Rtn. Dr. Bibhu Prasad Swain

Indian Navy War Veteran, Entrepreneur, Promoter of India-Indonesia Relationship by People Diplomacy through Art, Culture, Education, Trade & Commerce.
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[🇮🇳Jitendra pratap singh🇮🇳 @jpsin1]

यह वीडियो तब का है जब नरेंद्र मोदी जी गुजरात के मुख्यमंत्री थे इनका नाम प्रधानमंत्री पद की दौड़ में चल रहा था उसी वक्त इंडिया टुडे कांक्लेव में आमंत्रित किया गया था

इस वीडियो को आप जरूर देखिए सच में बहुत मजा आएगा

[DD India @DDIndialive]

WATCH || Prime Minister @narendramodi, accompanied by Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto, arrives at the venue of a community event with the Indian diaspora in Jakarta. PM Modi is set to address the gathering shortly.

@PMOIndia @MIB_India @PIB_India @IndianEmbJkt

#PMModiInIndonesia

[AshutoshShrivastava @ai_for_success]

Take 136 seconds out of your day and listen to Sundar Pichai.

[Rtn. Dr. Bibhu Prasad Swain @ChairmanKYF]

Happy Raja. An Australian celebrity and youth Ambassador of Kalinga International Youth Foundation proudly wishing the people of Odisha on
#RajaParva @CMO_Odisha @MohanMOdisha @KVSinghDeo1 @dcmo_pravati @PravatiPOdisha
@_anugarg @SecyChief @otvnews @otvkhabar @kanak_news

[Sann @san_x_m]

Her name is Poonam Gupta.

She was born in 1969 in Mayurbhanj district, Odisha. Her father was a government employee.

She completed her Bachelor of Economics at Hindu College, University of Delhi, in 1989, finishing second in the entire university.

Her Master of Economics at Delhi School of Economics in 1991 placed her fifth in the university.

She then moved to the United States and enrolled at the University of Maryland.

She completed a second Master’s degree in 1995 with a GPA of 3.9 out of 4.0, the highest in her class.

She then completed her PhD in Economics in 1998.

She spent eight years at the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC.

She returned to India and taught at the Delhi School of Economics and other institutions.

Then she joined the World Bank in 2013 as a senior economist, rising to lead economist.

She returned to India in 2021 and became the first woman to lead the National Council of Applied Economic Research, India’s largest independent economic policy institution.

On April 2 2025 the Government of India appointed her as Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India.

She is only the fourth woman to hold this position in the RBI’s 90 year history.

She is the first woman Deputy Governor of the RBI in 14 years.

She now sits on the Monetary Policy Committee that sets the interest rate affecting every loan, every EMI and every savings account in India.

She grew up in Odisha. She came second in Delhi University. She built her career across the IMF and the World Bank.

She came back.

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[Erik Solheim @ErikSolheim]

Big victory for Prime Minister Modi in India 🇮🇳 state elections. Its time the West appreciates the strength of Indian democracy!

BJP has won a massive victory in state elections in West Bengal and Assam. The turn out was extraordinary high, more than 90%, far above normal participation in European and American elections. With a population of 106 million West Bengal is much larger than any nation in the European Union, so this matters!

The result should give western media a pause. They very often present prime minister Modi as a threat to democracy and his policies as some sort of Hindu extremism. The reality is exactly the opposite. Indian is not only the worlds largest democracy in size - its also one of the most solid in content because its not a western transplant but rooted in Indian traditions and history.

Yesterday’s election produced surprising results in West Bengal and Kerala and a shocking one in Tamil Nadu. Still the losers accept defeat. The turn out is high. There is close to zero violence. Every citizen get the ballot papers - even in the most remote places. The right to free speech is uncontested and Indians use it widely.

When BJP performed below expectations in the 2024 parliament elections, many western media wrote as if it was the beginning of the end for Modiji. Since then the BJP has won state elections in Odisha, Haryana, Delhi, Maharashtra, Bihar - and now Assam and West Bengal. What a revenge!

At a time when democracy is threatened in the US and European democracies struggle to deliver, we should look to India for inspiration not fear!

[Radha Tripathi @Radha_AI]

Instead of watching an hour of Netflix, watch this 2 hour hour Stanford lecture will teach you more about how LLMs like ChatGPT and Claude are built than most people working at top AI companies learn in their entire careers.

[Sann @san_x_m]

Her name is Pratiksha Tondwalkar.

She was born in 1964 in Pune into a Scheduled Caste family.

When she was in Class 7, her father decided to pull her out of school and get her married. Her teacher begged him to let her continue. She even offered to pay for Pratiksha’s education herself. Her father refused.

She was married at 17. Her husband Sadashiv Kadu worked as a bookbinder at a Mumbai branch of the State Bank of India.

When she was 20, he died in a road accident. She was left with a two year old son and no education.

She walked into the same SBI branch to collect her late husband’s dues. She told the bank she needed any job they could give her.

They gave her a broom.

She swept floors. She dusted furniture. She cleaned restrooms. She earned Rs 65 a month.

She said in an interview whenever my son asked for a packet of biscuits I would get off the bus one stop early just to save the fare money to buy them for him.

After work, she enrolled in night college in Vikhroli. She completed Class 10 with first class marks. Then Class 12. Then a psychology degree. Bank colleagues helped her study whenever they could.

Her parents pressured her to remarry immediately. She refused until she had graduated.

She was promoted from sweeper to messenger to clerk.

She remarried in 1993. Her husband Pramod Tondwalkar encouraged her to take the banking officer exams. She cleared them.

She rose from trainee officer to Scale 4 to Chief General Manager.

In 2022, she became Assistant General Manager of the State Bank of India.

The same bank where she once cleaned restrooms for Rs 65 a month gave her its highest management honour 40 years later.

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[ANI @ANI]

#WATCH | Mumbai | Member of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister, Sanjeev Sanyal says, “The relative performance of the Indian states shows one or two very clear trends. The first is the much talk about the North-South divide, which is not the real economic crisis in the country… It is actually an East-West divide where the eastern half of India is distinctively poorer than the western half of the country… The key to the Eastern half of India is reviving Kolkata, specifically because the high growth all over the country is ultimately driven by a handful of high-growth urban hubs… In that context, eastern India needs a high growth hub… Kolkata already has some clusters and a long, glorious history. Despite the last half century of decline, I would argue that the secret to reviving the eastern half of India must be about the revival of Kolkata, specifically.”

[Rtn. Dr. Bibhu Prasad Swain @ChairmanKYF]

Severe harassment and torture by @UnitedIndiaInsu in my cashless claim settlement for my vehicle OD02 BV 3887 Hyundai Creta . Since 2 months are going to be completed. No response.
Claim No.0407033125C059202001
Policy No. 0407033125P101503598
Request @irdaindia @FinMinIndia

[Aakash Verma @VermaAakash3]

Instead of spending an hour on Netflix, why not check out this 60-minute lecture from Steve Jobs after leaving Apple? It’s packed with insights on building companies that could be more valuable than any startup book you’ve ever read.

[Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury @salah_shoaib]

Chinmoy Krishna Brahmachari should not be forgotten in silence 🙏

Silence, in the face of injustice, is complicity. Chinmoy Krishna Brahmachari — a #ISKCON monk, a spiritual voice, a citizen — remains behind bars on deeply contested sedition charges.

Already 505 days have passed, yet there is no meaningful response from global human rights organizations, no sustained media scrutiny, no urgent demand for accountability.

This is not just about one individual. It is about the principle of justice itself.

Reports indicate he is suffering physically and enduring harsh conditions in prison, which demands immediate humanitarian attention — regardless of political or ideological differences. Justice cannot be selective. Human rights cannot be conditional.

The international community must not look away.

Where are the voices that speak for the voiceless? Where are the institutions that claim to defend freedom, dignity, and due process?
I urge global rights groups, media organizations, and concerned citizens everywhere: Raise your voice. Ask questions. Demand transparency. Demand immediate release of Chinmoy Krishna Brahmachari. Call for due process and humane treatment.

[Akshay Samal । ଅକ୍ଷୟ ସାମଲ @AkshayKSamal]

ODISHA lost precious 24 years.

Naveen Patnaik Leader of Opposition in Odisha legislative Assembly - 2nd longest serving CM of any Indian state. Great personal achievement.

Many People know what Biju Babu did but how many know what Naveen Babu did ?
Fact Check 👇

His father Biju Babu (great son of Odisha) was CM only for 8 Years.
After death of Biju Babu some leader from Janata dal convinced Naveen Babu to join politics and they founded BJD. The new party went into alliance with NDA. Within couple of year he show the door to powerful Leader who bring him into politics(some say due to fear of political insecurity) and that's work well.

Now big question is what Odisha achieved during his 24 Year tenure ?
In a single word NOTHING !!!
Surprised let's check 👇

1. Odisha's farmers income is 2nd lowest in 2023-24
2. Odisha importing 7 out of 8 essentials.
3. No change in unemployment. Lakhs of Odia youth migrated to other state for job.
4.Despite having good chance( BBSR have Infy, Satyam,TCS before 2000 and have one of 3 STPI of India ) no IT expansion happens post 2000.

5. Odisha urban population is still below 20%.
6. Odisha is highly dependent on agriculture but nither a single major dam constructed nor irrigation project.
7. Liquor sales increase and many new shop opened in Rural area as well.
8. No major industries setup apart from mining basesd industries.
9. BBSR and Cuttack bus-stand build in his last term. Which should be completed decade before. Many district level bus-stand are in poor state.

10. Hockey stadium build at Technical universities land which itself struggling for expansion.
11. Sugar mill closed one after one.
12. Textile mill shutdown.
13. Textile mill OTM (Which started by Late Biju Patnaik closed in 2001). No action taken to established new textiles park.
14. Spend money like anything on sports but not constructed much needed cold storage.
15. Despite having lots of potential in tourism sector, did not develop any tourist spot.

16. Odisha is among bottom three in drinking water accessibility index. Micro-environment in urban areas has improved in 2018 as compared to 2012 for all states except Odisha and Assam.
17. Failed in establishing POSCO plant.
18. No New EXPRESSWAY.
19. State's medicals running with just 40-50% doctors.
20. Lots of vacancy in higher educational Institutions.

21. Prople are dependent on freebies. This is the major factor of his continuous winnings appart from week opposition.
22. Not able to create 2nd line of leader who could lead the party.
23. Failed in bringing any automobile and manufacturing industries.
24. Not able to control corruption.

Seems new govt is also least bothered about development despite having enough scope.

[ANI @ANI]

#WATCH | Delhi: BJD MP Sasmit Patra says, "It is a very sad and shameful development that the ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel plants, which were originally planned for Odisha, are now being shifted to Andhra Pradesh. When Naveen Patnaik was the Chief Minister of Odisha, he travelled to Japan and signed an MoU with Nippon Steel. Consequently, Nippon Steel was set to build its own steel plant in Odisha... The second most critical issue is that Odisha’s minerals will be transported to Andhra Pradesh via a slurry pipeline. If every steel plant and industry moves out of Odisha, and our minerals and coal are exported through such pipelines, nothing will be left for the state. It is wrong for steel plants to be established in other states while using Odisha’s resources instead of developing them here. I believe if Lakshmi Mittal wants to produce steel, he should do so in Odisha rather than taking our minerals to Andhra Pradesh."

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

Odisha is no stranger to India’s tourism circuit.

From the timeless Konark & Jagannath Temples, to the sands of Puri Beach and the vastness of Chilika Lake.

But it seems that if you venture deeper into the state you discover landscapes that are every bit as spectacular.

Duduma Falls in Koraput district where the Machkund River plunges dramatically off a rocky cliff is one such marvel.

It’s a reminder that India’s beauty is inexhaustible. Just when you think you’ve seen it all… another wonder appears.

#SundayWanderer

(Have to thank @manas_muduli for tirelessly promoting Odisha)

[Sambit Patra @sambitswaraj]

A Truly Unique Spiritual Tradition of Odisha!

During the sacred Dola Melan at Maluda in the serene waters of Chilika Lake, deities from 24 villages arrive in beautifully decorated Bimanas, creating a breathtaking confluence of devotion, culture, and community spirit.

Celebrated for generations in the Parikud region, this divine gathering reflects the vibrant and timeless traditions of Jagannath culture rooted in Puri.

#DolaMelan #Chilika #Puri #Odisha

[Sambit Patra @sambitswaraj]

Sacred ‘Dola Melan’ at Chilika Lake!🙏

[Raghav Chadha @raghav_chadha]

Prepaid Recharge Customers के साथ हो रही लूट का मुद्दा आज मैंने Parliament में उठाया।

(a) अगर आपका recharge खत्म हो जाए तो Outgoing Calls बंद होना समझ में आता है, लेकिन Incoming Calls बंद करना मनमानी है।रिचार्ज खत्म होते ही न कोई आपसे संपर्क कर सकता है और न ही आपके फोन पर OTP जैसे जरूरी मैसेज आ पाते हैं। Emergency के हालातों में व्यक्ति बेसहारा हो जाता है।

(b) 28 दिन का Recharge plan एक scam है। साल में महीने 12 होते हैं लेकिन रिचार्ज 13 बार करवाना पड़ता है (28 days x 13 times = 364 days).
Recharge plan की वैधता calender months (30–31 दिन) के हिसाब से होनी चाहिए, क्योंकि 28 दिन के चक्कर में लोगों को साल भर में एक अतिरिक्त रिचार्ज करवाना पड़ता है।

मोबाइल आज के समय में Luxury नहीं, बल्कि आम नागरिक की Necessity बन चुका है।

इसलिए टेलीकॉम कंपनियों को उपभोक्ताओं के साथ Fair और Transparent रवैया रखना चाहिए।

[أحمد شريف العامري @AhmedSharif]

Four million Indians wake up every day in the UAE and go to work, open their shops, teach in classrooms, build companies, treat patients, and raise families.

Life is moving. Schools are open. Offices are running. Flights are landing. The country is steady.

The UAE was built on order, discipline, and foresight. Security here is structured, layered, and constant. Every resident matters. Every community is part of the national fabric.

India and the UAE are connected through decades of shared effort and shared success. That connection is visible in every neighborhood and every industry.

To the families watching from India: your loved ones are in a country that plans carefully, acts decisively, and protects responsibly.

This is a place of stability.
This is a place of trust.
This is home for millions and it remains secure. 🇦🇪🇮🇳

[Prime Minister of Israel @IsraeliPM]

A LOOK BACK: From historic visits to warm moments of friendship, Prime Minister Netanyahu and Prime Minister Modi have built a remarkable partnership.

🇮🇱🤝🇮🇳 Looking forward to welcoming you back, @PMOIndia @narendramodi.