🗣️ “It was surely Messi's last World Cup match. He'll be 35 by the next World Cup in Qatar.”
That was said 8 years ago. 😳
Since then, he's won the World Cup, and now, at 39, has already scored five goals in just two matches at another World Cup. 🤯
𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐈𝐀 𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒! 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐔𝐏 𝐈𝐒 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐇𝐎𝐌𝐄! 🏆🇮🇳
For the second time, India are crowned the FIH Hockey Women’s Nations Cup champions! ❤️
A dominant unbeaten campaign brings glory as the Women in Blue defeat hosts New Zealand in the Final and bring the trophy home once again. 🔥🏆
#HockeyIndia #IndiaKaGame #FIHNationsCup
@CricketTamizhan Tilak Varma is the most overrated cricketer in India right now.
I really don't understand why he is preferred over others in both T20s and ODIs.
ICYMI: This is HUGE folks 🔥
Dhiraj Bommadevara WINS GOLD medal in Individual RECURVE event at Archery World Cup in Antalya.
Did it in style beating Olympic Champion & multiple World Gold medalist Lee Woo-Seok of South Korea 7-3 in Final.
#Archery
@joybhattacharj Believe it's tough to criticize your friends. There is absolutely no logic in excluding Shami & Nabi.
Ranji Trophy performances should count towards Test selection more than anything else.
Yuzvendra Chahal has created 16 catching chances so far at #IPL2026, 8 of which have been dropped 😳
Among 61 bowlers to have created 4 or more chances this year, no bowler has had a higher percentage of catches dropped.
1. Just got off a call with @UnSubtleDesi. I couldn't be happier for her and both of us couldn't help but discuss the harrowing days of post poll violence in West Bengal in 2021. So I am going to share what happened five years ago just so ppl know what happened. #WestBengal2026.
In the 1990s, India was facing a Biological Colonization. If Dr. R.A. Mashelkar had not stepped in, we might have ended up paying a royalty to a US corporation every time we used turmeric on a wound/exported Basmati rice.
In 1997, a Texas-based company called RiceTec was granted a patent by the USPTO (US Patent & Trademark Office) for Basmati Rice lines & grains. They claimed they had invented a superior strain of rice. Mashelkar realized that if this patent stood, Indian farmers would be barred from selling their own rice under the name Basmati in the US. It was a theft of Geographical Intellectual Property.
He did not just shout Injustice. He assembled a team to find Genetic Fingerprints. They proved that the new rice was actually derived from Indian germplasm that had existed for centuries. The USPTO was forced to strike down the majority of the claims.
2 researchers at the University of Mississippi were granted a patent for the use of turmeric in healing wounds. To a Western patent officer, this was a novel invention. To an Indian, it was something their grandmother did every day. Mashelkar produced an ancient Sanskrit text as Prior Art. The USPTO demanded a translation. He provided evidence from the Journal of the Indian Medical Association dating back to 1953 + ancient Ayurvedic texts.
This was the 1st time in history that a patent granted to a US entity was successfully challenged & revoked based on the Traditional Knowledge of a developing country.
Mashelkar also realized that India could not fight 10000 legal battles every yr. He needed a Scalable Solution. Patent officers in the West were not malicious; they were just Data Blind. They could not read Sanskrit/Tamil/Persian. If a discovery was not in an English journal, it did not exist in their system.
He hired 100s of experts (Ayurveda practitioners, IT engineers, & Patent lawyers). They took 500000+ formulations & converted them into a digitized Shloka to Code format. The data was rendered in English, French, German, Japanese, & Spanish.
Today, India has signed agreements with the USPTO, the European Patent Office, & others. Before an officer grants a patent, they run a TKDL Scan. If the herb/method is in the library, the patent is rejected instantly.
Industrialist Aditya Birla was assaulted and humiliated in Kolkata during the early 1970s. Birla was dragged from his car between GPO & RBI, opposite the Writers' Building, thrashed, stripped to his undergarments and forced to walk to his office at 15 India Exchange Place, amid a jeering crowd. Birla went to his office, took the next flight & never returned to Calcutta. He took his entire business out of West Bengal. This was the result of Red Terror that targeted business houses. West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee should know the reasons why there are no industries in WB. Didn't she force TATAs out of Singur?
This is Greater Bengaluru Authority that was created by Congress Govt in 2025-2026
Let me show how they did delimitation here!
West Bengaluru is considered the POOREST of all corporations and has highest population (~50 lakh)
You know what Congress did? It gave 112 wards (highest) to this corporation
On the contrast,
East Bengaluru is considered the RICHEST of all corporations and has lowest population (~16 lakh)
You know what Congress did? It gave only 50 wards (lowest) to this corporation
Yet the same Congress opposes more Lok Sabha seats for populous Northern states, claiming it “disadvantages” better-performing Southern states.
Exactly opposite of what they did in their own backyard.
Double standards couldn’t be more visible.