Medical educator | Biochemistry, MedEd, EdTech | Health, Higher Education & Public Policy | Words in NDTV, Mint, The Wire, etc | Manipal | MUCM Malaysia
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‼️ India's shadowy election consultants have gone global, manipulating elections from Kenya to the United States — for less than $10 a day — an Al Jazeera investigation reveals.
Indian election consultants are running covert social media campaigns, pushing manufactured narratives, and helping politicians unethically influence voters from thousands of miles away.
How do shadow election campaigns work? How do they funnel money? And are there any red lines?
Details here | ‘Manipulated’: Kenya to US midterms, Indian bots help campaigns sway votes
aje.news/l7e1ze
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Indians are the largest nationality on YouTube, Instagram and Facebook. But their influx onto these platforms has not been great for India’s image in the world, bit.ly/4sEfzzs
Illustration: Lehel Kovács
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This guy is absolutely right.
Odisha could have been like Wakanda, but it's like Congo now.
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Really??? Really….
You could have said “rubber bounces back” but no. You had to say spring back.
Sad. Just sad.
Kerala's plantations spring back to life as natural rubber price crosses Rs 300-mark. #rubber #tyremakers newindianexpress.com/states/…
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Hahahahahahahahahahaha... this was stupendously funny 🤣 And to think this was retweeted by Bryan Johnson himself!
#advertising #marketing #creativity
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Sunidhi Chauhan x Shillong Chamber Choir harmonising on an unplugged version of her classic Kaisi Paheli Zindagani. Just pure and simple music. And what a joy to be able to sing together.
#shillongchamberchoir #scc #sunidhichauhan
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Consumption of alcohol in public has become the norm; now drugs being taken inside traffic aid post in Bhubaneswar.
Wow policing!
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💜 Epilepsy is more than seizures—and seizures are more than shaking.
👀 A blank stare, sudden pause, or unusual movement can also be a seizure.
Recognize. Respond. Reassure.
Let’s replace fear with facts. 🧠
#EpilepsyAwareness #SeizureFirstAid
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Malaysia is a civilised country
Even when Malaysians are running from the police, they still pay the toll
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Auxillary Nurse Midwife of an anganwadi and Master Book Keeper of an SHG in Sorada block of Ganjam crossing over a strong stream to distribute relief materials to villagers in Daringibadi border. Though not a safe option, excellent commitment to the task assigned to them.
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We got your back, New York!
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Several figures here aren’t federal results or NY-specific. The $472B combines US wide pledges: Micron's $250B is nationwide (NY site $100B) Anthropic's $50B covers TX and NY. The 48% murder drop is from NY's state run GIVE program (28 departments, Jan – May 2026).
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Delighted to share the setting up of Kaushalya, initiative between SEWA & Bagchi Foundation. Will train 50000 women in 10 years. 8.5 acre residential campus in Ahmedabad. Training technology from ITEES Singapore. It will set new a global standard in human development.
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Centre’s Nilekani panel led ambitious exam reforms rollout plan for 2027 - hits serious roadblock with southern states raising several concerns
TN to Kerala have red flagged JEE, NEET’s urban bias, CBSE leaning, need for higher school board weightage
Panel to urgently reach out to states this week on to build consensus
Clock ticking- stage set for NEET-UG 2027 likely to go on Paper +CBT mode; full CBT switch only over next 2-3 yrs
NTA set to announce exam format very soon
More @ETPolitics
m.economictimes.com/news/ind…
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Every serious educationist I spoke to is worried, concerned and frustrated. The ‘Viksit Bharat 2047’, is an empty slogan, throwing the ball a couple of decades away to cling on to power.
As we speak, India's higher education is on ventilator.
1. Reform bill in limbo. The VBSA Bill went to a JPC, deadline was extended twice and adoption meeting cancelled twice. The monsoon session ended with no date.
2. We have a Part-time minister who holds Education as additional charge. The higher education dept. had 3 secretaries in 3 weeks.
3. Pending VBSA, we are running on Stand-in regulators. UGC has had no regular chairman for 19 months running. It is run by the ministry's own secretary, though the UGC Act bars government officers from the post. AICTE has had an interim head for 10 months. The bar council is run by the same person for 10 years. Files don’t move. Policy decisions are never taken.
4. Empty classrooms. At least 14,617 of 46,151 faculty posts are vacant (31.7%):
• IIITs 54%
• IITs 38%
• AIIMS 35%
• IIMs 32%
• NITs 28%
• Central universities 26%
5. While all this happens, the government indulges in data blackout. Asked in Parliament how many posts are vacant, the ministry now reports only how many it has hired. The real numbers come from RTI applications.
All that govt. does is building perceptions, hiding realty and playing politics. India’s education is on a ventilator. The hospital has no doctors. And the bills keep getting piled up.
Who is responsible?
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Four thousand years ago, Indian merchants were living in Mesopotamia in large enough numbers to have a village of their own and a professional interpreter to deal with them.
Texts from Lagash written towards the end of the third millennium BC, record a village of Meluhha inside Sumerian territory. Meluhha is the Sumerian name for Indus-Sarasvati lands. The Louvre holds the cylinder seal of a man called Shu-ilishu, whose inscription describes him as an interpreter of the Meluhhan language. Around 2300 BC, Sargon of Akkad boasted that ships from Meluhha, Magan and Dilmun were moored at the quay of his capital, Agade.
Indus seals have been found at Ur, Kish and Nippur, while hardly any Mesopotamian seals or objects have been found in the subcontinent, suggesting the pro-active merchants were Indian. The monsoon blows one way across the Arabian Sea for half the year and back for the other half, so a merchant who sailed west could spend months in a foreign port waiting for the wind to turn. This goes a long way to explaining both the village and the interpreter.
The Sumerians knew perfectly well whose ships were tied up at their quays, and they wrote the name down.
Episode 3 of my graphic novel, Maritime World: The True Cradle, is called The River That Fed the World and follows one of those merchants from Lothal to a Sumerian market and home again. Link in the reply.
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Factory workers in Haryana are losing fingers and hands on power press machines used to make auto parts. This ground report reveals how unsafe machines, production pressure, treatment after accidents and what factory work can cost the workers.
Watch full video on our YouTube channel👇🏼
youtube.com/watch?v=exV7zICa…
Report & Edit: @bhuvan_mov
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In the early eighteenth century, if a visitor had walked out of the East India Company’s Fort St George, at Madras, and proceeded southwards towards the village of Adyar, five miles or so away, he (or she) would have heard, successively, English spoken at the Fort [although Marathi more in its cutcheri (office)]; Armenian, Gujarati and Telugu in the neighbouring Black Town; Urdu, Persian and Dakhni at the court of the Nawabs of Arcot, but Sanskrit mantras at the very adjacent Sri Parthasarathi temple (one of the landmarks of Sri Vaishnavism in the region); Tamil shop-talk and less-exalted Sanskrit chanting at the lesser Mylapore temple; Portuguese in San Thome and then rather more rustic Tamil in the Mudaliar villages somewhat inland from it. -- David Washbrook, Intimations of Modernity in South India.
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A @lufthansa crew member is among the deceased. What an incredibly sad and tragic way to lose a life, particularly in what should have been one of the safest environments for an airline crew member during a layover.
Time and again, such incidents point to one of two systemic failures: regulatory corruption or institutional mediocrity.
Neither is acceptable.
BREAKING: A German & A Slovak national have died of electrocution in the swimming pool at Bengaluru’s Conrad Hotel. US guest & Indian pool attendant injured attempting rescue, safe, @dpkBopanna reports on NDTV. (file photo)
