Dhritiman

Senior Director, Government Relations - South Asia @cargill | Columnist | ex - @walmart @asianpaints
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[Xu Feihong @China_Amb_India]

According to a report by venture capital firm Foundamental, China and India are expected to account for nearly 40% of global construction growth between 2020 and 2030.

China remains the largest contributor (26.1%), while India ranks second (14.1%), highlighting Asia’s growing role in shaping global infrastructure development.

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Indian Motorcycle is trying an incendiary new tack: It is attempting to drag Harley-Davidson into the culture wars https://t.co/DuszZmocI1?

[Forbes @Forbes]

Earth’s rotation is gradually slowing as climate change melts glaciers and polar ice sheets, redistributing water across the planet and subtly lengthening the day, according to research.
Read more: https://t.co/XhQU9T53zz
Photo: Getty Images

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

An unusual cold patch of water in the North Atlantic could signal changes in a key ocean current, which would have sweeping consequences for climate.

This blob is occurring in one of the few areas where the ocean hasn’t warmed in recent decades. https://t.co/95aEv1oaxq

[Secrets in Stone @CassieCMartin]

I looked at a LOT of pillars in India in the last two weeks. This one was by far my favorite!

[Forbes @Forbes]

.@sundarpichai joined Google in 2004 to lead development of the Chrome browser. Its success helped propel him to the company's top role, becoming CEO in 2015.

Now, the India-born executive is featured on the #Forbes250 America’s Most Successful Living Immigrants list.
See the full list: https://t.co/2Xgu79oZeb
Illustration: Lina Jaradat for Forbes

[Mohan Pargaien IFS🇮🇳 @pargaien]

#DYK
India's snow leopard population stands at 718 as per the first nationwide census (2019–2023, released in 2024), out of a global wild population estimated at 4,000 to 6,500.

Vid Veronica Estrada Escobar

[Archaeology Magazine @archaeologymag]

Egypt’s Valley of the Kings became a tourist destination more than 2,000 years ago! Now, archaeologists have discovered graffiti in royal tombs scrawled by merchants from India. One intrepid sightseer left his name in five different crypts …

https://t.co/9KkHRlXtFL

[Wonder of Science @wonderofscience]

Stunning banner cloud over the Rock of Gibraltar.

[India First Post @ifpost47]

Indian worker Vipin Kumar has been awarded honorary citizenship by the city of Craiova, Romania, after he jumped into an icy lake and saved the life of a 5-year-old girl. 🇮🇳🇷🇴

For nearly 30 minutes, he held the child above freezing water until rescuers arrived.

This is the side of Indians the world rarely sees in headlines: courage, sacrifice, compassion and humanity.

Yet stories like this seldom receive the attention that anti-India narratives do. No coverage from Western media outlets.

As India's envoy noted, Vipin's actions embodied the spirit of Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam "The World is One Family." ❤️

[Dailymeow @Dailymeoww1]

In a theater performance of Romeo and Juliet in Russia, at the exact scene where Romeo is dying, Juliet was having an emotional moment by his side.

At that very moment, the theater’s cat entered the stage and went up to Romeo, pulling his hair. Then, looking at Juliete, the cat said: “Don’t be ridiculous, he’s alive, look,” trying to wake Romeo up.

This absurd moment completely broke the atmosphere of the scene. The audience, who had been crying just seconds before, suddenly burst into laughter.

From that point on, the story of Romeo and Juliet turned into something completely different because of the cat…

The cat, Romeo and Juliet became the story.

There is no sadder story in the world than “the cat, Romeo and Juliet” 😂

[Richard Rossow @RichardRossow]

India's Ministry of New & Renewable Energy and NISE drop a map highlighting the potential scale of floating solar power, state by state. 102 GW total across India.

https://t.co/pFB7YOuHHc

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Did you know?

No hurricane has ever crossed the equator, due to the Coriolis force.

[🎞️ Robert Rohde]

[Dr. M.F. Khan @Dr_TheHistories]

In 1903, the French government expelled the Carthusian monks from their monastery in the Alps and seized everything they owned.

The monastery. The distillery. The equipment. All of it. There was just one little problem.

Only two monks in the entire order knew the recipe for Chartreuse, and they had memorized it. There was nothing written down that the government could take.

The French government hired chemists to reverse-engineer it. They analyzed every bottle they could find. They ran every test available to early 20th Century science. They could not replicate it. The liqueur they produced under the Chartreuse name was so inferior that it destroyed the brand almost immediately. Sales collapsed. The company the government set up to produce it went bankrupt in 1929.

The monks, meanwhile, had relocated to Tarragona in Spain and were producing the real thing the entire time.

In 1929, the same year the French government's operation went under, the monks quietly bought back the rights to their own name and returned to their monastery.

The recipe is still known by exactly two monks at any given time. When one dies or becomes too ill to continue, he passes his portion to a successor. The full recipe has never been written down in a form that has left the order.

Chartreuse is made from 130 Alpine plants and herbs. The monks tend the distillery themselves. They take no outside employees into the production process. The 1605 manuscript that started all of this is still held in the monastery archive.

The French Third Republic lasted from 1870 to 1940. The monks are still there, still making Chartreuse.

© Eats History

#drthehistories

[Incredible!ndia @incredibleindia]

Step through the arches of India and discover the enduring beauty that reflects centuries of craftsmanship, culture, and architectural brilliance.

#DiscoverTheLegacy #IncredibleIndia #ExploreIndia

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[Jack Prandelli @jackprandelli]

Gold Is National Security on a Balance Sheet🟡🏦

Gold is more than a metal.

It is trust, liquidity, and financial insurance.

The US still holds the largest official gold reserves by far:

United States: 8,133 tonnes
Germany: 3,350 tonnes
Italy: 2,452 tonnes
France: 2,437 tonnes
China: 2,313 tonnes
Russia: 2,305 tonnes

That matters because central banks are not buying gold for yield.

They buy it for resilience.

No counterparty risk.
No default risk.
No sanction risk if held domestically.

In a world of debt, currency pressure, and geopolitical fragmentation, gold is becoming strategic again.

[Rajasthan Tourism @my_rajasthan]

Junagarh Fort stands as the crown jewel of Bikaner. Intricately adorned palaces, stunning courtyards, and exquisite craftsmanship narrate stories of valor, art, and opulence that have endured through centuries.
A jewel of Rajasthan’s heritage, Junagarh Fort continues to captivate visitors with its unmatched beauty and regal charm.

Vc: @hive_akshat

@tourismgoi @incredibleindia

#VisitMyState #HolidayInRajasthan
#JunagarhFort #Bikaner #RajasthanTourism

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

“A voyage to Europe in the summer of 1921 gave me the first opportunity of observing the wonderful blue opalescence of the Mediterranean Sea.”

In his #NobelPrize lecture, renowned physicist C.V. Raman gave an insight into how his research into light scattering began.

[The Hindu @the_hindu]

An extreme weather-boosting El Nino has formed and is likely to be historically strong, meteorologists say.

- AP

[Reuters @Reuters]

India's TCS partners with Anthropic to drive enterprise AI scaling https://t.co/iTe1YVfRMT https://t.co/iTe1YVfRMT