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[Sandeep @SandeepUnnithan]

The 1993 Mumbai bombings which killed 267 Indians were an act of war - planned and resourced by Lt Gen Javed Nasir, then DG-ISI, in cahoots with his political masters.
The aim was to paralyse Mumbai in three stages-
a) serial bombings of VAs and VPs- stock exchange, hotels, airport.
b) gunmen storming govt buildings and killing elected officials.
c) restart communal riots where ISI-supplied Type-56 rifles and grenades were distributed in parts of the city.
The ISI used Dawood Ibrahim’s gang as foot soldiers.
The bigger tragedy of 1993 - the worst act of urban terror until 9/11- was that it was seen as a law and order problem - a communal problem- an underworld problem- books and stories were written about it by crime reporters who had spent their whole lives writing about Dawood.
This is also the trouble with X threads like this that don’t see the bigger picture- 1993 was the Pak Army’s first attack on India’s economic hub…it went unpunished and that opened the city up to two more major strikes by the Pak Army- in 2006 and 2008- killing over 350 more Mumbaikars…

[Aravind @aravind]

So it's becoming more and more evident it is GLISCO-DS trying to rock Modi govt. Because if all this had an US hand behind, the regime change ops will look very serious and different. Not a joke like this. The Americans and Ukrainians getting caught in border areas too seem Biden admin intel and regime change folks now on GLISCO-DS payroll.

[M_Vidyasagar @stellensatz]

My thanks to @cvkrishnan for asking me to share my memories of the LCA control law (CLAW) design. Please bear with me for the lengthy thread.

I returned to India in June 1989 as the Director of CAIR. Almost at once, I was asked to sit in on a review of the LCA project. 1/n

[SpokespersonNavy @indiannavy]

#Lokayan26

🇮🇳⚓🇺🇸 INS Sudarshini Charms Boston!

The crew and trainees of #INSSudarshini marched through the historic streets of #Boston during the Crew & Cadet City Parade at @SailBoston2026, proudly showcasing India's rich seafaring heritage and maritime traditions.

The spirited participation reaffirmed the enduring 🇮🇳🤝🇺🇸 maritime partnership and the timeless bonds forged across the seas.

#VasudhaivaKutumbakam
#SagarYatra2026 #TallShipIndia #SailsOfIndia

@IndiainBoston @USAndIndia @USNavy

[Shubh @kadaipaneeeer]

> invited abp news journalist megha prasad to interview him in his private jet
> thought it’ll be another scripted interview where he’ll flex his achievements
> got visibly irritated by uncomfortable questions since it was an unexpected attack
> avoided giving direct answers and repeatedly shifted the conversation
> when she mentioned the mileage drop in her own car, asked her to prove it
> when asked about brynihat’s pollution due to ethanol factories, denied claims
> when asked about vehichle damage issues, told people to claim insurance
> warned that he could file a defamation case against her as well
> repeatedly dismissed criticism instead of addressing the concerns raised
> turned a public accountability interview into a defensive exchange
> this is our official road & unofficial petroleum minister - Nitin Gadkari aka Jhola chaap mantri

[OnWarfare @on_warfare]

@MarkRow27106488 @Gabriel64869839 @darrenjaundrill @TBrit90 Because they have many more Burkes. So the ships can rotate in and out of dry docks and active service. Active at sea days would be comparable, but spread out over longer time.

Same with every large Navy. Indian Navy, JMSDF to state two more.

[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

On this day in 1944, Theodore Roosevelt Jr. died in his sleep in a stone farmhouse in Normandy. He was 56 years old, and he had spent almost his entire adult life trying to be worthy of a famous last name.

He was the eldest son of President Theodore Roosevelt. In the First World War he went to France and was gassed and badly wounded at Soissons leading his men. That same summer his younger brother Quentin, a pilot, was shot down and killed over France. Ted came home with lungs and a leg that never fully recovered, and before he even left Europe he helped found the American Legion so that ordinary soldiers would have someone looking out for them.

Between the wars he did almost everything. Governor of Puerto Rico. Governor General of the Philippines. Businessman, explorer, writer. He could have spent the Second World War safe behind a desk. Instead, at 54, arthritic and walking with a cane, he talked his way back into uniform and into combat.

By 1943 he was fighting in North Africa and Sicily under Terry Allen, and their loose, unpolished, soldier-first style rubbed General Patton the wrong way. Patton had them both relieved of command. Roosevelt didn't sulk. He asked for another job, any job, as long as it kept him near the fighting. They made him assistant commander of the 4th Infantry Division.

Then came D-Day. He hid a heart condition from the Army doctors. He wrote to his commander three separate times, in writing, begging to go in with the very first wave rather than watch from a ship. He was the only general to land in the first wave on any beach that morning, the oldest man in the invasion, walking through machine gun fire with a cane in one hand and a pistol in the other.

The boats came in a mile off course. Officers froze. Roosevelt limped up and down the beach under fire, studied the ground, and said, "We'll start the war from right here." Then he spent the morning waving men forward and sorting out the chaos so calmly that terrified 20 year olds looked at this old man with a cane and decided that if he wasn't scared, they wouldn't be either.

His son Quentin, named for the uncle killed in the last war, landed at Omaha Beach the same morning. They were the only father and son to come ashore together on D-Day.

He died a month later. A heart attack in his sleep. And here is the part that gets me. On the very day he died, the orders had just come through promoting him to major general and giving him his own division. He never saw the paperwork. He never knew he'd earned the Medal of Honor either.

At his funeral his pallbearers were seven of the most famous generals of the war, Bradley, Hodges, Collins, Barton, Huebner, and George Patton. The same Patton who had fired him. Patton wrote in his diary that Roosevelt was one of the bravest men he had ever known.

Years later Omar Bradley was asked to name the single most heroic thing he witnessed in all of World War II. He didn't pause. He said, "Ted Roosevelt on Utah Beach."

[Nandini @NBDwrites]

Over the last decade, one trend has become impossible to ignore: the growing insecurity in sections of the Western establishment towards India’s rise.

Too often, parts of the media resort to distortion, selective reporting, fabricated narratives and relentless negativity to portray India in the poorest possible light.

Most Indians understand something rather simple. If people are constantly talking about you, criticising you, inventing stories about you and obsessing over your every move, it is because your presence has become impossible to ignore.

Nations that do not matter are rarely the subject of such sustained attention.

So thank you -
@Reuters @nytimes @business @BBC @SkyNews etc. etc…

Please, keep up the good work. Every fabricated story and every contrived narrative only serves as another reminder of where India stands today.

[Hush-Kit Aviation News, History & Satire @Hush_Kit]

‘Beast mode’ is some of the best marketing spin for slow & not stealthy

[Muji Singh Rangi @mujifren]

@RiseBharata We won't have been best friends with Russia

China and Russia still have trust deficit due to border issues dating back from the Soviet times, border issue would have led to war

In reverse - we would have been best friends with China if we didn't had a border with them

[Alpha Defense™🇮🇳 @alpha_defense]

One Indian crew member killed, six Indian nationals among eight wounded, as Iranian missiles hit two Emirati oil tankers in Strait of Hormuz

Per the UAE Ministry of Defence: the tankers Mombasa and Al Bahiyah were struck by two Iranian cruise missiles while transiting the southern lane of the strait in Omani territorial waters.

[VatsRohit @KesariDhwaj]

The kind of stuff that makes kids want to become pilot one day!

[Fesshole🧻 @fesshole]

I hide in my shed to escape my wife's never-ending parade of family members who are 'just popping round' every night unannounced. It didn't have a window but I installed one so I can see them all fuck off home.

[Sidhant Sibal @sidhant]

BREAKING: INDIA SUMMONS IRANIAN DEPUTY AMBASSADOR OVER KILLING OF INDIAN SEAFARER

[𝕳𝖊𝖑𝖑𝖋𝖎𝖗𝖊🇮🇳 @hellfire_81]

An inconvenient truth.

The damage of late 1970s-80s by a certain person / set of people, not services related, to indigenous efforts in the field, needs a look too.

[Sidhant Sibal @sidhant]

BREAKING: INDIA SUMMONS IRANIAN DHC OVER KILLING OF INDIAN SEAFARER

[Radio India 🇮🇳 @Radio_India_]

“The kindly Hindu is the only man in the world who is kind to his animals.”

- Mark Twain (1896), American Writer

[Megh Updates 🚨™ @MeghUpdates]

A car caught fire today inside the Airport Tunnel on the Gurugram–Dwarka Expressway, filling the tunnel with smoke.

As visibility dropped, vehicles halted outside the tunnel, while the tunnel's automatic fire safety system activated immediately, switching on the sprinklers. The fire was quickly brought under control, and no injuries were reported.

Another example of how modern infrastructure and built-in safety systems are strengthening India's highways and helping prevent accidents from turning into tragedies.

[The Lowy Institute @LowyInstitute]

India’s defence export rise opens a door for Australia | Dhruva Jaishankar https://t.co/xTZLR4xVHa

[The Hormuz Letter @HormuzLetter]

BREAKING: Iran has attacked and hit two UAE national tankers, the Mombasa (Oil) and Al-Bahiya (LNG), with cruise missiles in the southern passage of the Strait of Hormuz within Omani territorial waters, causing material damage and a fire in both tankers, per UAE Ministry of Defense.

One crew member of Indian nationality was killed on the Mombasa, with eight injured, including four in serious condition.