Col R. Hariharan VSM Retd

Retd MI specialist on Terrorism & insurgency associated with Chennai Centre for China Studies. RT not endorsem

[Defence News Of INDIA @DefenceNewsOfIN]

♦️The "Five Eyes" intelligence alliance has issued an unprecedented joint security warning cautioning that Chinese military intelligence officers are systematically posing as human resource consultants and headhunters on professional networking platforms like LinkedIn to recruit insider assets.

🔷The Strategy

💠Target Platforms:
➡️Primarily LinkedIn and other professional networking sites.

💠Fake Personas:
➡️Posing as headhunters, HR consultants, or academic researchers.

💠The Hook:
➡️Offering lucrative speaking gigs, consulting fees, or research grants.

💠The Goal:
➡️Gradually grooming targets to pass classified or proprietary data.

🔷The recruitment tactics primarily involve:

💠Direct Outreach:
➡️Sending messages with lucrative, yet suspicious, job offers or consulting gigs.

💠Information Harvesting:
➡️Enticing cleared personnel to share proprietary or classified insights under the guise of an "expert interview" or research project.

💠Network Mapping:
➡️ Using connections in the defense, tech, and government sectors to broaden their reach.

🔷Who Is At Risk?

▶️Government officials
▶️Military personnel
▶️Defense contractors
▶️High-tech researchers
▶️Cleared executives

🔷Recommended Defenses

💠Verify Identities:
➡️Cross-reference recruiters through official corporate channels.

💠Report Requests:
➡️Flag suspicious approaches to corporate security or law enforcement.

💠Limit Exposure:
➡️Restrict the amount of sensitive project detail listed on public profiles.

[TH Culture @TheHinduMag]

A journey of the heart: One Sri Lankan officer’s transformative train adventure through India

@Meerasrini ✍️https://t.co/Kx0yQ5Cdi1

[NewsWire 🇱🇰 @NewsWireLK]

Colombo has been illuminated with vibrant lanterns and elaborate pandals as Vesak celebrations get underway.✨

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Vesak lanterns in Sri Lanka for the Vesak Festival.

They are the most iconic visual symbol of the Vesak Festival in Sri Lanka, the holiest Buddhist holiday commemorating the birth, enlightenment, and passing of Lord Buddha.

[India in Sri Lanka @IndiainSL]

ඉන්දියාව සහ ශ්‍රී ලංකාව අතර ඓතිහාසික ජනතා සම්බන්ධතා යළි අවධාරණය කරමින්!

ආන්ද්‍රා ප්‍රදේශ් සිට පැවතගෙන එන ප්‍රජාවක් වෙසෙන කුඩාගම ගම්මානයට ගියෙමි. අනුරාධපුර, මහනුවර, වවුනියාව සහ ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ අනෙකුත් දිස්ත්‍රික්කයන්හිද තෙළිඟු සම්භවයක් සහිත ජනතාව වෙසෙන තවත් මෙවැනි ගම්මාන තිබෙන බව දැන ගත්තෙමි.

තම තෙළිඟු මූලයන් අනාගත පරම්පරාවන් සඳහා ද පෝෂණය කිරීමට ගම්වැසියන් දක්වන කැමැත්ත මෙහිදී විශේෂයෙන් කැපී පෙනුණි. මෙම ප්‍රයත්නය සඳහා සම්පූර්ණ සහයෝගය සහතික කළෙමි.

මෙම සංචාරය තුළින් අපගේ නූතන සබඳතා ශක්තිමත් කරන ගැඹුරු ඓතිහාසික සහ ශිෂ්ටාචාරමය අක්මුල් හි තවත් පැතිකඩක් පිළිබිඹු විය. 🇮🇳🤝🇱🇰

[Santosh Jha @santjha]

Connecting 🇮🇳-🇱🇰 Shores!

Visited the Passenger Ferry service operating between Nagapattinam in 🇮🇳 and Kankesanthurai (KKS) in 🇱🇰.

To support operational sustainability, India is providing a Viability Gap Funding mechanism amounting to over LKR 300 million annually for the ferry's operation.

Also discussed requirements for the KKS modernization project, for which 🇮🇳 has committed USD 61.5 million to upgrade the harbour and boost regional trade and tourism.🤝

@MEAIndia
@IndianDiplomacy
@IndiainSL
@DDNewslive
@airnewsalerts
@dpa_mea

[Board of Investment of Sri Lanka @Investin_SL]

📢 Extended deadline: Green Hydrogen/Ammonia RFI #SriLanka
We have extended the submission deadline for the Request for Information (RFI) on the development of #GreenHydrogen and #GreenAmmonia projects in Sri Lanka.
New closing date: 19 June 2026, 1500 hrs (SL Time)
The RFI invites qualified local and international investors, developers, and operators to submit project concepts for:
🔹 Green Hydrogen/Ammonia manufacturing
🔹 Export terminals and storage facilities
🔹 Green hydrogen component manufacturing

Eligible projects may benefit from @Investin_SL facilitation, including fiscal #incentives, infrastructure support, and regulatory facilitation.

📋 Download the RFI Form:
https://t.co/UTiBciKn5J | https://t.co/aSVjOThg01
📧 [email protected] | [email protected]
@anuradisanayake @PMDNewsGov @sinoprise @AdaniGreen @PetroleumMin @Shell @ENERGY @BRI_SL @slcgdxb @DXBMediaOffice @Entrepreneur @EnrgyStorageCAN @GermanySrilanka @GermanySrilanka @AusHCSriLanka @USEmbSL @USAmbSL @ChinaEmbSL @PDChina @ChinaScience @SLinJapan @USAID @CNBCEnergy @energygovuk @wef @LindEngineering @AirLiquideBNL @PlugPowerInc @BallardPwr @EnergyAfc @FinMinIndia @MFASriLanka @mfa_russia @UKParliament @Mahishini @sanjiva @Sanath07 @Chathurangaab @EranWick @elonmusk @chamath @pcranawaka @hazergroupltd @airproducts @SLinSweden @EU_in_Sri_Lanka @EUEnergyNews

[Sputnik India @Sputnik_India]

🚨🇺🇸US shows its ugly side of racism

A US resident was filmed tearing up an Indian flag outside City Hall while shouting, "F*** India" — and onlookers cheered him on.

This is the country that lectures others on 'diversity' and 'tolerance.'

[Ramesh Pandey @rameshpandeyifs]

Defragmeting the fragmented stretch. The results are encouraging indeed.

[Rahul Shivshankar @RShivshankar]

THEY MIGHT TEAR UP THE TRICOLOUR BUT THEY CAN'T TEAR UP THE TRUTH.
Study by top U.S. think tank reveals:
1. Immigrant entrepreneurs in U.S. billion-dollar startups are diverse, hailing from 76 different countries. India, with 96 companies, is the leading country of origin for the immigrant founders of U.S. billion-dollar companies.
2. Founding a company valued at $1 billion is a remarkable achievement. NFAP has identified at least 15 immigrants who have founded two or more billion-dollar companies. Six of the 15 were born in India before immigrating to America.

[Santosh Jha @santjha]

Visited Hanumanji’s footprint at Delft Island (Tamil name - Neduntheevu), Sri Lanka

[Maj Gen Raju Chauhan, VSM (veteran)🇮🇳 @SoldierNationF1]

This pic in last few days has become viral and bizarre comments are being given.

The young officer went little overboard but that doesn’t mean that there was security breach. Very often Know Your Army events are organised for public and everyone clicks pics with weapons and equipment. This serves as motivation for children.
This pic in fact is a good motivational poster for Army recruitment

[KJS DHILLON🇮🇳 @TinyDhillon]

@asgardian1221 @colhari2 @mananbhattnavy @Chellaney All are four star generals … equal rank, not one above

[Shashank Mattoo @MattooShashank]

"Indians in America make twice as much as American-born citizens. It's because we come from a high trust society with Christian values. But when you get people from foreign cultures based on corruption, they bring it with them," says ex-US Ambassador appointed by Trump on India

[The Rocket Media @TheRocketMediaX]

Meet Jayant Narlikar!
(One of India’s Greatest Astrophysicists)

Worked on some of the deepest questions about gravity, cosmology, and the origin of the universe.

> He was born in Kolhapur, Maharashtra, in 1938
> Grew up in an academic family at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi
> Studied mathematics at BHU and later at the University of Cambridge
> Became Senior Wrangler at Cambridge, one of the highest distinctions in mathematics
> Completed his PhD in cosmology in 1963 under the legendary physicist Fred Hoyle
> Became a founding member of Hoyle’s Institute of Theoretical Astronomy at Cambridge
> Returned to India in 1972 and joined TIFR, Mumbai
> In 1988, became the founding director of IUCAA, Pune

Along with Fred Hoyle, he developed the Hoyle–Narlikar theory of gravity and later worked on alternative cosmological models challenging conventional ideas about the universe.

But his contribution went far beyond research papers.

> He became one of India’s strongest voices for scientific temper and evidence-based thinking
> Publicly opposed pseudoscience and astrology
> Wrote science books, science fiction, textbooks, and spent decades making astronomy accessible to ordinary people

Over his lifetime, he received:

> Smith’s Prize at Cambridge (1962)
> Padma Bhushan (1965)
> Adams Prize (1967)
> UNESCO Kalinga Prize (1996)
> Padma Vibhushan (2004)
> And was posthumously awarded the Vigyan Ratna in 2025

Jayant Narlikar passed away in 2025, leaving behind one of the most remarkable legacies in Indian science.

From BHU to Cambridge, from TIFR to building IUCAA in Pune, his journey remains a powerful reminder that India can produce not just world-class scientists, but also thinkers who inspire an entire society to look at the universe with curiosity and reason.

[Harry Theocharous @TheocharousH]

KAZAKHSTAN SAYS YES TO CYPRUS, NO TO TURKEY🚨

Kazakhstan publicly backs UN Security Council Resolutions 541 & 550, declaring the Turkish-occupied “TRNC” illegal and invalid.

Despite shared Turkic ties, not only Kazakhstan, but Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan too are refusing to recognize the occupation regime in northern Cyprus.

They continue to recognize only the Republic of Cyprus as the legitimate government of the entire island.
This move has angered Ankara and the occupation leader Tufan Erhurman, especially as President Christodoulides visits Kazakhstan to open a Cyprus embassy in Astana, sign MOUs and bilateral agreements.

A new connection between Cyprus and Kazakhstan started yesterday. Air Astana launched its inaugural direct flight from Astana to Larnaca. The return flight carried President Christodoulides and members of the government, making it the first official visit by a Cypriot president to Kazakhstan.

Cultural brotherhood has its limits, these Turkic states prioritize international law and pragmatic relations over doing Turkey any favors on the Cyprus issue.

[Sputnik India @Sputnik_India]

🚨🇮🇳🇷🇺 India turns to Russia for major industrial projects on its eastern coast

Andhra Pradesh Minister Nara Lokesh has proposed Russian chemical giant Ruschem to help build:

🔸A chemical processing plant in the Vizag-Kakinada PCPIR
🔸Port logistics hubs
🔸Low-carbon manufacturing plants
🔸Bulk chemical storage infrastructure

The proposed projects would be centered around India's fast-growing eastern coast.

[Clash Report @clashreport]

WATCH: Germany failed to win a UN Security Council seat for the first time in its modern history, receiving only 104 votes.

Portugal and Austria were elected instead.

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

Today the EU made American AI illegal in 27 countries.

The reason is ONE sentence Microsoft's own lawyer said under oath:

This morning in Brussels, EU Tech Chief Henna Virkkunen unveiled the Cloud and AI Development Act. It's the most aggressive anti-American tech move from Europe since GDPR.

The law forces EU public sector procurement in banking, healthcare, defense, and energy to apply mandatory non-price factors favoring software and hardware built inside the EU. Microsoft Azure can be cheaper, AWS can be faster, Google Cloud can have the better model, and EU governments MUST legally prefer European alternatives.

AWS, Microsoft, and Google currently control roughly 70% of the European cloud market. Brussels is now openly targeting greater independence from US providers in cloud, AI, and semiconductors.

The largest regulatory market-share transfer in tech history is being written into law right now.

But the real story is how this happened...

On June 10, 2025, a man almost no one outside Brussels had heard of walked into the French Senate. His name is Anton Carniaux, Director of Public and Legal Affairs at Microsoft France.

Senator Dany Wattebled asked him under oath whether he could guarantee that data belonging to French citizens, stored on Microsoft European servers, would never be transmitted to US authorities without explicit consent from the French government.

Carniaux answered honestly. He admitted he could not guarantee it, because Microsoft must comply with the US CLOUD Act regardless of where European data physically sits. One sentence of sworn testimony from Microsoft's own counsel killed every sovereign cloud defense Big Tech had spent five years building.

It became the legal foundation for the law unveiled today.

Then Trump accelerated the divorce.

January 2025 brought executive orders expanding US surveillance authorities. Vance went to Munich and attacked European democracies on stage.

The tariffs followed and so did the Pentagon's $200 million AI contract war that ended with OpenAI replacing Anthropic after Hegseth labeled it a supply chain risk. So did OpenAI's Stargate and yesterday's Trump AI Executive Order, whose Section 3 lets the White House pick which AI companies get 30-day early access to frontier models. American AI was officially declared a US government strategic asset.

Europe heard every word of it.

On May 12, Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch told the French National Assembly that Europe had 24 months to build sovereign AI infrastructure or become a permanent US VASSAL state.

And the response came fast:

April 24: Cohere acquired Germany's Aleph Alpha for $20 billion with both Germany's and Canada's digital ministers in the room at the Berlin announcement. May 30: SoftBank committed up to $87 BILLION for French nuclear-powered data centers, the largest AI infrastructure project in European history.
Yesterday: EU Parliament announced it's dropping Google for French search engine Qwant tomorrow. France ordered every government workstation off Windows and onto Linux.

Today the Cloud and AI Development Act made all of it law.

- Mistral is building a 1.4 gigawatt AI campus near Paris by 2028 with Nvidia, MGX, and Bpifrance
- SAP's EU AI Cloud, launched last November, runs on Cohere, Mistral, and SAP's own sovereign infrastructure
- McKinsey forecasts $600 billion in sovereign AI needs by 2030

None of that money is going to Silicon Valley.

The America First AI policy built a wall around the world's most regulated economy, and American companies are on the wrong side of it.

Microsoft's lawyer told the truth in a Senate hearing nobody watched. Trump turned that admission into a national security narrative while the EU turned that narrative into procurement law.

And one entire continent walked away from the American tech stack...

[Rabi Lamichhane @hamrorabi]

It was indeed a great delight to engage in such a productive hour-long conversation with Hon. PM @narendramodi today. I share your vision for a future where Nepal and India transcend past constraints to embrace a new era of development diplomacy. By focusing on shared civilizational bonds, digital corridors, and seamless connectivity, we can truly build a partnership defined by progress and mutual trust. RSP looks forward to translating these possibilities into reality for people of Nepal and India - for our shared prosperity.