In 2024, Prime Minister Modi said he was pained by the manner in which Sheila Dikshit had been “insulted” through baseless corruption allegations.
Today, her son @_SandeepDikshit shares the stage with @RahulGandhi and stoops to mocking the same Prime Minister.
Turning a diplomatic gesture into a cheap punchline by dragging a foreign Premier into domestic political mudslinging is beneath any serious political discourse. Dragging a woman foreign leader into such a joke only makes it more distasteful.
Years in Delhi Congress, repeated electoral defeats and still no evolution in political discourse.
Some people simply cannot rise above petty politics.
A Mumbai student's speech goes viral -
"Chehre badalne walon ka itihas lamba hota hai"
"Not cockroaches... Hypocrisy survives every disaster"
"How can we blindly support a party when its entire manifesto is being unemployed?"
"They are taking advantage of the desperation of this generation"
"They call us Andhbhakt because you cannot see your own hypocrisy*
"Neutrality is not something that you declare; it is something that you demonstrate"
"24X7, you question the existing government. But why you undermine the reforms that this government has introduced?"
Look closely at the timeline, and the pattern becomes difficult to ignore. India imports more than 85% of its crude oil and accounts for 30% of oil demand growth globally.
On 5 June, India took a major step towards reducing that dependence by launching E85 fuel for flex-fuel vehicles at Rs 20/litre cheaper than normal E20 fuel, along with the launch of flex fuel cars and bikes.
Soon after, a coordinated controversy around ethanol-blended fuels began to dominate the conversation and fearmongering started.
Consider the facts. E15+ has been used on Indian roads for over three years. E19+ for over 2 years. E20 has been available since April 2025. More than 20 crore two-wheelers and over 20 lakh four-wheelers have been running successfully on E20 fuel for nearly two years.
Yet, as India accelerated its journey towards greater energy self-reliance, opposition to ethanol blending suddenly intensified.
It is worth asking: who benefits if India remains dependent on imported crude oil or batteries.
Every litre of ethanol blended into petrol helps reduce crude oil imports, strengthens India's energy security, reduces air pollution, supports domestic farmers, and saves valuable foreign exchange. Greater use of indigenous fuels also makes the country less vulnerable to geopolitical disruptions and global price shocks.
E20 is a widely tested, verified, scientific, internationally proven and completely safe fuel for our vehicles. It is also a completely Atmanirbhar fuel which has made our “Annadatas” into “Urjadatas”.
@PMOIndia@PetroleumMin@PIB_India@MIB_India@ndtv@ndtvindia@NDTVProfit
Amazing: @StephenDevassy from Kerala composes and conducts a Western orchestra playing a piece sung entirely in Sanskrit! Can there be a better definition of "World Music"?
https://t.co/yhr9gfdt0z
कोलकाता का आसमान योग के रंगों से जगमगा उठा।🧘
#InternationalYogaDay2026 से पहले कोलकाता के हावड़ा ब्रिज के पास भव्य ड्रोन शो ने योग मुद्राओं और भारतीय सांस्कृतिक विरासत को रोशनी से जीवंत कर दिया।
🚨 Historic Milestone for India’s Aerospace Industry 🇮🇳✈️
The first ‘Made in India’ Airbus C295 military transport aircraft has successfully completed its maiden test flight from the Final Assembly Line in Vadodara, marking a landmark moment for India’s defence and aviation sectors.
The successful flight is a crucial step in the post-production testing process and brings the programme closer to delivering the first India-manufactured C295 to the Indian Air Force later this year.
A flagship project under the Make in India and Aatmanirbhar Bharat initiatives, the C295 programme is the first instance of a military aircraft being manufactured in India by the private sector, through the partnership between Airbus and Tata Advanced Systems Limited (TASL).
With 40 aircraft set to be built in India and a growing network of Indian MSMEs contributing components and systems, the programme is transforming India’s aerospace manufacturing ecosystem and strengthening indigenous defence production capabilities.
India is not just assembling aircraft—it is building the future of aerospace.
#C295 #MakeInIndia #AatmanirbharBharat #IndianAirForce #Airbus #TASL #DefenceIndia #MilitaryAviation #Vadodara
Breaking News from @TheAthletic: Rising Brazilian teenager João Fonseca knocked Novak Djokovic out of the French Open in a five-set thriller, coming from two sets down to win. Djokovic’s hopes of a record-breaking 25th Grand Slam are over — for now. https://t.co/VeD2ddjAWI
Indian scientists just made history.
Researchers from IIT Madras and IISc Bengaluru just pulled off something impossible.
They've created the world's "first carbon-free ferrocene".
This means we can finally build the next generation of incredibly durable tech.
Let me explain.
See, ferrocene is this wild organometallic molecule - where an iron atom is perfectly sandwiched between two carbon rings.
But it’s insanely stable.
Which is why it is already used in rocket fuels, car gasoline additives, long-life batteries, and even cancer medicines.
And for the last 75 years, everyone thought it was impossible to build the same stable structure without using carbon.
But this team of Indian scientists proved everyone wrong.
They created the same perfect sandwich structure - by swapping iron for osmium and carbon rings for boron rings.
And what they got was the world's first carbon-free ferrocene - which is so much stronger than the carbon bonds.
By doing so - they've opened up a whole new era of chemistry. And we have no idea how many amazing things we might discover.
But to think all of this started in India is truly amazing.
Kudos to everyone on this team: Sundargopal Ghosh, Stutee Mohapatra, Suvam Saha, Urvashi Gupta, Deepak Patel - from IIT Madras, Gaurav Joshi and Eluvathingal D. Jemmis - from IISc Bengaluru.
Esha Singh fired a world record score of 43 to clinch gold in the Women’s 25m Pistol event at the ISSF World Cup in Munich.
There are many videos of the winning moment.
I like this one because her eyes are like lasers. Unwavering. Unforgiving. You don’t want to come in her way.
But what struck me most was that she looked less like an athlete and more like a yogi in deep meditation.
You can tell from the way she squeezes the trigger that this sport is ultimately not about the pistol.
It’s about mastering the mind, the breath and the nerves.
And what a pleasure it is to see an Indian sportsperson not merely win on the world stage, but shatter a world record while doing so.
Congratulations, Esha.
Records are made to be broken. Including your own.
Keep pushing the boundaries.
💪🏽🇮🇳
Video courtesy: @TheKhelIndia
Polygamy is illegal in the UK.
But if you’ve married 4 wives overseas and moved here, you could claim up to £78,000 in benefits. Paid for by British taxpayers.
That is absurd. Conservatives will end this.
A 10x10 room. Two air-conditioners. And a saffron crop everyone said was impossible.
In Jharsuguda, Odisha, Sujata Agarwal built a hydroponic-style indoor farming setup inside a 100-square-foot room in her home, proving that climate doesn’t define possibility anymore.
She recreated Kashmir-like sub-zero conditions using air-conditioners, controlled humidity, trays, and a carefully designed growing system.
After researching saffron cultivation and training with experts from Jammu and Kashmir, she sourced Mogra saffron corms in 2023 and began her experiment.
The corms were planted in containers filled with nutrient-rich growing media instead of soil fields.
Inside this controlled environment, the saffron slowly adapted, and after a few months, flowers began to bloom indoors.
Each bloom is carefully hand-harvested, and the delicate red stigmas are separated and dried to produce saffron.
What began as a trial soon turned into a working model.
She invested around ₹10 lakh to set up the system. By October 2025, she reportedly harvested around 750 grams of saffron worth nearly ₹7.5 lakh in one cycle.
Today, her brand “Bloom in Hydro” sells saffron and herbal products across India and abroad, with reported annual earnings close to ₹24 lakh.
#Hydroponics #SaffronFarming #WomenEntrepreneurs #StartupIndia #Agritech
[hydroponic saffron farming, indoor saffron cultivation, women entrepreneur, Odisha]
Delhi police is using AC helmets and Portable fans to get relief from the heat.
It is a solar-assisted cooling helmet that helps protect the head from heatstroke.
This should be used on a large scale across the states.