Dr Dan

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[Vishnu Som @VishnuNDTV]

➡️Almost exactly 27 years ago, I flew three sorties on Mirage 2000s with the IAF out of Adampur Airbase. The 1999 Kargil war was winding down but tensions remained high.
➡️Back then - I had been sworn to secrecy - never show the Israeli Litening airborne targeting and surveillance pods slung off the fuselage of IAF Mirages. And never talk about them.
➡️Integrated under wartime conditions, these pods had been instrumental in guiding IAF laser guided bombs onto targets, including Tiger Hill.
➡️The video of the hit on Tiger Hill - which I broke on Star News - of an enemy position being taken out on in June 1999 is now legendary. Little did I know at the time that I would be flying on the same Mirages with the same pilots who had struck these targets within a month!
➡️Eventually, the laser guided hits from IAF jets went on to break the back of the Pakistan Army - their logistics chains were shattered.
➡️It's fantastic to now see interviews of two of the Israeli experts who were part of the effort to integrate the Litening with the French Mirage. Remember, at the time, it had been just 7 years since India had established full-fledged diplomatic relations with Israel.
➡️Eventually, a full decade later, and with permission, I wrote this story on how the integration of the Litening with the Mirages happened - there is a fair bit of detail here:

https://t.co/g3kLv1qZ6G

➡️There are other incredible details of the IAF's Mirages - including this one on how IAF Mirages had locked onto Pakistan's precious F-16s. Back in the day, the PAF had no beyond visual range missiles and were completely outclassed by the IAF's R-530D missiles.

https://t.co/eVkB5xzrvH

➡️This programme - on the 25th anniversary of Kargil - featured many of the IAF pilots who helped win us the war - A lot of the footage here - had never been broadcast before - again footage from the Litening pods.

https://t.co/7Qx404vBpp

➡️But this was hardly the only occasion that the Indian Air Force had integrated `unusual' weapons onto its built Mirages. We integrated Russian R-73 air to air missiles onto French Mirages with Israeli help as well:

https://t.co/cBbRVtI92V

➡️Many of the pilots who flew the attack missions in Kargil ended up become some of the IAF's most distinguished officers - Air Marshal Narmdeshwar Tiwari (retired), who features extensively in my book The Sky Warriors: Op Sindoor Unveiled (Amazon link: https://t.co/maL3tVotZW) and Air Marshal Raghunath Nambiar (retired) ended up becoming IAF Vice Chiefs. Air Marshal Dilip Patnaik (retired) was Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Eastern Air Command.
➡️Let me end with this: There are other fantastic stories of IAF Mirage 2000s during the Kargil period which will probably remain unreported - Its been 27 years since the war. I may need to wait another 27 to report these! 🫡

[Ashutosh Ranka @AshutoshRanka]

Dear @JPNadda @DrJitendraSingh ji,

We are observing a complete breach of the agreement regarding no police action against the protestors. Hundreds of students have been arrested in Bihar and Bengal, and hundreds are being surveilled/harrassed in Delhi and other states. Multiple reports are emerging in Delhi around detention of volunteers supporting protestors with logistics.

We demand that all the FIRs against the protestors be immediately withdrawn, students be released and no future FIRs be filed (in line with our agreement) by Delhi police / Central investigative agencies / Police in BJP-allied states, FAILING WHICH WE WILL BE FORCED TO SIT ON PROTEST AGAIN.

We also demand that the written agreement around legal cases be shared with us by tomorrow, the aligned timelines with the Government of India.

[Cockroach Janta Party - CJP @Cockroachisback]

Cockroach Janta Party withdraws its nationwide agitation with immediate effect

All demands of the Cockroach Janta Party have been accepted by the government:

1. Maximum possible compensation for families of NEET paper leak-related suicides

2. All FIRs by Central govt and NDA-ruled states will be withdrawn, and no action will be taken against anyone involved in these protests in the future.

3. CJP’s 5-point exam reform charter will be considered by the govt and the CJP will meet with the govt to discuss these reforms further.

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

I have had many embarassing moments as a young adult, but nearly nothing as an adult, except this person as the leader of my country. Any true empathetic educated leader would listen to the students, overhaul the medical education exams, improve the curriculum, stop spreading pseudoscience into schools, colleges and institutes, remove the incompetent minister, compensate families of students who died by suicide. Seriously, no one really cares about these silly social media metrics, dumdums.

[Mayank Sharma @MayankS3094]

I sold my Mahindra Thar and Tata Harrier to Cars24 in February. It's been 5 months, and my issues are still not resolved.

For my Mahindra Thar, Cars24 deducted ₹500 from my payment for a traffic challan but never paid it. Because of their negligence, I had to visit the authority twice for party peshi and eventually pay the challan myself. Even after the RTO signatures are complete, they are still holding ₹10,000 for the party peshi.

For my Tata Harrier, Cars24 deducted around ₹30,000–35,000 for pending challans. Once again, they failed to pay them. It was only after repeated complaints that the challans were finally cleared.

After my previous post, the Cars24 team contacted me and asked me to delete it, promising that everything would be resolved. I trusted them and removed the post. Today, when I asked for an update, I was simply told to send another email.

This is completely unacceptable. If you can't manage the paperwork and payments properly, why are you taking customers' cars?

Please repost this so more people know what I have gone through. Think twice before selling your car to Cars24. My experience has been nothing but delays, broken promises, and poor customer service.
@Cars24Support @cars24india #ScamAlert #Cars24 #CARS24India #ConsumerRights

[Dr. Vineet Kumar @vineet_mausam]

Umergam dist valsad, gujarat recorded super extreme 1064mm rain in 24hr.
This is more than what delhi pune gets in entire year.
Also this is the 3rd highest 24hr rain recorded by any place in Bharat in recorded history.
Source: imd

[Rajdeep Sardesai @sardesairajdeep]

Wow! Our Honourable Courts have time to hear whether CJP is foreign funded (with ZERO evidence of this) but no time to watch videos of Monday’s violence against students? Said this before: STOP THE CONSPIRACY THEORIES, YUVA KI AAWAZ SUNO! 🙏

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

It is very unfortunate that an Indian Ministry has to resort to cheap abuse tactics, threats and harassment, instead of proving me wrong.

The Government, through the National Commission for Homeopathy HAS THREATENED ME WITH CIVIL AND CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS if I do not apologize for calling out Homeopathy as quackery/ fraud and delete my content on Homeopathy.

This is also the SAME Government who taxes me and other citizens like me, to FUND HOMEOPATHY and pay salary of these people in Homeopathy Public Institutes who have written this atrocious letter to me.

Dear @ForHomeopathy @moayush @secymoayush
Please find your conditions and my responses below, in public:

National Council for Homeopathy says: Therefore, for the first and last time, you are hereby called upon to:

i. Remove/Delete all the content uploaded by you on every Social Media Platforms which criticizes the Homeopathy Medicine or any other alternative medicine

My response: No I will not. My content are factual and science based. It follows Article 51A(h) of the Indian Constitution which outlines one of the Fundamental Duties for every citizen - "to develop the scientific temper, humanism and the spirit of inquiry and reform." In this regard, my content is based on my Constitutional Rights and against an pseudoscientific and unscientific practice like Homeopathy and is fully backed by evidence and facts. If you can prove all of those evidences wrong, I will remove all of my content on Homeopathy.

Homeopathy has been called many things before and I have only borrowed what has been highlighted in public domain and medical literature. Some of the sources for my online content is given below for your reference:

Homeopathy is pseudoscience: https://t.co/KKF1UZqrmu
Homeopathy is fraud and quackery: https://t.co/ehx1a7CsC9
Homeopathy is unscientific: https://t.co/dcrUlnqkFf
Homeopathy is witchcraft: https://t.co/rYbblwI5pC and https://t.co/8j53wwXIkv
If you can remove these sources, I will remove my content.

ii. Stop making, circulating or disseminating any further derogatory, defamatory remarks in future against Homeopathy and its practitioners

My Response: I cannot guarantee this. As doctors and scientists, it is our right to correct healthcare misinformation. Any further publicizing of unverified claims from the Homeopathy community - whether the Ministry, the practitioners or the industry, will be dealt with strong and aggressive corrective measures from the scientific community including me. For me to stop doing this, Homeopathy practitioners must stop claiming benefits of therapy and stop making misleading content online. Homeopathy community must keep quite and disappear to a corner, and then the scientific community will keep quite and let you be invisible in that corner. Homeopathy graduates on Instagram and Facebook keep creating content that they can cure cancer, treat chronic skin disorders, mental health conditions, diabetes and thyroid diseases and autoimmune conditions. First, ask them to stop that - then come to lecture me.

iii. Issue a public apology and clarification, through the same platforms on which the offending posts were uploaded, acknowledging deep regret for the use of defamatory expressions

My Response: First, The National Commission for Homeopathy and the Central Council for Research in Homoeopathy, Ministry of AYUSH, New Delhi, India MUST issue a issue a public apology and clarification, through all social media platforms , acknowledging deep regret for wasting public money on a fraudulent Homeopathy study which was RETRACTED for scientific fraud. See here: https://t.co/oDTf9JE58B and here https://t.co/bkgffy9VA9. Once your apology is in place, then I may consider an apology, after you prove me wrong, like I proved the scientific fraud in your retracted Homeopathy paper. It was a national disgrace.

iv. Furnish a written undertaking that you shall refrain from repeating such acts in future.

My Response: I am sorry, I wont be able to do that - because as a clinical doctor and medical scientist and medical teacher in India, as long as Article 51A(h) of the Indian Constitution is alive, I will repeat my education on unscientific practices for the benefit of the public.

This is my first and last time, calling upon the National Commission for Homeopathy and the Homeopathy community:

i. Refrain from sending me these hollow threats, first prove me wrong on all my points raised in my contents online (example: why is cockroach used to treat asthma - what is the pathogenetic basis and pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics of it)

ii. Prove to the public that Homeopathy is not a pseudoscience or quackery by removing the original sources I have used to describe Homeopathy (links above) and all such sources which I will use in the future.

iii. Apologize to the Indian public PUBLICLY for wasting public funds that are used to publish scientific fraud

iv. PROVIDE A RESPONSE TO OUR PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION IN THE SUPREME COURT'S ORDER TO YOU - https://t.co/9Q4XYG7JrM - about why Homeopathy was used on population level scale that led to harm to public, wasting public money.

v: Send me an apology letter for wasting my time which could have been used to diagnose and treat patients at my place of work.

Do not try to gag voices that improve scientific temperament in this country, because you are anyway not doing anything to promote science in India.
@CaulfieldTim @EdzardErnst @TheSkepticMag @McGillOSS @RichardDawkins

[Iain Cameron @theiaincameron]

The Okavango is one of Africa's great rivers. But it never reaches the sea.

Instead, it flows into the Kalahari Desert, spreads across the sand... and simply vanishes.

Why?

1/n

[Helle Lyng @HelleLyngSvends]

Maybe a dumb question, but why is a so-called serious news outlets using hashtags as DeepStateDipke & CJPGoons?

It is a clear violation of press ethics to use that sort of language on something you arguably should cover objectively.

[Vineeth K @DealsDhamaka]

Arnab Goswami is saying that many social media influencers are sold out and that someone should audit where their money is coming from.

I agree to an extent.

But after watching Republic’s coverage over the last two days, I think the same audit should happen for Indian media as well.

[Tamal Bandyopadhyay @TamalBandyo]

As the "cockroach" ‌movement continues, let's look at the numbers behind students' anger.
India's education-spend down from 2.9% in FY20 to 2.7% of GDP in FY26 against 6% target set by National Education Policy 2020. It trails lower-middle-income country average of 3.4% & South Asia regional average of 2.9%.
Health spend at 1.8% in FY26, far lower than 2.5% of GDP target set at National Health Policy 2017.
India's per-capita public health spending is among the world's lowest — less than Bhutan & Sri Lanka & far behind other BRICS nations.
India ranks 130 out of 193 countries on the UN Human Development Index which combines health, education & income. India sits in the "medium human development" category with a value of 0.685. China (78th), Sri Lanka (89th) and Bhutan (125th) rank above India; Bangladesh is tied at 130th.
Ref: UNDP's Human Development Report 2025 ("A Matter of Choice: People and Possibilities in the Age of AI"), based on 2023 data.

[Vir Das @thevirdas]

Proud of this kid. He seems amazing. Humbly, It feels like your channel is exploiting him to invalidate other kids. Maybe the next time a bridge collapses you could interview someone who took a longer route to work and got promoted. Instead of engineers or people under it.

[Pratik S Patil @Liberal_India1]

मी गेल्या बारा वर्षांपासून भारतीय जनता पक्षाचा कार्यकर्ता म्हणून काम करतो आहे. पक्षाने दिलेले अनेक आदेश मी डोळे झाकून पाळत आलेलो आहे. आमच्या अहिल्यानगर जिल्ह्यात अनेक सामाजिक कार्यक्रम मी पक्षाच्या बॅनरखाली घेतले आहेत. स्वतःच्या खिशातले पैसे खर्चून मी पक्षासाठी स्वत्व अर्पण केलं आहे. आपण चौकशी करू शकता. एवढी वर्षे एकाही निवडणूकीसाठी तिकिट मिळण्याची मी अपेक्षा ठेवली नाही. सतत अविरतपणे मी पक्षासाठी झोकून दिलं.

माझा पुतण्या सुदर्शन घोरपडे ह्यावर्षी बारावीला होता. नीट पेपर फुटल्यानंतर त्याने खचून न जाता पुन्हा पेपर देण्याचा निर्णय घेतला. त्याची मोठी बहीण देवयानी घोरपडे दिल्लीत एमबीबीएस डिग्रीच्या शेवटच्या वर्षाला आहे. तिचा आदर्श सुदर्शनसमोर होता. नीटची दुसऱ्यांदा घेतलेली परीक्षा सुदर्शनला नीट देता नाही. परीक्षा झाल्यानंतर मात्र तो एकटाएकटा राहू लागला. अर्थात त्याच्या आईवडिलांनी त्याला चांगलं सांभाळून घेतलं. पण पेपरफुटीचा त्याच्या मनावर परिणाम झाला. आता पुण्यातील चांगल्या मानसोपचारतज्ज्ञाकडून तो उपचार घेत आहे. ह्या सगळ्याचा फॅमिलीवर परिणाम झाला. कुटुंबाचंच मानसिक स्वास्थ्य ढासळलं.

सांगण्याचा मुद्दा हा, काल झालेल्या आंदोलनात सुदर्शनची बहीण देवयानी उपस्थित होती. तिच्या दोन मैत्रिणींसोबत वैद्यकीय प्रथमोपचारपेटी सोबत घेऊन ती आंदोलनस्थळी गेली होती. पोलिसांनी लाठीचार्ज केल्यानंतर तिच्या डॉक्टर मैत्रिणीच्या खांद्यावर जबर मार बसला आहे. स्वतः देवयानीचा पूर्ण चेहरा सुजला आहे. अश्रूधुराची नळकांडी अगदी जवळ फुटल्यामुळे. तिला डाव्या डोळ्यात इन्फेक्शन होऊन दिसणं बंद झालं आहे. ही बातमी कळताच आम्ही दिल्लीकडे धाव घेतली. पण हे सुदर्शनला कळू दिलं नाही. त्याला नातेवाईकांकडे सुखरूप ठेवलं आहे. त्याला सोशल मीडिया, मोबाईल व टीव्हीपासून दूर ठेवलं आहे.

माझ्या पक्षाने 2014 साली प्रॉमिस केलेला भारत हा नव्हता. मी काय तोंड घेऊन माझ्या पुतण्यापुतणीसमोर जाऊ शकतो? भाजपचा शहरप्रमुख स्वतःला अभिमानाने म्हणवून घेतो, पण माझ्या पुढच्या पिढीला मी काय भविष्य देत आहे. मन व्यथित झालं आहे.

माझ्या सद्सद्विवेकबुद्धीवर विश्वास ठेवत मी भारतीय जनता पक्षाच्या सर्व पदांचा आणि प्राथमिक सदस्यत्वाचा राजीनामा देत आहे.

ऍड. गोविंद बाळासाहेब घोरपडे
राहुरी, अहिल्यानगर.

[Hemant Rajaura @hemantrajora_]

Sad News: A 21-year-old girl from Uttam Nagar injured during yesterday's protest in Delhi is in critical condition and on ventilator support at RML Hospital.

#JantarMantar

[Mr Sharma @sharma_views]

ABHIJEET CALLS NADDA MEETING A 5-HOUR TIME-WASTE TRAP 🚨

PRESS: What happened in the JP Nadda meeting?

ABHIJEET 😡: Five hours wasted. No answer, no shame. Saurav and Ashutosh were kept there without phones, while a narrative was pushed that they had left the ground.

PRESS: Did the crackdown make the protest stronger?

ABHIJEET 🔥: This is not about strength. This is about whether this government has any heart left. Students were beaten to protect one minister. Shame.

PRESS: Govt says Sonam was shifted for safety.

ABHIJEET 🎯: Sonam sir answered that by continuing his fast. If there is no treatment, why keep him in hospital? This is illegal detention, and the brutality on students is why his fast continues.

[Mohammed Zubair @zoo_bear]

A sixteen year old protester, Karan, breaks down after being lathi charged by Delhi police.

The reporter says, He was shaking. He said he's not crying because of the pain but because he's in shock and disbelief.
"Mere upar lathi charge hua, I can't understand ke meri galti kya hai, meri galti yahi hai ki Mai desh ka bhala chahta hun aur isi liye mujhe dande maare ja raha hain. This is not fair at all...."

[Official PeeingHuman @thepeeinghuman]

Never thought this is how my face reveal would happen after 11 years of making content.
But worth it ✊🏽🇮🇳

[Manish Deo मनिष देव @mni77]

Wel come to Omkar garden chowk, Bavdhan. Every day in the morning and evening same story.
No traffic police / warden
@CP_PCCity @PCcityPolice @bavdhancitizens @ChaitanyaKet @RajaSubramani22 @Salonee_TOIPune @ThePuneMirror @CivicActionHQ @ChaloPmc @punekarnews @pulse_pune

[Ajit Anjum @ajitanjum]

'मैं चुपचाप जा रहा था . मुझे गालियां दी . मारा और फोन तोड़ दिया '
रोते -रोते ये लड़का जो कह रहा है , सुनिए.