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The world's newest & biggest
#cricket
stadium -- also the venue of joint Modi-Trump visit in western
#India
's Gujarat state.
#TrumpIndiaVisit
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I've now attended hundreds of Indian politicians' project inauguration speeches in the last decade.
BUT this is a first!
Minister
@nitin_gadkari
goes off-script at NHAI building inauguration. Asks what is there to congratulate? Vividly describes the rot inside.
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India tops the list of Russian oil & gas importing countries since the outbreak of war in Ukraine.
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Thousands protest in Nepal's streets against Communist government's bill to take over local communities' temple and cultural trusts.
Many similar cash-rich, mostly Hindu temple trusts, have long been under Indian govt. control.
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Am I the only one who feels that Delhi's basic infrastructure hasn't changed since Sheila Dikshit lost in 2013; if anything, it's probably worse than what it was at the time? And this isn't just about, around
#DelhiRains
.
Ever tried the New Delhi boat ride?
Newly opened New Delhi River Front service.
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Just spoke with my friend Manish
@manishindiatv
who was reporting from Red Fort. He is not in a good shape. Protestors beat him with sticks/ weapons and he fainted after repeated blows -- and had to be rushed to a hospital. His cameraman received blows on the head .
#journalism
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Oh! This was still stuck in my draft...
50-60 crore ka choona to pakka lagaya hoga...
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The entire
@nitin_gadkari
speech and the link via
@muglikar_
. Worth your time. Describes babus in the dept as "non performing assets" and "vishkanya" mentality. Wonders how they manage stick around without any consequences. Worth your time. 👇🏽
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Speaks about the phenomenon that is
@RRRMovie
, and how
@ssrajamouli
today stands out as a collosus among India's modern day filmmakers.
#RRRMovie
It's a shame that there is no movie or series about the colonial era in Kenya like Netflix's RRR.
I hope
@ShowmaxKenya
will go that route soon since they've been dropping dope content lately.
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70-year-old mother and 40-year-old son are on a pan-India road trip since this January on their 20-year-old scooter. They just reached Kohima in Nagaland after covering almost 44,100 km! Wow. Wow. I am totally inspired!
#respect
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Never thought I'd read this from an Indian PM to a US President:
"PM Modi expressed concern regarding the ongoing civil disturbances in the US..."
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Yes, a detailed
@SBengali
piece on the Indian roots of
@KamalaHarris
.
"Harris wore saris for family events and spoke a few Tamil phrases with her relatives. Shyamala was determined that the girls retain links to India..."
Amid the deluge of
#KamalaHarris
biographical articles that will inevitably follow, I’d recommend this lovely piece co-authored by
@SBengali
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@CaitlinPacific
on (
#ParlerApp
), and journalists crying on the TV news:
"If we have to bring back the Right, we have to atleast pretend, slightly, that every single major network is not completely Leftist."
Twitter's pro-conservative, "free speech" rival Parler (which is French for “to talk”) has suddenly become America’s No. 1 downloaded news app in response to Twitter's censorship. Wall Street Journal says Parler's user base has "more than doubled to 10 million in under a week."
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India's ruling BJP has lost multiple state polls & has been given a tough fight in some others since May 2014. It has happened within same institutions wherever regional parties have a credible & connected leadership. YES, *credible leadership*.
To fight elections, I need institutional structures, I need a judicial system that protects me, I need a media that is reasonably free, I need financial parity, I need a whole set of structures that actually allow me to operate a political party. I don't have them: Rahul Gandhi
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@virendersehwag
, India's once in a generation Test opener! The man who changed the meaning of a top order batting in the cricket's longest format. Also, thank you to
@SGanguly99
.
29th March- A date which has ended up becoming special for me. On this day in 2004, I had the honour of becoming the first Indian to score a 300 in Test Cricket, scoring 309 against Pak & 4 years later on the same date got an opportunity to surpass 309, while scoring 319 vs SA 🙏
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With a 'supporter' like this, not sure the govt needs an enemy or opposition on the
#FarmBills
?
Punjab: Kangana Ranaut calls farmers protesting against agri-marketing bills ‘terrorists’
via
@TOICitiesNews
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Sadly India today lost so many mental health experts, but on an upside -- we now have so so many China and India border experts.
#GalwanValley
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India's 2 main parties:
BJP Presidents
98-00 Kushabhau Thakre
00-01 B Laxman
01-02 KJ Krishnamurthy
02-04 MV Naidu
04-05 LK Advani
05-09 Rajnath Singh
10-13 N Gadkari
13-14 Rajnath S
14-20 Amit Shah
20** JP Nadda
#CongressPresident
98-17 Sonia Gandhi
17-19 Rahul G
19** Sonia G
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NO! Journalists, like everyone else including - and particularly - parliamentarians, govt officials need to pay for everything, toll tax included.
Delhi CM
@ArvindKejriwal
writes to Union Minister
@nitin_gadkari
: Journalists should get an exemption from toll tax all over the country !
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For every video that comes out, there are ten others that don't. Instead of symbolic action on individuals, citizens deserve a systemic overhaul. But that doesn't work for any political party in power.
New Video: After Collector Surajpur now SDM Prakash Singh Rajput of Bhaiyathan (Surajpur) in Chattisgarh seen slapping and punishing a youth in the area. Hope CM
@bhupeshbaghel
is watching this horrific drama unfold before his eyes. No action ordered yet against DM Ranbir Sharma.
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Even if you love the Army; the current Chief, or his views, you should be critical of this!
#India
doesn't have a history of serving Army officers publicly commenting on any domestic issues -- we have enough voices already! -- and we should ensure that it doesn't change.
#WATCH
Army Chief Gen Bipin Rawat: Leaders are not those who lead ppl in inappropriate direction. As we are witnessing in large number of universities&colleges,students the way they are leading masses&crowds to carry out arson&violence in cities & towns. This is not leadership.
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India's biggest oxygen producer held a select media interaction yesterday where it was explained how appx 80% of Mahrashtra's
#oxygen
is produced between Mumbai and Pune. So, I think, geography, production and supply chain conditions aren't the same for the two cities.
Examine “Mumbai Model”, learn from it, SC urges centre on oxygen crisis in Delhi.
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Maybe not the law, but at least these jewellery store robbers respected some key
#Covid_19
protocols in northern India's Aligarh city.
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"Dalit man, killed at Singhu border farmers' protest site, survived by wife, 3 kids. Lakhbir Singh was a resident of the Cheema Khurd village in Tarn Taran in Punjab and is survived by his wife and three children aged 8, 10 and 12."
The 35-year-old man, who was murdered near the Singhu border early Friday, was identified as Lakhbir Singh.
@arvindojha
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The *journalists* who looked really happy earlier today now look sad. And the sad ones are now looking really thrilled.
#justsaying
#MaharashtraPolitics
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If THIS can happen to an elected lawmaker in a state that is ruled by the party that the MP represents, what is the message for ordinary citizens?
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"In the last four days, Indian positions have witnessed a daily stream of Chinese combat medics evacuate small numbers of PLA troops from high altitude posts in the Fingers area on stretchers..." Ladakhi winters are here,
@ShivAroor
reports.
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Explainatory note,
@PIBHomeAffairs
.
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"Tejashwi Yadav's leadership is not being accepted by his own allies. RJD is seen as a family, which is run by a family. It is a party of the family, for the family, and by the family,"
@deveshkumarbjp
on BJP, NDA & upcoming Bihar polls. (h/t
@nistula
)
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#India
's former prime minister HD Deve Gowda with some of the moves on
#WorldYogaDay
in his bedroom. 🙄🙄 🙈 (h/t
@nistula
)
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How does one explain this? And why must doctors need police protection when they're out risking their lives for the patients?
#Moradabad
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You can delete twitter, unfollow her; her posts, or avoid reposting if you really didn't like what she's wearing. Also, stop judging on clothes -- question all MPs on what they do or say in the months ahead. And, like India, people's clothing choices here are diverse.
How do I unsee this ? She won s seat in Parliament, hails from Bengal, and surely has mistaken the place for Calcutta's Nicco Park or City Centre.
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India's largest medical oxygen supplier, INOX's
@JainSiddharth_
, Tuesday shared a perspective on the country's
#OxygenCrisis
. Posting some rough quotes & points he made giving a good peek into the sector, Covid19 plans, coordination, and challenges ahead. This THREAD 1/n 🧵👇
India's biggest oxygen producer held a select media interaction yesterday where it was explained how appx 80% of Mahrashtra's
#oxygen
is produced between Mumbai and Pune. So, I think, geography, production and supply chain conditions aren't the same for the two cities.
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So much nostalgia in
#Delhi
these days thanks to our chief minister
@ArvindKejriwal
. Almost daily power outages & voltage fluctuations this summer. Feels like 1990s all over again. Maybe this is a ploy to reconnect our youngest generation to the city's roots!? 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
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Overcrowding in
#Goa
around this time every year tells us how India desperately needs to develop new holiday destinations along its 7500+ kilometer long coastline. This should have been a great opportunity for economy & jobs for other coastal states, if they weren't sleeping!
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#HowdyModi
In context: he was talking about Trump's
@narendramodi
campaign inspired slogan that he used to target Indian-Americans for his earlier campaign. Also, it was part of that very long and flattering Modi introduction for
@realDonaldTrump
.
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Tens of thousands of migrant workers fleeing India's 21-day lockdown over
#Covid19
from the national capital jostled for limited number of buses at Delhi's Anand Vihar border earlier today. My pics for
@AFPphoto
@AFPSouthAsia
@AFP
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Says the man who was a resident of Kaushambi in the neighbouring Uttar Pradesh state till his election as Delhi chief minister. Can't remember India's national capital (or its politics) ever using this outsider/ local sentiment we've seen in some of the other metros.
With borders opening up but Corona cases rising, can Delhi open its hospitals for treatment of ppl from across the country? Will it put pressure on capacity to handle Corona? Should Delhi’s hospitals be reserved for Delhi residents?- We seek ur suggestions
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The govt officials shared original photo on which THIS Subhash Chandra Bose portrait is based. And Prosenjit's Netaji look in the movie (right). A non-issue being made one with an eye on Bengal?
President Kovind unveils the portrait of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose at Rashtrapati Bhavan to commemorate his 125th birth anniversary celebrations.
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Nothing says aam aadmi like expensive, full-page ads (paid by Delhi taxpayers?) in the top national newspapers!
#BhagwantMann
#OathCeremony
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India's free speech activists and so-called 'big' national journalists rejoicing at
#ArnabGoswami
's arrest - besides exposing themselves - don't realize what is coming for them, and soon. Loud tasteless theatrics for TRPs doesn't make someone eligible for arbitrary arrests.
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.
@Abhishek_Mshra
, well done!! Now waiting for you to delete your
@Twitter
account, which, I'm sure you didn't know, is part owned by Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud. Do it. Now!! ()
Cancelled
@Olacabs
Booking because Driver was Muslim. I don't want to give my money to Jihadi People.
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"Gigi Wu – dubbed the “Bikini Climber” by fans – used a satellite phone on Saturday to tell friends she had fallen down a ravine in Taiwan’s Yushan national park and badly injured herself."
Her death comes after an Indian couple died at the Yosemite National Park, US.
A week after two Instagrammers were found dead in Yosemite, a Taiwanese hiker who became famous for posting photos on top of mountain peaks wearing a bikini has died. Report by
@AFP
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I would have preferred Natarajan over Saini. Good that Vihari hasn't been dropped.
#INDvAUS
NEWS -
#TeamIndia
announce Playing XI for the 3rd Test against Australia at the SCG.
Navdeep Saini is all set to make his debut.
#AUSvIND
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Because, it's working and this is politics. Also, each time any politician reacts to any word(s) like she apparently is, rivals will use it more! Just imagine if Modi reacted like this to "Chowkidar Chor Hai" during the recent campaign...things may have been different.
@vijaita
Her conduct besides the point, But why use 'Ram' to tease?
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I spent some time in
#Sivakasi
last year and agree with
@manickamtagore
here. The industry is life-changing for the people in the region and employs 10s of 1000s directly; many more otherwise. Its image doesn't reflect the true picture. If not for all the government flip-flops++
Sivakasi manufactures Fireworks! It’s 100 years old industry. It’s Legal industry employees 60000 ! Kindly dnt spread rumours! It has 1000 factories! From Delhi to Madurai we have 2 flights a day . Pl come and book a cab to Sivakasi it’s 70 km from airport stand before a unit
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Guru Gobind Singh ji, revered by millions of Hindus and Sikhs across the world, was born as Guru Gobind Rai in Patna, Bihar.
()
shayar says momentary loss of reason can make one pay season after season
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"I believe their client was Congress (
@INCIndia
) but I know they have done all kinds of projects...,"
#CambridgeAnalytica
whistleblower Christopher Wylie to UK House of Commons committee right now -
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I've been hearing
#delhi
chief minister Arvind Kejriwal's long radio ads over last few days asking people to donate for
#KeralaFloods
. Noble cause, sure. But wouldn't it have been better (and less gimmicky) if the CM directly donated all the money he spent on these ads to Kerala?
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THIS is an incredibly revealing interview - about India, how we got here, and our broken system.
Has world's biggest vaccine maker
@adarpoonawalla
left (fled?) India because he can't deal with harassment & threats from state chief ministers and politicians? Shameful.
#COVID19
The calls come from some of the most powerful men. They come from the chief ministers of Indian states, heads of business conglomerates and others demanding instant supplies of Covishield, as the AstraZeneca vaccine is known in India. “ ‘Threats’ is an understatement,” he says.
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The insensitivity & anti-business attitude of authorities doesn't surprise anymore.
If you really had to implement a night curfew, you could have announced 7-10 days back. By now, like with Diwali crackers, so many restaurants & hotels must have made arrangements;sold packages.
Night curfew in Delhi on December 31 and January 1 from 11 pm to 6 am: Govt order
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Indian govt's comparative breakup of Covid19 infections & death rate between 2020 & 2021.
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"100 Gurkhas working at the Canadian embassy in Kabul. If they are not approved they will be left behind."
On the morning of the election and post govt announcement on Afghan refugees I am hearing the Canadian govt has not approved evac for approximately 100 Gurkhas working at the Canadian embassy in Kabul. If they are not approved they will be left behind
#cdnpoli
#cdnfp
#Afghanistan
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I don't know about all the theories and the media tamasha, but this is really weird. And raises 🤔🤔🤔
IPS officer Binay Tiwari reached Mumbai today from patna on official duty to lead the police team there but he has been forcibly quarantined by BMC officials at 11pm today.He was not provided accommodation in the IPSMess despite request and was staying in a guest house in Goregaw
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I'm not very sure our govt or autonomous bodies like the NCW should be hauling or serving notices to people for free speech! Even if it's disgusting, distasteful or outright sexist, like this Vivek post -- it still is free speech. And, there are other serious issues in India.
This tweet is absolutely Disgusting, distasteful, and degrading a women.
@NCWIndia
will be serving notice to
@vivekoberoi
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"I cannot ask my doctors to attend to
#covid19
patients from the safety of my home. Therefore, I decided to work from the field,”
@dr_maheshsharma
. Some of
#India
's doctor-politicians back in the medical field amidst
#coronavirus
battle, by
@nistula
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What a picture. What a moment. I believe you captured this one,
@anilkumble1074
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कहीं भी देख लेने के बाद उसकी नकल करने से पहले अक्कल भी लगानी चाहिए। इस देश में, जहां हर प्रान्त की अपनी अलग ऐतेहैसिक पृष्टभूमि है, कौन किसके सामने घुटने झुकायेगा? हर सौ कोस पर, कश्मीर से कन्याकुमारी तक, दबने और दबाने वाला अलग है। 1/2
@anubhavsinha
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This is us driving through the
#AtalTunnel
-- with lights out and final touches ongoing.
One can drive through the 9.02 Km tunnel at 80kmph, bypassing the traditional -- scenic but long -- 45 Kms of the Rohtang pass.
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*That's one small whack on a poor man's taxi, one giant leap for 'Modi-mukt Bharat' after 2019*
#RajThackeray
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Indian Army statement has downplayed local media reports of injuries to 4 Indian & 20 Chinese PLA soldiers. "It is clarified that there was a minor face-off at Nakula area of North Sikkim on 20 Jan and the same was resolved by local commanders as per established protocols."
@AFP
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Father of an Indian soldier (Surendra Singh) who got a phone call from his son, who told him:
-We were there for talks, so unarmed.
-We were 300-400, waiting. 2000-2500 Chinese suddenly came there armed with sticks, rods & stones - ambush attack. 1/n
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And perhaps explains why
#AdarPoonawalla
may also be about to launch vaccine production outside India, maybe in UK? Perhaps no surprises in India where many who create wealth & jobs also face all kinds of populist attacks!?
#CovishieldVaccine
#COVID19
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#Lockdown21
Almost all these thousands of workers walked to this Delhi border from other parts of India's capital. Here, they were in long, serpentine queues -- some of them in fact four parallel queues in one, and at least 500 meters long for their buses. My
@AFPphoto
.
@AFP
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A microbiologist removes Rajinikanth's antibodies to create India's next indigenous vaccine against Covid19.
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"Media is requested to refrain from overplaying or exaggerating reports which are factually incorrect."
#SikkimBorder
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India "successfully tested" 5G call on a network entirely "designed and developed" in the country: IT minister
@AshwiniVaishnaw
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Okay, credit where due. If these trends hold, this (
@5Forty3
) is where I first heard of
@BJP4UP
getting close to 300 seats in
#UttarPradesh
.
Does anyone believe in triple century? Start considering it seriously, very much in the realm of possibility!!
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After
#Chandrayaan2
-- the Moon mission, here's a look at some of
#Indian
space agency's (
@isro
) upcoming ventures:
2021 - manned mission
2023 - mission to Venus
2023 - Moon mission with Japan
2024 - 2nd Mars mission
2025 - space telescope
2025* - launch its own space ststion
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I'd really like the Indian Supreme Court to define "distinguished" and "commendable," please!
The idea of a court picked committee regulating electronic media sounds worse! If anyone must? IF? MUST? In a democracy it should only be the parliament or an elected govt.
Justice Chandrachud: We are of the opinion that we appoint a committee of five distinguished citizens who can come up with certain standards for the electronic media. We don't want any politically divisive nature and we need members who are are of commendable stature
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People sharing fake news on social media is a reality! But it's baffling how many
@Twitter
verified accounts do it with impunity & regularity. Even a basic
@Google
reverse image search throws the source of this 2018 pic. And yes, it's
#Ladakh
, not Laddakh!
Indians please check is this your M 17 crashed in Laddakh? We will keep you posted of any developments
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Who says Indian bureaucracy is never proactive?
Maharashtra: Thane man receives a call from civic body to collect his death certificate
"I received a call from Thane Municipal Corporation to collect my death certificate," Chandrashekhar Desai said
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So
@Money_Sharma
and I spent days reporting around Lahaul & Spiti late August, early September; meeting some wonderful people; observing India's challenging infra projects in remote frontiers - including the Atal tunnel - and talking to communities experiencing the change. A 🧵👇
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Indian govt on vaccine availability & supply in the country.
New Delhi says logistics & cold chains etc mean big states get a refill every 4th day & the smaller states on the 8th day.
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BRO initially expects around 1,500 trucks (essentials and troops, mostly) and twice the number of cars to use this
#AtalTunnel
all weather tunnel, linking Solang/ Manali to Lahaul & Spiti on the other side.
700 engineers & at least 2,000 fulltime workers built the structure.
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Such a good, deep thread/ trend from the Afghan women on Twitter. People forget that culture isn't about religion but is something very local and unique; something that makes its people stand out for who they are.
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And, keep all uninformed bigoted chauvinists off
@Twitter
. 100% of India's falling IQ problems solved.
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“No one has made sacrifices for Punjab as Bhagwant Mann has.”
🤔🙄🙈😂 🍾🍷🥃
Bhagwant Mann says won’t drink from now, Arvind Kejriwal terms it ‘sacrifice’ for people
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"
#IPL
is no longer the epicentre of Indian T20 cricket. IPL matches are no longer an indicator of the team's worth. And, cricket matches on the ground are not the big happening place in the world of cricket,"
#RCB
supporters.
#RCBforever
#IPLfinal
#BiharElectionResults
#MIvsDC
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BREAKING India hopes to get Biological E's indigenous Covid19 vaccine by August. "Ph 1, ph 2 trials of Indian vaccine of BiologicalE have finished & they'll soon go into phase 3. This is very significant development as they have a capacity of 7 Crore/ 70 million vaccines/ month."
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Ab bas Mika reh gaya hai.
Singer Daler Mehndi joins Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in presence of BJP North West Delhi candidate Hans Raj Hans and Union Minister Vijay Goel.
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.04% or 695 tested Covid19 +ve after 2nd
#Covaxin
shot.
.03% or 5014 tested +ve after 2nd
#Covishield
shot.
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@rupasubramanya
Spent last year in Sivakasi. A lot of what happens there is now organised -- of course aberrations will be there -- but the industry employs 10s of 1000s directly, and many more indirectly. Also, imo, crackers are an easy/ visible target - and it does little to solve the problem.
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I'm not sure you've read about the Indian law that punishes for abetment to suicide for a reason, and particularly helps many families of women (seek justice) who end their lives after alleged harassment.
@sonamakapoor
Blaming a girlfriend , ex girlfriend, family , colleagues for someone’s death is ignorant and fucking mean spirited.
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I think I will understand if and when a spike in Covid19 cases happens in poll bound WB, TN, Kerala and Assam. But what explains these record breaking numbers in Delhi, Gujarat and Maharashtra? What was happening in these states, particularly Maharashtra?
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