The Conservative

Tweets are my own. Retweets are not mine.

[The Conservative @parashar108]

Fully agree with this.👍👇

[Voice Of Brahmins @VoiceOfBrahmins]

बिहार के लोग गाना बनाने में सबसे आगे हैं
भरत तिवारी एनकाउंटर पर भी गाना बना दिया।🔥

[Shubh @kadaipaneeeer]

scenes from cabinet meeting at mohan yadav’s residence

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

Heard a cabinet reshuffle is on the cards.

Requesting the PM to consider swapping the ministries of Shri Nitin Gadkari and Shri Dharmendra Pradhan.

Shri Gadkari has already done more than needed work in transport, so much so that there is virtually nothing left to be done. A man with such a Midas touch, and hunger to bring change even if it's not needed, is exactly what is required in the Education Ministry, where a massive overhaul is needed.

Meanwhile, Shri Dharmendra Pradhan can be transferred to the Transport Ministry. Since the heavy lifting there has already been completed, the ministry now requires someone who won't do much, will leave things exactly as they are, and won't experiment too much. Shri Pradhan, having done remarkably little in the Education Ministry, would be the ideal candidate for the job.

[Saffron Chargers @SaffronChargers]

Tom Cruise can get old, but not this masterpiece.

[Eminent Intellectual @totalwoke2]

Found that one influencer who talks sense on NEET

[Pulkit Tyagi @pulkitnpc]

Ideology and geopolitics aside, Araghchi deserves respect for this one.

[Ryan Rozbiani @RyanRozbiani]

This Clip Will Go Down in History

"We are waiting for them!"

[Shekhar Dutt @DuttShekhar]

Brilliant life lesson there 🙏

[SwatKat💃 @swatic12]

One of my fav videos on internet

[Captain Manoj Rawat🇮🇳 @SeaSkipper]

Game Theory explains the Madman Theory perfectly. In high-stakes bargaining, the player who credibly acts irrational gains leverage. Rational opponents back down to avoid catastrophe. Kim Jong Un has used it effectively and Pakistan has tried but failed miserably. Trump was sold as its master, the chaotic force who would terrify enemies into deals.

Yet Iran’s IRGC has outplayed him at his own game. Through proxy chaos, regional brinkmanship, and defiant escalations, they project unpredictable volatility while advancing goals. They have seized the irrational player advantage.

Trump, hyped as the ultimate madman, is losing that edge. The one arena where his style should dominate, he is getting schooled. Opponents no longer fear crossing him as they should.
In international games, credible irrationality beats erratic bluster. Iran gets it. Trump does not.

The Iranians have won the Madman credibility contest.

[Gabriele Corno @Gabriele_Corno]

An orange cat fell into the enclosure of the lioness, a little depressed because she was alone …. and then...

[Tran Thai Hoa @Tran_Thai_Hoa]

Gặp mình là bỏ chạy cho rồi, chạy mà còn sợ nó rược nữa 😅

[Gabriele Corno @Gabriele_Corno]

The sloth falls into the water and although he is able to swim, he appreciates the capybara's prompt rescue.

[Yusuf Unjhawala 🇮🇳 @YusufDFI]

It’s called the “Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding.”

Pakistan gets to be in another humiliation for the US, after its role in supporting Taliban and Al Qaeda.

In the days to come, perhaps we’ll know more about its role as the mediator/message carrier. Their leaders kept running to China while the negotiations were on.

[J Gopikrishnan @jgopikrishnan70]

Youth Congress firebrand leader Mamata Banerjee formed Trinamool Congress in 1997 by abusing AICC President Sitaram Kesari and calling him "Bandicoot" 🐀in a massive rally in Kolkata. Mamata was angry with Kesri for supporting her arch rival Somen Mitra, then PCC President. However Somen Mitra joined TMC in 2009 and later went back to Congress to became PCC President again.

Mamata's TMC became BJP led NDA partner from 1998 to 2008. Meanwhile she left NDA on Tehelka sting on Defence corruption in 2001 and joined back in 2003. When Communists, left Congress led UPA in 2008, TMC became UPA partner till 2013. Meanwhile in 2012, when Congress proposed Pranab Mukherjee, she tried to flex muscles. But seeing general Bengal mood, she supported Pranab Mukherjee.

From 2016 - she alone won West Bengal election and Congress allied with Left and both decimated. Then in 2024, she was part of INDIA Bloc - but never allowed alliance with Congress in the State. Now after 15 years rule, her party TMC collapsed in 2026 Assembly election.... 😎

[Malay Krishna @Malay4Product]

India is the absolute first to achieve this and every Indian should be extremely proud of how clever this is.

Let me explain what you are even looking at.

That video shows a freight train carrying shipping containers stacked two high, one box on top of another, running under live overhead electric wires.

Sounds simple. But it is not. No other country in the world has pulled this off. India is the only one.

Here is why it is so hard.

When you stack two containers on a wagon, the train becomes very tall. Around 7 metres. Normal electric train wires in India sit much lower, around 5.5 metres. So the two cannot share the same track. The train would smash straight into the wire.

That leaves you with a choice. Go electric and stack only one container. Or stack two containers and pull the train with a diesel engine.

The US, China, Canada and Australia all run double-stack trains. But they mostly do it with diesel, or on routes that were never electrified in the first place. Nobody bothered raising electric wires that high on old tracks.

India did both electric and double-stack together. That is the world first.

The reason India could do this is a decision from the early 2000s.

So, Indian Railways had a basic problem. Goods trains and passenger trains shared the same tracks. Passenger trains always get priority.

So freight trains crawled at 25 to 30 km/h. For a growing economy, moving goods that slowly is a major problem.

So we built separate tracks only for freight. No passenger trains allowed. These are the Dedicated Freight Corridors.

The government approved the project around 2006 and set up a company called DFCCIL to build two corridors.

The Western one runs from near Delhi to the port near Mumbai, around 1,500 km. The Eastern one runs from Punjab down to West Bengal, around 1,875 km.

Because they were building from zero, the engineers were not stuck with old bridges, old tunnels or old wire heights. They could decide the clearances themselves.

So they made a deliberate call to build the whole corridor tall enough for two stacked containers. And electrify it.

Then they had to solve two hard problems.

First, the wire. On a normal Indian line the wire hangs around 5.5 metres. On the freight corridor they raised it to about 7.5 metres. This is called high-rise OHE.

No railway in the world had run a regular freight wire that high before.

Second, the engine. If the wire is way up high, a normal loco cannot reach it. The arm on the roof that touches the wire, called the pantograph, would be too short.

So India needed a new locomotive. A taller reach. And enough power to drag thousands of tonnes.

This is why we built a new loco called the WAG-12.

It is a beast.

12,000 horsepower. Double the power of the old WAG-9 it replaced. It can haul trains over 6,000 tonnes, and up to 15,000 tonnes in some setups, at 100 km/h. That is roughly three times the old freight speed.

The WAG-12 has its own backstory. In November 2015, Indian Railways signed a deal worth about ₹19,604 crore, around 3.4 billion dollars, with the French company Alstom.

They built a new factory in Madhepura, Bihar. Indian Railways holds 26 percent, Alstom holds 74 percent. It was the largest foreign investment ever in Indian Railways.

Over time the factory reached close to 90 percent local manufacturing. So most of each loco is now made in India.

So, the government approved an infrastructure decision in the mid 2000s, then it got built over almost two decades by DFCCIL, Indian Railways and RDSO. The locomotive came through the Alstom joint venture.

The first double-stack train ran under high-rise wires in June 2020, from Palanpur and Botad in Gujarat. The corridor sections were opened in stages after that.

And finally, why only India can do this.

Three things stack up together.

One, broad gauge.

India runs on a wider track than most of the world, 1,676 mm. A wider track gives a bigger loading box. So India can run plain flat wagons with two containers on top. Many countries need special low well-cars to manage height, and those still do not fix the wire problem.

Two, the fresh corridor.

India built new track with no height limits baked in. Old networks in Europe and the US are full of low tunnels and bridges never meant for 7 metre trains. Rebuilding all of that is close to impossible and crazy expensive.

Three, the system.

The tall wire, the high-reach pantograph and the powerful WAG-12 were all designed to work together as one package. You cannot copy just one piece. You need the whole thing.

Put those three together and other railways simply cannot recreate it without rebuilding from scratch.

But the part I keep thinking about is that India approved this in 2006 and ran the first train in 2020.

Fourteen years. :)

[eternal newbie @samanya_kumar]

And anyone with critical thinking and observation skills can tell immediately that the Bhutanese people aren't happy. The pics of the Royal family and happiness index are advertised on every possible corner. All shops are forcibly closed at 9. Their museums tell us that Bhutanese history starts from the 16th century and there's not a single mention of Hindu connection to the region before that. It's a police state with heavy propaganda.

[Kranti Kumar @KraantiKumar]

आयुष मलिक के धर्म परिवर्तन से उसके माता पिता काफी तकलीफ के दौर से गुजर रहे हैं. माता पिता मीडिया से बातचीत करने के दौरान रोने लगे.

यह महिला आयुष मलिक के धर्म परिवर्तन का जश्न मना रही है. दरअसल ये मजाक उड़ा रही है. BJP इसी कारण अजेय बनते जा रही है. जब तक Arfa Khanum Sherwani जैसे लोग हैं BJP अजेय है.

[Caт 🐝 @CatShoshanna]

Worlds first palestinian kangaroo

[Ajeet Bharti @ajeetbharti]

ये करेंगे क्रांति! चूतिए, जनवरी में आना। एक पंखा झलवा रहा है गरीब आदमी से, एक की गान तीन बजे ही फट गई।

क्या कहते थे? न्यूक्लियर ब्लास्ट भी सर्वाइव कर लेते हैं कॉकरोच? क्या हो गया? कल फिर आओगे?