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[Deepankar Dev @DeepankarDev]

@VishnuNDTV Any PSU wouldn’t win contracts on technical strength anymore. They've largely turned into employment shelters where low cut-offs and protected mediocrity are the norm.

[Deepankar Dev @DeepankarDev]

@Tejasvi_Surya @krishnabgowda Bangalore's Tunnel Road project is backwards. Dig the tunnel, yes, but for a subway line, not for cars. A subway moves 40,000+ people/hour. Private vehicles? 2,500. That's 16x capacity.

[Deepankar Dev @DeepankarDev]

Bangalore's Tunnel Road project is backwards. Dig the tunnel, yes but for a metro line, not for cars. A subway moves 40,000+ people/hour. Private vehicles? 2,500. That's 16x capacity. @rk_misra @TVMohandasPai

[Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw @kiranshaw]

Did u know of this endeavour? What an undertaking by Rakesh Shukla 👏👏👏

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The West poured $50 billion into fast breeder nuclear reactors and abandoned every single one. India poured $900 million and just achieved criticality on the first commercially viable one outside Russia.

The US spent $15 billion. Gave up. Japan spent $12 billion. Their Monju prototype had one sodium fire in 1995 and never recovered. The UK spent $8 billion. Germany spent $6 billion. France, Italy, all walked away. Six of the richest nations on Earth concluded this technology was too hard and too expensive to pursue.

India started building in 2004 with an initial budget of $420 million. Twenty-two years, a dozen missed deadlines, and a cost doubling later, the Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor at Kalpakkam just sustained a controlled fission chain reaction. The reactor is now alive.

The reason India never quit is a constraint most people have never thought about. India has only 1-2% of the world's uranium reserves. For a country of 1.4 billion people trying to build energy independence, that's a death sentence if you're running conventional nuclear.

But India has 25% of the world's thorium. The single largest national reserve on Earth.

The problem: you can't just burn thorium the way you burn uranium. A physicist named Homi Bhabha designed a three-stage nuclear program in the 1950s specifically to solve this. Stage 1: burn natural uranium in heavy water reactors, collect plutonium as a byproduct. Stage 2: feed that plutonium into fast breeder reactors, where it breeds MORE plutonium AND converts thorium into fissile uranium-233. Stage 3: burn thorium directly at scale.

India just entered Stage 2. Seventy years after Bhabha drew it up on paper.

The math on the thorium endgame is wild. At current energy consumption rates, India's thorium reserves could power the country for over 700 years. Most nuclear nations are playing a uranium game with maybe 80-100 years of runway. India is playing a completely different game with a 7x longer fuel supply.

The West quit because uranium stayed cheap and sodium coolant is terrifying. It catches fire on contact with air. It explodes on contact with water. Russia's BN-600 had 27 sodium leaks and 14 sodium fires between 1980 and 1997. And Russia kept going anyway because Russia doesn't quit nuclear projects. India watched all of that and kept going too.

When you have 1% of the uranium but 25% of the thorium, the engineering difficulty stops being a reason to quit. It becomes the price of admission to a 700-year energy supply that nobody else can access.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

There's a physicist at Stanford named Safi Bahcall who modeled this exact principle and the math is wild.

He calls it "phase transitions in human networks." When you're stationary, your probability of a lucky event is limited to your existing surface area: the people you already know, the places you already go, the ideas you've already been exposed to. Your opportunity window is fixed.

When you move, your collision rate with new nodes in a network increases nonlinearly. Double your movement (new conversations, new cities, new projects) and your probability of a serendipitous encounter doesn't double. It roughly quadruples. Because each new node connects you to their entire network, not just to them.

Richard Wiseman ran a 10-year study at the University of Hertfordshire tracking self-described "lucky" and "unlucky" people. The single biggest differentiator wasn't IQ, education, or family money. Lucky people scored significantly higher on one trait: openness to experience. They talked to strangers more, varied their routines more, and said yes to invitations at nearly twice the rate.

The "unlucky" group followed the same routes, ate at the same restaurants, and talked to the same 5 people. Their networks were closed loops. No new inputs, no new collisions.

Luck isn't random. Luck is surface area. And surface area is a function of movement.

The lobster emoji is doing more work than most people realize. Lobsters grow by shedding their shell when it gets too tight. The growth requires a period of total vulnerability. No protection, no armor, soft body exposed to the ocean.

That's the cost of movement nobody posts about. You have to be uncomfortable first. The new shell only hardens after you've already moved.

[Greater Bengaluru Authority @GBA_office]

Puppy Adoption Drive – A Step Towards Humane Animal Care 🐾

Bengaluru South City Corporation successfully organised a Puppy Adoption Camp at Shalini Grounds, Jayanagara, where 10 street puppies found loving homes.

The initiative was conducted by the Animal Husbandry Department of BSCC under the leadership of Chief Veterinary Officer Dr. Srinath, with guidance from Commissioner Sri K. N. Ramesh, in collaboration with Supertails, CARE, Water for Voiceless, FIAPO, and dedicated volunteers.

The adoption drive focused on:
🐶 Providing safe homes for vulnerable street puppies
🐶 Promoting humane management of street dog populations
🐶 Building positive community engagement and awareness

Encouraged by the response from citizens, Bengaluru South City Corporation plans to organise such adoption drives every quarter, strengthening efforts towards compassionate and sustainable urban animal welfare.

#AdoptDontShop #AnimalWelfare #Bengaluru #StreetDogCare #HumaneCity #BSCC #GreaterBengaluruAuthority #DKShivakumar
@DKShivakumar @samyuktahornad

[Mohandas Pai @TVMohandasPai]

The guarantee scheme is destroying the future of our youth. Lack of infrastructure, growth, investment means lesser jobs. 60%+ lack of full time faculty in govt colleges. How will our youth get a good education? Who cares for our future? Does our 77 year senior leader @siddaramaiah @CMofKarnataka really care about our youth? Compromising on our future. Restrict this to really poor @DKShivakumar

[Deepankar Dev @DeepankarDev]

Karnataka’s welfare spending equals 62% of its capex. This isn’t sustainable. States need fiscal rules that cap welfare outlays, ideally under 10% of capex to protect long term growth plan.

[Deepankar Dev @DeepankarDev]

As we mourn the passing of Dharm Ji, I am reminded of his iconic song Gaadi Bula Rahi Hai. He truly embodied its spirit. It speaks of resilience, like a train that keeps moving forward, meeting challenges head-on, whether in storm or calm, night or day- https://t.co/Qi60W6r0bz

[#YeThikKarkeDikhao @YTKDIndia]

🚨 52,609 Indians died on National Highways in 2024. 27,000 more died in the first 6 months of 2025.

That’s 80,000 deaths in 18 months!

And still, not a single top official or contractor is held accountable.

@nitin_gadkari ji, some questions you must answer:

• Why are NHs still death traps despite thousands of crores spent?

• Where is the audit of blackspots, faulty designs, missing signage & broken dividers?

• Why is enforcement almost zero on overspeeding, overloaded trucks & drunk driving?

• Why are contractors never jailed for substandard highway construction?

• When will India get scientific road design & real accountability instead of speeches?

These aren’t numbers. These are human lives. Who will take responsibility?

[Dr. Rajeshwari Iyer @RajeshwariRW]

India can also have this too, but instead you get:

Ladli Behna Yojana
Freebies for freeloaders
Caste census and politics
Reservation over merit
Language politics
Vote-bank appeasement

[Deepankar Dev @DeepankarDev]

Over 50 million cases pending, this isn't a backlog, it's a breakdown. Make courts run 24x7, hire judges, build courts, use tech. Don’t tell us it’s impossible. Fix it. #JusticeDelayed #IndiaDeservesBetter @narendramodi

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

As we approach this year's Independence Day, I look forward to hearing from my fellow Indians!

What themes or ideas would you like to see reflected in this year’s Independence Day speech?

Share your thoughts on the Open Forums on MyGov and the NaMo App...

https://t.co/dG2b2IjnCD

https://t.co/5QtD2aKaBe

[Deepankar Dev @DeepankarDev]

@ICICIBank_Care My iMobile app access is blocked due to sudden KYC requirements. I’m currently abroad, and there’s no provision to complete KYC from outside India. Urgently need access to complete important transactions. @ICICIBank please assist. #KYC #BankingIssues

[Deepankar Dev @DeepankarDev]

@TATACLiQLuxury You need to include filters based on watch movement, such as automatic, quartz, and mechanical.

[Deepankar Dev @DeepankarDev]

@elonmusk could openly challenge a political party or engage in politics because the legal and judicial system in his country is not inefficient, weak, or biased-unlike in India, where we often struggle with delays, political influence, and lack of accountability.

[Deepankar Dev @DeepankarDev]

In nations with strong rule of law, business leaders can criticise the government without fear of undue retaliation.

[Deepankar Dev @DeepankarDev]

@INCIndia Raise the real issues in Parliament! You squandered the entire winter session on theatrics and pointless drama over who insulted Ambedkar.

[Deepankar Dev @DeepankarDev]

Time for a change! Prometric’s expertise in global test management could bring the much-needed efficiency and reliability to the NEET exam. #NEETExam #Prometric #EducationReform

[ANI @ANI]

#WATCH | Delhi | On Supreme Court hearing on NEET exam issue, Petitioner Nitin Vijay says, "We have two main concerns - paper leak and grace marks. Now that NTA has accepted that grace marks were awarded to some students, then why is the chance of re-test given only to those students who filed writ petition in High court not to those who filed complaints only with local authorities? How can an aspirant from a village file a petition in court? NTa should open a window to invite complaints, verify them and then conduct Re-NEET. Ranks have inflated due to cheating and paper leak. The future of 24 lakh students is at stake. Shouldn't every aspirant get a fair chance?"

Supreme Court today issued notice to National Testing Agency (NTA) on a batch of petitions raising concerns of paper leak and CBI probe into the NEET-UG 2024.

[Deepankar Dev @DeepankarDev]

@ICICIBank_Care Thanks, I’ve sent the details through DM.