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No power in Sobha Althea & Azalea Harohalli Yelahanka for a long time. The power keeps tripping & coming back & thereafter immediately trips again. Whole complex is without power on Diwali day. What kind of service are we paying for @NammaBESCOM – at Bengaluru, India
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Arsenal having 24 points from a possible 27 after nine Premier League games, while conceding just FIVE goals, is absolutely ridiculous.
And when you look closer at that defensive record, it becomes even more frightening.
THREE of those five goals came in a single game.
That means Arsenal have conceded just TWO goals across the other EIGHT matches.
TWO GOALS IN EIGHT GAMES! 🤯
Let that sink in.
This is more than good defending. It is an extraordinary level of defensive consistency.
Arsenal are making it incredibly difficult for opponents to get anywhere near their goal, let alone seriously threaten them. Week after week, they are shutting teams down, controlling games, limiting opportunities and making clean sheets look almost routine.
And the most impressive part? They aren't just defending well. They're winning football matches.
24 points from 27 means eight wins from nine games, an average of 2.67 points per game.
They are combining defensive solidity with the ability to consistently collect three points. That is what makes a title-contending side so dangerous.
Think about it. Across eight of those nine matches, Arsenal have conceded an average of just 0.25 goals per game.
Opponents have to work incredibly hard just to find a way through. Arsenal's organisation, discipline, concentration and individual quality are making life extremely uncomfortable for every team they face.
This is why you cannot discuss Arsenal's title credentials by looking at the attack alone.
The foundation of this team is its defence.
Great attacking teams can win you spectacular matches, but great defensive teams give you the consistency required to win championships.
There is something psychologically exhausting about playing against a team that gives you almost nothing. You can dominate possession, push players forward, try different combinations and spend 90 minutes searching for an opening, only to find yourself frustrated by an incredibly organised defensive structure.
Arsenal are becoming that team.
The scary thing is that they don't need to score four or five goals every weekend. They can score one, manage the game, protect their advantage and walk away with all three points.
That ability to win without necessarily being spectacular is one of the biggest characteristics of champions.
Of course, there is still a long way to go. The Premier League is unforgiving, and maintaining this level across an entire season is a different challenge altogether.
But we should not allow the usual caution that comes with title-race discussions to stop us from appreciating something genuinely special.
24 points. Nine games. Five goals conceded.
And THREE of those five goals came in ONE match.
Just TWO goals conceded across the other eight games.
Arsenal aren't merely getting results. They're building a defensive machine.
That is not an ordinary start to a Premier League season.
That is a statement. And if Arsenal maintain anything close to this level, every other title contender has a serious problem. 🔴⚪
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My Two Cents…
#NFFARS
Forest away. Never a picnic.
And now that we’re the DEFENDING CHAMPIONS (damn, that feels good to say 😎), everybody seems particularly determined to make our lives miserable
The standard playbook. Low block, centre of the pitch resembling a Mumbai parking lot, our wingers playing cross-cross, n the oppn waiting to counter
Forest, Lille, Leeds. Different shirts, same instruction manual. No easy away games in the PL. Especially when you’re the reigning champions.
Apart from the Wenger special of attempting to ‘walk the ball into the net’, there’s always the option of launching the occasional missile from the next county
Enter Noni Madueke.
Our ONE solitary shot on target. One goal. Three pts.
Noni is blossoming beautifully. His take-ons are increasingly confident, and that explosive first step is arguably quicker than Saka’s.
Bukayo, meanwhile, seems to have acquired a personal security detail. 2 defenders materialise the moment he touches the ball
Cannot wax lyrical enough about Ezri Konsa.
Very good at Villa. Elite at Arsenal
That recovery block on Delap after being caught out for a fraction of a sec was ridiculous
My MOTM
And here’s the most comforting thing about this Arsenal.
Once we score, there’s an almost unreasonable certainty that we’ll see the game out. Possibly the finest game-management side in world football
Our finishers are acquiring an aura of their own. Arteta’s bench increasingly looks less like a collection of substitutes and more like a second wave of assassins.
But here’s the rub.
Arsenal have scored 11 league goals. Brighton have scored 23!
We’re winning through control, defensive resilience and sheer bloody-mindedness. But our attacking fluency needs serious improvement.
Eight of our 11 goals, nearly 73%, have come in the second half.
Patience is admirable. Occasionally scoring before everyone’s finished their halftime tea wouldn’t hurt either.
Speaking of Brighton, 5 past Palace!
And can somebody please hand Diego Gómez the Goal of the Season trophy already?
That Beckham-esque belter from the halfway line was absolutely outrageous. 🤯
Back to Arsenal.
Was it pretty? No.
Was it convincing? Not especially.
Was it precisely the sort of ugly away win that wins championships?
Absolutely.
3 points. Clean sheet. Move on.
Nobody remembers the aesthetics in May.
They just count the pts
COYG! 🔴⚪
Bring on Bayern…
Noni has to work on his crosses. Unacceptable at this level #ARSLIL – at Bengaluru, India
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This is the third power bank fire on an IndiGo plane in about a year. Every single time, it is because of simple rules that were ignored.
Here's what we know so far.
IndiGo flight 6E 6115 was on its way from Delhi to Chennai. Reports say a passenger's power bank caught fire inside the cabin, and the pilots made an emergency landing at Hyderabad's Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Shamshabad.
The airline hasn't shared full details yet, like where the power bank was kept or what set it off.
The video is scary to watch; the sad part is that this is not the first time in recent memory.
In October 2025, an IndiGo flight from Delhi to Dimapur had to go back to the gate while taxiing. A power bank kept in the seat-back pocket had caught fire, and the crew put it out.
In May this year, it happened again on IndiGo 6E 108 from Hyderabad to Chandigarh. The plane had just landed when a power bank caught fire. Smoke filled the cabin. The crew used two fire extinguishers and opened all six emergency slides.
All 198 passengers, two infants and six crew members slid out onto the tarmac.
The worst one happened in South Korea.
In January 2025, a power bank kept in an overhead bin on an Air Busan plane started a fire that spread and burned through almost half the aircraft.
Everyone got out because it happened on the ground before takeoff. If it had happened an hour into the flight, it would have been a very different story.
Around the same time, there were smoke and fire scares on Batik Air, Air China and others. In the US, the FAA logged nearly 100 battery-related incidents on flights in 2025 alone.
So why does a small power bank turn into a fire?
See inside a power bank is a lithium battery holding a lot of energy in a tiny space. If the battery is cheap, old, damaged, swollen, or gets crushed in an overstuffed bag, it can start heating up on its own.
Once that starts, the heat makes it heat up even more, and it keeps going until it bursts into flames and thick, toxic smoke.
The worst part is that it doesn't need air to keep burning the way a normal fire does.
So crews are trained to cool it down and contain it, but it takes time and it's messy.
On the ground, you open the doors and run. At 35,000 feet, you're stuck in the plane with 180 people until the plane can land somewhere.
That's why the pilots of 6E 6115 didn't wait to reach Chennai.
There are simple rules to prevent this.
In January 2026, DGCA made it very clear. Power banks are allowed only in your hand baggage, never in check-in luggage.
You can't use a power bank to charge your phone, tablet or anything else at any point during the flight.
Don't put it in the overhead bin.
The overhead bin rule is the one most people don't get.
If a power bank catches fire up there, nobody sees it until smoke is pouring out, and by then it's hard to reach.
If it's in your bag at your feet, you'll notice the heat or the smell early and so will the crew.
This is announced on every flight and printed on the boarding pass.
So why do we keep ignoring it?
Honestly, most of us stopped listening to the safety announcement years ago. We've heard it so many times that we put our headphones in and scroll.
Then there's the "it won't happen to me" feeling.
People have charged phones on flights for years without anything going wrong, so the rule feels like extra fuss.
Also, there is the genuine phone at 5% problem. You've got a cab to book when you land, a call to make, a boarding pass to show for the next leg.
So you plug it in quietly under the tray table and hope nobody notices.
A lot of us also carry the cheapest power bank we could find. A ₹400 one from a roadside shop or a random online seller, with no proper certification.
Those are the ones most likely to fail.
And nobody really checks. The crew can't open every bag or look into every seat pocket.
So when one person breaks this rule, they're risking the lives of every passenger and crew member on that plane, plus the firefighters and ground staff who have to deal with it after landing.
If you're flying this festive season, buy a proper branded, certified power bank and replace it if it ever looks swollen or gets hot while charging.
Keep it in your bag at your seat, not in the overhead bin and not in check-in. Don't use it to charge anything once you board.
Charge your phone fully at the airport before you get on. If you ever smell something burning or see smoke from a bag, tell the crew immediately, even if you're not sure.
A few minutes of following boring rules is what keeps everyone on that plane safe.
An IndiGo flight operating from Delhi to Chennai reportedly made an emergency landing at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Shamshabad after a passenger's 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐤 caught fire on board. The incident involved flight 6E6115, according to the sources.
#IndiGo #ShamshabadAirport #Powerbank
Incredible 😍 – at Bengaluru, India
The most interesting story on this list is the No. 1.
Naar is a 16-seat restaurant in the hills of Himachal, and you have to drive two hours of winding mountain road from Chandigarh just to eat there.
Condé Nast Traveller and District announced India's Top 50 Restaurants for 2026 at a ceremony in Goa.
They started with a longlist of more than 1,000 restaurants across the country. Mumbai's The Table and Papa's came second and third. Goa matched Mumbai's number of entries for the first time. Kolkata got four restaurants in.
But the top spot went to Naar, near Darwa village outside Kasauli. Not a big-city restaurant.
It is literally a tiny room in the mountains.
To understand Naar, you have to understand the man behind it.
Prateek Sadhu grew up in Kashmir. As a kid he wanted to be a commercial pilot and even prepared for the NDA entrance exam.
As luck would have it, he ended up in a kitchen instead.
He trained at The Culinary Institute of America and then worked at some of the most famous restaurants on Earth.
Noma in Copenhagen. Alinea in Chicago. The French Laundry in California. Le Bernardin in New York.
For a young Indian chef, that's like playing for Manchester City, Real Madrid, Barcelona and Bayern Munich in the same career.
In 2016 he came back to India.
Coincidentally, that September, Masque opened in Mumbai inside an old textile mill in Mahalaxmi, with Aditi Dugar as owner and Prateek as head chef.
Masque became famous for using only Indian ingredients, many foraged from the Himalayas.
In 2017, Condé Nast Traveller ranked it 7th in India and named Prateek chef of the year.
Masque went on to become one of the most respected restaurants in Asia. Then in April 2022, right at the peak, Prateek left. It shocked the food industry. People couldn't understand why someone would walk away from the top of the game in Mumbai.
He left to go to the mountains.
During this time he kept visiting Amaya, an eco-resort near Kasauli run by his friend Deepak Gupta. It's spread over 20 acres of hills, works as a farm, and is built from local stone and wood.
Prateek turned an old cow shed there into a research lab. He and his team started studying how people in the Himalayas actually eat.
Not Maggi. Not momos. Not pakoras at a hill station dhaba. The real food.
What gets foraged from the forest. What gets dried, pickled and stored for winter. What changes from one valley to the next.
They laid out a big chart paper and mapped everything they found, then turned it into the pillars that shape Naar's menu.
He named the restaurant Naar, which means fire in Kashmiri.
Even Prateek wasn't sure it would work. He has said the idea is impractical and that nothing like it had been tried in India.
Indians are used to great restaurants being in big cities. But Naar was asking you to plan a trip around one meal. It calls itself India's first destination dining restaurant.
There are only 16 seats. Booking happens through a WhatsApp bot on their website, by phone or by email, and timings get confirmed within 48 hours. The staff live on the property.
He describes the food as simple and says they're cooking the mountains and bringing them to your plate. :)
It's also very much a team. His wife Aashina Kaul used to work in Bollywood film marketing, including with Shah Rukh Khan. She moved to the hills to help run the place. Chef Kamlesh Negi has worked alongside Prateek for 14 years, and Prateek jokingly calls him his "work wife." Kamlesh co-leads Naar's kitchen today.
Eventually the world started noticing.
In 2024, TIME put Naar on its list of the World's Greatest Places. In 2025, it was ranked 66th on Asia's 50 Best Restaurants. In 2026 it jumped to No. 30, making Kasauli one of only three places ever to appear in that top 50 for the first time.
Food & Wine ranked it 6th in the whole world in its 2026 Global Tastemakers list.
Yes, a small restaurant in a Himachal forest was sitting in the global top ten.
And now it's No. 1 in India.
What I love about this story is that for years, "fine dining" here meant French or Japanese or modern European.
Naar took food that most of us never bothered to learn about, the food of Himachal, Kashmir and the high villages, and treated it with the same seriousness Noma gives Nordic food.
It worked because Prateek spent years studying it before he served even a single plate.
It also says something about taking big risks.
He left one of the best restaurants in the country at its peak. He moved to a place with no city crowd and no walk-in customers.
He built a 16-seat room two hours from the nearest airport.
Four years later, it's the best restaurant in India.
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This will get lost in the headlines, but is HUGE for cancer families.
BIG relief: Govt caps margins on non-scheduled anti-cancer drugs at 30%. Mark-ups currently average 170% and can cross 700%. Prices could fall up to 70%. Most welcome step.
🤖 Made with AI
Samrat Banerjee retweeted
Sadly people who express doubts about EVMs before the election, coolly forget when they win with the same EVMs! No regret or apology!
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🇮🇳 Tejas | 🇫🇷 Rafale | 🇺🇸 F-35A | 🇮🇳 Su-30MKI
India’s Tejas and Su-30MKI, France’s Rafale and the US F-35A Lightning II flew together in a single formation during Exercise Tarang Shakti 2026 in Jodhpur.
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𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝟰𝟰-𝗬𝗘𝗔𝗥 𝗪𝗔𝗜𝗧 𝗜𝗦 𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗥, 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗜𝗡𝗗𝗜𝗔𝗡 𝗪𝗢𝗠𝗘𝗡'𝗦 𝗧𝗘𝗔𝗠 𝗜𝗦 𝗔𝗦𝗜𝗔𝗡 𝗚𝗔𝗠𝗘𝗦 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗚𝗢𝗟𝗗 𝗠𝗘𝗗𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗦! 🇮🇳🥇
A 1-0 victory over World No. 4 China in the final seals a historic gold medal for the Indian Women’s Team, securing their second Asian Games title and their first since 1982! ❤️ Lalremsiami's 10th minute goal proves to be the winner!
The triumph also secures India a direct qualification to the LA 2028 Olympics. 🇮🇳🏑
#HockeyIndia #IndiaKaGame #AsianGames2026 #AichiNagoya2026
Yes. Absolutely amazing defensive play from the girls
GOLD!!! And Indian women get the ticket to @LA28
So so so so pleased and thrilled. @savitahockey you beauty with that save. What a player! @SjoerdMarijne well done coach.
This is historic! @RevSportzGlobal
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🚨 BREAKING | Bengaluru–Mumbai overnight travel is about to get a major upgrade! 🚆🔥
South India’s first Vande Bharat Sleeper is likely to launch next weekend.
SMVT Bengaluru → CSMT Mumbai: 16 hrs
🕖 Departure: 7:50 PM
🌙 Arrival: 11:55 AM
CSMT Mumbai → SMVT Bengaluru: 15 hrs 45 mins
🕗 Departure: 8:10 PM
🌅 Arrival: 11:55 AM
📍 Stops: ATP • GTL • RC • KLBG • SUR • PUNE • KYN
📅 6 days a week
Finally, a Bengaluru–Mumbai journey where the plan is to sleep through the distance instead of spending the night negotiating with it. 😄
@KARailway @ChristinMP_ #VandeBharatSleeper #Bengaluru #Mumbai
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Cabinet clears a huge Rs1.86 tr effort to create a nation wide electricity storage system
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BEFORE BUYING HEALTH INSURANCE, CHECK THIS ONE NUMBER! 🏥⚠️
3-Year Average Claim Rejection Ratio:
🔴 Navi — 18.4%
🔴 Tata AIG — 14.7%
🔴 Star Health — 12.8%
🔴 ICICI Lombard — 11.9%
🔴 IndusInd General — 10.6%
🟠 SBI General — 9.8%
🟠 Niva Bupa — 8.9%
🟠 ManipalCigna — 8.2%
🟠 HDFC ERGO — 7.5%
🟠 ACKO — 7.2%
🟠 Bajaj General — 6.8%
🟠 Care Health — 5.9%
🟢 Aditya Birla Health — 4.08%
🟢 New India Assurance — 1.04%
👀 From 1.04% to 18.4% — the gap is massive.
Premium isn’t the only number that matters. Claim rejection ratio deserves attention too.
Captain Smit deserves the Ashok Chakra @narendramodi @rajnathsingh @DrSJaishankar #Bravery – at Bengaluru, India
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Samrat Banerjee retweeted
My salute to the Indian pilot Captain Smit Machchhar for his extraordinary bravery.
Despite being stabbed and seriously injured, he fought back, resisted, opened the cockpit door, and enabled passengers and crew to overpower the attacker — preventing a catastrophic mid-air disaster.
He saved the lives of 174 people, including Israeli citizens and other nationals.
I wish Captain Machchhar a speedy and full recovery.
He is a true hero.
Samrat Banerjee retweeted
Manchester City owners’ damaging strategy of appeal, deny and delay will inflict untold damage on countless people. It will inflict damage on this season’s Premier League which is effectively on hold with an unpunished City still involved. It inflicts further damage on the reputation of the world’s most popular sports league. It casts a cloud over the league for seasons to come, for as long as they drag the sport through the courts which they could do.
City owners’ refusal to accept responsibility in the face of overwhelming evidence against them further hardens anger towards the club. The strategy inflicts further damage on a 146-year-old club whose reputation was made by the honest endeavour and thrilling football of that outstanding team of the late 60s and 70s. The actions of City’s current owners risk trashing a historic club’s reputation.
Appeal, deny, delay inflicts further turmoil on the lives of their supporters. City fans’ innate defiance may waver when getting called cheat relentlessly. City fans didn’t cheat. Their club owners did with “sham contracts”, according to the findings of a long, forensic review by an independent commission. But it is City fans facing the consequences of their owners’ book-cookery – in the stands, on the streets, at work. A storm of scorn.
Do City owners also not think of their head coach, Enzo Maresca, and how every press conference will be an inquisition? Every player interview? Every arrival at an away stadium?
Do they not think of all the vital work done by City in the Community, the club’s charitable wing currently trying to celebrate 40 years of helping disadvantaged local people, and how their conduct impacts that?
Appeal, deny, delay damages Abu Dhabi’s own reputation. Do they actually care about football? About pressure on innocent, hard-working staff? About integrity? City’s owners have done plenty of good in East Manchester but that work now seems tainted.
Do they not care about the millions of people in this country who love football. Some may now, because of sham contracts and appeal, deny, delay, simply turn away from the national sport?
Do the owners worry about the UAE’s image? The behaviour of City’s owners is now a diplomatic issue between the UK and the UAE. And good luck to our new ambassador to the UAE, Geraldine McCafferty, who took up the position last month and will need all her diplomatic skills acquired in Sarajevo, Bogota and Beijing.
If they had a shred of responsibility, City owners would call off the lawyers, accept the independent commission’s findings, take the punishment and seek some settlement with the Premier League over compensation to other clubs. Appeal, deny, delay helps nobody.