ankit chandra

Computer Enthusiast,fun loving and loves anything about Technology

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Brain scans are revealing early dementia-like changes in kids and teens from heavy screen use.

60 Minutes Australia reported toddlers spending just 2–3 hours daily on devices already show abnormal white matter development. Teens averaging 6–8 hours display widened brain ridges and thinning in key areas — patterns that mirror early Alzheimer’s.

Excessive screens appear to weaken neural pathways that normally strengthen through real-world movement, play, and face-to-face interaction.

We’re also seeing the first IQ drops in recorded history, plus a nearly 400% rise in early-onset dementia signs among 35–44 year olds. Correlation, not proven causation — but devices are the major new variable.

This is one of those reports that makes you rethink default habits. The convenience of screens is undeniable, but the potential long-term brain impacts on developing kids are hard to ignore.

We may be unintentionally running a massive experiment on the next generation’s cognitive health.

Are we underestimating the risks of heavy screen time, or is this concern overblown?

[ѕαggу @BHAV_PAJl]

Nobody teaches you this in school.

But every Indian learns it fast:

→ RTO stopped you? Don’t argue. Negotiate.
→ Government office? Find the agent first.
→ Police? Keep small notes handy.
→ Hospital? Ask who knows who inside.
→ Passport delay? “Upar se kuch lagega.”

We don’t even call it corruption anymore.

We call it “how things work here.”

We plan for it.
We budget for it.
We teach our kids

“beta seedha nahi hoga. Koi chahiye.”

And the day something actually works without a bribe?

We get suspicious.
“Kuch toh gadbad hai.”

We’ve been in a broken system so long
that honesty feels like a trap.

It's high time to stop this and bring a change

[GalaxEye @GalaxEye]

Separation Confirmed!
The world's first OptoSAR Satellite is now in space.
Made in India for the world.

Go Drishti! Go @GalaxEye! Go India!

[ankit chandra @techchie]

Hyderabad <-> Mumbai needs lot more trains. No trains available for over a month. This issue has been for many years. Please prioritize to add more trains/seats on this route.
@AshwiniVaishnaw @narendramodi @RailMinIndia

[#YeThikKarkeDikhao @YTKDIndia]

We simply raised questions about MPLADS funds. That’s it. And for that, a Congress MP chooses to respond with legal notices and threats.

Let that sink in.

We’ve already made our position clear: the tweet is not being deleted.

Public money demands accountability, and questioning it is not a crime.

You can try intimidation, misuse of power, and pressure tactics, it won’t work.

If speaking up against corruption makes us a target, so be it. We’re not backing down.

[Kapil Sharma @kapil_saytrees]

Forest of about 7000 saplings growing well in #Bengaluru, Karnataka. Planted in 2021 by @saytrees_ind the area is full of life now.

Not just trees -
🌱 A cooler microclimate
🌱 Richer biodiversity
🌱 Improved air quality
🌱 Better groundwater recharge

In a city where temperatures keep rising, this forest is doing what concrete cannot cooling, restoring, and sustaining life.

This is the power of native, dense urban forests.
This is what long-term impact looks like.

And this is why we keep planting. 🌳

BIA, Bommasandra, Karnataka 🌿

#SayTrees #UrbanForests #Miyawaki #Karnataka #ClimateAction #HeatIslandEffect #Restoration #NativeSpecies

[Kunal Bahl @1kunalbahl]

𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐚'𝐬 "𝟏𝟎 𝐏𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐦𝐮𝐦 𝐓𝐚𝐱" 💊🇮🇳

Visited a chemist: needed 6 pills, forced to buy 10. Why? “If I cut the strip, I lose the expiry date info.”

In 2025, India’s pharma market hit ₹2.4L Cr with margins up to 32%.

We are the ‘Pharmacy of the World,’ yet our packaging is stuck in the 90s causing wastage of medicines that could go to those who need them the most.

We need unit-dose labeling (printing expiry/batch on every cell) or micro-QR codes.

No more "waste tax" on patients. 💊🇮🇳

@MoHFW_INDIA @JPNadda #Pharma

[Gaurav Sen @gkcs_]

This video is a response to the recent IT rules.

These rules have been suggested by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.

They raise serious concerns on free speech in India. Thanks to @internetfreedom for flagging this.

I have shared a template that we can use to connect with Meity regarding this.
Link: https://t.co/NgyS48mz9o

Please raise your voice, while you still can.
Cheers :)

[Divya Gandotra Tandon @divya_gandotra]

Seeing parks in the Netherlands being deep-cleaned for kids is a reminder of how far we have to go.

Forget sand cleaning in India, just having a park that is free of garbage, safe from stray animals, and has maintained equipment would be a massive milestone.

Why have we accepted "basics" as "luxury"?

Public spaces are the lungs of a city.
We need:

> Strict Waste Management: Routine, automated cleaning of public play areas.
> Accountable Maintenance: Transparent budgets for neighborhood parks.
> Safety First: Ensuring child-friendly, hygienic environments isn't a privilege, it's a right.

It’s time we demand a higher standard for our public infrastructure. 🇮🇳

[Vije @vijeshetty]

This is how the most favourite fruit, the banana, gets ripened with pure poison😡 in Karnataka.

Does any authority care?

Cc @fssaiindia @siddaramaiah @gokfoodsecy @narendramodi @vijayatimes

[Fundamental Investor ™ 🇮🇳 @FI_InvestIndia]

Dearest Railway Minister @AshwiniVaishnaw ji & @RailwaySeva @RailMinIndia Team,

I have posted this in the past. I am asking again and again. This is very very important & needs immediate attention.

Why should a RAC passenger bear full charge for 50% of a side lower seat? Isn't it unfair?

Once the chart is prepared, Railways must refund 50% of the fare with interest for RAC passengers. The same source of payment can be used for the refund.

Pls implement this immediately. I continue to see many ladies and senior citizens who travel by RAC, without sleep and they pay full charge. This is so unfair.

If any of you reading this feel that this should be implemented immediately, comment with your thoughts and share until Railways makes it a fair deal for passengers.

This is long long overdue. I hope at-least this time it is considered and implemented.

On behalf of Indian Passengers,
#FI

[Raghav Wadhwa @raghavwadhwa]

A Gmail ID was used to impersonate a Central PSU. Nobody questioned it. And ₹20,000 crore in govt tenders got rigged.

Let me tell you the story of India's most absurd corruption case.

Jal Jeevan Mission, PM Modi's flagship scheme to give tap water to every rural home. Rajasthan alone got ₹10,180 crore from the Centre in FY22 and ₹13,328 crore in FY23. Almost 23% of the entire national JJM budget went to one state.

Two tubewell companies wanted these tenders. Problem? They had zero experience. Solution? They forged experience certificates of IRCON, a Railways PSU. Fake letterheads, fictitious officer names. And for verification, they created a Gmail ID pretending to be IRCON officials.

A Central govt PSU under Ministry of Railways. Replying from @ gmail. com. Not .gov.in. Not .nic.in. Gmail. And nobody in the entire PHED department found this suspicious. Not one officer. Combined, these two firms filed 230+ tenders using these forged documents.

But the real Bollywood moment? PHED sent an engineer to Kerala to "physically verify" IRCON's work. The contractors and a forger reached Kochi ONE DAY before him. Checked into Hotel Woodlark. The forger was introduced to the engineer as "Vijay Shankar, CEO, IRCON International." Random photos of pumphouses were submitted as proof. The contractor left his personal phone in Jaipur and used an employee's SIM card to avoid GPS tracking. The engineer came back and submitted a "positive verification report."

Now here's the part that makes your blood boil.

In June 2023, IRCON's own Vigilance Department wrote DIRECTLY to the Addl Chief Secretary Subodh Agarwal — "These certificates are fake and fabricated." What happened? The warning emails were deleted. Compliant engineers were handpicked to give false positive reports. Three separate legal notices were sent to the department. All ignored.

But the scam wasn't just about fake certificates. That was just ₹960 crore. The bigger game was ₹20,000 crore.

Agarwal introduced a rule — "Site Visit Certificates" mandatory for tenders above ₹50 crore. Sounds like transparency, right? It actually exposed which companies were bidding BEFORE tender opening. Once everyone knows who else is bidding, you form cartels. You fix prices. Tender premiums were inflated 30-40% across the board.

The numbers:

₹20,000 crore in tenders rigged 30-40% inflated premiums, 4% bribery formula ₹47 crore seized by ED so far — 0.2% of the scam

The fraud ran from 2021 to 2023 under the Congress govt in Rajasthan. IRCON warned in 2023. CBI filed an FIR in 2024. ED arrested the minister in 2025. Agarwal was finally caught this week — after being on the run for 2 months, evading 40+ ACB teams across 100 locations in 21 cities.

JJM 2.0 just got approved. Budget: ₹8.69 lakh crore. The real question — has the system that enabled this actually changed? Or are we just funding the next scam on a bigger scale

[anul agarwal @anulagarwal]

Bangalore cab drivers are the biggest scammers on earth:

@rapidobikeapp price: Rs. 684
(Whitefield to airport)

End trip price: Rs. 1084

I asked driver how is this possible?

He says oh parking, toll etc.

I said but parking is not on me - still with parking how is it so high?
And why in my app ride did not stop?
Price is displayed only when ride stop

He legit said: I stopped the ride it is your network issue pls check and pay

I took his phone and turns out he had a fake app called ‘Towner’ which lets him display any price and app looks exactly like Rapido

Then he starts abusing me in Kannad and asks me to pay the amount he quoted

I took my bag and ran
I paid the amount showed on my Rapido app

Rapido has the biggest scam drivers be safe pls and pay only the amount displayed your app

[Himank Jain @Himank_jain1]

We’re offering ₹1Cr + 1% equity for hiring founding engineer to help us build our next module - Agentic Video Editor 📽️

We’re building:

→ An agentic video editor that can learn, generate, edit, and optimize ads end-to-end 🎬

Not just clips. Not templates.
But actual creatives that perform 🎯

⚡ What you’ll work on:
- Orchestrating multiple AI models (video, image, audio) into one system 🤖
- Designing async pipelines for generation + editing
- Building real product (not just infra)
- Defining what AI-native video creation UX looks like

Basically owning it end-to-end.

[ankit chandra @techchie]

Indian government should switch to Linux OS from windows. They will save crores of money in licenses. France is doing the same.
https://t.co/iQTkCXCpAn
@narendramodi @AshwiniVaishnaw @JitinPrasada
@GoI_MeitY

[Himank Jain @Himank_jain1]

We’re offering ₹1Cr + 1% equity for hiring founding engineer to help us build our next module - Agentic Video Editor 📽️

We’re building:

→ An agentic video editor that can learn, generate, edit, and optimize ads end-to-end 🎬

Not just clips. Not templates.
But actual creatives that perform 🎯

⚡ What you’ll work on:
- Orchestrating multiple AI models (video, image, audio) into one system 🤖
- Designing async pipelines for generation + editing
- Building real product (not just infra)
- Defining what AI-native video creation UX looks like

Basically owning it end-to-end.

[ankit chandra @techchie]

@kunchenguid @kunchenguid How to build things which people needs in the market?

[Technical Charts @Technicalchart1]

A student paid fees to Physics Wallah for a course.

The services were never delivered as promised.

Physics Wallah refused to refund. Said fees were non-refundable.
Standard clause. Page 12 of the terms.
The student went to the J&K Consumer Commission.

The court said: retaining fees without rendering services is not a business policy. It is an unfair trade practice.
Physics Wallah ordered to refund ₹35,000 in full. Plus pay compensation.

The company had a "non-refundable" clause. The court said the clause itself was illegal.
Every coaching institute, every online course platform, every skill program in India uses this clause.
All of them are wrong.

Save this post. Under the Consumer Protection Act, a non-refundable fee clause is unenforceable if the service wasn't delivered. You can fight it. And you will win.

[RICHARD | Fixing Bengaluru @FixingBengaluru]

🚨 Refusing to pay a bribe shouldn’t delay a child’s identity.

Born at Singasandra Government Hospital. Parents said NO to the bribe.

Result? Child’s name was left blank in the birth register. No proper birth certificate.

To fix this “simple” thing: Doddathoguru → Devarachikkanahalli → Begur → Bommanahalli. Multiple offices, multiple visits… just to fill one basic form.

Weeks wasted for something that should take minutes.

We can file taxes and do banking online instantly.
But adding a child’s name still requires running a physical maze?
Systems exist — but they’re designed for discretion, not citizens. This isn’t a one-off. It’s normalised harassment.

Refusing a bribe shouldn’t mean your child suffers.

@krishnabgowda @GBA_office
@GBAChiefComm
@SouthEastBlr
@comm_blr_south
@RLR_BTM
@EASTCITYCORP
@BNCCofficial
@BWCCofficial @theuglyindian
@BPACofficial
@CitizenMattersX
@WFRising
@ECityRising
@GBITCIA
@BAFBLR
@0RRCA
@bengalurupost1
@CitizenMattersX
@kiranshaw
@Namma_ECity
@ecitycredence
@ECityRising
@prajavani
@bengalurupost1
@Bangalorereal1
@CivicOp_india
@ChristinMP_
@NayanaJhawar
@Maheshbr4U

— time to make name inclusion fully online and bribe-free.
Doddathoguru needs clarity, not chaos.
#FixingBengaluru #Doddathoguru #NoBribe #BirthCertificate

[SumitM @SumitM_X]

That severance pay…
is not extra money.

Its school fees for a child.
Its rent for the next month.
Its groceries for a struggling family.

Why are we taxing survival…

Indian govt… please stop TAXING SEVERANCE PAY !

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The West poured $50 billion into fast breeder nuclear reactors and abandoned every single one. India poured $900 million and just achieved criticality on the first commercially viable one outside Russia.

The US spent $15 billion. Gave up. Japan spent $12 billion. Their Monju prototype had one sodium fire in 1995 and never recovered. The UK spent $8 billion. Germany spent $6 billion. France, Italy, all walked away. Six of the richest nations on Earth concluded this technology was too hard and too expensive to pursue.

India started building in 2004 with an initial budget of $420 million. Twenty-two years, a dozen missed deadlines, and a cost doubling later, the Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor at Kalpakkam just sustained a controlled fission chain reaction. The reactor is now alive.

The reason India never quit is a constraint most people have never thought about. India has only 1-2% of the world's uranium reserves. For a country of 1.4 billion people trying to build energy independence, that's a death sentence if you're running conventional nuclear.

But India has 25% of the world's thorium. The single largest national reserve on Earth.

The problem: you can't just burn thorium the way you burn uranium. A physicist named Homi Bhabha designed a three-stage nuclear program in the 1950s specifically to solve this. Stage 1: burn natural uranium in heavy water reactors, collect plutonium as a byproduct. Stage 2: feed that plutonium into fast breeder reactors, where it breeds MORE plutonium AND converts thorium into fissile uranium-233. Stage 3: burn thorium directly at scale.

India just entered Stage 2. Seventy years after Bhabha drew it up on paper.

The math on the thorium endgame is wild. At current energy consumption rates, India's thorium reserves could power the country for over 700 years. Most nuclear nations are playing a uranium game with maybe 80-100 years of runway. India is playing a completely different game with a 7x longer fuel supply.

The West quit because uranium stayed cheap and sodium coolant is terrifying. It catches fire on contact with air. It explodes on contact with water. Russia's BN-600 had 27 sodium leaks and 14 sodium fires between 1980 and 1997. And Russia kept going anyway because Russia doesn't quit nuclear projects. India watched all of that and kept going too.

When you have 1% of the uranium but 25% of the thorium, the engineering difficulty stops being a reason to quit. It becomes the price of admission to a 700-year energy supply that nobody else can access.