One in every four litres of milk produced globally comes from India — making it the undisputed dairy backbone of the world. 🥛 Global Milk Production: Who Leads the World? (2023)🌍 🇮🇳 India — 25% 🇺🇸 United States — 10% 🇵🇰 Pakistan — 7% 🇨🇳 China — 5% 🇧🇷 Brazil — 4% 🌐 Remaining countries — 49% (FAO)

⚽ How the FIFA World Cup Has Expanded Over the Years (Number of Participating Teams): 🏆 1934 — 16 teams 🏆 1938 — 15 teams (Austria withdrew before the tournament) 🏆 1950 — 13 teams 🏆 1954–1978 — 16 teams 🏆 1982–1994 — 24 teams 🏆 1998–2022 — 32 teams 🏆 2026 — 48 teams

⚡ Gross Average Electricity Tariffs in Major Indian Metro Cities (₹/unit) 🔹 New Delhi (NDMC) — 10.25 🔹 Ahmedabad (Torrent Power) — 9.41 🔹 Bengaluru (BESCOM) — 9.14 🔹 Delhi (Tata Power-DDL) — 8.68 🔹 Mumbai (BEST) — 8.25 🔹 Delhi (BSES Rajdhani) — 8.25 🔹 Mumbai (Adani Electricity) — 7.95 🔹 Delhi (BSES Yamuna) — 7.95 🔹 Kolkata (CESC) — 7.91 (Telegraph Kolkata)

People wondered how Brigadier Aryan Verma's parents, despite being educated and holding govt jobs, could fail to realize their son was faking his military rank. Well, the reality is worse than we thought. They had actually put up a board outside their house to show off their son's "achievement." They completely believed his lies. As Paresh Rawal said in Hungama: "Jab godown mein hi gadbad hai, toh showroom toh aisa hi niklega na."

India’s Classical Languages 🇮🇳 11 Indian languages accorded Classical status by centre: 1️⃣ Tamil (2004) 2️⃣ Sanskrit (2005) 3️⃣ Kannada (2008) 4️⃣ Telugu (2008) 5️⃣ Malayalam (2013) 6️⃣ Odia (2014) 7️⃣ Marathi (2024) 8️⃣ Assamese (2024) 9️⃣ Bangla (2024) 🔟 Pali (2024) 1️⃣1️⃣ Prakrit (2024) (Ministry of Culture)

How ICC distributes $600mn: 🏏🏏 Yearly earnings (in $ million) $231 million — 🇮🇳 India $41.33 million — 🇬🇧 England $37.53 million — 🇦🇺 Australia $34.51 million — 🇵🇰 Pakistan $28.38 million — 🇳🇿 New Zealand $27.5 million — 🌴 West Indies $27.12 million — 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka $26.74 million — 🇧🇩 Bangladesh $26.24 million — 🇿🇦 South Africa $18.04 million — 🇮🇪 Ireland $17.64 million — 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe $16.82 million — 🇦🇫 Afghanistan $67.16 million — 🌍 Associate Members (HT)

🇮🇳India's Shift to Digital Payments:💳 Debit Card Cash Withdrawals Down 43% in 4 Years (₹ Lakh Crore): • FY22: 49.9 • FY23: 32.6 • FY24: 32.4 • FY25: 30.5 • FY26: 28.6 (RBI)

📦 Top 10 Exporting Districts of India🇮🇳 Share in India's Total Merchandise Exports (%) 🇮🇳 1⃣ Jamnagar (Gujarat) — 7.85% 2⃣ Kanchipuram (Tamil Nadu) — 6.07% 3⃣ Pune (Maharashtra) — 3.67% 4️⃣ Mumbai Suburban (Maharashtra) — 2.97% 5️⃣ Ahmedabad (Gujarat) — 2.83% 6️⃣ Bengaluru Urban (Karnataka) — 2.68% 7️⃣ Surat (Gujarat) — 2.56% 8️⃣ Gautam Buddha Nagar (Noida) (UP) — 2.49% 9️⃣ Bharuch (Gujarat) — 2.28% 🔟 Mumbai (Maharashtra) — 2.27% Combined share of the top 10 districts: 35.67%. Gujarat alone contributes four districts to the top 10 list. (DGCIS)

🌾 India's Urea Import Sources (2026)🇮🇳 🇴🇲 Oman — 46% 🇷🇺Russia - 16% 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia — 10% 🇶🇦 Qatar — 7% 🇦🇪 UAE — 6% 🇧🇭 Bahrain — 2% 🌍 Others — 13% Nearly 71% of India's urea imports come from Gulf countries, with Oman alone accounting for almost half (46%) of all imports. (DGCIS, 2026)

🍯 Top Honey Exporters in the World These countries account for around 70% of global honey exports 🌍 🥇 China — 20% 🥈 India — 11% 🥉 Ukraine — 9% 4️⃣ Argentina — 9% 5️⃣ Brazil — 5% 6️⃣ Belgium — 4% 7️⃣ Spain — 4% 8️⃣ Hungary — 3% 9️⃣ Germany — 3% 🔟 Vietnam — 3% (ITC Trade Map)🍯

🥬 Share in India’s Cabbage Production (%) 🇮🇳 Top Cabbage Producing States in India • West Bengal — 22.39% • Odisha — 12.25% • Madhya Pradesh — 10.35% • Gujarat — 8.17% • Bihar — 7.62% • Assam — 7.13% • Uttar Pradesh — 4.54% • Chhattisgarh — 4.13% • Tamil Nadu — 3.13% • Haryana — 3.09% (NHB)

⚓ Three Indian sailors lost their lives in a US strike on an oil tanker off Oman.🇮🇳 Why this matters: • India is the world's 3rd-largest supplier of seafarers • Over 3 lakh Indians serve on merchant ships worldwide • Indians account for 9.35% of the global seafaring workforce • Nearly 90% of world trade moves by sea • Indian crews keep oil, food, commodities and goods flowing across continents • Seafarers remit an estimated $6–9 billion annually to India • Their work is critical to global supply chains, yet they often face the risks of geopolitical conflicts The deaths are a reminder that behind global trade are thousands of Indian seafarers working far from home. 🇮🇳 ⚓

E100 Era Begins In India Amid Global Oil Turmoil: Nitin Gadkari Signs Rules Legalising 100% Ethanol Fuel.

🗣️ The World's Most Spoken Languages (2026) By total speakers (native second-language speakers) 🌍 🥇 English — 1.49 billion 🥈 Mandarin Chinese — 1.18 billion 🥉 Hindi — 611 million 4️⃣ Spanish — 561 million 5️⃣ Standard Arabic — 335 million 6️⃣ French — 334 million 7️⃣ Bengali — 274 million 8️⃣ Portuguese — 269 million 9️⃣ Indonesian — 255 million 🔟 Urdu — 246 million

Subnational electricity grids in India and main indicators, 2025: ⚡️🇮🇳

Why should everything come from the government? Why can’t the private sector step up for a change. And guide the nation?

👶 India's Total Fertility Rate (TFR) by State, 2024:🤰🇮🇳 Total Fertility Rate (TFR) is the average number of children a woman is expected to have during her lifetime, based on current age-specific fertility rates. 🔹 Delhi — 1.2 🔹 Kerala — 1.3 🔹 Tamil Nadu — 1.3 🔹 West Bengal — 1.3 🔹 Andhra Pradesh — 1.4 🔹 Jammu & Kashmir — 1.4 🔹 Maharashtra — 1.4 🔹 Punjab — 1.4 🔹 Himachal Pradesh — 1.5 🔹 Karnataka — 1.5 🔹 Telangana — 1.5 🔹 Odisha — 1.6 🔹 Gujarat — 1.7 🔹 Uttarakhand — 1.7 🔹 Assam — 1.9 🔹 Haryana — 1.9 🔹 Chhattisgarh — 2.2 🔹 Jharkhand — 2.2 🔹 Rajasthan — 2.3 🔹 Madhya Pradesh — 2.4 🔹 Uttar Pradesh — 2.6 🔹 Bihar — 2.9 🇮🇳 India Average: 1.9

This is big: all access to Mythos and Fable AI models disabled for everyone outside America. First thoughts: 1. Technology is the ultimate weapon. National sovereignty, national security, all of it is now about technology. 2. Globalization is dead and Bharat must find her own way ahead. We must keep these two ideas in mind. What can our government do right now? Ensure that orgs in India embrace smaller models, both Indian and Chinese open source ones. With a bit of effort, we can make them work. Anyway, why pay money to people who don't even want to sell to you? We must deepen our R&D. Sarvam has been on it and we have been on it but remember that the latest models cost not only huge GPU budgets to train, the GPUs themselves are restricted. So we can't afford the scale of money (of the order of $100 billion to even get in the game!) and even if we could come up with the money, we can't get all the GPUs. I would not like to ask the government to fund tens of billions of dollars on this anyway - the money has far better uses. Zoho has been pursuing alternative R&D approaches that are far, far less expensive but by its nature cutting edge R&D takes time and we are patient. I am confident we will get there. Any remaining people in India who have delusions about globalization should wake up now.

China has the highest Sugarcane yield (94.4 t/ha), while Thailand had the lowest (44.3 t/ha) among major producers. Sugarcane yield (tonnes/ hectare): 🇨🇳 China: 94.4 🇮🇳 India: 78.6 🇧🇷 Brazil: 71.8 🇵🇰 Pakistan: 70.3 🇹🇭 Thailand: 44.3 🌎 World: 70.6 (FAO)

🛒 India's E-Commerce Market Share by Gross Merchandise Value (GMV) (%)🇮🇳 🥇 Flipkart Group – 35% 🥈 Amazon India – 27% 🥉 Blinkit – 7% 4️⃣ Meesho – 6% 🔹 Others – 25% 📊 Combined Share of Top 4 Players: 75% (Datum Intelligence, Bloomberg, ToI)