Abhishek N.Chinnappa

Coffee planter moonlighting as a wire photojournalist. Formerly @reuters

[Abhishek N.Chinnappa @abhichinnappa]

An extraordinary painting depicting a vivid artistic representation of the fabled Battle of Pollilur in 1780 of Tipu Sultan’s victory over the British East India Company troops has been sold at auction by Sotheby's for £630,000. Image: @GettyImages @Sothebys

[Joshua Landis @joshua_landis]

Saeed Kamal Dehghan confesses that he made up an entire article about Iran stoning stoning adulterers.

"In the summer of 2010, a year after the infamous ‘Green Movement’ riots in Iran, several articles suddenly appeared

One was an article by The Guardian, describing a shocking incident involving the practice of stoning adulterers, which has not taken place in Iran for decades.The author has now come out and admitted that the entire article was fabricated, from beginning to end. Now imagine how many more articles are simply made up.

What makes it even funnier is that the author was named 2010 Journalist of the Year in the UK"

[Agnes Callamard @AgnesCallamard]

Formidable photo du reporter palestinien Jehad Alshrafi censurée au festival d'images du sport à Deauville.

La montrer partout est un acte de resistance, contre la censure, contre la tentative d’effacer la realite du genocide de Gaza.

Et pourquoi pas, un acte de resistance pour le sport et le Foot aussi! Le beau, le vrai, celui qui repose sur des valeurs fondamentales du Respect, de la Tolerance, de la Solidarite, de l’Engagement de soi.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: Dolly Parton, the country singer, songwriter, entertainer and entrepreneur known for her outsize persona and prodigious vision and talent that placed her in a class by herself, has died at 80. https://t.co/8PaJpssLtb

[The Hindu @the_hindu]

JUST IN | SC orders no coercive action against journalist #AbhishekUpadhyay, who outed the #Ramtemple donation misappropriation. Directs the UP Police to give him copies of the FIR and CCTV coverage so that he can challenge the allegations in court. The court has sought a compliance report from the Ghaziabad Police Commissioner. Lists the case again on September 7.

- @kdrajagopal reports

[churumuri @churumuri]

Pastors in Mumbai are asking worshippers to sign a declaration---with their Aadhaar/PAN--that they are attending church on their own free will.

The aim is to steer clear of Maharashtra's anti-conversion law. Hopefully, the world is watching India's slide into the abyss. @IndianExpress

[Anna @Elipho2022]

"Meow Fuji" by Lim Heng Swee

[World Athletics @WorldAthletics]

BACK WITH KEJELCHA 🫨

Former world record-holder Yomif Kejelcha reclaims the half marathon world record* from Jacob Kiplimo, clocking 56:51* in Buenos Aires 💪

That’s 29 seconds off the previous mark 💥

World record flash 🔗 https://t.co/TDldUcY7vx

*Pending ratification procedures

[Chris Chavez @ChrisChavez]

🚨 WORLD RECORD 🚨

🇪🇹 Yomif Kejelcha breaks the half marathon WORLD RECORD in 56:51 at the Buenos Aires Half Marathon.

[Rishabh Bhatnagar @Rish_Bhat]

🚨 BREAKING

Tatas have transferred ownership of Jamshedpur FC to Churchill Brothers FC for Rs 100

Transfer in accordance with AIFF rules

Churchill Brothers to take over contracts of all JFC players

Churchill Brothers to get JFC's ISL sporting licence!

#indianfootball #ISL

[Bloomberg @business]

India replaces Indonesia as Asia’s least-preferred stock market in a survey of fund managers by Bank of America https://t.co/90nelfg1ql

[International Cyber Digest @IntCyberDigest]

‼️ BREAKING: Journalists hid an Airtag in a rare book shipment and confirmed Amazon to be one of the buyers behind the bulk orders destroying rare-books to feed their AI.

They tracked it to Amazon's LAS8 warehouse in Las Vegas, home to VGT3 (see logo below), a scanning operation feeding Amazon's AI training data, where workers say they cut the bindings off books to scan them faster.

Amazon won't say why the books are destroyed.

[65thakursahab @65thakursahab]

Hindu Mahasabha wanted Britain to reoccupy India...

They delivered a secret letter asking for the same in 1951, just before the 1952 election.

Declassified records of the British Archives tell us, this story of betrayal.

https://t.co/rskh4v7uw7

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

When India accidentally wiped out its vultures, half a million people died in five years.

The bird doing zoomies in this video runs the most extreme digestive system in the animal kingdom. Vulture stomach acid sits near pH 1, strong enough to destroy anthrax, rabies, and botulism in the carcasses they eat. A flock strips a cow to bone in about 45 minutes.

India had 50 million of them. Free sanitation at national scale, in a country where religious custom means most cattle die natural deaths and every dead cow becomes a carcass someone has to deal with.

Then the patent on diclofenac expired in 1994. Farmers started using the cheap painkiller on livestock. Trace amounts left in a carcass cause kidney failure in vultures. Within a decade, 50 million birds fell to a few thousand. The fastest collapse of any bird species since the passenger pigeon.

The carcasses didn't disappear. Feral dogs took the vultures' place and brought rabies with them. Rotting remains leached into waterways. In districts where vultures once thrived, human death rates rose more than 4 percent. Economists at Chicago and Warwick put the toll at 100,000 extra deaths a year and $69 billion in annual damages.

So yes, the goofy bird sprinting down the walkway is adorable. It's also a disease firewall that evolution spent millions of years building and one generic painkiller nearly erased in ten.

[Dan Qayyum @DanQayyum]

A Pakistani content creator offered ordinary Pakistanis a wad of cash to burn the Indian flag.

Every single person refuses.

You can manufacture outrage. You can monetize hatred. But sometimes ordinary people remind you that patriotism does not require dehumanising your neighbour.

That is the Pakistan I recognise.

[Bangladesh Cricket @BCBtigers]

Historic Win in Darwin! 🇧🇩🔥 Bangladesh beat Australia by 9 wickets to seal a memorable victory in the 1st Test! 🏏🏆

#Bangladesh #Tigers #BANvAUS #Cricket

[Ian Raphael Bishop @irbishi]

Momentous achievement for Bangladesh Cricket, and the people of Bangladesh. Surely they’re deserving of their flowers and just recognition now from those from whom it has previously been too sparse. Many contributors, Mehidy, Tanzid etc. But Hasan Mahmud in particular has been a very good line bowler for several years now when fully healthy, and possesses a lovely efficient, upright action. Happy for coach Phil Simmons and his squad. #EXCELLENT 🇧🇩 🇧🇩.

[Whispers of GOD 🙏🙏🙏 @whisperofgod12]

दूरदर्शन का "एक सुर," जिसे इसकी शुरुआती पंक्ति "मिले सुर मेरा तुम्हारा" के कारण व्यापक रूप से याद किया जाता है, 1988 में प्रसारित होने पर भारतीय टेलीविजन के सबसे महत्वाकांक्षी एकीकरण अभियानों में से एक था। लोक सेवा संचार परिषद द्वारा सूचना एवं प्रसारण मंत्रालय के साथ साझेदारी में कमीशन की गई यह फिल्म भारत की भाषाई और सांस्कृतिक रूप से विविध जनसंख्या के बीच राष्ट्रीय एकता को बढ़ावा देने के उद्देश्य से बनाई गई थी, और इसका प्रथम प्रसारण स्वतंत्रता दिवस पर हुआ।

[Sheldrick Wildlife Trust @SheldrickTrust]

This is what committed conservation achieves: flourishing elephant populations, living wild and free.

Five years ago, African elephants were reclassified as endangered. Here in Tsavo, Kenya’s largest national park, the story is different. Thanks to dedicated protection and vast wild spaces, elephant populations are growing.

We are proud to work alongside the Kenya Wildlife Service and conservation partners to protect landscapes and the giants who call them home. This includes daily anti-poaching and aerial patrols, human-wildlife conflict mitigation, drought alleviation, veterinary treatments, and emergency response and rescue.

One of five examples of elephant conservation in action: https://t.co/QlTGqOXg86

[Reuters @Reuters]

Exclusive: Hours after India made public assurances last week that its ethanol-blended petrol was safe, the country's main auto lobby withdrew a complaint about fuel contamination it had sent to the government a week earlier. The group said some figures needed more checks.

But separate communications between industry executives, reviewed by Reuters, showed that in the preceding days, top automakers Maruti Suzuki, Tata Motors and Mahindra discussed their concerns about contamination of petrol blended with 20% ethanol, called E20.

The carmakers' emails show for the first time how they are privately worried about contaminants in E20, like chloride and moisture, which they say are hurting vehicles, even as they publicly back the government's rollout of the fuel https://t.co/EMEBwbJeF1

[Sukhada @appadappajappa]

What an image.