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“We are in Iran right now..Only Indian ships are being attacked. Why? Why are you bringing us into your fight? We aren’t military or anything like that,” say Indian seafarers on US strikes on Indian ships

His name is Harekala Hajabba. For decades he has sold oranges from a small cart near the bus stand in Mangaluru, Karnataka. He earns around a hundred and fifty rupees a day. He has never been to school and cannot read or write. By every measure the world uses, he is a poor, unlettered fruit seller. One day, sometime in the 1990s, a foreign couple stopped at his cart and asked him, in English, the price of his oranges. He could not understand them and could not answer. They walked away. The moment did not anger him. It shamed him. Then it changed him. He decided that no child in his village should ever have to stand there the way he had, unable to understand a simple question, locked out by language and the lack of a school. His village, Newpadpu, did not have one. The nearest school was about seven kilometres away. So an illiterate orange seller earning a hundred and fifty rupees a day set out to build a school. He saved his coins, approached officials and donors, and donated his own land. In the year 2000, the school opened with twenty-eight children in a place that had never had one. Today that school teaches up to Class 10 and has around a hundred and seventy-five students. Children from his village now study in classrooms he helped build from the price of oranges. People began calling him Akshara Santha, the saint of letters. In 2020, the Government of India awarded him the Padma Shri, one of the nation’s highest civilian honours. He walked up barefoot, wearing a plain white dhoti, to receive it. He said it was not his award. It belonged to the school. He still sells oranges and has said he wants to use whatever he earns and receives to build a college next. A man who could not answer one question in English made sure thousands of children after him would never be left speechless the same way. Follow for stories India deserves to remember.

कोई फरियाद तेरे दिल में दबी हो जैसे तूने आंखों से कोई बात कहीं हो जैसे जगते जाते एक उमर कटी हो जैसे जान बाकी बाकी है मगर सास रुकी हो जैसे ~ Jagit Singh youtu.be/8MN2bxMiB9A?si=TImZ…

There is a country that spends 24/7 begging President Trump to make a deal with Iran, and every time it does, America's plans seem to shift.The same country keeps feeding certain journalists at Axios, @business, and @Reuters FAKE stories attacking anyone who stood up to the Islamic regime's aggression, including the UAE. Money, not merit, now influences parts of the media. So, EXPECT MORE FAKE NEWS. And since @X has often challenged misinformation, many of us are asking for @CommunityNotes to be added under the Bloomberg and Reuters reports alleging that the UAE transferred funds to Iran. The UAE has officially denied these claims. This propaganda is an insult to the people targeted by the Islamic regime's missiles and drones, and to the countries that were brave enough to stand up and respond. We are not just any country. We are the United Arab Emirates. 🇦🇪

India must issue notice to all Indian sailors to strike and return back to India. Let the world's shipping stall. Let's see how Trump keeps energy moving and China its exports shipping. I have long been suggesting India create a network for Indian diaspora, of nurses and doctors, shippers and pilots, workers and constructors etc. Every Indian going out to work from India - record their skills, put them into a database, give them a community to connect to, with GoI giving info and incentives for them there. Use the power of this network when needed. Tap their skills if they return to India. And utilize their value outside India. All countries will be much more respectful to India if India can unify its diaspora workers and make them act in national interests like China does.

This. Very well written. Loved it. 'Just the rare pleasure of discovering another human being one small piece at a time.'

*Very Long Post: In Jaspal Rana today, I lost a hero - not an athlete, not a coach, not a friend. I lost a hero. Growing up, we used to read about Jaspal Rana in the papers for his achievements, especially after his heroics in 1994 Asian Games in Hiroshima. Those days, some of his classmates (all older than me) from Ramjas School, RK Puram, used to stay in our society. He would often come with his other friends in a white Maruti Jypsy car to visit his friends to our society. I met him for the first time in late 90s, when we would be winding up our cricket matches and switched to tennis ball cricket in the evening. He would carry always have a baseball bat in the car and would ask us ‘2-4 balls mujhe bhi khilaao.’ We would not hesitate even though we had realised after a few days that he wanted to just hit them as far as possible. Then, with his friends, he would take us for a drive in that white Gypsy - that was the first time I realised a car could do such manoeuvres. Jaspal Rana had become a huge figure back then, someone who would win India its first Olympic medal in shooting, and I was happy to share these timeless moments with him. And then, he was gone. Years later, I met him in 2010 and I narrated him the stories of all those days, and he was so happy to go back in time. My profession allowed me to follow him as an athlete and then as a coach, and there were times when people would say things about him, used athletes as bait to ridicule him. I never liked it. After all, he was my hero. To change an existing order, there comes a man, who disrupts the arrangement for good. Jaspal Rana was that disruptor. At the Paris Olympics in 2024, he was with Manu Bhaker as her coach. He didn’t have an accreditation because the authorities chose not to. He would stay in a rented accommodation, cook his own food and would get tickets to the venue when Manu and his other shooters were competing. Never the one to mince words, unapologetic, a disruptor and my Hero. The picture below is from the Paris Olympics when @realmanubhaker had already won two bronze and we were heading out of the venue in a golf cart. So satisfied these two seemed, and I noticed an ever-lasting relation between a coach and his ward. One of the most lasting images for me from those Games.

A young girl in Scotland who defended herself against migrants, only to be vilified by the media, has now been vindicated in court. Those same migrants were found guilty of directing sexual remarks at the girls. The British media owe her and her family an apology.

Indian Shooting Loses a Legend 😢 Former Asian Games Gold Medallist & renowned coach Jaspal Rana passed away at 49. 🏅 4-time Asian Games Gold Medallist 🏅 9-time CWG Gold Medallist • Served as High-Performance Coach for Indian pistol shooters Rest in peace, legend 🙏

Delhi NCR Haryana and West UP may experience severe weather conditions in next 2-4 hours.

Severe weather alert - Chandigarh Strong Duststorm (70-110km/h), followed by moderate to heavy rains and thundershowers are expected in Chandigarh and Tricity b/w 8:30 to 11pm. Seek shelter during active window. These storms have serious risk #ChandigarhRains

Severe weather alert - Delhi NCR Intense Duststorm (80 - 120km) between 10 to 11pm, followed by moderate to heavy rains and thundershowers likely in most parts of #Delhi #Gurgaon #Noida #Ghaziabad #Faridabad b/w 10:45pm to 2am. Stay indoors during active window of storm. #DelhiRains

Breaking: India thanks Oman for rescuing 24 Indian nationals after their ship was hit by the US Navy

Two Indian sailors killed by US military strikes have been identified by the Forward Sailors Union Aditya Sharma - Deck Cadet Shivanand Chaurasiya - Engine Fitter Chief Engineer Patnala Suresh is still missing

INDIGO LAUNCHES BANGKOK TO VARANASI FLIGHTS. Netizens call it the ‘Paap & Prayaschit’ route

Facing the same issue. Guys you cannot change the T&C after a customer has bought a service as advertised. What is wrong with you @ZEE5India ? This is blatant fraud. @nikster007 @Netra @jagograhakjago

म्हारे हिवड़ा में म्हारे हिवड़ा में नाचे मोर तक थैया थैया! ❤️

Man or woman - it doesn't matter. Making silly, derogatory jokes at a comedy show should have consequences. Hold performers accountable, too.

Sejal Pawar has made her Insta account private after the backlash over her jokes about male cadaver parts If a man had said the exact same thing about female bodies, he would have been cancelled even by his family. His life would have been made hell Neither Himanshu should have been cancelled nor should she. But if society and the women around me believe that offensive jokes should have consequences then she should be punished too The standards should be the same for everyone 🙏

Divided by species United by problem 😂