How are sentient beings being given as gifts? What is the reality behind it? 💔 Madras High court lifted the blanket ban on temples and private individuals from acquiring elephants on 2nd September, 2026 and almost immediately, five young elephants from Assam (Durga, Shiva, Hiralal, Rupsing and Bijuri) were cleared off to go to Tamil Nadu temples for a life of captivity away from their families. Mind you, the same bench which allowed temple captivity, didn't allow the very old elephant Abhayambigai to retire from the Shri Mayuranathaswamy Temple, Mayiladuthurai, Tamil Nadu, where she has been captive at for more than half a century! Everyone saw the video of distressed baby elephant Durga in chains at Meenakshi Amman Temple. Did you hear the cries of her mother when she was taken late at night from Manas national park? Elephants are reportedly being sold to temples in Tamil Nadu under the guise of “gifts/donations”, because trading elephants is illegal in India. Private owners are allegedly convinced to “donate” them, with paperwork stating they can no longer maintain the elephants. Is the Assam Forest Department doing proper due diligence — or is there more to this racket? Baby elephants being brought to TN temples have not happened in the past 10 years. Now 5-year-old Durga has arrived, and 4 more baby elephants are reportedly on their way. According to sources, these baby elephants are worth close to Rs 1 Crore in the black market. Have we lost all humanity? Do sentient beings deserve a lifetime of chains, concrete and captivity in the name of "tradition" and "money making"? All this cruelty to these elephants have been made possible by the Wild Life (Protection) Amendment Act, 2022 introduced by the BJP led union govt which inserted a new proviso under Section 43(2). It legally permitted the transfer or transport of captive elephants for "religious or any other purpose". We urge the @CMOTamilnadu, Madras High court, @tnforestdept and @CMOfficeAssam to show mercy on these young elephants! The old ones are still suffering in Tamil Nadu temples and a fresh batch of young elephants are being condemned to a torturous fate 💔 #SaveDurga #NoElephantsInTemples #EndElephantCaptivity #SaveAssamElephants

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Since a Week American and Canadian Cities are topping the AQI charts of the world. Where is the outrage? Is it only for growing economies?

🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: 25-year-old Argentinian biologist Pilar Ferrer has developed an injectable gel that helps repair damaged heart tissue after a heart attack

Five eateries seems to have offered bhog to Milords 😂🤣 Judiciary has power to fix this country but does nothing when so much of taxpayers wealth is looted in open sight at various stages of governance & beurucracy . Whole society is going on the path of Monery before everything else thru illegal means I hope one day Judiciary gets person like Tukaram Mundhe to take suo moto cognizance of rot in system & fix it

An MIT Media Lab study used EEG to track what happens in the brain when people write with ChatGPT rather than on their own. Fifty four students completed essay tasks while wearing electrode caps. One group used ChatGPT, one used a search engine, and one used no tools. Across sessions, the ChatGPT group showed the weakest neural connectivity in networks linked to memory, attention, and analytical work. They also had more trouble recalling what they had just written and produced more generic prose. The authors describe this as a kind of cognitive debt: the tool does the synthesizing, and the brain stays quieter [1]. The same experiment points to a better order of use. Students who first wrote unaided and only later switched to ChatGPT showed stronger recall and more widespread brain activity than students who started with the model and then had to work alone. In other words, the model helped more when it scaffolded thinking that was already underway than when it replaced that thinking from the start. The practical lesson is not that large language models should be banned. It is that they work best as a second pass, after the writer has already done the hard part of forming and remembering an argument [1]. [Kosmyna, N., Hauptmann, E., Yuan, Y. T., Situ, J., Liao, X. H., Beresnitzky, A. V., Braunstein, I., & Maes, P. (2025). Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task. arXiv. DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2506.08872]

A few days ago, a pothole appeared outside my house after the rains. I complained to the municipality, but it was a voice complaint,no photos, no visual evidences. So I filed it on CPGRAMS with photographs. Within 24 hours, PWD called for the location. A few hours later, the pothole was fixed, and completion photos were uploaded. Then came calls from the district, state and Centre asking if it was actually fixed and whether I was satisfied. Complaint → Accountability → Action → Verification. This is how you use the system. We need more CPGRAMS Crusade. Spot it. Photograph it. File it. Track it. Get it fixed.

Meta sold 7 million pairs of Ray-Ban smart glasses in 2025 while quietly stripping US users of the right to opt out of voice-recording storage without notice. Intimate footage from private homes reviewed by outsourced contractors in Nairobi. When confronted, Meta didn’t fix the pipeline, it cut ties with the contractor while the surveillance model stayed intact. This isn’t a breach. It’s META business model. bbc.com/news/articles/c0q33n…