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[Saral Patel @SaralPatel]

News of an attack by the US Navy on a ship carrying 24 Indians is coming in.

One of the darkest days in our history. No Prime Minister would have remained silent after such an act by any country, but a compromised PM Narendra Modi will not even dare to speak.

[Himalayan Hindu @himalayanhindu]

Keshav Negi did not get bail & has been sent to jail for 14 days in judicial custody. A 65 yr old poor chef is rotting in jail while corrupt municipal officials who allowed that illegal death trap to run are probably enjoying air conditioned rooms.

— ABSOLUTE MOCKERY OF JUSTICE

[Saket Gokhale @SaketGokhale]

Your money is being used to buy MPs & MLAs.

You think Amit Shah is paying them from his savings account?

BJP steals your hard earned taxes. Traitor MPs & MLAs get crores.

The media praises this as “Chanakya Neeti”.

How long will the people silently tolerate this mockery?

[Dr.Sivaranjini @dr_sivaranjani]

MY RESIGNATION
FROM IAP
HAS BEEN ACCEPTED.
Now I can finally speak freely.
The IAP once had many ethical leaders.
What follows is why chose to leave.

WHY DID I LEAVE?
Because concerns raised repeatedly were ignored.
For years, I raised concerns about ORSL promotion, conference presence, and the blurring of lines between science and marketing.
Those concerns were never meaningfully addressed.
When legitimate concerns are ignored, silence becomes complicity.

WHY WAS ORSL BEING PROMOTED AT PEDICON?
I repeatedly raised concerns regarding ORSL.
Yet its presence at conferences continued.
Why?

THEY SAID IT THEMSELVES.
Kenvue publicly stated that their products were presented at:
PEDICON
• APICON
• FMPC
• RSSDI
Where was the condemnation?
This is their own statement. We raised concerns repeatedly.
Silence is not oversight. Silence is a choice.
THE ISSUE WAS PUBLICLY RAISED.
This wasn't hidden.
The concerns were documented publicly.
Yet no meaningful action followed.
This is not hearsay.
This is public record.

THIS NEEDS THOROUGH INVESTIGATION.
Parents deserve transparency when child health guidance is issued.
Authorities need to examine why parents were not clearly warned about daily consumption of sucralose-containing drinks in children.
Why was only sucralose specifically highlighted in this position paper?
Why was this emphasis made?
What evidence supported it?
Were parents adequately informed?
Transparency builds trust. Questions strengthen science.

https://t.co/chddU4WOxQ

WHY SILENCE IS NOT
NEUTRAL.
When leadership remains silent in the face of unethical influence:
Trust is eroded
Families and doctors lose faith in the system.
Science is compromised
Marketing begins to shape medical spaces.
Children are at risk
Unnecessary and misleading products enter their lives.
Professional integrity suffers. Ethical doctors are pushed out.
Wrong becomes normal.
Silence protects the system.
Speaking up protects children.

https://t.co/3UOBxpd6rK

After IAP exit, Hyderabad paediatrician Sivaranjani Santosh alleges pharma influence, seeks probe into ORSL promotion
https://t.co/tCLyql4Zlc

https://t.co/nTGZOKAWDh

@MoHFW_INDIA @NMC_IND

#IAP #pharmalobbying #ORSL #Kenvue #JnJ #JohnsonJohnson #eRZL #sucralose #positionpaper
#TheSouthFirst #TheHindu #Indianpaediatrics #ethicalconsiderations #DrDhanyaDharmapalan #DrTJacobJohn #DrYeshwantKAmdekar #DrPiyushGupta

[Garvit Sethi @garvit_sethii]

They will again increase the prices.
Modi's policy is simple, privatise the profits and nationalise the losses.

When companies were looting common man despite getting cheap oil from Russia, not a single penny reduced now they want to increase prices because they are losing!

[Srikant @Srikant_x64]

E20 vs e0

Cars24 deleted video

[Jawhar Sircar @jawharsircar]

Hardeep is my ex colleague who earned same salary as me. How can he or daughter make so much money?
Someone said he has a house in Switzerland. Marking it to him ⁦@501_India⁩ ⁦@OfficeofHSP⁩ to confirm or deny please.

[Pushpraj Yadav @pushprajyadav97]

भारत का कानून मंत्री अपने साथ 75 जजों को घुमाने के लिए लन्दन ले गया है।

इसका मतलब जानते हैं?

[Venkatesh Alla @venkat_fin9]

Jane Street made $4 billion+ in India's markets over 2 years.

NSE issued a cautionary letter in February 2025: "Stop this strategy."

Jane Street: continued.

SEBI ban came July 2025, FIVE months after the warning.

During those 5 months of continued trading post-warning:

Retail investors kept losing.
Jane Street kept winning.

The regulator knew. The exchange warned them. They kept going.

₹4,843 crore frozen. Millions of retail losses: not refunded. Not refundable. Ever.

[Ved Varma 🍥 @vedvarma]

@nabilajamal_ And when there is a fire like the one in Delhi, the electrician can be arrested.

[sanjay kumar @sanju1000]

2017 खरीदी DZIRE (E10) की माइलेज 60 फीसदी तक घट गई है। पहले इन चोरों ने कहा कि पेट्रोल में 20 फीसदी से ज्यादा इथेनॉल नहीं मिलाया जा रहा है। अब पेट्रोल में 85 फीसदी तक मिलावट की बात कह रहे हैं क्योंकि देश में इथेनॉल का कारोबार करने वाली सबसे बड़ी कंपनी नितिन गडकरी के बेटों की है। हरदीप पुरी इसमें साझीदार है। दोनों मिलकर पेट्रोल गाड़ियों का बेड़ा गर्क करने के साथ-साथ मोदी सरकार का भी बेड़ा गर्क करने पर अमादा है। जबकि सच्चाई ये है कि भारत की कोई भी कार निर्माता कंपनी फिलहाल E20 पेट्रोल यानी 20 फीसदी मिलावट वाली तेल से ज्यादा मिलावट वाली कार का इंजन नहीं बना रहे हैं। जिस "फ्लेक्स फ्यूल" का प्रोटोटाइप मारुति ने प्रदर्शित किया था, उसे बाहर के देशों से लाया गया था। दरअसल ये पेट्रोल चोर इस वक्त E20 के नाम पर खुलेआम E27 यानी 27 फीसदी मिलावट वाला पेट्रोल बेच रहे हैं। जिसकी वजह से ज्यादातर E20 झेलने वाली गाड़ियों की माइलेज भी 30-40 फीसदी तक घट गई है। आज ही मारुति के सर्विस सेंटर में सब पता कर बता रहा हूं। आप भी इसे जांच सकते हैं।
@BPCLimited @HPCL @IndianOil_Delhi @HardeepSPuri @nitin_gadkari @PMOIndia @narendramodi

[Shravan Venkataraman @theBuoyantMan]

I have lived in Jaipur for five years. The moment you step out of expressways and see the actual city and state, you'll thank your stars you are in TN

[𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 - 𝐌𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐞 - 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞⭐️❤️ @NgocThach74]

HOMELESS shocked A CROWD.
Even the guitar doesn't know it could be played like this🔥

[Venkatesh Alla @venkat_fin9]

The push toward E85/E100 is, in the words of an industry analysis, "partly driven by the need to absorb excess distillery capacity built ahead of demand." The ethanol industry overbuilt. The government is now engineering consumer demand through fuel mandates to bail them out. You are the demand. You didn't choose this.

[Oxygen 💨 @WhateverVishal]

I had 0 money in my Bank Account

Someone dropped 100Rs

Now my wealth is up 100%

While my neighbour had 100000 already

Someone dropped 100 Rs

Now his wealth is up by 0.1%

I declare mysef as Vishwaguru

[Joy @Joydas]

Nothing against CJP protest. Everyone has right to protest. But they are lucky to get kid treatment. This is Haryana. All over India, NSUI and IYC is protesting for same issues and getting lathi charged. You can support anyone but don’t say why is Opposition parties not on ground

[Sunderdeep - Volklub @volklub]

Someone asked me to explain ethanol mess in simple words.

I told him, imagine you are forcibly asked to eat 20-30 grams of analogue PANNEER along with 70 grams of milk PANNEER everytime and 100g pure PANNEER is available only at one shop within 200 km.

[meetu jain @meetujain]

Morning gyan: Permission to travel is always given by the @PMOIndia. Judges of the #SupremeCourt and high courts concerned forward a request to Dept of Justice, Ministry of Law. A travel itinerary is prepared, the financial implications (TA/DA), official protocol etc worked out. The Foreign Travel Order is then forwarded to the PM who okays it.
Some 18 years ago, the Manmohan Singh govt had cracked the whip and read out the Code of Conduct to judges of the Supreme Court and high courts to curb the practice of judges going abroad for conferences and seminars even when the court was in session and a handful of judges were always away.
But even then, I don’t remember a judge going abroad to attend a private sports tournament!
In order to curb this practice, the MMS government’s law minister, Hansraj Bharadwaj, forwarded a story done by me for @CNNnews18 to the CJI and expressed his unhappiness at the “bad press”. The law ministry also came up with a fresh list of protocols following the story. The CJI then unhappily used my story to write to the high courts concerned sharing the government’s concerns. Some fresh rules were laid out.
It was decided that there would be proportional representation of judges accepting the invite and only one judge would represent the court. The invite would only be accepted if it was by the judiciary/government of the host country. The number of days was curtailed to what was considered necessary. Judges would travel by the shortest route possible.

The kill joy story that led to these seminal changes was me accessing through RTI the FTO of judges of the SCs and high courts from the dept of Justice since the #SupremeCourtifIndia was not under the RTI.

Then CJI KG Balakrishnan opposed my RTI tooth and nail, accused Hansraj Bharadwaj and then Home minister of conspiring with the media against the judiciary (untrue completely) and finally after nine months of my relentless pursuit, released the FTOs.

The travel details were an eye opener. The biggest “traveller” was ex CJI YK Sabharwal. He was out of the country for 45 days (the entire summer vacation) on tax payer expense, travelled to the US, went to Disneyland, visited his brother, went to Montreal via Vancouver (!!!) before going to Paris and back. The conferences in end May and mid July were at Montreal and Paris. (Why YKS went to Vancouver is another story. IYKYK).
KGB went for a conference to Pretoria, South Africa. His route was Kochi (three day layover at his house), then South Africa where he visited the famous Kruger National Park but skipped going to the Victoria Falls (the PMO was frowning) and some other touristy spots.
A few years later, I chased the story again. The RTI s came in a jiffy. Foreign travels had reduced to 10 per cent of what it used to be. Bharadwaj called me a killjoy but was secretly happy.
I can go on! There are hundreds of FTOs lying around which I got under RTI that gives you an idea how the tax payers money is spent.
But never have I heard of so many judges going for a private event, sponsored by the very companies they are sitting in judgement over.
@sardesairajdeep
@kthaparoffice
@maneeshchhibber
@sharmanagendar

[Hemendra Singh @hksingh123]

Harassment by Haryana police with Army veterans and his family?

A released & disabled Indian Army Officer was allegedly humiliated by Gurugram Traffic Police while travelling with his wife & 2 young daughters in the middle of night till 1.30am

When requested a fresh breathalyser straw and a fair retest, the senior-most officer allegedly threatened by saying:
“Teri afsargiri main nikalta hoon.”

Initial reading: 91 mg/100 ml
Retest #1: 13 mg/100 ml
Retest #2: 13 mg/100 ml
Family was kept on the roadside until 1:30 AM.Daughters kept crying,denied to photograph the retest results; called 112 helpline but the traffic ppl ran away

I am not asking for special treatment. I am asking for the dignity, fairness and due process.

Why innocent families are being targeted?Who has ordered the liquor shops to be kept open till 2am.Why no real action there?

Will Haryana Police explain the conflicting readings and order an independent inquiry?

@cmohry @police_haryana @DGPHaryana @TrafficGGM @DC_Gurugram @majorgauravarya @TinyDhillon @GeneralBakshi @Gen_VKSingh @bhushan_gyan @PMOIndia @rights_india

#IndianArmy #Veteran #Gurugram #HaryanaPolice #Justice #Accountability

[Prapthi @prapthi_m]

In 2005, when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh visited JNU, a section of students greeted him with black flags and slogans of protest. The university administration issued notices to students and considered disciplinary action.

In his speech, Singh invoked Voltaire:

"I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it."

When the administration moved against the protesters, Singh reportedly intervened. Years later, then Vice-Chancellor B.B. Bhattacharya recalled the Prime Minister's message to him. "Please be lenient, Sir."

What stands out is not that a Prime Minister defended the right of students to protest against him. What stands out is that we now regard such conduct as exceptional when it should be the minimum standard in a constitutional democracy.