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[Israel Foreign Ministry @IsraelMFA]

This man is a hero.

Captain Smit Machchhar, the Indian captain of flydubai Flight 1073, fought back after being stabbed in the cockpit.

Despite being severely injured, he managed to unlock the cockpit door - allowing Israeli passengers and the Emirati crew to intervene and save all the passengers.

Together, their extraordinary courage saved 174 lives.

Indian. Israeli. Emirati.

Different nationalities. One extraordinary act of courage. 🇮🇳🇮🇱🇦🇪

We wish Captain Machchhar a full and speedy recovery.

[Benjamin Netanyahu - בנימין נתניהו @netanyahu]

My salute to the Indian pilot Captain Smit Machchhar for his extraordinary bravery.

Despite being stabbed and seriously injured, he fought back, resisted, opened the cockpit door, and enabled passengers and crew to overpower the attacker — preventing a catastrophic mid-air disaster.

He saved the lives of 174 people, including Israeli citizens and other nationals.

I wish Captain Machchhar a speedy and full recovery.

He is a true hero.

[Deepinder Goyal @deepigoyal]

India has always idolised actors and cricketers. The last few years, entrepreneurs and founders have also gotten mobbed at the airports. How I wish we started celebrating scientists as much as we celebrate actors, cricketers, and founders.

On that note, meet the Temple scientists behind Brain Flow: Dr. Divya Gulati (IISc), Dr. Sanchit Gupta (IISc), Dr. Yukti Chopra (SISSA Trieste), and Nitish Kumar (IIT Bombay).

This team led, built, and validated the first continuous, wearable measurement of blood flow to the brain.

Your brain uses 20% of your blood supply. It controls your hormones, sleep, immunity, and repair. That supply drops every year as you age, and you have never measured it. Even hospitals can only capture a single snapshot.

Measuring and maintaining brain flow could be one of the most important health and longevity interventions of our time.

At Temple, we have some of the best minds in the country, working on the one problem that sits upstream of every other: extending healthy human life.

I am proud of our team, and looking forward to a lot of firsts and breakthroughs in the future.

[Alok Sharma @ThusSpokeDharma]

Pitṛ Pakṣa is not a carnival, and Gayā is not an entertainment venue.

The śāstric tradition is remarkably consistent about the atmosphere of Pitṛ-kārya.

Ṛgveda 10.15 approaches the Pitṛs through yajña, āvāhana, havis and svadhā.

Manusmṛti 3.229-235 requires restraint, purity, freedom from anger and absence of haste. Manu 3.232 specifically says that during Pitṛ-kārya one should hear Veda, Dharmaśāstra, Itihāsa, Purāṇa and sacred texts.

Āśvalāyana Gṛhyasūtra prescribes sacred Vedic verses during the rite.

Kātyāyana prescribes Gāyatrī, Pitṛ-mantras, Rakṣoghna mantras and Puruṣasūkta.

Baudhāyana prescribes Sāman, Yajuṣ with svadhā and Madhu-ṛks.

Padma Purāṇa prescribes Veda, Purāṇa and hymns to Brahmā, Viṣṇu, Sūrya and Rudra.

Yama and Pracetas likewise prescribe Vedic and Dharmaśāstric recitation during Śrāddha.

Viṣṇu Purāṇa is explicit: the Śrāddha-kartā must avoid "anger, wandering about and haste."

The broader Śrāddha tradition also demands śauca, saṃyama, controlled speech, bhakti and inward concentration.

And Gayā is the great Pitṛ-kṣetra of Phalgu, Viṣṇupada and Piṇḍadāna.

The objection here is that when the śāstras prescribe Vedic recitation, restraint, purity, sacred silence, Pitṛ-mantras and concentrated Śrāddha, turning Pitṛ Pakṣa into a laser-light and music spectacle completely reverses the intended atmosphere.

Modern facilities, cleanliness, security and proper lighting are welcome.

Carnivalisation of a Pitṛ-tīrtha is not.

[MantraYodha @Victorytornado]

@devasissarangi @BBSRBuzz Please do.

[Devasis Sarangi 🚴‍♂️𝕏 @devasissarangi]

#DidYouKnow
Piply | Pipilipatnam (Baliapal) mouth of Subernarekha river (Kirtania Port) #Odisha was 1st Dutch East India Company (VOC) trading post in Bengal region Estd @ 1627

Arakanese Pirates selling Bengali slaves to Dutch - Jan 1663 at Pipalipatanam
Credit: J. Meurs

[Carl Pei @getpeid]

https://t.co/fgiloX1pCi

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

BREAKING NEWS: I am pleased to announce that the United States of America has entered into an Agreement with The Kingdom of Denmark, and Greenland, that gives the United States permanent control over security, and all other needs, in Greenland, completely addressing ALL of our many U.S. concerns. There will be NO COST to the United States! At my direction, we worked with representatives of Denmark and Greenland to guarantee that the United States will FOREVER have the complete ability to do what is necessary in Greenland in order to secure and defend the security of Greenland, and the United States of America. Additionally, from now on, no U.S. adversary can EVER have a base in Greenland, have a military presence in Greenland, or make sensitive investments in Greenland, without our express written approval. For over 100 years, Presidents have known the strategic importance of Greenland, but NONE of them were able to do anything about it. I am proud to be the President that permanently and conclusively addressed this very important situation. This is an “Infinite Life” Agreement, there is no end! We are very honored and proud of what has just taken place, and everything agreed to today will be cherished by the American People. We will immediately begin the process of developing a large Military presence in the appropriate part of Greenland, of which there are many. We will work with the people of Greenland in its development and construction. This solution is a great one for the United States of America, Denmark, Greenland, and all of our Allies. We look forward to working with the wonderful people of Denmark and Greenland toward a magnificent future with respect to this large, and highly strategic, parcel of land. We will be very protective of it! This is a dream come true for the United States of America, one that is very important, historic, and special. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP

[Shubham Mishra @brahma_4u]

One interesting thing I learnt recently,

So India runs about 1.5 Cr+ transformers.

Around the world, approx.. 1-2 % of them die annually

Indian state utilities have seen 10-15 % fail for over ten years,

with some rural spots reaching 20%.

So a lot of " light gayi" complaints don't mean there was no power.

The power was there.

The box that converts it got FRIED.

Every new split AC on the street gets hooked up to whatever phase is easiest.

This means one winding carries the whole lane while the other two just sit there.

Insulation ages about twice as fast for every 6°C hotter it gets.

That's how a transformer meant to last 25-30 years needs fixing in three.

Here's what we don't hear.

RDSS has approved smart meters for about 52 lakh transformers.

That's roughly a third.

The rest will keep failing the old way: no one sees the load until the oil's already burned out.

We keep adding gigawatts and celebrate it,

But the blackout you actually notice sometimes, usually starts at your street's end.

[Sidhant Sibal @sidhant]

Just In:

Even under "extreme provocation" by Pakistan side the Indian navy captain exercised "extreme restraint" by taking actions to prevent a "severe accident from taking place which could have caused serious loss of lives and damage", Indian Authorities tell @WIONews

[MantraYodha @Victorytornado]

@thekaipullai Taste depends on two things. Brix - Sugar Content. GV - Gas Volume - Amount of CO2 added into final liquid. The GV in gas, PET, and Can is different. Glass is not permeable. PET is permeable ( So loss of gas with time) . In Can the GV is less. So taste slightly different.

[Diogo Almeida @CompleteSkeptic]

After co-inventing ChatGPT, I kept asking myself: why have superhuman chat models not led to AGI?

I’ve spent the last 2 years in stealth building a new way to train models (RLCD), and a new type of frontier AI model that we are releasing today: Jev

• 20-200x faster
• 40-400x cheaper (w/ output tokens free)
• Frontier composable intelligence optimized for decisions

AFAICT the shortest path to AI-based economic revolution

[Parimal @Fintech03]

The Festival Everyone Watches, Rooted in a Real Wind Calculation Sailors Once Had to Get Right!

Every year, on the full moon night of the Hindu month of Kartik, Oct / Nov, 1000s of people gather on the banks of the Mahanadi river in Cuttack, Odisha, and float tiny handmade boats onto the water.

Paper, bamboo sticks, dried banana bark, bits of cork.

It is called Boita Bandana, and the larger fair around it, Bali Yatra, has grown into one of the largest open-air fairs in Asia.

Most people watching it know it is a beautiful commemoration of ancestors who sailed to distant lands.

Fewer people know that the date itself is not arbitrary...

It sits at the exact start of a real seasonal wind window ancient sailors depended on, and getting that timing right was genuinely a matter of survival.

Sailors from ancient Kalinga, Modern Odisha historical writing call them Sadhaba, merchant-mariners, often using the epithet Kalinga Sahasika, "the daring ones", ran a real, working maritime trade network connecting the east coast of India to Sri Lanka, Burma, the Malay Peninsula, Java, Sumatra, and Bali, with maritime activity along this coast attested from the last centuries BCE into the early centuries CE.

The Greco-Roman geographer Ptolemy, writing his Geography in the 2nd century CE, lists a place on this coast called Paloura, describing it as a point of departure for ships sailing toward "Khryse", the "Golden" lands, generally understood as Southeast Asia.

Most scholars identify this Paloura with Palur on the Odisha coast, independent non-Indian textual evidence that ships were genuinely setting out for Southeast Asia from precisely this stretch of coastline.

The entire round trip depended on correctly reading and timing 2 opposite seasonal wind systems.

From roughly late Oct through Feb, the northeast monsoon blows steadily toward Southeast Asia, a window that begins right around the time the southwest monsoon withdraws from this coast, which is exactly why Kartik Purnima sits where it does, at that hinge point, rather than on some unrelated date.

So that is when ships departed the east coast of India, riding that wind toward Sri Lanka and onward to Java, Sumatra, and Bali.

Then, once trade was done, sailors could not simply turn around and sail back the way they came, the wind would not allow it.

They had to wait, sometimes for months, until the southwest monsoon reversed direction from roughly June to Sep, which is precisely the wind system that would carry them home again.

That is a calculated, seasonal logistics operation, get the outbound timing wrong and you either cannot leave port at all, or you sail straight into the wrong wind, in waters that are still genuinely cyclone-prone this time of year.

This was empirical seamanship, built and passed down through generations of practical experience rather than any written meteorological theory, and the broad pattern is well attested across the historical record, even if no source documents the outcome of every single individual voyage.

Sailors from this coast were doing this well before the magnetic compass became standard maritime technology in this part of the world.

Every year, when people in Cuttack light a small candle and float a tiny paper boat down the Mahanadi on that specific full-moon night, they are commemorating real ancestors who made a real, dangerous, 1000s of KMs journey and the date they have chosen to do it on is not sentimental guesswork.

It sits at the exact seasonal hinge point when the northeast monsoon historically made that outbound voyage possible.

[Murali Srinivasa @MuraliSrinivasa]

Proud of our team, we have succesfully produced high density multi layer board in our factory.

Photos of the inner layer thin core material.

We are constantly working on new process and doing R&D. One of the days where i am really happy about our progress.

We will work hard and accelerate electronics manufacturing in 🇮🇳

#JaiHind

[void @wosgnn]

Whats the point dedicated freight Corridor.

Whether you package comes Tommorow or 3 days after....what did you really achieve by getting your toothbrush 3 days earlier...such high speed delivery of items will only increase the spending of poor people making them poorer

Modi is literally making adani and ambani more rich by this.... just like british which made railways which made them rich not the people of india.

But tum log Kahan samjhoge...uske liye Harvard me pdhna hota hai.😒

We miss you Manmohan ji 💔

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

We’re sharing a solution to the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize Problem, one of the deepest problems at the frontier of mathematics.

The proof was produced by a group of agents, using an OpenAI next-generation model significantly more capable than GPT-6 Astra.

The problem concerns whether the description of smooth three-dimensional fluid motion modeled by the Navier-Stokes equations can break down. It has remained unresolved for roughly 90 years.

[Viraj Raundal @virajraundal8]

For this Ashwini Vaishnaw would've been featured everywhere from BBC to Faye D'Souza if he was Chinese or Vietnamese.

Pretty much every Indian would've gone on a self-hating tirade about how our ministers will never be this good but now that we have him, no one gives a fuck :)

[Viraj Raundal @virajraundal8]

This is a massive win that everyone will sadly simply forget in a few years and most people won't even give a fuck today either.

[Shadayi- @Shadaayi]

Iske diye hue link par click karo😂😂😂

Bc betting website ka link daal diya in chutiyo ne 😂