🚨MASSIVE: 6.7 Lakh Tonnes of Rare Earth Elements Discovered in Bengal: A Strategic Blow to China’s Mineral Monopoly
In West Bengal’s Purulia district, the Geological Survey of India has identified an estimated 6.7 lakh tonnes of rare-earth resources at the Kalapathar and Raghudih deposits and has begun further exploration to assess their grade, extent and economic viability.
This is significant because rare earths are essential for electric vehicles, permanent magnets, electronics, aerospace, renewable energy and advanced defence systems.
But the real story is not simply the size of the discovery.
It is about China’s dominance over the supply chain.
China accounts for a major share of global rare-earth mining and an even larger share of processing. This means countries can possess rare-earth deposits while still depending on China to process them into usable materials and manufacture high-value products such as permanent magnets.
India is now trying to break that dependence.
The challenge is that discovering minerals does not automatically create mineral security. India's deposits can be difficult to exploit because of low grades, complex mineralogy, processing limitations and regulatory and environmental challenges. Monazite, one of India's important rare-earth-bearing minerals, also contains thorium, adding another layer of complexity.
That is why the next phase of exploration in Purulia is crucial.
India is simultaneously building the rest of the ecosystem through the National Critical Mineral Mission and a ₹7,280-crore programme to establish 6,000 tonnes per year of integrated rare-earth permanent-magnet manufacturing capacity.
The objective is clear:
Mine in India. Process in India. Refine in India. Manufacture in India.
India steps up security across the Jammu region as Pakistan enters a period of acute internal and external pressure.
The attacks in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan are exacting a growing military cost. Islamabad is simultaneously bracing for PTI protests, opposition mobilisation over inflation and fuel prices, and the arrival of protesters from Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir. Containers are going up across the capital even as the government tries to keep the streets under control.
Then there is the external picture. The diplomatic dividends Islamabad appeared to expect from its sudden prominence around the US-Iran crisis have also not materialised. The Houthis have issued a direct warning. Afghanistan has been struck. And Pakistan’s much-vaunted return to the regional diplomatic centre of gravity is looking considerably less convincing.
This is precisely when New Delhi has reason to watch the western frontier closely. A Pakistan facing heat on several fronts has more incentives to look for strategic space, not fewer.
Afghanistan, too, needs to watch closely.
There is no other way to say it, that the mandate for IITs to become multidisciplinary universities is a monumental disaster.
Segregating STEM institutes from liberal arts universities (like JNU) has protected them from the poison pill
Liberal arts in IITs have been hijacked by a single political ideology, leading to narratives and politics infiltrating academic excellence
A failure and a blot on Modi Govt. What have you done!
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"Any late person held in high esteem by SC/ST community"
I don't know who your lawyer is.
But would seriously suggest you to change your lawyer.
And get a good one. You might need one soon.
Online threats are public records.
A pic from a free digital marketing workshop I conducted for students in my hometown in Uttar Pradesh.
I have no idea which caste they belonged to.
Because when you teach, you don’t see caste. You see students and the opportunity to help them grow.
21 Sept 1968- Research & Analysis Wing (R&AW) was formed after taking lessons from Nehru gifted humiliating defeat in 1962 China war. Since then it has never looked back except when CONgress Premi AS Dulat was R&AW Chief.
Today R&AW turns 58.
Proud of our UNKNOWN MEN🫡
Ladakh Police held a UT-level workshop for banks on cybercrime response, covering NCRP, CFCFRMS, MRM & GRM. DGP Anand Jain stressed Police-Bank coordination & KYC to curb mule accounts. 40+ bank officials joined. #LadakhPolice@lg_ladakh@ashishkundra@anandjainips
दिल्ली में यमुना की सफाई और आस्था के सम्मान के लिए एक बहुत बड़ा कदम उठाया गया है
मुख्यमंत्री रेखा गुप्ता ने रोहिणी सहित पूरी दिल्ली में ढाई सौ से अधिक खंडित मूर्ति संग्रह केंद्र बनाए हैं
अब नागरिक अपनी पूजा सामग्री और तस्वीरें इन केंद्रों पर डालकर उनका सही उपयोग सुनिश्चित कर सकते हैं
त्योहारों के समय कृत्रिम कुंड बनाकर प्रशासन ने साबित कर दिया है कि जनहित सर्वोपरि है
21.9.1990- Habbowal , Ludhiana- Homage to Hindu martyr Sh. Mohan Lal who was killed by Khalistani Sikh terrorists, at his home.
Terrorists fired at him with AK-47 rifle, from close range, late in the night.
Homage 🙏🏻🙏🏻
𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧, 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐞. 💻
India is officially stepping up its game and chipping in to power the global semiconductor supply chain! 🇮🇳
Done with Day 2 coverage of Asian Game
🥈 - Men’s Team 10m Air Rifle
🥈- Himanshu Dhillon (Shooting)
🥉- Rudrankksh Patil (Shooting)
🥉- Suchika Tariyal [ MMA)
Feedback and suggestions are much appreciated throughout the Games! 🙏
Signing off for today ....!! 👋
Generation after generation Brahmins preserved knowledge and taught it freely.
They lived on alms given by others though they could have used the knowledge to enrich themselves.
Christian missionaries saw them as rivals and impediments to conversion. Their religion taught them others worshipped the devil.
So per the missionary account, Brahmins had hypnotized everyone to worship the devil and "put themselves on top of the hierarchy." In practise, Brahmins neither had state power, nor money power, only knowledge and respect.
That missionary story was turned by colonial scholars into stories of "Brahminical oppression."
Brahmins were at the forefront of the independence struggle. They were targeted by colonial stooges like EVR who wanted British rule to continue.
Yet they contributed to the country in many fields. Even when driven out, they continued to work for the nation.
The narrative of making Brahmins into villains must end. It is not based on reality but on the machinations and frustrations of Christian missionaries, spread via colonial education.
(ps I'm not a jaati-Brahmin).
Union Home Minister & Minister of Cooperation Shri @AmitShah Ji will inaugurate 3rd National Conference of Heads of Anti Narcotics Task Forces (ANTFs) of States/UTs, tomorrow in New Delhi.
Guidelines for Professors, HODs, Deans of Colleges.
Imagine that you see a student cheating in an exam.
Approach the student.
Ask the category.
If he is from the General category, scream "cheating" at the top of your voice, and kick the student out of the examination hall.
You will be felicitated by Dipke and company.
Rahul Gandhi will click pics with you.
But if the student belongs to a "special privileged" category.
Smile,.... search his mobile for the correct answer, advice him to copy the answer, enquire whether he would like some tea or coffee, pat him on the back, take a written signed notarised affidavit from him that he won't attempt to take a few.......serious steps endagering his own life....and stroll away.
Gyaan Samapt.