Akalank

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[Elanchezhiyan @Elan_chezhiyan]

• Parandur Greenfield Airport — planned investment: ₹20,000–32,700 crore, with 2 runways, cargo hub, AeroCity, and capacity for 10 crore passengers annually.

• Chennai Metro extension to Parandur — ₹15,906 crore for a 53-km corridor with 20 stations connecting Poonamallee, Sriperumbudur, Sunguvarchatram, and the airport.

• Initial metro preparatory works already sanctioned — ₹2,126 crore allocated for land acquisition and preliminary civil works.

• Chennai–Bengaluru Expressway connectivity and new greenfield corridors planned around the airport region to create a western logistics and industrial belt.

• AeroCity, logistics parks, hotels, commercial zones, and industrial expansion around Sriperumbudur–Parandur expected to attract thousands of crores in private investment and jobs.

If Parandur Airport is dropped, Tamil Nadu risks losing ₹50,000+ crore worth of planned infrastructure — including the airport, ₹15,906 crore metro link, expressway connectivity, AeroCity, logistics hubs, and massive job creation that could transform western Chennai into India’s next economic corridor.

@CMOTamilnadu @TVKVijayHQ @reclaimchennai @UpdatesChennai @HariraamTrajan @Super_Chennai_ @NammaChennai_ @BussyAnand

[Akalank @extraOLS]

The flat is completely set up and ready to move in — it has all appliances, a fully equipped kitchen, WiFi, AC, and is located in a gated society of independent flats with full power backup.

[PenPencilDraw @penpencildraw]

Blame.

[Parth MN @parthpunter]

Most of our newspapers have a weird autocorrect.

It changes "delimitation" to "women".

[Mahua Moitra @MahuaMoitra]

Dear @narendramodi your party has the lowest percentage of women among all parties in Lok Sabha . Implement Women’s Reservation NOW based on 543 seats - what is stopping you? Jumlabazi Nahi Chalegi

[Karthik 🇮🇳 @beastoftraal]

The bill: The Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill, 2026
The newspapers that toed BJP's line (and fell for BJP's electoral ploy, the very point of RUSHING this bill) and called it 'Women's Quota Bill' (or similar framing) and the newspapers that did not.

[Satish Acharya @satishacharya]

Women's 33% quota. #womensquota

[Veena @veenavenugopal]

Why @the_hindu matters

[Siddharth @svaradarajan]

Proud of my old newspaper, @the_hindu, take a bow @nambath, the only paper to have the correct headline for what transpired in parliament yesterday. All other newspapers seem to have bought the government’s spin that the ‘opposition defeated women’s reservation’!

[P. Wilson @PWilsonDMK]

Today I introduced a private Member's Bill that would have delinked implementation of Women's Reservation in Lok Sabha & Assemblies from census and delimitation & brought into force immediately.

I had given a notice under Rule 267 requesting the Hon. Chairman, RS to permit motion of the Bill. However he refused permission.

My Bill also extended the freeze on delimitation till 2051 and required ratification of 2/3rd majority of States to reallocate Lok Sabha seats.

The Government did not support this Bill. What could have been done so simply was turned into a complicated affair because the BJP has no intention of implementing Women's Reservation. This proves beyond doubt that the BJP led NDA only wants to play politics in the name of #NariShakti and sneak in #delimitation.

Instead of shouting from the rooptops, I challenge the BJP to adopt my PMB or bring a Bill similar to mine to implement Women's Reservation without 'ifs and buts' and linkage to delimitation or census.

If they can't, it's further proof that BJP is Bharatiya Jumla Party.

[Srivatsa @srivatsayb]

At 543 seats (current LS):

Karnataka : 28
Madhya Pradesh : 29
Rajasthan : 25
Gujarat : 25
UP : 80

At 850 seats, as per BJP’s bill:

Karnataka : 41
Madhya Pradesh : 52
Rajasthan : 50
Gujarat : 43
UP : 143

While Karnataka’s and rest of South India’s share falls, North Indian states will see huge increases. Even with proportional increase, absolute numbers of North Indian states will see huge gains.

Why should the South and even the east be punished for controlling population which was recommended path in 1976?

[Years Progress @YearsProgress]

2025 is 32% complete.

[Jay @thetrickytrade]

Wow! @_groww users take note.

Allegedly, investor invests via Groww.
Groww generates folio numbers and shows investments that don't exist with the AMC.
Investor places redemption request, it fails. Groww tries to remove entries from their systems for the investment.

Absolutely nuts if true!

[Shantanu Goel @shantanugoel]

Never ever use groww. Just use MFCentral/MFUtility.

Deeply unethical company.

- Hoard customer money
- Generate Fake Foleo/investment details
- Blackmail and arm twist to remove social media posts as a condition to refund and fix their own scam when caught

[Lokesh Bag @lokeshbag67]

Today marks the 97th anniversary of the historic Mahad Satyagraha.

Here's a thread discussing this revolutionary non-violent protest, which was a significant milestone in the fight for social justice, dignity and equality for Dalits. 🧵

[karthik (inactive era) @karthi9003]

Along with the currently available map of the Op + UC Chennai Metro lines, a more simplified, easy to read map without roads and other distractions is available in the same repo now. This version has much bigger font, so should be better for static viewing.

Check it out!

[Dr. Ruchika Sharma @tishasaroyan]

2023 was the year we learnt the following in history

1) Nalanda was not burnt/destroyed by Bakhtiyar Khalji, there's no primary source for that as I explain here https://t.co/UL333Po7Ih

2) Forced conversions done by Mughals is a myth, and 9 more Mughal myths here https://t.co/VLc152cRZN

3) Chariots were not found in Sinauli and 7 more Indus Valley myths busted here https://t.co/kaVccPIKEC and here https://t.co/9f4GuxLwAx

4) A Buddhist monastery was burnt to a crisp by Kashmiri king Kshemagupta, details here https://t.co/IpIj7Vr3ph

5) Sati was a tradition as old as 3rd century BCE and did not start as a reaction to the Turks, 25+ examples of Sati here https://t.co/26r1AyY7HX

6) The tale of 8000 jainas being impaled and many jaina to Shaiva temple conversions here https://t.co/MsHHvRbUKr

Special mention: The Aryan Migration Theory is now proven with 2 genetic studies, explained here https://t.co/PwDQPiRDvv

March along in 2024, we'll be busting many more myths of Indian history! 💪

[Akalank @extraOLS]

This thread has too many typos and I'm not paying for premium to correct any of them

[Akalank @extraOLS]

One of the things I don't like about modern life is the marketing to track everything: steps, kms of cycling, calories and hell, even sleep.

I sometimes go on a long cycling ride and if there's no Strava to track it I'm somehow quite less motivated to the extra km.

[Akalank @extraOLS]

And a 40km cycle ride is still a 40km cycle ride without a map and stats from Strava. But my brain needs to see the number to feel accomplished.