Ashwin. K

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[Janhavi Desai @thoughtstruck]

On 31/8/25, I raised a police complaint. The officers deployed communicated with me via WhatsApp. Today, this officer chose to change privacy settings so the chat is extra private and temporary, and then text me as if we're friends. @BlrCityPolice @CPBlr is this normal now?

[Kushan Mitra @kushanmitra]

Congrats to @ForceMotorsFML for producing 200,000 engines for @MercedesBenzInd at their Chakan plant. This particular unit was a M256 6-cylinder unit that found its way into a GLS450. This has been a near 30-year partnership and with MB sales in India going up, expect this numberf to grow exponentially in the coming years.

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

Jeremy Clarkson has been diagnosed with aggressive prostate cancer during the final two episodes of Clarkson’s Farm.💔

Heartbreaking news. The disease was caught early and he has since undergone surgery.

Jeremy has left us with the words -

"If this is all successful, I'll see you for season six, and if it isn't, I won't".

We’re all praying for a full recovery, our thoughts are with all those affected by this awful news. Hold your loved ones close.❤️

[Ashwin. K @AshwinKrm]

@kushanmitra Gutting. And I was waiting for the punch line that never came.

[Bishontherockz @BishOnTheRockx]

Jogs like an uncle, scans like an undercover agent, anticipates like a visionary, sneaks into an empty pocket like bribes, scores like the greatest ever.

[FOX Sports @FOXSports]

All three of Leo Messi's goals in his first career FIFA World Cup hat trick

[Kushan Mitra @kushanmitra]

Passenger vehicle taxation should be based on emissions not arbitrary standards like length or engine size. My column in @TheDailyPioneer today.

[Ashwin. K @AshwinKrm]

@JayPrashanth Reminds me of the case where the customer booked a Skoda Rapid Monte Carlo edition & the dealer sold him a standard Rapid with a few upgrades to make it resemble the top variant.

[The Athletic | Football @TheAthleticFC]

Norway's Erling Haaland is the first player to score twice on their World Cup debut since...

Elijah Just for New Zealand on Monday, who was the first player to achieve the feat since...

Yasin Ayari for Sweden on Sunday, who was the the first to do so since...

Folarin Balogun for the U.S. on Friday.

[Sincere Dibya @TheSincereDude]

Coincidence checklist:

✅ Meta owns ~10% of Reliance Jio ($5.7B investment)

✅ Meta owns 30% of Reliance’s new AI venture

✅ Reliance (AS18101) BGP-hijacks Telegram’s global traffic

✅ Modi govt bans Telegram in India using §69A IT Act; citing NEET leaks

✅ WhatsApp (Meta) is untouched throughout

NEET papers leaked on WhatsApp groups too. Government blocked Telegram. Not WhatsApp.

When your telecom partner owns your competitor’s killer, why would you stop the killing?

This isn’t governance. It’s a business model.

[عائشة السيد - Aisha AlSayed @aishaalsayed9]

في قطار بلندن، قالت امرأة لشاب مسلم من أصول عربية: "عُد إلى بلدك، المغرب أو تونس."
فأجابها بأنه بريطاني ويعمل طبيبًا في هيئة الصحة الوطنية.
سألها إن كانت بريطانية، فلم ترد وهددته بإبلاغ الأمن.
الشرطة اعتقلتها، ليتبين أنها هندوسية ولا تحمل الجنسية البريطانية أصلًا، فتم ترحيلها.

[amit kilhor @amitkilhor]

Durov just took the fight to Reliance and Meta.
There's more to Telegram ban than NEET paper leak.

[Sagar Awatade @SagarAwatade]

I don't know who else to tell this to, so I am going to tell my story here.

Every day is a struggle for a young business, but the last few months have been harder than usual.

We are a small Indian company. For more than ten years we have been building a homegrown brand in a product category dominated by big foreign players.

There are almost no Indian names in this space. We set out to be one.

We started in 2014. Over the years we began making parts in India instead of just importing, and we started selling in the US, Dubai, Nepal, Malaysia and South Africa.

We showed up at global trade fairs to represent an Indian brand on the world stage.

In 2023 we changed the import code we use for our product. We did not do this quietly. Every shipment was declared. Nothing was hidden. We didn't invent our approach.

We followed written professional advice and the way this product is treated in markets around the world.

And now we are facing a government demand running into tens of crores in duty recovery and penalties, plus personal penalties on the founders and even on an employee.

For a company our size, this is not a fine we can pay and move on from. This ends us.

We have not run from any of this. I am not built like that. It is not how I was raised. We have written to the authorities, met officials in person, and we have now filed a writ in the High Court.

All we are asking for is a fair treatment.

I set out to build in India and sell to the world. I am asking only that the system back honest founders trying to compete globally, instead of breaking them.

The process is the process, and it exists for a reason. But process should not feel like punishment.

From where I am standing today, it does.
I am not giving up. I have worked too hard for this. If you have read this far, please share it. If you know someone who can help, point them my way. Help me get the word out.

[Ashwin. K @AshwinKrm]

@pablochaterji

[Ashwin. K @AshwinKrm]

For all the bad rap TCS has received this year, a deal with an English Premier League club sounds perfect for a comeback.

And they choose Tottenham!

[RedboxGlobal India @REDBOXINDIA]

TCS LANDS DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION DEAL WITH PREMIER LEAGUE CLUB TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR

[Nilesh @Drx_Nilesh7]

जब नितिन गडकरी से E20 से होने वाले गाड़ियों में नुकसान के बारे में पूछा गया तो नितिन गडकरी उस पत्रकार को बाहर निकालने के लिए धमकी देने लगे!

क्या जानता नितिन गडकरी से सवाल भी नहीं पूछ सकती है!

E20 से गाड़ियों में बहुत ज्यादा नुकसान हो रही है

और अब अपने बेटे के कंपनी को बढ़ाने के लिए नितिन गडकरी ने E100 को हरी झंडी दिखा दी है।

[Henry Bushnell @HenryBushnell]

Iran v. New Zealand ended around 8pm here in Los Angeles.

At 10:07pm, Iran players were on a bus bound for the airport, where they'd fly back to Tijuana. World Cup organizers wouldn't let them stay and recover.

“Everything is like a disaster for us," Mehdi Taremi said.

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

FTP: LAPD killed her dog. He was wearing his Knicks jersey.
His name was Jameson. A golden doodle. One of the sweetest, most gentle breeds alive.
A neighbor called a noise complaint. That's it.
20+ officers showed up. Then a helicopter. For a noise complaint in an apartment complex.
And they shot Jameson dead. In front of his owner. In front of her child.
No warning. No de-escalation. Nothing.
The media is barely covering this. No headlines. No outrage.
Like it never happened.
If this was your dog... your child watching... how would you feel?
Jameson deserved better. That little boy deserved better. His mama deserved better.

[Ashwin. K @AshwinKrm]

Absolutely evil

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

En Los Ángeles (EEUU), una mujer celebraba la victoria de los Knicks en la NBA, cuando un vecino avisó a la policía por los ruidos... se presentaron 20 policías y fusilaron a su perro, un "peligroso" Golden Doodle, al abrir la puerta de casa.

EEUU, un régimen policial donde te fusilan al perro si chillas en tu casa demasiado alto... la policía no te protege, tú eres quién tiene que protegerse de la policía.

[Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb]

ESPN implies that Gianni Infantino personally told Iran plans had changed and they had to leave the US for Mexico immediately after last night’s game in LA, leaving no time whatsoever for recovery.

Iran’s next game is in… LA.