Nitin B

Former Journalist, ex-Associate Editor, @thenewsminute, presently a student of philosophy at @iitbombay

[Sky News @SkyNews]

Pictures released by the Taliban show its forces launching military strikes against Pakistani military posts.

The Taliban says this was in retaliation to strikes by Islamabad in recent days.

@SkyYaldaHakim reports ⬇️

Latest world news 🔗 https://t.co/BexO7qinHm

[TOLOnews English @TOLONewsEnglish]

Video: Eight-year-old Noor Alam, who survived a Pakistani airstrike in Nangarhar, mourns his family, martyred within moments of the strike.
#TOLOnews_English

[NDTV @ndtv]

🔴#AjitPawar Dies In Plane Crash In Baramati: What We Know So Far
- NCP Chief, pilot and 3 others died in the crash that occured at 8:45am
- The plane reportedly lost control and crashed while landing at Baramati airport
- The aircraft, a Learjet 45, caught fire after the crash
- He had left from Mumbai at 8 am, was scheduled to address 4 election rallies in Baramati.

🔗https://t.co/YP4xW68X4l

[Sidhant Sibal @sidhant]

In pictures,

The location of the Delhi blasts. Site has been covered with white sheets. The key road now stands blocked as investigation continues.

@WIONews

[The Indian Express @IndianExpress]

‘Ran towards the site... began pulling bodies out of the cars’: First responders on Red Fort blast

@Nirbhaya99 , @UpasikaS and @ankitaup

https://t.co/RgZVBD23uN

[Shashi Tharoor @ShashiTharoor]

This may have registered as barely a blip on most Indian minds, but it is a worrying portent of things to come. There is an increasing sense of frustration in Bangladesh with both major parties — the (now banned) Awami League and the Bangladesh National Party. Those who wish “a plague on both your houses” are increasingly turning to the Jamaat-e-Islami, not because these voters are zealots or Islamist fundamentalists, but because the JeI are not tainted by the corruption and misgovernance associated, rightly or wrongly, with the two mainstream parties. How will this play out in the Feb 2026 general elections? Will New Delhi be dealing with a Jamaat majority next door?

[NDTV @ndtv]

🔴#BREAKING | K Kavitha Suspended From BRS By Father K Chandrashekar Rao

[International Chess Federation @FIDE_chess]

🏆🇮🇳👏 Divya Deshmukh becomes third FIDE Women’s World Cup winner, defeats Humpy Koneru in tiebreak

Divya Deshmukh, the 19-year-old International Master from Nagpur, Maharashtra, etched her name into chess history by defeating Grandmaster Humpy Koneru 1.5–0.5 in the tiebreaks to win the FIDE Women’s World Cup.

🔗 Read more: https://t.co/pl12I3YR2m

📷 Anna Shtourman/FIDE

#FIDEWorldCup

[Damien Symon @detresfa_]

China is nearing the completion of a military-linked complex on Pangong Lake's eastern edge, featuring garages, a highbay & protected storage, the site is located near a Chinese radar complex & may evolve into a SAM position or another weapons-related facility

[Dalai Lama @DalaiLama]

Statement Affirming the Continuation of the Institution of Dalai Lama

(Translated from the original Tibetan)

On 24 September 2011, at a meeting of the heads of Tibetan spiritual traditions, I made a statement to fellow Tibetans in and outside Tibet, followers of Tibetan Buddhism, and those who have a connection with Tibet and Tibetans, regarding whether the institution of the Dalai Lama should continue. I stated, “As far back as 1969, I made clear that concerned people should decide whether the Dalai Lama’s reincarnations should continue in the future.”

I also said, “When I am about ninety I will consult the high Lamas of the Tibetan Buddhist traditions, the Tibetan public, and other concerned people who follow Tibetan Buddhism, to re-evaluate whether or not the institution of the Dalai Lama should continue.”

Although I have had no public discussions on this issue, over the last 14 years leaders of Tibet’s spiritual traditions, members of the Tibetan Parliament in Exile, participants in a Special General Body Meeting, members of the Central Tibetan Administration, NGOs, Buddhists from the Himalayan region, Mongolia, Buddhist republics of the Russian Federation and Buddhists in Asia including mainland China, have written to me with reasons, earnestly requesting that the institution of the Dalai Lama continue. In particular, I have received messages through various channels from Tibetans in Tibet making the same appeal. In accordance with all these requests, I am affirming that the institution of the Dalai Lama will continue.

The process by which a future Dalai Lama is to be recognized has been clearly established in the 24 September 2011 statement which states that responsibility for doing so will rest exclusively with members of the Gaden Phodrang Trust, the Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. They should consult the various heads of the Tibetan Buddhist traditions and the reliable oath-bound Dharma Protectors who are linked inseparably to the lineage of the Dalai Lamas. They should accordingly carry out the procedures of search and recognition in accordance with past tradition.

I hereby reiterate that the Gaden Phodrang Trust has sole authority to recognize the future reincarnation; no one else has any such authority to interfere in this matter.

Dalai Lama

Dharamshala
21 May 2025

[Rishika Sadam @RishikaSadam]

Update- 39 DEAD and over 34 injured in one of the biggest fire/explosion incidents in a pharmaceutical and chemicals manufacturing unit in #India’s #Telangana which has a cluster of such units.

The debris is still being cleared. State forms a committee for investigation.

[Vishnu Som @VishnuNDTV]

More images here in our report: The hit on Muzaffarabad particularly impressive since it was a precision strike in a densely populated area: Exclusive: New Satellite Pics Show Indias Attack Split Pak Terror Camps Into Half. 📸:@Maxar https://t.co/cHfVHqvHkX via @ndtv

[Stanly Johny @johnstanly]

Bangladesh was The Economist's Country of Year in 2024. Now, the mag is worried that Islamists might gain ground and indulge extremists. It also finds Awami League is 'surprisngly popular'. At least the report should have said B was their country of year. https://t.co/7Gn9pV8ncT

[ISRO Spaceflight @ISROSpaceflight]

🚨 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗮𝘂𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝟰𝟭 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀!! 👨‍🚀

Grp. Cpt. Shubhanshu Shukla has officially become the 2nd Indian national to travel to space! 🇮🇳

1. Rakesh Sharma (Soyuz T-11, 1984)
2. Shubhanshu Shukla (Axiom-4, 2025)*

[Terry Milewski @CBCTerry]

1/3 So, yes, uninvited Khalistanis did haunt yesterday's Air India memorial in ​YVR and blamed India for the bombing. But ​not a word to show what's wrong with the ​abundant evidence proving otherwise. Is 40 years not enough to devise a plausible answer?
https://t.co/qTYN9GF0yC

[NIA India @NIA_India]

Upadte on Investigations in Pehalgam Case and Clarification regarding Speculations on Pehalgam Terror attack

[Parveen Kaswan, IFS @ParveenKaswan]

The famous arrowhead tigress from Ranthambore was given last rites, one of the most photographed tigress.

Carried bloodline of Ranthambhore. She raised cubs that helped repopulate parts of Ranthambhore and other tiger reserves. Strengthened gene pools and rewrote conservation.

[Sidhant Sibal @sidhant]

Today marks the 40th anniversary of the AI-182 “Kanishka” bombing. Planned & executed in Canada by the British Columbia based Babbar Khalsa terrorist group.

329 people died in the terror attack- 268 Canadian citizens, 27 British citizens, & 22 Indian citizens

[PIB Fact Check @PIBFactCheck]

Several social media accounts have claimed that Indian Airspace was used by the United States to launch aircrafts against Iran during Operation #MidnightHammer

#PIBFactCheck

❌ This claim is FAKE

❌Indian Airspace was NOT used by the United States during Operation #MidnightHammer

✅ During the Press Briefing Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Gen. Dan Caine (@thejointstaff) explained the route used by US aircrafts

Watch here - https://t.co/wgfbw49yaA

[Stanly Johny @johnstanly]

Here's a map that went with the story explaining the Israeli strikes and Iran's counterattacks.