Avinash Bhat

The people are watching.

[روہن @TheFookFace]

There's a certain "haha fuck you" kind of a defiance that has shaped how a lot of Indian festivals are celebrated.

They are no longer emanating from a place of love and joy, but a desire to inflict the most obnoxious self expression at the cost of everyone else's wellbeing.

[Matt Beard @matt_beard_]

this is the tweet of the year right?

[Suhasini Haidar @suhasinih]

Government grants Norwegian journalist Helle Lyng a visa to travel to Hyderabad, but Embassy tells her it is cancelled just as she heads to airport. If this is about her comments to PM and Secy(West) in Oslo in May, why was visa issued? And once issued, why cancel? Awaiting MEA explanation https://t.co/9XEB8yUnaw

[Avinash Bhat @avinbhat]

@AmithabV49638 @Prasoon1024 The alleged fraud is in her managing to remove the money even after the bank froze the account.

[Avinash Bhat @avinbhat]

@CEO_Maharashtra @reporters_co .

[Sumedha @TweetSumedha]

Dear Sir, @ceo_maharashtra you counter claim is not based on the truth at all. And I counter your false clarification with full responsibility. We sent you detailed questions. We also sent a reminder. You did not reply. You may want to read the questions again in the image below.

[Avinash Bhat @avinbhat]

Fake emails, fake orders. Is there anything genuine in these blocking orders?

[Aditya Kalra @adityakalra]

‘NO SUCH ORDER PASSED BY HER LADYSHIP’

India’s government ordered blocking of 100+ illegal betting websites based on two court orders. But @Reuters has found the court orders were fake.

The two court orders carried blue court seals, a fake QR code and made-up case numbers such as “Writ - A 30480/2026”. They were sent by individuals who claimed to be lawyers, and asked for immediate implementation by Indian government.

The government sent them to internet providers to take down websites. The forgeries are the latest sign that fake orders are slipping past India's official content removal mechanism, considered one of the world's strictest

Following questions from Reuters, Uttar Pradesh police have opened a forgery investigation after Reuters queries to the Allahabad High Court, while the Rajasthan High Court told Reuters in an email the order did not exist on its server.

Who sent the orders to the government & how did officials order takedowns? Read.

https://t.co/PCt4sD4yXI With @MunsifV, edits @Saad_Scrawls

[Avinash Bhat @avinbhat]

@AmithabV49638 @Prasoon1024 https://t.co/rvI02aiswI

[Avinash Bhat @avinbhat]

From a shining beacon of democracy, we have slid into this now.

[Suhasini Haidar @suhasinih]

According to this map shared by the US embassy in Australia India and the rest of South Asia is only "partly free"

[Gautam S. Mengle @NotMengele]

I'm sorry, WHAT??

[Suhasini Haidar @suhasinih]

Govt approves purchase of Israeli tech to clone your phone without legal safeguards, HM nod for order that even bypasses make in India requirements. Superb scoop from @internetfreedom that should make every citizen think and question.

[IndiaToday @IndiaToday]

Kanpur woman who killed LIC agent with Thar gets bail on Diwali, victim's son fumes

A 55-year-old LIC agent was killed when a speeding Thar driven by a 24-year-old woman learning to drive rammed his scooter on the eve of Diwali in Kanpur. The woman got bail on Diwali, leaving the victim's family questioning the police and the justice system.

Read: https://t.co/2QEKUthJ0x

[Sumedha @TweetSumedha]

We reposted our story on Instagram again and within 15 minutes it was restricted again.

[Chetan Bhattacharji @CBhattacharji]

Breaking:
# Firecrackers accounted for 80% of Delhi's #AirPollution hours after #Diwali night, steadily declining between 1 and 9 am.

Super work by @iitmpune for sharing this real-time source apportionment data.
🙏 @Priyanshi50 for the alert

[Karuna Nundy @karunanundy]

The fact that there is a separate "Indian AQI", pegged at a lower scale for no good reason whatsoever, is government scam one million that's reducing your life expectancy as we speak.

[Samhita @Samhitab4u]

I genuinely don’t understand corporate holiday calendars.

Diwali falls on Sunday, and you give Tuesday off?

At least Monday would have made some sense. Now I’m genuinely curious about which calendar these HR teams are following. 😂

[Ananya Bhardwaj @BhardwajAnanya]

EXCLUSIVE: Punched in the chest, repeatedly assaulted inside Tihar jail, denied medical care—US national Matthew VanDyke, arrested in an NIA case, alleged custodial torture in a handwritten affidavit to the US Embassy.

Just 2 weeks before the chargesheet, he warned he would expose the alleged torture in the media and courts if angered by its contents.

Scoop by @mayankreports

https://t.co/HBKaFSeGfH

[Piyush Rai @Benarasiyaa]

Videos of poor visibility were categorised violation under "Non consensual nudity" by Twitter. The only entity caught pants down was the government.

[Avinash Bhat @avinbhat]

@debxmita Yikes!

[Mukesh @mikejava85]

BPCL deleted this tweet after people pointed out that it shows 33% of Ethanol

[Nitin Sethi @nit_set]

After purification of Voter Roll, ECI names a booth in Rajasthan... "The Girl Who Loves Me".

It would be hilarious if SIR wasn't impacting people at such scale across the country...