🏟️ Homicide rate per 100k across the 16 host cities for the 2026 FIFA World Cup:
🇺🇸 Kansas City — 28
🇲🇽 Monterrey — 23
🇺🇸 Atlanta — 20
🇺🇸 Philadelphia — 20
🇲🇽 Guadalajara — 17
🇺🇸 Houston — 13.8
🇺🇸 Dallas — 13.6
🇲🇽 Mexico City — 11
🇺🇸 Los Angeles — 9.9
🇺🇸 Boston — 8.3
🇺🇸 Seattle — 7.7
🇺🇸 Miami — 5.8
🇺🇸 San Francisco — 4.5
🇺🇸 New York City — 4.5
🇨🇦 Toronto — 3.1
🇨🇦 Vancouver — 1.91
Sources: FBI Crime Data Explorer / city police depts (2024) · INEGI & Fiscalía General de Justicia de Nuevo León / Jalisco Cómo Vamos (Mexico) · Statistics Canada, “Homicide trends in Canada, 2024”
6. A woman who wants the wedding may not want the marriage.
Some people love attention, status, celebration, and the idea of being chosen. That does not mean they are ready for real married life. Marriage is not built on outfits, pictures, or public approval.
It is built on discipline, sacrifice, emotional control, and steady loyalty. Your mother may have sensed that the girl liked the image more than the responsibility.
That difference is invisible to excited men. Older women catch it quickly because they know performance fades when routine begins.
Holi is a celebration of renewal, forgiveness, and the strength of community.
I had the opportunity to celebrate the Festival of Colours in Mumbai this week. And today, as Hindus in Canada and around the world gather with family and friends, I am wishing you all a happy Holi.
Boosting Military Capacity with Indian Startups
At #IndiaAISummit, the Indian Army showcased AI solutions being developed in close collaboration with Indian startups under the vision of #AtmanirbharIndia 🇮🇳.
The Indian Army Stall attracted dignitaries, industry leaders and technology enthusiasts who witnessed operational AI capabilities being co-created for national security.
Key Projects
🔹 Ekam AI
Developed with Neuralix under iDEX ADITI 2.0, this AI-as-a-Service platform operates on the Army’s secure air-gapped network with an on-premises foundation model trained on Army data under development.
🔹 AI-in-a-Box and Agentic AI Platforms
In collaboration with Innefu Labs, Kogo AI, Paradome and Hyde, secure Edge AI and on-premises agentic systems are being built for federated decision-making using classified data.
🔹 Digitalised Brigade
With Next Level Technologies, an AI-enabled platform integrates multi-source unit data with central systems for analytics and MIS functions.
🔹 AI Examiner
In partnership with Vedasva Systems, an AI-powered LMS is being developed for military training establishments.
🔹 Security Control Tower
Together with CloudRunr AI, a computer vision-based surveillance and threat detection system is being developed for perimeter security.
Through strong collaboration with India’s startup ecosystem the Indian Army is accelerating indigenous defence innovation and strengthening operational readiness.
#AtmanirbharBharat
#PeoplePlanetProgress
#ResponsibleAI
#AIinDefence
#DigitalIndia
@DefenceMinIndia@SpokespersonMoD@OfficialINDIAai
"India Has a Great Opportunity in AI, Period" – Dr. Vishal Sikka (Ex-Infosys)
1. TCS has partnered with him to fight its existential crisis
2. PM & officials have met him multiple times
3. Oracle, GSK, BMW, Stanford have him on their Boards for AI
What is Vishal Sikka Saying:
Vishal Sikka – India’s World-Beating Asset in Silicon Valley
a. Sikka did his Stanford PhD thesis on AI in the 90’s when no one had even heard of AI.
b. As Infosys CEO from 2014 to 2017, he forewarned in every speech, meeting, shareholder’s letters (and resignation letter) that AI would disrupt IT Service Companies.
c. He took 3 steps at Infosys to lead the AI race for India. (Next Section)
Sikka’s 3 Steps Which Led to His Exit from Infosys
a. In 2015, he decided to be an early investor in OpenAI along with: Sam Altman, Peter Thiel (PayPal), Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn), and Elon Musk (Tesla). Infosys promoters backed out of this risky bet.
b. Sikka acquired Israeli AI firm Panaya for $200M in 2015. The sycophants and jealous Board members within Infosys spread a rumour that the acquisition was overvalued and Sikka had taken a cut. Internal investigation was ordered, nothing wrong was found.
c. Last Straw: In April 2017, Sikka launched the next-generation AI platform NIA at Infosys. The goal was to take lead in “proprietary AI” and build own models in India rather “live on rented AI” forever and enrich Google, OpenAI, etc.
Infosys Board was reluctant to go “all in” with NIA. Sikka resigned in August that year.
Sikka’s 2019 AI Presentation at NITI Aayog
a. In Sept 2019, all major Indian newspapers carried this PTI headline: “India Can Become World Leader in Artificial Intelligence: Vishal Sikka”
b. At a time when there was no ChatGPT, Gemini, or self-driving cars, Vishal Sikka gave a presentation on AI before NITI Aayog at the PM’s request, where officials of 20 Union Ministries were gathered.
c. He proposed a two-pronged strategy: (1) Train the world’s largest AI talent pool in Indian schools and universities; and (2) Invest and build AI systems in India at a very large scale to leap-frog in the AI race.
Nobody in India understood in 2019 what Sikka was saying.
Vishal Sikka is Back: What is He Saying in 2026
a. Last month Sikka had another meeting with the Indian PM and team. He is going to be a key participant at the India AI Impact Summit 19~20 Feb, 2026, which is a massive event with all top tech global leaders invited.
b. Indian IT Services: TCS has entered into a major partnership with Sikka’s AI firm and he recently met TCS CEO and top management. He told them it is not too late to join the AI race; the race has barely begun.
c. Margin Erosion in Indian IT Companies: Indian IT’s original model was labour arbitrage. If a client wanted 200 engineers on a project, India could supply the cheapest.
Now the same project can be done with 50 engineers + AI at much cheaper cost. So, to survive, Indian IT profit margins have already come down from 25% to 15%, and are rapidly declining further.
d. Sikka’s Advice to IT Services Companies: You have to shift the delivery model from labour arbitrage to “Labour + AI” arbitrage. It means, the AI component (AI platform, LLM models, AI applications) must be your own proprietary technology, and not rented from others.
e. If you rent AI, you lose the arbitrage – and then the Indian IT industry’s end is near. “There will be a lot of blood on the streets,” his exact words. (“Rent” also means foreign dependence forever in strategic technologies.)
f. Building Own AI Models: The idea that India is too late in the AI race, so let other people build AI – is a stupid idea, he says. “God has not pre-ordained that only certain people can build foundation models, and Indians are not one of them.”
India has 18% of the world’s population. We have to build our own foundation models, our own large-scale AI systems, and our own world-class applications on top of them. (Note: That’s exactly the way China thinks.)
g. “Skill Gap” is a Loser’s Excuse: Out of 8 billion people in the world, only about 1.5 million are able to build AI applications. The number of people who can deploy AI in production is just a few hundred thousand.
And the number of people who can build a frontier foundation model is less than 25,000 on the whole planet (concentrated in San Francisco, London, and a few Chinese cities.)
These are basic skills, and not skills pre-ordained by God for a chosen few.
ENDQUOTE [By Vishal Sikka]
Legendary computer scientist Alan Kay used to say:
“In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man (with half-baked knowledge) is king, but the two-eyed man (who is a visionary genius) is in for a hell of a ride (suffers a backlash and is called a fool.)”
@arabicatrader
🗣️ Kaká: “I did everything I could to save my marriage, but I learned something: you can’t force someone to stay with you if they’ve already decided to leave.
In 2015, my wife told me she no longer wanted to be married. I held on to the idea of fighting for us, of proving to her that we could rebuild our relationship. I read a book that suggested a 40-day challenge to win your partner back; I did it twice. Gifts, letters, unexpected surprises… but in the end, she kept repeating: ‘I don’t want this anymore.’
It was a heavy blow. As a Christian, divorce was never part of my plans. The Bible says marriage is forever, but what do you do when the other person no longer wants to continue? I fought until the very end, until I understood one essential thing: love cannot be forced. Loving is choosing someone every day. And if someone stops choosing you, you have to learn to let go.”
@grok@Politicx2029 Even if there is one factual inaccuracy in the post , it’s a fake post, how can a post have partial truths camouflaged with partial lies, I don’t think that’s how it works to conceal truth between some lies