NirMan

Technocrat / Nature Lover / Active Citizen. Aspiring for better change in Society. Contributing for the sustainable environment.

[Aravind @aravind]

Regulate reels. If not at least ban their monetization. A lot of issues for India created from outside will end.

An average Indian uses 28 GB data at one of the world's lowest rates. Of that nearly 20 GB is used for useless dance and drama reels.

Freeing that will free a lot of capital for Indian ISPs to provide internet to very remote areas.

And also better internet to serious customers and content makers using it for educational content, work, video conferencing and such.

Squeezing Indian companies to provide cheap data that's only used by India's adversaries without a challenge to program Indians using fake news and perversion is suicide.

[NirMan @ForGoodChange]

@aparanjape @CNTIndia As a Goan, I am happy 😃 to see the list

[Hamdan bin Mohammed @HamdanMohammed]

During a visit to Captain Smit Machchhar… the flydubai pilot who embodied the highest degrees of courage, responsibility, and care for human life.

From us, and from the leadership of the nation, he has our full appreciation and praise.

We are proud that he is part of our team… part of the story of our nation… and part of what the UAE stands for… a nation of compassion… a nation of peace… and a nation of life.

[Sudheendra Kulkarni @SudheenKulkarni]

Let's stop the misuse of the SC/ST Act at IITs -- and everywhere in India

Let's stand in solidarity with Prof Suryanarayana Doolla.

My appeal to all fellow IITians and faculty members of all IITs.

[Ratan Sharda 🇮🇳 रतन शारदा @RatanSharda55]

I am nearly sure that this Woke virus carrying lady entered IITB through Humanities. Yes, Delete Humanities from all STEM institutions to isolate them against this poison that will deal death blow to merit & excellence. By all means have Reservations for entry. After that, give best nurturing, empowerment with special support for studies & adjustment in new environment but not encourage failure.

[Mohandas Pai @TVMohandasPai]

Minister @prahladJoshi this is very very wrong. The professor upheld the rules. The law should protect him @AmitShah

[Tehseen Poonawalla Official 🇮🇳 @tehseenp]

DON'T MINCE WORDS !

What is happening with the IIT BOMBAY professor Dr Doolla is wrong! We neeed to stand up and fight against this injustice!

Education is being destroying this way. Who will stay in INDIA if this continues?

If we care about our beautiful INDIA, if we don't want brain drain, if we care for merit, let us stand up for Professor Dr Doolla!

2 other students committed suicide in IIT BOMBAY, they were from the GC.

We need to focus on IIT BOMBAY & why so many students committed suicide: not charge Professor Dr Doolla under the SC ST act.

TEAM BHARAT stands unconditionally with professor Dr Doolla.

@OGTeamBharat @FactswithDinesh @nachiket1982 @Nidhzee @Alamkhan19bs @Shankyram2

[Pune Mirror @ThePuneMirror]

Pune is seeing a growing number of "invisible vehicles" on its roads — cars, bikes and trucks moving around without number plates, and it's worrying transport officials. While driving without number plates isn't new in the city, what's raising fresh concern is the rising number of new vehicles spotted without HSRPs, leading officials to suspect that owners may be deliberately removing these high-security plates with help from local garages. RTO officials say HSRPs are tamper-proof and can't be reinstalled once removed, so people may be taking them off to get "fancy numbers" or simply to avoid being traced. While no garages have been found directly involved in tampering so far, officials suspect a bigger issue — several vehicle dealerships releasing new vehicles without fitting HSRPs at all, despite it being mandatory. Commuters have also noticed the trend, especially among younger riders on two-wheelers, possibly believing untraceable vehicles are safer to ride carelessly. RTO officials admitted that tracking a vehicle without a number plate is "nearly impossible," even with CCTV networks, since thousands of vehicles share the same colour or model. While Pune's regional transport officer did not respond to queries, officials confirmed a few dealerships have already been issued notices for HSRP violations.

#Punetimesmirror #PuneRTO #HSRP #PuneNews #VehicleSafety

[सोल्जर मोहन @SoldierMohaN]

मंजिलें उन्हीं को मिलती है, जिनके सपनों में जान होती है।
पंख से कुछ नहीं होता, हौसलों से उड़ान होती है।।

जय हिंद की बेटी 🇮🇳 🫡

[SK @Djoko_UTD]

Alexander Zverev is living on needles for the last 25 years...taking Insulin everyday since age 4.

Today at 29, he became a TWO TIME GRAND SLAM CHAMPION.

Huge Inspiration to children with diabetes. He runs a foundation for the same 👏

[Pune Mirror @ThePuneMirror]

Pune's roads are full of illegal, fancy number plates — wrong fonts, symbols, names, you name it. These openly break HSRP rules, yet nobody seems to be checking. If plates can be tampered with this easily, how will police trace vehicles during accidents or crimes? The big question: what is the RTO even doing?

#Punetimesmirror #PuneTraffic #RTOPune #PuneNews #TrafficRules

[Sann @san_x_m]

For years, doctors noticed something strange about vaccines in India.

Vaccines that worked well in Europe and America worked less well in Indian children. Same vaccine, same dose, weaker protection.

Most people accepted it. One scientist in Vellore spent 30 years asking why.

Her name is Gagandeep Kang.

She trained as a doctor at Christian Medical College in Vellore, in Tamil Nadu, and then did something unusual for a physician. She went into the laboratory and stayed there.

Her subject was the gut.

Specifically, the guts of children in poor households. She studied what repeated diarrhoeal infection does to a child's intestine over the first years of life.

What she found matters enormously. Those repeated infections do not just make a child ill. They damage the lining of the gut, stunt growth, and interfere with how the body responds to oral vaccines.

That is why a vaccine developed in a clean environment abroad underperforms in a child who has had 10 infections before the age of 2. The problem was never the vaccine. It was what the child's gut had already been through.

Then she went further than diagnosis.

Rotavirus is the leading cause of severe diarrhoea in small children and it kills a very large number of them. India had access to imported rotavirus vaccines, but they were expensive and often out of reach for the families who needed them most.

Kang led the clinical trials for Rotavac, India's first indigenous rotavirus vaccine, made by an Indian company. She was also central to the work behind a second one, Rotasiil.

Both are now approved by the World Health Organisation. Rotavac went into India's national immunisation programme, which means it reaches children whose parents pay nothing for it.

In 2019 she became the first Indian woman scientist working in India to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, the scientific body founded in London in 1660. It took 359 years.

She has served on the World Health Organisation's global advisory committee on vaccine safety, and she now leads global health work at one of the largest health foundations in the world.

She built her career on a question most people did not think was worth asking.

Not how do we get vaccines to poor children. But why do they not work as well when they get there.

[Amit Paranjape @aparanjape]

Another one... need strict clampdown on this nonsense!

cc @DGPMaharashtra @Dev_Fadnavis

[Varad Bhatkhande | Journalist @VaradBhatkhande]

🚨 SECOND SUCH INCIDENT IN PIMPRI-CHINCHWAD! A road was blocked for an Instagram reel, with car MH14NN0005 seen in the video. This comes days after the Bavdhan highway reel chaos. How many more roads will be blocked for reels? Stricter action like is needed just like last time

[Shilpa Godbole @godbole_shilpa]

Look at this! Vidyanand Bapat assaulted for daring to ask banning DJs & other electronic sound amplifying devices used under the loudspeaker umbrella during festivals.
So this is where we are now? Speak up against deafening noise & you get assaulted?

A deeply disturbing & shameful day for Pune.

[Dr. Medha Kulkarni @Medha_kulkarni]

श्री. विद्यानंद बापट यांना झालेल्या मारहाणीचा तीव्रतेने निषेध करते. पुणे पोलिसांनी त्वरित व कठोर कारवाई करावी. माध्यमांना दिलेली माझी प्रतिक्रिया.

@narendramodi @AmitShah @NitinNabin @Dev_Fadnavis @RaviDadaChavan

#Pune #RuleOfLaw #StrictAction

[Amit Paranjape @aparanjape]

This project has been under discussion for years!

What is the expected completion date? Please share that, instead of just 'visit' videos... @OfficialPMRDA

cc @Girbane @MCCIA_Pune

[Facts @BefittingFacts]

Punekars please help finding owner of this car. Car number is MH12YJ3333

[Amit Paranjape @aparanjape]

"PMC Care 2.0 grievance redressal system has 14,644 citizen complaints pending, with several complaints yet to move ahead from the initial stage."

https://t.co/PiQv4Yiy3g

This process was working (relatively) much better a few years back. Now seems to be broken. Don't see prompt action/any action on filed complaints. No followups, status updates, either.

cc @navalMH @MDNagpure @PMCPune

[Amit Paranjape @aparanjape]

Improper street lighting in Pune (poor wattage, poor design, poor maintenance - lights not working often) is an issue I have been highlighting for a few years now.

I am sure such issues exist in many cities.

These are among the many infra basics that our cities need to get right!