Urban Transportation Engineer/Planner. Multimodal mobility believer.
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Sagar Onta retweeted
In a rapidly changing situation with respect to protest in Delhi, demanding resignation of CEC Gyanesh Kumar, summing up the actions over the past 24 hours :-
1. Delhi Police @DelhiPolice has declared that permission to protest at Jantar Mantar has not been granted for 10th Oct. So any attempt to hold protest at Jantar Mantar would be deemed Illegal.
2. 57 Metro station in Delhi shall be shut after 9 pm tonight till 11th Oct early morning. Central Delhi would be inaccessible by common man.
3. All mail/super fast express trains reaching Delhi at New Delhi & Nizamuddin railways stations would be prevented from docking at these stations from 2 pm onward today till early morning of 11th Oct.
4. Buses plying to central Delhi would not be on roads from late evening tonight, till early morning on 11th Oct.
5. All borders of Delhi will be sealed from late tonight. Buses, Trucks, Tractors and other mass transport vehicles wouldn’t be allowed from tonight till early morning 11th Oct.
6. Students Union activities or known CJP activists either re detained or house arrested in their residence outside Delhi or being flushed out and detained enroute to Delhi via rail / road.
7. All alcohol shops run by Delhi govt within Delhi shut today and tomorrow.
8. 22,000 armed personnel from across the country brought on to Delhi for deployment on 10th. Delhi,police to also deploy over 10,000 security personnel across Delhi.
9. New CCTV cameras with Facial Recognition installed across New Delhi.
10. Delhi Police personnel visit Mosques to warn parents and elders that youth should be counselled to stay home and not venture around any protest march.
11. Massive appeal campaign organised by security personnel asking & appealing commoners from participating in protests to be held on 10th Oct.
12. A huge surge of videos threatening punitive action against so called, “anti-national’ who plan to demonstrate or join protestors. The so called right wing activists appear with rods, lathis and weapons in the videos.
13. Several Kisan Unions appeal farmers to join the protests on 10th Oct.
14. Khap Panchayat representatives are appealing to people to both join or detest, from joining the protests on 10th Oct.
15. Massive social media campaign organised in support of CEC Gyanesh Kumar. He is being projected as saviour of Hindu Sanskriti.
16. Security detail,of CEC Gyanesh Kumar enhanced. He is going to be one of the most protected individuals in the country.
*****Can’t recall such a divisive environment in our country over Election Commission in the past 3 decades of professional journalism.
No government in india has ever made such massive security arrangements and imposed embargoes to quell a students protest, such as the one we see now.
Not even when anti-reservation protests were at its peak in 1990.
I hope the intelligence inputs are sound, if the govt anticipates large-scale violence, organised by protesting students.
But if not, then this is a very serious matter, with major ramifications.
Sagar Onta retweeted
नेपालको मुटुमा नेपालको राज्यव्यवस्था र स्थानीय शाशनको सोच र अवस्था प्रष्ट दर्शाउने सडकपेटी माथिको ओभरपास, सर्वोच्च, राष्ट्रिय अभिलेखालय र माइतीघर मण्डल सामुन्ने।
Sagar Onta retweeted
पहिले धान काट्न खेतमा जाँदा मजाले घाम लागेको हुन्थ्यो, तर दिउँसो १–२ बजेपछि पानी परेर मुसो चुटिएझैँ भिजिन्थ्यो।
अहिले किसानलाई त्यस्तो अवस्था नआओस् र मौसमअनुसार कामको योजना बनाउन सजिलो होस् भनेर यो भिडियो बनाएको हुँ।
भिडियोचाहिँ पूरै एआई प्रयोग गरेर बनाएको हो है! 😊
Sagar Onta retweeted
यो पूर्वानुमान तर्साउन होइन। आइतबारदेखि ४–५ दिन हल्का वर्षाको सम्भावना छ, गएको हप्ताजस्तो ठूलो वर्षा होइन। पूर्वदेखि काठमाडौंसम्म सम्भावना बढी र पश्चिममा कम छ। किसानले धान काट्न रोक्नुपर्दैन।
४ मोडेलको औसत नक्सामा आफ्नो जिल्ला/दिन हेर्नुहोस्: <३ न्यून, ≥४ वर्षाको सम्भावना👇
Sagar Onta retweeted
"We have built a world with flawless logistics for war and broken logistics for food"
"This is not Nepal's private misfortune. Ask Bangladesh. Ask Bhutan. Ask India. Ask the Maldives. Ask Pakistan. Ask Sri Lanka"
Nepal PM Balen Shah
Sagar Onta retweeted
"Hit by the climate we did not warm,and hit again by the wars we did not start."
Powerful words by Nepal PM @ShahBalen @PM_nepal_ in his debut @UN speech a month since the devastating Bhotekoshi Trishuli floods that have killed atleast 1400 people and 6000 are missing. Amid ongoing wars and boycott of speeches of leaders at the UNGA, Balen Shah's speech met with strong applause when he reminds the world about who is actually paying the heavy costs for the mindless bloodied war.
"Inter-continental missiles arrive on time. Rifles and ammunition cross borders, clear every bottleneck, meet each deadline. But a peasant in Nepal cannot procure his fertilizer or fuel at market price at a time of
need. We have built a world with flawless logistics for war and broken logistics for food." @SwarnimWagle @bikasrauniar @KanakManiDixit @EONIndia
Full speech- gadebate.un.org/sites/defaul…
Sagar Onta retweeted
लगातार वर्षा र केही ठाउँमा पहिरो गए पनि ठूलो मानवीय क्षतिको खबर छैन। कोशीमा वर्षा साँझदेखि कम हुने देखिन्छ। भारी वर्षाको सम्भावना अब बागमतीदेखि सुदूरपश्चिमतर्फ सरेको छ। काठमाडौंमा अहिले ठूलो पानी परे पनि दिउँसोदेखि अति भारी वर्षाको सम्भावना न्यून छ।
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Sagar Onta retweeted
The Election Commission of India is under fire like never before.
The SIR has struck 13 crore names off draft rolls, putting the EC at the centre of intense public debate over its role in deciding who gets to vote — and who doesn’t.
HOWEVER, what nobody knew: through that same period, some of the sharpest questions were being asked from inside.
Out today, after months of work. Our #ExpressInvestigation 🧵
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Sagar Onta retweeted
I asked Administration officials how the United States will support our ally Nepal after a devastating natural disaster.Dozens of Americans and thousands of Nepalis are still missing.
Officials apologized for the Administration’s slow response—then told me I was the “expert in those geographies.” 🤔
Whatever that means, House Democrats will keep pressing this Administration to do its job: help Americans abroad and stand with our allies.
I’ll continue standing with the Nepali community in Queens.
Sagar Onta retweeted
What better way to show off our city to 50 visiting mayors than from the roof of a double decker bus?
Sagar Onta retweeted
मैले यो हप्ता आउन लागेको सम्भबित भारि देखि अति भारि वर्षाको Forecast यो video मार्फत राखेको छु
फेरी पनि: यो डर देखाउन पोस्ट गरेको होइन है, तयारी र सचेत हुनको लागि मात्र हो
Sagar Onta retweeted
बिहिबार देखिको बर्षा किन नेपाल तिर आउदै छ त
भारतको उत्तरपश्चिम ( पन्जाब, हरियाणा, राजस्थान र दिल्ली सम्म) मनसून सकिएकोले त्यो ठाउँ बाट सुख्हा हावा आउदैछ
बंगालको खाडी बाट आउने न्युनाचापिय प्रणालीलाइ तेस्ले रोक्ने हुदा त्यो नेपालतिर आएर सबैभन्दा धेरै वर्षा गराउने देखिन्छ
Sagar Onta retweeted
New issue of the journal Himalaya
vol 45 no 1 (2026)
journals.ed.ac.uk/himalaya
New issue of the European Bulletin of Himalayan Research
No 66 (2026)
journals.openedition.org/ebh…
New issue of Studies in Nepali History and Society (SINHAS) 31(1), June 2026
martinchautari.org.np/mc-pub…
Sagar Onta retweeted
'Slusser also threw away scrolls containing sacred texts that she found packed into the hollow of another Buddhist sculpture, judging them to be "dried, crumbling, & DIRTY!" '
- @HimalSouthasian article by Erin Thompson (@artcrimeprof) on the art historian Mary Slusser's relationship with Npela's Nepal’s sacred heritage
himalmag.com/mary-slusser-ne…
Sagar Onta retweeted
'Mary Slusser was “sure they had just stolen” the sculpture [but] “It is really a very sweet piece and I don’t think the temple will miss it at all.”'
A detailed investigation into Mary Slusser's art theft from her time in Nepal by @artcrimeprof:
himalmag.com/mary-slusser-ne…
Sagar Onta retweeted
Nepal begins overhaul of school curriculum, with AI and indigenous knowledge in focus
Nationwide consultations seek to reshape Nepal’s school curriculum by integrating AI, disaster preparedness, entrepreneurship and indigenous knowledge.
kathmandupost.com/national/2… @sudipkaini
Sagar Onta retweeted
Today, we launch @merocasenp .
This journey started in 2011 in San Jose, CA, when Santosh Giri dai introduced me to the legal industry. I came from a business school background who knew almost nth abt the law.
Here is the story of how that paralegal journey became MeroCase 🧵👇
Sagar Onta retweeted
Much of Indian TV covered the Nepal floods the way it covers most disasters: dramatising its own presence more than the story itself.
In India, the coverage narrowed almost entirely to Indian tourists and pilgrims caught in the disaster.
✍️ @kalpana1947
newslaundry.com/2026/09/10/n…
