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[MISS BOMBAYWALLA @siminpatel]

'To add insult to injury, the fiery editor sent his weekly journal complimentary to all members of parliament.'
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[bTSquarePeg | Sustainable Designs @btsquarepeg]

@firuzimehta @CMOMaharashtra @mybmc This ramp is likely to defeat an Olympic level athlete.

[Dr Firuzi Mehta @firuzimehta]

Family court, Bandra. Steep ramp, dirty, stinky surroundings. When these basics are still a problem, who needs a Musical road?
@CMOMaharashtra @mybmc

[Dr Firuzi Mehta @firuzimehta]

The ramp at Family court Bandra. How many people needed to push a wheelchair up this steep gradient?
@CMOMaharashtra

[Kumar R Talukdar🇮🇳 @Kumarjyoti49291]

In the future, when historians look back at the downfall of India during Modi’s rule, the steep decline of the Indian Judiciary will be one of the main points that will be discussed.

[Saurav Das @SauravDassss]

Extremely concerning judgment by the Delhi High Court in the Telegram ban case.

The government’s power to block the word “information” has been so widely interpreted by the court to mean an ENTIRE platform. This has grave consequences for free speech rights of the citizens. Tomorrow the government might simply switch off an entire platform for whatever silly, comical reason and the courts will probably uphold it.

Yet another example of how democracy is killed by a thousand cuts! @telegram

[Mal @UtdMaI]

Last night in Boston, Aymen Hussein scored for Iraq;

At 12, his father was killed by Al-Qaeda.
At 18, his brother was kidnapped by ISIS

At 20, he helped Iraq qualify for the Olympics.
At 30, his decisive goal sent Iraq to their first World Cup in 40 years.

He was detained for seven hours at O’Hare International Airport and nearly denied entry into the United States.

In his very first World Cup match, he scored against Norway.

Some stories are bigger than football!

[Dr Firuzi Mehta @firuzimehta]

Absolutely! The residents of the area have been pursuing this need since a long time now! The NSR exit is needed asap.
@BCRFbreachcandy @MTPHereToHelp @MPLodha @UnlockTheExit @CMOMaharashtra

[Tinmam @Tinmam007]

@TheINIofficial @Dev_Fadnavis @CMOMaharashtra @kdhavse @MahaDGIPR @BJP4Maharashtra @mybmc @AshwiniBhide @MSRDC_official @DrAnilBGaikwad PLEASE look at Entry and EXIT places there is bad bottle neck at Breach Candy exit because exit at Neapeansea Road is cancelled Kindly look at this again As the whole idea of coastal road is wasted since it takes 20 to 30 mins from BREACH CANDY exit to Nepeansea/MALABAR HILL D/N

[bTSquarePeg | Sustainable Designs @btsquarepeg]

Hello @mahanagargas, anybody there?

This morning, I received a text containing my CA number, but can't complete registration on your website, because I don't yet have a BP number.

Please DM. Thanks.

[Nirupama Menon Rao 🇮🇳 @NMenonRao]

For Israel, the Iranian issue has never been only about the nuclear programme. It has also been about the emergence of a large, populous, resource-rich, technologically capable regional rival at the centre of the Middle East.

Iran possesses attributes that no other regional state quite combines: A population of around 90 million.
A highly educated scientific and technical base.
Significant industrial capacity.
Vast oil and gas reserves.
Strategic geography linking the Gulf, Central Asia, the Caucasus and the Indian Ocean.
A deep civilisational identity and state tradition.

Even after decades of sanctions, war, and isolation, Iran has remained consequential.

The counterfactual is striking.

Had Iran not spent much of the last four decades under sanctions and geopolitical pressure, it might today resemble something closer to Turkey on a much larger scale, or perhaps even a Middle Eastern equivalent of a G20 power.

That is why many Israelis have long believed that sanctions were not simply a tool to constrain nuclear ambitions. They were also a means of limiting the emergence of a powerful regional competitor.

Now imagine a different future.

If sanctions are eased, oil exports resume, frozen assets are released, shipping normalises through Hormuz, and foreign investment gradually returns, Iran could regain significant economic momentum. Recent reporting suggests that any emerging US-Iran understanding may include substantial sanctions relief, particularly on oil exports and associated financial services.

For Israel, that prospect is strategically uncomfortable. Which explains the meltdown in Jerusalem.

For India, however, the calculus is different. India has never viewed Iran as a threat.
A stronger Iran does not automatically diminish India’s position.

Indeed, a reintegrated Iran could create opportunities for Indian trade, connectivity, energy security, and regional diplomacy.

That does not mean India would welcome an Iranian nuclear weapon or regional destabilisation. It would not.
But India has no structural interest in keeping Iran permanently weak. This is perhaps where Indian and Israeli interests diverge most clearly.

Israel’s ideal outcome has often been a non-nuclear, economically constrained Iran.

India’s ideal outcome is a non-nuclear, stable, economically integrated Iran.

Those are not the same thing.

[Ashok Dadhwal @ashokdadhwal196]

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Residents in parts of Jammu & Kashmir woke up to a frightening reality: giant cracks running through homes, farmland, roads and hillsides, some reportedly wide enough for two people to stand inside. Families are being evacuated, fields are becoming unusable, and experts are investigating whether land subsidence, geological instability, water seepage, or other environmental factors are responsible. Similar land-sinking incidents have affected parts of Ramban, Doda and other Himalayan regions in recent years, causing displacement and infrastructure damage.

The immediate story is about cracked land. The larger story is about a fragile Himalayan ecosystem under growing stress. Across mountain regions, unplanned construction, road cutting, tunneling, deforestation, changing rainfall patterns and climate-related extremes can interact with natural geological vulnerabilities. When warnings are ignored, disasters often appear "sudden" only because risks were not taken seriously beforehand.

This is where governance must move beyond optics. Ribbon-cuttings, record claims and development announcements mean little if environmental assessments, scientific monitoring and disaster preparedness are treated as afterthoughts. Citizens do not need dramatic speeches after the ground cracks beneath their homes; they need transparent investigations, early-warning systems, accountable planning and rehabilitation that arrives before, not after, a crisis.

Nature does not respond to political narratives. Mountains follow geology, rivers follow physics and ecosystems follow ecological limits. Good governance respects those limits. Bad governance discovers them through disaster.

[Dr Firuzi Mehta @firuzimehta]

@UnlockTheExit @Dev_Fadnavis @AshwiniBhide @mybmc @fpjindia Let's also stop any other development (apart from creating a dense forest) on the reclaimed space UNTIL they give us the NSR exit. The road CANNOT take any more footfall/traffic. So no plazas, no other entertainment options. Not needed. What is needed is a forest and NSR exit.

[Abhijeet Dipke @abhijeet_dipke]

Chalo Dilli - 20 June

Dharmendra Pradhan Must Resign!

[Unlock.The.Exit @UnlockTheExit]

An evidence based campaign started by residents & supported by the entire corridor needs your attention & intervention immediately!
@Dev_Fadnavis @AshwiniBhide @mybmc

Thank you @fpjindia for supporting our cause!

#UnlockTheExit #MalabarHill #NapeanSeaRoad #BreachCandy

[Anirudh Kejriwal @AnirudhKejriwal]

To everyone saying "just use the metro."

The BKC metro station drops you 1.5-2.5km from most offices.
That last stretch? Auto or taxi. Back in traffic. Square one.

And to the genius saying “2-3km is walkable, Europeans do it all the time”

Yes, I walk 10-15km a day when I am in Europe. Happily.

But I am not walking in a city where pedestrians share the exact same road as trucks and buses, breathing direct exhaust from their tailpipes.

And if you still think Mumbai is London, Paris, or Shanghai - based on a WhatsApp forward your uncle sent - you are precisely the reason Mumbai is exactly where it is today.

[Zoru Bhathena @zoru75]

5 trees need 100 Sq Metres of land to grown into shady trees.

5 lac trees need 1 Crore Sq Metres of land to grow into shady trees

1Crore Sq Mtrs is 2470 Acres

Planting 5 lac trees in 80 Acres is a very shady plan

[Unlock.The.Exit @UnlockTheExit]

Traffic is already spilling beyond St. Stephen’s signal into surrounding neighbourhoods. Planning must address not just today’s congestion but tomorrow’s needs as well
NSR exit will better traffic distribution, improve connectivity & give safe passage to emergency services.

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

I visited the southernmost tip of India.

I stood at Indira Point. I walked under trees that have stood for centuries. I dove into coral reefs among the most vibrant on earth.

And I sat with the people who live there. Tribal communities, whose land is being taken away by violating the Forest Rights Act. Settlers, many of them former soldiers, placed on these islands by the Indian government, who aren’t getting fair compensation.

The Modi government and BJP tells you Great Nicobar Project is about defence. It is not.

Expand INS Baaz - we will back the government fully. The Navy has been asking for expansion for five years - it has been ignored.

They tell you it is about a transhipment port. It is not. India is already building one in Kerala, which is on the mainland.

What it actually is: 1.5 crore trees felled. Coral reefs erased from official maps. Soldiers and tribals displaced - so one businessman can build hotels and casinos on India’s most irreplaceable ecological land.

Every young Indian I have spoken to understands this. You know that no amount of profit is worth destroying what can never be recovered.

I stand for ecologically balanced development. These islands can be the most extraordinary sustainable destination the world has ever seen. That is the India worth fighting for.

#GreenOverGreed
#NicobarMatters
#WorldEnvironmentDay

[Unlock.The.Exit @UnlockTheExit]

For residents across Malabar Hill, Napean Sea Rd , Breach Candy & surrounding areas, this much needed NSR exit is a critical "missing link" that can help emergency services move faster when EVERY SECOND COUNTS

@Dev_Fadnavis @AshwiniBhide @CPMumbaiPolice @mybmc @MPLodha