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A skill I learned late was defining a good North Star. I see product makers pick simplistic North Star Metrics and not be able to articulate what even is a North Star. When done right, the North Star Metric can help you grow faster. This quick (and simple) primer can help. 🧵
Follow the GT Road pollution trail.
CPCB AQI (6 Nov, 4 PM): Amritsar 138 → Jalandhar 146 → Ludhiana 204 → Ambala 270 → Karnal 212 → Panipat 214 → Sonipat 270 → Delhi 382.
Elsewhere: Mandi Gobindgarh 331, Gurugram 368, Ballabgarh 397, Gajraula 407, Kanpur 238.
Punjab recorded 357 farm fires that day. The pollution is regional, but far from uniform. Crop burning contributes, while local emissions, wind and atmospheric conditions matter significantly.
The question isn't just where the fires are. It's where their smoke travels, accumulates and mixes with other pollution. For instance, Yamuna Nagar about 50km from Ambala has about 170 readings.
P.S. Map uses CPCB's official 24-hour city averages. The highlighted area is illustrative, not a scientifically modelled pollution plume.
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They are police officers, and they are involved in corruption. They demanded money from me in exchange for removing my name from a case. When I refused to pay, they allegedly added my name to an existing case and are now attempting to implicate me in another new case as well.
Furthermore, they entered my flat without presenting any search warrant, broke down my flat door.
I have now collected evidence and details relating to their alleged corruption and misconduct.
I intend to take legal action against all the officers involved, including the Investigating Officers (IOs) handling both the previous and the current cases, as well as every other officer involved in these incidents through court.
I will pursue legal action against all of them and seek accountability for the alleged corruption, illegal entry, destruction of property, assault, and misuse of police authority.
RTI on Previous I/O - Check Attachments
Previous I/O Mohit Bhati
PS Connaught Place
Present I/O SI SONU KUMAR
No. D-6817
PS Vivek Vihar
@DelhiPolice @CMODelhi @BJP4Delhi @DCPCentralDelhi @LtGovDelhi
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A Bengaluru-based startup is building modular, stackable 1 MW data centres.
It takes @Evoracharge 8 weeks to deploy these N1 Pods next to solar farms, compared to the ~6 months it takes AI companies to get a new grid connection.
Oh, and they're air cooled. No water needed.
Trump may have just delivered the ultimate DEI outcome, without DEI!
A diverse mandate, earned at the ballot box.
#USElections #Midterms2026
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1 in 7 rupees in India did not exist a year ago.
M3 money supply grew 16% this year. Inflation, on paper, is 5.5%.
This is the most under-discussed, persistent problem in the Indian economy. This 16% “hidden tax” is starting to show up everywhere:
1. Gold is up 17% in INR - almost exactly the M3 money supply increase. Interesting, right?
2. Domestic GST collections are up 15.8%. Also almost exactly the growth in money supply. The “record GST” is just taxing more money being printed.
3. GST on imports is up 42%, because the rupee fell 7.6%, on top of increased costs. We shouldn’t celebrate paying more tax on the same iPhone.
4. The most egregious one: 7.8% real GDP growth assumes prices across the whole economy rose just 2.3%. (Nominal GDP grew 10.3%. Use the 5.5% CPI instead and real growth is closer to 4.5%.) Does your lived experience validate a laughable 2.3% inflation?
5. The one thing that did NOT keep up is your portfolio. Since 1997, money supply is up 44x and the Sensex is up 20x. Put every INR you had into Indian stocks for 30 years and the money printer beat you by 2X.
Taxes keep going up. Capital controls keep tightening. Inflation keeps going up. The structural problems, courts, land, labour and the cost of capital, stay exactly where they were, hidden under a nominal GDP number. We are printing like there’s no tomorrow and pretending nothing is wrong.
Ludwig von Mises called inflation “the true opium of the people administered to them by anti-capitalist governments and parties.”
Printing is the easiest way to keep welfare flowing and the headlines green without fixing a single structural problem. Inflation is the most immoral tax that we pay, without knowing we’re paying it.
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पुण्यातील रस्ते व्यवस्थापनासाठी तंत्रज्ञानाची जोड!
पुणे महानगरपालिका आणि एथर एनर्जी यांच्यात सामंजस्य करार
पुणे शहरातील रस्त्यांवरील खड्डे, रस्त्यांची दुरवस्था, रस्त्यांवरील खोदकामाचे पट्टे व गतिरोधक ओळखून दुरुस्तीच्या कामांना प्राधान्य देण्यासाठी पुणे महानगरपालिका आणि एथर एनर्जी लिमिटेड यांच्यात एक वर्षाचा सामंजस्य करार करण्यात येत आहे. एथरच्या पुण्यातील २४ हजारांहून अधिक कनेक्टेड स्कूटर्समधील तंत्रज्ञानाधारित माहितीच्या साहाय्याने रस्त्यांचे ‘आरोग्य नकाशे’ तयार करून रस्ते व्यवस्थापन व पायाभूत सुविधा नियोजन अधिक माहिती-आधारित करण्यास मदत होणार आहे. प्राप्त माहितीची प्रत्यक्ष क्षेत्रीय पाहणीद्वारे पडताळणी केली जाणार असून, ही माहिती रस्ते देखभालीसाठी पूरक ठरणार आहे.
या प्रसंगी मा. महापालिका आयुक्त श्री. नवल किशोर राम, मा. अतिरिक्त महापालिका आयुक्त (इ) श्री. प्रजित नायर, मा. शहर अभियंता श्री. अनिरुद्ध पावसकर, मा. माहिती तंत्रज्ञान विभाग प्रमुख श्री. राहुल जगताप तसेच एथरच्या वतीने मा. उत्पादन विभाग प्रमुख व मुख्य कर्मचारी अधिकारी श्री. मिलिंद कोठेकर, मा. कॉर्पोरेट, कायदा व सार्वजनिक धोरण विभाग प्रमुख डॉ. श्री. सुरेंदर सिंग्रोहा, मा. वरिष्ठ उत्पादन व्यवस्थापक श्री. ऋषिकेश प्रधान आणि शासकीय संबंध व धोरण विभागाचे मा. श्री. अमोल मोहिते उपस्थित होते
नागरी सेवा, शहरातील अधिकृत माहिती आणि सार्वजनिक उपक्रमांची माहिती एका क्लिकवर मिळवण्यासाठी PMC CARE ॲप आजच डाउनलोड करा:
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Vikrama Dhiman retweeted
Q2 FY27 was a very strong quarter for us at @atherenergy. We’re seeing demand grow at a pace that requires us to significantly step up our manufacturing capacity. Pre-orders reached a record 1.80 lakh during the quarter, more than doubling year-on-year, with growth broad-based across regions.
To meet this demand, we’re adding 2.25 lakh units of annual production capacity across our Hosur and AURIC facilities. This will take our total installed capacity to ~4.9L units by Q3 FY27 and to 11.4 lakh units by Q2 FY28.
We also made meaningful progress on our financial performance, driven by higher volumes, tighter cost control and improving unit economics. We recorded our second consecutive quarter of positive EBITDA, with strong topline growth despite rising commodity prices and supply chain disruptions:
• Total income: ₹1,527 crore 🔼 62% YoY
• EBITDA margin: 4.9%, improving ~1,450 bps YoY
• PAT: ₹1.26 crore
• Volumes: 93,211 units 🔼 42% YoY
Thank you to our customers for their continued trust, and to our teams and partners for their efforts!
Vikrama Dhiman retweeted
Just another Sunday afternoon in SF: I paid $60 for 2 humanoid robots to clean for an hour.
Here's how it went:
(1) What happened: Sergey and Chelsea (the names of the two robots) finished about 80% of one floor in an hour: tidying, wiping down surfaces, vacuuming, mopping, cleaning the toilet.
- They came with a staff engineer at the company, who dropped them off and picked them up after an hour.
- They were controlled by 1 human operator each, in the Mission where the company office is at.
- The engineer gave me a number to text them, I texted a request to wipe the mirror. They did it.
(2) Performance and dexterity: Chelsea dropped a toy, struggled with a pillow, and had trouble balancing on the playmat. But overall, for all the tasks they did, grippers were enough. 5 fingers were not needed.
- The engineer told me the hardest task for them was making bed.
- They were quite loud, stomping around the house. Took a bit of time to get used to. They both wore gripper socks which protected the floors and helped them not slip.
- Interaction: I didn't know they can respond via voice. In the end they were conversing with us in voice which was nice.
(3) Unexpected observation: Their pants and shirts have holes in them. It's because they were dragged on and off the vans that transported them.
(4) Other user feedback: I shared my experience with some friends afterwards.
A user told me that unloading dishwasher was an "advanced task". They didn't attempt at mine since it was running at the time they were working. Another user said they scratched their hardwood floor. That's probably why they now wear gripper socks.
(5) Did they do as well as human cleaners? In terms of the tasks they did, I think so. In terms of speed, they were ~80% speed of humans when it comes to the more delicate tasks, but I would say they are quite smooth. They didn't finish the whole place, so it wasn't a full service.
(6) How does the math work out?
Each booking was only for 1 hour, since their batteries need to be swapped after 1 hour. So they didn't finish the place.
For a user: In SF, it's ~$200-220 to clean a full home around my neighborhood, with two human cleaners. Usually it takes around 2.5 hours. So around $40/manhour. This is $30/robot hour. Slightly cheaper, but again it's not fully finished with the 1 hour they were available.
For the company: It took 2 robots, 2 human operators, 1 staff member to dropoff/pickup, and 1 driver of the van to transport the robot. Definitely labor intensive. But they also retain the data they collect for training purposes.
(7) My biggest takeaway as a user: interaction / hospitality mattered. One of the humanoids was more friendly (Sergey), he waved at us when he came in. It'd have been great if they both introduced themselves in the beginning.
Beyond that, being able to do 2 hour slots (instead of one) would be great to finish the cleaning.
Overall, I appreciated their work and the fact that they got the robots out in people's homes. Deployment is not easy and so much learning from it each time
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Was telling a friend. India’s problem that it is facing right now is that the new money, not just for the rich, but for the upper middle class are not seeing the civic governance gains that the old money sees. Old money - Jayanagara Indira Nagar, HR BR layout, Alwarpet, T Nagar Adyar have much better quality of living while new money Bellandur Whitefield, Varthur, North Bangalore, Thorai Pakkam, Perungudi, Sholinganallur, Perumbakkam, all suffer with nil urban civic amenities and governance.
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This was a young boy who did not even carry a placard. Look at the cops unleashing their wrath on him. I tried telling them its against the SC guidelines but who cares about law anymore
Indigo is a scammy airline.
The prime passes they give as part of BLU upgrades are never enabled when booking a flight.
Today they changed the aircraft and people who paid for the emergency seats for extra legroom got bumped back to normal seats. When pointed out the crew says they can’t do anything! You can write to an email ID! We don’t take onboard complaints anymore.
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Had this man not found the courage to fight back after being repeatedly attacked with an axe capable of cutting through metal—while bleeding profusely—and had the presence mind to trigger the hijack/emergency code, initiate the emergency response and open the cockpit door to allow passengers to assist him, the aircraft’s subsequent dive could have had catastrophic consequences.
Had that aircraft not been recovered, the geopolitical consequences for the Middle East could have been profound and potentially irreversible.
Sometimes history turns on the courage, resilience and presence of mind of one person.
Yes. One Indian man.
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Breaking 🔥
Punjab Police Officials confirm that nephew of Amit Shah was involved in LPU (Lovely Professional University( incident which happened in GH3 Hostel in room 116.
Officials say that they have sent special teams to Delhi to arrest him
If you think we can easily copy this when Robots become cheap and easily available, you couldn't be more wrong. Structural ecosystem advantages are hard to copy. And, China is leaping forward across the ecosystem. Unfortunately, India is still in elementary and slow growth cycle.
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People say this all the time, completely ignoring that China, Singapore, Korea, Israel, Malaysia, etc also became independent around then but are far more developed. When you point this out, they say “but that’s different.”
The reality is this is decades of atrocious governance.
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India's immense stamina for useless issues is declining
The issues consuming the country are schools, roads, exam leaks and unemployment. Meanwhile, the BJP is debating how many stanzas of Vande Mataram we should sing. It's a result of a competency trap -- its stars succeeded in an era when they could stir up useless issues and useless issues mattered to Indians.
(My latest column in the Mint)
livemint.com/opinion/online-…
Bangalore Rains.
Beautiful weather (envy of rest of India) and at the same time, completely hopeless road and traffic situation. Paid 600 INR for a cab for this distance coz one of the premier addresses in the city was so flooded that you can't walk through it.
