Meet Kolkata’s Alpona Didi.
Every year before Diwali, 74YO Ratnabali steps out at 5 AM to draw intricate alponas on the doorsteps of strangers.
In a city where many young people have moved away and aging parents are often left to fend for themselves, her little lines of joy mean more than you’d think.
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[Traditional Alpona Art Of West Bengal, 74-Year-Old Rantabali Ghosh Reviving Bengali Cultural Heritage]
❝Whoever controls the electromagnetic battlefield, controls the battlefield.❞
Watch Italian electromagnetic warfare experts show how they scan thousands of signals to protect friendly communications, and disrupt adversary systems
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While we were asleep, Elon Musk launched a flying car, the new Tesla Roadster!
It doesn’t have wings like an airplane or rotor blades like a helicopter. It uses thrust from high pressure compressed air thrusters (SpaceX tech), just like a rocket or spaceship, to take off and maneuver.
It goes from 0 to 60 mph (0–97 km/h) in about 0.8 seconds.
Elon said the top speed should exceed 0.5 Mach (half the speed of sound, roughly 380+ mph/over 600 km/h).
Production is set to start in 2028.
Tesla invited a live audience to the unveiling so people wouldn’t dismiss the stunts as AI. The car performed wild moves: driving upside down on a ramp (using a suction system), flipping and hovering in the air, jumping over other Teslas, and landing cleanly….
At Gujarat’s Garba nights, some women in chaniya-cholis are doing more than dancing. They’re keeping a watchful eye on the crowd.
Ahmedabad Police’s SHE Team has sent women officers undercover in traditional attire to spot harassment, monitor suspicious behaviour and help women, children and senior citizens feel safer during Navratri.
Blending in with the revellers, these officers are working to ensure that the celebrations remain joyful and secure.
Kudos to these women in uniform, protecting others even when their uniforms are out of sight!
#AhmedabadPolice #Navratri2026 #WomensSafety #GujaratPolice #Garba
[Ahmedabad Police SHE Team undercover officers, Ahmedabad Police Navratri security arrangements]
🚀 Tesla can fly now!
The company @Tesla has unveiled its new Roadster sports car, which pulled off a backflip!
According to @elonmusk, the Roadster will be equipped with compressed-gas thrusters that will allow it to literally lift off the ground.
The claimed acceleration from 0 to 100 km/h is just 0.81 seconds!
An Australian engineer came to India for one unexpected reason: he wanted to meet Parveen Babi just after seeing her photograph in Time magazine.
That one encounter changed the course of his life.
He eventually became one of Bollywood’s most recognisable villains.
His name was Bob Christo.
Born in Sydney, Australia, Bob was a qualified civil engineer who had worked in several countries before arriving in India in the late 1970s.
His interest in Bollywood began after he saw a Time magazine feature on Parveen Babi in 1977.
He eventually met Parveen, and the two became friends. But his journey into films took an unexpected turn when filmmaker Sanjay Khan offered him a role in Abdullah (1980), playing an evil magician.
Bob went on to appear in more than 200 films, often playing foreign villains, henchmen and military officers.
Audiences may remember him as Mr. Wolcott in Mr. India (1987) and Mr. Donze in Roop Ki Rani Choron Ka Raja (1993). He also appeared in Qurbani (1980), Kaalia (1981) and Nastik (1983).
And it had all begun with a photograph of a Bollywood star in a magazine.
For the past 10 years, this 63-year-old man has been painting Kolkata’s electric boxes. Mudhar has transformed 400 ugly, poster-covered boxes into colourful artworks, all with his own money! Because a city isn’t made beautiful by its buildings and roads alone, but also by the people who treat it like home and work to make it better. Is there someone in your city who is making it a better place through small acts of kindness? Tell us in the comments!
#kolkata #DurgaPujo #Artist
[Old Man Transforms 400 Electric Boxes in Kolkata With Colourful Paintings | Kolkata Artist | Kolkata, City of Joy, Famous for Durga Puja]
Air France has confirmed it is complying with new Israeli restrictions that bar flight crew members from certain nationalities from operating flights to Israel, a policy that reportedly affects citizens of 31 countries, most of them Muslim-majority nations, including Pakistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Algeria and Tunisia.
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#AirFrance #Israel #Aviation #AirlineNews #MiddleEast #Pakistan #Iran #SaudiArabia #Algeria #Tunisia
CNN gains exclusive access to Erik Prince's operation in Haiti as security forces battle gangs that control much of Port-au-Prince. Nick Paton Walsh reports.
Watch the full report on https://t.co/KjqlV5cQHI.
🇮🇳⚓️🇷🇺 ‘Symbol of Strong Friendship’: Russia Welcomes Indian Navy’s INS Sahyadri for Bilateral Maritime Exercise ‘INDRA-2026’
‘Russia and India are historically connected by a bond of trust, mutual respect, and shared views on the security of the world’s oceans,’ 🇷🇺 Navy commander Alexei Ulyanenko said – noting the two nations’ ‘close strategic ties.’
📹: Pacific Fleet Press