Dr. Sanjay Pal

Professor @amritaedu: Sanitation, Biotechnology, Biocontrol, Phage, Wastewater, Re-invent toilet, Vertical Garden, Sustainability, Love & Serve

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Scientists have created one of the most detailed 3D reconstructions of a human cell (eukaryotic cell) ever produced.

This groundbreaking model, often termed a "Cellular Landscape Cross-Section Through a Eukaryotic Cell," combines data from X-ray tomography, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and cryo-electron microscopy to map molecular structures in extreme detail.

[Sanjay Srivastava @Sanjay_Sriv]

$500 billion economic boost by 2030. 12 ranks forward in one leap.

One giant stride for Bharat’s 800 million young dreams.👨‍🎓👩‍🎓

India climbs 12 ranks to 13th in QS World Future Skills Index, a major leap in AI readiness.

Biggest Wins:
• Future of Work: 5th globally (96/100)
• Economic Transformation: 14th (93.3).

Overall: 13th (89.4) up from 25th.

Why it matters:
• World’s largest talent pool + improving quality
• $500 billion potential GDP boost by 2030 via AI
• NEP + Skill India + digital public infrastructure creating momentum.

Next frontier:
Better skills alignment with industry (currently 18th) and academic readiness (22nd). Closing these will unlock even faster growth.

India isn’t just participating, it’s positioning itself as a global skills powerhouse. The trajectory is clear.

Let’s keep building.
@jayantrld
@MSDESkillIndia @NSDCIndia

@QSCorporate
#Skills #AI #FutureOfWork

[The West Bengal Index @TheBengalIndex]

𝗨𝗻𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗚𝗼𝘃 𝘁𝗼 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁 ₹𝟯𝟱,𝟬𝟬𝟬 𝗰𝗿𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗗𝘂𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗽𝘂𝗿.

After 67 long years, the Government of India is set to invest ₹35,000 crore into the Durgapur Steel Plant (DSP). It is one of Bengal’s biggest industrial investments in decades, with reports indicating the investment will involve a second major unit and major capacity augmentation. SAIL’s Vision 2030 roadmap already targets increasing DSP’s crude steel capacity from 2.2 MTPA to 4.73 MTPA by 2030-31.

Established in 1959, DSP is India’s only producer of forged railway wheels and axles and remains one of eastern India’s largest industrial employers. The expansion is expected to include modernization, new blast furnace infrastructure, captive power facilities and logistics upgrades. Combined with the ₹45,000 crore IISCO expansion in Burnpur, the project could significantly strengthen Bengal’s heavy industrial ecosystem and downstream manufacturing sector.

[Parimal @Fintech03]

Game is on...Zaynich is to the Indian pharmaceutical industry what the Mangalyaan Mars Mission was to ISRO. It proves that Indian minds can build the most complex, 1st principles systems in the world at a fraction of the cost, w/o relying on Western hand-holding.

Drug discovery is a brutal, high-stakes game of attrition where 99% of attempts end in catastrophic financial failure. It takes an average of 10-15 yrs & close to a billion dollars just to bring a single New Chemical Entity to market. This is why Indian companies historically avoided it, they lacked the capital to gamble.

Wockhardt spent 25 years in research & poured ~$800 million into building an innovative antibiotic pipeline from scratch. When Orchid Pharma discovered India's 1st NCE (enmetazobactam), they were forced to out-license it to a German company because they could not afford the ruinous cost of global clinical trials. The true financial & intellectual cream was skimmed by the West.

Wockhardt broke that trap. They funded the global trials, braved the FDA’s gold-standard scrutiny & retained 100% ownership of the IP. They are launching it in the US & globally entirely on their own terms, tapping straight into a $9 billion market opportunity.

The era of India being just the world’s "low-cost pharmacy" is officially over. The transition to becoming a global superpower of deep-tech biomedical discovery has begun.

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

“To beard the lion in his den.”

The dictionary defines it as boldly confronting a powerful rival on their own turf.

For years, Norway Chess has been Magnus Carlsen’s den. His turf. His domain.

So I woke up to this news and my jaw dropped.

You didn’t just win a title, @rpraggnachess.

You walked into the lion’s den and emerged victorious

This title is important. Not because of the trophy, but because of your challenger spirit.

And that’s something all of us can learn from…

🇮🇳👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[ANI @ANI]

#WATCH | Delhi: When asked about his reaction on private capital expenditure (CAPEX) not coming in and growth is happening only because of Govt CAPEX over the last 3-4 years, Neelkanth Mishra, Executive Director for India at the World Bank Headquarters, says, "In the economy, investment to GDP, as reported by the CSO or the MoSPI, is 32% of GDP. Central government CAPEX is 3.2% of GDP. So the central government is one-tenth of overall CAPEX. Central government CAPEX as a percentage of GDP, in the last three years, has moved by 10 basis points. So you think that all of CAPEX is happening with the centre? Just because it is in the narrative and every media house is based in Delhi, it doesn't mean that the only central government is handling the economy. A large part of CAPEX happens when houses are built. Household CAPEX, capital formation, is where people add a room to their house or a floor to their house. Then someone gets a son who is married, someone, two brothers separate, and they build separate floors. Those are things which are at a population scale substantial for capital formation. Look at what is happening with steel. I mean, the other day I saw this compilation of some 100 million tons of steel capacity being planned in Odisha. That's massive. That is how CAPEX happens... CAPEX has picked up power generation. Corporate credit is starting to pick up. All these narratives that private CAPEX is not happening are like this..."

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

FY26 GDP: 7.7%. Q4 alone: 7.8%.

Against genuine global headwinds, the Indian economy outperformed every cautious forecast.

That’s true resilience.

But the RBI, just this morning projected 6.6% for FY27. That’s not pessimism. Only a realistic reading of what crude prices, monsoon uncertainty, and West Asia tensions could do to momentum.

So in summary, we’ve earned the right to feel good about last year.

But the danger is in being complacent.
Because the world isn’t getting any less complicated.

Back to work…

[Prasanna Viswanathan @prasannavishy]

Odisha regime really needs to up its PR game consider its impressive accomplishments in rebooting
stalled industrialisation efforts.

For two decades (Patnaik rule), the state was a graveyard of mega-project announcements.

POSCO's ₹51,000 crore steel plant was shelved after land disputes, ArcelorMittal exiting in 2013, Vedanta's university never materialised. Bold MoUs, zero execution.

But in just 2 years,Majhi government has flipped the script entirely with 433 projects cleared, ₹8.68 lakh crore in proposed investments, 5.25 lakh jobs targeted. Of these, 148 projects have already broken ground.

The marquee names that are already operationalising investments
-JSW Steel's ₹1.25 lakh crore plant ( Odisha's largest-ever investment) is coming up at Jagatsinghpur, the exact site where POSCO failed.
-POSCO itself has re-entered in a JV with JSW. ArcelorMittal-Nippon is acquiring land for a 14 MTPA plant in Kendrapada.
-Vedanta is back with a ₹1 lakh crore pipeline across alumina, aluminium and power. Intel and 3DGS just signed a $3.3 billion chip substrate MoU.
-Paradip economic corridor has a ₹5,000 crore central grant backing it.

So what essentially changed? Relentless execution focus, bottleneck reviews twice a month, faster clearances, continuous investor engagement.

Odisha is attempting to shape itself beyond a mineral economy. It's trying to become serious industrial geography.
https://t.co/x4WTb7ESKa

[Augadh @AugadhBhudeva]

A Soul-Stirring Prayer
🙏🏾 ॐ क्रीं कालिकायै नमः 🙏🏾

In the soft dusk of Old Dhaka, a young Bengali Hindu girl sits before a clay murti of Maa Kali and hums a song in 1971 in Dhaka, Bangla words flowing into the ancient Sanskrit Beej Mantra.

Bengal's Shakta tradition has loved Kali as Maa for a thousand years, and this song carries that unbroken thread from Dhaka's courtyards to every Hindu heart.

🔱🙏🏾🔱 Jai Maa Kali 🔱🙏🏾🔱
Credit : Beyond Conscious

[Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72]

Stop throwing a fit. Delhi Gymkhana is a private club. No one’s taking away your membership of it. Just that, leave aside valid security concerns, taxpayers are no longer willing to subsidise to the tune of thousands of crores, your stale cutlets and evening swims.

My views:

[Sanjeev Sanyal @sanjeevsanyal]

Happy birthday INSV Kaundinya!!

[Subham. @subhsays]

CM Suvendu Adhikari bows down infront of revered monks of Belur Math.

Compare this to how ex CM Mamata Banerjee wanted to falsely frame Kartik Maharaj as rapist,tagged Hindu monks as rioters.

WB finally has an unapologetic CM who will bow down in front of Hindu Gurus.

[Landscape Architecture @Landscapecture]

A brilliant idea to replace plastic!

[ScienceFocus @ScienceFocusonX]

A tiny bee just did what chemotherapy couldn't.

Scientists in Australia discovered that honeybee venom can wipe out 100% of aggressive breast cancer cells in under 60 minutes.
And the healthy cells around them? Barely touched.

The breakthrough came from Dr. Ciara Duffy and her team at the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, working alongside the University of Western Australia.
They tested venom drawn from 312 honeybees and bumblebees across Australia, Ireland, and England.

The target: triple-negative breast cancer and HER2-enriched breast cancer. Two of the deadliest, most stubborn forms of the disease.
The weapon: melittin. The same tiny peptide that makes a bee sting burn.

At one specific dose, melittin tore through cancer cell membranes completely within an hour. Within just 20 minutes, it shut down the chemical signals cancer cells need to grow and multiply.
Bumblebee venom, which lacks melittin, did nothing. Zero effect, even at high concentrations.

Scientists then recreated melittin synthetically in the lab and got almost identical results, meaning no bees need to be harmed to develop the therapy.

Published in the peer-reviewed journal npj Precision Oncology, the findings are still early-stage. Human trials haven't happened yet.

But one thing is clear. Nature has been hiding answers in plain sight all along, sometimes inside the smallest creatures on Earth.

Source: Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research / npj Precision Oncology (Dr. Ciara Duffy et al.)

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Afghans preserve grapes by sealing them in mud containers for months. When opened, the grapes remain fresh, sweet, and full of flavor.

[Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham @AMRITAedu]

Can #Yoga Reverse the Risks of a Sedentary Life?

A review paper from @MindBrainCenter shows that yoga can help reduce blood pressure, improve blood sugar, and support heart health in people with sedentary lifestyle-related conditions.

Read: https://t.co/m7PXAsls4n

#Amrita

[Shefali Vaidya. 🇮🇳 @ShefVaidya]

This is good. Very good. Should be followed by ALL @BJP4India leaders, CMs, ministers, MPs, MLAs across the board. PM @narendramodi is right in asking for austerity measures, but the party leaders should lead by example.

[Aravind @aravind]

Indian milk ice cream is the world's best. Swiss ice creams come close, but you can't get the taste of Indian milk ice cream. In India, "ice cream" means it is made of 100% milk and not hydrogenated vegetable fats like many other countries. IMO, the best Indian ice creams are the ones made with natural fruit, nuts, and milk.

But Indian ice creams brands are being bought by foreign investors and companies. This is happening for all products and startups where India excels. Instead of Indian brands expanding and competing world wide, they sell out. The foreign buyer generally never takes the Indian brand international, instead makes it worse, or shuts it down. This can only be stopped by GoI.

[Aravind @aravind]

The number of people without electricity by country.
Look what happened after 2016. Someone started fixing India for real. Many things at a time. Still some way to go. The lag of last 60 is that bad.

[Aravind @aravind]

From India becoming the world's leading sugar producer to saving fuel imports with ethanol blends now, one lady needs to be credited: Janaki Ammal, the first Indian woman to earn a PhD in Botany and who developed the hybrid sweet & hardy Indian sugarcane we are used to now.