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[Economic Times @EconomicTimes]

Ayush Shetty registers biggest win of his career, stuns world no.1 Shi Yu Qi
https://t.co/N4IHqCl1Wh

[Tathvam-asi @tathvamasi6]

This is interesting way to educate public.

Share it in the interest of Public health and safety.

[VishalGPatel @VishalGPatel12]

@akshtanilabh Nothin wrong in it. change your mindaet. Dont be slave to European and American looters habits. They even dont bath everyday.

[Dr. Deepessh Divaakaran (Dr. DD) @md_deepesh]

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra called him a “gaumutra expert.”
She seemed very proud.
One cheap phrase.
One parliamentary laugh.
One scientist was casually thrown under the bus.

Perhaps she did not know who Prof. V. Kamakoti was.

So let us help.

Prof. Kamakoti earned his https://t.co/l3aehJY3Bk.
Then his M.S.
Then his Ph.D.

All from IIT Madras.

He became a professor there.

Then, in January 2022, he became its Director.
Now let us inspect this “gaumutra expert.”

Under his leadership, IIT Madras filed:
378 patents in 2023-24.
419 patents in 2024-25.
431 patents in 2025-26.

Total?
1,228 patents.

Including 284 international filings.
More than one patent every day.

Apparently, innovation now needs political permission too.

Patents granted?
178 in 2022.
325 in 2023.
356 in 2024.

Total: 859.
Almost 100% growth.

Technology-transfer transactions?
84.

Because patents should not only sleep inside government files.

They should enter factories.
Markets.
Hospitals.
Defence systems.
And national infrastructure.

Now the startups.

104 startups incubated in 2024-25.
112 more in 2025-26.
216 startups in two years.

His vision was called “Startup Shatam.”

The IIT Madras ecosystem now has more than 500 startups.
Its portfolio is valued above ₹74,000 crore.
It has attracted nearly ₹12,000 crore in investment.
It has created over 11,000 direct jobs.

Priyanka Gandhi reads political speeches written some Scribbler.
Kamakoti manages innovation ecosystems.

Small difference.

IIT Madras also raised nearly ₹1,728 crore through alumni.
CSR and corporate fundraising across five years.

Sponsored research funding rose from ₹504 crore to ₹956 crore.
Almost 89% growth.

The institute also opened its first International campus.

It created an indigenous high-performance RISC-V chip.
A contribution to India’s semiconductor self-reliance.

Its startups work in:
Semiconductors.
Defence.
Aerospace.
Robotics.
Quantum technology.
Artificial intelligence.
Biotechnology.
Medical technology.
Advanced manufacturing.
Batteries.
Climate technology.
5G.
6G.
Cyber systems.

Prof. Kamakoti also led India’s SHAKTI processor programme.
He chaired the national AI Task Force.
He served on the National Security Advisory Board.

And in 2026, India honoured him with the Padma Shri.
Not for delivering political speeches.
For Science and Engineering.

Criticise his ideas.
Question his claims.
Challenge his science.
That is democracy.

But reducing a national scientist to one mocking label?
A perfect example of being a privileged brat.

History remembers the people who built the nation.

It rarely remembers those who mocked the builders.

[StoxPlex Shubham (SEBI RA) @StoxPlexShubham]

One man.
25 transfers.
21 years.
Still standing.

Every time Tukaram Munde takes charge, the same question is asked:

"How long before he's transferred again?"

Maybe that's because honest officers often make too many powerful people uncomfortable.

Since becoming Maharashtra's FDA Commissioner, the department has suddenly come alive. Raids are no longer symbolic they're relentless.

🚨 Synthetic milk rackets exposed.
🚨 Banned gutkha networks busted.
🚨 Adulterated food seized.
🚨 Unlicensed manufacturers stopped.
🚨 Restaurants & food businesses violating basic hygiene norms facing action.
🚨 Crores worth of illegal products seized, hundreds of raids conducted, and hundreds arrested in statewide enforcement drives.

What's remarkable isn't just the number of raids.

It's the change in mindset.

For the first time in a long time, businesses cutting corners are worried that the FDA might actually show up.

That's what real governance looks like not loud speeches, but visible enforcement.

You may agree or disagree with Tukaram Munde's style.

But it's hard to ignore the impact of an officer who has been transferred around 25 times in 21 years and still chooses duty over convenience.

Maharashtra doesn't need more headlines.

It needs more officers who make the law matter.

🇮🇳 He deserves to be head of FSSAI

Because whole India deserve good food

Respect. We get honest officers once in century

[Sann @san_x_m]

Everyone remembers the attack on the Mumbai railway station on 26/11, the gunmen walking the platforms, more than fifty people killed. Almost nobody remembers the announcer whose voice sent hundreds of strangers running the other way while the bullets were still flying.

His name is Vishnu Dattaram Zende.

On the night of 26 November 2008, he was on duty in the announcer's cabin at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, a raised glass room looking out over the platforms. It was near the end of his shift when he heard a loud blast and gunfire, and saw people running.

Two terrorists had walked into the busiest station in the country and begun shooting everyone in sight. At that station alone, they would kill more than fifty people.

From his cabin he could see the whole layout, and he understood something fast. Local trains were still pulling in, each one about to pour hundreds of passengers straight onto the platforms where the gunmen were standing.

He had a microphone that reached every platform. He decided to use it, even though it meant staying exactly where he was, in full view, instead of hiding.

He began making announcements, over and over, in Hindi and Marathi, telling people not to come to the main concourse, telling them to leave by the rear exits, warning them away from the guns.

Hundreds of people changed direction because of that voice and walked out of the station instead of into the bullets.

The terrorists worked out where the announcements were coming from. They came and stood almost directly below his cabin. One of them fired up toward him. He kept low, waited, and when he could, went back to the microphone.

He was an ordinary railway announcer on an ordinary shift. He had no weapon and no protection, just a mic and a clear view of what was coming. He stayed at his post and used the one tool he had to push strangers out of the path of the killers.

The men with the rifles are the names everyone remembers from that station. The voice that quietly saved hundreds of the people they came to kill belonged to Vishnu Zende.

[Sportskeeda @Sportskeeda]

Vikrant Massey pens a heartfelt note for Ajinkya Rahane after his retirement from international cricket. ❤️

#Cricket #India #Sportskeeda

[Joy Bhattacharjya @joybhattacharj]

To come in as captain when the last time your team batted, they scored 36. To then score a century and lead your team to the most improbable series win in sports history, with half your team on the injury list and practice bowlers making debuts has to be the most incredible turnaround in Indian sport.
Go well @ajinkyarahane88, you will be missed, and celebrated!

[Gitanjali J Angmo @GitanjaliAngmo]

I am not BJP. Nor Congress. Neither Sanghi nor Communist. Neither Left nor Right. Neither socialist nor capitalist. Neither liberal nor conservative. Neither Dalit nor Brahmin. Neither Jain, Buddhist nor Hindu. Neither Punjabi, Odia nor Ladakhi.

I am all of these, and more. Beyond all “isms”. I take the best from everything and leave the rest.

We diminish ourselves the moment we squeeze our infinite selves into man made buckets. Our deepest identity is not political, social, religious or ideological. It is consciousness itself.

चिदानन्दरूपः शिवोऽहम् शिवोऽहम्।
Chidānandarūpaḥ Śivo'ham Śivo'ham.

[Akshat @Cricketmythos]

🚨WE WRITTEN INDIA OFF, BUT AJINKYA RAHANE HAD OTHER IDEAS - JUSTIN LANGER🤯

Justin Langer said :🗣️

"India was in shambles when they got out on 36 at Adelaide & Virat Kohli was not there for the rest of the series. We thought this looks like a cakewalk from here on, India will definitely struggle at MCG & Gabba offcourse & a whitewash is there for the taking but there was a warrior in their team named Ajinkya Rahane who defied all odds & scored a smashing hundred at Melbourne cricket ground. That led to the turnaround. He led India brilliantly, with limited resources. I can't forget the fight Indian team showed with beautifully led by jinks. That's why I every time say 'Never ever underestimate Indians'. Ajinkya Rahane was simply phenomenonal in the series that will be remembered forever in the Indian cricketing history".

[Shashi Tharoor @ShashiTharoor]

Sad to acknowledge the reality that @ajinkyarahane88 has called it a day. Hugely talented, immensely capable and utterly reliable, he remains India’s best-ever Test captain, who deserved an extended run in the job after his heroic come-from-behind series win in Australia 2020-21. A gentleman to the core and a reassuring presence in the Indian team, he will be remembered for never having achieved the greatness that was predicted for him in his early days, but his story is much more than one of unfulfilled potential. It is that of a man who left cricket better for his participation in it.

[Gitanjali J Angmo @GitanjaliAngmo]

Calling India "secular" in the Constitution is like calling water wet.

Even before 1976, our Constitution was already secular in substance.
Article 14: Equality before law
Article 25 to 28: Freedom of religion
Article 29 and 30: Protection of minority rights
And no state religion

The word "Secular" is a Western import born of Europe's church-state conflicts. Does not capture India’s historical approach to religious pluralism which is better described by concepts like Sarva Dharma Sambhava or equal respect for all faiths.

Long before modern secularism, India spoke of Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam. It is inclusive by design. Has nurtured multiple worldviews and philosophical traditions while affirming the dignity of every path

Adding "secular" to the Preamble was, philosophically, a tautology. It is resorting to something lesser than what one has always been and stood for! It obscures rather than clarifies India’s own philosophical understanding of pluralism!!

Shall explain elaborately in an article!

[Rishabh Pant @RishabhPant17]

It felt good to share the dressing room with you, Ajju bhai. Calm in every situation, selfless in every role and a leader by example. Thank you for everything you have done for Indian cricket. Wishing you nothing but the best for what's next. 🇮���� @ajinkyarahane88

[Vishal Bhargava @VishalBhargava5]

This initiative by the dynamo bureaucrat must be supported.
As you grow older you learn its less about the chair but more about the person on the chair.
India needs hardliners like Tukaram Mundhe in Food, Education and Housing for a decade. The ecosystem culture will change.

[Naveen Patnaik @Naveen_Odisha]

I am deeply anguished to know that the legendary colour of the Indian hockey team’s jersey has been changed to saffron. The iconic shade of blue of the Indian hockey team is not just a colour. It is an emotion associated with the nation’s sporting heritage.

For decades, this colour united us in hope, in victory, in defeat and in the pursuit of sporting excellence. We have cried, laughed, celebrated and stood proudly with our men and women in blue. Wearing the blue jersey our teams have won Olympic medals with the national anthem playing on the world stage. #Blue is derived from the blue chakra in our national flag. It is a symbol of our national pride and identity. The colour blue belongs to every Indian.

When the national hockey teams were struggling for sponsors, #Odisha created history by being the first and only state to support our national teams and our beloved game. Every Odia across the globe was proud of the state’s gift to national hockey. After 41 long years, our men’s team won an Olympic medal. Just because the government changed in Odisha, it should not change our national team colours. This is petty politics of the worst kind.

Our blue jersey is to us what the iconic stripes are to Argentina and the yellow jersey is to Brazil. It is etched in our collective memory. Any change in this colour, is a crass attempt to erase our priceless sporting legacy. National symbols are meant to unite us not divide.

I am given to understand that this step was taken under pressure from the BJP Government in Odisha. Those in authority may deny it, but the fact is that for the last two years, everybody in Odisha has seen the obsession of this government with changing colours of buildings, buses and even bridges. It is the only work that is happening in Odisha today. But now the same government has changed the colours of our national team. I strongly condemn this attempt by BJP Odisha to politicise a national game like hockey. It has deeply hurt the sentiments of lakhs of sports lovers across the country and the pride with which Odisha has supported the national hockey.

#Hockey
#MenInBlue
#WomenInBlue

[Milind Deora | मिलिंद देवरा @milinddeora]

What Maharashtra’s FDA is doing to regulate food safety should become the national standard. I urge @fssaiindia to show the same urgency across India, especially on packaged foods. Hygiene & tackling India’s obesity epidemic must become national priorities.

[Shilpa Godbole @godbole_shilpa]

Michelin is fine. But a Tukaram Mundhe rating? Now that's an endorsement people would actually queue up for. It’s time for a TM approved list.

[Gitanjali J Angmo @GitanjaliAngmo]

Why knowing Sanskrit is cool?

Because through it you discover, apart from many other things, that what we have been attributing to Pythagoras all along existed in Bodhayana’s Sulba Sutras centuries before Pythagoras.

दीर्घचतुरस्रस्याक्ष्णया रज्जुः पार्श्वमानी तिर्यग् मानी च यत् पृथग् भूते कुरूतस्तदुभयं करोति ॥

Sulba Sutra (appendix to the Vedas), Chapter 1, Shloka 12, Bodhayana

Translation: the area (of the squares) produced separately by the length and breadth of a rectangle together equal the area (of the square) produced by the diagonal

A child who grows up believing every great idea came from somewhere else learns to imitate. But a nation that knows it has created before finds the confidence to create again!

And confidence is the birthplace of innovation and entrepreneurship! And that is cool!!

[Rajasthan Royals @rajasthanroyals]

We were thrown into the deep end and he rose as India’s Mr. Dependable 🇮🇳❤️

[Virrender Sehwag @virendersehwag]

One of the most underrated cricketers, and the man who led India to its greatest ever overseas Test series win @ajinkyarahane88.
Calm, Solid. Kabhi shor nahi kiya, aur apna best karta raha.
Just like against SA in Delhi ,2015 after a wonderful first innings, may you have a great second innings, Ajinkya.