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[vinayan @UrVinayan]

@ZEE5India @0_pinion Upgraded 45 min back and still asks to upgrade!!!

[vinayan @UrVinayan]

@ZEE5India @Mkviyyuri @ZEE5Premium What are you cooking? Even after upgradeq, logging of, clear cache it still asks to upgrade as if the money scammed

[vinayan @UrVinayan]

@ZEE5India @aman_kande17941 Scammers. Lets all unsubscribe zee5 after fifa. The app is scrap and so is the upgrade.

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

5 minutes before Trump’s announcement:

* $1.5B notional worth of S&P500 (ES) futures are bought in a single clip.

* $192M notional of oil futures (CL) sold.

More than 4x-6x any other trade size during the market close.

Insiders profited from his lies in broad daylight!

[vinayan @UrVinayan]

@JALSINGHKUNTAL @TataMotors_Cars True. I had a call with their crm once and then no follow up till now @TataMotors_Cars

[vinayan @UrVinayan]

@TataMotors_Cars First time one of my car had a rust. Same area same place. None of the previous cars had rust. And guess what we noticed it after 3 years and customer need to partially bear the cost. Shame on the company. It seems many are getting affected. Cheap quality?

[vinayan @UrVinayan]

@JALSINGHKUNTAL @TataMotors_Cars Did you get any resolution? I have been told to bear 75 perc of total cost as its over warranty period. Nonsence. For their cheap quality we need to bear the amount. That too gst additional.

[vinayan @UrVinayan]

@Dutta_Souravd I been into perfumes from around 2017. Its an asset to me though I can resale partials. I see that there is enormous craze from last couple of years or so, may be due to clones and some clones matching the originals closely. This makes interest in original as well.

[vinayan @UrVinayan]

@Vivek_Investor Too many dental clinics and eateries. New trends are cosmetology clinic and nail studio.

[Jason Smith - 上官杰文 @ShangguanJiewen]

🚨This will change the world!

🇨🇳China is now mass producing carbon fiber!!!

This may result in the ability to construct new types of bridges, skyscrapers, and even space elevators!!!🛰️

[vinayan @UrVinayan]

@narendramodi Thank you for the best budget since universe happened. Ready to suffer for another 10 years.

[Swapnil Kommawar @KommawarSwapnil]

Rare earths are not actually rare.
You can find them in the US, Australia, China… even India’s beaches.

The real problem isn’t finding them it’s refining them.
And that’s where China quietly built a monopoly.

A hidden story🧵

[Velina Tchakarova @vtchakarova]

🇨🇳 China just weaponized rare earths - again, but this time globally.

Beijing’s new MOFCOM Notice No. 61 (2025) goes far beyond past export bans. It now forces foreign companies to seek Chinese approval before re-exporting any product that contains even 0.1% China-origin rare earth materials or was made using Chinese refining or magnet-making technology.

This is China’s “foreign direct product rule” moment - mirroring Washington’s semiconductor controls but turning them inside out.

The move effectively gives Beijing a veto power over parts of the global chip, EV, and defense supply chains, including those operating outside its territory. Licenses will be denied for military or AI-related uses, notably 14nm chips, 256-layer memory, and military-grade AI systems.

The geopolitical logic is clear: rare earths are now strategic weapons in the tech war. China controls ~70% of refining capacity - and it’s using that dominance to remind Washington, Brussels, and Tokyo that no green or digital transition works without Chinese minerals.

Expect:
– Price surges and supply disruptions across EVs, turbines, and semiconductors.
– Accelerated Western “friend-shoring” efforts with Australia, Vietnam, and Canada.
– Rising BRICS+ leverage as China redirects raw materials to aligned partners.

In short, this isn’t just export control - it’s geo-economic deterrence.
Beijing just signaled: if you restrict our chips, we can restrict your magnets.

[Rajiv @Rajiv1841]

No one is talking about Sanju Samson.

Samson scored 100 in his last ODI game in south africa & won game for India single handedly. He is not even selected as backup in ODIs despite having average of 56.

Shame on dogla Gautam Gamhhir who used to hype him!

[Chandra R. Srikanth @chandrarsrikant]

Chaos, fear linger in TCS offices

Another employee who is still working with the company said that there's an “environment of fear” in his office, as one never knows “who gets the call next:.

“In my office, seniors are getting laid off, above 8-10 years of experience. There's a lot of fear, confusion and chaos going on in the office right now…Employees are suddenly getting emails to meet the HR, and immediately asked to leave. Some are getting about a week's notice period and others have to leave immediately,” he told Moneycontrol.

“Teams after teams are getting fully laid off. Some who are working even on the new technologies are getting impacted,” he added.

According to him, some of the “ongoing projects were impacted, clients are cost-cutting so now TCS requires fewer number of people on those projects and rest are getting laid off.”

Juniors continue to be allotted projects and are getting hired albeit at a slower pace, he said.

Moreover, some say that TCS has ramped up hiring this quarter. This implies that the number of employees terminated would not be reflected in the employee metrics for the second quarter ending September 30, 2025.

The Dreaded Fluidity List

Many affected employees told us that managers have a list with them, called the fluidity list, which has the names of people who would be laid off.

The fluidity list contains names which have nothing to do with the skills of employees or their years of experience. These are decided by account managers and are, sometimes, arbitrary in nature.

In July, when Moneycontrol exclusively reported the layoffs at TCS, the IT behemoth's Chief Executive Officer had said the pink slips were because of limited opportunities to redeploy employees amid a skill gap.

“This (layoffs) is not because of AI giving some 20 percent productivity gains. We are not doing that. This is driven by where there is a skill mismatch, or, where we think that we have not been able to deploy someone,” he had told Moneycontrol.

[Rajiv @Rajiv1841]

Sanju Samson smashed Rishad Hussain for 5 consecutive sixes last time but tonight dumb Gambhir sent everyone to bat but not Sanju Samson.

Instead of destroying Samson's career with this politics, just drop him. They even sent tuktuk Tilak ahead of Samson.

[Daniel Di Martino @DanielDiMartino]

SUMMARY OF H-1B EXECUTIVE ORDER

- ENTRY BAN: No H-1B visa holder may enter the United States beginning Sunday September 21st, including current visa holders, unles they pay $100K to enter.

- VISA FEE: New H-1B and H-1B extensions must pay 100K to be processed and 100K per year every year thereafter to maintain them.

This will effectively end the H-1B program completely. No one, even the highest paid at 500K will be paying an extra 100K a year to the government.

It will destroy the health care, higher education, and technology sectors as we know them if this isn't struck down in court.

[Gurmeet Chadha @connectgurmeet]

Request RBI to consider loan for buying a car in Bengaluru , mumbai and Gurugram as Housing loan.. it is largely an immovable asset.

[Sudhir Srinivasan @sudhirsrinivasn]

Many thoughts on #LokahChapter1Chandra:
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How well Lokah does transitions. A fridge door closing gracefully leads to another moment. A group of lights turn into ice cubes in a glass. And of course, right at the beginning, an absolutely cool Kalyani Priyadarshan leaps out of a building as the visuals blend into stylised comic-book action. I think I was sold on Lokah as early as this. The common assumption is that we yearn for incredible action and epic storytelling, but me? I’m perfectly happy with these tasteful cinematic touches. Of course, it helps when the film still opens with missiles raining down in a war sequence, giving the film the feel of a dystopian, big-budget international project.

Oh, and I said Kalyani Priyadarshan looks cool, didn't I? That’s an understatement. She’s an otherworldly, cyberpunk, avenging angel you can hardly take your eyes off. The hood that partly conceals her face (and her identity), the neon streaks in her hair, the intimidating quiet… she’s strong, feminine, heroic. Naslen, then, is the perfect foil: wide-eyed innocence that contrasts her brutality, humanity that contrasts her immortality.

Lokah builds mood beautifully. Urban roads in the night, neon street signs… even insignificant characters make an impact. That guy lounging in Sunny’s apartment. That boy who calls Sunny ‘uncle’. They all combine to make this world feel real, even as 'unreal' events unfold. I think this is why the best Marvel films work. In lives we cannot relate to, we see qualities we can relate to. Within Chandra, we see isolation, we see the quiet yearning for connection. Within Sunny, we see innocence and goodness. Within Sandy, we see the corruption of power and ego.

There’s a shot of bats swirling around little Chandra in a cave, a homage, I'd think, to Batman Begins. It's an art to do homages without losing your identity. Though neon-lit city streets evoke Western noir sensibilities, the film itself never feels like an imitation. Lokah balances beautifully by drawing from our folklore. A vampire may feel alien, but a yakshi doesn’t. The film also leans on science, weaving in mutations caused by viruses. Yes, echoes of X-Men emerge as we meet others with unique superpowers—but even here, the film reminds us that Chandra isn't a vampire; she's Neeli, Tovino isn't a sorcerer; he's chathan.

My favourite parts of the film are the interpersonal ones, those intimate moments where Chandra is finding her way in the new city, where the film feels less like a grand superhero epic and more like a character-driven mystery. Who is Chandra? Why is she buying blood? How is her hand unaffected by acid (a great scene, by the way)? What’s with that chilling daytime voice? How does she leap across heights and run so fast (the VFX is really good)? I loved these portions, and the humour too, like Sunny fainting again and again.

I do think Lokah lost me a bit when it sacrificed Chandra a bit in favour of cameo-driven pleasures (the Tovino action set-pieces are gorgeous, no doubt) and for world-expansion. That promise of intimacy moved to make way for something far bigger, and the joys suddenly weren’t as deep for me. The thrill of launching a new world is understandable, but I’d advise caution. As this film itself is about viruses, there’s a lesson right there: viruses can either choose potency or virality. If you spread yourself thin, you lose potency... and that’s why the common cold isn't as powerful.

So yes, I’d love for the Lokah universe to take it easy, to resist quick expansion. Let the epic clashes wait. Let them be the dessert, not the main course. Another origin story, perhaps? Because Lokah’s beauty, for me, is in how it plays out like an intimate procedural more than a fantasy film about vampires. Ultimately, it isn’t the epic action I remember, but that haunting image of Chandra roaming this city, a frightening shadow guarding its citizens.