Ankit Goel

[David Keyes @DavidMKeyes]

Trump wanted to sign in Europe. Iran wanted to sign in a Muslim country. So they settled on England.

[Bishontherockz @BishOnTheRockx]

There' a time when Salil Chowdhury didn't rate Kishore Kumar much as a singer. Kishore didn't have any formal training in singing. This one factor created an artistic difference.
Kishore and Salil did work together in Parivaar and Half ticket, but there's nothing like this one.

[Damien Symon @detresfa_]

Based on CBS's reporting about Pakistan allegedly storing Iranian aircraft at Nur Khan Airbase, imagery shared by sanctioned Chinese firm Mizarvision in April 2026 showed a sand camo C-130 on site, if Pak does not operate this livery, whose aircraft is it - serious replies only

[Malay Krishna @Malay4Product]

Let me explain what just happened today because it deserves so much recognition.

GalaxEye is a Bengaluru startup founded in 2021 by IIT Madras engineers. Today they launched Mission Drishti on a SpaceX Falcon 9. It is India's largest privately built satellite at 190 kg. And it carries a technology that no commercial satellite has ever carried before.

Normal satellites take photos of the Earth using optical cameras. Like your phone camera, but from 500 km up. The problem is obvious. Clouds. Night. Fog. Smoke. If any of these are in the way, the photo is useless. India has monsoon cover for 4 months a year. That is 4 months where optical satellites are partially or fully blind over large parts of the country.

The alternative is SAR. Synthetic Aperture Radar. Instead of taking photos with light, it sends radar waves down and reads what bounces back. Radar goes through clouds, through darkness, through smoke. A SAR satellite can image a flooded village at 2 AM during a cyclone when no optical satellite can see anything.

The problem with SAR is that the images look nothing like photos. They look like grainy black-and-white radar maps. A military analyst or a trained geospatial engineer can read them. A farmer, a disaster response team, or a city planner cannot.

Until today, if you wanted both optical and SAR data for the same location, you needed two different satellites, passing over at different times, at different angles. Then someone had to manually align and fuse the two datasets. Expensive, slow, and the data never perfectly matched because the satellites saw the same spot minutes or hours apart.

GalaxEye put both sensors on one satellite. Optical and SAR, fused into what they call OptoSAR. Three times more information than a single sensor. Processed onboard by an NVIDIA AI chip at 1.8 metre resolution.

Now in practice, during the next cyclone hitting Odisha, one satellite pass gives you a clear image of which villages are flooded, which roads are cut, and which buildings are standing. Day or night. Cloud or clear. In near real-time.

For defence, it means you can monitor a border area 24/7 regardless of weather. For agriculture, it means tracking crop health across an entire monsoon season without a single cloud gap. For infrastructure, it means monitoring construction progress on highways and bridges without waiting for a clear day.

GalaxEye tested their SAR tech on ISRO's POEM orbital platform. The satellite was tested at ISRO facilities. IN-SPACe provided regulatory clearance. NSIL, ISRO's commercial arm, will distribute the imagery globally. And it launched on SpaceX because ISRO's PSLV doesn't have the right orbit slot for this mission.

Yes, four IIT Madras graduates built a world-first satellite in 4 years in Bengaluru.

Take a bow!

[Rahul Pandita @rahulpandita]

The Guardian cannot tell elbow from arse in Punjab. Bishnoi’s closest friends are Sikhs. They should google Vikramjit Singh Middukhera.

[Shiv Aroor @ShivAroor]

Her 23-yr-old son Sahil killed by speeding Scorpio driven by a minor.

Minor taken before Delhi Juvenile Board, then given bail to take 10th Board Exam.

The Scorpio had 13 challans for overspeeding.

Sahil’s grieving mother @inna_makan joined me live:

[Vikram Chandra @vikramchandra]

I wish we would reduce the hype around India-Pakistan cricket. Yes, it was a rivalry back in the 1980s and 1990s.

But in recent years, there has been little to justify the "greatest rivalry" tag.
India has won 81% of all T20 matches against Pakistan.
India has won 87% of all T20 World Cup matches against Pakistan.

Yes, Pakistan WILL win the odd T20 match, like in 2021. And will then celebrate that win for years and years.
That's the format. Upsets are par for the course - any team can pull off a surprise. Nepal almost beat England! Zimbabwe beat Australia.

We give Pakistan too much importance - and unnecessary leverage - by investing so much attention and emotion on this one game.

[Bishontherockz @BishOnTheRockx]

For Abhishek you got to have a man at deep square on the offside & bowl wide to him if he is stepping out. It's more likely that if he can't reach it, he'll take 1 hand off & in trade off would look for height & placement. And a mid-wicket a bit up & bowl fast and short to him.

[Ankit Goel @ankitkgoel]

Patience & perseverance. Amazing

[The Sacred Scroll @SacredScroll]

🛑 36 HOURS OF SILENCE. MOMENTS OF FURY. 🛑

Patience is a weapon.
In the mountains of J&K, Naib Subedar Anil Kumar Dahiya turned silence into the deadliest weapon of all.

The Unit:
1 PARA (Special Forces) The Red Devils.
The Mission: Surveillance and Interdiction.

Story of raw human endurance that earned him the Shaurya Chakra:

The Ghost Protocol
Imagine lying flat on the freezing ground, just 100 meters from a terrorist launch pad. For 36 continuous hours, Nb Sub Dahiya did not move.
• No food.
• No water
• No sleep
He merged with the earth. He became a ghost.
Most people break after an hour of discomfort. He waited nearly two days for one specific second.

The Strike
The discipline paid off. Five heavily armed terrorists attempted to infiltrate. They had no idea "The Ghost" was watching.
When they entered the kill zone, the silence shattered. Leading the assault with raw aggression, Naib Subedar Dahiya engaged them at close quarters, eliminating three terrorists single-handedly and crushing the infiltration.

This wasn't just a gunfight; it was a victory of the mind. It represents the ethos of the Maroon Beret: To suffer in silence, to strike with precision, and to win at any cost.

We sleep peacefully because men like him stay awake, hungry, and frozen, guarding our borders.

Let’s ensure this act of valor reaches every Indian.

@ajaykraina @col_chaubey @samartoor3086 @AadiAchint @TGD_06

#IndianArmy #ParaSF #RedDevils #1PARA #ShauryaChakra #SpecialForces #JaiHind

[The Emissary @TheEmissaryCo]

The way this film has made seasoned critics implode, but more tellingly, old legends of the Bollywood establishment squirm & cope really proves that this is a watershed moment for Indian cinema.

I've already said how it's a stunning film from a pure technical perspective. I'd show it to any of my non-Desi friends as it is a brilliant movie. But what is slashing through the Indian media space like a jagged, serrated dagger is how this movie weaves politics, religion (ever so gently), & the reality of Pakistan into such a fantastic film.

It moves minds in a way no Bollywood film had prior.

[cricBC @cricBC]

Similarities between the Gambhir and the Chappell era.

1. Trying to manufacture all rounders by playing bowlers higher up the order or playing bowlers for their batting skills creating an illusion of having a longer batting order. Agarkar, Pathan, Sundar floating up and down the order. Harshit playing for a few runs he would score down the order.

2. Hostility towards press and fans when questioned. Gambhir's recent outburst. Chappell allegedly flipped the crowd gathered outside the team bus.

3. Attempting to reduce player power by limiting the clout of former captains, at times dropping them from a format. Tendulkar, Ganguly felt it under Chappell. Rohit, Virat feel it under Gambhir.

This is not a criticism of either. India did play well in parts under Chappell, learning to chase well in ODIs being just one example. And we have won trophies under Gambhir too. This is just a comparison of their method.

[Ankit Goel @ankitkgoel]

Gambhir and Agarkar’s decisions have left Indian cricket looking directionless — high time both of them are shown the door. #indvsSA

[iMac_too @iMac_too]

He won IPL as a coach & we handed him over reins of Test team. Do you see a problem here?

[Priyank Panchal @PKpanchal09]

Once bitten, twice shy? Similar patterns unfolding like the series in NZ. Back then the public laid the blame unfairly on Virat and Rohit, forgetting that the rest of the batters need to step up when needed too. With that cushion gone, the younger crop faces tougher times. #INDvSA

[Gaurav Sethi @BoredCricket]

India has 3 reviews remaining:

They should use them to review:

Chairman of selectors, head coach, captain.

All 3 will show hitting and OUT.

#IndvsSA

[Ankit Goel @ankitkgoel]

@CricCrazyNIKS After seeing how they batted in the first innings, the chances look slim. GG and Agarkar should already have their resignation letters drafted.

[Harsha Bhogle @bhogleharsha]

World Champions. At the stroke of the midnight hour India awakes to history. This is a moment in time that will change the course of the women's game.

[Harsha Bhogle @bhogleharsha]

The lesson for all of us is that you must never issue an ultimatum you cannot enforce. It makes you look weak.

[Joy Bhattacharjya @joybhattacharj]

A 22 year old computer science engineer from Guindy has just won India a world speed skating gold!

[Mohandas Menon @mohanstatsman]

In an incident early this year in the Junior Davis Cup U-16 tennis match in Shymkent, Kazakhstan, in May 2025, a Pakistani player, Mikaeel Ali Baig, was engaged in an unsportsmanlike handshake with his Indian opponent (Tavish Pahwa).

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