Edwin Van der Sar kept 135 clean sheets in 266 games for United (over 50%) he went 14 league games without conceding a goal, he won 4 PL titles, a Champions League and World Club title whilst at United yet Jamie Carragher doesn’t think he’s in the top 5 keepers to play in PL 🙄
BREAKING: India just lost its THIRD Tejas fighter jet in 23 months.
But the crash isn’t the story.
The story is what happened in the 90 days BEFORE this crash:
Dubai Airshow, November 2025. Tejas crashes on live television. Pilot killed. First fatality in 24 years of the program. Every defense buyer on earth watching. Armenia immediately suspends its $1.2 billion deal. India’s first ever Tejas export, dead on arrival.
February 2026. Ministry of Defence formally excludes HAL from the AMCA fifth-generation stealth fighter program. First time in 80 years of Indian aviation that the state monopoly has been locked out of a frontline fighter. Tata, L&T, and Bharat Forge shortlisted instead.
Three companies that have never built a fighter jet in their lives chosen over the only one that has.
The disqualification criterion? Any company with an order book exceeding 3x annual revenue scores ZERO. HAL’s backlog sits at 7x revenue.
Read that again. The order book that every analyst on Dalal Street pitched as HAL’s “moat” and “visibility” literally became the metric that eliminated it from the future of Indian air power.
Then today. Third crash. Entire Tejas fleet grounded. Flight testing suspended. Mk1A certification now frozen while investigations run. HAL had already failed to deliver a single Mk1A despite promising 11 by February. Forty aircraft delivered across the entire program since 1982. Forty.
And the stock still trades at 33x earnings.
Here is what consensus is sleepwalking through: these are not three separate events.
Dubai, AMCA, and today’s crash are reinforcing nodes in a single structural regime change. India is dismantling its defense monopoly in real time.
The MoD procurement doctrine that killed HAL’s AMCA bid is not a one-time rule. It is permanent policy. It will apply to every future program.
HAL does not recover its former position. It becomes a legacy manufacturer while private India builds the fifth generation.
The 80-year monopoly ended. Nobody rang the bell.
This old (2014) video by Ajit Doval is a slap to all the Right Wing hate mongers and Godi Anchors.
Doval says that terrorism should not be viewed through a Hindu–Muslim lens because India doesn’t have a “Muslim population” versus a “Hindu population” when it comes to fighting terror. it's a national issue, not a communal one. Says, Muslim organisations are with us in this fight against terror much more than any Hindu Organization. He emphasised that Indian Muslims have consistently opposed terrorism, citing the 2012 Ramleela Ground gathering where 50,000 Maulanas issued a fatwa against global terrorism. "They wanted some Hindu organisations to also come on the same platform. They said it would endanger them", He stressed that the small, violent fringe is often mistaken for the voice of Islam, even though the majority of Indian Muslims reject violence. Historically, too, Indian Muslims made significant contributions to the independence struggle. Therefore, linking national security concerns to communal identity is misguided.
Unbelievable! The girl who sent her lover Saqib to jail for 20 years on false rape charges and love jihad case is now living at his house in Jwalanagar, Saharanpur. She says her family forced her to lie and even the judge was bribed by the girl's family
@uppolice@dgpup this is a clear case of injustice. Please reopen the case and free innocent Saqib. Justice must be served. 🙏
accepted the ceasefire, stopped bombing Gaza, waited for the rest of the Palestinians to return to Gaza to maximize their kill count, started bombing Gaza again... there are no words for how evil this country is
This belongs in every headline today!!
Abducting him from inside a hospital was a war crime.
Killing his son, Ibrahim, was a war crime.
Destroying the hospital was a war crime.
Holding him, torturing him, for ten months now, is a war crime.
Staying silent in the face of all this? That too is a war crime.