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[Laraa @Lara_0xo]

Imagine the extent of the psychological shock that the car owner is suffering from in this moment.

[The Khel India @TheKhelIndia]

VITHYA RAMRAJ AT ASIAN GAMES 2026!

🥇 Women’s 4x400m Relay (Anchor Leg)
🥈 Mixed 4x400m Relay (Anchor Leg)
🥉 Women’s 400m Hurdles (NR)

3 event & 3 medals. 🫡

She broke PT Usha’s 42-year-old National Record in the 400m hurdles and delivered crucial anchor legs in both relay medals including today’s GOLD! 🥇

WHAT A CAMPAIGN! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[Dr F.M Agha @fm_Aagha]

Greatest video of all time

[Sivasri Skandaprasad 🇮🇳 @ArtSivasri]

I had a traumatic train ride today. It is very sad to see how people do not respect public spaces enough. When we are in the public, we should not shout or even talk loudly and disrespect every individual’s personal space in Public. As artists, we have a 100 thoughts running. And we thrive in silence. Everyone can understand the initial excitement when travelling in a big group in a train. But imagine a group of 40 middle aged adults occupying a 56 seater coach and talking so loudly to everyone for 5 hours. Non stop. Problem in India is nobody can question them. It is an unsaid rule that the other 16 of us which aren’t part of the group should simply endure them. So I requested the TTE if I could get another seat in a different coach. He tried but unfortunately since the train was full, I had to simply stay in the same coach but a different seat. Suddenly a group of 8, that was already yapping and laughing non stop, started playing UNO. And then I requested the TTE if anything could be done. He requested them to stop and they immediately stopped. But after a couple of minutes TTE came back and mockingly asked them ‘yaake sir galaatte maadtaideera?’ (Why are you creating nuisance?) and they had a good laugh with him and said, ‘sir Neevu banni, adona’(Sir you also join, let’s play). So the concern here is not about who won. Myself, along with them, as Indians, lost the Civic sense game. When will we as a nation improve our public behaviour?

[Aparna @chhuti_is]

This most beautiful photograph.

[Bar and Bench @barandbench]

There are essential medicines for cancer for which MRP is ₹27000 and PTR (price to retailer) is ₹2700. That’s absolute rampage and carnage and broad day light dacoity with the patients. How can a patient be cheated for a medicine which the manufacturer sells to the retailer at ₹2700 and MRP is printed at ₹27000? It is surprising that the authorities who are supposed to take a decision on this are absolutely silent. We need not spell out the reasons for that: Supreme Court

[Ilaiyaraaja @ilaiyaraaja]

I offer my sincere gratitude to the Honorable Enver Erdogan MP, Minister for Finance, Victorian Government, and the Members of Parliament for having my 50-year journey commemorated through a ceremonial stamp release. Being born in a small, remote village in Tamil Nadu and honored in an Australian Parliament is truly touching. I also take this opportunity to thank the countless people who gave life to my music, the artists who walked beside me, and generations of listeners who welcomed my compositions. @OneMercuri

[Mayukh Biswas @MayukhDuke]

Humanity. ❤️

Fishermen rescue elephant calf from Teesta River in Gajoldoba, reunite it with mother.

[Parveen Kaswan, IFS @ParveenKaswan]

What an amazing view and video.

Today this small calf of 3–4-days was swept away by the Teesta River near Gajoldoba and found several kilometres downstream. While mother was looking after it.

With the timely efforts of the Baikunthapur Forest Division, support from local fishermen, and veterinary care, the calf was safely rescued and reunited with its mother, who immediately accepted and nursed it.

Just look at how mother behaved !!

[hotchoco @choco_late_hot]

#mustwatch

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[Timeless Canon @GuGi263]

Back in 2003, a German film crew filming in the Gobi Desert captured an incredibly moving moment: after a tough two-day birth, a mother camel rejected her newborn. A nomadic family then performed the ancient Hoos singing ritual passed down for generations. Once the song ended, the camel shed tears and finally accepted her baby. This powerful scene became one of the most memorable parts of the Oscar-nominated documentary The Story of the Weeping Camel.

[hotchoco @choco_late_hot]

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[hotchoco @choco_late_hot]

#mustwatch

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[American wellness @US_Wellness_]

General Anesthesia And Its Risks That Nobody Talks About

[Kurugu Magazine @KuruguTeam]

2026 ஆம் ஆண்டிற்கான விஷ்ணுபுரம் இலக்கிய விருது விட்டல்ராவ் அவர்களுக்கு அறிவிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது . அவருக்கு வாழ்த்துக்கள்💐💐💐https://t.co/iWQfqJNFyO

[Tehxi @yajnshri]

The Conversation Hidden in Plain Sight

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

Nokia was so futuristic...

[Ladakh Marathon @Ladakh_Marathon]

122 KM.
12 hours and 12 minutes.
All with a smile on his face.

Nawang Tsering, we are in awe. 🙌

[Malay Krishna @Malay4Product]

Every Indian should know this one, and here is why.

Five students from IIT Madras just got a patent granted by the toughest patent office in the world. :)

Now here is what they actually invented.

See, satellites look at Earth two ways.

The first is a normal camera, just a very good one.

Sharp, full colour, easy to read. The catch is it needs sunlight and clear sky. Clouds block it. Night blocks it. Smoke blocks it.

Over India during the monsoon, it is basically blind for months.

The second is radar.

It fires radio waves at the ground and reads the echo. Radio waves pass straight through cloud, smoke and darkness, so radar works at 3 am in heavy rain.

But the picture it gives you is grey and strange. It shows shape and texture, not colour. Reading it takes a lot of training.

So one gives you a beautiful image you often cannot capture. The other gives you an image you can always capture but struggle to understand.

The fix obviously is to combine them.

People tried for years and it did not work well, for a simple reason.

The two images came from different satellites. The camera photographed a field at 10 in the morning from one angle. The radar satellite scanned it at 4 in the afternoon from a different angle. Lay one over the other and nothing lines up.

Different time, different position, different view. You are not looking at the same moment.

GalaxEye's patent covers a way to put both sensors on one satellite and make them fire together. Same instant, same patch of ground, same angle.

The invention is the architecture that keeps the two locked in.

The same technology was already patented in India. Now the US has recognised it too. The company says this makes it the first Indian startup to hold a US patent for satellite imaging technology.

Obviously there are plenty of applications for that technology like defence radars to see through camouflage and tree cover.

In farming, the technology will allow us to watch crops during monsoon, exactly when normal satellites cannot see.

Interestingly, the idea came from a real problem. Suyash Singh was assessing wildfire damage in California using satellite data.

The camera images were useless because of the smoke. The radar images were available but were hard to interpret.

Now you understand why the solution is simply genius. :)

GalaxEye was founded in 2021 by five IIT Madras alumni. Suyash Singh, Denil Chawda, Kishan Thakkar, Pranit Mehta and Rakshit Bhatt.

They met while building Team Avishkar Hyperloop.

In 2019 that team was the only Asian entry to reach the finals of SpaceX's global hyperloop competition. They built India's first self propelled hyperloop pod.

Then they decided to build satellites instead. Incubated at IIT Madras, based in Bengaluru, backed by Mela Ventures, Speciale Invest, ideaForge and Rainmatter.

On 3 May this year they launched Mission Drishti on a Falcon 9. The world's first OptoSAR satellite. At around 190 kg it was India's largest privately built Earth observation satellite at the time.

So, five people who were students seven years ago had an original idea, patented it in India, built the hardware, flew it on a Falcon 9 and then got the invention recognised by the US patent office.

Amazing! 🇮🇳

[Vishwaroop Samajdar @vibhusam28]

This is a common sense thing but also a hot take for the automakers as they are not gonna like what I am about to say.

WHY should a person buying a relatively lower variant of a car be getting crap headlights?

You talk about standard 6 Airbags,
5 star this that NCAP rating

Isn't the headlight like the MOST BASIC safety equipment? If you can't see enough, you're more likely to crash.

Automakers are not the only ones to blame here, there are a large number of certified unevolved species of people out there who would prefer a large 56" OLED TV or a hole in the roof of the car instead of great headlights.

As a result, those things end up being available in the lower variants but not the good projector headlights and fog lamps.

Good basics don't make headlines,
An awesome brochure does.