Had this man not found the courage to fight back after being repeatedly attacked with an axe capable of cutting through metal—while bleeding profusely—and had the presence mind to trigger the hijack/emergency code, initiate the emergency response and open the cockpit door to allow passengers to assist him, the aircraft’s subsequent dive could have had catastrophic consequences.
Had that aircraft not been recovered, the geopolitical consequences for the Middle East could have been profound and potentially irreversible.
Sometimes history turns on the courage, resilience and presence of mind of one person.
Yes. One Indian man.
Why do India’s geopolitical analysts get India so wrong? India is today: 1) The world’s largest producer of vaccines, milk, dairy & two-wheelers; 2) The world’s second largest producer of cement, crude steel, cotton, mobile phones & food grains; 3) The world’s third largest manufacturer of passenger cars/SUVs & pharmaceuticals.
By 2030 India will be #1-3 globally in most industries.
A “dead” economy?
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Patna की एक नई startup — TRUSBEE 🐝
Trusbee एक Patna-based Health & Human Services startup है, जिसका focus मरीजों और उनके परिवारों को hospital में non-medical assistance देना है।
आइए जानते हैं, Trusbee आखिर करता क्या है? 👇
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Trusbee का trained helper, जिसे कंपनी “Bee” कहती है, मरीज के साथ hospital जा सकता है और:
• OPD visit में accompany कर सकता है
• Registration/process में मदद
• अलग-अलग counters/departments तक ले जाना
• Tests के दौरान साथ रहना
• Admission & discharge process में assistance
• Hospital की basic paperwork/queues में मदद
• Family को updates देना
🔹 2. Elderly Care 👴
बुजुर्ग माता-पिता/परिवार के सदस्य को hospital जाना हो और साथ जाने वाला कोई न हो, तो Bee उनके साथ रह सकता है और basic assistance दे सकता है।
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अचानक hospital-related assistance की जरूरत पड़ने पर urgent support भी उपलब्ध कराया जाता है।
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Hospital Assist — ₹219/hour
Elderly Care — ₹199/hour
Urgent Assist — ₹269/hour
Personal Assist — ₹199/hour
📲 Booking भी आसान है
Company के अनुसार app की जरूरत नहीं है।
WhatsApp पर “Hi” भेजकर service book की जा सकती है।
📍 Current focus: Patna
👉 “जब परिवार का कोई सदस्य hospital में साथ नहीं जा पाए, तब Trusbee का Bee आपके साथ जा सकता है।” 🐝
#Trust bee #Patna #AIIMSPatna #Healthcare #Bihar #PatientCare
@trusbee
@Malanggav4 It looks strange. He earns billions but not able to preserve and maintain his parental house, where spent his precious 20 years. Emotionless or we the middle class r emotional fool ?
India's defence budget crossed ₹7.85 lakh crore this year. 75% of capital acquisition is locked for domestic companies only.
But most investors stop at HAL, BEL, Mazagon Dock. These are assemblers. The missile itself is built by a completely different set of companies.
A quick breakdown of who actually builds India's missiles:
BrahMos went from 15% Indian-made components in 2015 to 70% today. Target is 85% by end of 2026. New Lucknow plant takes annual production from 100 to 300 units. Export pipeline is building towards ₹5 lakh crore by 2030. $450 million in export orders already signed.
Every one of those 300 missiles needs seekers, boosters, titanium forgings, guidance electronics.
Here's who supplies what:
Bharat Dynamics (BDL): India's sole missile manufacturer. Akash, Astra, MPATGM. Order book ₹26,000 crore. Two new plants coming in Telangana and UP.
Data Patterns: Developed the Fire Control System for BrahMos. Testing seekers. All-time high order book at ₹1,868 crore. EBITDA margins 35-40%. Revenue growth guidance 20-25% CAGR.
Astra Microwave Products: Builds RF and infrared seekers. Executing 70% of the QRSAM missile programme. Order book ₹2,226 crore. Q3 FY26 EBITDA margin hit 31.7%, highest in 8 quarters. 95% of new orders from defence.
Solar Industries: Made the transition from mining explosives to missile propulsion. Supplies solid propellant boosters for BrahMos via DRDO tech transfer. Also making Pinaka rockets and 155mm ammunition. Defence order book alone is ₹16,600 crore.
MTAR Technologies: Precision components for liquid propulsion engines and Agni missile programme. Q3 FY26 revenue up 59% YoY. Profit up 117%. Order book ₹2,395 crore.
PTC Industries: Titanium and superalloy castings for BrahMos, Pralay missiles, and now Blue Origin and Honeywell Aerospace. 9-month FY26 revenue up 95%. Building titanium capacity to 6,000 TPA. Management targeting 10-15x revenue growth over 5-7 years.
Premier Explosives: Akash missile propellants. Long-term contract with BDL. Quiet but locked in.
Goodluck India: Steel and alloy forgings for Pinaka rockets and BrahMos components.
DRDO conducted the first salvo launch of the NASM-SR anti-ship missile this month. Goldman Sachs projects the Indian defence market to grow 6x to ₹10 lakh crore over 20 years.
The assemblers get the headlines. The supply chain gets the orders.
Educational only, not a recommendation.
@BSF_India An outstanding officer and instructor. Very active on social media and kept on raising the issues related to BSF till his last breath. May the departed soul rest in peace. Naman
Meanwhile,
Reuters reports that satellite imaging firm Planet Labs said on Saturday it will indefinitely withhold visuals of Iran and the region of conflict in the Middle East to comply with a request from the U.S. government.
Basically, US does not want images of damages out. This is only to stop public from seeing it because China and Russia will definitely have their own satellite images.
If there is just one thing India can do fast to improve quality of life- its footpaths.
Not Multi crore flyovers, not 8 lane highways, just a simple 10 feet wide footpath everywhere.
This is such a low hanging fruit, why can’t we do this.
(Let’s figure out problem of encroachments later).
We have the highest pedestrian population on earth but no footpaths…
@GHMCOnline@CommissionrGHMC #RoadSafety
@_sabanaqvi It's natural. Millions of Bangladeshis Muslims have illegally infiltrated into India and settled. Why should they be given voting rights? Are u in favour of giving voting rights to illegal infiltrators?
@clary_co Is Pahalgam type incident possible without the moral and material support of Pak Army and ISI? What options are available with India? Just keep quiet or impose cost?
@clary_co Why are Americans intellegentia with so many think tanks, flow of information as well as real time intelligence not able to read the psyche and character of Pak Army. They are deliberately orchestrating, 26/11 and Pahalgam type incidents for making them relevance.
Yamuna cleanup is a great initiative and it seems to be going well for the first time since independence. I am following it closely for an important reason.
River Thames in London, Seine in Paris, Rhine of Switzerland, Kallang of Singapore, Pearl of Shanghai all were overflowing with sewage and were extremely polluted once.
Some as recent has 20-50 years ago. Go ask Grok if you think they were always clean, those people & populations were always so civic, and that only Indian culture is bad and it can't be changed.
There is no reason why Indian rivers can't be cleaned and reclaimed. The day India has clean rivers, which we consider as mother goddess, running in our cities and towns, will mark the day India became a developed country.
I will put more importance on this parameter (pollutants and sewage in our rivers) than GDP per capita as a measure of development. For it means the whole city is living & thriving and the population is civic & healthy.
So if our authorities in Delhi, both state and centre, take this seriously and manage to clean up the Yamuna (and we have to understand it will definitely take years), and the citizens and civic authorities keep it that way, we would have turned a leaf in India's civilizational history - back to its former glory.
I will consider it to be as important a moment.
प्रिय दोस्तों
सुप्रभात !
इस समय सुबह साईट ठीक से चल रही है लेकिन यह कोई आदर्श स्तिथि नहीं है ।
सरकार ने जब खुद को दिक़्क़त आई तो ITR की तारीख़ 31 जुलाई से 15 सितम्बर कर दी। अब जब पोर्टल दिन में बार-बार ठप हो रहा है तो तारीख़ बढ़ाने से इंकार कर दिया गया। इसी कारण प्रोफेशनल्स को मजबूरी में रात को जागकर रिटर्न भरने पड़े हैं क्योंकि उसी समय साइट चलती है।
हम सभी ने कई बार एक्सटेंशन की माँग की , बात एक्सटेंशन की नहीं बल्कि टाइमली एक्सटेंशन की थी। अब भले ही एक्सटेंशन आ भी जाए तो उसकी कोई उपयोगिता नहीं रह जाएगी।
सरकार से गुज़ारिश है – पोर्टल की तकनीकी जाँच करवा कर पोर्टल की स्पीड और क्षमता ज़रूर सुधार दीजिए।यह पोर्टल जितने कर दाता इस समय देश में हैं उन्हें सर्व करने के लिए उपयोगी नहीं है ।
सभी मित्रों को टैक्स ऑडिट की अग्रिम शुभकामनाएँ।
– सुधीर हालाखंडी
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