If there was an award for event mismanagement, Bharat Tex at Bharat Mandapam would win it. Confusing hall layout, poor signage, and Hall 14 practically hidden. Met 8+ visitor groups from across India—all equally frustrated. Please fix the basics.
#BharatTex#BharatMandapam
🚨 Devendra Fadnavis announces major electricity tariff change in Maharashtra.
Tariff plan:
— Rates earlier rose ~9% annually
— Now to decline 1.2% each year from 2025–2030
Domestic tariffs to go 26% lower than current levels.
A large elephant herd of about 100 was seen swimming across the Brahmaputra River in Assam, India, navigating the waters at Nimati Ghat, a major river port
At just 25, Sharda Rashid Khan has cleared the JK Civil Services (Judicial) Exam 2025 in her very first attempt — a remarkable milestone. Her success is symbolic of a changing Kashmir where young women are stepping forward to lead with knowledge and courage. Congratulations, Sharda 🎉
Naya Kashmir Badalta Kashmir
Sindh CM @MuradAliShahPPP described the reconstruction of 2.1 million homes as a historic initiative, calling it one of the largest recovery efforts in the world. “Communities are being empowered to rebuild their own lives.
Proud to see Ajay Banga, President of the World Bank, staying rooted to his heritage while leading on the global stage. @naeemul_haque#AjayBanga#SikhHeritage
Well said. From back office to global think tank — that’s the India we must build. More initiatives like this will drive innovation at the frontiers of technology and exploration
These are exactly the kind of initiatives we need to do to show that India is not just the world’s back office, but can also be its think tank…
More such projects, please, for creating knowledge at the frontiers of technology & exploration.
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On the night of May 20, 2025, a little girl in a faded pink frock fell asleep on her mother’s lap at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus. Her parents, simple people from Solapur, had come to Mumbai for her father’s treatment. They were exhausted. Just for a moment, the mother closed her eyes.
When she opened them, her daughter was gone.
Six months.
Six months of walking from police station to police station.
Six months of showing the same crumpled photograph to strangers on trains, in slums, in orphanages.
Six months of the father not sleeping, the mother not eating, both of them growing hollow-eyed, whispering the same name into the dark: “Aarohi… Aarohi…”
In Varanasi, a thousand kilometres away, a tiny girl with no memory of her real name was learning to call herself “Kashi.” She had been found crying near the railway tracks in June, barefoot and terrified. The orphanage gave her food, a bed, and a new name. She smiled easily, because children always do, but sometimes at night she clutched the edge of her blanket and asked for “Aai” — Marathi for mother — and no one understood.
Back in Mumbai, the police refused to close the file. They printed posters with Aarohi’s face, stuck them on every platform from Lokmanya Tilak Terminus to Bhusawal to Varanasi Cantt. They ran newspaper ads, knocked on doors, begged journalists for help. Six months is a long time for hope to stay alive, but some officers carried her photograph in their shirt pockets like it was their own child.
Then, on November 13, a local reporter in Varanasi saw the poster. Something clicked. He had seen a girl who spoke Marathi words in her sleep. He made a phone call.
The next morning, a Mumbai Police inspector sat in front of a laptop in Varanasi and opened a video call. On the screen appeared a little girl in a pink frock — the same colour she was wearing the day she vanished. The mother, standing behind the officer in Mumbai, saw her daughter and collapsed without a sound. The father just kept repeating, “That’s my Aarohi… that’s my baby…”
They flew her back on Children’s Day — November 14.
When the plane landed, the entire Mumbai Crime Branch was waiting. They had bought her balloons and a new frock, sky blue this time. But the moment the little girl stepped out and saw the sea of khaki uniforms, she did something no one expected.
She ran.
Not away — toward them.
Tiny legs pumping, arms outstretched, she threw herself at the nearest officer and laughed — the purest, clearest laugh that had been missing from the world for half a year. The officer, a tough man who had seen everything, felt his eyes burn. He lifted her high, and she wrapped her arms around his neck like he was family.
Her parents were crying too hard to walk. So the policemen carried their daughter to them.
The mother touched her face again and again, as if checking she was real. The father fell to his knees and pressed his forehead to his child’s tiny feet, sobbing words no one could understand except God.
And the little girl? She just kept smiling, looking from her parents to the officers and back again, completely unaware that she had turned an entire police station into a sobbing, laughing, praying family.
Six months of darkness ended in one hug.
Aarohi is home now.
The kidnapper is still out there, but that is tomorrow’s fight.
Today, a mother is singing lullabies again.
Today, a father is smiling in his sleep.
And somewhere in Mumbai, there are policemen who will never forget the weight of a four-year-old girl in their arms — the weight of an entire life returned.
Sometimes the uniform doesn’t just catch thieves.
Sometimes it carries lost children all the way back to their mothers’ hearts.
Locals helping carry mortal remains of Indian Army Bravehearts Lance Havildar Palash Ghosh & Lance Naik Sujay Ghosh who died in the line of duty while conducting counter terror operations in the Kishtwar Range of Kokernag battling extreme weather conditions. Aum Namah Shivay!
Heartening news to begin the day — a step toward lasting peace. May this momentum continue and peace truly prevail across the region. Blessed are peace makers 🤗🤗
Meet Romulus & Remus—the world’s first de-extinct animals brought back from extinction using DNA from 72,000-year-old fossils.
Follow to watch these dire wolves grow and to discover the next species we’re working to bring back.