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[IndiaToday @IndiaToday]

Researchers have identified nearly 30 Indian-language inscriptions in Egypt's Valley of the Kings, suggesting Indians visited the site about 2,000 years ago. One inscription repeatedly mentions an Indian traveller named Cikai Korran in Old Tamil, highlighting early India-Egypt connections.
Read: https://t.co/Mr1zy8nbxF

[JAY MERCHANT @CtBaroda]

એક યુગનો અંત!!
આખા ભારતમાં ફકત ગુજરાતી ભાષામાં વિજ્ઞાનનું મેગેઝિન #Safari પણ હવે બંધ થઈ રહ્યું છે!
એક સંસ્કૃતિ તરીકે આ આપણો સહિયારો પરાજય છે!
જ્યારે રાષ્ટ્ર પોતાના વાચકો ગુમાવે છે ત્યારે એ પોતાની સંસ્કૃતિ ગુમાવે છે! #NagendraVijay 💔 🙏🏻

@CMOGuj @narendramodi @AmitShah

[Aditi Raval 🇮🇳 @aditiraval]

💔Safari …

[Ajay Ahlawat @Ahlawat2012]

These drone attacks are not attack.
These are probes --
Testing AD, absorbing Electronic signature, understanding reaction time.

This is preparation for attack.

Either we wait and watch, or we act preemptively. That's the call.

[Sahil @Sahil_tweetss_]

Give him chance in next match against GT vs SRH @gujarat_titans 🙏🏻💙

[Ambarish Satwik @AmbarishSatwik]

What the salad tried to do to us.

The first ambition of any plant is to make itself uneatable. Long before anything clever walked on earth, plants settled on poisoning anything with a mouth. If you can’t run, you better taste terrible. The only way to stay alive was to face your predator (dinosaur, beetle, goat, man) with chemistry. Plants got clever in the only way available to them. They made toxins, astringents, enzymes, fibrous defences. Which made them and their parts bitter. Also indigestible, and outright poisonous.

In evolutionary terms, it was a cunning move. Not that the plant knows anything about cunning. But the natural consequence was deterrence. You bite, you suffer. You learn. You stop biting.

Humans responded in the human way. By using fire and other things. We boiled, we burned, we soaked, we crushed, we fermented. We pickled. We found ways to take the bitter poisonous offerings of plants to our hungers. We hacked our own biochem, made over 50 types of CYP450 enzymes. They’re fascinating. A plant toxin molecule (alkaloid, glucosinolate, cyanogenic glycoside, saponin etc) is like a greasy stain. CYP450s act like detergent: They grab it, break it apart, make it dissolve in water, and wash it away. Cats don’t have a lot of this stuff. The thiosulfates in a couple of cloves of garlic can trigger a dangerous oxidative crisis in cat blood. About four cloves (of garlic) can be a potentially lethal dose. A tiny amount of solanine from a raw potato can sicken and kill a rabbit. Without a particular kind of P450, a potato would be your last meal.

We figured out how to eat the enemy. And then we got kinky about it. Our tongues learned to relish the sting. And the rot. We started liking the burn and the bitterness. We started having poison for the plot. Hot sauce. Tannins. Coffee so strong it peels paint. Flavour is a toxin we’ve come to applaud.

Plants spent a hundred million years trying to kill us. We’ve spent a hundred million years learning to savour their attempts. That’s the story, give or take a few famines and a few million deaths.

[J.Sanjay Kumar,IRTS @Sanjay_IRTS]

Think twice before throwing empty water bottle from train window.

[DEV @Devpatel92]

@amd_blr Nah .... the best is Fortuner (White).

[Yusha Nafees @yushanafees0102]

My father works in a Sugar Mill ,I am a squash player and ranked number 1 in India Boys under 17 and I have been denied my US Visa for the World Junior Championship to represent India because I am poor .
Please help @sanjaysuri @DrSJaishankar @MEAIndia @CPVIndia

[Krishnamurti @K__Quotes]

The earth is being destroyed for your pleasure; you are being educated to kill and destroy.

[Sumit Nagal @nagalsumit]

Extremely glad to share that I have officially qualified for the 2024 Paris Olympics. This is a monumental moment for me as the Olympics holds a special place in my heart!

One of my career highlights so far was participating in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics (1/n)

[Kumar Manish @kumarmanish9]

मिलिए बिहार के देशप्रेमी से।
२१सदी में १८ सदी की जीती जागती कहानी। 🙏🏼

[Mufaddal Vohra @mufaddal_vohra]

Saurabh Netravalkar played for India at the 2010 U19 World Cup, at that time India lost against Pakistan where Babar Azam was part of it.

14 years later - Netravalkar has played a key role in defeating Babar Azam's Pakistan at the 2024 T20 World Cup.

[Kumar Manish @kumarmanish9]

Italians are complaining Indians are “loud” & “bad mannered” ! �� Irony.

Why do I see this more as a racist thing than anything else, if it has been some white billionaires partying whole night, the same people will be celebrating it with open arms.

Or May be Bollywood music. 🎵

PS: Genoa is known for vibrant night life, bars & yacht culture.

[Akshay Chaturvedi @Akshay001]

Phone is buzzing since morning. Hence this thread. Re The Ken’s piece on us, which unfortunately carries a false, misguided narrative.

^ Despite hours of calls, things explained to last detail, the ‘set narrative’ stayed. Despite ‘properly fleshed out comments, team told “can’t be carried” last evening .. of course, because it would distort the ‘set narrative’

Regardless, given we did the work, to share the truth, might as well put it here too:

1/n

[DEV @Devpatel92]

@kumarmanish9 Probably reduces harsh sunlight in the afternoon and increases the effectiveness of the air conditioner so it saves energy in a way.

[Mufaddal Vohra @mufaddal_vohra]

Shubman Gill said, "if I think about the T20 World Cup and play in that manner, then it would be injustice that I'll be doing to Gujarat Titans and myself. I've scored almost 900 runs last season, if I had to be picked then I'll be picked". (PTI).

[Neelesh Misra @neeleshmisra]

If this is true, another feather in the cap for Indian food quality regulators.
We truly have no idea what we are eating these days and we just trust that if they are approved by the authorities they must be safe.
The corruption of India’s food regulators has a direct impact on spiralling diseases including cancer.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Congratulations! The Indian earthquake in Toronto is the culmination of the shifting tectonic plates in the chess world as the 17 year old Gukesh D will face the Chinese champion Ding Liren for the highest title. The "children" of Vishy Anand are on the loose!

[Apoorv @apoorv3E]

My mind is blown. This is incredible. This is what excellence looks like. I am going to keep coming back to it from time to time.