Aksh

finding chaos amidst silence|
cricket aficionado| clinical microbiology|
that germ doctor|

[Aditya Raj Kaul @AdityaRajKaul]

NEET Aspirant Harsh Dubey was so angry and outraged with the system that he stood up from his chair inside NDTV Studio to speak up and raise questions. Leave everything and watch this video from @ShivAroor’s show India Matters!

[Parimal @Fintech03]

What happened during the past few days:

- C-DAC officially moved its indigenous Nvidia-class AI inference chip into design validation trials with HCL Infosystems
- Tata Electronics confirmed they will start trial & commercial chip production at their flagship Dholera fab using 90nm & 55nm tech
- PM Modi officially flagged off India’s 1st indigenously developed hydrogen fuel cell passenger train at a baseline fare starting at just ₹5
- Vikram-1's successful launch

...But No, Let Us Discuss Face Wash...

I do not know this handle is mocking/not but a few are taking a highly effective, generic Salicylic Acid dermatological treatment (₹46.88 for the 1% version & ₹65.63 for the 2% version comparing to ~₹300 commercial corporate alternatives) launched under the Jan Aushadhi Pariyojana & mocking it as an act of frivolous cosmetic governance.

Also, deliberately ignoring that the same program is actively saving millions of families from predatory corporate pricing on lifesaving cardiac & anti-diabetic meds.

Hating a political dispensation is a personal right, but letting that bias blind us is the key issue here.

[Aksh @Drinsomnia__]

@RailMadad @WesternRly @RailMinIndia @RailwaySeva @AshwiniVaishnaw @RailMadad how pathetic is this!! You made no efforts to resolve the issue or even contact me regarding it and just closed it.. its high time , action speak louder than all jumlas

[Aksh @Drinsomnia__]

The onboard staff is dismissive and ignorant of the situation. To make matters worse, @RailMadad is "resolving" complaints on the portal without actually providing any solution. This is a blatant scam. Fix this immediately!
@WesternRly @RailMinIndia @RailwaySeva @AshwiniVaishnaw

[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.

[Rohan Kankariya IN @rohan4328]

@amazonIN @amazon
Is doing a fraud.
Ordered gold at lower price last week & was to be delivered today but not shipped yet.
Placed another order at higher price yesterday & it will be delivered on friday & this is shipped.
Even 1 order of lower price was cancelled earlier.

(1/n)

[Aksh @Drinsomnia__]

@ShreerajT @witchdrkochi We are actively doing cefta-avi + aztreonam synergy test at our institute.. by stacking as well as elution methods.We are seeing a disturbing trend that over past few months the cases of synergism is decreasing. i.e we are not far from time where even cefta-avi+azt become useless

[Aksh @Drinsomnia__]

@rajasthanroyals @SGanguly99 @grok tell me episode number

[Rajiv @Rajiv1841]

Those who are saying captaincy doesn't matter in test cricket. Ajinkya Rahane won us the BGT in 2021 with Net bowlers, a captain always make the difference.

[The Cinéprism @TheCineprism]

The Greatest Sci-fi Thriller of All Time.

7 years ago Netflix Germany dropped the ultimate sci-fi show Dark.

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

🎯🎯🎯🎯

[purple Indie @DarwinTshirt]

It's been 10 years since Christopher Nolan's masterpiece, Interstellar. 🌌

A thread 🧵 on its greatness and brilliance.

[Stringg @StringReveals]

Except for a few, neither the main mainstream media nor your nibba influencers will tell you this cuz they cannot digest India's contribution to space. Let's congratulate S Somanath ji (ISRO Chairman) for receiving the International Astronautical Federation’s prestigious World Space Award for Chandrayaan-3's remarkable achievement.

[🦋Anjna🦋 @SaffronQueen_]

No Comments Needed 😌

[Shiv Aroor @ShivAroor]

NO.
BIGGER.
STORY.

Humanity begins its latest search for possible extra-terrestrial life. Tonight, NASA’s @EuropaClipper begins its 6-year journey to Jupiter’s moon Europa, a prime candidate for life in a theorised ocean under its icy crust.

[Shiv Aroor @ShivAroor]

Farewell, Professor McGonagall 💔

Maggie Smith
1934-2024

[Abhijit Majumder @abhijitmajumder]

This newspaper copy editor deserves a gold medal. #RahulGandhi

[Shiv Aroor @ShivAroor]

Vaguely remember the mockery the Swachh Bharat program received from certain quarters in 2015.

Now @Nature study shows 60-70k infants likely saved annually thanks to toilets built under Swachh Bharat. https://t.co/kcyr6le3iZ

[Dr.N€H@_100n! ♥️ @1st_heart_beat_]

Being academically good in my childhood has completely destroyed me. Raised people's hopes for no reason. Raised my own standards for no reason. Now I cannot compete with my old self. I cannot comprehend and accept the fact that I am not capable of doing anything🫠