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[MannMaula @mannmaula]

Strategic autonomy & multi alignment in a multi polar world.
- India

[Rudraksh @Intel_Jackal]

I am very bullish and optimistic about India. It's easy to sit on social media and list weaknesses. Every country has them. Imagine you are PM for just one week. Your first challenge is to contain large scale June 6 protests organised by Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) that are strategically timed around the anniversaries of Tiananmen Square and Operation Bluestar. If you use brute force, global media will amplify every image and headline. If you do nothing, the situation can spiral. If you overreact, you damage India's international standing. If you underreact, you risk instability. Tell me, how would you handle that situation while balancing law and order, democracy, diplomacy, economics, and public perception?Governance is not a Twitter thread. Strategic depth is not measured only by tanks, ports or factories. It is also measured by the ability of a state to manage complex internal and external pressures simultaneously without collapsing. If you can give a realistic answer to that challenge, I'll take your argument more seriously.

[Hardeep Singh Puri @HardeepSPuri]

Congratulations @OilIndiaLimited !

An ocean of energy opportunities reinforced in the Andaman Sea!
Very happy to report the presence of natural gas in Sri Vijayapuram-3 an exploratory well drilled by Oil India Ltd. 15 km off the east coast of the Andaman Islands at a water depth of 355 meters.
Initial production testing of the well at the depth of 1900 plus meters in the Eocene formation has established the presence of natural gas through continuous flaring.
Oil India is carrying out gas sampling to assess the composition & calorific value of gas and to carry out isotope studies to understand the genesis of the gas.
Under the Samudra Manthan Mission (National Deep Water Exploration Mission) announced by Hon’ble PM @narendramodi Ji on Independence Day 2025, large number of deepwater & Ultra deepwater exploration wells are planned in our offshore basins to fully exploit our hydrocarbon reserves.
Presence of hydrocarbon is now reported in 2(Two) wells out of 3 (Three) exploratory wells drilled by OIL in current exploratory campaign off Andaman Basin.
This presence of natural gas will help us in taking forward our exploration ambitions in coordination with global deepwater exploration experts like @petrobras, @TotalEnergies, @bp_india, @Shell, @exxonmobil and will be a significant milestone in our journey through Amrit Kaal!
@PMOIndia @PIB_India @PetroleumMin @mygovindia
#OilIndia #EnergySecurity #Exploration #NaturalGas #Andaman

[MannMaula @mannmaula]

We are witnessing one of the tough times for Bharat, I feel. With our market trembling and FIIs exiting for the Blue Whales IPO, with our currency depreciation & gold rush, the economy will get affected & internally those cockroaches planning their protest.

[Niks @Pivot2Centre]

The batsman who faced Warne and Murali at their peak are in the same league as the Batsman who face the West Indies battery without helmets or the batsman who faced Akram/Waqar with tampered balls!

Just a different set of skills were required!

[Rahul Raj @x_rahulraj]

Look what I found in Shanghai Expo @svembu

[UnveiledChina @Unveiled_ChinaX]

A single leaked video has shattered 50 years of military secrecy, exposing a covert footprint that Beijing has desperately tried to wipe off the map. According to an explosive report by Nikkei Asia, footage circulating online shows Singaporean troops conducting intense maneuvers in the mountains of southern Taiwan. Defense experts have authenticated the clip, blowing the lid off a highly sensitive relationship that both nations have kept low profile to avoid provoking China.

The Nikkei Asia coverage details the modern reality of "Project Starlight," a secret 1975 agreement forged between Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew and Taiwan’s Chiang Ching-kuo. The arrangement grants land-scarce Singapore vital territory for armored, artillery, and air force training. In return, it provides Taiwan with a priceless international lifeline despite having zero formal diplomatic ties. Today, roughly 3,000 Singaporean troops still rotate annually through Taiwanese bases like Hengchun and Hukou.

Though Singapore maintains this is strictly unilateral training, the footprint heavily offends Beijing. As highlighted by Nikkei Asia, China has repeatedly pressured Singapore to end the program, even offering alternative training grounds on Hainan Island, which Singapore rejected. Friction previously peaked when Hong Kong authorities, acting for Beijing, seized Singaporean armored vehicles returning from Taiwan, triggering a major diplomatic standoff.

The timing of this video leak appears deeply calculated, hitting just 10 days before a high-stakes China-U.S. summit. Observers believe Taipei is intentionally spotlighting its international partnerships to project deterrence, especially amid anxiety over a delayed $14 billion U.S. arms sale. Ultimately, this Nikkei Asia report proves that despite China's relentless campaign to isolate Taiwan, Taipei's covert bonds refuse to break.

#ProjectStarlight #Taiwan #Singapore #Geopolitics #MilitarySecrecy #TaiwanStrait #DefenseDiplomacy #NikkeiAsia

[NDTV Profit @NDTVProfitIndia]

Integrated Film, Television Media Hub On Prasar Bharati's 150-Acre Land In Mumbai; Fadnavis Approves Proposal https://t.co/PCJPiTjmIP

[Index Ellipsoid @IndexEllipsoid]

One of my close Tamil friends, once told me that Shiva was an extra-terrestrial being and ganas still come in search of him in Tibet.

[KJS DHILLON🇮🇳 @TinyDhillon]

You want the young officer to sacrifice his life for the love of the Nation, but you don’t want him to express his love for his fiancée.

In the Army we say ‘Youngster nahi karega, toh kaun karega’.

If you can not find a fault in his professional capabilities, don’t do this nuktachini for such a pure gesture of love and belonging.

Military equipment has been on display during many ‘Know your Army’ exhibitions around the country. The students and non military personnel have clicked pics with it showing pride and love for the Army. So, please don’t bring in the national security angle into this.

Let the young soldier do his national duty with pride and honour 👍

Jai Hind 🇮🇳

[ANI @ANI]

#WATCH | On the 2010 IPL Kochi scandal, IPL founder and first chairman Lalit Modi says, "Sonia Gandhi was backing Shashi Tharoor. I got calls from Ahmed Patel and Pranab Mukherjee in those days. You had that p@** Rajeev Shukla coming up to me and say 'Chalo Ahmed Patel aa raha hai.'... How can somebody pay $350 million for a team, that is the Kochi consortium, where 75 % of the shareholders are paying 100% of the cost?... Every dollar that comes in revenue, she would be getting 15% of the money... I knew this was going to collapse... Two years down the line, it collapsed... I did not sign the agreement because I wanted to meet every member of the consortium. The meeting took place in Bangalore. All the shareholders were there except for the lady, Sunanda Pushkar. I'm looking at this agreement, and by the way, I had no idea who she was... I'm asking these consortium members. You're giving away 25% shares to a lady called Sunanda Pushkar. Who is she?... I said I am not going to sign this agreement till I know who Sunanda Pushkar is. The minute I said that, I got a call from Shashi Tharoor... He said, Lalit, don't ask about Sunanda Pushkar. He was a good friend of mine. He said, If you do, I will have you raided in the morning. I said who the hell do you think you are? You may be the foreign minister of India, but don't you dare ever tell me this. I banged on the phone, and I said I will not sign it. Hell broke loose. It's two o'clock in the morning. Then I get a call, you can verify this, from Shashank Manohar, as president of BCCI, who never interfered. A very nice man. He said, Lalit, you will sign this agreement today... Now I never defy authority... I told him that I will be signing this agreement under duress, and I will point out that the President is forcing me to sign the agreement... The next day, I get up in the morning, and every newspaper, front page, 'Sunanda Pushkar getting married to Shashi Tharoor.' Now I knew why I had to sign it."

Watch Full Episode Here: https://t.co/yBwHz5NMnc

[Jyotiraditya M. Scindia @JM_Scindia]

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🥝 Arunachal Kiwi Mission
🧵Assam Muga Silk Senehjori Mission
🍍Tripura Queen Pineapple Mission
🌱 Sikkim Organic Food Mission
🏇Manipur Polo
Meghalaya Lakadong Turmeric

Taking the Unique Strengths of Ashtalakshmi to the world 🌏

#RisingNortheast

[The ₿itcoin Therapist @TheBTCTherapist]

SpaceX IPO liquidity exiting Bitcoin right now

[Yash Jha @ekyashjha]

Adani Group is just 38 years old, compared to Hyundai (founded in 1947) & Samsung (founded 1938).

Adani started as a commodity trading business. They were selling diamonds and later plastics.

Today it operates in ports, airports, power transmission, green energy, defence, aerospace, roads, data centres, cement, media, food FMCG.

Let that sit for a second.

Now here’s a slightly detailed look at what they do:

1. Largest private ports, airports in India
2. Largest renewable energy company in India (10GW+, targeting 50GW)
3. India’s only vertically integrated solar manufacturer at 4GW scale
4. Defence & aerospace — drones, ammunition, military platforms
5. Power transmission, data centres, cement, media, food

Now look at what Hyundai (founded in 1947) & Samsung (founded 1938) were doing at year 38.

HYUNDAI:

1. Started as a construction company
2. Built the Gyeongbu Expressway (1970), the spine of South Korea’s industrial corridor
3. Launched Hyundai Motor Company (1967) and was already exporting the Excel to the United States — becoming the fastest-selling car debut in American history at the time
4. Built supertankers through Hyundai Heavy Industries, which became the world’s largest shipbuilder
5. Constructed entire cities and industrial complexes domestically and across the Middle East
6. Was operating in construction, automobiles, shipbuilding, engineering, and finance simultaneously

Hyundai at 38 was a company that had physically built much of South Korea’s modern infrastructure and was beginning to compete globally in manufacturing.

SAMSUNG:

1. Started as a grocery trading company
2. Moved into sugar, textiles, then electronics
3. Already pivoted from sugar and textiles into electronics (Samsung Electronics founded 1969)
4. Was manufacturing black and white televisions and had begun exporting them
5. Entered the insurance, securities, and department store businesses
6. Was building its first semiconductor ambitions — the chip division that would later make Samsung the world’s largest memory chip maker came just a few years after this mark
7. Had constructed significant industrial and chemical operations through Samsung Heavy Industries and Samsung Petrochemical
8. Was deeply embedded in South Korea’s shipbuilding and construction sectors

What’s worth noting is

All three, Hyundai, Samsung, Adani, followed a similar trajectory:

Start in trade or commodities → move into infrastructure → use infrastructure dominance as launchpad into manufacturing and strategic sectors → begin competing globally.

The hyundai and samsung had a direct state support and Adani didn’t. That’s why they are called Chaebols. They were at the same place where Adani is today. And I believe Adani Group will become the next Samsung.

[Aadil Brar @aadilbrar]

India recruited him to build a semiconductor company from scratch. A year later, he's back in a chip cluster.

K.C. Ang was appointed president and head of Tata Semiconductor Manufacturing, a flagship bet in India's push to become a serious fab nation. Then he quit after just one year. He's now CEO of Zen-Semi in Guangzhou, China.

You can read this as a corporate drama. Or you can read it as a lesson in economic geography.

Building semiconductors outside of established clusters is brutally hard. You don't just need capital and equipment. You need thousands of specialized engineers within commuting distance. You need suppliers who can deliver ultra-pure chemicals overnight. You need an ecosystem that has spent decades making mistakes and quietly fixing them.

Look at Taiwan. TSMC didn't happen because of one visionary or one government policy. It happened because an entire island spent 40 years building a dense web of fabs, suppliers, packaging houses, materials companies, and engineering talent all within a small geography. When something breaks at 2 am, someone who knows how to fix it is 20 minutes away. That's not replicable by writing a check.

The US is learning this the hard way, spending hundreds of billions to bootstrap clusters in Arizona and Ohio, and still watching timelines slip. Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Shanghai -- China built its clusters with state money, talent pipelines, and two decades of patience.

India has ambition. And ambition matters. But ambition doesn't replace the engineer who's spent 30 years troubleshooting fab yields and wants to work near people who speak his technical language.

When a senior exec leaves a greenfield fab project for an established cluster, it's rarely just about salary. It's about wanting to actually ship chips.

This is the broader story about who will win or lose the AI race.

[Uday Kotak @udaykotak]

Google which is cash surplus, just announced an additional capital raise of $80 bn.
Google annual profit is $160 bn, last quarter $62 bn, and market cap $4.5 trillion. That is close to total profits and market cap of all Indian listed companies put together.
It’s a wake up call to all companies to invest into the future, whatever the present maybe.
Now that IPL is done and dusted, time for India to focus on business of business.

[ANI @ANI]

The National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority has fixed the retail price of 30 drug formulations, including Vitamin D3 Oral Solution, Calcium, Vitamin D3, Methylcobalamin, L-Methylfolate Calcium, Pyridoxal-5 phosphate and others.

[ghatak @Neetivaan]

Gen Zs are exposing each and every government website brick by brick, absolute cinema and belting b00mer should be the norm.

The country is suffering a lot of these b00mer macrohards

[Great Leader @GreatLe17041843]

@SpatialPhysics @leonard_bayard @BullTheoryio Of course leave it to the men to fix a womans mistake. even the insects cant get away from that.

[Parveen Kaswan, IFS @ParveenKaswan]

No. This is not a shot from dunes movie.

It is a sandstorm as observed from Bikaner, Rajasthan today.