The petroleum ministry published a long defence of E20 this week.
The most revealing sentence in it was not about fuel, engines, or mileage.
It was about banks.
#WATCH | Thane, Maharashtra | On the KDMC Shastrinagar Hospital assault case, Orthopaedic Surgeon Dr Dheeraj Mahagnade says, “He (Ramesh Mhatre) had very high blood pressure when he was admitted to the hospital. He was experiencing breathing difficulties. He has only one kidney. Furthermore, the high blood pressure puts him at risk of complications like a stroke. Our doctors are taking all necessary precautions regarding this. We will discharge him immediately once his vital signs stabilise. Once he recovers, he must face punishment in accordance with the law. The doctors and nursing staff were frightened; we want to ensure such incidents do not happen again. We are in talks with the Indian Medical Association (IMA)… Yesterday, we also submitted a formal request to the Mumbai Commissioner of Police. We have received an assurance from them that appropriate action will be taken at the right time.”
If #ShivSena assaults doctors for not getting hospital bed. By the same logic #Mumbaikars should start assaulting them for potholes, bad roads, floods, mess #Mumbai has been facing. Havnt they ruled over @mybmc for long??
If a corporator thinks it’s okay to beat up a doctor, then the next time there’s a pothole in a road in his area, is it okay to beat him?
Asking for several friends
The clarity with which @AshwiniBhide acknowledges the problem and the roadmap to solution is what Mumbai needs. Hope the babus at ground level adhere to it to avoid any accidents, and incidents.
Bikers are, on an average, the worst behaved people on our roads and because their behavior goes unpunished by the authorities, it is getting only worse by the day.
Before saving a man from suicide.
World: Everyone, silent. The responder is trying to make the person understand. Let the situation remain calm.
India: "Aeee, pakad! Ooo, pakad na... arre... kya kar raha hai woh aadmi, ch****? Aise pakdega kya?"
After saving a man from suicide.
World: "Son, keep calm. You're safe now. We're here to help you. Let's get you somewhere safe and talk, okay?"
India: "Aeee, maar! Maar reee... maar MC ko, maar BC ko..."
NEW: 70 year old man files a $35 million claim against the city of San Diego, California after he tripped on a damaged sidewalk.
The man reportedly was knocked unconscious from the fall, breaking his back and neck.
Attorney William Berman says his client tripped on the metal base of a parking meter that had been removed.
“They protrude about an inch to two inches from the sidewalk. The city needs to make sure they’re taking out these bases from the sidewalks,” he said.
@Aakash0211@Seprabakar@askGST_GoI If it is a partnership firm converted to LLP - PAN does not change.
If it is a Pvt Ltd Co converted to LLP - PAN changes.
In a shocking display of apathy towards public safety, the Pune Mirror team found the entire stretch beneath the Ramwadi Maha Metro Station on Nagar Road choked with illegally parked two-wheelers.
From one end of the station to the other, pavements meant for pedestrians had virtually disappeared under rows of bikes, forcing citizens to step onto the busy main road and navigate through speeding traffic at great risk to their lives.
Despite multiple “No Parking” signboards, the station’s security guard admitted his inability to stop commuters from occupying the footpath.
When questioned, he appeared visibly frustrated and even confronted the Pune Mirror team, making intimidating gestures and attempting to prevent the recording of videos at the site.
What is even more alarming is the complete inaction from both the traffic police and Metro authorities.
Even after repeated violations in plain sight, no enforcement drive or corrective measures have been initiated, leaving pedestrians to fend for themselves on one of the city’s busiest roads.
This footage is a wild reminder of how fast things go south on the road.
From one angle, we see a shocking collision as a bike carrying three people, none wearing helmets… cuts across an intersection, ignoring the red light.
The impact is brutal, sending them skidding across the pavement.
Switch to the second dashcam, and the drama only intensifies.
Instead of taking accountability, the riders immediately become aggressive, confronting the driver despite the clear traffic violation.
This video highlights three major red flags:
> Triple Riding: Extremely dangerous and illegal.
> No Helmets: A life-threatening choice in an accident like this.
> Signal Jumping: Putting everyone’s life at risk for a few saved seconds.
Dashcams don’t just record memories, they provide the unbiased truth when things get heated.
For the last three years, a startup in Bangalore has been obsessed with a pursuit that typically invites raised eyebrows, naked skepticism, and accusations of stealing from sci-fi:
@dognosis is training dogs to detect cancer.
And until you've spent time at their facility - a former pomegranate farm in the outskirts of Bangalore - perhaps skepticism is the rational response.
But Dognosis isn't betting on some pie-in-the-sky idea or some charming novelty act, they're betting on evolution.
@akadogluk and @Itamar_Bitan based their company on the fact that the dog's nose - a product of fifteen millennia of co-evolution with humans - can detect the faint chemical trace of cancer in your breath at a resolution that our machines, algorithms, and laboratory tests have never come close to matching.
We've known this fact for decades. We've consistently failed to do anything meaningful with that knowledge.
The missing link has been figuring out what the dog's nose knows, and applying it in a standardised, scalable, and clinically validated way.
Dognosis is building this missing piece of the equation i.e. the translation layer that allows the dog's nose to speak a language medicine can understand, enabling us to harness an ancient biological intelligence and plug it into our modern medical infrastructure.
Maybe you've read the paragraphs above and retained your skepticism. That's fair. But this past Friday, the Journal of Clinical Oncology - the world's most influential cancer journal - opted to make life much harder for the skeptics.
On Friday, the JCO published Dognosis' landmark study on breath-based multi-cancer detection - the largest of its kind ever conducted - showing that a team of trained dogs, equipped with sensors and AI, could detect multiple cancers from breath alone at 90%+ accuracy - including at Stage I, when it matters most - for $2 a test.
According to Akash, it proved "that everything we’ve known about the dogs is true".
Needless to say, it's a genuine milestone for Indian healthcare, health-tech, deep-tech, and, uh, dog-tech, that deserves far more attention than it's gotten so far.
To help change that, we were lucky to have Akash stop by the Tigerfeathers editorial desk this past week to unpack the Dognosis journey - helping us understand what they're building, how they're doing it, why it matters, and what comes next.
From where we're sitting, Dognosis is an n-of-1 Indian startup with an n-of-1 story that everyone in the Indian tech ecosystem should be aware of. If you've been intrigued by what you've read so far and you're keen to go deeper, dive into our piece here👇
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Killer Machine at Wadala RA Kidwai road. A sword hanging above the heads of our children and families who live and use Mumbai roads daily
Look at this blatant and intentional criminal. Driving in excess of a mile in the wrong direction. Passed several intersections where he could have switched to the correct lane but why bother. In fact he demanded right of way from a correct side driving tempo driver and got into an altercation with him.
Traffic offender or thug? You decide
Mh01EK4506 near the busy Wadala railway station
@MTPHereToHelp@CPMumbaiPolice@DGPMaharashtra@mumbaimatterz@RoadsOfMumbai@KiritSomaiya@AmeyGhole@KalpeshaJKBJP@MORTHIndia@richapintoi
Anyone have x handle of Pravin Salunkhe sir ? Can the honorable SC be tagged ? They seem to be the only ones bothered about the murderous traffic conditions in Mumbai.
These videos show the condition of our #system. These so-called idiots are doing all kinds of reckless things in front of cameras, the public, and even #traffic police officers yet nothing happens. What’s your take on this?