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[ashok agarwal @ashokag58]

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[Swarajya @SwarajyaMag]

India makes furnace heaters that reach over 1200°C, which only 5 other nations, such as China, Japan, Germany, the USA, and Sweden, can do.

These are the countries with real capability in advanced heating elements.

🧵 @indiaBUILDwiki

[Advait Arora @WealthEnrich]

India’s defence production has grown from around ₹81,100 crore in FY19 to ₹1.78 lakh crore in FY26, and the government is targeting ₹3 lakh crore by FY29. During the same period, the share of local manufacturing has moved from roughly 30–35% to more than 65%.
India has been assembling aircraft, missiles and other defence equipment for years, but many of the important parts still came from overseas. The govt now wants more engines, radars, sensors, communication systems, specialised metals, missile components and replacement parts to be made in India.
The latest Indigenisation List adds another 405 items, taking the total across six lists to 5,417 items. These items are used in fighter aircraft, helicopters, tanks, missiles, warships, radars and communication systems. As more of them are made locally, the orders will spread beyond the companies manufacturing the final aircraft, missile or warship.

Bharat Electronics

BEL has 227 items in the latest list, which is more than half the total. These include equipment used in Akash, Akash-NG and QRSAM missiles, fire control systems, electronic warfare, Revathi and Rohini radars, naval sonars, satellite communication and integrated air defence systems. The useful part about BEL is its presence across several programmes & it supplies equipment for missiles, aircraft, warships and ground defence systems, so it does not need one project alone to drive growth.

BEL currently has an order book of around ₹72,260 crore, roughly 2.6 times its trailing revenue. Defence equipment is also becoming more electronic, with greater spending on detection, communication, surveillance and electronic warfare. BEL already works across all four areas.

Hindustan Aeronautics

HAL has 86 items covering the LCA, Su-30MKI, ALH Dhruv, Light Utility Helicopter, Dornier-228, Hawk, Jaguar, Cheetah, Chetak, MiG-29 and the AL-31FP engine.

India can manufacture and assemble aircraft, but engines and several other complex systems still have significant foreign content. HAL has therefore created an indigenisation fund equal to 3% of its annual PAT to support the development of local components. HAL is working on engines, gearboxes, rotor assemblies, avionics and structural parts. Some of this work will take years because aerospace components have to go through lengthy testing and certification. But every part made locally increases the Indian share in HAL’s aircraft and helicopters.

BEL and HAL together account for almost 78% of the latest list. Most of the current work is therefore concentrated in defence electronics and aerospace.

Bharat Dynamics

BDL has 13 items connected with MRSAM, Konkurs-M and Invar anti tank guided missiles. It manufactures and integrates missiles, while parts such as seekers, guidance systems, propulsion and warheads are gradually being developed in India. Missile orders are also different from aircraft and warship orders. Missiles are used during training and operations, after which inventories have to be replenished. BDL can therefore gain from larger orders as well as higher Indian content within each missile.

BEML

BEML’s seven items include high mobility defence trucks used to transport missiles, radars, ammunition and command systems across difficult terrain. The missile gets most of the attention, but the truck is what carries it to the field. BEML also manufactures mining equipment, construction machinery and railway products, so it is not a pure defence company. Current estimates expect its PAT to grow from around ₹324 crore in FY26 to ₹620 crore in FY28. The company will have to improve margins and execute its orders well to reach those numbers.

Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers

GRSE has seven items connected with warships and modular steel bridges. It manufactures frigates, patrol vessels, survey vessels and specialised ships for the Navy and Coast Guard. The shipyard receives the main order, but a warship also requires engines, propulsion systems, radars, sonars, communication equipment, pumps, valves and electrical systems. If more of this equipment is bought from Indian suppliers, more of the total order stays within the country.

MIDHANI

MIDHANI has seven items related to alloy melting. The number is small compared with BEL and HAL, but specialised alloys are difficult to develop, test and approve for defence use. Aircraft engines, missiles, armour and warships need metals that can withstand extreme heat, pressure and corrosion. MIDHANI supplies these materials to companies manufacturing defence and aerospace components.

Other Defence Companies:
The latest list directly includes BEL, HAL, BDL, BEML, GRSE and MIDHANI. Outside these names, Mazagon Dock and Cochin Shipyard are important listed companies in naval manufacturing, submarine construction, shipbuilding and repairs.

Private companies generally work in narrower areas. Data Patterns and Astra Microwave manufacture defence electronics and radar systems. Zen Technologies makes training simulators and anti drone equipment. Paras Defence supplies optics, optronics and other engineering products. ideaForge manufactures drones, while MTAR Technologies makes precision components for defence, space & nuclear projects.

Well, these companies may all be classified as defence companies, but their businesses are not similar. A shipyard, radar supplier, aircraft manufacturer and drone company have different customers, order cycles, margins and working capital requirements.

In the govt owned (but unlisted space), Armoured Vehicles Nigam, Goa Shipyard, Hindustan Shipyard and Munitions India manufacture armoured vehicles, specialised ships, fleet support vessels and ammunition. Their orders also reach smaller Indian companies supplying parts and materials.

India is already making more defence equipment & its now trying to make more of the engines, electronics, materials and components used inside that equipment. IN the long run a larger share of every aircraft, missile, tank and warship order should stay with Indian manufacturers & this part of the defence sector I find most interesting to track!

[Comman Man @CommanMan777589]

Beauty with Brains 👏👏

She is saying is Loud and clear about the CJP protest

[Kanwaljit Arora @mekarora]

Palki Sharma is brutal, she literally grilled GB News Presenter Patrick Christys !!

@PatrickChristys

[ashok agarwal @ashokag58]

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[Comman Man @CommanMan777589]

Nikitin Reached India Peacefully. Vasco Da Gama Arrived With Cannons. Guess Who Got the Credit???

Another LIE fed to the world and Bharatiye… Must read and share

For decades, Indians were handed a neat colonial bedtime story:

“Vasco da Gama discovered India.”
A lie repeated until it became “history.”

But almost 30 years before da Gama arrived with ships, guns, and priests, a lone merchant from Tver -Afanasiy Nikitin had already reached India by sea.

Not as a conqueror.
Not as an empire’s weapon.
Just a traveler with courage and curiosity.

Nikitin began his journey in 1466, sailing across the Caspian, Persia, Arabia, and the Indian Ocean completely alone.

He lived in India for years, observing its society, trade, and culture with honesty that conquerors never had.

His account, “The Journey Beyond Three Seas,” remains one of the earliest and most detailed European descriptions of India.

No colonial lens.
No missionary agenda.
Just the truth he saw.

So who fed Indians the myth that da Gama “discovered” India?

Colonial-era textbooks. Imperial historians. A system built to glorify invaders and bury anyone who wasn’t a conqueror.

Peaceful explorers didn’t fit the narrative.
Empire-builders did.

Nikitin didn’t claim land, didn’t plant flags, didn’t arrive with threats.

He came with respect and he recorded India as he found it.

That’s why he was forgotten.
That’s why da Gama was elevated.

It’s time to question the stories we inherited. It’s time to unmask the narratives crafted to justify domination.

Afanasiy Nikitin reached India by sea long before Vasco da Gama and he did it without violence, conquest, or empire.

A buried truth.

Now resurfacing.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The West poured $50 billion into fast breeder nuclear reactors and abandoned every single one. India poured $900 million and just achieved criticality on the first commercially viable one outside Russia.

The US spent $15 billion. Gave up. Japan spent $12 billion. Their Monju prototype had one sodium fire in 1995 and never recovered. The UK spent $8 billion. Germany spent $6 billion. France, Italy, all walked away. Six of the richest nations on Earth concluded this technology was too hard and too expensive to pursue.

India started building in 2004 with an initial budget of $420 million. Twenty-two years, a dozen missed deadlines, and a cost doubling later, the Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor at Kalpakkam just sustained a controlled fission chain reaction. The reactor is now alive.

The reason India never quit is a constraint most people have never thought about. India has only 1-2% of the world's uranium reserves. For a country of 1.4 billion people trying to build energy independence, that's a death sentence if you're running conventional nuclear.

But India has 25% of the world's thorium. The single largest national reserve on Earth.

The problem: you can't just burn thorium the way you burn uranium. A physicist named Homi Bhabha designed a three-stage nuclear program in the 1950s specifically to solve this. Stage 1: burn natural uranium in heavy water reactors, collect plutonium as a byproduct. Stage 2: feed that plutonium into fast breeder reactors, where it breeds MORE plutonium AND converts thorium into fissile uranium-233. Stage 3: burn thorium directly at scale.

India just entered Stage 2. Seventy years after Bhabha drew it up on paper.

The math on the thorium endgame is wild. At current energy consumption rates, India's thorium reserves could power the country for over 700 years. Most nuclear nations are playing a uranium game with maybe 80-100 years of runway. India is playing a completely different game with a 7x longer fuel supply.

The West quit because uranium stayed cheap and sodium coolant is terrifying. It catches fire on contact with air. It explodes on contact with water. Russia's BN-600 had 27 sodium leaks and 14 sodium fires between 1980 and 1997. And Russia kept going anyway because Russia doesn't quit nuclear projects. India watched all of that and kept going too.

When you have 1% of the uranium but 25% of the thorium, the engineering difficulty stops being a reason to quit. It becomes the price of admission to a 700-year energy supply that nobody else can access.

[ashok agarwal @ashokag58]

@_vatsalasingh 5

[Vatsala Singh @_vatsalasingh]

इस ट्यून को जब-जब सुनती हूँ, जी नहीं भरता। और इन्होंने तो कमाल ही बजाया है...

[Arvind Chotia @arvindchotia]

ये बेशर्म जानवर
इंदौर में विजय नगर के सी21 मॉल स्थित डी मार्ट में एक व्यक्ति पत्नी के साथ शॉपिंग करने पहुंचा था। साथ में उनका नवजात बच्चा भी था। शॉपिंग के बाद बिलिंग काउंटर पर जब वह बिलिंग के लिए पहुंचा तो उन्होंने पत्नी को साइड में जाने का कहा। तब महिला नवजात को दूध पिलाने गई थी। इस पर बिलिंग कर्मचारी महिला द्वारा बच्चे को दूध पिलाने की बात पर हंस दिया और अन्य कर्मचारियों को भी महिला की तरफ इशारा कर दूध पिएगा क्या बोलने लगा। यह बात पति ने सुनी तो तुरंत विरोध किया। वीडियो बनाने लगा लेकिन तब भी बेशर्म कर्मचारी हँसते हुए गलती नहीं मान रहा था।

संस्कार पूरी तरह खत्म होते जा रहे हैं

[LynneP @LynneBP_294]

Blackrock is the real beast! It's the largest asset management firm in the world without competition! Its 8 founders are all Jews. Have you heard of it? Watch and learn about it. I know it's huge but I didn't realize that it's a monster giant! Keep watching til the end. It's important!

[Advait Arora @WealthEnrich]

Very interesting point on why sharp jump in Oil prices for India might not be a disaster like before.

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

A must listen on Iran, an IRGC’s daughter’s perspective. It helps us to understand what we are fighting for and what we are fighting against.

[𝙼𝚛 𝚃𝚢𝚊𝚐𝚒 @mktyaggi]

लगभग 2000 लोगों की सोसायटी में गिनती की 1 मुस्लिम महिला रहती है, जिसे वहाँ मस्जिद चाहिए, लेकिन 1999 लोगों के लिए मंदिर नहीं बनना चाहिए। इससे आबिदा बेगम को परेशानी होती है और वह @khanumarfa जैसी बड़ी यूट्यूबर को सोसायटी में बुला लेती है। आरफा बेगम वहाँ जाकर इंटरव्यू भी करने लगती हैं।

यह होता है नेटवर्क, यह होती है एजेंडा सेटिंग।
@ajeetbharti

[U.S. Central Command @CENTCOM]

Update from CENTCOM Commander on Operation Epic Fury:

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

CNN will never give you this info :

Iran sends a drone at a US base. It costs $50k. America fires a $1m missile. It misses, so two more follow. $3m spent to kill one $50k drone. Iran makes 500 a day and has 80,000 stocked. Cheap drones. Costly missiles. Math ain't mathing

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

A website has appeared in the USA that records the costs of operations in Iran every second.

[Shannon 🇺🇸I stand with America @thewriterme]

How it was done. 🔊

[Mohini Maheshwari @mohinimaheshwa]

Kochi: A Kerala-based content creator shared a video of harassment during a bus journey. Posted on Instagram by @angel__baby0, it shows a man continuously staring at her inappropriately.

In the clip, the woman, dressed in a traditional Kerala saree, sits in an overcrowded bus beside a middle-aged man. He repeatedly stares at her inappropriately while she records using her phone’s selfie camera.

Even after realising she is watching, he briefly looks away before shamelessly continuing.