A hero of 2018, 2024 and 2026 is no more.
R. Rajesh of Kalliyoor, Thiruvananthapuram, was a rescue volunteer and rappelling instructor who answered the call of duty whenever Keralam needed him.
He stepped forward during the 2018 floods. He was among the rescuers during the Wayanad landslide tragedy in 2024. And in 2026, he made the ultimate sacrifice.
After giving his own life jacket to save a stranded farmer from the swollen Kariangode River in Kannur, Rajesh was swept away by the currents.
His courage, selflessness and sacrifice will forever be a part of Keralam's story.
My deepest condolences to his wife Smt. Lekshmi, his two young sons Arshan and Abhishek, his parents Shri Rajasekharan and Smt. Geetha, and all those who loved him.
I pray that his family finds the strength to bear this immeasurable loss.
Om Shanti 🙏
A hero of 2018, 2024 and 2026 is no more.
R. Rajesh of Kalliyoor, Thiruvananthapuram, was a rescue volunteer and rappelling instructor who answered the call of duty whenever Keralam needed him.
He stepped forward during the 2018 floods. He was among the rescuers during the Wayanad landslide tragedy in 2024. And in 2026, he made the ultimate sacrifice.
After giving his own life jacket to save a stranded farmer from the swollen Kariangode River in Kannur, Rajesh was swept away by the currents.
His courage, selflessness and sacrifice will forever be a part of Keralam's story.
My deepest condolences to his wife Smt. Lekshmi, his two young sons Arshan and Abhishek, his parents Shri Rajasekharan and Smt. Geetha, and all those who loved him.
I pray that his family finds the strength to bear this immeasurable loss.
Om Shanti 🙏
Heartbroken & so inspired 💔💔🙏🏽
The Commonwealth Games is becoming a daily roll-call of young Indians who have emerged from unimaginable hardship & horrors to win gold.
Look at 23-year-old judoka Asmita Dey, who is now the first Indian to win Commonwealth Games gold in the women’s 48kg category.
7 months ago, she lost her father to a brain stroke. A bicycle mechanic who earned barely ₹300 a day, he raised his family in a mud house in a small village in Tripura. When a knee injury threatened Asmita’s career, he found the money to take her to Delhi for treatment.
Even as the family mourned, Asmita’s mother urged her daughter to return to training, believing that abandoning the dream would betray everything her father had sacrificed for.
She now stands on top of the Commonwealth Games podium with a gold medal around her neck.
When rain falls, most of it disappears into drains.
But in one district, it began flowing back into the earth.
IAS officer Prathap M, the son of a farmer from Virudhunagar, Tamil Nadu, grew up understanding the value of water.
As the first graduate in his family, he once cycled kilometres to school with a dream of serving society. Years later, that dream took shape through a simple but powerful idea.
Instead of sealing abandoned borewells, his administration converted over 1,200 unused borewells into rainwater-harvesting recharge structures, allowing monsoon water to seep back into underground aquifers.
The result was visible after just one monsoon.
Groundwater levels reportedly rose by 5 to 10 feet in several areas, helping revive wells and support farming communities.
Sometimes, saving water does not require new resources. It requires reimagining what already exists.
#WaterConservation #RainwaterHarvesting #GroundwaterRecharge
[IAS officer Prathap M, rainwater harvesting, abandoned borewell conversion, water conservation, Tamil Nadu]
Only two teams in the 21st century have scored first in a World Cup semi-final and still lost the match:
🏴 England (2018 vs Croatia)
🏴 England (2026 vs Argentina)
Not going for the second goal after the first was the biggest mistake. Once you have an advantage, kill the competition. As soon as Argentina scored the first goal, they were the favorites to win the game. Biggest impact - substitutions. #Soccer#England#Argentina#Worldcup
While everyone stood filming, this brave young man jumped straight into the raging river and saved the child’s life 💪🙏
Real hero in action. Respect! ❤️
Any doubt about #Haaland quality put to rest today at world stage. #Norway looked confident from the go. #Brazil missing penalty would have given them additional boost they would have needed. First big exit at the world cup and this sets up fierce England Mexico clash in 2 hours.
History written in gold!
Congratulations to the Indian Women’s 4×100m Relay Team on winning the Gold Medal at the Asian Relay Championships 2026. Your speed, teamwork, and unwavering determination have made the entire nation proud.
May this be the first of many more triumphs for India on the global stage.
@pvsubramanyam@BJP4India Rajasthan never keeps one government / same CM for 2 terms. MP - Mama (Mr Chouhan) was charismatic leader. So, second term for BJP could be a challenge
Status of India's largest and world's 8th largest 400MLD Desalination plant being built at Perur. Chennai would get 700+ MLD of drinking water just from
desalination when it's complete... #Chennai#Projects 🏗️🚰💧
Manoj Madhusudhanan took a ₹1.86 crore home loan from ICICI Bank.
As collateral, he handed over his original property documents. Every homebuyer does this. You have no choice.
ICICI Bank sent those documents to their storage facility in Hyderabad via courier. Somewhere on that journey — Bangalore to Hyderabad — the documents vanished.
Gone. Originals. Irreplaceable.
When Manoj found out, ICICI Bank had one answer: it was the courier company's fault. Not ours.
He went to the Banking Ombudsman. They told ICICI to publish a public notice about the loss and pay him ₹25,000 for the trouble.
Twenty-five thousand rupees. For losing the original documents to a ₹1.86 crore property.
Manoj sent a legal notice. ICICI denied any mistake.
He went to the NCDRC.
The apex consumer court looked at the facts. The bank had taken custody of the documents. The bank had chosen the courier. The bank could not hand that liability to a third party and walk away.
ICICI Bank — India's second-largest private bank, ₹9 lakh crore in assets — was held liable. Ordered to obtain reconstructed certified copies, issue an indemnity bond, and pay ₹25 lakh in compensation.
One loan. One lost file. One bank that blamed the courier.
Save this — if your bank loses your original property documents, they cannot blame their courier agent. The documents were in their custody. The liability is theirs. File at your district consumer forum. The law is on your side.
(Source: Manoj Madhusudhanan vs. ICICI Bank Ltd. | NCDRC | LiveLaw, September 2023)
The U.S. government's potential suspension of the 18.4c gasoline tax to address a surge in fuel prices suggests officials don't foresee a swift deal with Iran to end the war, Barbara Lambrecht from Commerzbank says. $uso $uco $bno
Being a #ManUtd fan, this as satisfying to read as it is sad.
Players are not above the club however talented they are. Yes, cut some slack. However, they should not dictate the play.
#Soccer
🚨 Álvaro Arbeloa: “It hurts me when I see other teams run more than us. We need the commitment of all the players if you want to be a complete team”.
“Talent alone is NOT enough. This is Real Madrid. Players have to understand what Real Madrid is”.
Walter Schramm invested $6,000 in Amazon $AMZN stock in the late 1990s and, following a "buy and hold" strategy
He did not check his account for almost 20 years however
Thinking he had close to $100,000 by then, he checked his account, only to discover it empty
His stock was deemed "abandoned" and liquidated by the state of Delaware in 2008, through a process known as escheatment. Per the state, if you do not check your account for three years, it is deemed abandoned.
The state sold his shares for about $8,000 in 2008, and held the money for him.
Walter did receive a check for $8,000 in the end, but that was still a pittance relative to what the stock would have been worth had he checked his account regularly
The moral of the story is to check your accounts often
Today, India takes a defining step in its civil nuclear journey, advancing the second stage of its nuclear programme.
The indigenously designed and built Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor at Kalpakkam has attained criticality.
This advanced reactor, capable of producing more fuel than it consumes, reflects the depth of our scientific capability and the strength of our engineering enterprise. It is a decisive step towards harnessing our vast thorium reserves in the third stage of the programme.
A proud moment for India. Congratulations to our scientists and engineers.