Sohan Singh Thakur

Faculty at GDC, Doda

[Sohan Singh Thakur @thakurstance]

Amazing Jammu ♡

[インド大使館 || India in Japan 🇮🇳 @IndianEmbTokyo]

インドの文明的遺産は、過去の遺跡にとどまるものではありません。伝統、儀式、象徴、そして文化的記憶として今も生き続けています。

この4500年前のインダス・サラスワティ文明の素焼きのサイコロは、その絶えることのない文明の連続性を物語っています。

India’s civilizational heritage is not confined to ruins of the past - it continues to live through traditions, rituals, symbols and cultural memory.

This 4,500-year-old terracotta dice from the Indus-Saraswati Civilization reflects that unbroken continuity.

[TIMES NOW @TimesNow]

UPSC prelims 2026: Toughest paper ever or India’s costliest lottery?

@Bhandivya tell you more.

[Sidhant Sibal @sidhant]

"Who said that...", US Secretary of State Rubio in response to my question on racism agaisnt Indians in US.

US President Donald Trump had endorsed a post terming India "Hellhole"

[Sohan Singh Thakur @thakurstance]

@sidhant @SecRubio @marcorubio You should have named the source.

[Abhijit Iyer-Mitra @Iyervval]

Total demolition of alleged journo Helle Lyng by @GaurieD.

Q “Informed journalism requires deep study of the subject -what do you know about India”

A “yoga and curry”

[NDTV @ndtv]

#TheBuckStopsHere with @GaurieD

#NDTVExclusive | Is racism & stereotyping what masquerades as journalism in Norway?

Norwegian journalist Helle Lyng (@HelleLyngSvends) responds to questions on press freedom and racism in media narratives in Norway.

[Abhishek Singhvi @DrAMSinghvi]

India really needs a civic sense movement. The incident at Delhi Metro where an elderly man reportedly urinated inside a lift is severely unacceptable and deserving of penalty under public nuisance laws. Civilised societies should punish misconduct in real time!

[cow @cowincrisis]

thank you @googlemaps

[LG Ladakh @lg_ladakh]

A historic day for Ladakh.

I have approved the notification for creation of five new districts in Ladakh, fulfilling the aspirations and long pending demand of the people of Ladakh.

With creation of five new districts - Nubra, Sham, Changthang, Zanskar and Drass - Ladakh will now have seven districts, from existing two. The development is aligned with Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi’s vision of a developed & prosperous Ladakh.

This transformative decision, already approved by the Ministry of Home Affairs in August 2024, under the leadership of Hon’ble Minister of Home Affairs, Shri @AmitShah ji, would strengthen grassroots governance, decentralise administration & ensures faster delivery of public services to the people of Ladakh, especially those in remote & far-flung areas.

Creation of new districts, apart from bringing governance closer to citizens, will create new avenues for growth, employment & entrepreneurship.

I reaffirm my commitment to ensuring that every citizen of Ladakh benefits from this historic decision, as we move together towards a brighter, stronger & more prosperous future.

[кєνín @notcee_fan]

Twitter brand is so strong it was renamed and it’s still Twitter.

[Dr Jitendra Singh @DrJitendraSingh]

Good news for #Jammu–#Srinagar Vande Bharat Express travellers! 🚄

Another gift from the @narendramodi government for the people of Jammu & Kashmir. The Vande Bharat Express, currently running between Srinagar and Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra, will be extended up to Jammu Tawi from April 30.

Additionally, the train will now operate with 20 coaches instead of 8, significantly enhancing capacity, connectivity, and comfort.
This move is set to further promote tourism and accelerate regional development.

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मोदी सरकार का जम्मू कश्मीर की जनता के लिए एक और विशेष उपहार:श्रीनगर से श्रीमाता वैष्णोदेवी कटरा तक चलने वाली वन्दे भारत एक्सप्रेस को जम्मूतवी तक 30 अप्रैल से विस्तारित की जा रही है।यह अब 8 कोच के स्थान पर अब 20 कोच से चलेगी। इससे क्षेत्र में पर्यटन को विकास और कनेक्टिविटी मिलेगी।

[Surender Mehra IFS @surenmehra]

India is home to four species of cranes. 
Can we list them...
#BirdLife #crane #upsc

[goma @soigomaa]

YOUR TEARS CONTAIN A NATURAL PAINKILLER 6 TIMES STRONGER THAN MORPHINE. AND YOU WERE TRAINED TO HOLD THEM BACK.
In 2006, researchers at the Pasteur Institute in Paris discovered a molecule in human tears called leucine-enkephalin. It is an endogenous opioid. Your body manufactures it. It binds to the same receptors as morphine. It is six times more potent. Every time you cry, your body is not breaking down. It is self-medicating.

[NDTV @ndtv]

Tiger, Leopard, Cheetah Seen Together In Rare Ranthambore Moment
https://t.co/r6UWBZoyoa

[Parveen Kaswan, IFS @ParveenKaswan]

A cheetah in Ranthambore!! I wonder when was cheetah seen in this part of India last time.

Pic by Manas Singh, IFS.

[ً @prinkasusa]

Give me the kind of good news from around the world that nobody ever talks about... but should.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A parasite that has been eating people for 3,500 years is about to be wiped off the planet. It infected 3.5 million people in 1986. Last year, it infected 10. And I have not seen it make a single front page.

It is called Guinea worm. You drink contaminated water from a pond in a poor village. A year later, a worm up to three feet long starts coming out of your leg through a burning blister. There is no pill that stops it and no surgery that works. You wrap the worm around a stick and pull it out slowly, over days or weeks, inch by inch. If you rush, the worm breaks inside you and causes a fresh infection.

Guinea worm is ancient. Preserved worms have been pulled out of Egyptian mummies from around 1000 BCE. The Ebers Papyrus, an Egyptian medical scroll from 1550 BCE, describes pulling the worm out with a stick. For three and a half thousand years, that was the best humans could do.

Then in 1986, public health workers decided to kill the parasite off. They had no vaccine and no drug. What they had was cheap cloth water filters and a small army of volunteers willing to walk from village to village for decades.

The plan was simple. Give everyone who drinks from a pond a cloth filter to strain out the tiny water fleas that spread the parasite. Then send volunteers walking house to house, year after year, teaching people how to use the filters and keeping anyone with an emerging worm out of the water.

It worked. From 3.5 million cases a year to 10. Four were in Chad, four in Ethiopia, two in South Sudan. The other four countries where the worm used to be common, Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and Mali, had zero human cases for the second year in a row. The World Health Organization has already certified 200 countries as Guinea worm free. Six are left.

The last hurdle is dogs. Cameroon had 445 infected animals last year and Chad had 147, so a lot of the remaining work is on animals, not humans. Strays get leashed, and crews treat ponds to kill any remaining worms. The campaign keeps watching until the number hits zero.

When Guinea worm hits zero, it becomes the second human disease ever erased from the planet. The first was smallpox. It will also be the first parasite humans have ever wiped out, and the first disease ever ended without a single dose of medicine. Volunteers walked village to village with cloth filters for 40 years. Now a plague from the age of the pharaohs is about to be gone.

[ANMOL JAMWAL @jammypants4]

From the director of Devon Ke Dev...Mahadev!

Totally out of syllabus & shows such promise ❤️

#Krishnavataram

[District Magistrate, Jammu @dmjammuofficial]

📢ORDER

@diprjk

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

मैं सभी सांसदों से कहूंगा...

आप अपने घर में मां-बहन-बेटी-पत्नी सबका स्मरण करते हुए अपनी अंतरात्मा को सुनिए ...

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