Lolmax. Even if some strong willed neta (Not 56” ji maharaj) managed to put together a crack team and wanted to give them a blank cheque, the history graduate examjeet babu who will inevitably be at the head of the whole affair would summon the ‘top talent’ to his office, make them wait for hours in a dingy waiting room, then the chaprasi would call them “sirji will see you now”. They will be shown to a large air conditioned room, with a giant table and at the other end of it, the babu saheb sitting on his white towel adorned boss chair with a large emblem hanging on the wall. They will be asked to give paisa wise explanation of how they will be spending the promised but yet to be released funds and handed about 500 forms by the PA of the babu, to be filled and submitted in triplicate by the end of the month. One of the forms will be required to be printed on a stamp paper and will indemnify the government for the loss of revenue if the entire initiative doesnt work and will make the ‘top talent’ personally liable to payback the government for the funds they would have ‘wasted’. Good luck.

𝐋𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐣𝐮𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐝: 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐟𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫-𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐝𝐮𝐨 𝐬𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝟖 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐥𝐡𝐢 𝐡𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐥 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐞 Riyazuddin Mansuri and his son Armaan Mansuri, who run a mattress shop in Hauz Rani area, helped people escape the #Delhi hotel fire by laying mattresses on the road. Read more: intdy.in/dnoczh

JetCore 🫡💯❤️🇮🇳 Our in-house flight computer for autonomous drones! designed & built right here in India 🇮🇳✨ no compromises - just hardcore engineering from the @VecrosTech Bharat is building. #MakeInIndia #DroneTech #Vecros @PiyushGoyal @amitabhk87 @DefenceMinIndia @nvidia

Shrey knocking down 32 words in 90s, Pooja clearing the 1.93 meter bar, Vaibhav reaching 97 in 29 and Pragg calmly taking down perhaps the goat of chess, has been quite something to witness these past 48 hrs. Feeling a beautiful wind of change, that a bold new generation is here, in a class of their own and an andaz of their own... #KeepOnRocking @narendramodi

"India is overcrowded" is the most successful gaslighting campaign Indian babus ever ran on their own citizens. They underbuilt the country for forty years and convinced 1.4B Indians to blame themselves for it. Every overcrowded space you've ever queued in is a supply failure the state engineered, not a demographic accident. Five lifts in a hospital, one working. Seven railway counters, one ticketer. Toll plazas, water boards, municipal offices: built once in 1972, patched once in 1996, abandoned ever since. The only exception is airports, and even those lounges are gigafried at peak. Why did this happen? 4 reasons, none of them are "too many people." 1. Cost of capital. Rupee down 60% against the dollar in two decades. Inflation 5-7% on paper, 8-10% in reality. Risk-free rates above 7%. No rational allocator underwrites a hospital with a 30-year payback under those conditions. Capital flows into software and consumer brands; anything with a 3-5 year ROI window. Parks, ports, metros, dams, schools need multi-decade underwriting that India's macro structurally cannot support. 2. The regulatory stack is engineered to prevent construction. 50 clearances across municipal, state, and central bodies for any large project, each with its IAS gatekeeper extracting rent. Real builders give up. The only construction happening at scale is therefore illegal, which is exactly why slums mushroom while sanctioned housing projects sit at 15% completion for a decade. 3. The corruption tax. Budget 15-20% of project cost in bakshish before pouring a single slab. Stacked on top of GST, stamp duty, capital gains, property tax, labour cess. Software shops escape it; they ship from a laptop. Anyone touching cement, steel, or land pays the surcharge in cash, off the books, with zero recourse and zero deductibility. 4. State capacity has collapsed into pure friction. GST portal crashes on filing deadlines. MCA21 is a relic. Every regulator (SEBI, RBI, IRDAI, FSSAI, BIS) optimises for CYA, never throughput. Babus paid 1990s salaries to administer 2026 complexity respond rationally by doing nothing. India's perpetual undercapacity is a capital allocation story the political class would rather you never learn. The 1.4B is a feature. The people running the country are the bug. Until cost of capital drops, the regulatory fat gets gutted, and the corruption surcharge gets squeezed out, the lifts and the counters and the hospitals will stay exactly as broken as they were when your grandfather first complained about them in 1987.

Humbled to share that we successfully test fired 4 semi-cryogenic rocket engines simultaneously, as a cluster. All the 4 engines are 3d printed as single pieces of hardware - designed and manufactured in-house at AgniKul Cosmos Rocket Factory - 1. As with all our propulsion systems, these 4 engines are also powered by electric motor driven pumps. This test involved calibrating 8 pumps, 8 motors and tuning 8 speed control algorithms to work together in perfect sync to achieve uniform startup, steady state and shutdown performance across the entire system. As with the last cluster test, to the best of our knowledge, this is the first time such a test has been performed in India with semi cryogenic engines. We are extremely grateful to have the opportunity to be building world class, original space technology from India, for the world with the support of @iitmadras @isro and @INSPACeIND From here on, the addition of engines to our clusters will likely increase non-linearly. #Agnibaan #RocketEngineCluster #ElectricPumpFedEngines #Agnilet #SinglePieceEngine #3dprinting #RocketEngineTest #AdditiveManufacturing #Agnikul #AgnikulCosmos #StartupIndia #MakeinIndia #madeinIndiaForTheWorld @srinathr155 @moin_spm @satchakra_iitm @iitmadras @iitmrp @IITMIC @tdbgoi @IndiaDST @ANRFIndia @TIDCO_1965 @startupindia @TheStartupTN @Guidance_TN @startup_mission @SIPCOTTN

There is a simple thing that Indians must understand. If you are a strong proponent of the geopolitical success and rise of your own country, you will not be liked by many other countries who do not wish to see this rise. So being berated, even heckled, is part of that journey.

This is a completely incorrect way of looking how currencies should be compared. Every Indian needs to know this. Let me explain. So yes, mathematically the rupee has weakened against all three. But Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka are NOT showing currency strength. They’re showing currency death. Their currencies stopped falling because there’s nothing left to fall. Pakistan went from 105 to 280 over seven years. Sri Lanka went from 180 to 365 during their 2022 bankruptcy. Bangladesh has been on IMF watch. When a currency hits rock bottom, it stops moving because the floor has been reached. The IMF steps in. Capital controls get imposed. Imports get restricted. The economy contracts to fit the currency. That’s why their currencies look “stable” right now. Not because they’re strong. Because they’re frozen at distressed levels propped up by IMF bailouts and capital controls. India still has a floating, market-determined currency in an actively trading economy of 1.4 billion people. When the dollar strengthens globally, the INR moves. That’s how healthy currencies behave. Imagine two patients. Patient A has fever moving from 99 to 101. Patient B is in a coma at body temperature 95. You don’t say “Patient B is healthier because their temperature isn’t rising.” Patient B is closer to dead. The right comparison is with active, market-determined economies of similar scale. INR has fallen 12% vs USD. Korean won fell 8%. Brazilian real fell 11%. Indonesian rupiah fell 6%. Japanese yen fell 9%. We’re middle of the pack among countries that are actually functioning normally. The Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka comparison is the equivalent of “I’m losing weight faster than the corpses in the morgue.” Technically true. Completely meaningless.

Be Chad dedicated freight corridor >long ass length of 3,345 km >Top speed 100km/hr >Run an average of 400 trains per day >Support 25-tonne axle loads for heavier trains >Be fully electrified >Cut 457 million tonnes of CO₂ over next 30 years

The Missing Link is now Maharashtra’s New Connecting Link 🛣️ A drive through the Mumbai–Pune ‘Connecting Link', accelerating Maharashtra towards a new QUANTUM CORRIDOR... @mieknathshinde @SunetraA_Pawar #Maharashtra #MissingLinkProject

Micron's Sanand ATMP plant is ramping production right now. First chips already shipping. The real test has begun. Here is what people miss about Micron Sanand: this is not an assembly plant in the traditional sense. ATMP — Assembly, Test, Marking, and Packaging — is where raw silicon dies get turned into finished chips that go into phones, servers, and cars. This is high-precision manufacturing with tolerances measured in microns. Micron invested $2.75 billion. The Gujarat government co-invested ₹3,800 crore in surrounding infrastructure. Over 5,000 workers trained — most with no prior semiconductor experience. An entire workforce capability built from scratch. The skeptics now say yields will be the challenge. They are right — meeting global profitability benchmarks at a greenfield site in India is genuinely hard. Operating costs, talent retention, supply chain maturity — all real concerns. This is not a victory lap. But the shift in debate is the story. Two years ago the question was whether India could build a fab at all. Today the debate is about yield curves and profitability timelines. That is what progress looks like — the goalposts moved because the first set got cleared.

A man died when a Metro slab collapsed in Mulund. MMRDA promised ZERO tolerance. Heads would roll. Months later, the consultant it blamed & threatened to fire is still on the project. The explanation? It was all a "misunderstanding." @sabahvir's break in today's edition: indianexpress.com/article/ci… via @IndianExpress

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Introducing v1.0 of our sputter! This plasma based metal deposition system is an important tool in the semiconductor industry to grow nanometer scale thin films and we built it @hackerfabindia We used argon plasma to deposit a conductive film of Al on a Si wafer

Asked them everything, like everything technical about the cell 😂 , these folks were very cooperative though... I also went in with the image that Ola might just be assembling the cell, i was wrong, the amount of fundamental engineering happening was crazy..

I've been shooting with the Sony 400-800G lens on my Sony A1 for the past 6 months. It's a great lens @SonyAlpha

4680 -> 46100 -> 46120 -> 46160 -> 46200. Both NMC and LFP. We now have 5 gens of Bharat Cells advancing in our pipeline. Each generation improves energy density, cost structure & performance; and because they are true drop in replacements, the benefits flow straight into our vehicles with almost 0 vehicle R&D or redesign. Result with every next gen cell: - 20% higher vehicle range - Lower prices as costs come down - Faster iteration and compounding product leadership With 4680 already on Indian roads (millions of kms logged) and 46100 LFP ready for vehicles next quarter, our Gigafactory flywheel is now spinning hard. We're just entering the upward compounding cycle of engineering and manufacturing leadership by @OlaElectric! Not a secret, we had shown this full roadmap on 15th Aug 25 at Sankalp!

Today, India takes a defining step in its civil nuclear journey, advancing the second stage of its nuclear programme. The indigenously designed and built Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor at Kalpakkam has attained criticality. This advanced reactor, capable of producing more fuel than it consumes, reflects the depth of our scientific capability and the strength of our engineering enterprise. It is a decisive step towards harnessing our vast thorium reserves in the third stage of the programme. A proud moment for India. Congratulations to our scientists and engineers.

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I’m about to perform a distillation attack on this book (reading it)