch sides. The verdict was to come yesterday and has been pushed now to 19th. If true, it raises a very troubling Qs: are court verdicts also now decided by party loyalties?

[Anish Gawande @anishgawande]

Welcome to Mumbai’s newest flyover worth ₹248 crore. At 750 metres of road, that’s ₹33 lakh a metre.

And it opened this week full of potholes.

The flyover is named after the iconic Mrinal Tai Gore, who spent her whole life fighting so ordinary Mumbaikars got a life of dignity.

After seven years, three cost revisions, and a daily penalty on the contractor - this is all they could come up with to honour her?

But kya karein. This is the standard now under the triple-engine sarkar. Cut the ribbon. Click the photo. Leave the potholes for us. Bajao taali.

[Binu Alex @badjourno]

Mumbai has a shiny new airport. The Navi Mumbai International Airport — code: NMI —modern, and fully committed to being as inconvenient as humanly possible.

Like a luxury hotel at the end of a dirt road with no address on Google Maps. Someone made the call to open an international airport, redirect flights to it, and then essentially say — figure it out, buddy. No cabs. No signal. No metro. But look, the interiors are nice.

Let's start with the most basic of problems: people are accidentally booking it. When you search "BOM" — Mumbai's original airport code — NMI helpfully appears in the dropdown too. A few friends of mine found this out the hard way. They booked what they thought was a flight into the city, and instead landed somewhere between the outskirts of Panvel and Pen.

To be fair, all airports are far from the city. You accept it. But Navi Mumbai's airport seems to have taken every inconvenience known to the aviation world and put them all in one place.

My brother flew out from there recently after visiting his in-laws in Panvel. Yes, just a few kilometers from airport. He said he would have happily gone back to Andheri — which, if you know my brother's feelings about Andheri traffic, is saying something. There was no Uber. There was no Ola. The local taxi drivers, fully aware of this, quoted double the fare — because, as they explained without a trace of embarrassment, they'd have to drive back empty. Fair logic.

And here is the part that truly do not belong to any airport terminal: there is no mobile connectivity inside the airport. So you cannot book a cab online. Before you land. Or after. The signal just does not exist. There are reports that this has been fixed, but passengers are still complaining.

If your final destination is Raigad and beyond, this airport is your dream come true. No long drive, no traffic snarl, no existential highway toll experience. For those people, NMI is an absolute gift. But here is the thing. No one is going to Raigad.

There's a metro coming. Great news. It will be ready in approximately five years.

[Riya Upreti @riyaelity]

Indian Army taking over NEET exam logistics is not something to celebrate. It's reflection of how badly civilian agencies have failed.

Army picks up the NEET papers from printing centres
Bulletproof vehicles transport them to centre.

Army exists for national security, border protection, and defence. The fact that they now have to handle exam papers shows how police and other agencies have failed to control paper leak gangs.

A country should not need military-level logistics just to conduct a student exam fairly. Sad state of affairs.

[Mohammed Futurewala @MFuturewala]

Two camera man in the front wasting the fuel; a few behind in Mumbai…Master stroke by Amruta Fadnavis…

[Rattan Dhillon @ShivrattanDhil1]

Yesterday, I posted about my sibling’s petrol car getting stranded on the road due to a fuel pump failure. The company itself confirmed it was linked to a fuel blending issue related to ethanol.

But unfortunately, I had to delete the post because of immense pressure from higher authorities. For the first time in my life, I was forced to take down something purely out of concern for family safety and precautions.

The unfortunate truth is that whenever someone speaks up about ethanol-related issues, attempts are made to silence them. This may continue, but these problems won’t disappear and tomorrow it could be my own car stranded the same way.

#ethanol @nitin_gadkari

[Chandra Prabhu @chandraposts]

Here is how both Dev Meena and Kuldeep Kumar travelled to their hotels with their equipment, hours after becoming joint National record holders (5.45m). #athletics
@Xpress_Sports @indraneel0