Niranjan

आग्निर्मे वाछि श्रितः । उत्तिष्ट भारत ।

[Niranjan @_niranjanp]

Why do countries go to War.

An introduction to International Relations
https://t.co/iWMK8XGiBp

[Dr. Mrunal Patel (Ph.D.) @Mrunal_Patel]

हाँ क्योंकि whatsapp, reddit, discord, facebook, आदि से paper-leak नहीं हो सकता। केवल telegram से ही पेपर लीक हो सकता है! #NEET

[Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) @internetfreedom]

Statement : Shutting down Telegram is a band aid solution and is a disproportionate answer to exam fraud

The Internet Freedom Foundation objects to the directions announced today in the National Testing Agency's press release on action against the Telegram platform. On the NTA's recommendation, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has, under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act, 2000, restricted access to the whole of Telegram in India until 22 June 2026, and has separately ordered the platform to switch off message-editing for every Indian user until 30 June 2026. This is a blunt, nationwide measure aimed at the conduct of rampant fraud rackets, and on the Government's own admission is constitutionally incompatible.

At the outset it is important to note that Section 69A and the Blocking Rules of 2009 framed under it allow the Government to block access to specific “information” on a computer resource. They do not extend to switching off an entire intermediary, still less to ordering a company to redesign its product by removing a feature for a whole country. In Shreya Singhal v Union of India, the Supreme Court upheld Section 69A because it is narrow and hedged with procedural safeguards. Reading it to authorise shutting down a platform that lakhs use is an overbroad restriction by the NTAs own admission. For the message-editing direction the release identifies no source of power at all. If one exists, the order must say so.

The release argues against itself

A restriction on access has to be the least intrusive measure that achieves its aim as per the constitutional test of proportionality laid down in Justice K.S. Puttaswamy v. Union of India (2017) and applied in Anuradha Bhasin v. Union of India (2020). The NTA's own narration shows the block fails its nodal agency, the release says, “has secured the prompt take-down of a substantial number of Telegram channels, groups and bots”, and this targeted work “is the reason the harm caused by these rackets has been contained to the extent it has”. If channel level takedown contained the harm, the case for a blanket block collapses and hence the Government has reached for a heavier tool while conceding that a lighter one was working. The collateral cost sits on the record too as noted in the press release. The block, the NTA accepts, “affects lakhs of citizens who use the Telegram platform for legitimate personal, educational, professional and informational purposes”. The release also says there is "no such paper available outside the secured examination chain" and that “the security of the examination is unaffected by the action taken”. If the exam is secure and no leak exists, what is being suppressed is rumour, and rumour cannot justify closing a platform when specific blocking and criminal prosecution remain available.

Students use of Telegram

The block of telegram is reactive and ineffective and will punish ordinary users instead of addressing the systemic source of exam leaks. This blocking comes in the final days of NEET preparation, when thousands of students depend on Telegram for study groups, doubt-clearing, and shared resources. Also, it is important to consider that the source of exam papers leak will occur from inside the system, among insiders and across the printing and logistics chain, with the platform being the most downstream channel for distribution. Hence, switching off Telegram, is merely a deflection from the repeated failures that will continue while media attention is directed towards this Telegram ban.

Lack of transparency

At present only a press release from the NTA has been provided, which recommended the block but the reasoned order of MeitY, the authority that issued it, has not been released. The Anuradha Bhasin decision requires that orders restricting access be published so they can be tested in court. Here the order, and the reasoning of the committee behind it, stay out of view, and we do not know whether Telegram was heard at all. An announcement of a block is no substitute for an order the affected party can challenge.
Blunt to enforce and very easy to evade
Usually, app-level blocks run through IS-level DNS and IP filtering. They are over inclusive, sweeping in lawful use, yet simple to evade as a determined exam leak racket moves to a VPN or a mirror within minutes while ordinary users lose the service for a week.

We ask the Government to:

1) Publish the MeitY Section 69A order and the NTA recommendation behind it, with reasons;
2) State the legal basis for the message editing direction, or withdraw it;
3) Confirm whether Telegram was given a hearing under the Blocking Rules, and place the committee's record before any court that hears a challenge; and
4) Lift the platform-wide restriction and rely on the targeted takedowns the NTA itself credits with containing the harm.

We emphasise that the NEET (UG) 2026 re-examination is worth protecting and it concerns the future of lakhs of aspirants. It requires securing the entire process of examination rather than reaching for purported band aid solutions that instead cause more harm. The State cannot switch off a service used by lakhs to answer the wrongdoing of a few, and cannot do it through an order no one affected is allowed to read. On its own facts, the Government has done both.

New Delhi, 16 June 2026.

[ElBuni @therealbuni]

Vietnam presento su nueva arma anti drones

6 fusiles ak-47 (modelo chino) pegados a un marco de metal y disparando al mismo tiempo

No se si funcionará pero bueno el que le gano a estados unidos y a china pelea como quiere

[Idrees Ali @idreesali114]

U.S. Defense Secretary Hegseth confirms this, adding it was sunk by a U.S. submarine.

[Hûrin @Hurin92]

2025 Red Sword mil excercise was the largest yet..

WTC organized drills involved 8 Air Brigades and >200 Aircraft, Dingxin alone had >100 on its massive northern 4km tarmac 👀

Not televised either unlike those hyped strait ones

[shreedhar singh @shreedharsingh9]

In 2016, GTRE had requested ₹1600 crore for a high-altitude engine test facility in Andhra Pradesh, but it has not yet been approved.

[Jagriti Chandra @jagritichandra]

DGCA has issued an advisory to airlines asking them to avoid altitudes and regions affected due to the volcanic ash after Ethiopia’s Hayli Gubbin eruption on Sunday. Airports told to inspect runways for contamination and suspend operations if needed. Impact on air travel likely

[IndiaMetSky Weather @indiametsky]

Ash cloud moving towards North India ⚠️
A large ash plume can be seen stretching from #HayliGubbi Volcano region upto #Gujarat. The eruption has stopped ever since the eruption but this Ash plume has been sent up into the atmosphere which is moving at an speed of 100-120km/h toward North India. This is between 15-25,000 upto 45,000 feet up in the sky and contains mostly Volcanic Ash, Sulphur dioxide and some small particles of glass/rock which will make the sky appear darker and impact Air traffic and air route which will bring delays and longer travel.

•The Ash cloud is about to enter #Gujarat (West side) and move towards #Rajasthan NW #Maharastra, #Delhi, #Haryana and #Punjab by 10pm and later it will impact Himalayas and other regions.
•It will make sky appear darker and hazier than usual and people may send us pics of the sky if possible.

[Arun Golaya @Arun_Golaya]

Lots of thoughts came to mind when I saw this. Not sure if I should say all of them publicly, but can’t help saying the main ones (I say this as someone who handled innovation for the Navy under #NIIO and is involved with multiple startups post premature retirement). Let’s debate:-

1) Cost competitiveness is a given in a system built around ‘L1’. The profit margins are laser thin. This price too is further bargained down by the CNC. Many people complain that Indian firms do not invest much in R&D. Time we examined the reasons for that as well. Where is the ‘surplus’ for R&D?

2) When the users are “left in the lurch”, the startups are too! Can’t be a us versus them. Have to work together…succeed together - and yes - fail together. If a project ‘fails’, the users are justifiably disappointed. The startup founder may actually go bankrupt. He / She has more at stake.

3) The difference between ‘innovation’ and ‘indigenisation’ must be understood by everyone…including the users. In a novel product, in cutting edge technology, in R&D…there WILL be time delays and failures. That is the nature of the beast. “Ginti-se” Innovation does not work. The first flight by the Wright brothers was repeatedly delayed due to props getting sheared and non availability of a light-weight engine. When it *did* take off, the ‘flight’ lasted 3 seconds! If it was R&D funded by the Indian ‘taxpayers money’, the project would have possibly been foreclosed there itself.

4) Speaking of the Wright brothers, they made bicycles before they made planes. Even the bicycles they made were mostly “assembled” with not a single part being *manufactured* by them. The design was theirs. IP matters.

In one conference (I was serving then) someone from the MoD said (and I quote), “the industry must pull up its socks”. My retort there itself was that our defence industry is in a very nascent stage. They are taking baby steps. When a child is small the parents don’t tell them to pull up the socks but actually make them wear the socks…till they learn to do so themselves.

The industry needs handholding and support. Not criticism. The odds are stacked against them as it is.

My view. I may be wrong.

[Indian Air Force @IAF_MCC]

INDIA–US AIR EXERCISE

The Indian Air Force and United States Air Force are engaged in a bilateral exercise from 10–13 Nov 25, aimed at fostering mutual learning and enhancing interoperability.
USAF is participating with the B-1B Lancer.

#IAF #USAF #Interoperability #StrengthInPartnership

@DefenceMinIndia
@SpokespersonMoD
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@indiannavy
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@CareerinIAF
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[OpenAI @OpenAI]

Introducing IndQA — a new benchmark that evaluates how well AI systems understand Indian languages and everyday cultural context.

https://t.co/MWbRDFQQup

[Flightradar24 @flightradar24]

Both NOAA and USAF hurricane hunter have now had to return early from missions in #Melissa due to turbulence over the past few days. That says volumes about the intensity of this storm. https://t.co/Eu0cbTh876

[Dr. Ajayshree Singh Sambyal @AjayshreeSamby3]

Belt treatment �

[Conflict Radar @Conflict_Radar]

#UPDATE An Indian-owned LNG ship hit by "unknown projectile"

[Noam Raydan @NoamRaydan]

*ATTENTION*
1/ Today's incident in the Gulf of Aden, and if it indeed involved Cameroon-flagged LPG tanker (IMO 9014432), then I doubt the Houthis were behind it. If the #Houthis claim responsibility, I will come back here & say so, adding that I was wrong.
#Shipping #OOTT

[TankerTrackers.com, Inc. @TankerTrackers]

The LPG tanker FALCON (9014432), which caught fire today in the Gulf of Aden, was laden with Iranian LPG from Assaluyeh after loading there on 2025-09-25. She was most likely heading to Ras Isa, Yemen; to supply the Houthis. This vessel was detained in January 2025 in Istanbul for 13 deficiencies. The Indian-owned, Cameroon-flagged tanker is 31 years old and 25/26 crew are accounted for. One person is still missing. No known insurer and she isn't blacklisted by any government. #OOTT

[Akshit Soni @akshitsoni_]

Only selected 30 law school students can apply.

[Niranjan @_niranjanp]

@SirJambavan https://t.co/GJa1nnUXRG