This will go down as the greatest 2026 World Cup interview

I’m not gonna sleep tonight

Happy birthday, Egyptian King 👑

FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 53 YEARS, THE KNICKS ARE NBA CHAMPIONS 🏆 New York defeats San Antonio 4-1 in the NBA Finals, capturing their third championship in franchise history!

#WATCH | Nagpur, Maharashtra: Union Minister Nitin Gadkari says, “Last night at 8 PM, I signed the file, finalising the regulations to legally authorise the use of 100% ethanol. I am delighted to share that I, along with Hardeep Singh Puri, had the opportunity to launch the 100% ethanol-compatible version of the WagonR—Maruti Suzuki’s best-selling car. Regarding motorcycles, Hero MotoCorp—which accounts for three out of every five motorcycles sold—has launched two flex-fuel models capable of running on 100% ethanol. Following this, companies like Toyota, Suzuki, MG, and Hyundai will launch 100% ethanol-compatible vehicles within the next month and a half. Thus, ethanol will serve as a viable alternative to petrol. People used to laugh when I spoke of this dream, and some friends even criticised it...Soon, we will launch a pilot project in Nagpur featuring a hydrogen pump and two hydrogen-powered buses. The public will be able to ride these hydrogen buses, which will be powered by green hydrogen extracted from water using an electrolyser. That day is now near.”

DR Congo pulled up at the World Cup in outrageous style 😅

The World Cup absolutely mogs every other sporting event. It’s what the Olympics wishes it was X100. You’ve got Europeans road-tripping across America and having their minds blown by Buc-ee’s and Bass Pro Shops. You’ve got a small Kansas town falling in love with an Algerian club that chose Kansas City as their homebase. You’ve got South Korea training in Utah to prepare for the altitude in Guadalajara. For one month, the whole world forgets we’re supposed to hate each other over differences that barely matter. It’s the closest thing we have to world peace.

world cup starting in less than 3 hours, so time to bring back this all-timer clip 😭😭😭😭😭

Good to see Balu's calm response against Lalit Modi's trolling.

World Cup in 55 hours and there is absolutely zero hype

My purpose in the game is fulfilled ⭐️ I lived out my childhood dreams, played on the biggest stages, won the biggest trophies. Grateful to God for all of it. To all my fans, the clubs, my teammates and my family: this will forever be ours. Thank you. The mission is complete. Now I step into my next calling. More of the journey to come. Love, Divock Origi

Ok here goes- 1. 70 % of India eats meat so no one’s sentiments are hurt except yours 2. Pulao comes from “Polow” or pilaf, a Persian word for flavoured rice. 3. Change “Shashlik” as it’s lamb skewers 4. “Biryani” comes form Persia 5. Tomatoes/Potatoes/Chilli etc. Are foreign

Guys, please lose those kilts. We are playing Ireland, not Scotland.

"It is a minor miracle that Indian youth, faced with parental pressure, overbearing states, systemic incompetence and poor job prospects, respond only with a silly meme. Their peers in Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka have been rather more heavy-handed with their own ageing leaders".

People will be studying Wemby’s two-week summer retreat with Shaolin monks in the Chinese mountains for decades to come. Best details from Ramona Shelburne: ▫️slept on three single-beds pushed together and woke up 4:30am each day ▫️meditated several times a day with 100 other monks and length was determined by burning incense wick (“Thirty minutes was doable. But sometimes the incense burned for 90 minutes,…[it is agonizing for someone] 7-foot-4 to sit cross-legged at all, let alone silently for up to 90 minutes, without moving.”) ▫️spent 6-8 hours a day learning Shaolin kung fu poses (“Master Yan'an said he designed Wembanyama's customized martial arts training to emphasize controlling his center of gravity, which would generate force from different positions and resist external forces, to mimic the double-teams and physical play he'd face from NBA opponents.”) ▫️ “One day he told Wembanyama to dribble a basketball up another dangerous mountain route to Sanhuangzhai, a monastery deep in the Song Mountains. The hike traversed cliffside plank paths, suspension bridges and ancient forests, and was five times as long as the one to Bodhidharma Cave. The trail forces you to climb roughly 2,500 feet in elevation across uneven ridges and stone. Master Yan'an said it would take an average person seven to eight hours to reach the end. Wembanyama did it -- while dribbling a basketball -- in four and a half.” ▫️On the 6th night, he did a pitch black hike in the Bodhidharma Cave (“There were no lights anywhere,” Master Yan'an said. “You can't see anything. The only way to go is step by step. Listen to your breath and listen to your heart. Feel each step with your foot. Use your awareness. The entire point of this training…was to free your mind from fear and trust your awareness to guide you.” ▫️”Wembanyama ate the same strict vegetarian diet as the monks while he was there, in accordance with Buddhist principles. But several times a day, his team arranged for a Sprinter van to pull into the monastery, pick up Wembanyama and drive him outside the walls of the temple, where someone would deliver a high-protein meal from a local restaurant. He would eat it inside the Sprinter van, dispose of any remaining meat, then be driven back inside the temple.” *** Full profile here: espn.com/nba/story/_/id/4881…

Chilling report on the Air India crash at Ahmedabad by @rachelchitra for @thecaravanindia. Boeing's manufacturing shortcuts perfectly complemented by uncaring management at Air India and India's dismal governance. If you fly, read this report: caravanmagazine.in/crime/air…

🚨India's Trade with China in last 5 Yrs FY EXPORTS IMPORTS FY21 $22 billion $65 billion FY22 $21 billion $94 billion FY23 $16 billion $98 billion FY24 $17 billion $101 billion FY25 $14 billion $113 billion

it took me 2 hours to go from Mahadevpura to Marathalli today (it’s hardly 3km apart)

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After years of being embarrassed in the court of public opinion (not a court of law) Kwality Wall's seems to be working overtime to overcompensate for the fact that the brand has been mis-selling Indians 'ice cream'. The backstory matters. Amul ran a sustained consumer education campaign from 2012 onwards. HUL actually sued Amul in 2017 over these ads, and largely won in court. But it didn't matter. Amul had already won the consumer. The lawsuit, if anything, gave the campaign more oxygen and publicity. Amul won without winning in court. Pure advertising/PR warfare. In between these new ads drops the global CEO's statement that they, "are not a frozen dessert company anywhere in the world". That they are an ice cream company. In India, they changed everything, everything. (double 'everything'. An inadvertent confession?). And, "The company took a principled decision to become a full dairy business even without a formal business case". Seriously? 🙄 A global CEO of a listed company telling a business newspaper that his company made a major strategic pivot without a formal business case is either spectacularly bad corporate governance or a spectacular lie. Neither reflects well. There's a mega-sized gulf between the ads and the interview (public relations). The ads claim that the products are now based on milk. The interview says the same thing but without explaining 'why' they sold 'frozen desserts' ONLY in India. I have seen the interview (from ET) far more times on multiple WhatsApp posts/forwards and multiple social media posts on all platforms than anyone who shared the ads. The tone of the forwards/posts is anger and annoyance. The truth is that Kwality Wall's was forced to take a decision to move away from vegetable fat-based 'frozen desserts'. And the cold chain! The article mentions plans to deploy a million cold cabinets across India. Vegetable fat-based frozen desserts don't need the same cold chain rigor as dairy ice cream. This investment wasn't merely 'principle', it was operationally necessary to sell real ice cream. There absolutely was a formal business case. Amul made it for them. Classic case of advertising proposes, news (PR) disposes.