Akash Singh

Architect | Environmentalist

[Badass Dad 🚬 🍺 @Badass_Superdad]

If US doesn't pull out soon, Indians will have to pull out sooner

[Akash Singh @arAkash08]

#heritage #Conservation #archaeology https://t.co/RdssS1gXX2

[Ajit Anjum @ajitanjum]

बीजेपी ऐसे लड़ती है चुनाव
दृश्य -1
25 अक्टूबर को बक्सर के एक होटल में मैं अपनी टीम के साथ डिनर कर रहा था . दूसरी टेबल पर बीजेपी का फटका डाले कुछ नेता टाइप के लोग बैठे थे . उनमें से एक सज्जन बार -बार मेरी तरफ़ देख रहे थे . मैं भी उन्हें पह���ानने की कोशिश कर रहा था . तभी वो मेरे पास आए और बोले - मैं सतीश गौतम , अलीगढ़ से बीजेपी का सांसद हूं . मैंने ��ूछा - आप यहां ? उन्होंने कहा - मैं एक महीने से बक्सर में हूं . इस बार हम बक्सर जीतेंगे .
संक्षिप्त बातचीत के बाद वो अपनी सीट पर चले गए .
मैं सोचने लगा कि बीजेपी कैसे चुनाव लड़ती है , इसका नमूना ये है कि अलीगढ़ का एक सांसद कई लोगों के साथ बक्सर में कैंप करके बैठा है . ज़ाहिर है और भी बहुत से लोग होंगे . बक्सर आख़िर जीत ही गई बीजेपी .
दृश्य -2
अगले दिन वहां से आरा होते हुए पटना लौट रहा था तो सड़क के किनारे झु���्गी बस्तियों मे कुछ लोग बीजेपी के पर्चे बांटते दिखे . तभी मेरी नज़र यूपी बीजेपी के पूर्व अध्यक्ष और योगी सरकार के कैबिनेट मंत्री स्वतंत्र देव सिंह पर पड़ी . मैंने थोड़ा आगे जाकर गाड़ी रोकी और पलटकर देखने गया कि वाक़ई ��्वतंत्र देव ही हैं कि कोई और है ..पता चला कि स्वतंत्र देव कुछ लोगों के साथ सड़क के किनारे दुकानदारों और बस्ती वालों से बात करते चल रहे थे. जरा सोचिए . यूपी के एक बड़ा नेता सड़क के किनारे कुछ कार्यकर्ताओं के साथ धूल फांकता हुआ प्रचार कर रहा था. कोई कैमरा नहीं . कोई पब्लिसिटी नहीं . कोई रील नहीं .
दृश्य - 3
पहले दौर के चुनाव के बाद मैं किशनगंज के दफ्तरी पैलेस होटल के बाहर गाड़ी से सामान निकाल रहा था , तभ��� एक सज्जन आकर मिले . सूरत के कारोबारी के रुप में अपना परिचय दिया और कहा कि मैं कुछ दिनों तक तेघरा में तैनात था . वहां हम लोगों ने रजनीश कुमार की जीत के लिए दिन -रात काम किया है . गुजराती सज्जन ने पूरा हिसाब किताब समझाया कि कैसे रजनीश कुमार को 110000 से ज्यादा वोट मिलेंगे और काफी मार्जिन से जीतेंगे . उन्होंने अपना नंबर दिया और दावा किया कि ��तीजों के दिन आप चाहें तो फ़ोन कर लीजिएगा . अभी देख रहा हूं कि रजनीश कुमार 112000 वोट पाकर 35 हज़ार वोट से जीत गए हैं . सीपीआई के मौजूदा विधायक चुनाव हार गए हैं .
उन्होंने कहा कि अब हम किशनगंज जिले में काम करने आ गए हैं . उन्होंने बड़े उत्साह के साथ ये भी बताया कि कैसे गुजरात के बहुत से लोग अलग- अलग इलाकों में आकर महीने भर से डटे हैं .
ऐसे न जाने कितने लोग बीजेपी के लिए महीने -दो महीने से बिहार में काम कर रहे ���े . दर्जन भर मुख्यमंत्री , दर्जनों कैबिनेट मंत्री , दो सौ से ज्यादा सांसद और अलग अलग राज्यों से आए हजारों लोग बिहार में डटे थे .
बिहार में एनडीए की जीत की व्याख्या करते वक्त इसे भी समझना होगा कि बीजेपी चुनाव लड़ती कैसे है ?

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Street art giving the illusion of motion

This is incredible

[Xu Feihong @China_Amb_India]

Digitalization is extending into more aspects of daily life in China.
Gas stations now have robotic arms to fuel cars.

[Akansha singh @akansha1690]

@AadharHousing Received loan but unable to receive sanction or acknowledgment letter for documentation purpose . Asking for it since last 7 days but no update . Is this how department works ??
@RBI @FinMinIndia

[Akash Singh @arAkash08]

@LezTonny @ChinainEnglis TACO

[Pragnya Gupta @GuptaPragnya]

Counter Terrorism Specialist Ajai Sahni speaks on the failure of Modi Govt when it comes to handling Covert Operations against Pakistan.

He says, BJP is trapped in wanting to encash in on partisan political gains out of everything that the Army does.
Covert operations can be successful only if they can be COVERT & that’s not possible with BJP.

Bhakt brigade jingoism along with Modi’s is a huge price India has had to pay in terms of tackling cross border terrorism.

#IndianArmy
#ceasefire
#IndiraGandhi
#IMFSupportsTerrorists
#IndiaPakistanWar2025
#ModiGoneMad
@RahulGandhi
@SupriyaShrinate

[Soumya Pillai @soumya_pillai]

Exclusive: Just two months before the Apr 22 attacks there was an unprecedented spike on Maxar's portal in orders for satellite images for Pahalgam. (1/n) https://t.co/jn05XdzJ6y

[Mohammed Zubair @zoo_bear]

Prayers for people in the border state. 🤲

[Asra Nomani @AsraNomani]

“Bahawalpur.”

I still have chills in my heart from when I first heard that town’s name in late January 2002. For the 23 years since, I have reported on how Pakistani intelligence and military leaders have used that city — Bahawalpur — in the southern province of Punjab as a base for its homegrown domestic terrorists.

When I heard India bombed training camps in Pakistan this week in Operation Sindoor, in response to a Pakistani terrorist rampage in India’s Kashmir state, I had one city’s name on my lips: Bahawalpur.

Did India bomb Bahawalpur?

It did. I knew then India was striking actual hubs for Pakistan’s homegrown domestic terrorism.

Why do I know?

My friend, WSJ reporter Danny Pearl, went to Bahawalpur in December 2001 with a notebook and a pen. Gen. Pervez Musharraf had just promised he was shutting down Pakistan’s militant groups after a strike by Pakistan’s terrorists against the Parliament in India, and Danny reported on the militant offices in Bahawalpur.

He literally knocked on their doors. Dear Dr. @yudapearl, this story is a window into Danny’s reporting enterprise. And because people will wonder: Danny was no cowboy. This was a calculated low-risk reporting trip because no journalist had been targeted for kidnapping in Pakistan. Around that time, Danny sent me an email: “I’m anxious to go to Afghanistan, but I’m not anxious to die.”

What did Danny learn?

The militant training camps were open for business in Bahawalpur.

On Jan. 23, 2002, Danny left a home I had rented in Karachi, Pakistan, for an interview.

I learned Danny’s fixer, Asif Farooqi, had arranged an interview for Danny through a man named “Arif.” Danny didn’t know it but Arif was the PR man for a militant group, Harkutul Mujahadeen. What was Arif’s hometown? Bahawalpur.

The police launched a manhunt to find Arif in Bahawalpur. We learned Arif’s family faked a funeral for Arif. Police found him trying to board a bus in Muzaffarabad, across the country by Pakistan’s border with Kashmir.

It is another town India said it bombed terrorist training facilities.

Arif had handed Danny off to Omar Sheikh,a British-Pakistani dropout from the London School of Economics, radicalized in the 1990s in London mosques. He went to Pakistan to train in these militant training camps. Then he kidnapped tourists in India. He was caught and jailed but on Dec. 31, 1999, he was traded for hostages in the hijacking of Indian Airlines Flight 814.

Omar Sheikh was freed with Pakistani terrorist leader Masood Azhar, whose family was allegedly killed this week by India’s air strike in Bahawalpur.

Did Pakistan jail Omar Sheikh and Masood Azhar when they returned to Pakistan with a third terrorist, freed from India’s jails?

No. Pakistan’s military and intelligence gave them safe passage. They used them as weapons against India. But in fact these domestic terrorists have waged war against innocents in Pakistan, like civil society activists, Benazir Bhutto, Punjab Governor Salman Taseer, schoolchildren and countless others.

Their extremism has ruined Pakistan, and Pakistanis can’t blame America for creating the mujahideen to fight the Soviets in the 1980s.

Pakistan has had a duty to dismantle those terrorist bases — for even the safety of its own people. What India is doing is a strategic attack on terrorist bases Pakistani military and intelligence should have eliminated but never did in their obsession to take over Kashmir.

You will see parallels in the propaganda messages against India and Israel. Like Hamas, Pakistani terrorists crossed a border to kill. Now, Pakistani propagandists call themselves victims of their “fascist” “colonizer” neighbor.

It’s the Reverse Uno strategy of moral inversion, just like @stoolpresidente got from the Temple student who won’t take responsibility for promoting the “HATE THE JEWS” sign. Don’t fall for it. Nations, communities and people must own up to their extremism, from Bahawalpur to beyond.

[Akansha singh @akansha1690]

@VFSGlobal @vfsglobalcare @NLinIndia
I have a humble request for expediting my visa process . My journey starts on 18 dec and I have been asked by UK to apply for Schengen VISA first then for UK visa. Not much time left . Request if you can support.
Ref: NLD/DEL/021224/0053/01

[Akash Singh @arAkash08]

The Darjeeling Dilemma: Tackling Waste Management in a Himalayan City https://t.co/xLdlMafmHg

[Hindenburg Research @HindenburgRes]

NEW FROM US:

Whistleblower Documents Reveal SEBI’s Chairperson Had Stake In Obscure Offshore Entities Used In Adani Money Siphoning Scandal

https://t.co/3ULOLxxhkU

[PunsterX @PunsterX]

The reporter tried to get a statement against Rahul Gandhi from Shankaracharya Avimukteshwaranand Sarswati ji.

Unfortunately for godi media and BJP, not everyone can be misled by them.

[Azhagiri Sadhasivam @SadhaaAzhagiri]

“If Mughals are an alien, then Aryans are also an alien” - Thiru @dmk_raja M.P.,

Real politics of Indian sub continent is vividly recorded in Loksabha today.

[Akash Singh @arAkash08]

https://t.co/oU7lxzd5pe

[Akash Singh @arAkash08]

@kbssidhu1961 @PChidambaram_IN Hopefully h'ble court will function free and fair this time !

[WikiLeaks @wikileaks]

JULIAN ASSANGE IS FREE

Julian Assange is free. He left Belmarsh maximum security prison on the morning of 24 June, after having spent 1901 days there. He was granted bail by the High Court in London and was released at Stansted airport during the afternoon, where he boarded a plane and departed the UK.

This is the result of a global campaign that spanned grass-roots organisers, press freedom campaigners, legislators and leaders from across the political spectrum, all the way to the United Nations. This created the space for a long period of negotiations with the US Department of Justice, leading to a deal that has not yet been formally finalised. We will provide more information as soon as possible.

After more than five years in a 2x3 metre cell, isolated 23 hours a day, he will soon reunite with his wife Stella Assange, and their children, who have only known their father from behind bars.

WikiLeaks published groundbreaking stories of government corruption and human rights abuses, holding the powerful accountable for their actions. As editor-in-chief, Julian paid severely for these principles, and for the people's right to know.

As he returns to Australia, we thank all who stood by us, fought for us, and remained utterly committed in the fight for his freedom.

Julian's freedom is our freedom.

[More details to follow]