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Have you put up your Halloween decor? The night sky will add the finishing touch. 🌕

October’s full moon, named the Hunter’s Moon, will rise on the night of Oct. 26. Its name comes from the seasonal practice of hunters relying on bright moonlight.

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Cinema By Neeraj Pandey.

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Para SF Soldiers eating Alive Chicken during Training

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W: Can you guess what is common in this pic?
Hint: 🍁

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🎯The legend of 7.62mm SLR: When the Indian Army Issued a Gym Workout Disguised as a Rifle

📌If you ask any Indian Army veteran about the 7.62mm Self-Loading Rifle (SLR), you won’t get a technical lecture on gas-operated tilting breechblocks. Instead, you will see a nostalgic, slightly teary-eyed smile, followed by the rubbing of a bruised shoulder.

📌Manufactured locally as the Ishapore 1A1, the SLR wasn’t just a weapon. It was an institution, a rite of passage, and a musculoskeletal stress test rolled into one 4.7-kilogram piece of steel and wood.

📌If today's high-tech assault rifles are sleek smartphones, the 7.62 SLR was a Nokia 3310 forged from an anvil—indestructible, heavy enough to double as home defense furniture, and capable of leaving a lasting impression.

1. The Weapon for "Real Men" (And Their Chiropractors)

📍Modern warfare is full of lightweight, polymer-heavy carbines designed for comfort. The SLR lived by a different philosophy: If it doesn’t hurt to carry, it’s not doing its job.

📍Weighing nearly 5 kilograms unloaded—and significantly more once you slapped on a fully loaded 20-round magazine and a bayonet long enough to spear a wild boar—the SLR ensured that every infantryman had forearms like a blacksmith.

📍The Parade Ground Test: A drill instructor could spot an SLR carrier from a mile away just by the asymmetrical lean of their spine.
The Recoil: Pulling the trigger didn't just fire a bullet; it delivered a friendly, masculine thump to your shoulder that reminded you you were alive, awake, and temporarily concussed.

2. The 20-Round Diet: One Shot, One Apology
📍Chambered in the brutal 7.62x51mm NATO cartridge, the SLR didn’t believe in wasting ammunition with frivolous three-round bursts. It offered two settings: Safe and Semi-Automatic.
If you pulled the trigger, something important happened downrange. The bullet had so much stopping power that veterans swear an SLR hit could knock out an engine block, clear a forest, and settle an argument three villages over. Enemies didn't just take cover; they re-evaluated their life choices.

3. A Multi-Tool for the Resourceful Soldier
📍An SLR was never just a firearm. In the hands of a jugaad-loving Indian infantryman, it was Swiss Army knife-adjacent:
📍The Butt-Plate Compartment: The wooden stock featured a trapdoor housing an oil bottle and a pull-through cleaning rope. In a pinch, it could also store spare mints, tobacco, or emergency sewing kits.

📍The Ultimate Obstacle Cleared: Need to chop firewood? Use the rifle butt. Need to dig a trench? Use the barrel. Need to strike fear into an adversary? Fix the bayonet. At that point, your rifle was essentially a six-foot-tall spear with a gunpowder problem.

📍Ceremonial Dominance: To this day, nothing says "Guard of Honour" quite like the dramatic, synchronized metallic clack-thud of dozens of SLRs slamming into the ground during Republic Day parades. The earth itself trembles in respect.

📌Eventually, the Army decided soldiers needed something lighter and swapped the SLR for the 5.56mm INSAS. While lighter, troops missed the sheer authority of the old 7.62 round.
It’s poetic justice, then, that decades later, the Indian Army adopted modern 7.62x51mm battle rifles like the SIG Sauer SIG716 for frontline troops. Hearing about this, old-school veterans smiled knowingly over their chai: “We tried telling them. You can run away from the heavy metal, but eventually, you always come back to the heavy hitter.”

So here’s to the 7.62 SLR—the heavy-metal rockstar of the Indian infantry. May your shoulders rest in peace, and may your cleaning-pull-through rope never fray

📌Pic is mine during Academy days, refebricated with AI

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JUST IN: 🇺🇦🇷🇺 Ukraine runs out of Patriot air defense missiles used to intercept Russian ballistic missiles, CNN reports.

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India's new Dictionary:

Support India? You're a Bhakt.

Respect Sanatan? You're a Sanghi.

Stand with the Army? You're a Warmonger.

Agree with the government once? You're an Andhbhakt.

BUT...

Insult India? That's Progressive.

Mock Hinduism? That's Liberal.

Defend Everyone except Hindus? That's Secular.

Excuse Violence with Endless "CONTEXT"? That's Intellectual.

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@RakeshK32229480 Trying to cope ahh tweet

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@Pradeep__Eshwar @himantabiswa Who the f are you calling a crook? Because of CM my small town is getting new flyovers new riverfronts, expansion of civil airport, expansion of new railway station, new tourist/recreational spots etc,🤡🤡

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🚨JUST IN: A 27-year-old mom allegedly stabbed her husband and their 3-year-old son to death inside a hotel room at Great Wolf Lodge in the Poconos. Then she called 911 asking how to find the right vein so she could finish herself off.

"My husband and son are already gone," she told dispatchers. "They're already gone, I'm sorry."
Metallica Rose Harrison stabbed them both in the chest, police say. Her husband Charles was found on the mattress. Their little boy was found on the floor. Two knives were recovered from the bathroom.

When cops arrested her, she refused to talk, saying she was "suicidal, not stupid." In the ambulance she told medics, "Every day, I work so hard to be the best person, the best mother, the best wife... I was supposed to have my happy family."
Then she asked how deep her vein was so she'd know for "next time."

The family had been staying at the resort since September 21st and had just extended their stay.

She's now charged with two counts of criminal homicide. This exactly what I was afraid of after the Lindsay Clancy verdict.

When a jury tells the world a mother can kill her children and walk away saying it was her mental state, that sends a message. Every mom who snaps now has a playbook, and I guarantee her potential lawyers are already studying it. Meanwhile, a wonderful 3-year-old boy and his dad are dead.

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Kiichiro Higuchi might be the most underrated Japanese general of WW2, and almost nobody outside Japan knows his name.

March 1938. Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany are stuck at Otpor, a Soviet railway station on the border with Manchuria. The Soviets won't let them back. Manchukuo won't let them in. They're camped out in brutal Siberian cold with almost no food.

Higuchi was the Japanese army's intelligence chief in Harbin. He arranged food, medical care, and visas, and worked with the South Manchuria Railway to get trains sent to the border to carry them out.

Japan had signed a pact with Hitler less than two years earlier. Berlin filed a formal protest. Higuchi was called before the Kwantung Army's chief of staff, Hideki Tojo, the future prime minister. As the story goes, Higuchi asked him whether Japan was supposed to be Germany's servant. Tojo let it drop.

Fast forward to 1943. Higuchi commands Japanese forces in the North Pacific when the Americans retake Attu. His garrison there fights almost to the last man. But on nearby Kiska, more than 5,000 Japanese troops are cut off. Under his command, a navy squadron slips in through the fog and evacuates the entire garrison in under an hour without losing a man.

Weeks later about 34,000 American and Canadian troops storm Kiska. The island is empty. They still take casualties from friendly fire, mines, and booby traps.

Then August 1945. Japan announces its surrender on the 15th. Three days later the Soviets invade Shumshu, the northernmost of the Kuril Islands. Higuchi, now commanding the Fifth Area Army, orders his men to fight. The battle costs the Soviets heavily and slows their timetable. Many historians believe that stand helped keep Stalin from grabbing Hokkaido and splitting Japan the way Germany and Korea were split.

After the war Moscow demanded Higuchi as a war criminal. MacArthur refused to hand him over.

He saved Jewish refugees from the Nazis, pulled off one of the cleanest evacuations of the war, and may have helped keep Japan in one piece. He died in 1970.

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Gorgeous photo! 🥲 That’s Air Chief Marshal AP Singh in the Tejas out front, his final fighter sortie before he retires month end. Trailed by (L-R) a MiG-29, Jaguar, Su-30, Mirage 2000 & Rafale.

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@abhijeet_dipke Coward kaun hai lal chowk me dikha diya tha jab tu apne baap ke gote me tha babu

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Shubho Mahalaya!

We seek the blessings of Maa Durga. May the blessings fill our society with happiness, compassion and hope. May there be peace and prosperity all around.

শুভ মহালয়া!

মা দুর্গার আশীর্বাদ প্রার্থনা করছি। মায়ের আশীর্বাদ আমাদের সমাজকে সুখ, সহমর্মিতা এবং আশায় পূর্ণ করুক। চতুর্দিকে শান্তি ও সমৃদ্ধি বিরাজ করুক।

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Key disadvantages of allowing Starlink in India include:

National security risks: Foreign-controlled network limits India's ability to shut off service in sensitive border areas or ensure availability during crises. Past reports of terminals with militants or smugglers raise misuse concerns.

Data sovereignty issues: Laser links could route traffic outside Indian gateways, complicating monitoring and lawful interception.

High costs: Hardware and monthly fees likely far exceed affordable terrestrial options like Jio or Airtel, limiting rural access.

Market impact: Could disrupt local telecoms and foster over-reliance on a single US provider instead of domestic alternatives.

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Close enough!