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UAE announced that it would build a pan-Emirates, ultra modern semi high speed rail network.
And they did, in just three years.
No wasting time in endless, pointless debates, studies, certifications, assessments and surveys.
They let the experts, engineers, architects and technicians do their jobs (and not uneducated politicians) and they delivered in the best way.
The public wasn't inconvenience in anyway even with all this massive construction. No contractor or middlemen loot and grab. This is the best way.
Normally a cardiologist would get call for heart attack in midnight , he do Angio & come back expecting to be paid for it
Now he won’t leave home till entire money is deposited as advance
Money like water always seeks its level
More socialist a Govt, more capitalist society
A $5 million Indian startup just patented the motor every global automaker has been failing to build for a decade.
Bengaluru based Vimag Labs has been granted its fifth Indian patent for something called a Virtual Magnet Synchronous Motor, or VMSM.
It runs an electric motor without any rare earth magnet inside it.
Almost every EV today uses a Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor. These have fixed rare earth magnets physically built into the rotor.
Vimag's motor does not. It creates and controls the magnetic field using software, power electronics, and control algorithms in real time.
The supply chain problem it solves is enormous.
• China controls about 91% of global rare earth refining and separation.
• China produces 94% of the world's sintered permanent magnets, the exact type used in EV motors.
• China holds only 35% of global rare earth reserves. Its power comes from processing, not from owning the minerals.
China has been using that control as a weapon.
• In April 2025, China imposed export controls on seven heavy rare earth elements and all related magnets. Exports collapsed and carmakers in the US and Europe were forced to cut production.
• In October 2025, China extended the rules to any foreign-made product containing 0.1% or more Chinese rare earth content, even if made entirely outside China.
• Prices outside China have spiked up to sixfold. EV makers report roughly $500 in added material cost per vehicle.
• Licensing approvals for European firms have fallen below 25% in some sectors.
Every major automaker has been trying to escape this.
Tesla switched to rare earth motors in 2017 and has said its next generation motors in 2026 will go rare earth free again. Stellantis and GM are funding Niron Magnetics, a US startup building iron nitrogen magnets.
Neither has said when it reaches production.
Valeo has been working on a rare earth free motor since 2022. And It is not expected to reach the market until 2028 at the earliest. Honda has announced its own funding into alternatives.
Vimag has already run 87,600 engineering hours on this, has active pilots with two wheeler and passenger car manufacturers, signed a manufacturing agreement with Jendamark, and is scaling toward commercial vehicles and industrial systems from 200 kW to 600 kW.
It is also building versions for robotics, defence, and cooling systems.
Now the part worth being careful about.
This is still a $5 million Series A company running pilots, not mass production. Motors that work in a lab or a pilot fleet do not always survive cost, durability, and efficiency testing at scale.
Software defined magnetic fields require heavy power electronics, and that adds its own cost and failure points. Valeo has been at this for four years and is still two years from market.
Analysts estimate the West would need 15 to 30 years to rebuild an independent rare earth supply chain.
Building a motor that does not need rare earths at all skips that entire problem.
Homi Bhabha centre has been around for decades. Why did the success rate jump in the past 10 years? What changed?
Or is it the same and only the denominator changed?
OpIndia was the first to label the Delhi Riots as Delhi Anti Hindu Riots. It was a pogrom against Hindus, something we spent 6 years proving and writing about.
Today, the court agrees.
Meet Tahir Hussein’s cheerleaders.
Today Court convicted AAP councilor Tahir Hussein and others in the murder of IB staffer Ankit Sharma.
Time to call out these paid cheerleaders who tried to whitewash his heinous crime
I feel vindicated. OpIndia and our coverage has prevailed. A battle fought for 6 years.
It was in July 2020 that I had analyzed the chargesheet against Tahir Hussain. The CS, including his disclosure statement, laid bare the sinister plot behind the anti-Hindu riots. He admitted not only how he wanted to kill “Kafirs” but how he created a fake alibi to convince police he was the victim. It was this alibi that was peddled shamelessly by @zoo_bear and @khanumarfa. That he made multiple PCR calls to get “help” since he was the victim of the riot. Hussain admitted that this was a ruse, while he gheraod the police, cutting them off from the location where he and his men were murdering Ankit Sharma and other Hindus.
https://t.co/E0yZRDwxsc
Tahir Hussain has been convicted in the killing of IB officer Ankit Sharma.
Now check this timeline very carefully-
▪️Tahir Hussain killed Ankit Sharma on 25 February 2020.
▪️From 26 February to 5 March 2020, he was absconding.
▪️He was arrested by the Delhi Police on 5 March 2020.
▪️On the same day, The Wire broadcast a pre-recorded video featuring Tahir Hussain.
▪️This video was most likely recorded between 1 and 4 March 2020.
▪️Who recorded this video?
▪️This raises serious questions: Did someone connected to The Wire provide shelter to Tahir Hussain and help him hide? If true, it would constitute a punishable offence (harbouring a fugitive).
Straight question:
Was it you, Arfa Khanum?
Did you record this video?
Was Tahir Hussain hiding at your home?
Why were @khanumarfa and The Wire people never arrested or questioned in this case?
This tweet still exists.
Tahir Hussain has been convicted of murdering Ankit Sharma. And not just convicted of murdering him, but murdering him BECAUSE HE WAS HINDU.
I can only hope @khanumarfa@svaradarajan should face consequences.
Ankit Sharma’s body was recovered from the Chand Bagh drain on 26th February 2020. He was stabbed so many times that his intestines lay out of his body.
On the 27th, @sardesairajdeep was defending Hussain.
Today, 6 years later, Tahir has been convicted of the murder.
India redrew the electoral map of most of its states in 2008.
The old boundaries on which every election from the 1970s to 2000s was fought were retired with no public source. Not on the EC website. Not in any archive. Nowhere.
But now they do
https://t.co/Fna8ZOOWT8
As the delimitation exercise is around the corner, Congress is making it about the gerrymandering of seats.
In 2008, under Congress rule, they redrew the boundaries of virtually every constituency that had shaped elections for decades.
But the old boundaries disappeared from public access, no EC website, no digital archive, no central repository.
All of this to save themselves from public scrutiny.
Not anymore. Visit https://t.co/ZlHpUp2Psp to see what changed in 2008.
In defense of our six-faced Muruga Kadavul, have written an article clearly stating the SIX distortions in Arivumathi's propaganda book, citing from his very own Sangam Literary sources and epics.
Do read, share and subscribe. May God Muruga bless you! Link in comments.
Gandhi’s non violent ways broke the will of British- this was fed to us in schools and our young minds actually believed in it
British kept Gandhi alive and safe so that he keeps violent attempts for independence at bay. British wanted to rule India and exploit it - not worry about armed rebel. Gandhi was the perfect setup.
Non corporation movement gained ground. Began to impact the Raj and its economy. In comes a random Chauri Chaura incident - movement dropped
Gandhi was allowed to fast and protest because his movement helped British.
Covaxin by Bharat Biotech is dangerous, we must use the vaccine made by Pfizer.
Gas Cylinder is OUT of Stock. No Cylinder will be available for the next 6 months.
Cars in India are getting damaged by E20. We must roll back E20.
PM Modi cannot use Stairs. He must resign.
February 2025: India-US trade negotiations begin.
July 2025: Nostradamus Rahul Gandhi predicts Modi will “do whatever Trump says.”
August 2025: The US imposes 50% tariffs on India over trade and Russian oil purchases.
India’s response?
Modi lands in China for the first time in seven years.
India keeps buying more Russian oil.
Countries accounting for 20% of India’s total trade move towards settlement in domestic currencies.
One year later: India has refused to fast-track a trade deal with the US and is demanding more favourable terms.
And India is pursuing the same policy: India’s interests are more important than any deadline.
Major life hack: Don't complain, ever. Nobody likes a complainer. They drain the energy of everyone around them. It's exhausting spending time around someone who constantly complains about things outside their control. If it's within your control, go do something about it. If it's not, you're just wasting energy thinking about it. Complaining gives too much power to the thing. Take back that power.
Yes.. Recently went to New Delhi Railway station. I have been using this station as long as I remember.. Never seen it so clean. It's undergoing complete renovation and I expect it to be one of the very best and busiest railway stations in the world, when completed.
Contrast that with railway stations a decade ago, it used to literally feel like we are entering the world's largest urinal. A complete chaos with tracks filled with shit. Today the same tracks are completely litter free. It didn't happen "by chance". The whole inventory of Indian Railways was fitted with Bio Vacuum toilets by Modi Govt..
This is just one example. Lot of work still needs to be done, specially slum cleanup around railway lines, to clean up the tracks in urban areas. We have taken first few baby steps towards that. It will take massive effort though.
An Indian scientist at Harvard discovered ATP (Adenosine Triphosphate). Then he helped create the first chemotherapy drug and the first tetracycline antibiotic. Harvard still refused him tenure. A bowling alley would not let him bowl. He died at 53, without an obituary.
His medicines save tens of millions of lives every year. Most American doctors who prescribe them have no idea what his name was. His name was Yellapragada Subbarow (Subba Rao).
He was born in 1895 in Bhimavaram, India. His father was a Sanskrit scholar who died from tropical sprue. Tropical sprue is an acquired malabsorptive disorder found in tropical regions, characterized by chronic diarrhea, weight loss, and severe nutritional deficiencies. It is most commonly associated with deficiencies in vitamin B12 and folic acid, resulting in anemia, fatigue, and glossitis. The same disease killed two of his brothers. As a child, Subbarow watched them fade away and decided he would spend his life fighting disease.
He failed his school exams twice. Passed on the third attempt. His future father-in-law paid for his medical school books. Subbarow married his daughter and repaid the debt. In October 1922, he arrived in Boston with borrowed money and broken English. He was 27. He entered Harvard Medical School and joined the biochemistry PhD program.
He began working under a senior researcher named Cyrus Fiske. Long hours. Little pay. But he was at Harvard, and he did not care. In 1925, they developed the Fiske-SubbaRow assay, a method for measuring phosphorus in body fluids. It is still used today in kidney failure testing, vitamin D testing, and prostate cancer work. It became one of the most cited methods in biochemistry history.
Then they found something even bigger in 1926 - ATP - Adenosine triphosphate. The energy molecule that powers every cell in every living thing on Earth. That discovery changed biochemistry. It also proved that the 1922 Nobel laureate had been wrong about how muscles worked. Muscles did not run on glycogen. They ran on ATP.
Subbarow earned his PhD in 1930. He stayed at Harvard for another decade. Paper after paper. Discovery after discovery. And every year, Harvard refused to promote him. The biochemistry department had never given tenure to a foreigner. They were not going to begin with an Indian.
His colleagues took him fishing. Played tennis with him. Came to dinner at his home. Then voted against him year after year. Outside the laboratory, he met the same wall. He bought an airplane and learned to fly because he loved flying. Once, he tried to go bowling. The local alley refused him entry. The sign said it was “open only to the Caucasian race.”
Then Fiske turned against him. The senior researcher began blocking Subbarow’s discoveries out of jealousy. Some of Subbarow’s work had to be rediscovered years later by other scientists because Fiske kept his findings hidden.
May 1940. Harvard denied him tenure for the last time. After 17 years of groundbreaking work, he walked away. Lederle Laboratories in New York hired him as Associate Director of Research. By the end of the year, he was Director. In the next eight years, he changed medicine. He developed diethylcarbamazine, an oral medicine that killed the tropical worms crippling American soldiers in the Pacific. The World Health Organization still uses it.
He isolated folic acid from liver and worked out how to produce it on a large scale. Today, folic acid in pregnancy prevents birth defects in tens of millions of pregnancies every year. The same family of diseases that killed his father and brothers became preventable because of him.
Then Dr. Sidney Farber called from Boston with an idea: maybe a drug that blocked folic acid in cancer cells could kill childhood leukemia. Subbarow’s team created the drug. They called it Aminopterin. In December 1947, Farber gave it to an eight-year-old boy dying from leukemia. Within weeks, the cancer cells began to disappear.
It was the first chemotherapy drug in history. The first time anyone had put cancer into remission using a pill. Subbarow’s team later refined it into Amethopterin, now known as methotrexate. It became a gold standard treatment for leukemia, lymphoma, breast cancer, and lung cancer. Then rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, and Crohn’s disease. The World Health Organization lists it as an essential medicine. Tens of millions of people use it every year.
In 1948, his lab produced Aureomycin. The first tetracycline antibiotic - a broad-spectrum one that killed typhus, cholera, pneumonia, and many bacteria that penicillin could not touch. It opened the door to the whole tetracycline family: doxycycline, minocycline, and drugs still used today against plague, malaria, anthrax, and drug-resistant infections.
He was 53 years old. He had created medicines that would save tens of millions of lives. August 8, 1948. Yellapragada Subbarow suffered a heart attack at his home in New York and died. No American newspaper gave him a front-page obituary. No university held a memorial. The Nobel Committee never honoured him. His own colleague George Hitchings later won a 1988 Nobel Prize for work built directly on Subbarow’s foundation. Subbarow was not even nominated.
In 1950, Argosy magazine published a feature about him titled “Miracle Man of the Miracle Drugs.” It began with a line that still hits hard. “You’ve probably never heard of Dr. Yellapragada Subbarow. Yet because he lived, you may be alive and are well today. Because he lived, you may live longer.”
Most Americans had not heard of him in 1950. Most still have not. Harvard has never officially honoured him. American medical schools mostly do not teach his name. The Nobel Committee that honoured Hitchings for work built on his foundation never corrected the record. Every methotrexate prescription written today remains silent about the man behind it.
India remembers. The government issued a postage stamp for his 100th birthday. His childhood home became a museum. Indian medical schools teach his name. But the country that denied him tenure, refused to let him bowl, and allowed him to die unknown - the same country that uses his drugs every day - still mostly does not know him.
Here is the truth. If someone you know has ever taken methotrexate for cancer or an autoimmune disease. If someone you love has taken folic acid during pregnancy. If you have ever been prescribed doxycycline for an infection. That was him. Yellapragada Subbarow. Born 1895. Died 1948. Saved tens of millions of lives, while a country he loved barely knows what it owes him.
Please remember his name and let your near and dear know about this little-known scientific legend born on this soil but never got the true recognition that he deserved. A story you need to know. A story all of us need to know. #Medicine #Unknownlegends @centerofright@KiranKS
For her, the Ramayana and other Hindu texts are mythology, but Greek mythology is history.
For her, the violence shown in Dhurandhar was intolerable, but the violence in The #Odyssey is art.
No, this isn't about Hollywood vs. Bollywood. It's about her ideology. She's a leftist who hates Hinduism and anything associated with nationalism.