Anir Von

Particle physicist at @CERN and AMS02/@Space_Station. Software. Infrastructure. International relations. Satellite imagery. League of Legends. @iitroorkee 2013.

[Anir Von @anir1uph]

Very powerful words.

[Rajat Pandit @IamRajat_Pandit]

Justice, Liberty, Equality & Fraternity for All! #HappyRepublicDay

[Jeffrey J. Hall 🇯🇵🇺🇸 @mrjeffu]

Update: the company apologized for telling a 22-year-old employee to go back inside of a Kumamoto shopping mall to put money into their shop's safe.
Returning to the shop caused her to be die in a post-earthquake gas explosion.

[Alpha Defense™🇮🇳 @alpha_defense]

Range Extended :)

[Sindhu Hariharan @SindhuHarih]

.@AgnikulCosmos is getting ready for Mission 2, where they will not just place a commercial payload in orbit but also attempt to recover the rocket’s lower stage for reuse. 

The architecture for the reusable launch vehicle is almost frozen, Srinath Ravichandran, co-founder and CEO, AgniKul Cosmos says. “All the pieces of the tech needed for reusability are in place; we will have to now sequence them exactly.”

The company is eyeing an early-2027 timeline for lift off

Founders @srinathr155 and @moin_spm, who patiently let us tour their facilities, say that the best part about cracking reusability will be decoupling of rocket production capacity and launch cadence

Online , video and print article today in @businessline — kudos to our digital team @SiDmAtz

YouTube : https://t.co/L5Eqk9Eqyu

Web: https://t.co/dqjmTqKylh

[Prasanna Viswanathan @prasannavishy]

India Inc.’s capex cycle is gathering real momentum. Corporate credit is growing at nearly 20%, but unlike previous cycles, borrowing is funding new factories, data centres, warehouses, renewable energy, steel, automobiles and manufacturing capacity and not balance-sheet repair.

From Adani’s manufacturing and infrastructure push to Tata, Mahindra, Maruti, JSW, ITC and ACME expanding capacity, the investment wave spans multiple sectors. After a decade led by public capex, India is finally witnessing the emergence of a broad-based private investment cycle. via @businessline

[Chethan Kumar @Chethan_Dash]

#Space #Update

2 strategically important satellites, #NVS03 & #Gisat1A, are sitting in Sriharikota for weeks, awaiting govt nod for launch. Also waiting is a #GSLVMk2, whose propellant filling was halted midway after clearance failed to come through. 1/n

Pic for representation

[menaka doshi @menakadoshi]

The map of India’s data center industry is changing.

Winners and Losers in India’s Race for Data Centers 👇
https://t.co/pFtoX82JCO

[Prasanna Viswanathan @prasannavishy]

Jainendra Jain (Wolf Prize winner and co-discoverer of composite fermions) is building the new Lodha Theoretical Physics Institute around simple themes

-Just 10–12 faculty. No institutional sprawl.
-No committees, minimal administration, no travel caps, no teaching load.
-Assemble exceptional minds, remove bureaucracy and give them uninterrupted time to think, breakthroughs will follow.
-No PhD programme initially
-Success to be measured by by fundamental discoveries made in India, not citations or paper counts.

$100 million over a decade, funded entirely by the Lodha family.
Modeled on the Institute for Advanced Study and Perimeter Institute via @the_hindu

[Zoso🇺🇳(🇮🇶) @MesoAnglic]

In the 60s, Fairchild, that Fairchild, personally went to India because they wanted their first offshore manufacturer to be there.
They wanted to produce 10 million transistors yearly; the government explicitly told them to produce only 600k.
They decided to leave for Hong Kong.

[Tejaswin Shankar (TJ) @TejaswinShankar]

I experienced every human emotion possible over the last 4 days. Safe to say that Glasgow has been kind to me inspite of a rocky start. Thankyou to everyone for supporting me through my good and bad times. I’m overwhelmed and grateful 🥹
#jaihind #cwg2026

[Noam Brown @polynoamial]

An internal version of Astra, @OpenAI’s next major model family, solved 10 major open problems in mathematics, quantum complexity, and theoretical computer science.

We believe it will be a major step for scientific reasoning. https://t.co/iP6cyheZ7i

[Lakshmisha K S @lakshmishaks]

PM Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone for Andhra Pradesh's first semiconductor plant in Visakhapatnam. The ₹460+ crore ASIP Technologies-APACT project will manufacture 96 million chips annually under the India Semiconductor Mission. The facility adds semiconductor packaging capacity in Andhra Pradesh.

[Mufaddal Vohra @mufaddal_vohra]

India's Medal Winners at the boxing event tonight. 🇮🇳

🥇Gold - 7.
🥈Silver - 3.

🥊Preeti Pawar – 🥇 GOLD.
🥊Jaismine Lamboria – 🥇 GOLD.
🥊Sakshi Chaudhary – 🥇GOLD.
🥊Priya Ghanghas – 🥇 GOLD.
🥊Arudhati Choudhary - 🥇 GOLD.
🥊Sachin Siwach - 🥇 GOLD.
🥊Ankush Panghal - 🥇GOLD.
🥊 Lovlina Borgohain - 🥈SILVER.
🥊Jadumani Singh – 🥈 SILVER.
🥊 Narender Berwal - 🥈SILVER.

[The Khel India @TheKhelIndia]

WATCH THE HISTORIC FIRST EVER MEDAL FOR INDIA IN 5000M AT CWG! 🤩🔥

- Gulveer Singh does it AGAIN!!!!! 🥉

[Flat Ranger - UT @UtahFlatRanger]

A guy in a Cowboy hat with a suppressed handgun showed up to kill a active shooter.

[Sidhant Sibal @sidhant]

"Those advocating talks between India & Pakistan have not taken note of the history of these talks in the past or they must believe that doing the same thing over & over again & expecting different results is not insanity" says Indian Envoy to US Kwatra:
https://t.co/OOgBQEyHkb

[Lakshmisha K S @lakshmishaks]

Tata Electronics is in talks with ASML to manufacture components and subassemblies for chipmaking equipment in India. The discussions build on the $11 billion Dholera fab project and target ASML's lithography supply chain. The move expands India's role from chip fabrication to equipment manufacturing.

[Ramakrishna kompella @jojokompella]

I was gonna be quiet but seeing this I felt like I shouldn’t. I run a bootstrapped startup and we imported two Nvidia Jetsons. It’s been held up at customs for two weeks now. Reason? They want us to give them three certificates: EPR, WPC, and BIS. The thing is, it doesn’t apply to us, none of them do. We’re importing them for prototyping and R&D. EPR is an environment certificate for waste, it’s for producers and sellers. It’s exempt for internal use. WPC similarly needs only a self declaration for devices operating in unlicensed bands if they’re for internal use. For BIS, the Nvidia Jetsons are already registered on bureau of indian standards. We’ve filed a dozen responses, we got rejected with no explanation. Just a one liner: customs has rejected your letter, please furnish EPR, WPC, BIS. Or meet the officer directly. Now i need to go meet the customs officer at the port of entry, which I would’ve if I wasn’t traveling all the time.

Building in India is an absolute pain in the ass.

[The Khel India @TheKhelIndia]

"I am not much happy. I wanted to hear the national anthem for my country,"

“I offer prayers to Lord Hanuman every day. He is my guiding force and has always stood by me.”

On being asked if Africans are invincible :
“The Govt is investing so much in us. They are human, and we are human too. Why can’t we beat them? We’re getting continuous support, coaching, and world-class facilities from the government. So why can’t we do it? We will.”

- Gulveer Singh won 5000m 🥉

[Credit - NNIS Sports]

[The Khel India @TheKhelIndia]

IT IS 8/10 BOXING GOLD FOR INDIA AT CWG 🥇

- A Historic Campaign for Indian Boxing 🇮🇳🥊

[Ashwini Vaishnaw @AshwiniVaishnaw]

2022: We started Semicon India. Learnt from past attempts. Clear policy and execution.

2026: 12 semiconductor units with $20 billion investment.
3 units already making chips.
Semicon 2.0 approved.

and we are just getting started…