Kohli

[Iran News 24 @IRanMediaco]

Japan was nuked.

Vietnam was bombed.

Korea was split.

China was carved.

Indonesia was plundered.

India was divided.

No foreign power will ever respect Asia until Asia respects itself.

[BBC News Punjabi @bbcnewspunjabi]

97 ਸਾਲਾ ਮਹਿਲਾ ਨੇ ਉੱਡਦੇ ਜਹਾਜ਼ 'ਤੇ ਖੜ੍ਹੇ ਹੋਣ ਦਾ ਤੋੜਿਆ ਆਪਣਾ ਹੀ ਰਿਕਾਰਡ

#97YearOld #WorldRecord #Aviation #FlyingPlane

[Sann @san_x_m]

Everyone knows the Uphaar cinema fire. Fifty nine people who went to watch a war film in Delhi and never came home.

Almost nobody knows that the safest man in that hall, the one person trained and calm enough to walk straight out, chose to stay inside until it killed him.

His name was Captain Manjinder Singh Bhinder.

On the thirteenth of June 1997, he was at the Uphaar cinema in Green Park watching Border, the film about the soldiers of Longewala. He was a real one.

An officer of the 61st Cavalry, a national level horseman who had just won gold at the National Games and was being talked about for the next Asian Games. He was there with his wife and his four year old son.

Partway through the film, a transformer in the building caught fire. Thick black smoke began filling the balcony. The exits were few, badly lit, and some were blocked. People had minutes, and most of them did not know which way to move.

He got his own family up and moving toward the way out, the way any man would.

And then he turned around and went back in.

He understood what a panicking crowd in the dark does. It bunches at the wrong doors, it freezes, it tramples itself. So he put himself in that stairwell and did the job he was trained to do.

He took charge. He steadied people. He guided women and children through the smoke toward the narrow passage that led out, group after group, breathing that air the whole time.

More than a hundred and fifty people got out of that cinema alive because a soldier stood in the dark and refused to leave until they did.

He did not get out. Neither did his wife. Neither did his little boy.

There is a Netflix series about the Uphaar fire. It is told, rightly, through the eyes of two parents who lost their children and spent decades fighting for justice. His name is not in it.

And there is one more thing the country should be made to sit with. After he died saving over a hundred and fifty of its citizens, his elderly parents had to fight the defence ministry for years for his pension, because a clerk's rule said he had not died fighting an enemy.

He walked out of that fire once, with his family, and he was safe. Then he heard the people still screaming inside, and he went back.

[Man Aman Singh Chhina @manaman_chhina]

What is the Nehru-Tara Singh Pact of 1959 which came up at the Akal Takht Jathedar’s meeting with Sikh MLAs and Ministers today?

It is an agreement reached on April 12, 1959, between Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Master Tara Singh, prominent Sikh leader and president of the Shiromani Akali Dal.

Background

In early 1959, the Punjab government under Chief Minister Partap Singh Kairon (Congress) unilaterally amended the Sikh Gurdwaras Act, 1925. It was the first such major change in over 60 years. The amendment aimed to alter the management and composition of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC), which oversees Sikh gurdwaras. Sikhs, led by Master Tara Singh, viewed this as government interference in their religious affairs.

This sparked strong protests, arrests of Akali workers, and tensions. Master Tara Singh announced a fast unto death starting April 16, 1959, to highlight Sikh grievances over perceived state meddling in gurdwara management and the Act.

In response, Nehru invited Tara Singh for talks on April 11, 1959, leading to the pact.

Key Provisions of the Pact

The agreement affirmed core principles and outlined a mechanism to address complaints:

1. No governmental interference in religious affairs, particularly gurdwara management.
2. Recognition of complaints about interference in the Sikh Gurdwaras Act and its administration.
3. Formation of a joint committee (two members nominated by the Punjab government and two by Master Tara Singh/SGPC) to investigate complaints and ensure non-interference.
4. Future amendments to the Gurdwaras Act would require approval by at least two-thirds of the SGPC’s general body, preventing unilateral government changes.

[HS Bedi @Kabal_Jee]

Is Himachal not part of India?

State entry - Taxed
District entry - Taxed
Random village entry - Taxed

Whats this Gunda Tax?
@himachalpolice

[Kohli @tkohli]

@navgill82 RCB V GT not RR

[Kohli @tkohli]

@harry7081 One and only authentic punjabi jurno @navgill82

[serish @serish]

Aadhaar is Schrödinger's card: If you have it, it is utterly useless. If you don't have it, all hell breaks loose.

[The Protagonist @protagonist_xi]

LETS CUT TREES, FORCE WATER HUNGRY ETHANOL BLEND AND BUILD TAX FREE DATA CENTERS FOR THE WHITE MASTERS 🥳🎉 🎊 🎂🥳

[Kohli @tkohli]

1st would be- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (not sure I completed it)

1st complete book was either #5pointSomeone by @chetan_bhagat (the national first for many i believe) or Amritsar:Mrs Gandhi’s Last Battle by Mark Tully. Both were almost simultaneous.

[Navdeep Singh Gill @navgill82]

ਵਿਸ਼ਵ ਪੁਸਤਕ ਦਿਵਸ ਮੌਕੇ ਸਾਰਿਆਂ ਲਈ ਦੋ ਸਵਾਲ

ਤੁਸੀਂ ਪਹਿਲੀ ਪੁਸਤਕ ਕਿਹੜੀ ਪੜ੍ਹੀ ?
ਹਾਲ ਹੀ ਵਿੱਚ ਲੇਟੈਸਟ ਕਿਹੜੀ ਪੁਸਤਕ ਪੜ੍ਹੀ ?
(ਨੋਟ ਸਿਲੇਬਸ ਤੋਂ ਬਿਨਾਂ ਕੋਈ ਪੁਸਤਕ ਹੋਵੇ)

#WorldBookDay
#Books
#Literature

[Ramesh Srivats @rameshsrivats]

Massive upgrade for cars.
From Port Wine to Absinthe.
Full party time.

[Gurdeep Singh Sappal @gurdeepsappal]

White towels are a legacy of British era, when there were few roads, fewer cars and no ACs. Officer toured on horses and towels were an integral part of hygiene routine.

British left, horses were sent away, but towels stayed!

It’s not just towels, the size of tables and colour of ink are also defined by hierarchy.

When I was working at Joint Secretary level with the Vice President of India, I had to fight a stiff battle of sorts to order a smaller table that would fit better in my office. The system would not approve of a smaller table!

Regarding the colour of ink to be used for noting and signature, Sh. Arun Shourie has written a hilarious, if not ridiculous, memoir as minister.

In 1999, two officers in the Ministry of Steel made notings on files using red and green ink.

This raised a furore as they were junior officers. The seniors were scandalised and an enquiry was initiated.

India’s bureaucracy spent 13 months debating which colour ink officers could use on files.

The enquiry was routed through several ministries and departments:

Ministry of Steel wrote to Dept of Administrative Reforms

It referred to Directorate of Printing (ink experts)

Printing referred to Dept of Personnel & Training (DoPT)

DoPT threw the ball back: “it’s your Manual, you decide”

National Archives was consulted for longevity of ink colours

Ministry of Defence consulted for Army ink hierarchy

Conclusion after 13 months: juniors wrote in blue-black or blue ink, because that has the longest life of impression. In British era, the files had to travel to Britain, so juniors would write in ink that would stay for the longest.

The top brass would sign in green and red.

Ruling:

Two new paras were added to the manual of office procedure:

Para 32(9) says that only officers of Joint Secretary level and above may use red or green ink, and that too only in rare cases. Para 68(5), on the other hand, does not limit the use of these colours to any particular rank (as modern ball pen ink have no issues of shelf life for any colour!)

The white towel on the officer’s chair. The red telephone on the desk. The peon standing at the door. The green ink reserved for the senior sahib.
These are not accidents of history. They are architecture, the physical grammar of a bureaucratic culture that worships hierarchy.

[Kaushik Basu @kaushikcbasu]

Re-reading this book. All leaders take decisions that turn out to be some right & some wrong. And Manmohan Singh did too. But having worked closely with him, I can say, in terms of moral integrity & sharpness of intellect, he was one of the most outstanding leaders, globally.

[Man Aman Singh Chhina @manaman_chhina]

@aniltalwar2 Only a fool lends books and a only bigger fool ever returns 😁

[A Sidhu @asidhu_]

No one could explain the US–Iran situation better than Jimmy Fallon.

[Shekhar Dutt @DuttShekhar]

One of the most “powerful” days for India

On one hand we handed death penalty to 9 policemen for misusing their “powers” and brutally killing a father son do in police custody

And at the same time, we achieved criticality in fast breeder reactors to make India self reliant in “power” production and only the second nation in the world to achieve that

So in various forms, it was a very “powerful” day for India 🙏

[amit kilhor @amitkilhor]

This is a video for all the students preparing for exams and studying. Quit the screens and PDFs, study from hard copy books.
The reason why even after 10 hours of studying you are not getting results is that superficial learning of screens.

#amitkilhor #kilhor #studying #quitscreens

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

Nepal faced a major environmental crisis in the 1970s as forests were degraded by grazing and fuelwood harvesting. After a 1993 law handed forest management to local communities, forest cover rebounded dramatically, rising from about 26% in 1992 to 45% in 2016 through community-led protection and natural regeneration. Source: https://t.co/ypiJffFlk3

[Kohli @tkohli]

Huge words from the Guru and the disciple is worth every word guru said:) cheers and miles to go. Best wishes @navgill82

[Navdeep Singh Gill @navgill82]

ਗੁਰੂਦੇਵ ਪ੍ਰਿੰਸੀਪਲ ਸਰਵਣ ਸਿੰਘ ਜੀ ਵੱਲੋਂ ਕਹੇ ਇਹ ਬੋਲ ਮੇਰੇ ਲਈ ਕਿਸੇ ਐਵਾਰਡ ਤੋਂ ਘੱਟ ਨਹੀਂ

[Interesting things @awkwardgoogle]

bus drivers learned the hard way what close passing feels like