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ANJANA: YouTube star teachers have two-paise knowledge. They chase views and make money.
SUMAN MAโAM ๐ฏ: You put chips in โน2000 notes, declare people dead, run fake WhatsApp chats and fake GDP numbers.
ANJANA: Online teachers are fake.
SUMAN MAโAM โก๏ธ: Every slide, every line is watched by students. We work 100 times harder.
ANJANA: They mislead students.
SUMAN MAโAM ๐ฅ: You ignore paper leaks and unemployment. We raise studentsโ issues. Without teachers, there are no doctors, engineers or journalists.
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A Russian student who disappeared in the Himalayas in 2021 during a solo trek was discovered four years later by National Geographic journalists as the guardian of a high-altitude Buddhist monastery in Nepal.
24-year-old Alina Vetrova left Annapurna Base Camp and never returned. A rescue operation lasted three weeks, but an avalanche left her presumed dead. Her parents held a symbolic funeral in Novosibirsk.
In early 2025, however, a crew filming a documentary about lost monasteries discovered a young European-looking woman dressed in monastic robes and speaking fluent Tibetan and Nepali in a remote mountain temple at an altitude of 4,800 meters.
It turns out that Alina, who had lost consciousness from altitude sickness, was found by hermit monks, who cared for her for several months with herbal infusions. When she regained consciousness, the passes were already covered in snow - the descent was impossible until summer. During these months, she began to study Tibetan medicine and meditation.
According to the abbot, Alina had developed a rare gift - she could accurately recognize medicinal mountain herbs by their aroma, which the monks took as a sign of a reborn soul. She was given the name Tenzin Dolma and began training to succeed the monastery's apothecary, a position not held by anyone for 40 years.
Alina is now in charge of a collection of over 600 species of high-altitude plants. She wears a traditional burgundy robe, her head is shaved, and on her wrists she wears ritual yak bone bracelets, which she is allowed to wear as a sign of status. A dot of saffron paste is applied to her forehead daily during the morning ceremony.
When journalists ask her if she wants to return, Alina replies in Russian with a strong accent: โIโm already home. The mountains do not let out those they choose.โ
Her parents have flown to Kathmandu. The meeting is scheduled for the end of the month.
(Via Shiv Kar
Courtesy Rajiv Tyagi wall from Facebook)
The global wildlife tradeโespecially in illegal and live-animal marketsโis fueling the spread of diseases from animals to humans, according to a new study in Science.
The findings show that traded mammals are more than 40% more likely to harbor human-infecting pathogens, with species accumulating more shared pathogens the longer they remain in the trade.
Learn more: https://t.co/9GsERoW0We
Arnab Goswami becoming an overnight hero in Iran ๐ฎ๐ท for his Trump bashing wasnโt something i ever expected to witness.
Crazy times, this video is viral across Iran
Cement factories within a 10-kilometre radius have turned the sublime saffron fields into a condemned wasteland. Farmers find themselves trapped in a cycle of debt.
From Saffron to Cement: Kashmir's Deadly Wasteland https://t.co/wTv4uS9CVU
Every night at 9:30 PM, a train quietly leaves Bathinda in Punjab.
Its destination? Bikaner, Rajasthan.
๐๐๐ ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ ๐ถ๐ ๐ป๐ผ ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ป๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ ๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ป.
It is grimly known as the โCancer Train.โ
Because nearly ๐ณ๐ฌ% ๐ผ๐ณ ๐ถ๐๐ ๐ฝ๐ฎ๐๐๐ฒ๐ป๐ด๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ฝ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ฒ๐ป๐๐.
Every night, these patients ๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐๐ฒ๐น ๐ผ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ฏ๐ฎ๐ฑ ๐ธ๐ถ๐น๐ผ๐บ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ย to reach the Acharya Tulsi Regional Cancer Institute in Bikaner.
One of the few institutions in India that offers ๐ณ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฒ ๐๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐๐บ๐ฒ๐ป๐, ๐ณ๐ผ๐ผ๐ฑ, ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐น๐ผ๐ฑ๐ด๐ถ๐ป๐ดย to patients and their attendants.
Cancer cases are rising across India.
But one state that has witnessed a particularly ๐ฎ๐น๐ฎ๐ฟ๐บ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐๐ฟ๐ด๐ฒย for years is ๐ฃ๐๐ป๐ท๐ฎ๐ฏ.
Experts trace theย ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ผ๐๐ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ ๐ฐ๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ back to the ๐๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ป ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐๐ผ๐น๐๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป.
A movement that once turned Punjab into Indiaโs โfood bowlโ and helped the country ๐ผ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฐ๐ผ๐บ๐ฒ ๐ณ๐ฎ๐บ๐ถ๐ป๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ต๐๐ป๐ด๐ฒ๐ฟ.
But that success came at a cost:
unchecked use of ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฒ๐บ๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐น ๐ณ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐ถ๐น๐ถ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐๐๐ถ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐.
The widespread use of these chemicals ๐ฝ๐ผ๐ถ๐๐ผ๐ป๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ผ๐ถ๐น, ๐ฐ๐ผ๐ป๐๐ฎ๐บ๐ถ๐ป๐ฎ๐๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ฎ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ, and ultimately harmed the very farmers who fed the nation.
Yet, this tragedy rarely makes it to primetime debates.
๐ฆ๐ต๐ผ๐๐น๐ฑ ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐๐๐ฟ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ฒ ๐๐? Perhaps not.
๐๐๐ ๐๐ต๐ผ๐๐น๐ฑ ๐ถ๐ ๐ฐ๐ผ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ป ๐๐? Absolutely.
Because this isnโt just Punjabโs crisis.
These hazardous chemicals, many ๐ฏ๐ฎ๐ป๐ป๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฐ๐๐น๐ ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ด๐๐น๐ฎ๐๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ถ๐ป ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ช๐ฒ๐๐,
are still widely used across Indian states.
And the common citizen remains completely unaware.
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This is why Acharya Prashant keeps reminding us:
"The c๐ผ๐บ๐บ๐ผ๐ป ๐บ๐ฎ๐ป ๐บ๐๐๐ ๐ณ๐ถ๐ฟ๐๐ ๐ฏ๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐๐ฎ๐ธ๐ฒ๐ป๐ฒ๐ฑย to such realities.
Until that happens, we will continue to be poisoned, silently, in the name of '๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ด๐ฟ๐ฒ๐๐' ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ '๐ฑ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐น๐ผ๐ฝ๐บ๐ฒ๐ป๐'."
Because in a democracy, power ultimately lies with the people.
If the people begin to question, ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ฐ๐น๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ป ๐ณ๐ผ๐ผ๐ฑ, ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ฟ, ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐๐ฎ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ผ๐บ๐ฒ ๐ฒ๐น๐ฒ๐ฐ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐น ๐ถ๐๐๐๐ฒ๐, then the leaders will have no choice but to care.
โConservation is strongest when science and traditional knowledge work hand in hand.โ
Next week is #WorldWetlandsDay, watch IUCN Director General, Dr Grethel Aguilar's message for this important day.๐#WWD2026@RamsarConv
@ahmedalifayyaz It is quite unfortunate that the forestry technocrats are forced to work on meager wages for decades now. Present dispensation must take an immediate call for their regularization. Even DPL get regularized after due time.
Dear friends, I have something important to tell you.
In December 2024, 'researchers' from multiple Indian Government Homeopathy institutions along with 'researchers' from Israeli Homeopathy institutes, published a randomized controlled trial that concluded that use of Homeopathic formulations in children during first 24 months of life reduced infections and antibiotics use compared to 'standard of care.' This was published in the prestigious European Journal of Pediatrics.
The study was viral. It was all over the media and news here in South India and also in some National media and was Whatsapp 'proof' of Homeopathy being better than modern medicine in infants. The study was used to promote anti-vaccine sentiments and Homeopathy products in South India. Homeopaths hailed the study as 'path breaking' - also because the Ayush Ministry and Government Homeopathy practitioners were study authors involved in it.
I read the study. I am trained in advanced statistics and research writing.
The study was utter nonsense. And fraud. It looked like the authors did not even actually perform the study. I really doubted whether any patients were involved at all.
I wrote a letter to the editor of the journal, asking him to kindly review the paper and investigate 'scientific integrity' and ethics.
And after nearly 10 months of investigations by the Journal, Publisher and Research Integrity Team, we were proven correct.
The paper was fraud and now it has been RETRACTED. @RetractionWatch
The lesson here is that, if people really did understand what Homeopathy is and what its practitioners are, it is easy to find that it is clearly fraud. There is nothing in Homeopathy that works. It is unscientific utter nonsense. Every positive study on Homeopathy is mostly published in 'Homeopathy' journals. Sometimes, it infiltrates a real, valid journal (like in this case) and then it gets retracted because the scientific community is always alert.
There are many such instances: See - https://t.co/JHC3anPss3 and https://t.co/iDRNha2Yw5 and https://t.co/84S02zuxv3
The worst part here is that all these Homeopathy practitioners who are authors of the study are working in Indian Govt. public health sector - meaning, their salary is paid from public funds and citizens taxes. These wastrels are eating away our hard earned money and using it to fund fraud. Who will stop these criminals?
Even worse, the fraud, now retracted study was published as 'open access' in the European Journal of Pediatrics - which means, the authors paid ยฃ3090.00 GBP or $4990 USD, or โฌ3990 EUR equivalent in INR to publish fraud. Where did they get this money from? Yes. Indian public tax money.
Homeopathy needs to be booted out of this country. Parents, do not send your children to study Homeopathy even though India offers a 5 year course and gives them a "Dr." title at the end of it. They are not doctors. They are legitimized frauds and legalized quacks, as you can see from this retraction.
"Homeopathy is a lively relic of the prescientific era. Not healthcare."
@arifhussaintm
Link:
https://t.co/0CxLrVMHDj
Universities weakened their PhD screening process.
Then added mandatory publication to compensate.
But the fix created a worse problem: legitimizing predatory journals and teaching students that speed matters more than rigour.
Therapeutic potential of medicinal plant sprouts: emerging opportunities and challenges in phytochemistry.
Melegova, D., Babelova, A. & Selc, M. Planta 262, 146 (2025).
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"Productivity, Iโve come to see, is not measured only by research papers and grants. It is also sustained by presence, rest, and the relationships that give meaning to the work." #ScienceWorkingLife https://t.co/wdvcDr1qMt