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Breaking: US Senators - backed by Trump - propose hitting India and others with upto 100% tariffs for buying Russian oil BUT their new bill will exempt European allies for purchasing Russian natural gas

@thetatvaindia I have seen few on Tirupati-Tirumala trail

@ARanganathan72 @narendramodi Moving beyond first order effects to second and third order consequences, examining trade-offs, incentives, opportunity costs, and alternative solutions That's the kind of analytical thinking we need to develop looking beyond the policy and understanding the entire system👏

At least 15 people, including Indian tourists, have died after a boat capsized near an island off Vietnam’s Phu Quoc on Saturday (July 11, 2026). The boat was carrying 32 Indian tourists and four crew members from Hon May Rut to An Thoi Port, according to Vietnamese news portal VN Express International. It capsized about 400 metres off Hon May Rut Ngoai, throwing everyone on board into the sea. 📹ANI 📸AFP

#BREAKING: 15 Indian nationals killed as a tourist speedboat capsized today at Phu Quoc Island of Vietnam. In total 32 Indians were on board. More details are awaited.

Are these demands realistic? Can they be fulfilled? Yes, absolutely But business wise this is a massive threat for them. Social media platforms are free because they make money by selling your attention to advertisers. The longer you stay on the app, the more ads you see.

The Specific EU Demands 1. Disable "Infinite Scroll" by Default 2. Stop "Autoplay" 3. Implement Screen-Time Breaks 4. Adjust Recommendation Algorithms: Tweak the system so it is less aggressively "engagement-oriented"

European Commission @EU_Commission

3 weeks ago

In the EU, social media platforms are accountable for their addictive designs. Our investigation of Instagram and Facebook shows Meta has not adequately assessed the risks of features such as infinite scroll, autoplay, push notifications, and recommender systems. Meta can now

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@ShashiTharoor is right to focus on the top five dominant networks (like IS, JNIM, TTP, and al-Shabaab), which are religiously motivated in most cases. Focus should also be on rising global trend of politically motivated terrorist attacks, which increased by almost 20% in 2025.

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The Hindu @the_hindu

3 weeks ago

While the world may be recording fewer terrorist attacks, it is simultaneously confronting a far more resilient and adaptive adversary, Congress MP @ShashiTharoor observes in an opinion piece written for The Hindu Read here: thehindu.com/opinion/lead/t…

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Posible Scenarios after Hasina return: 1. Immediate Detention and the "Theatrical" Trial 2. Death Sentence but No Immediate Execution 3. The Strategic Bluff (No Actual Return) 4. Geopolitical De-escalation for India 5. Domestic Destabilization, assassinations and riots

Reuters @Reuters

3 weeks ago

Ousted Bangladeshi PM Sheikh Hasina, sentenced to death in absentia in Dhaka for ordering a deadly crackdown on protesters, told Reuters she and Awami League colleagues plan to return from Indian exile in December to surrender reut.rs/4fuAiRa

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Concerns Raised? Asset Seizures before the entire legal adjudication and appeals process is finalized. Proselytisation: lacks a clear legal definition, can be wrongfully targeted as acts of conversion. Critics argue the bill lacks distinction between minor and serious offences

What the Bill Actually Says? Creates "Designated Authority" with civil court powers Mandates that NGOs must specify their activities under (social, political, educational, cultural, religious) Specify geographical operating areas. Prohibit "proselytisation".

The Hindu @the_hindu

3 weeks ago

The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) submitted a memorandum against the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2026, to Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday (July 10, 2026), Jonathan Lalremruata, advisor to the apex body of the Catholic church in India, said.

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In 12 Years, India’s Energy Dependency Has Sharply Zoomed m.thewire.in/article/energy…

Brazil gives consumer choice Instead of forcing consumers, Brazil let market prices determine fuel choice. Most new cars are FFV If ethanol became cheaper, drivers naturally bought ethanol Indian consumer have this choice? NO, The government and fuel suppliers decide the blend.

Express Explained 🔍 @ieexplained

3 weeks ago

Brazil’s first ethanol blending law goes all the way back to 1931. Its success story, built over decades of policy and offering choices to consumers, may serve as a template for India. indianexpress.com/article/explai…

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India cannot simply rely on others to keep maritime routes open; it must build naval dominance and diplomatic leverage and less dependence on any one route The lesson is: secure our energy, secure our trade routes, and be prepare for disruption

Sharmila @SharmilaChavaly

3 weeks ago

The former Navy chief on claims that the Nicobar mega-project the project will bolster India’s regional security: "equating India’s potential leverage over Malacca with Iran’s tight grip on Hormuz could be misleading" indianexpress.com/article/opinio…

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@tanvi_madan Safe place for all visitors Cleanliness from streets, hotels, transportation to the destinations Be hospitable be considerate of each other Make travel easy from bicycles, motorcycles to 4 wheelers make every option available Show the True culture from North to the south

Now we completely understand exactly why the United States frantically placed a sweeping ban on the sale of advanced Nvidia chips and high-performance semiconductors to China. The real threat to Western hegemony was never DeepSeek, Qwen, or other AI chatbots generating text, translating languages, and writing code. The real, terrifying threat is the massive supercomputers on the ground in China. If China builds faster and more powerful supercomputers on their own soil, they can effortlessly run highly complex, real-world, and strategically vital simulations that have direct and far-reaching military and industrial applications. And it is absolutely not surprising, nor is it a mere coincidence, that this historic, major spaceflight breakthrough involving the successful sea-based recovery of a reusable rocket booster comes practically alongside China’s unveiling of LineShine. LineShine is currently the world's fastest exascale supercomputer, built entirely with domestic components, running purely on homegrown CPU microprocessors without a single Western GPU, and completely outperforming El Capitan, the flagship national security supercomputer belonging to the United States. Clearly, it is now obvious that the aggressive export controls and tech sanctions being placed on China by Washington are not about AI safety, ethics, or international standards. They are designed strictly to slow down, sabotage, and cripple China's domestic production of these massive supercomputers. The critical reason for this high-stakes global race for exascale supercomputers is basically the computational capacity to solve the notoriously complex Navier-Stokes equations. These Partial Differential Equations(PDE) are the absolute keys to the kingdom for all of aerospace engineering, advanced weather prediction, stealth submarine design, hydrodynamic modeling, and hypersonic weapons development. There is currently no known general solution to these equations in three dimensions, and you will be handed a whopping $1 million prize by the Clay Mathematics Institute if you can find a general formula or prove the existence and smoothness of these solutions. Since no such general formula exists, sovereign nations are completely dependent on using massive, raw computing power to numerically approximate, simulate, and solve these equations. Before China unveiled LineShine, the previous, under-powered supercomputers at their disposal would take weeks, months, or even years of non-stop computing to numerically solve these Navier-Stokes equations. This is because the chaotic fluid dynamics, supersonic aerodynamics, and thermal turbulence of a massive rocket booster descending vertically through its own burning exhaust during retropropulsion, descent, and sea-based net-capture are so insanely complex that older supercomputers would literally choke on the math, taking months just to simulate a few fleeting seconds of flight. With exascale, GPU-free giants like LineShine running over two quintillion calculations per second, those exact same complex equations are now solved in real time, providing their engineers with the precise, high-velocity, and flawlessly accurate simulation data needed to successfully land, recover, and reuse an orbital booster on a platform at sea.

OSINTtechnical @Osinttechnical

3 weeks ago

For the first time, China has successfully landed an orbital reusable booster at sea.

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@ANI E20 mileage effect is a hidden efficiency tax

@PTI_News E20 mileage effect is a hidden efficiency tax

Sri Lanka suffered devastating Easter bombings in 2019, the state failed to stop them despite warnings, and new investigation is now asking whether the attack involved parts of the intelligence and political establishment. the allegations are serious; this is a story to follow🧐

The Straits Times @straits_times

3 weeks ago

Sri Lanka’s spy-thriller probe into deadly 2019 ‘Easter bombings’ bit.ly/44k8usy

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@Daily_Press Fragile State of Lebanon is actually the underlying condition that makes disarmament difficult. If you try to remove Hezbollah’s arms without first a strong state, the state may become even fragile or face civil war.