@anushaadvocate I would say it serves the fans right. As far Ajith, he is very clear. His relationship with fans is transactional. Thry pay and he entertains them and that is all to it.
@smitaprakash Smita ji, the TVK govt. has taken a series of missteps of late such as shortlisting two most inappropriate sites for airport, cars for MLAs, and then the site for new Secretarait.
@cmrlofficial Why is credit card and debit card not accepted your Nehru Park and Shenoy Nagar metro stations for recharging travel card? Your staff are insisting on cash payment to recharge cards.
@MaliniP@TVKVijayHQ@arivalayam@mkstalin@Udhaystalin Smart strategy by @actorvijay because not many in the 18-25 age group know about Sarkaria Commission report and Karunanidhi's tongue-in-cheek replies to questions like vanishing of sugar stock from govt. godowns. The DMK revently held an outreach for Gen Z voters..
Rain. Flooded highway. Cars and trucks crawling through brown water.
And one Gurugram Traffic cop on the concrete divider ~ first his hand inside the drain hole, then a stick….clearing the blockage so the water can actually leave the road. Uniform soaked. No umbrella. No official convoy behind him.
No camera crew. No speech. No “we are committed” banner. Just duty.
This is the part of “Millennium City” that never goes viral first. The part that happens while everyone else is stuck, recording, or blaming the drainage.
Respect to the officer who did the unglamorous work. 🙏
People will get used to it. The point is @RameshOffcl must ensure adequate infrastructure and staff for this. For example, Srirangam temple has a free footwear counter. But at times it gets filled up and devotees have to wait to deposit their footwear and collect tokens.
People will accept waiting in a long queue for darshan even if they aren't happy with such waiting. They will not accept standing in a queue to deposit and collect mobile phones. Tirumala is an exception not the norm.
It's good to see that 9% of people want CM Vijay to become the next Prime Minister of India. That would be great, but not now.
We, the people of Tamil Nadu, won't allow that yet because he is ours, and he still has a lot of work to do for us. He is learning and growing every day. As CM, he has to prove that the people who believed in him were right by making their lives better.
Not now, but definitely in the future, our leader CM Vijay will become the Prime Minister of India one day. No doubt about it.
What literally made me laugh was that even CJP leader Abhijith got 1% of the votes as a preferred PM candidate. But why is our ex-MLA Stalin sir not even on the list?
This is not fair, guys. Please add ex-MLA Stalin sir's name to the list, or else he might go to court and argue to get his name added there too...
You sit with a zipped mouth when they serve strong smelly Chinese food on Asian flights to passengers. You never object to prawns and fish being served or whiskey being openly served on flights.
However you see one happy family respectfully enjoying food using their own plates and even a trash bag of their own; and you troll them on Social Media for the smell of Achar? Is it just because they are Gujaratis?
Every EV, every solar storage system, every phone battery on Earth runs on lithium and India has almost none of it domestically.....
Lithium, cobalt, nickel all imported, all subject to global price swings and geopolitical chokepoints, the exact same vulnerability with rare earth magnets.
Dr. Vilas Shelke and Dr. Manjusha Shelke, a husband-wife scientist duo, founded a company called Rechargion Energy in 2021. Rechargion is trying to make that dependency optional by building battery cells that need none of those three metals at all.
Dr. Manjusha Shelke is also a Chief Scientist at CSIR's National Chemical Laboratory, India's premier government chemistry research institute.
This is not a garage startup pivoting into hardware, it is an official spin-off from NCL, built directly on the work of Shelke's own research group, which is why the science checks out rather than being marketing.
Sodium-ion batteries using sodium instead of lithium as the ion that moves and stores charge....
The company has patented its own hard carbon anode material, proprietary electrode materials, and sodium compounds, and this is the elegant part.....
The sodium is derived from seawater and aluminium, 2 things India has in near-infinite domestic supply, unlike lithium.
Rechargion's cells have demonstrated a cycle life of 10,000 charge cycles translating into a potential battery life of 25+ years. A typical lithium-ion EV battery today lasts ~8-10 years before serious degradation.
This is claiming ~3x that, using metals that do not need to be imported at all.
Why it is credible, not just a claim....
- In August 2025, the Automotive Research Association of India ran an independent 2 month evaluation of Rechargion's cells at its Chakan testing centre covering vibration, mechanical shock, crushing, high-temperature endurance, short circuit, overcharge, and forced discharge, under the international IEC 62660 protocol.
- Rechargion became the 1st company in India to achieve IEC 62660 compliance for sodium-ion batteries, independent, govt body verified safety testing, not a startup's own lab claims.
Rechargion is almost entirely non-VC, which is itself telling, support has come from the Union Ministry of Heavy Industries, the Indo-US Science and Technology Forum, Tata Power-backed Social Alpha, ARAI, Venture Centre Pune, and Rice University, Houston.
This is patient, institutional, science-first capital, not hype-chasing venture money.
A pilot plant installed in 2024 is already producing 10 Ah capacity cells, and the company is now building a facility to scale to 500 cells per day, moving from lab research into actual commercial manufacturing with an initial focus on India's massive electric two and three-wheeler market.
Why this matters for Bharat...
India's entire EV ambition currently rests on a mineral India does not have. If sodium-ion chemistry proves out at scale, the country's electric mobility future stops depending on lithium mines in Australia and Chile and starts depending on seawater and aluminium resources India actually controls.
A husband-wife scientist team out of a Pune government lab, quietly building the battery chemistry that could make India's EV revolution genuinely self-reliant. 🙏🙏
I already told you all yesterday that she will apologize soon and today the video is out
She said - "I was frustrated, I apologise what I said to armed forces."
This is the new trend in India, first disrespect someone, get viral, then beg for apology �
People gave up reading newspapers and magazines. They resorted to watching TV news, more worse they are consuming 2 line news apps and Instagram reels for news. They think only the visual media news reporters are journalists.
Strange and sad enough that people don't know and can't recognise even two, three print media reporters - Tamil and English from their locality let alone some exceptional independent journalists in Tamil Nadu.
Paper vangi padinga makkale. Magazines vangi padinga. Editorials and detailed reports ellame vanthutu than iruku.
Journalists have exposed some of the most infallible political brand names in all these years and that's why the change was possible. Not the other way round.
Buy your daily - Tamil & English that have more news space, magz like Caravan, The Week, India Today, Frontline, Outlook etc. Read from independent news sites that gives unfiltered news.
Do you think we are all working hard to put out some good work just to get washed away into "we don't trust press anymore"? NO!
Read more and well.
Empowering good Press is empowering good democracy.
A request to honourable Chief Minister @actorvijay and @CMOTamilnadu. Please announce the name of Dr. Muthulakshmi Reddy for the proposed world class hospital at Perambur. Please issue a G.O. straightaway so that nobody hijacks the issue.
#TVKVijay#TVKVijayHQ#tvkgovernment
Paying ₹3,600 a year just to receive a bank OTP, is this really a Mobile Service or an "OTP Tax"?
Today, a Mobile Number is required for almost everything important
Banking
UPI
KYC
Credit Cards
Insurance
Government Services
2FA / OTPs
If your SIM becomes inactive,
access to several essential financial and digital services can become difficult.
But if someone does not need Mobile Data, already has Wi Fi at home,
and uses the SIM only for OTPs, SMS and incoming calls,
why should they still have to pay for expensive bundled recharge plans ?
Imagine a family of 6
₹3,600 × 6 = ₹21,600 per year.
Just to keep their mobile numbers active.
If people already have Wi Fi at home,
why should not there be a ₹500/year basic plan that provides only essential services like incoming calls and OTP or SMS ?
Telecom companies have every right to make money by selling data
that’s fair.
But here’s the bigger question
In Digital India, should people really have to spend thousands of rupees
every year just to maintain access to essential services like Banking,
KYC and 2FA ?
If a Mobile Number has effectively become part of our Digital Identity,
should not there also be an affordable basic plan simply to keep the SIM active ?
Maybe it’s time for TRAI to seriously consider this.