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Kailash 🇮🇳 retweeted
33 years ago, Amitabh Bachchan had already given us a masterclass on the different types of cockroaches 🪳🪳🪳
Kailash 🇮🇳 retweeted
Know your real Avengers 🚨
- Captain Smit Machchhar, who fought the attacker and opened the cockpit
- Asaf Redjuan, who rushed at the attacker
- Israeli dad Tzvika Mans, who tied the attacker with a cable so he couldn't move
- Yaniv Hayon, who handled the aircraft and kept it stable
- Dr. Shota Musaev, who treated the captain and stopped the excessive bleeding.
They all worked together and made sure all those 180 passengers landed safely. Truly, men are brave 🙏
Kailash 🇮🇳 retweeted
Some achievements deserve more than a finish-line photograph.
Madhusmita Jena, a 46-year-old special needs teacher from Stockport, started running in 2008, just months after becoming a mother. What began as a way to clear her mind eventually became a passion and then a purpose.
She chose to run marathons in a six-yard saree. Not despite it, but proudly in it.
At the 2026 Manchester Marathon, she ran 42.2 km in 3 hours and 45 minutes, breaking the Guinness World Record for the fastest marathon run in a saree by over 12 minutes.
But the record is only one part of the story.
The bigger achievement is what she represents, that culture doesn't have to be left behind when we chase new possibilities. That tradition and ambition can move together. And that sometimes, simply being unapologetically yourself can inspire someone else to take their first step.
A mother. A teacher. A runner. A record holder.
Madhusmita didn't just cross a finish line. She showed us that there really is no dress code for determination.
#manchestermarathon2026 #marathon #running #run
Kailash 🇮🇳 retweeted
Big Breaking 🚨
The world's tallest building bows down to celebrate India's leader! Burj Khalifa lights up in tricolour glory, wishing our PM a very #HappyBdayPMModi
From Delhi to Dubai the world celebrates with us! 🙌
#HappyBirthdayModiJi
For all those who have a problem with UPI levying charges - pay the merchant by card and then see if he is willing to accept UPI or card pyt?
No merchant cribs for card pyt so the truth will come out then
What a day. what a race. Never seen Tifosi celebrate a race win which is a non Ferrari win. A hometown boy just turned 20, wins from 19th postion to win his home race. 60 years since the last Italian won it. Way to go Kimi.
Kailash 🇮🇳 retweeted
📢 First Long Haul (1.3 km) Double Stack container train on Western Dedicated Freight Corridor
JNPT, Mumbai -> Vadodara, Gujarat
Kailash 🇮🇳 retweeted
At 7 he built a website and ended up in the Guinness records as the world's youngest male webmaster.
At 16 he built a satellite in a school in Jammu.
At 19 he raised 4.3 million dollars in Silicon Valley to fix a problem that even NASA has never fully solved.
His name is Onkar Singh Batra.
He was born in Jammu. His father works in information technology, and that is where his interest started.
He wrote a book at 12. He started a company at 13. He received the National Bal Shakti Award from the President of India for building an interactive website during the pandemic.
In 2020, at 14, he became interested in space.
In 2022, while he was in class 12 at a school in Jammu, he built a satellite called InQube. It weighed about 1 kg. It was India's first open source satellite, which means the design was published for anyone to use.
In the same period he was invited to teach space systems to engineering students at IIT Jammu as a guest professor. He had not finished school.
While building InQube, he ran into a problem that runs through the whole space industry.
Satellites in low Earth orbit go dark. For long stretches of every orbit they are not in line of sight of any ground station on Earth, so nobody can talk to them. These are called dead zones.
It sounds small. It is not. A satellite watching a flood or a fire can be holding the picture you need and be unable to send it for the next 40 minutes.
The existing fixes are partial. You can build more ground stations, which is slow and expensive. You can use relay satellites, but most of them need the customer satellite to carry particular hardware, which most older satellites do not have.
In 2024 he founded a company to solve it. It is called Apolink, from apogee and link. It is based in Palo Alto in California.
The plan is a ring of 32 small satellites carrying both lasers and radios, acting as ground stations in space, and working with satellites that were never built for it.
In 2025, at 19, Y Combinator and other investors put 4.3 million dollars into it, at a valuation of 45 million dollars.
In July 2026 the company launched its first demonstration satellite on a SpaceX mission.
He is 20 now.
He wrote about himself on his own website in plain language. Built websites at a somewhat prodigious age. Got awarded by the President of India. Built a satellite at 16. Brought myself to the United States.
A boy from Jammu is building the internet for space, and almost nobody in his own country knows his name.
Kailash 🇮🇳 retweeted
Dhruv Rathee once called The Statue of Unity a “waste of money” 😂
Today, the project has transformed Kevadia- One of the Gujarat’s most backward region into a major tourism hub.
Government figures showed around 3,000 direct jobs and 10,000 indirect jobs created in the early years, benefiting tribal youth and local businesses.
Millions of tourists have since driven hotels, restaurants, transport, handicrafts and other businesses.
This is what infrastructure-led development can look like.
Kailash 🇮🇳 retweeted
Delhi Metro records 99.95% train punctuality in 2026.. phenomenal!
We just don’t appreciate the rapid strides India is making in physical and digital infrastructure..
Extremely well said. I wish the international idiots like Greta, and her clones who have spoken to choose how u democratic India is, see this vdo and seriously introspect (personally don't think they have the brains to introspect)
Kailash 🇮🇳 retweeted
Real Gen Z is quietly building themselves and winning India:
Meet Anahat Singh, an 18 year old from New Delhi who was once just a badminton kid chasing PV Sindhu's shadow.
She switched to squash only because she used to tag along with her older sister to tournaments. By 14, she was India's youngest ever athlete at the Commonwealth Games. By 15, she became the youngest national champion in 23 years.
In 2024 alone she won 9 tour titles in a single year, a feat no woman had managed since Nicol David in 2010. In February 2026, she broke into the world's top 20, becoming the youngest Asian ever to do it, beating a record that had stood since Nicol David too.
She followed her sister into a sport and ended up rewriting its record books.
Kailash 🇮🇳 retweeted
India’s National Anthem plays as Anahat Singh wins World Jr Squash C’ship 🏆
Goosebumps. Pride. History. 🇮🇳🫡
Kailash 🇮🇳 retweeted
International media in the last 30 days: "India Hunger strike", "protests in India", "Floods in India."
🇮🇳India in the last 30 days:
July 19, 2026: Indian Gen-Z team wins 4 gold medals (top rank) at International Chemistry Olympiad and medals at the International Biology Olympiad.
July 18, 2026: Young Indians working at Skyroot Aerospace successfully launch Vikram-1, India’s first privately developed orbital-class rocket, from Sriharikota, placing payloads into Low Earth Orbit.
July 17, 2026: PM Modi flags off India’s first indigenous hydrogen-powered passenger train (10-coach set) from Jind station, Haryana, on the Jind-Sonipat route as an inaugural service.
July 14, 2026: DRDO completes successful military field trials of an indigenous scalable fiber-based Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) system for secure strategic communications.
July 13, 2026: Lucknow-Kanpur Expressway (63 km), India’s first barrier-free expressway with satellite-based tolling, opens to traffic.
July 12, 2026: Young Indian team wins 5 gold medals at the 56th International Physics Olympiad (IPhO 2026) in Colombia, securing joint world #1 rank.
July 11, 2026: RM Rajnath commissions INS Mahendragiri, the sixth Project 17A stealth frigate, in Visakhapatnam (~75% indigenous content).
Early–mid July 2026: Vimag Labs (Bengaluru) secures its 5th Indian patent for the Virtual Magnet Synchronous Motor (VMSM), a software-defined rare-earth-free electric motor platform.
Early July 2026: ISRO announces plans for a new Satellite Earth Station campus near Ledo in Assam to strengthen space communication in the Northeast.
Early July 2026: IIT Gandhinagar team wins a grant for developing indigenous liquid cooling plates for AI data centres, EVs, and high-performance electronics.
June 26, 2026: Nuclear heat-based hydrogen production facility (copper-chlorine thermochemical cycle) commissioned at Kalpakkam using Fast Breeder Reactor process heat.
June 24, 2026: ISRO successfully conducts hot test of semi-cryogenic engine power head at 175 tonnes thrust level.
June 24, 2026: RDSO (with ARAI) successfully conducts full-scale crashworthiness testing of LHB coaches for enhanced passenger safety.
June 21, 2026: PM Modi commissions three indigenously built warships in Kolkata: INS Dunagiri (Project 17A stealth frigate), INS Sanshodhak (hydrographic survey vessel), and INS Agray (ASW shallow water craft).
June 15, 2026: DRDO successfully flight-tests the indigenous Long Range Land Attack Cruise Missile (LRLACM) from Odisha; all objectives met.
June 10–11, 2026: DRDO conducts successful Phase-2 Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) trials and anti-ship missile tests, demonstrating capabilities against long-range ballistic threats including ICBM-class.
Mid-June 2026: India’s defence production reaches a record ₹1.78 lakh crore in FY 2025-26.
Mid-June 2026: Maiden flight of the indigenous C-295 military transport aircraft highlighted as a major self-reliance milestone in aviation (with 40 aircraft under production in India).
June 13, 2026: First batch of women cadets trained at NDA commissioned into the defence forces. Marking the start of an women empowered era in defence.
Kailash 🇮🇳 retweeted
INDIA WINS FIRST EVER GOLD AT WORLD ROWING CUP IN LIGHTWEIGHT DOUBLE SCULLS 🥇
- Lakshay and Ujjwal Kumar Singh made History!
Kailash 🇮🇳 retweeted
When Dhiraj Bommadevara stood on top of the podium in Antalya, the gold medals around his neck carried the weight of far more than a winning score.
They carried a father's belief.
A father who didn't just cheer from the sidelines, but became an archery judge himself so he could understand the sport better and guide his son through every step.
They carried a mother's sacrifice.
In 2017, when Dhiraj was on the verge of giving up because his family couldn't afford the imported equipment he needed, his mother mortgaged her mangalsutra to help him buy a bow.
For a middle-class family, that's not just jewellery.
That's years of savings, security, and emotion.
Nearly 20 years after first picking up a bow, Dhiraj is now a World Cup champion. And after years of watching South Korea dominate the sport, he defeated Korean opponents twice on the same day to win a historic double gold for India.
Some victories are won on the field.
Others begin years earlier, in small homes, with parents who quietly bet everything on their child's dream.
@BommadevaraD
#DhirajBommadevara #ArcheryWorldCup #IndianSports #InspirationDaily #WorldCupChampion
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Kailash 🇮🇳 retweeted
In defense of Indian 🇮🇳 democracy!
During Prime Minister Narendra Modi most successful visit to Norway a minor incident happened. A Norwegian journalist demanded that the prime minister starts holding press conferences. She claimed that Indian democracy is in bad shape.
May be its time to pause? May be its time to be a bit curious to the world’s largest democracy?
Two weeks ago five Indian states and territories held elections. The turn out in the battlefield state of West Bengal was 94%. In the last local election in Norway it was 62%, in many European local elections turn out is below 50%. Can voting in massive numbers be a signal Indians trust their democratic process?
In the same election BJP won big in Assam and West Bengal. It lost even bigger in Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Can this diversity be a signal that Indian democracy is reflecting the will of the people?
The journalist referred to a democracy ranking putting India at 157 in the world, behind many dictatorships and deeply troubled states. When a ranking is so obviously contrary to common sense, why not ask critical questions to those making the ranking rather than demand that leaders shall comment on nonsense? I recommend Salvatore Babones book “Dharma democracy”. The book debunks convincingly the flawed methodology of these rankings.
It was referred to a ranking claiming it’s very dangerous to be a journalist in India. Reality is that it is more dangerous to be journalist in the US and far more dangerous in the vast majority of other nations in the world.
Let’s be real. India is not perfect. Of course there are incidents. India has a population the size of North America, South America and Europe combined. But India is much more peaceful than Europe or the Americas. That’s remarkable - given the ethnic, language and religious diversity of India and the many development challenges.
Unless we consider democracy a form of government only suited for some very small, peaceful and homogeneous Western European nations, may be we should commend Indian democracy?
India is the only major former UK colony which became and has remained a democracy. Its sometimes claimed that the Brits taught India democracy. If that was the case why isn’t Myanmar or Pakistan or the Gulf kingdoms democracies??? Reality is that Indian democracy is both homegrown and extraordinary successful.
