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At this rate, Pune residents might find it quicker to reach Navi Mumbai Airport than Borivali.
Just an interesting Mumbai travel reality!
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Whatever last wealth left will be taken by these politicians to their swiss accounts!
India will be turned into a desert
Middle class and poor class are doomed in this country !
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🔴 INSOLITE
Quand deux touristes prennent leurs vacances à Paris au mauvais moment 🧳🧳
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🚨BREAKING : Indian Express launches surgical strike on Dictator MODI🔥🔥
Modi's government is so scared of your posts, it's deleting them faster than you can type 😡
The Indian Express got the data. Between March and July 2026, nearly 1.95 lakh blocking orders went to Instagram, Facebook and YouTube.
That's around 1,275 every single day. One every 68 seconds.
A year earlier, the same Home Ministry portal sent about 6 orders a day. Six.
And when the story came out, the government's own "clarification" made it worse. It said the real number was nearly 2.98 lakh.
One order can cover hundreds of posts and accounts. Meta has plugged its system straight into the Home Ministry's portal, so flagged posts can disappear without any human even reviewing them.
Bro, my cousin posted a video of the broken road outside his house. Next morning it was gone. No reason, no notice. Now he doesn't post anything 😢
That's what they want. Today it's a meme, tomorrow it's your son's complaint about a paper leak.
Modi ji, 56 inch chest, but scared of a 6 inch phone screen? 🔥🔥
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J Kumar. Rings a bell.
MMRDA slaps ₹2 crore penalty on contractor; safety violations won’t be tolerated
An unfortunate incident occurred at the Anand Nagar–Saket Elevated Road project site in Thane, where a reinforcement cage of an under-construction pier toppled onto a moving car on Kopri Bridge, damaging its front windshield. Fortunately, no injuries have been reported.
Taking serious cognisance of the incident, MMRDA has imposed a penalty of ₹2 crore on the contractor, J. Kumar Infrastructure Limited. A detailed investigation has been ordered to ascertain the cause of the incident and identify safety lapses.
The damaged vehicle has been removed, and the tilted reinforcement cage is being safely removed with the assistance of a crane. Necessary corrective measures will be enforced to prevent recurrence.
Public safety remains MMRDA’s highest priority. All contractors are expected to adhere strictly to prescribed construction safety standards. Any failure to comply with these standards will be dealt with strictly, with accountability enforced at every project site.
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Luckily we approved data centers near lakes with 15 year tax breaks and subsidized water and electricity right before we announced a drought in the state ✌️ too much masterstroke
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Unfortunately, we are being blocked by certain oligarchs in order to maintain their monopolistic chokehold on the Indian people. You can guess who they are …
This is a crime against the people of India!
India needs @Starlink 🇮🇳
• 11,256 of India’s listed villages still lacked 4G coverage as of May 2026.
• India had 1.093 billion internet subscriptions in March 2026, but only 440.87 million were rural. Rural subscription density was 48.31 per 100 people, compared with 126.80 in urban India.
• BharatNet had laid over 850,000 route-km of fibre and made about 221,000 Gram Panchayats service-ready. However, its Points of Presence were reported operational at only 80,472 Gram Panchayats in June 2026.
• Only 4.26% of India’s internet subscriptions were wired connections in March 2026. Starlink could give underserved communities another route to high-speed broadband.
• Starlink has already built 20 gateway sites in India, according to SpaceX Vice President of Starlink Business Operations Lauren Dreyer, speaking at India Mobile Congress today.
• Starlink says it has developed India-specific security controls designed to keep Indian user data within India.
• Its satellite network could bring high-speed internet to remote villages, mountains and islands where extending fibre or mobile networks is difficult.
• Better connectivity could help rural schools access online learning, clinics offer remote consultations and small businesses reach more customers. Starlink already supports education and healthcare in remote communities internationally.
• Portable Starlink terminals have supported disaster response around the world. They could give Indian emergency teams backup connectivity when floods, earthquakes or storms damage ground networks.
• Direct to Cell could also help ordinary 4G phones connect beyond tower coverage, subject to Indian approvals and mobile operator partnerships.
• The government itself identifies difficult terrain, low commercial viability and infrastructure constraints as reasons for remaining coverage gaps. This is exactly where Starlink could help India reach more people.
• India should complete the remaining clearances and spectrum allocation so Starlink can begin commercial service.
• SpaceX’s Vice President of Starlink Business Operations, Lauren Dreyer, said that Starlink is ready to help achieve Prime Minister Modi’s vision of 100% connectivity across India. She highlighted its potential to connect remote classrooms, support telemedicine and restore connectivity after disasters, adding, “With Starlink, people can get connected within minutes, not years.”
India’s hardest-to-reach communities deserve reliable internet too.
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Someone should send this clip to Minister Nitin Gadkari who has been parading top executives of automobile companies to push his agenda on Ethanol blending.
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BPCL’s own official just admitted on camera: ethanol petrol gives 30% LESS mileage.
ANI deleted the clip within hours.
Meanwhile the Petroleum Ministry has been telling 140 crore Indians for a year that the drop is “just 1-6%” and dismissing every complaint as “fake news.”
A LocalCircles survey of 24,710 vehicle owners found 66% of pre-2023 petrol cars are losing over 10% mileage. 25% are losing over 20%.
Real people. Real bills. Real engine damage.
And who owns the ethanol companies benefiting from this forced mandate? Nitin Gadkari’s own sons run Manas Agro and CIAN Agro; built out of his family’s Purti Group; supplying the very fuel his ministry is ramming down the country’s throat.
You’re not paying more for “green fuel.”
You’re paying more to fund a minister’s family business while your bike and car engines wear out early.
Where’s the transparency, @nitin_gadkari ji?
Why was the BPCL clip deleted?
Drop your mileage-drop numbers below. 👇 Let’s make this impossible to hide.
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Today, the Attorney General of India told the Supreme Court that E20 is still an experiment — with results expected only next year.
This is the Union of India's own sworn submission.
Team Bharat began this research with one thesis: that E20, as structured, was never built to benefit Indian farmers. It was built to open a permanent market for American corn, ethanol and DDGS.
We have not found anyone else, anywhere, who traced this specific chain before: the DDGS export contradiction, the GAIL joint venture with a company holding DuPont's conversion patents, the undefined import quota with no reprocessing restriction. Team Bharat connected those dots first.
The evidence for who actually benefits is no longer speculative. Mark Mueller, President of the Iowa Corn Growers Association, called India's $500 billion trade commitment "a win for corn farmers." The US Grains Council said, plainly, that they need more "export homes" for DDGS. Indian sugarcane farmers, meanwhile, are still owed arrears that have tripled in a year, now being pushed toward maize — the one feedstock this very programme made more expensive.
>Forex saved? Not correct — the figure ignores the dollar liability India is now taking on.
>Self-sufficiency? Not correct — we traced a new dependency forming, not less of one.
>Farmers benefit? Not correct — sugarcane farmers remain unpaid, now pushed toward a costlier crop.
>Environment protected? Widely reported that the water and soil cost has not been honestly accounted for either.
We don't know what moved the government to tell the Court this is still an unproven experiment. What we know is that it confirms everything Team Bharat has documented.
None of this reached the public on its own. Heartfelt thanks to @tehseenp brother — your voice carried this further than any of us could alone. Thanks to @factswithdinesh, @nachiket1982, to everyone who asked questions, @ShivrattanDhil1, and filed RTIs. This is your win as much as anyone's.
Team Bharat is asking for course correction, not confrontation — pause the mandate until the results the government itself promised arrive, and restore E5-E10 as a choice.
e20report16june2026.vsjv.lin…
— Team Bharat
@badjourno @sanket @sabeer @bsindia @ajeetbharti @INCIndia
To the public: "E20 fuel is safe and fully tested."
To the Supreme Court: "It’s just an experiment, we’ll know results next year."
The government completely lied about E20 readiness. They rushed this rollout to serve vested interests and corporate logistics, leaving millions of everyday vehicle owners to act as guinea pigs in a forced, destructive trial. Complete betrayal of public trust. #EthanolScam
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Mumbai receives 8 months of sunshine and experiences a hot and humid climate.
It now has a 5.25 km sea-facing promenade without any tropical trees (yes they planted few after getting belt treatment)😭
Indian bureaucracy is perhaps the world's worst urban planners in the world
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Read this exclusive, intimate portrait of eight ordinary young Indians caught in an extraordinary situation, told in their own words, before they scatter back to their villages and disappear from the news cycle forever.
By @purnima_sah_
(7/8)
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Mumbai built its best public transport where people own the most cars.
Its worst? Where people have no other option.
New IIT Bombay study explains why your commute is the way it is.
🧵 @IndianExpress
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2003 - Satyendra Dubey, IIT Kanpur grad, wrote to PM Vajpayee exposing corruption in the Golden Quadrilateral project. Begged to keep his name secret. Shot dead on his 30th birthday.
2004 - Manjunath Shanmugam, IIM Lucknow grad, sealed a petrol pump selling adulterated fuel under PM Manmohan Singh’s govt. 6 bullets. Dead at 27.
2005 - Narendra Kumar, IPS officer, seized illegal mining trucks in MP under CM Shivraj Chouhan. Crushed under a tractor. Dead at 30. His IAS wife was pregnant.
After these deaths, Parliament passed the Whistleblower Protection Act in 2014.
It has NEVER been activated. 12 years. Not a single day.
PM Modi’s govt said it needs amendments. Then introduced amendments in 2015 that actually gutted the law, making it illegal to expose corruption if it touches the Official Secrets Act. That bill failed and lapsed. Govt said okay, original Act is fine then. Still didn’t activate it.
100+ RTI activists killed since 2014. No party is innocent.
Modi’s govt has sat on the protection law for a decade.
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From tomorrow, India becomes the ONLY country in the world to mandate SIM binding for WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal.
Not the US. Not the UK. Not even China. Just India.
The government says “cybersecurity.” Let’s fact-check that with their own data.
They already blocked 9.42 lakh fraudulent SIM cards. Already saved INR 5,489 Crore through existing systems. Already froze 24 lakh mule accounts.
The existing tools ARE working. So why put 100 Crore+ Indians under surveillance?
Cyber fraud in 2024 was INR 22,845 Crore. Banking apps ALREADY have SIM binding. Did that stop it? No. Fraudsters use burner SIMs. They’ll keep using burner SIMs. This rule punishes ordinary citizens, not criminals.
The Supreme Court in Puttaswamy (2017) ruled Privacy is a fundamental right under Article 21. Any restriction must be legal, necessary, and proportionate. This fails all three.
Meta and Google have formally called it “unconstitutional” and “ultra vires.” Even former Qualcomm VP Parag Kar confirmed Apple’s iOS literally blocks apps from reading SIM identifiers. The tech doesn’t even support what the government is demanding.
No public consultation. No parliamentary debate. No judicial oversight for disconnecting your access. WhatsApp Web forcefully logged out every 6 hours.
Internet Freedom Foundation demanded a rollback. Industry challenged it legally. Government’s response? “No extension.”
Yesterday I wrote about how the Whistleblower Protection Act was never implemented. Today the same government wants your messaging identity without a court order.
Won’t protect those who expose corruption. But will track every message you send.
This isn’t cybersecurity. This is a pattern.
