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[Prashant Bhushan @pbhushan1]

सरकार और दिल्ली पुलिस ने गुरुद्वारे से जंतर मंतर के बच्चों को लंगर देने को रोकने के लिए भरपूर कोशिश की

[Abhinav Pandey @Abhinavpinch]

देश के बच्चे Jantar Mantar के फुटपाथ पर सो रहे हैं, और TV Media PM Modi की Reel पर जश्न मना रहा है

अगर आपके सीने में इंसान का दिल है तो पिघल जाएगा,पत्थर हो चुके हैं तो मत देखिए

[Rana Ayyub @RanaAyyub]

Nagpur

[Sanket Upadhyay @sanket]

India’s emotions at Jantar Mantar. Look at the water stall at Jantar Mantar. There’s food being sent from all over. Auto drivers are dropping students free since metros are shut. Apart from when politicians & media exploits it, good to see people’s emotional outpouring.

[Cockroach is Back @Cockroachisback]

Shame on you @NagpurPolice
Is this how you treat the students of the country peacefully demanding accountability?

[Arfa Khanum Sherwani @khanumarfa]

Hum Yaad Rakhenge!
Listen to these 8 minutes of pure gold from Neha on the police brutality against students. The fire in her words, the conviction in her voice.
She has returned after 23 days of fasting, but nothing has dimmed her spirit.

[Amit Mishra @Amitjanhit]

Gujarat: Ahmedabad 🔥

देश के हर कोने में मोदी सरकार के ख़िलाफ़ आंदोलन शुरू हो चुका है।

[Gabbar @Gabbar0099]

When India had educated leaders

[Live Law @LiveLawIndia]

#BREAKING "Don't waste our time," CJI Surya Kant on plea against police action on student protesters during #CJP march.

"We are not interested in videos, we don't have time to watch," CJI tells lawyer who said there are videos showing police atrocities.

[Yogendra Yadav @_YogendraYadav]

आज इस देश में जो नेता विपक्ष के साथ किया गया है वह इस देश के लोकतंत्र के वर्तमान स्थिति का प्रतीक है। जैसा आज नेता विपक्ष राहुल गांधी जी के साथ किया गया है वो पिछले 75 साल में कभी नहीं हुआ। लोकतंत्र की हत्या का स्पष्ट नमूना है।

[Siddharth @SidKeVichaar]

Visual Proof 🚨

Rapid Action Force themselves were pelting stones at children

Shameful!

[The Indian Express @IndianExpress]

A look at today’s #ExpressFrontPage

[Mohit Chauhan @mohitlaws]

Look at these people.

They have taken firing positions at our own people.

Angrez chale gaye, lekin BJP-RSS ko chhod gaye.

[Suhasini Haidar @suhasinih]

Breaking down US statement, that marks an escalation over the issue of 3 Indian seafarers being killed by US Navy, here's what it says:

1. Vessels must comply with US orders (Why?)
2. US forces are seeking to uphold peace and security( By shooting unarmed ships?)
3. In the Strait (But US ships are in the Gulf of Oman)
4. Violations of US Blockade ( which have been many)
5. Illicit transport of Iranian oil (Not according to international law, and US sanctions are only punitive economically)
6. Won't be tolerated (Regardless of loss of lives, or contravening international law)

Awaiting MEA response.

https://t.co/iSaCjKJU5F

[Nehr_who? @Nher_who]

During Manmohan Era,U.S were taught lesson just to misbehave with our bureaucrat.

Manmohan Singh removed all the security from US embassy & asked US to apologize unconditionally

Today Modi didn't even tweet about 3 indians killed by U.S

and we called Manmohan a Failure!!

[D @Deb_livnletliv]

Cars24 deletes its video E20 vs XP100 ⛽

Test vehicle BS4 Swift.
E20 : 15km/l mileage, engine noise and less effective AC.
XP100 : 15km/l mileage

Ethanol 👑 isn't stopping with E85, now wants to implement E100.

Only E85 car launched so far is WagonR
Only 20% E20 compliant.

[Stanly Johny @johnstanly]

No analysis of #Iran is complete if you reduce what's unfolding in the country into a simplistic binary of an oppressive regime vs a freedom-loving people. That's a liberal trap. I have serious disagreements with the character of the Iranian state (which I have with a lot of regimes), but that doesn't stop me from trying to understand the broader picture. Iran has lived under crippling sanctions for decades--and those who imposed the sanctions wanted to make everyday life miserable in the hope that the public would rise against the regime which would open a window for the liberal interventionists. Why is Iran under sanctions? Mainly because of its nuclear programme. Iran exists in a very hostile region. Just look at the map -- Iran is the only Persian Gulf country that doesn't host an American military base. It sits in a region where Israel is the only nuclear power. The mistake Iran did -- as I have always argued -- was that it did not make the bomb. They thought they could leverage a nuclear threshold status for both security and economic relief. That was a blunder in a world of jungle. Tehran signed the nuclear deal in 2015. Trump demolished it in 2018 and reimposed sanctions. Europe just follows the line given from Washington.

Despite the hostility in the region, Iran enjoyed relative deterrence due its so-called axis of resistance. The US first killed Soleimani, one of the architects of the axis. And then Israel, post-Oct 7, with American help, chipped away at the axis. Because for both Israel and the US, Iran is the only revisionist power in West Asia. You take Syria out, Iran would be weakened. And you take Iran out, the whole region could be redrawn. Look at what happened. Hamas was pushed into the ruins of Gaza. Hezbollah has been degraded. Houthis are fighting their own battles. And the Syrian regime, Iran's only state ally in the region, collapsed. Russia is stuck in Ukraine. China remains too self-occupied. Iran suddenly lay vulnerable to external threats. And then the Israelis bombed Iran in June. Trump happily joined in.

Europe followed suit in the subsequent months by reimposing snapback sanctions--because Iran violated a deal that Trump killed in 2018! In the middle of all this, Iran had elected a reformist as its president in an election in which more than 30 million people voted. But the government’s hands were tied when it came to economic issues because of the sanctions. And there is genuine public resentment which was what triggered the shopkeepers' protests on January 1. But on Jan 2, after meeting Netanyahu in Florida, Trump said he was “locked and loaded”. Mossad started amplifying anti-regime messages in Farsi via social media. It even posted on X that “we are with you in the field” (I wrote here on X on the day the US attacked Venezuela and abducted President Maduro that Iran was next).

The protests started turning violent. Reza Pahlavi, son of the deposed monarch who is living in the US, suddenly emerged as the “Crown Prince”. Someone who hasn’t set foot in Iran for over four decades, emerged in western TV and press as the rightful voice of Iran’s opposition and he called for urgent American bombing of Iran! Garbage propaganda channels such as Iran International unleashed a firestorm of misinformation. Reports about the situation on the ground came from “rights groups” based in Oslo and Washington. The liberal mills, which were conspicuously silent during Israel’s genocide of Palestinians for two years, started firing on all cylinders. Iran, they said, wants freedom through American and Israeli bombings.
And now Trump is asking the “protesters” to take over institutions. #IranProtests

[India Policy Pulse @indpolicypulse]

@pratyush_no7 @academy_dinda Yes, it’s true. He is playing test very unprofessionally.

[India Policy Pulse @indpolicypulse]

Such accidents are being hidden behind the facade of #Nationalism and also trying to portray that they are pre-planned. Such a shame. @AshwiniVaishnaw @PMOIndia