It'll be a massive geopolitical irony if Russia provides MANPADS to the Taliban to use against Pakistan - the very country that once funneled the same tech to the Mujahideen to bleed the Soviet Union. Karma is a bitch, man!
#Alumni Connection: From #Kochi across the #IOR
As a graduate of the @indiannavy@IN_NDSchool, I’m delighted that #Kenya’s CDF General Charles Kahariri trained there too. #Education builds bridges — I’m sure he’d be thrilled by the school’s remarkable progress since our days!
“In the Indo-Pacific century, Great Nicobar is not the edge of India, it is India’s watchtower at the gateway of the future’. ‘Great’ piece by @Admiral_DKJoshi, LG, Andaman & Nicobar.
#GreatNicobarIsland
🚨 #Fakenews#Pakistani handles. This fabricated story is baseless propaganda. Zero connection to me. This is classic ISI-style #cognitive#warfare — manufactured sleaze, filth on social media to try to divide us.They can’t face us at sea, so they try on social media. #LOL!
The SSN, USS Connecticut incident & repairs are known. More interesting is that there are about 100,000 sea mounts rising to 1000m above the sea floor, mostly uncharted.
https://t.co/fqduKuW3gi
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"China has created an ecosystem of more than 40 specialist rare earth laboratories that produce cutting-edge research, supplemented by at least 11 universities and technical colleges that collectively enroll more than 500 students annually in rare earths degree programs. That accumulated expertise sustains Beijing’s grip on global supplies of refined rare earths."
https://t.co/Xkowe8azqf
Her name was Sarla Thakral.
She was born on August 8 1914 in Delhi. At sixteen, she married P.D. Sharma, a pilot from a family that included nine pilots. Her father in law enrolled her at the Lahore Flying Club.
In 1936, at twenty one years old and already the mother of a four year old daughter, she climbed into the cockpit of a Gypsy Moth biplane and flew it solo.
She was wearing a saree.
She became the first woman in India to earn an aviation pilot licence. She went on to complete one thousand hours of flying and began working toward her commercial pilot licence.
In 1939, her husband died in a plane crash. She was twenty four years old with two daughters.
That same year, the Second World War began and civil aviation across India was suspended.
She never flew again.
After Partition in 1947, she moved to Delhi with her daughters and started over. She enrolled at the Mayo School of Art and built a new career as a painter, textile designer and costume jewellery designer.
Her saree designs became widely sought after. One of her clients was Vijayalakshmi Pandit, India’s first woman ambassador and Jawaharlal Nehru’s sister.
Sarla Thakral died on March 15 2008. She was 93 years old.
In 1936, when most Indian women rarely travelled alone, she was flying aircraft by herself over Lahore.
Most Indians have never heard her name.
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The Netherlands is India’s 3rd largest export destination after the US and UAE… is a significant partner given our focus on semiconductors- ASML + Tata tie up. Why the India- Netherlands relationship matters. Good one by Col @awasthi_bob.
#WATCH | Delhi: Chief of Naval Staff, Admiral Krishna Swaminathan, says, "I assume command today as the 27th Chief of the Naval Staff with a deep sense of humility, responsibility, pride, and gratitude. Being selected by the top leadership of the country for this job has been the highest honour and privilege of my life, and I’m extremely grateful to have this opportunity to serve the Indian Navy and the nation in this capacity. Indian Navy stands vigilant to protect national interests wherever they are and is very actively deployed in a regional security environment that continues to remain challenging, complex, unpredictable, and uncertain. It shall be my highest priority to ensure that the Indian Navy maintains the highest level of operational readiness and combat effectiveness so that it can protect the nation’s security and economic interests wherever they can be. The Indian Navy is well set on a course of capability enhancement and modernisation. It shall be my endeavour to sustain the growth momentum of the Navy, consolidate all ongoing programs, scale up where required, and sharpen our operational capabilities through the induction of niche and emerging technologies as soon as I can..."
Australia just did something no other country has ever done.
Doctors in Sydney are now killing cancer tumours by freezing them solid — no scalpel, no stitches, no surgery at all.
It's happening at Liverpool Hospital in southwest Sydney, home to Australia's first MRI-guided cryoablation machine.
Here's how it works.
A needle thinner than a few millimetres is threaded into the tumour while doctors watch every move in real time on the MRI.
Then gas shoots through it, dropping the temperature to around minus 180°C in seconds.
The tumour freezes into a tiny "ice ball." The cancer cells rupture. The blood supply chokes off. The tumour dies.
No cutting. No bleeding. No weeks of recovery.
One of the first patients was Josephine Cordina, 64, who'd been living with a 9mm tumour buried in her spine. The pain stole her sleep. Painkillers barely touched it. Open surgery would've meant screws in her spine and weeks flat on her back.
Instead, doctors froze it.
One day later, she walked out of the hospital pain-free.
That's the part that sounds impossible — most patients go home within 24 hours and skip the long hospital stay entirely.
It works on tumours in the spine, the liver, the kidneys. And it gives hope to people who were told they were too old, too sick, or too high-risk for traditional surgery.
The future of cancer treatment might not involve a single cut.
Source: Liverpool Hospital, Sydney (Australia's first MRI-guided cryoablation procedure)