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[Vinayak Kini @VinKini]

The best game invented when in school! The PenFight. #SweetSchoolMemories

[Dr. S. Jaishankar @DrSJaishankar]

India’s space ambitions soar to new heights!

The successful launch of #Vikram1, India’s first privately developed launch vehicle, by #SkyrootAirspace @SkyrootA today, is truly historic.

The 🚀 is a reflection of what can be achieved when innovation & entrepreneurial drive of 🇮🇳’s youth are backed by the bold reforms of PM @narendramodi’s vision.

#IndiaWithVikram1
#MissionAagaman
#JourneyToOrbit

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The West poured $50 billion into fast breeder nuclear reactors and abandoned every single one. India poured $900 million and just achieved criticality on the first commercially viable one outside Russia.

The US spent $15 billion. Gave up. Japan spent $12 billion. Their Monju prototype had one sodium fire in 1995 and never recovered. The UK spent $8 billion. Germany spent $6 billion. France, Italy, all walked away. Six of the richest nations on Earth concluded this technology was too hard and too expensive to pursue.

India started building in 2004 with an initial budget of $420 million. Twenty-two years, a dozen missed deadlines, and a cost doubling later, the Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor at Kalpakkam just sustained a controlled fission chain reaction. The reactor is now alive.

The reason India never quit is a constraint most people have never thought about. India has only 1-2% of the world's uranium reserves. For a country of 1.4 billion people trying to build energy independence, that's a death sentence if you're running conventional nuclear.

But India has 25% of the world's thorium. The single largest national reserve on Earth.

The problem: you can't just burn thorium the way you burn uranium. A physicist named Homi Bhabha designed a three-stage nuclear program in the 1950s specifically to solve this. Stage 1: burn natural uranium in heavy water reactors, collect plutonium as a byproduct. Stage 2: feed that plutonium into fast breeder reactors, where it breeds MORE plutonium AND converts thorium into fissile uranium-233. Stage 3: burn thorium directly at scale.

India just entered Stage 2. Seventy years after Bhabha drew it up on paper.

The math on the thorium endgame is wild. At current energy consumption rates, India's thorium reserves could power the country for over 700 years. Most nuclear nations are playing a uranium game with maybe 80-100 years of runway. India is playing a completely different game with a 7x longer fuel supply.

The West quit because uranium stayed cheap and sodium coolant is terrifying. It catches fire on contact with air. It explodes on contact with water. Russia's BN-600 had 27 sodium leaks and 14 sodium fires between 1980 and 1997. And Russia kept going anyway because Russia doesn't quit nuclear projects. India watched all of that and kept going too.

When you have 1% of the uranium but 25% of the thorium, the engineering difficulty stops being a reason to quit. It becomes the price of admission to a 700-year energy supply that nobody else can access.

[Dr Deepak Krishnamurthy @DrDeepakKrishn1]

1 hour of rain and the power has gone and come back 20 times. We talk of AI and what not. But basic technology/systems remain ancient and unreliable. #Bengaluru

[Civic Opposition of India @CivicOp_india]

Bengaluru, where infrastructure is in crisis while ministers chase controversies.

Here’s proof that nothing in #Bengaluru ever reaches completion.
This is the CDP (Comprehensive Development Plan) Road near Carmelaram — built to decongest the IT corridor.

👉 5 years since launch
👉 Just 1 km long
👉 Still incomplete and crumbling

The road lies in @MALimbavali’s constituency but is missing from the active work list of @GBAChiefComm, @DKShivakumar, and @siddaramaiah.

When even a 1 km stretch takes half a decade, imagine the fate of the rest of #BrandBengaluru.

[Bangalore Metro Updates @WF_Watcher]

A friend of mine who lives in Carmelaram sends his son to the same school and was in one of the buses right behind the one that toppled in the video. Thankfully, the kids had a lucky escape.

As always, politicians will only show up in Panathur and Balagere next year during the floods to make empty promises. Until then, it’s the public who continue to suffer because of the terrible roads.

[Eminent Intellectual @total_woke_]

These school girls exposed the state of Bengaluru roads. But don't worry if we just rename Bengaluru to Saint Mary City, the roads will heal ❤️

[Carmelaram Unite @carmelramUnite]

🚨 Doddakanahalli–Carmelaram–Gunjur IT Corridor🚨
Our kids are sending handwritten postcards to the Deputy CM @DKShivakumar sir about the broken roads, unsafe crossings & crumbling infrastructure they face every day! Everyday these causing increased health hazard and family time wastage!
We deserve safe streets, not daily obstacles!
•🚧 Gear Road, Ivy Park Road & Carmelaram Railway Station Road, Gunjur club Road are in horrible condition
•🚦 Incomplete 100 FT Road is harming thousands of school children, IT professionals with dust, mud, a traffic bottleneck, causing jams & accidents.
•🚉 No Carmelaram Rail Overbridge (RoB) — unsafe crossings & daily chaos.
•🛣 CDP roads remain unfinished or poorly maintained
#Hope #Bengaluru #Infrastructure #CitizenVoice @siddaramaiah @osd_cmkarnataka @BBMPCOMM @MALimbavali @PCMohanMP @PriyankKharge @MTF_Mobility @rk_misra @RevathyAshok @TVMohandasPai @kiranshaw @kdevforum @WFRising @BangaloreMirror @timesofindia @Hamsaa04 @vindhya_pabolu @ChristinMP_ @RisingVarthur @bengalurupost1 @CivicOp_india @east_bengaluru @naveenmzs @DeepakBopanna @AdityaBharadwaj @the_hindu @DeccanHerald @NewIndianXpress @ArunDev1 @Chethan_Dash @Namma_Bengaluru @BMTC_BENGALURU @BBMPofficial
We deserve safe streets, not daily struggle! 🙏🙏🙏

[Vinayak Kini @VinKini]

RCB RCB RCB🎉🎉♥️

[Gagandeep.B @deepubangaradka]

DR Anil S , Puttur City Hospital has made C-Section for my wife on 27-11-2024 & discharged on 2-12-2024. But after on week she got high fever of 104* for 3-4 days & immediately approached above Doctor & hospital , he gave some tablets &

[carmelaramunites @carmelaramunite]

Our Chikkabellandur CDP road needs attention in terms widening, proper motorable road , garbage pick up @BBMPCOMM @BBMPAdmn @bbmpcommr @MALimbavali @ArvindLBJP

[Vinayak Kini @VinKini]

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[carmelaramunites @carmelaramunite]

@TOIBengaluru @CMofKarnataka @DKShivakumar @drmsbc @SWRRLY @osd_cmkarnataka @bbmpcommr @BBMPCOMM @MALimbavali All pls read this news and reminding you to perform your duty.

[ChristinMathewPhilip @ChristinMP_]

The long-pending Carmelaram ROB project has stalled due to BBMP's failure to hand over the land.

@SWRRLY has sent sixth reminder letter to BBMP regarding the delay, but there has been no response from the civic body.

#BrandBengaluru @DKShivakumar @BBMPCOMM @BBMPAdmn

[The Cine Reality @TheCineReality]

RCB fans after RCB qualifies for Playoffs 😭😂
#RCBvsCSK

[Rahul ☀️ @rdas121]

@ProductHunt https://t.co/7KZrXaLh2s

This one! Clean and minimal.

[Vinayak Kini @VinKini]

@dpkBopanna @TimesNow Stay safe and take precautions Deepak.

[Nithin Kamath @Nithin0dha]

Seema, my wife, was diagnosed with breast cancer last Nov. She decided to share her journey & learnings till now to create awareness on cancer & the importance of regular health checkups, health insurance & overall health & well being.
Happy Women's Day.
https://t.co/09hsHMDPWp

[Vinayak Kini @VinKini]

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[Vinayak Kini @VinKini]

@deebellare Those were the good old days! Paytm folks made us work hard but then we partied harder as well.

Only thing we missed out on was getting some Paytm shares/esops back then since we were not directly associated with the company.

[Eternal fool 🤡 @passivefool]

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