The National Testing Agency (NTA) collects thousands of crores in application fees from students but operates without any public accountability! The agency, which conducts major entrance exams like NEET, JEE and CUET, is set up as a society and is not subject to parliamentary scrutiny. Watch Anita Rampal on Jaanne Bhi Do Yaaro - youtube.com/watch?v=Hr4eQZ6y…

My point is that I understand when #India doesn't name the perpetrator when it condemns the Israeli bombing of Qatar. I understand when India doesn't name when it condemns the Russian attacks in Ukraine. I also understand if India doesn't want to name when it condemns the Iranian attack on Persian Gulf monarchies. That's strategic balancing. But I don't understand why India doesn't name the country that fired missiles at vessels carrying Indian nationals, and killed three of them, in India's neighbourhood waters!

On the day Narendra Modi celebrated a bogus landmark—and world leaders took advantage of his renowned and embarrassing susceptibility to flattery by getting staffers to draft tweets congratulating him—the US military killed three Indian sailors in a deliberate attack on a civilian ship. Ships with Indian sailors were attacked the day before, and have been attacked again today. This is the reality of the ‘comprehensive global strategic partnership’ with the US that Modi looks forward to working on—where the US does whatever it wants, including killing Indian nationals on the high seas or territorial waters of sovereign countries, or telling India whom it can and can’t buy oil from, and god knows what else, and Modi bows down and accepts it all. You know what emboldened the US military? The fact that the previous day, it attacked a ship and placed 24 Indians in harm’s way and Modi’s officials were busy justifying the US action instead of condemning it. Now that Indian soldiers have been killed, the MEA is going through the motions of summoning a US diplomat to protest but it knows full well that this is an empty gesture, meant to cover their tracks with the Indian public. The official MEA statement is unwilling to even name the country which killed the Indian sailors. This is not the first time that Modi and @DrSJaishankar have behaved in such a craven fashion. When the Israeli military killed Col Waibhav Kale—a retired Indian Army officer working for the UN—in Gaza in 2024, there was no condemnation of this by the Modi government. 4400 days of ghulami, and counting.

Saddened by Penguin’s decision to pull Joe Sacco’s novel on Muzaffarnagar riots: Arundhati Roy to @anisha_w thenewsminute.com/news/sadde… #

Listen to what Professor Nandita Narain, legendary Maths teacher of DU & former President DUTA is saying about what ails University education today & why she joined the Cockroach Janta Party protest at Jantar Mantar

During interaction with students yesterday, one thing that struck me is the sheer demonisation of protests in all these years. Some kids had come to Jantar Mantar at CJP protest to witness their “first ever protest in life.” (Listen to one such interaction below) The crowd was a mix -Youngsters from humble backgrounds, from affluent families, and also elderly people. Most said the country’s mainstream media (TV channels) failed to show the country’s reality and were biased. Most were tired of Hindu-Muslim shows. #GenZ

Meet the new Chief Minister of West Bengal:

Brilliant video, replugging The Climate Economy episode on #GreatNicobar youtube.com/watch?v=I-lH2hy-…

No praise is good enough for this hero duo Riyazuddin and son who emptied their shop of mattresses to spread them on ground - to cushion the fall of people jumping off from the burning hotel in Malvia Nagar. What an act of humanity and quick thinking. In that chaos to think straight and save lives - this hero deserves full compensation by MCD and commendation by the govt and also a public felicitation at a prominent place in Delhi @LtGovDelhi @gupta_rekha

Lesson from #Iranwar- global connectivity corridors need to avoid two Cs- Conflict zone and Choke points Can #IMEC fit the bill? What are the challenges? My analysis, in @the_hindu @ambtstirumurti @MEAIndia @DrSJaishankar @Joyce_Karam @ChintanResearch thehindu.com/opinion/lead/im…

Today marks the centenary of the birth of Norma Jeane Mortenson, the woman the world knew as Marilyn Monroe. While the bourgeois press continues to gape at the ghost of a manufactured icon, the Communist Party of Britain reclaims the intellectual and the comrade. Her politics were born of the assembly line. From the foster homes of Los Angeles to the Radioplane munitions factory, Monroe’s class consciousness was forged in the heat of proletarian survival. She was a woman of fierce intelligence, possessing an IQ that dwarfed the men who sought to manage her, yet she was reduced to a commodity to be bought, sold, and traded by the parasitic studio system. The FBI files, which tracked her until her final breath, confirm what the establishment feared - a sex symbol who had read Marx and admired the Chinese Revolution. She was a militant anti-racist who used her platform to shatter the colour bar for Ella Fitzgerald, and she stood firm against the cowardice of the McCarthyite witch hunts when she married the blacklisted playwright Arthur Miller. We must recognise that Monroe’s struggle was the intersection of class exploitation and patriarchal violence. She was a worker whose labour was her own body, super-exploited by a system that demanded she be beautiful and silent. Her life was a constant act of rebellion against the male gaze of capital. On her 100th birthday, we do not celebrate a "bombshell". We honour a clear-minded socialist who understood that the liberation of her class was inseparable from the liberation of her sex. Happy Centenary, Comrade Marilyn. The struggle continues. #MarilynMonroe

There is a memory I carry with me from my years as a civil servant. It has never left me.... Back then, I had just been transferred as Collector to Mangalore, a city then shadowed by communal violence and a menacing sand mafia. Before I left, word came that the Chief Minister wished to see me personally. It was unusual. Collectors don't typically get called in. I walked into his chamber with a knot in my stomach. He looked at me, that familiar, unreadable face. Steady. Unhurried. "Banri…" he said. (Come in.) "Nimage ondhe kelasa… alli ennum communal aaga baradhu." (You have only one job there. No communal incident should happen.) That was it. No preamble. No politics. No performance. Just a Chief Minister, alone with a young IAS officer, telling him exactly what mattered. In that single sentence lived an entire philosophy of governance. one rooted not in optics, but in the protection of ordinary people from extraordinary hatred. Fifteen days later, Mangalore erupted. Two communal murders, two communities, one city on edge. He called me again. Just as directly. "DC... Do what is required. Take anyone into custody, even our party people. Don't bother. But stop this within a day." To a young collector, those words were everything. They were permission. They were protection. They were political will at its most honest. I have known the contrast too. Under a different dispensation, in a similar crisis, the instruction from the top was the opposite. Do nothing strongly. Let things fester. …That silence said everything about who governs for whom. Siddaramaiah Ji was never that kind of leader. He carried government finances in his fingertips and social justice in his spine. He refused to tour places that reeked of feudalism. He spoke plainly, governed sharply, and stood on the side of the last person in the room. If there was one political figure I have genuinely admired, from the stage and up close, it has been him. His legacy is not in the schemes he launched or the budgets he read. It is in the kind of Chief Minister he chose to be when no one was watching. . On that quiet phone call. In the way he asked a nervous young officer to go out and keep the peace. And now, as he steps back with the same quiet dignity with which he always led, I find myself moved. He has handled this transition with the grace of someone who always knew that principles outlast positions. Siddaramaiah Ji....long life, good health, and please keep guiding us. The Congress, and this country, still needs the kind of moral clarity only you carry so naturally.

In a recent piece, Arvind Subramanian has argued that India needs a “change of personnel” to deal with the current economic challenges. He says the problems in the economy are not because of the Iran war but a more fundamental problem which includes a vacuum in decision making. The interview to @DeKoderAI drops tonight 👇

#Watch | We are now starting to see the impact of the war in West Asia, and the resultant blockade of the Strait of Hormuz by both the U.S. and Iran. The government has raised petrol and diesel prices after a gap of four years. The price of CNG has been increased. This crisis is showing just how vulnerable India’s energy security is to external shocks. But, is there a fuel we've been sitting on all along that can potentially solve several issues? In this episode of The Climate Economy, @kunalshankar explores Compressed Biogas or CBG, how it is made, why the government is betting big on it, and why India’s ambitious biogas push is struggling.

This is the screen recording of our audience demographic which we have shared with media before our account was hacked. More than 94% of the audience is from India. Why is a Union Minister @KirenRijiju labelling Indian youth as Pakistani?

While celebrity anchors remain busy discussing and distributing “melody,” people in Valsad, Gujarat are battling a severe water crisis. Residents are being forced to climb down wells over 45 feet deep using ropes, just to collect water for daily needs.

Rubio comes to India at a time when US-Pakistan ties are at its post-Bin Laden peak; when the US is pursuing a new detente with China at any cost; and US policies, from tariffs to wars, are directly hurting the Indian economy and millions of Indians.

V Venkateshan you educate our judges , they must take you seriously , the judiciary belongs to you and me

In solidarity @SauravDassss

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