Director at The Hindu Group. Author, India’s China Challenge. Connect with me on Substack, where I write The India China Newsletter.
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He died in 1993. So technically, Modiji wasn’t interacting with the Swami
#WATCH | Prime Minister Narendra Modi interacted with Swami Chinmayananda through holographic technology at the Chinmaya Amrit Mahotsav.
The moment recalled their historic meeting in 1993.
"It makes me happy that the person I spoke to in 1993 has now become the Prime Minister of India. Whatever you have done for India so far, we are all proud of you," said Swami Chinmayananda.
The interaction showcased confluence of faith, spirituality and modern technology.
#PMModi #Holography
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At least 61,059 Form-7 applications seeking the deletion of names from Karnataka’s electoral rolls were filed by election officials themselves, with not a single application mentioning a reason for the deletion, a mandatory requirement under the Registration of Electors Rules, 1960.
✍️@pon_vasanth and @rishitaakhanna
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This is like the epigraph for the entire Trump 2.0 presidency:
‘’I don’t give a damn. We’re making a fortune’
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I was constrained to remind my fellow anchors today of how a small news website @newsclickin was falsely targeted as ‘foreign funded’ Chinese operation and its editor Prabir Purkayasta wrongly jailed for several months. News channels fell for the falsehood and some actively pushed it. Sorry for the noisy debate but happens once in a while when one is really angry. 🙏 #DemocraticNewsroom
"Show me one piece of evidence. If you can prove foreign funding, I will give up the argument."
@sardesairajdeep challenges the panel to produce concrete proof that the protests under discussion received money from abroad. The debate turns on a fundamental question: should allegations of foreign funding be treated as fact before the evidence is established? In a democracy, suspicion and proof cannot be interchangeable.
#NationalSecurity #IndiaChinaFaceoff #NIA #IndianPolitics | @PreetiChoudhry | @gauravcsawant
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China and India in a standoff at multiple locations along Arunachal border since July, India hosted Xi Jinping from Sep 11-13 for the BRICS summit.
“In the past few-days, a situation arose where face-off happened at several locations in Arunachal and it still continues,” ITBP D-G Shatrujeet Kapur said on Thursday.
This is the first official confirmation of the scale of the continuing tensions on the north-eastern border since July this year.
Government sources told The Hindu that since late July, India and China have been engaged in a stand-off at Asaphila near Taksing in Arunachal Pradesh. The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is said to have pitched tents at an elevation, within 6-7 kilometres of India’s perception of the Line of Actual Control (LAC) near Maja company operating base in Taksing circle of Upper Subansiri district, sources said. I ✍️
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ECINet, the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) comprehensive digital platform, has a feature through which viewing of enumeration form details is enabled State by State. This means that access for State Nodal Officers (SNOs) could be switched off anytime making it a centralised platform, according to an audit by ‘Charchagram’, a civic tech initiative.
✍️@sreeparna_c
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China imposes export controls on tunnel-boring machines sought by India, citing ‘national security’
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ASDD bulk deletions effected by ECI without due procedure through autogenerated Form-7s signed by EROs
✍️ V. Swathi
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Extremist Israeli settlers attacked Palestinians today and also a veteran Washington Post photographer, Heidi Levine, who wore a press vest and was kicked repeatedly as she lay on the ground.
Masked Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian villagers on Friday, setting olive groves on fire and slinging rocks.
Caught in the attack was Post photographer Heidi Levine. “They just kept kicking me and kicking me, like probably 50 times,” Levine said. wapo.st/4yt6dHY
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The Election Commission Software Deleted 5.38 Lakh Bengal Voters With Auto-Generated Rejections Without Citing a Reason.
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Trump waives implementation of sanctions under Lindsey Graham act on Russian oil imports.
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Art of the deal: India now buys more oil from the US, and the Indian people pay a premium for it: ‘India paid an average of $810.6 per tonne of oil to the US, much higher than the average $640 per tonne paid across all its oil imports.’ @SharadRaghavan thehindu.com/business/Econom…
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Iran wants a new uncontested order in the Persian Gulf; America will be retreating from the region in one way or the other; the Saudis have set a trap for themselves-- Trita Parsi tells me in this podcast, The View from india. He also explains why believes escalation is likely. Watch here:
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“WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU TELL HIM, LARRY?!”
Larry David Saw O.J. Simpson at a Country Club the Day Nicole Brown Simpson Was Killed
According to a new biography, the 'Seinfeld' showrunner and Simpson both ate breakfast at Riviera Country Club on June 12, 1994.
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For the Indian public, this is confusing. On even days, India towers above Pakistan with economic & defence might. On odd days, India watches helplessly as Pakistani infiltrators pour into the country to vote & plant fake news. If so, India has a 3-term govt - who is responsible?
Big Pakistan toolkit busted in Delhi protest.
▶️Pak fake news plot to spread unrest in Delhi.
▶️Delhi cops, intelligence agencies monitor the accounts.
#PakistanToolkit #ITVideo #DelhiProtest | @ArvindOjha @Jessica_goel
For every 1,000 Muslim electors in Delhi's draft roll, 318 were flagged for “logical discrepancies”.
The corresponding figure for non-Muslim electors was 197 per 1,000.
@vrsrini @pon_vasanth
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India’s trade deficit with China crosses $100 billion in 2026 thehindu.com/news/national/i…
