Deeply shocking to read this official US statement, which contains absolutely no expression of regret or condolence for the loss of innocent Indian lives. How can a “friend” and strategic partner be so deeply insensitive?
Why couldn’t a non-compliant commercial vessel have been stopped using other, non-lethal means? Is it not possible to disable a ship's propulsion or steering without firing missiles targeted to kill civilian crew members?
Practically every merchant ship navigating these crucial waters has Indian crew on board. Are they all considered fair game for US missiles now?
This approach is unacceptable and I hope @DrSJaishankar had said so to @marcorubio.
@Pawankhera Which jail was nehru in for how long ?
Do one thing give the list of congressi in Kalapani jail and let's list all those who were in Kalapani
@PriyankKharge How is press conference measure of anything? And every 5 years ,3-6 months during elections hevhas given interviews to every news group out there.
So stop this nonsense and say something credible
For decades, a dangerous maxim has circulated within the intellectual circles of Indian civilization: "Do not engage with fabricators, for you only give them traction."
This advice, while well-intentioned in a pre-digital era, has become the primary oxygen supply for historical distortion. To remain silent on a public square like X is to misunderstand the very physics of modern information warfare.
Modern search algos, AI models & public archives do not recognize dignified silence. They recognize data points. If a distorted claim is made about an ancient Indian artifact/event & the native community chooses to ignore it out of a sense of superiority, a factual vacuum is created.
The algo fills this vacuum with the only available text, the distortion. Over time, that unchallenged distortion is scraped by artificial intelligence, cited in Wikipedia entries & embedded into global academic bibliographies.
By staying silent to avoid "giving traction," we are actually handing the opposition a permanent monopoly over the narrative. We are not starving the fire of oxygen; we are letting it burn down the library uncontested.
Yogi Adityanath said - We saw on CCTV footage, people coming in ₹2.5 crore cars, and stealing ₹45 flower pots that the government has put up near roads.
Read this story. Carefully.
CBSE called for OSM tenders thrice. Zero bids the first time. No qualified bidder the second time. And finally, the technical bar was lowered until COEMPT could clear it.
Scanning resolution cut. Robotic scanner requirement dropped. CMMI certification lowered from Level 5 to Level 3. Penalties for errors in answer sheets removed.
TCS, India’s biggest IT services company, qualified in the third round too. TCS lost. COEMPT - a company with a spectacular track record of failure - won.
And what are CBSE students complaining about today? Badly scanned answer sheets. Missing pages. A broken evaluation portal.
Teachers had warned CBSE that the OSM system needed at least a year or two for further preparation before nationwide implementation, yet it was rushed through.
So I ask again - who wanted COEMPT to win? Who lowered the bar, step by step, until this company could clear it?
Pradhan ji and CBSE say “due process was followed.” That is not an answer, that is not accountability. The question is whether the contract was honestly awarded to the best company which could do the job correctly.
The futures of 18.5 lakh children were handed to a company that could only qualify after the rules were bent for it.
To the BJP Ministers attacking me for asking questions - I have, from day one, demanded an independent judicial probe. Expand it from CBSE to every contract awarded to COEMPT. Our youth deserve the truth.
And Modi ji, your silence on the CBSE debacle and inaction against the Education Minister tells the country what you actually care about - not the futures of lakhs of students, only the survival of your own government.
Qatar on Eid:
Do not perform the namaz in open outdoor areas; pray inside Mosques. Limit women's attendance as much as possible, as Eid prayer is not obligatory.
Al Jazeera (owned by Qatar):
India is restricting public prayers and telling Muslims to pray in Mosques.
When an Islamic country does it, it becomes a guideline. But when a non-Islamic country does the same thing, it is labeled Islamophobia.
After Partition in 1947, there was a rampant killing of Hindus and rape of girls in Pakistan.
Every train from Lahore carried corpses, with dogs and vultures hovering over them. Nehru appealed on the radio to Hindus living in refugee camps to maintain patience and peace.
The next day, he accompanied Indira to the camps.
There, an 80-year-old man, trying to convey his message to Nehru, touched Indira. Nehru immediately slapped him.
The old man was a well-known businessman from Lahore who was facing the hardships of times. After receiving the slap, he laughed out loud and said, "Indira is like my granddaughter because you yourself are my son's age.
You became enraged at the mere touch of my hand, and the Muslims abducted my three young grand-daughters in front of me, yet you say I should forget everything..."
Hearing this, Nehru left the scene, taking Indira with him.
Excerpt from Ashwa Ghosh's book "The Quran and the Infidel."