Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:
🇮🇳🇮🇱 Congratulations to India and to my dear friend @PMOIndia@narendramodi on your 80th Independence Day.
India and Israel achieved independence one year apart. We are two ancient nations that seize the future together to bring a better life for our people.
Our innovation and friendship are boundless.
The best is yet to come!
Modi-ji appoints Nandan Nilekani, who contested the 2014 elections as a Congress Party candidate, because the government respects his experience leading Infosys and Aadhaar and so many other projects.
Priyanka-ji attacks IIT Madras Director Prof Kamakoti, under whose leadership IIT Madras has emerged as the top tech institution in India and has spawned a vibrant startup ecosystem.
One of them is a classy leader.
There are two Indias
Of dreamers and doers like Sarvam and Skyroot
And of victimhood mentality folks like Ambedkarites and leftists
One trying to take India into a new century. The other stuck with old dogmas
Imagine a man standing on a rooftop in Calcutta at midnight. The city is asleep, but he is awake, watching an invisible pulse of energy bounce off the edge of the world & come back home. He was the 1st Indian to realize that the Void above us is actually a bridge. In 1935, while the British Raj dismissed Indian science as theoretical & primitive, a man in a quiet corner of Calcutta was aiming a radio beam at the heavens like a silver spear. He was not looking for God; he was looking for a mirror in the sky that everyone said did not exist & when he found it, he realized he had discovered the secret Electric Skin of the planet.
Before Sisir Kumar Mitra, the world knew of the Ionosphere, but they thought it was a simple, single layer. Mitra was the 1st to prove the existence of the E-Layer & the complexity of the F-Layer specifically over the tropics. Using a primitive, hand-built radio transmitter, he sent signals upward & timed their return. He discovered that the air 100km above Calcutta was ringing like a bell.
He proved that the Sun does not just give us light; it strips the air of its electrons, creating a celestial mirror. This is why we can hear a radio station from a 1000 KMs away at night. Mitra was the 1st man to map the Radio-Geography of the Indian sky.
In the 1920s, the British were very protective of Broadcasting. They did not want Indians having the power to transmit information wirelessly. Sisir Kumar Mitra did not care. He set up the 1st amateur radio station in India at the University College of Science in Calcutta.
He was essentially a pirate for science. He began broadcasting a call-sign that could be heard across the city, proving that an Indian could master the most advanced tech of the era. The British were furious but could not stop him because he was doing research. He paved the way for All India Radio using a rebel transmitter.
In 1947, he published his magnum opus, The Upper Atmosphere. When the book arrived in the United States & the USSR, the scientists there were stunned. They thought a colonial scientist would only have outdated data. Instead, Mitra’s book was so advanced that it became the "Holy Book of Space Science" for the 1st decade of the Space Age.
When the Soviets launched Sputnik in 1957, the engineers tracking its signal were using the atmospheric models created by a man in a humid room in Calcutta. The 1st satellite in space was talking through a sky that Sisir Kumar Mitra had already mapped.
Near the end of his life, Mitra turned his eyes toward the Moon. He was one of the 1st to mathematically suggest that the Moon might have a plasma envelope/a very thin atmosphere of ions. For decades, this was dismissed. It was not until the Chandrayaan-1 mission & modern probes that the Lunar Ionosphere was confirmed. Mitra was right about the Moon half a century before India actually went there.
Sisir Kumar Mitra was the man who turned the sky into a lab, proving that even under the weight of an Empire, an Indian mind could reach 300 kilometers straight up & touch the edge of space with nothing but a radio wave & a dream.
The Lotus blooms in West Bengal!
The 2026 West Bengal Assembly Elections will be remembered forever. People's power has prevailed and BJP's politics of good governance has triumphed. I bow to each and every person of West Bengal.
The people have given a spectacular mandate to BJP and I assure them that our Party will do everything possible to fulfil the dreams and aspirations of the people of West Bengal. We will provide a Government that ensures opportunity and dignity to all sections of society.
@BJP4Bengal
- ZERO Murders
- ZERO Bombs hurled
Gyanesh Kumar has indeed set a record for the books while conducting 2026 Bengal Assembly Elections. Little random violence took place but that too was addressed.
He is indeed a legend to be remembered.
> TMC's fish politics card is coming back to bite them as people can see through their scaremongering tactics 🐟
> People openly say that they travel frequently for work to BJP ruled states where they easily find fish to eat
> Many fishermen are now themselves speaking out against TMC for taking cut money from their business
> BJP has also targeted TMC for the state's low fish production 🪷
> This is what fish markets think of TMC's claims of fish ban
C: DeKoder
@Aureliaa____ In Congress era, Pakistanis could enter India's economic capital and massacre people at will.. In Congress era, our PM openly admitted that RAW is behind problems in Balochistan. So much for 'strategic focus'.
India was as cowardly as a country can be during the UPA era.
We delinked terrorism from the Pakistani state, signed agreements, and echoed the line that Pakistan itself was a victim of terror driven by poverty and lack of education. We kept talks going despite repeated attacks, maintained trade, and pushed confidence-building measures.
We resumed dialogue after every provocation, sent dossiers instead of deterrence, and relied on global pressure that never delivered. Cross-border infiltration continued, but consequences didn’t. In trying to appear responsible, we ended up looking unwilling to act.
Every terror attack had the same standard response: “Agar unko lagta hai ki is kayartapoorna harkat se wo hamara hausla tod sakte hain, to wo galat hain.” We were so submissive that even on the morning of the 2008 Mumbai attacks, our diplomats were in Islamabad signing a joint agreement stating that both sides condemn terrorism and are satisfied with the steps taken to control it. Four days later after the attack, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari had the audacity to say that India should not overreact to the attack, and we didn’t.
Pleased to share our latest research, now published in the Chemical Engineering Journal. Grateful to all co-authors for their support.
https://t.co/OzEchtLx6U
@ChemEngElsevier