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Kharg Island = 90% of Iran’s oil exports🛢️
Strait of Hormuz mined 🚢💥
Gulf terminals burning 🔥
One ground op could send oil to $200 & crash the world economy📉
URL: open.substack.com/pub/varmav…
#Iran #Geopolitics #OilCrisis #MiddleEast #EnergyMarkets #WestAsiaWarImpact
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Footage of the Russian Tu-22M3 heavy bomber nose diving into the ground in Irkutsk
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UK intercepts India-bound oil tanker Smyrtos linked to Russia’s shadow fleet
“The unflagged Aframax tanker Smyrtos, carrying around 101,400 tonnes of Russian Urals crude from Ust-Luga Port to India’s Sikka Port, was intercepted by UK authorities in English waters during its voyage to India.”
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A win-win for India-Slovakia friendship!
List of Outcomes (14 in total) : PM @narendramodi’s State Visit to the Slovak Republic ⬇️
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WPI inflation just hit 9.68%, yet retail CPI is sitting safely at 3.93%.
Normally, consumer prices run higher than wholesale.
So why the massive gap right now?
It comes down to a global energy shock - and a deliberate domestic shield. 🧵👇
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CNBC is now warning global investors not to invest in India because Cockroach Party can bring regime change like Bangladesh, Nepal and there is a "good chance Modi government will fall"
CNBC was same organisation which spread the fake news of Government taxing foreign travel which PM himself fact checked
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RT @i_yourdude: Shocking: In a restaurant in Wuhan province of CCP's China, a Shang clan woman was beaten, slapped and spat upon by a shi c…
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Big lesson for us too: we need to get our NavIC constellation fully operational as soon as possible, and then develop both sides of this capability. The ability to detect and trace such interference to the exact satellite using open GNSS data orbital catalogs, with NavIC hardened and widely adopted alongside proper backups, and the ability to project the same capability ourselves if it ever comes to that. #GNSS #ISRO #NAVIC #IRNSS
New study just traced years of mysterious #GNSS blackouts across Europe to space. The source? Russia's EKS missile early-warning satellites in Molniya orbit. Researchers (Clements, Kriezis, Humphreys, UT Austin/Stanford) used public GNSS data signal timing to pin one satellite, Kosmos 2546, to within meters. This Events lasted under 10 seconds each, yet blanketed an area stretching from Spain to Svalbard to Canada. The interference hit #GPS, #Galileo, and #BeiDou but conveniently spared Russia's own #GLONASS, and it clustered on weekday business hours, which points to a test schedule rather than anything natural.
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The regime change op is in full swing. The confidence of Congress leaders and the openly hostile US appear to be on similar lines.
They are now trying to damage Modi’s credibility so that an uprising against him can be sustained and, eventually, he can be removed through street violence.
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The moment you realise that you just made the enemy's artillery obsolete.
India created another demon.
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The most striking thing to me about Sarvam's HQ was how run-of-the-mill it felt.
They're located in an Urban Vault building. The lift is slow. The chairs are not fancy. The coffee is meh.
And yet, the work they're doing (especially after the Fable 5 unrelease) is some of the most consequential of any AI lab in India.
Access to intelligence will likely become less egalitarian as time goes on. It will also be used as a bargaining chip. "Do this, or we'll shut off your access." Right now, America and China have the rest of the world in a stranglehold. Companies like Sarvam lower the stakes and give India sovereignty over homegrown models, while also ensuring that millions of Indians have uninterrupted access to AI models that speak their languages.
Clearly, Sarvam's backers (HCLTech, Bessemer, Khosla, and Peak XV) feel the same way.
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🚨 Sarvam AI has raised $234M in the first close of their $300M Series B at a $1.5B valuation.
We visited their HQ in Indiranagar, Bengaluru for a rare behind-the-scenes look at India's newest sovereign AI unicorn.
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Army is set to enhance its artillery capabilities by procuring over 300 K9 Vajra-T self-propelled tracked artillery guns, with an estimated cost of over ₹23,000 crore. Proposal sent to DPB.
timesnownews.com/india/india…
- Happy for L&T. They put in the money & have indigenized to the extent possible. Got a repeat order after a long wait:x.com/i/status/1870073430986….
- But this should have been IDDM:x.com/i/status/1943941770188…
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With many 🇮🇳 K9 SPH now meant for high-alt use & not deserts, a review of net tracked SPH reqmt of 300 is due. Currently 200 ordered/delivered, 🇮🇳 may need ~200 more?
Can be IDDM: Zorawar & ATAGS may be a good match with export potential. DRDO, L&T, KSSL, TASL have reqd know-how.
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"The US secretly approved a financial and maritime arrangement between Qatar and Iran, under which billions of dollars were paid to Tehran in exchange for free passage for Qatari tankers and ships through the Strait of Hormuz, three diplomatic officials now confirm.
This was a deliberate and conscious course of action by the US administration, which allowed its navy to turn a blind eye to the arrangement, in complete contradiction of its declared policy. The move was intended to ease the crisis in global energy markets and curb rising oil prices.
The secret US approval, which the sources said was granted about a month ago, dovetailed with Doha's interest in opening a direct channel of communication with Tehran, which began to tighten after the ceasefire. Qatar, fearing a renewed Iranian attack on its facilities after one of its gas installations was attacked during the war, sought to buy security quiet.
As part of this arrangement, Iran demanded access to part of its deposits held in Qatar. Some of the payments were disguised as fees for tankers passing through Hormuz, and a broad credit line of up to $1 billion was also opened for the purchase of goods through Qatar.
The Qatari success whetted the appetite of other Gulf states that tried to reach a similar arrangement, which worked only partially. According to reports, the country in question was the United Arab Emirates, but the diplomatic officials with whom we spoke refused to officially confirm this, even though in recent weeks Iran has refrained from attacking the Emirates while firing missiles at Kuwait and Bahrain."
Trump secretly approved Qatar-Iran cash deal israelhayom.com/2026/06/15/t…
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Authorities say advisor to Bangladesh PM Dr Zahed Ur Rahman was given one time exemption to enter India to attend IORA officials meet. He was held by immigrant authorities for "verification", over previous statement against India. He decided to leave.
Advisor to Bangladesh PM, Dr Zahed Ur Rahman, critical on India in the past, stopped at Delhi airport.
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Norway's Crown Prince's stepson Marius Borg Høiby has been found guilty of rape, domestic violence and other offences, and sentenced to 4 years in prison.
Now watch the silence from the so-called "freest press in the world" and Western media
No lectures about national culture. No sweeping stereotypes about an entire country. No cartoons. No endless think pieces from Norwegian Media.
The double standard is obvious.
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Norway Crown Prince's Stepson Found Guilty Of Rape, Gets 4-Year Jail ndtv.com/world-news/norway-c…
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Munir and RSS guys are frequently visiting US, UK these days.
Chalo accha hai. Agla WW aise bhi khatthe hi ladni hai, gore ke sides se hum dono ne... Just like last two.
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RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat may visit America and the UK soon
Our exclusive in HT today
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ALH has a hingeless composite rotor versus a hinged rotor on the Sea King.
Composite rotors rely on elastic flexing of the blade to generate lift.The blade root can only flex not rotate as the “blade and rotor hub” act as a single unit.
Adding hinges to a composite blade interrupts a structure meant to be seamless and hence is not feasible.
Redesigning a new rotor assembly (hinged) with a new gear box and adapting it to the existing fuselage is again a very complex engineering exercise which will significantly increase AUW , impact range and require atleast half a decade of testing.
The Navy will have to run a separate program to get this going because it would be an entirely new design and not a simple reverse engineering exercise.
Meanwhile another of HAL’s glories
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Every calculation you have ever done uses a system India invented.
Before Indian mathematicians gave the world zero and the decimal place, Greek and Roman maths used letters for numbers. Try multiplying MXLVII by CCXCIV. Merchants, architects and astronomers across the ancient world were trapped.
Baghdad's Al-Khwarizmi (c.780–847) transmitted it west. His book on the Indian place system and algorithmic calculation laid the foundation of modern mathematics. The word "algorithm" is a corruption of his name. "Algebra" comes from his treatise title. Both are Arabic transmissions of Indian originals.
Abraham Seidenberg's History of Mathematics credits India's Sulba Sutras as the inspiration for all mathematics of the ancient world.
Lin Yutang, Chinese philosopher: "India was China's teacher in trigonometry, quadratic equations, grammar, phonetics."
Carl Sagan thought Vedic cosmology the only ancient system whose timescales correspond to modern scientific cosmology.
Every time a computer runs, it counts in a system India designed.
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Long Range Land Attack Cruise Missile (LRLACM) was successfully flight tested from Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Island off the coast of Odisha on 15th June 2026.
pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.…
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So much of effort to write about how a peace deal is a disaster for India.
Not our war & business. We’re happy to sit this one out. And it’s time we came out and said it - Israel was a partner when we needed them during Kargil. They didn’t do us a favour. It was a financial windfall for them. We will respect their capability in some areas. But we don’t need to be a defence MIC colony for them. Keep the sermons to yourself
India is cautiously welcoming the Iran deal, but let’s be clear: this is a disaster for India.
1️⃣ This deal has elevated India’s arch-nemesis Pakistan to the level of global peacemaker. It undermines India’s efforts to call out Pakistan’s destabilizing behavior and support for terrorism by making Islamabad a byword for peacemaking. It also transforms Pakistan into a powerbroker and leader of the Global South at India’s expense.
2️⃣ The capitulation allows Iran to dominate India’s western trading gateway. Before the Iranian Axis launched the October 7 War, India was dreaming of building the IMEC trade corridor through the Gulf and Israel to Europe. It was meant to slash transit costs and turbocharge Indian manufacturing. An emboldened Iran with ballistic missiles and billions in sanctions relief imperils that vision. Iran receives a veto over any infrastructure project in a maritime zone it seeks to dominate. Critically, the deal emboldens Iran’s proxy armies by establishing the precedent that they are inviolable, and this will threaten shipping in the Indian Ocean and Red Sea.
3️⃣ This deal keeps nearly 10 million Indians in the shadow of Iran’s ballistic missiles and killer drones The Iranian attack on Kuwait’s airport killed an Indian and the attack on Fujeirah injured three. India needs the Iranian threat neutralized to safeguard its migrant workers and the essential remittances they send home.
4️⃣ The failure to resolve the nuclear issue, while surrendering US leverage, means India will continue to be threatened by an Iranian regime in league with Pakistan pursuing nuclear weapons. It will continue to attack Indian interests with impunity and sow chaos in West Asia, sabotaging the stability that India needs for long-term economic projects. A nuclear-threshold Iran leaves India permanently exposed.
India’s approach of neutrality is unsustainable and jeopardizes its long-term interests. This disastrous deal must push it to reevaluate its geopolitical posture in a world in which Iran is dangerous and Pakistan is ascendant. Closer military and economic ties with Israel, similarly threatened by this news, is inevitable.
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