INDIAN NATIONAL ANTHEM IN SPAIN 🇮🇳🥹 The Indian Racer Kush Maini wins the FIA Formula 2 Sprint Race in the Barcelona, Spain ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE BY KUSH 🙌

Deeply shocking to read this official US statement, which contains absolutely no expression of regret or condolence for the loss of innocent Indian lives. How can a “friend” and strategic partner be so deeply insensitive? Why couldn’t a non-compliant commercial vessel have been stopped using other, non-lethal means? Is it not possible to disable a ship's propulsion or steering without firing missiles targeted to kill civilian crew members? Practically every merchant ship navigating these crucial waters has Indian crew on board. Are they all considered fair game for US missiles now? This approach is unacceptable and I hope @DrSJaishankar had said so to @marcorubio.

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India is now ready for autonomous Agentic payments. We just demonstrated a LIVE transaction between 2 agents, end to end using UPI as the payment layer We had to solve for two major areas: 1. A highly sterile environment for the agents to operate in. Identity, authority, spend control and auditable. 2. A Payment protocol, Pine Labs Payment protocol (P3P)extending UPI’s mandate framework for payments between agents. Put those together we showed a price watch based, agent led, txn. No one can say India has barriers for Agentic payments. We just broke thru. Read 👇🏼

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Bravo to Indian Men's U18 Hockey Team for lifting the Men's U18 Asia Cup 2026. You have displayed the indomitable power of Indian mettle even in the face of pressure and challenges and scripted a golden episode of pride for India. Your triumph sends wave of inspiration across nation.

The moment we waited seven years for! 🥳 Championsssss again 🏆 #SAFFWomensChampionship2026 #BlueTigresses #IndianFootball

The best advert you will see all year 😂🤣

مقطع جميل لكأس العالم 🏆منذ بدايته . ترى لمن سيكون في 2026 ؟!!!!

On this day in 1997, Roberto Carlos scored one of the greatest free-kick of all time!

Google which is cash surplus, just announced an additional capital raise of $80 bn. Google annual profit is $160 bn, last quarter $62 bn, and market cap $4.5 trillion. That is close to total profits and market cap of all Indian listed companies put together. It’s a wake up call to all companies to invest into the future, whatever the present maybe. Now that IPL is done and dusted, time for India to focus on business of business.

Singapore open 2026 - Champions 🏆 Congratulations to @satwiksairaj and @Shettychirag04 on an incredible win at the Singapore Open. The first Indian Men’s Doubles team to win the event. Onwards and upwards 🙌🏽 #WeAreTeamIndia

It has been a very special interaction with Gurindervir Singh and Animesh Kujur, offering a glimpse of why the future of Indian athletics is very bright! #MannKiBaat

Kashi in Italy! Giampaolo Tomassetti, an Italian painter, presented his work on Varanasi to Prime Minister @narendramodi. In the 1980’s he started as an illustrator for books on Vedic culture. From 2008 to 2013 he worked on 23 large paintings relating to the Mahabharat.

The vibes in SF feel pretty frenetic right now. The divide in outcomes is the worst I've ever seen. Over the last 5yrs, a group of ~10k people - employees at Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, Nvidia, Meta TBD, founders - have hit retirement wealth of well above $20M (back of the envelope AI estimation). Everyone outside that group feels like they can work their well-paying (but <$500k) job for their whole life and never get there. Worse yet, layoffs are in full swing. Many software engineers feel like their life's skill is no longer useful. The day to day role of most jobs has changed overnight with AI. As a result, 1. The corporate ladder looks like the wrong building to climb. Everyone's trying to align with a new set of career "paths": should I be a founder? Is it too late to join Anthropic / OpenAI? should I get into AI? what company stock will 10x next? People are demanding higher salaries and switching jobs more and more. 2. There’s a deep malaise about work (and its future). Why even work at all for “peanuts”? Will my job even exist in a few years? Many feel helpless. You hear the “permanent underclass” conversation a lot, esp from young people. It's hard to focus on doing good work when you think "man, if I joined Anthropic 2yrs ago, I could retire" 3. The mid to late middle managers feel paralyzed. Many have families and don't feel like they have the energy or network to just "start a company". They don't particularly have any AI skills. They see the writing on the wall: middle management is being hollowed out in many companies. 4. The rich aren’t particularly happy either. No one is shedding tears for them (and rightfully so). But those who have "made it" experience a profound lack of purpose too. Some have gone from <$150k to >$50M in a few years with no ramp. It flips your life plans upside down. For some, comparison is the thief of joy. For some, they escape to NYC to "live life". For others still, they start companies "just cuz", often to win status points. They never imagined that by age 30, they'd be set. I once asked a post-economic founder friend why they didn't just sell the co and they said "and do what? right now, everyone wants to talk to me. if i sell, I will only have money." I understand that many reading this scoff at the champagne problems of the valley. Society is warped in this tech bubble. What is often well-off anywhere else in the world is bang average here. Unlike many other places, tenure, intelligence and hard work can be loosely correlated with outcomes in the Bay. Living through a societally transformative gold rush in that environment can be paralyzing. "Am I in the right place? Should I move? Is there time still left? Am I gonna make it?" It psychologically torments many who have moved here in search of "success". Ironically, a frequent side effect of this torment is to spin up the very products making everyone rich in hopes that you too can vibecode your path to economic enlightenment.

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Philippines is a country of 120Mn with average age lower than India! GCash is the largest consumer App with nearly 90Mn accounts Pine Labs is joining forces with GCash to revolutionize how millions of MSMEs do business! We’re bringing our world-class payments platform and transaction Services to the GCash network—integrating Installments (IPP), Rewards, and Loyalty directly into the merchant experience. More below 👇🏼

ఈ రోజు ప్రపంచవ్యాప్తంగా ఏర్పడిన సవాళ్లను మనం అధిగమించాలి. విదేశీ మారక ద్రవ్యాన్ని ఆదా చేయడానికి ఏ మార్గాలైనా ఉంటే, వాటిని తప్పకుండా అనుసరించాలి.