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[TIMES NOW @TimesNow]

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No More Silence On Quota

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[Aravind @aravind]

There's a furore in foreign governments against India's FCRA bill. Isn't it interesting? Let's think rationally:

Foreign countries are worried that India is not allowing their foreign money to come into India for free.

Some politicians in these countries are taking this up in their parliaments questioning why India is not allowing foreign money to come into India freely for funding some organizations.

Why should they care at their govt level? Even if a Soros org or a Ford Foundation cry that "India is not taking our free money", we can understand.

Why should foreign politicians cry about it?

Especially when,

- their own infra is collapsing,
- people on drugs dying on the streets like dogs,
- their elderly homeless and having no healthcare,
- islamists converting & radicalizing thousands,
- and so many pressing issues at home

Where this money they send India can be spent?

If I were running a democracy, by now I would have not just decimated their infowar on my country, using just narrative, but built such good offensive capability that their own people will go into protests questioning their govt against sending money to India for any purpose.

Any attempt at dictating a sovereign country controlling what money comes in and goes out should be nipped in the bud or their countries must be made to pay a cost, caused by their own people, for trying to interfere.

[Rahul Kaushik @kaushkrahul]

Since Professor V Kamakoti has been nominated in the committee to overhaul our education system, he is being mocked by opposition leaders for his beliefs.

Today, I sat to check his academic credentials . Alongside serving as the Director of IIT Madras, his academic and professional accomplishments include:

• 250+ Research Papers and Patents: He has published over 250 research papers in leading international journals and conferences and holds numerous national and international patents.

• Development of the SHAKTI Microprocessor: He led the design and development of SHAKTI, India’s first indigenous, open-source microprocessor.
Microprocessor Development Programme (MDP): He heads this flagship initiative of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), aimed at strengthening India’s semiconductor and chip-design ecosystem.

• Record Patent Filings – “One Patent a Day”: As Director of IIT Madras, he introduced the vision of “One Patent a Day.” Under his leadership, the institute filed a record 417 patents during 2024–25.

• Role in the National Security Advisory Board (NSAB): As an NSAB member, he provides strategic advice to the Government of India on cybersecurity, telecommunications security, and digital infrastructure.

• Leadership of the AI Task Force: He chaired the Artificial Intelligence Task Force constituted by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, helping shape India’s AI policy framework.

• Information Security Education and Awareness (ISEA): He oversees initiatives under the ISEA programme to build India’s cybersecurity workforce and promote public awareness of information security.

• Research in VLSI and Hardware Security: His primary academic contributions lie in VLSI design, algorithms, and strengthening cryptographic security at the silicon hardware level.

• Institutional Reforms at IIT Madras: Since assuming office as Director in 2022, he has helped IIT Madras retain its top position in the NIRF rankings while launching new online degree programmes and expanding the institute’s startup ecosystem.

In recognition of his outstanding contributions to science and technology, he has been awarded the Padma Shri (2026), the DRDO Academic Excellence Award, and the IBM Faculty Award.

Here is in his native village, moving on roads in a Prabhat Feri invoking the Grama Devta.

[Your Accountant @TJiMTS]

Andy Burnham, in two weeks of being PM, has perfectly illustrated the main problem in UK public finances.

Week 1: there's a cost of living crisis, so to help you we've taken £45 a year off your electricity bill and capped bus fares at £2.

Week 2: we don't have enough money to fund everything we want to do, so we're taking £630 a year out of your salary.

Same government, same month.

Credit where it's due first - taking VAT off electricity from October is real money, so is the £2 bus cap in January if you're on a bus twice a day. Immediate cost of living relief is genuinely needed by most people.

But I'm not sure how someone who couldn't manage without that £45 a year of relief is supposed to now manage with £630 a year less in their pocket?

The £630 is a 1.8% levy on income to fund a National Care Service costed at £18bn a year. On a £35,000 salary it's £630, on £50,000 it's £900.

It's charged as a percentage of your income.
It's collected out of your income.
It is not, apparently, income tax, because they're going to call it a levy.

It also only applies to taxpayers over 34... So you turn 35 and take a pay cut, at the exact age most people are stretched on a mortgage with childcare costing more than the mortgage.

But the UKs ACTUALLY problem? Spending is too high. And it's too high in ways that are fixable if anyone was willing to challenge the status quo rather than buy more votes with handouts.

This is where £1,383bn goes this year:

Health, £269.6bn
Pensions, £236.3bn
Welfare, £204.0bn
Education, £126.7bn
Debt interest, £104.6bn
Defence, £75.2bn
Everything else, £367.1bn

Health, £269.6bn: We need mandatory health insurance as an employment benefit and a hybrid model. Everyone hears "insurance" and pictures America, someone bleeding out over a copay, as if no other model exists on earth.

The Netherlands has mandatory private health insurance. Insurers are legally required to accept everyone. They cannot charge you more for being chronically ill. A risk equalisation pool moves money towards the insurers covering the sickest people. It's consistently ranked top three in Europe.

Welfare, £204.0bn: Income tax raises £330bn. So almost 2 of every 3 pounds of Income Tax taken from every working person in this country is spoken for by the welfare bill.

Welfare should be for people who cannot work. Disability, genuine incapacity, the people it was built to protect. It has drifted into a general income top-up, and the number that proves it is 4.2 million working age people now claiming at least one health related benefit, up a million since 2019.

Change how we determine eligibility, fix a lot of spending issues immediately.

Pensions, £236.3bn: The state pension is a Ponzi scheme, and I mean that technically rather than as an insult. There is no fund - the ONS says so plainly. Your National Insurance is not being put aside and invested for your State Pension, It just pays the payouts for last year's pensioners. Yours depends entirely on there being enough workers behind you.

Which, btw, there won't be. The ratio of pensioners to workers goes from 27% to 48% by 2050 (and these estimates are before we've seen the proper impact of AI/automation on jobs.

Australia already fixed this: 12% of earnings into a private fund with your name on it, mandatory, employer paid. It's your money, it compounds, it doesn't need a bigger generation behind you to work.

We could mandate the same tomorrow and let the state pension run down over the next 40 years, eventually saving £236bn a year.

You can't levy your way out of these problems. A 1.8% charge on everyone over 34 raises £18bn. It doesn't even cover the interest on our existing debt.

And in the meantime... If we're going to borrow anyway, why is none of it buying anything?

Norway found oil in 1969 and put the money in a fund... That fund is now worth $2.049 trillion. It holds a stake in roughly 1.5% of every listed company on the planet.

We found oil in the same decade and spent it.

The UK's National Wealth Fund is capitalised at £27.8bn. Norway's is about 73 times bigger.

So where is our position in AI, in data centres, in grid scale renewables, in batteries, in electric vehicles, in any of the things the next fifty years actually runs on? We borrow £133bn a year and almost none of it buys an asset.

Fix government spending immediately, increase government income over time (without milking people for every penny of 'levy' you can find), and quality of life will genuinely improve as people have more money in their pockets.

The UK has a spending problem, not a tax problem.

[John @MagaGrunt1]

🇺🇸Absolutely ridiculous being taxed on something you own.🇺🇸

[TONY™ @TONYxTWO]

Never forget when Dr. Stella Immanuel was temporarily suspended from Twitter/locked out of her account after claiming she had successfully treated over 350 COVID patients using hydroxychloroquine in 2020

They were silencing doctors. Absolutely insane.

Fauci lied and people died because of it.

[Genevieve 🌼✨ @beaumont_valois]

She left this note under her restaurant bill after tipping $9 on a $612 meal, and the staff were p!ssed. 😬 Was she wrong, or does she actually have a point?

[MG 🇮🇳 @mgnayak5]

So called GenZ's who were protesting must read this

[Parimal @Fintech03]

Namaste, Ma'am...Aapko 1 story sunata hoon....

In the summer of 1980, a distraught 7th grade boy stood in the courtyard of a modest house in Mylapore, watching his father toss his cricket bat down a deep well. A fast bouncer had shattered the boy's spectacles during a local match & his father, a renowned Sanskrit logician, was terrified for his son's sight.

"Your cricket days are done," his father declared, handing him a violin. "If you want to master precision, master this."

The boy did not throw a tantrum. He directed his focus toward the strings, training until he was performing alongside musical legends, even taking direct corrections from Bharat Ratna M.S. Subbulakshmi.

5 yrs later, he suffered another blow: he failed to clear the IIT-JEE examination.

He did not give up. He enrolled in a regional engineering college, quietly mastering computer science logic gates. He eventually worked his way into IIT Madras as a postgrad researcher, earned a PhD, joined as a prof & eventually became the Director of the very institute that had once turned him away.

By 2011, while the world was building consumer mobile apps, this prof was looking at a hidden national vulnerability: every radar, fighter jet, banking server & defense system in India was running on foreign-designed microprocessors.

He had a single question in his mind: "We can test that a foreign chip does what we WANT it to do. But can we guarantee it does not do something we DO NOT want it to do when a war starts?"

He proposed building a completely indigenous, industrial-grade microprocessor from scratch. Global tech giants insisted it could not be done w/o billions of dollars in infrastructure & massive foreign patents.

He did not care. Working out of cramped labs on long shifts, he & his team adopted the open source RISC-V instruction set. They hand-coded logic gates, mapped silicon layouts & verified billions of instruction cycles.

In July 2018, a tiny 16mm² piece of silicon codenamed Risecreek arrived back at the lab. The team wired it up, flipped the switch & watched a flickering monitor as the Linux operating system booted on 100% Indian-designed silicon for the 1st time in history.

Today, his SHAKTI processor architecture powers everything from defense communications to space grade controllers built in collaboration with ISRO.

That young boy whose father threw his cricket bat down a well...

The student who missed the JEE list in 1985...

The violinist who turned down the official IIT Director's mansion to stay in his family home & protect his late father's Sanskrit library...

His name is Prof. Veezhinathan Kamakoti.

[कल्पना श्रीवास्तव 🇮🇳 @Lawyer_Kalpana]

I Support Honorable Prime Minister 🇮🇳🫡

Repost if you agree!

[Saba kaul.🇮🇳 @sabakaul1]

An Open Letter to the Parents

If your son or daughter is among those whose videos went viral for hurling extreme abuses at the Prime Minister, I genuinely hope you watch those clips once, not as supporters of any political party, but simply as parents. The internet never forgets. Those videos will outlive this protest. Years from now, employers, colleagues, relatives, and even their own children may come across them. One emotional moment can become a lifelong identity.

Every parent wants their child to be remembered for their character, education, and achievements, not for a viral clip filled with abuse. Governments will change, leaders will come and go, but a person's conduct stays attached to their name. Rightly or wrongly, people often judge a family's values by the way their children behave in public. That's the reality of the world we live in.

Teach your children to question the government. Teach them to protest. Teach them to disagree with every politician if they want. But also teach them that losing respect while demanding change is never a victory. A person can win an argument and still lose their dignity. That's a lesson no classroom can replace.

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You're always welcome. ❤️🙏🫂

[Sabudana khichadi @dishasatra]

Saw this video on instagram and it got me thinking how accurate this is. CJP wants Pradhan to resign but CJP has absolutely no suggestions or idea what to do next! Resignation mil gaya fir kya? How will it prevent future leaks? How is this protest helping in securing anything substantial for the future generations apart from creating chaos?

[Sanatani Thakur 🇮🇳 @SanggitaT]

This is so true .. This Gen Z has told what many couldn't tell or accept

[Tathvam-asi @tathvamasi6]

These two are important videos to be watched and shared by everyone.

Arnab calmly exposed a lot here.

[Indic Insight @IndicInsight1]

One of the most important videos you'll watch today in light of the ongoing protests.

[coverdrive eighteen . @ImmRo18]

"NEET is conducted by the NTA, whose Chairman is Pradeep Kumar Joshi. So why is no one demanding his resignation?"

"Exam paper leaks have happened before as well. So why is everyone targeting only Dharmendra Pradhan?" 😠

"Let me explain why." 😊

"Because Dharmendra Pradhan changed a syllabus that had been promoting distorted and misleading narratives for years." 🙏
1.Added chapters on the Emergency (1975–77).
2.Reduced the excessive focus on Mughal history.
3.Included India's own civilizational and cultural history.
4.Added the stories and valor of Indian heroes.
5.Included modern military operations, such as the Surgical Strikes, in the curriculum.
6.Gave greater importance to regional dynasties like the Marathas, Cholas, and Mauryas.
7.Promoted education in mother tongues and regional languages.

[BJP @BJP4India]

Made in India का मज़ाक उड़ाने वालों को भारतीय युवाओं का करारा जवाब! 😎

जहां राहुल गांधी 'Made in India' पर सवाल उठा रहे थे, वहीं पीएम श्री @narendramodi के आत्मनिर्भर भारत के संकल्प को साकार करते हुए भारतीय युवा वैज्ञानिकों ने 100% भारत में निर्मित रॉकेट 'Vikram-1' लॉन्च कर इतिहास रच दिया।

पीएम मोदी के नेतृत्व में भारत आत्मनिर्भरता की नई ऊंचाइयों को छू रहा है। 🇮🇳

[JIX5A @JIX5A]

India was the richest Nation on Earth 🇮🇳

India made up 25% of the world's GDP🇮🇳

Britain made up less than 2% of the world’s GDP🇮🇳

[Chris Philp MP @CPhilpOfficial]

I heard that dozens of convenience stores, mobile phone shops and bazaars on Whitechapel Road in East London are sponsoring skilled worker visas.

I went there yesterday to investigate this scam.

Here’s what I found:

[ᜰ @markklfc]

Joe Cole responds to Thomas Tuchel’s comments after England’s World Cup semi-final defeat to Argentina.

🗣️ “I don’t want to hear excuses about facing strong teams. Everyone knew Argentina were the defending world champions before a ball was kicked. That’s not an excuse that was the challenge. If you want to win the World Cup, you have to beat the best.”

“You scored first and then completely abandoned your identity. The moment England took the lead, they started playing with fear instead of belief. It was like watching a small team desperately hanging on instead of a nation trying to reach a World Cup final.”

“You don’t score against Argentina and then spend the rest of the game camped inside your own penalty area. That’s football suicide. You invited pressure, gave Lionel Messi more time on the ball and practically begged Argentina to come back into the match. Against the greatest player of his generation, that’s asking to be punished.”

“The tactical approach was shocking. Instead of going for the second goal and killing the game, England retreated deeper and deeper. Every substitution sent the same message: ‘Let’s survive.’ You don’t survive against world champions you either finish them off or they finish you.”

“Don’t tell me England lost because Argentina were too good. England helped create their own downfall. This squad has enough quality to compete with anyone, but they were coached with fear instead of confidence.”

“The painful truth is England weren’t beaten by talent alone they were beaten by a lack of courage. A World Cup final was within touching distance, and it slipped away because the manager chose to protect a one-goal lead instead of chasing history. That’s a decision England will regret for years.”