Deepak K Viswanathan

Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay hosts Prof A Kalaiyarasan at his office in the Secretariat. A damage-control that comes after the professor was illegally detained by police for about three hours on Wednesday morning. He had written a strongly-worded letter to the DGP

When I was 13, I lost my mom to breast cancer. I still wonder if it could have been prevented. When she found the lump, she did everything right. She went to her primary care doctor, and he told her it was nothing. My mom wasn’t convinced, so she went to a women’s health specialist for a second opinion and was told the same thing. A year passed before she saw a third doctor who was shocked that nothing had been done and ordered tests the same day. By the time she was diagnosed, the cancer had already spread. For the next three years, she went through chemo, surgery, and radiation. Specialist after specialist, asking the same questions again and again. After she passed away, there were two thoughts I couldn’t out of my head: (1) Somewhere, a doctor must have seen a case like my mom’s and caught it early. (2) Nothing that doctor learned had any way to reach her. Healthcare runs in my family. All four of my sisters are nurses or pharmacists, and my fiancée spent the pandemic working in a multi-organ transplant recovery ward. I’ve seen how hard clinicians work, and how much of that work requires understanding the patient and recognizing patterns from past cases. That’s why a doctor can practice for 30 years and get better every year, while a hospital can treat millions of patients without getting much better at treating the next one. What’s missing in healthcare is the infrastructure for it to learn from its own experience. If we don’t examine the cause and outcome of every interaction, how do we get better at knowing which signs to watch for? I spent years at Google and Upwork building AI from human expertise, then eventually left big tech to work on the one problem I couldn’t stop thinking about. I started a company called Concurrence (@concurrencehq) and raised $24M to build data and AI systems that enable healthcare orgs to learn from every patient they treat. Nothing learned is lost, and it reaches the next patient who needs it. We’ve already supported care for over 10 million patients worldwide. My mom deserved a doctor who had seen her case a thousand times. Every patient does.

Is this the right move @Keerthana4VNR ? Tamil Nadu is already facing concerns over GST revenue growth. In this situation, is reducing VAT on aviation turbine fuel (ATF) the right fiscal decision, given that VAT on ATF is a source of revenue that accrues directly to the state? The government may argue that lower fuel taxes will attract more flights, improve regional connectivity and stimulate economic activity. But how much revenue will the state forgo, and is there a credible assessment that the resulting economic benefits will offset that loss? At a time when state finances need careful management, shouldn't this decision be backed by transparent estimates of revenue loss and the expected economic gains? @CMOTamilnadu @TVKVijayHQ

What is the truth? On October 14, 2026, the two people sentenced to death in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, were *Nazrul Islam Abdul Basir and Siti Akhtar* from Bangladesh, and they weren't even husband and wife. According to Bangladeshi media, Nazrul had gone to Saudi Arabia in 2022 as a cleaner, and Siti was working there. In May 2023, about 1 month before Hajj, both were allegedly caught by Saudi security forces inside a mosque in Mecca committing immoral acts. After that, they spent more than 3 years in jail, the trial took place in Jeddah court, and upon being found guilty, by royal order, they were hanged in Mecca on October 14, 2026. Their bodies were sent to Bangladesh on October 18. Why was the punishment so severe? Every mosque in Mecca has its own sanctity; it is connected to our Prophet ﷺ. Under Saudi Arabia's "Public Decency Law," such acts in a mosque are strictly prohibited, and violating the sanctity in a Mecca mosque makes the case extremely serious under "Ta'zir," which can carry the death penalty. According to the Saudi Ministry of Interior, the charges against both of committing "fi'al al-fahisha" inside the mosque—that is, a serious sexual act of an obscene nature / adultery—were proven. Bangladesh's State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shama Obaid Islam herself confirmed this on October 17. So the question isn't where they were from; the question is—will you respect the purity of Allah's house or not? A mosque is a place of worship, not shamelessness! Whoever does such a thing on Mecca's sacred land will surely face punishment. Stop spreading rumors; understand the truth.