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In Melaka, its been a drastic change from last year!
Crackers were burst maybe 3/4 days prior to #Diwali and 4/5 days post.
But this year, it was only for a few minutes at midnight yesterday.
Wondering if it's for the haze of 2 months (stopped since 2 weeks). Current AQI - 50
2 cents on the Temple topic:
Generally:
- In a free market if a regulator has allowed a product it can be sold.
- If there is no or poor regulation it is a regulatory failure.
- Product claims can be questioned by anyone
About the Temple:
- Anatomically inaccurate in claims 1/
- Preprints don't point to very robust studies
- Science is shaky
- Goal shifting has been on record
About the outrage:
- It's healthy
- Science demands questions & accepts when answers are found
- Adding all sorts of nationalistic, jingoistic flavour is unwarranted 2/
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Toxic machismo is a national emergency right now.
15 Rounds Fired, 9 Hit Tech Mahindra Ex-Head in Faridabad Parking Dispute
Paramjeet Dhankar, former Tech Mahindra Asia-Pacific regional head, was shot dead by his neighbour Mohan Sharma in Faridabad Haryana. Sharma allegedly fired around 15 rounds from his licensed pistol during a parking argument; nine bullets hit Dhankar, killing him on the spot.
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Always an honour to visit India as a patron for Jodhpur RIFF Music Festival
जोधपुर आरआईएफएफ संगीत महोत्सव के संरक्षक के रूप में भारत आना हमेशा सम्मान की बात होती है।
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Dear @DDNewsHindi. Thank u for using our pictures. But we are @SGinIndia Singapore High Commission. Not Sri Lanka High Commission. Happy #Diwali #Deepavali #factcheck #goodjournalism. 🙏🙏 HC Wong
Demographic dividend.
Jokes apart, it's not so much about the laddoos but the newfound ease of protesting, cause notwithstanding.
Thousands of students at Allen Career Institute protested across its centres in Kota after the coaching institute allegedly failed to fulfil its promise of providing six laddus to each student before the Diwali break. Angry students took to the streets, created an Instagram page named ‘Laddu Janta Party’ and flooded social media with reels and memes over the issue. The protests reportedly escalated to the extent that the coaching management had to call the police to control the situation.
Meanwhile, some rival coaching institutes organised bhandaras offering unlimited sweets on Sunday, adding to the buzz around the controversy. Allen founder Brajesh Maheshwari reportedly made last-minute arrangements for laddus in an attempt to contain the situation.
Video: NCMIndiaa/X
#Kota #LadduProtest #StudentProtests #Diwali2026 #AllenCareerInstitute
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Sudden Cardiac Death in the young - 1/5th of the cases have a definite #genetic cause.
Three conditions predominate
Cardiac Channelopathies which cause abnormal heart rhythm
Cardiomyopathy involving muscles of heart
Familial Hypercholesterolemia which remain undiagnosed.
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Hahahahahaha. The jokes on us.
Aadhaar to be replaced by voter ID, biometrics for benefit payments: Minister indianexpress.com/article/in…
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Assessment of cerebral bood flow is one of the central pillars of my field of Neuroanaesthesiology and Neurocritical Care.
And where I work, we regularly use non-invasive methods like Transcranial Doppler and Near-Infrared Spectroscopy to try our best to find out how well the blood is flowing in the brain.
"Try our best to find out".
Anyone doing TCD, knows how difficult it is to even get a window to peep inside the brain with an USG probe.
And it still only measures the velocity and direction of the blood flowing in an artery.
Non-invasive accurate assessment of cerebral blood flow is still an area of active interest and research.
So when I see someone selling something that claims to give a picture of how blood flows inside the brain, I only wonder at the state of science and rationality in our society.
And at the consumer so gullible and blind to the scientific method, that anything fancy looking is automatically assumed to be accurate.
The sellers are just selling because there's a market.
The consumer needs to get smart first.
Dear Concerned Indian Doctors,
I see your rage against Temple on X. I have a few points
to make:
1. First and foremost, a business lesson: if Temple were a scam, and any of what we said weren't true, people would know it in just a few days of using Temple. We have 14-day, no-questions-asked returns (which even Apple doesn't offer in India). If the product doesn't work, it fails out of the gate and the company dies before recovering a tenth of its R&D.
2. We have already spent $30m building Temple, $20m out of which is my own money. Selling a few thousand devices recovers a small fraction of this investment. A scam that pays nothing is not a scam anyone would run.
3. I left the Eternal CEO role to chase purpose with Temple. This is not about money. I have enough of it to last for generations. My incentives are fully aligned with getting the science right. I am not staking a reputation earned over 20 years on making a quick buck.
4. Our employees bought into our round a few months ago. The round we're raising now is mostly our customers. Scams don't build that cap table.
5. Most wearable companies start with internal studies. Whoop shipped its band in 2015, and the first published validation followed a few years later. We hold ourselves to a higher standard; pre-prints are a step prior to peer reviewed publications, and they are coming up.
6. At some point you have to stick your neck out and say: we believe in our science, and the product is now valuable enough for people to pay for and use. We believe we are there. More validation continues in public.
7. We are confident that we are building something that the world is going to be positively astonished with. We stand by our science and our methods. Each of our claims is easily verifiable by individuals and institutions alike, and you will see a lot of independent studies come up on their own when the device becomes available to use.
Last but not the least, the most ground breaking features in Temple are not even public yet. And some of them, thankfully, have nothing to do with doctors 🤭
Hope this addresses some or all of your concerns. If not, keep raging 😘🤗
No, cancer cannot be cured.
But, with affordable healthcare one won't go seeking treatment from charlatans, with mental health support distraught caregivers won't seek solace from gurus, with scientific temper people wouldn't accept these past-karma nonsense from Babas.
What's with the figure $15bn?
Google DC in India and Malaysia announced.
Key to see that clean energy grid addition is hyped only in the Malaysian announcement.
Project timelines also quite different.
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How rich are India's top bureaucrats? A new report by The Indian Express reveals that 115 out of 244 self-acquired properties declared by 102 senior officials have no current valuation. The same number have no details of their size. So, how much do we really know about the wealth of those who run the government?
Full video: youtu.be/AKbzKuEGr2c?si=20vh…
"The guru becomes useless when there is a particle of self-knowledge" - Jiddu.
Just sad that the country is infested with these Babas, and gurus, and charlatans of all hues; exploiting on lack of scientific temper, lack of mental health support, lack of affordable healthcare...
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Five weeks ago we reported that two Election Commissioners had objected 14 times in 10 months, revealing an unprecedented rift inside the Election Commission.
Since then the Commission has reversed course on almost EVERY move the two Commissioners had
red-flagged.
The last was Form 6.
The SIR declaration is now out of the online form everywhere, including the states where the SIR is still running. It’s a separate declaration now.
With this, the reversal is complete. Let me explain.
indianexpress.com/article/in…
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