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This is how it all started. 14 Years ago My Startup Journey. From #Movinture to @mytiyoapp .#Nostalgic. And my prediction did come true :)
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IS HE FOR REAL???????????
A 13-YEAR-OLD JUST THREW THE 71.20 METRES IN JAVELIN THROW!! 🤯🇮🇳
Haryana’s Varun Bhambhu Smashed the boys’ U14 national record at the 41st National Junior Athletics C’ships 2026.
71.20M…….. AT JUST 13 YEARS AGE!!! 🔥
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After winning Brazil's Presidential Election, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva says, "We managed to convince people that voting was extremely important to safeguard democracy in Brazil. We defeated foreign intervention through digital platforms. Brazil is no one's backyard. We will change the way we run this country, we will make people participate more in decision-making process"
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Cyclone Arnab is projected to intensify into a very severe cyclonic storm and make landfall between Bapatla and Visakhapatnam along the Andhra Pradesh coast on the morning of October 28, 2026. The India Meteorological Department has issued high alerts across the eastern coast, forecasting maximum sustained wind speeds up to 125 kmph and heavy to extremely heavy rainfall. share.google/4CGd9wKTHodjgDJ…
Hi!
I would love for you to join us at Aurora 2026, India’s National AI Forum, on October 30, from 2:30 PM to 6:15 PM IST. (Registration is open: quantumtiger.in/aurora)
It brings together people shaping the future of AI, and I think you would add a valuable perspective to the conversation.
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This Dude just made the West look STUPID.🤪 I mean, what's in the water in India that's giving them an edge over the world in diplomatic dominance?
Check this guy🇮🇳 "Piyush Goyal", 🇮🇳he just DESTROYED a WHOLE PANEL of higher-ups on national television.
🇬🇧🇩🇪Bro!🇺🇸 🇮🇹You can't come back from this.🙅♂️
@narendramodi @PiyushGoyal @DrSJaishankar @realDonaldTrump @SecRubio
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#WATCH | No notebooks, no pencils just sand and the joy of learning! At 85, Kerala’s Indira Amma has spent the past 10 years teaching children Malayalam, Hindi, English and Mathematics through Ashan Kalari, keeping a beautiful age-old learning tradition alive.
#IndiraAmma #AshanKalari #TraditionalEducation #Kerala
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We are pleased to formally announce AVNI.app - A Virtual Network for Innovators | Incubators, RevOpsly, BharatWHYTEC Foundation and APEG Policy as the Presenting Partners of Aurora 2026, India’s National AI Conclave.
The next phase of AI will be shaped not by technology alone, but by the collaboration between businesses, innovators, institutions and people willing to turn possibilities into practical outcomes.
Aurora is being built around this conviction. It will bring together entrepreneurs, enterprise leaders, researchers, practitioners, educators and students to explore how AI is transforming industries, improving productivity and changing the way organisations operate.
We are delighted to have #AVNi, #RevOpsly, #BharatWhytec and #APEG join us in bringing this conversation to a wider audience. Their support strengthens the collaborative spirit at the heart of Aurora and the shared ambition to advance India’s AI ecosystem.
On October 30, we come together to look beyond the hype, examine the realities of adoption and explore what India can build in the age of intelligence.
Aurora 2026. India’s National AI Forum.
30 October 2026.
Feel the Aurora.
Registration begins tomorrow at 12 PM IST.
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𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗞𝗲𝘆𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗲 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿:
Dr. Suchit Ahuja सुचित आहूजा is the Co-Director of the Applied AI Institute Institute at Concordia University and Associate Professor of Digital Innovation and Transformation at the Concordia University - John Molson School of Business. His work sits at the intersection of business, society and technology, with particular focus on digital transformation, digital platforms and ecosystems, responsible innovation, frugal innovation and community innovation.
He brings extensive experience across academia, technology and applied research, with previous roles at Concordia University, Queen's University and Purdue University. His academic journey includes a Ph.D. in Management Information Systems from Queen’s University and graduate and undergraduate degrees in Information Technology from Purdue University.
At Concordia, he has also served as Director of the M.Sc. Program in Business Analytics & Technology Management and as Academic Lead on the Steering Committee of the Quebec Black Entrepreneurship Knowledge Hub. Alongside his academic work, he is Co-Founder of Frugalis Nova, extending his interest in innovation and technology beyond the university environment.
His research and publications explore how organisations and communities can use technology to innovate, compete and create value, including work on frugal IT capabilities, digital platforms, small-firm innovation and dynamic capabilities in IT-enabled innovation. He is also deeply engaged in fostering dialogue between academia, industry and government, making his perspective particularly relevant to conversations about how emerging technologies can translate into meaningful organisational and societal impact.
At #Aurora, Dr. Ahuja brings an interdisciplinary perspective to one of the defining questions of the moment: how organisations can move beyond AI experimentation and translate artificial intelligence into meaningful innovation, transformation and business value.
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#Aurora 2026 | 𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗞𝗲𝘆𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗲 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿:
We are pleased to introduce Prof. Udaya Raghunath Birje as a keynote speaker at Aurora 2026, India’s National AI Forum.
With nearly four decades of experience spanning global technology leadership, enterprise networking, business transformation and institution building, Prof. Birje brings a rare combination of corporate leadership and academic engagement to the conversation on technology and India’s future.
His professional journey includes senior leadership and business management roles across organisations such as HP, Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise and HCLTech, with experience spanning India, South Asia, the Middle East and Asia Pacific. His work has focused on building businesses, scaling operations, leading complex technology initiatives and translating innovation into practical outcomes.
Beyond the corporate world, Prof. Birje has contributed to entrepreneurship, startup mentoring and higher education. His engagements include NSRCEL at Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, Stanford Seed and academic advisory initiatives. An alumnus of B. M. S. College of Engineering, he remains deeply engaged with the development of technology talent, innovation capabilities and stronger industry–academia collaboration.
As a member of Quantum Tiger Advisory Board, he brings this breadth of experience to the advancement of sovereign AI and next-generation technology infrastructure.
At Aurora, we look forward to his perspective on the relationship between technology, enterprise leadership, education and the opportunities emerging as AI reshapes industries.
Join us on October 30, 2026, for a national conversation on what India can build in the age of intelligence.
Aurora 2026. India’s National AI Forum.
Quantumtiger.in/aurora
#Aurora2026 #ArtificialIntelligence #TechnologyLeadership #Innovation #IndiaAI
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#Aurora 2026 | 𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗞𝗲𝘆𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗲 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿:
We are delighted to welcome Shivani Parihast as a keynote speaker at Aurora 2026, India’s National AI Forum, supported by Quantum Tiger.
Shivani is a policy entrepreneur and strategic leader whose work spans corporate strategy, fintech, public policy, digital transformation and financial and social inclusion. With over 17 years of experience across the corporate sector, social enterprises and non-profit organisations, she brings a valuable perspective on how technology, institutions and public policy intersect to shape economic and social outcomes.
As Founder and CEO of APEG Policy, she has worked across financial inclusion, livelihood development, sustainable business practices and evidence-based policymaking. Her work has focused on translating technology-enabled interventions into meaningful outcomes for communities, while strengthening institutional capacity and stakeholder collaboration.
An alumna of Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta with an academic foundation in economics from the University of Delhi, Shivani has also pursued sustainable business strategy through Harvard University. Her work increasingly engages with questions of AI governance, data privacy, digital public infrastructure and the responsible use of technology in public systems.
As India moves from #AI experimentation towards wider adoption, the conversation must extend beyond models and applications to include governance, accountability, institutional readiness and the distribution of opportunity. These are essential dimensions of building an AI ecosystem that is both economically consequential and socially responsible.
At #Aurora, we look forward to bringing these perspectives into the national conversation on how India builds, governs and scales intelligence.
Welcome to Aurora 2026, Shivani.
October 30, 2026
2:30 PM to 6:15 PM IST
Learn more: lnkd.in/dyu8mNJj
#Aurora2026 #IndiasNationalAIForum #QuantumTiger #ArtificialIntelligence #AIGovernance #ResponsibleAI #DigitalPublicInfrastructure
Thank you for the support Vikas #Finneva
#Aurora 2026 | 𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗞𝗲𝘆𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗲 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿:
We are delighted to welcome Vikas Jha as a keynote speaker at Aurora 2026, India’s National AI Forum, supported by Quantum Tiger.
Vikas is a financial services leader with over two decades of experience spanning global banking, trade finance, supply chain finance and financial technology across India and the Middle East. His career has been defined by building financial products, leading complex institutional platforms and developing solutions that connect businesses, financial institutions and capital.
He currently serves as Managing Director and Senior Executive Officer at #Finneva in Dubai, where he leads strategic initiatives in technology-enabled working-capital finance and financial ecosystem development. His work focuses on improving access to institutional financing and making trade and supply chain finance more efficient, scalable and accessible to businesses.
Prior to #Finneva, Vikas held senior leadership positions at @EmiratesNBD_AE, where he led trade and supply chain banking platforms and drove transaction solutioning and product strategy. At @dbsbank, he spent nearly a decade in leadership roles, including heading product management for trade and supply chain banking and developing financial products and platforms across markets. Earlier, at @HSBC, he worked across trade product management and trade sales, building institutional relationships and structuring financial solutions for large clients. He began his banking career at @ICICIBank, gaining experience in relationship management and development finance.
Vikas's academic background combines technology and management. He holds a Bachelor of Technology in Agriculture from the RPCAU-College of Agricultural Engineering and Technology, Pusa, and a Post Graduate Diploma in Rural Management (PGDRM) from the Institute of Rural Management Anand (@IRMAOfficial79).
As an Advisory Board member at Quantum Tiger, Vikas brings a valuable understanding of financial institutions, enterprise decision-making, technology-led transformation and the commercial realities of scaling businesses.
His experience offers a distinctive perspective on how financial infrastructure, digital innovation and emerging technologies can work together to unlock economic opportunity and support the next phase of enterprise growth.
As India moves from #AI experimentation towards wider adoption, the conversation must extend beyond models and applications to include governance, accountability, institutional readiness and the distribution of opportunity. These are essential dimensions of building an AI ecosystem that is both economically consequential and socially responsible.
At #Aurora, we look forward to bringing these perspectives into the national conversation on how India builds, governs & scales intelligence.
Welcome to Aurora 2026, Vikas.
October 30, 2026
2:30 PM to 6:15 PM IST
Learn more: lnkd.in/dyu8mNJj
#Aurora2026 #DigitalPublicInfrastructure
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#Aurora 2026 | 𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗞𝗲𝘆𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗲 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿:
We are delighted to welcome Vikas Jha as a keynote speaker at Aurora 2026, India’s National AI Forum, supported by Quantum Tiger.
Vikas is a financial services leader with over two decades of experience spanning global banking, trade finance, supply chain finance and financial technology across India and the Middle East. His career has been defined by building financial products, leading complex institutional platforms and developing solutions that connect businesses, financial institutions and capital.
He currently serves as Managing Director and Senior Executive Officer at #Finneva in Dubai, where he leads strategic initiatives in technology-enabled working-capital finance and financial ecosystem development. His work focuses on improving access to institutional financing and making trade and supply chain finance more efficient, scalable and accessible to businesses.
Prior to #Finneva, Vikas held senior leadership positions at @EmiratesNBD_AE, where he led trade and supply chain banking platforms and drove transaction solutioning and product strategy. At @dbsbank, he spent nearly a decade in leadership roles, including heading product management for trade and supply chain banking and developing financial products and platforms across markets. Earlier, at @HSBC, he worked across trade product management and trade sales, building institutional relationships and structuring financial solutions for large clients. He began his banking career at @ICICIBank, gaining experience in relationship management and development finance.
Vikas's academic background combines technology and management. He holds a Bachelor of Technology in Agriculture from the RPCAU-College of Agricultural Engineering and Technology, Pusa, and a Post Graduate Diploma in Rural Management (PGDRM) from the Institute of Rural Management Anand (@IRMAOfficial79).
As an Advisory Board member at Quantum Tiger, Vikas brings a valuable understanding of financial institutions, enterprise decision-making, technology-led transformation and the commercial realities of scaling businesses.
His experience offers a distinctive perspective on how financial infrastructure, digital innovation and emerging technologies can work together to unlock economic opportunity and support the next phase of enterprise growth.
As India moves from #AI experimentation towards wider adoption, the conversation must extend beyond models and applications to include governance, accountability, institutional readiness and the distribution of opportunity. These are essential dimensions of building an AI ecosystem that is both economically consequential and socially responsible.
At #Aurora, we look forward to bringing these perspectives into the national conversation on how India builds, governs & scales intelligence.
Welcome to Aurora 2026, Vikas.
October 30, 2026
2:30 PM to 6:15 PM IST
Learn more: lnkd.in/dyu8mNJj
#Aurora2026 #DigitalPublicInfrastructure
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I think we should just stop taking western credit rating agencies seriously.
France credit rating Aa3.
India credit rating Baa3.
Moody’s puts France six notches above India.
Now look at the numbers:
•Debt/GDP: France ~116%. India ~85%.
•Nominal GDP growth: France ~2%. India ~8.9%.
France govt spending as % of GDP
60%
India govt spending as % of GDP
30%
India has less debt relative to its economy—and a much faster-growing nominal GDP base.
Yet it sits just one downgrade above junk.
The counterargument? France collects much more tax.
Fair. But today’s tax collection is not the same as tomorrow’s fiscal headroom.
France already collects 43.5% of GDP in taxes and compulsory social-security contributions. Exclude those contributions, and it is roughly 29%, versus approximately 18% in combined central and state taxes in India.
France has limited room to squeeze more from an already heavily taxed economy. India has greater scope to broaden its tax base as its economy formalises.That potential is not guaranteed. But it should not be ignored.
Institutions, income levels and borrowing costs matter. Nobody is arguing that credit ratings should depend on three numbers alone.
But six notches?
When a richer country’s weaknesses are treated as manageable, while a faster-growing country’s strengths are treated as insufficient, the methodology deserves scrutiny.
Is Moody’s measuring future repayment capacity—or giving too much credit to the past or it has just become irrelevant as a credit rating agency.
Cyclone Arnabbia back: #IMD warns Bay of Bengal system may intensify; Andhra-Odisha coast on alert. #Kolkata brace for a wet week ahead. share.google/4QUFKfZSGe5Z8pO…
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⚠️ CYCLONE ALERT | BAY OF BENGAL
A well-marked low-pressure area over the Bay of Bengal is likely to intensify into a cyclonic storm by the morning of October 26, moving west-northwestwards towards the Andhra Pradesh coast. It may reach near the coast around October 28. IMD issues a pre-cyclone watch for Andhra Pradesh and adjoining south Odisha coasts.
#CycloneAlert #IMD @tapasjournalist
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In the last 2 weeks, one man in India quietly did what AI labs spend billions chasing. And nobody noticed.
Jitesh Prasad, a physics grad from the University of North Bengal and MBA from IIM Lucknow, runs a one man lab called Udgam. Between Oct 10 and 23, he shipped 5 open AI models and a public benchmark.
There is Laghu, a chat model trained from scratch for $146. The full cost ledger is public, failures included: 8 rented GPUs, 13.2 hours, all in < $200.
There is Shruti, a Hindi-English-Hinglish speech to text model in a single 29.5 MB file. It runs offline inside a browser tab.
On the same Hindi test clips it makes fewer errors than OpenAI's Whisper large-v3, a file a 100x its size. On English, he tells you plainly, Whisper wins.
There is Gargi, a 384M reasoning model named after the Vedic philosopher Gargi Vachaknavi. Trained on 17B tokens, about a 1,000x less data than Alibaba's Qwen2.5-0.5B, and within 2 points of it on reasoning tests. On knowledge tests, his own model card admits, it loses badly.
Everything is Apache-2.0 on Hugging Face: weights, code, checkpoints, evaluations, even the $0.45 spent discovering a failed run.
No funding round. No press release. Just one man, thirteen days, and the belief that honest numbers matter more than big ones.
Sources: udgamlabs/blog (link in the comments); Hugging Face model cards udgamlabs/Shruti, udgamlabs/Gargi, udgamlabs/Laghu
Photo 1: Shruti model card WER table - 29.5 MB Shruti beating Whisper large-v3 (3,087 MB) on all three Hindi sets, with Whisper's English wins visible.
Photo 2: Laghu's public cost ledger - $146.26 for the main run, ~$194 all-in, even the $0.03 X search row.
Photo 3: Gargi vs Qwen2.5-0.5B - 384M on ~0.017T tokens vs 494M on ~18T, within 2 points on reasoning, honest MMLU gap in the same rows.
Photo 4: The Hugging Face org page - "Team members 1" next to the full model lineup. The one-man lab in a single screenshot.
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𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝗶𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿.
Registration is now open for AURORA 2026, India’s National AI Forum, supported by Quantum Tiger.
India stands at a defining moment in its AI journey. The opportunity ahead is not just to experiment with artificial intelligence, but to build with it. To bring together the people, ideas, infrastructure and applications that will shape a more inclusive AI future.
Aurora is where this conversation comes together.
If you are an entrepreneur, technology leader, CXO, researcher, practitioner, educator or student, this is your invitation to be part of the conversation.
October 30, 2026 | 2:30 PM to 6:15 PM IST | Virtual
Visit: lnkd.in/dyu8mNJj
Feel the Aurora. Be part of what comes next.
#Aurora2026 #IndiasNationalAIForum #QuantumTiger #ArtificialIntelligence #IndiaAI
Welcome #Shivani
@IamSuvenduChand
#Aurora 2026 | 𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗞𝗲𝘆𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗲 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿:
We are delighted to welcome Shivani Parihast as a keynote speaker at Aurora 2026, India’s National AI Forum, supported by Quantum Tiger.
Shivani is a policy entrepreneur and strategic leader whose work spans corporate strategy, fintech, public policy, digital transformation and financial and social inclusion. With over 17 years of experience across the corporate sector, social enterprises and non-profit organisations, she brings a valuable perspective on how technology, institutions and public policy intersect to shape economic and social outcomes.
As Founder and CEO of APEG Policy, she has worked across financial inclusion, livelihood development, sustainable business practices and evidence-based policymaking. Her work has focused on translating technology-enabled interventions into meaningful outcomes for communities, while strengthening institutional capacity and stakeholder collaboration.
An alumna of Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta with an academic foundation in economics from the University of Delhi, Shivani has also pursued sustainable business strategy through Harvard University. Her work increasingly engages with questions of AI governance, data privacy, digital public infrastructure and the responsible use of technology in public systems.
As India moves from #AI experimentation towards wider adoption, the conversation must extend beyond models and applications to include governance, accountability, institutional readiness and the distribution of opportunity. These are essential dimensions of building an AI ecosystem that is both economically consequential and socially responsible.
At #Aurora, we look forward to bringing these perspectives into the national conversation on how India builds, governs and scales intelligence.
Welcome to Aurora 2026, Shivani.
October 30, 2026
2:30 PM to 6:15 PM IST
Learn more: lnkd.in/dyu8mNJj
#Aurora2026 #IndiasNationalAIForum #QuantumTiger #ArtificialIntelligence #AIGovernance #ResponsibleAI #DigitalPublicInfrastructure