From the glacier collapse marked in red until Resuo, where the Nepal-China immigration facility we saw getting devastated by the 300 ft flood is, there are at least half a dozen Chinese named (not Tibetan) villages on Tibet side along the river. You can search 28°18'08.73"N 85°30'16.10"E and zoom in on Google Earth to see.
They look like "Xiaokangs" or newly constructed ghettos populated by Han Chinese along the border. So what happened to all these Chinese named villages and people in there? There's no news. BBC says the videos are also getting censored. Surely, a lot of people must have also died in Tibet side? But we will never know, I think.
A plane ✈️ is not a family hall, a train compartment, or a picnic ground. It is a sealed metal tube at 35,000 feet with strangers who did not buy a ticket to your gathering.
A group of passengers on an IndiGo flight unpacked a full homemade spread, theplas, dhoklas, samosas, plates passed across rows, people moving in the aisle, some doing nails , while other passengers sat through it.
They cleaned up afterwards. That does not make it fine. Cleaning up after you treat a cabin like a private dining room is the minimum, not a virtue.
Carrying your own snack is allowed. Turning the aisle into service, standing when you should be seated, filling the cabin with smell, noise and movement is not “culture.” It is disregard for shared space. Turbulence does not wait for your buffet to finish. Other people on that flight may be flying to a funeral, a hospital, a job interview, or simply trying to sleep after a hard week. They do not owe you an audience for your “desi swag.”
The defence that this is warmth, family, or Indianness is lazy. Warmth that only works by ignoring everyone else is not warmth. It is entitlement. The same pattern keeps showing up: loud games mid-air, standing and gossiping in the aisle, treating crew requests as optional. That is not a stereotype invented by outsiders. It is footage Indians keep posting of themselves.
Civic sense is not Western. It is the basic rule of any crowded public place: your comfort stops where someone else’s journey begins.
If the only way a group outing feels complete is by occupying the whole cabin, the problem is not the airline. It is the habit of treating other people’s silence as empty space to fill.
Terrifying footage shows a flash flood sweeping through the Nepal–Tibet border, trapping people on rooftops and balconies. At least 469 have been killed, with hundreds still missing.
Taxpayer money is so cheap in India.
Part of under construction Metro line costing Rs 250 CRORE might have to be demolished and reconstructed because planners miscalculated the height of the overhead wires! 👏👏👏
Slow clap. Let any poor Indian farmer try paying back only Rs 30 for his outstanding loan of Rs 1 lakh and then see what the banks, the government and the courts do to him. Unlike what they are doing to this former BJP-supported MP.
🚨 BREAKING: Google Gemini can now analyze any stock like a Wall Street analyst (for free).
Here are 09 insane Gemini prompts that replace $4,000/month Bloomberg terminals:
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NASDAQ's 24 Year Bull Market (wave 3) is coming to an End.
You may not like it.
You may not understand it.
You may get provoked by it.
But this is NOT the Beginning. It is the Beginning of the End.
And the Crash will be massive! It will be a correction on the entire move since 2002.
Still a little time left ..... but do not get misled by euphoric analysts and media.
Stay tuned!
“We sell Hindu girls for 8 to 10 lakhs,” confessed Aquib Ansari and Syed Ibrahim
A Muslim man from Bengaluru created social media accounts with Hindu names and befriended two minor Hindu girls from Jodhpur.
He, along with his friends, came to Jodhpur and eloped with the girls but was caught by the Bajrang Dal in Ahmedabad.
The Bajrang Dal stopped the train, searched the entire train for them, and caught one man and one girl, while two other men fled with the other girl.
The man admitted that he sells Hindu girls for 8 to 10 lakhs in Bangladesh and also said he has done this to five Hindu girls so far.
Later another man was also caught and the search for the remaining man and girl is ongoing.
The second video from Niti Valley is even more terrifying.
After the reported cloudburst near Tamak, the Valley Bridge built by the BRO was swept away by the sudden surge of water.
The visuals show the raging water carrying away vehicles, with a BRO operator reportedly missing after the incident.
The disaster has also cut road connectivity between Niti Valley and the district headquarters.
This is the kind of force the mountains are facing tonight. Stay away from rivers, streams and vulnerable areas.
Sweden is committing more than €100 million to a sweeping classroom overhaul: replacing tablets and screens with traditional printed textbooks to help reverse falling student performance and sharpen focus.
After more than a decade of embracing digital-first education, Swedish authorities are now pivoting back to paper-based learning. Official data and recent studies cited by the Ministry of Education show that prolonged screen use in class has been linked to shorter attention spans, weaker reading comprehension, and reduced critical-thinking abilities.
Research consistently finds that reading on illuminated screens requires greater mental effort and invites more distractions compared to the calm, linear experience of physical books—factors believed to have contributed to declining academic outcomes in recent years.
Under the new plan, every student will receive printed textbooks for all core subjects, restoring books as the central learning tool. Digital devices and online resources will remain available as supportive tools, but they will no longer dominate daily instruction.
This bold €100+ million investment signals Sweden’s leadership in rethinking the role of technology in education. It underscores a broader, growing recognition worldwide: while screens provide speed and access, the hands-on, distraction-free engagement of physical books supports deeper concentration, stronger memory retention, and more effective long-term learning.
By choosing paper over pixels, Sweden is charting a path toward a more balanced, evidence-informed classroom future—one that puts proven pedagogical principles ahead of unchecked digital trends.
Expired meat, fish & milk found in Bengaluru’s top luxury hotels.
30 teams inspected 26 three-star & five-star hotels across BBMP limits today. 35 food samples collected for lab testing.
Hotels where food was seized:
• The Lalit Ashok – 76 kg meat, 200 kg vegetables & 32 litres expired milk
• Shangri-La Bengaluru – 15 kg meat
• Four Seasons Bengaluru – 19 kg meat
• Vivanta Whitefield – 3 kg expired bakery products
• Taj Yeshwantpur – 72 kg meat/fish
• Radisson Blu (The Atria) – 105 kg expired food (50 kg chicken, 25 kg meat, 23 kg fish, 7 kg vegetables)
Violations included expired food, fungal growth, unhygienic kitchens, misbranding, FSSAI labelling violations and improper veg/non-veg storage. Notices issued; further action to follow after lab reports. #Bengaluru #FoodSafety
Let me explain what this whole fight is about, because it is very different from what the tweet by the Japanese official makes it sound like.
Back in 2015, India and Japan signed the Mumbai to Ahmedabad bullet train deal. 508 km.
India would use Japan's Shinkansen trains and Shinkansen technology. Japan put up a massive soft loan, covering most of the cost, at almost no interest, 0.1 percent, to be repaid over 50 years.
On paper it sounded amazing. Cheap money, world class trains.
But every such loan has a catch. Cheap Japanese money came tied to buying Japanese things.
Their trains. Their coaches. Their signal system. Their price, largely on their terms. That is normal. No country lends billions out of pure love. They lend to sell their own industry.
Then two things went wrong, and this is where his anger comes from.
One, the price.
The Japanese Shinkansen trainsets turned out to be extremely expensive. India felt it was being overcharged for the rolling stock. So, talks hit a wall.
Two, the timeline.
The newest Japanese trains, the E10 series, would reportedly only be ready for India around 2032. India did not want to sit on a finished 1.08 lakh crore track with no trains to run on it.
So India made a call. And this is the part I am proud of.
Instead of waiting and overpaying, India decided to run its own trains first. BEML in Bengaluru got an order to build indigenous high speed trainsets at about 866 crore each, designed to run at 280 kmph.
India will open the line with Indian made trains on the Surat to Vapi stretch around 2027, and bring in the Japanese Shinkansen later.
And the signal system, the thing he is bitter about, India switched from Japan's DS-ATC to the European ETCS Level 2 system.
The same family already used on the Delhi Meerut rapid rail. That is what he means by Japan being excluded from the signal system. India looked at the Japanese option, found it too costly and too slow, and picked a different one.
Now let me be fair, because I cannot be blind just because I am pro India.
He is not lying about everything.
India is genuinely a tough, frustrating negotiator. We change our mind. We push for our own interest till the last minute. We renegotiate things others thought were settled.
To a Japanese official raised on politeness and fixed agreements, this feels like betrayal.
But flip it around and look at it from our seat.
Our job is not to protect Japanese honour. Our job is to get India a bullet train at a fair price, that runs soon, and that builds Indian factories in the process.
On all three, changing course was the right call. Waiting till 2032 and overpaying for imported trains would have been the polite choice. It would also have been the stupid choice.
There is a bigger thing hiding under his frustration, and I think it is the real reason for the anger.
For decades, the deal was simple. Rich countries gave loans and technology, and poorer countries said thank you and bought whatever came bundled with it.
You took the money, you took their trains, you did not argue.
India argued. India took the loan, then insisted on its own trains, its own signal system, its own factories getting the work. We used their money to build our capability instead of just renting theirs.
That is what stings them. Not that we were reckless. That we refused to stay the junior partner in our own project.
I will give the Japanese side genuine credit.
Their engineering is world class. In 60 years, the Shinkansen has never had a passenger death from a derailment or collision.
That safety record is worth respecting. Their frustration with our chaos is also probably fair on a human level. Working with India can be maddening. Anyone who has managed an Indian project knows this.
For me, the real issue is what’s in it for our country.
India has the track. India is building its own trains for it. India picked its own signal system.
India got a 50 year loan at almost zero interest. And India will still get the Shinkansen later, on better terms than the original bundle.
If that is what Indian recklessness produces, I will take it every single time.
Be tough. Be a nightmare to negotiate with. Just make sure the country wins at the end of it. :)