Gautam Panse

Nation first🇮🇳 | IIT Kanpur

[PIB India @PIB_India]

The Indian Air Force (IAF) is pleased to announce the introduction of a scheme for induction into the Technical Branch (Officers Cadre), allowing eligible candidates to apply based on their Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) scores.

Under this new initiative, candidates possessing a valid GATE score will be eligible for direct shortlisting for testing at the Air Force Selection Boards (AFSBs). Selection will be based on merit, effectively exempting these candidates from the preliminary written examination, such as the Air Force Common Admission Test (AFCAT). The GATE Score scheme will be applicable exclusively for induction into the Technical Branch. The AFCAT will continue to serve as the standard admission test for induction into all branches of the IAF, including the Technical Branch.

Read here: https://t.co/RKp1dirnTN

@IAF_MCC

[Sohail Ahmed @SohailSNAhmed]

And whose fault is that, Mehdi? Whose fault is it that we’ve ended up here?

Whose fault is it that we Muslims refuse to admit to our problems, refuse to reflect critically, and demand equality but simultaneously view non-Muslims as inferior?

Whose fault is it?

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The number that should terrify every Western automaker is 1,500 kW.

BYD's Flash Charging pushes 1,500 kilowatts into a car battery. The fastest charger you can find in the US today maxes out at 350 kW. ChargePoint is bragging about rolling out 600 kW chargers sometime in 2026. BYD is already at 2.5x that. Deployed. 5,000 stations live. 20,000 planned by December.

The car in this video, the Song Ultra, starts at $22,000. Five minutes of charging gets you 250 miles of range. The fastest-charging EV you can buy in America is the Lucid Gravity at 400 kW, and it starts at $80,000.

So BYD is charging 4x faster at one-quarter the price. And Geely just beat them last week with a 4-minute charge. The Chinese automakers aren't competing with each other on range or styling anymore. They're in a charging speed war that Western companies haven't even entered.

BMW's response was literally "pursuing quick charging forces other compromises." That's the "640K ought to be enough for anybody" of the EV era.

[The Nalanda Index @Nalanda_index]

Anyone who has traveled in Third AC knows this struggle.
The upper berth is so cramped that you can’t even sit properly . your neck stays bent the whole time. And you can’t just lie down for hours either. The moment you try to sit up, your neck refuses to straighten.
It’s uncomfortable, frustrating, and something passengers deal with on almost every journey.

[IADN @NewsIADN]

Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla shows IIT-Kanpur how India looks from Space.

[Sincere Dibya @TheSincereDude]

Dr. Kakodkar isn’t just warning as a scientist. He designed India’s nuclear roadmap. When he says abandoning thorium is “suicidal,” he’s watching 60 years of public investment get quietly buried.

Here’s what the news won’t connect for you: 👇

→ India holds 25% of the world’s thorium reserves; the largest share of any democracy

→ Our own thorium reactor (AHWR) has been stuck on a drawing board for 20 straight years

→ China has already built and tested the world’s first thorium molten salt reactor

→ We’re still “planning”

Now watch the timeline:

Nov 2025: Adani Group announces nuclear sector ambitions

Dec 2025: Modi govt “bulldozes” the SHANTI Act through Parliament in days, opens nuclear to private players, caps liability, allows 49% foreign investment

Feb 2026: Adani Atomic Energy Limited is born, targeting 30 GW

And instead of developing indigenous thorium capability through our own DAE scientists, NTPC signs a deal with a US firm (CCTE) to import thorium fuel technology; for reactors sitting right on top of India’s own thorium.

Read that again.

We have the world’s thorium. We couldn’t build our own reactor in 20 years. But we passed a law in 3 days to open the sector to a crony.
This isn’t policy failure. This is policy design.

Kakodkar is a patriot shouting into a void. The government isn’t abandoning thorium out of neglect; it’s abandoning Indian ownership of thorium, on purpose.

[Ritika Chopra @RitikaChopra__]

Why were IIT Kanpur students feeling sleepy even before their first lecture began?

This question has led researchers to examine whether hostel rooms, ventilation, heat and humidity affect how well students sleep.

Prof. Anubha Goel at IIT Kanpur is approaching sleep from an angle rarely explored in India. Not through the lens of medicine or psychology, but through building design and indoor environmental quality, reports @Pallavi_Smart

https://t.co/MsdKXQ3cem via @IndianExpress

[The Index of Gujarat @IndexofGujarat]

The 91,000 cr Semiconductor Fab getting ready

📍TATA, Dholera
🔹Tata is building 1500+ apartments for this plant

Don't forget 2 more fabs of the same scale also planned

[Gautam Panse @GautamPanse]

Told my mom the final is against New Zealand.
She instantly said, “Par woh toh hume hara deta hai.”
Even moms remember our ICC trauma. 😁😁

[Lala @FabulasGuy]

India voted against Iran in the IAEA thrice under MMS govt in 2005,2006 & 2009.

Centuries of civilisation partnership thrown for a toss for US friendship.

Now after Khamenei’s continuous anti India stands, India choses to stand even farther away from Iran.

But Congress that was opposing a neutral Iran is suddenly in love with an anti India Iran.

As someone rightly said, in Modi hate, Congress has become Anti India. And Congress keeps proving it right every time.

[k0lztheprblm. @gerrshinen]

Van der waaals is such a hard name for a weak force.

[Gautam Panse @GautamPanse]

Pursuing MTech is funny. One day I’m giving an exam, the next day I’m on invigilator duty.

[Parimal @Fintech03]

The most under reported part of this story is the Water Electrolyte. Lithium batteries use organic solvents that can explode if the battery is punctured. Cos our scientists are using water, we could theoretically hit these grid scale batteries with a sledgehammer & they would not catch fire. For a country like ours with high ambient temperatures, water batteries are the only way to store solar power in the desert/crowded cities w/o needing massive, expensive cooling systems.

[Gautam Panse @GautamPanse]

That's what I was saying, there should be a threshold.

[Anshul Saxena @AskAnshul]

NEET-PG:

- MS Orthopaedics seat filled at:
1 mark out of 800 in a medical college in Hyderabad.

- MD Forensic Medicine seat filled at:
12 marks out of 800 in a Govt medical college.

- MD Pathology seat filled at:
24 marks out of 800 in a Govt medical college.

A serious crisis in academic standards. A reasonable minimum qualifying merit must be established for maintaining the integrity of medical education and healthcare system.

[Suraj Das (সুরজ দাস) ( he/they) @Sunburn_Suraj]

It's a new scam by @jncasr
An intern has to pay 5k to just secure the position, then have for pay hostel/mess. At the end, will dedicate 9am to 10pm free labour in the name of science. It's inhumane, pathetic and a serious violation of human rights.
Shame on you.
#MOE

[Roy @TheMinuend]

GaN India — IISc update (& serious win if swiftly scaled)

IISc chads may have innovated a 10,000× reduction in gate leakage & sizable efficiency & safety boost. p‑GaN gate HEMTs' unreliable switching due to leakage & low threshold voltage. Not only did they identify the underlying physics — charge accumulation & tiny leakage — but engineered a novel integrated aluminium–titanium‑oxide (AlTiO) gate stack:

10k times gate leakage reduction
More predictable via >4 V threshold voltages
Higher breakdown voltage (~15.5 V)

Removes a major barrier for high-power GaN adoption in EV inverters, DC-PSUs, RE converters, etc. — practical engg solve bridging the lab-to-deployment gap.

prototype to commercial GaN & IP that will matter: Fab full-wafer, Test thermal high-voltage stress, and lifetime. DST, CPRI, BIS, AutoComp better proactively engage for pilot & validation.

*For context: this targets a core limitation in commercial p-GaN(e-mode) AlGaN/GaN HEMTs — the dominant monolithic normally-off GaN power transistor used by Infineon, EPC, GaN Systems, etc.

[Gautam Panse @GautamPanse]

How much reservation is too much reservation?
There should be a threshold.

[#YeThikKarkeDikhao @YTKDIndia]

Kanpur.

>Largest city in UP.
>12th most populous city in India.
>Ranked India’s 13th cleanest city.
>GDP of $8.19 billion.
>Home to IIT Kanpur and a 16 km Metro Network.

Yet, look at the condition of the roads, worse than in many African nations. 🤡

[Astronomy Vibes @AstronomyVibes]

🚨 Your brain is running on just 12 watts right now while processing this sentence. An AI system would need 2.7 billion watts to do the same thing.

That's not a typo. The human brain operates on roughly the same amount of power as a dim light bulb, yet it can recognize faces, solve complex problems, create art, and experience emotions simultaneously. Meanwhile, artificial intelligence systems require massive data centers consuming enough electricity to power entire cities just to simulate a fraction of what your brain does effortlessly.

Think about what your brain accomplished just reading this far. It decoded symbols into meaning, connected new information to existing memories, probably triggered some emotional responses, and maybe even started forming opinions about AI energy consumption. All while maintaining your heartbeat, breathing, and thousands of other bodily functions. Total power consumption: 12 watts.

The most advanced AI systems need server farms filled with thousands of high-powered processors, industrial cooling systems, and backup power supplies. They consume roughly 225 million times more energy than your brain to perform similar cognitive tasks. It's like comparing a bicycle to a freight train in terms of efficiency.

This incredible disparity reveals just how remarkably evolution has optimized biological intelligence. Millions of years of natural selection created a thinking machine so efficient it makes our most advanced technology look primitive and wasteful by comparison.

Your smartphone uses more power than your brain while being infinitely less capable. Every thought you're having right now represents the pinnacle of energy-efficient computing, wrapped in three pounds of biological tissue that somehow generates consciousness, creativity, and dreams.

Nature got there first, and we're still trying to catch up.