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🚨 Verify the Viral
❌ Several social media accounts are circulating a misleading video claiming that Indian Army soldiers are transporting wounded personnel following an alleged confrontation with Chinese PLA troops in Arunachal Pradesh.
✅ The original footage is of Operation Karegutta, an anti-Maoist operation in Chhattisgarh during which an Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) planted by Maoist insurgents, caused injuries to personnel. The footage is being misrepresented as evidence of casualties from alleged clashes with Chinese troops.
Original Video Link 🔗:
youtube.com/watch?v=122BgQda…
♻️ Disinformation Pattern: Unrelated anti-Maoist operation footage + IED-related injuries falsely linked to China + Fabricated border clash narrative = Misleading India-China Border Propaganda.
📍 Stay Alert | Verify Before Sharing
#IndianArmy
#ArunachalPradesh
#LAC
#IndiaChinaBorder #OperationKaregutta
#Disinformation
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🚨 Detect the Deepfake
❌ A digitally altered video is being circulated with fabricated remarks attributed to Lt Gen Girish Kalia, claiming that China has taken control of Asaphila, Longjou and Taksing Circle in Arunachal Pradesh and that the Indian Army has been denied essential supplies. The misleading video attempts to portray fabricated statements as a leaked admission by a senior Indian Army officer.
✅ The video uses #SyntheticGeneratedInformation to falsely attribute remarks to Lt Gen Girish Kalia. The original footage relates to a press briefing delivered by then GOC 28 Infantry Division, Maj Gen Girish Kalia, in Kupwara, Jammu & Kashmir, on 27 October 2023. He addressed infiltration attempts across the Line of Control, reporting 10 foiled attempts, the elimination of 27 terrorists and the recovery of warlike stores and narcotics. He made no such statements about Chinese control over Arunachal Pradesh or denial of supplies to the Indian Army.
📍 Original Statement 🔗: xitter.cf/ANI/status/17178550335…
♻️ Disinformation Pattern: Old military briefing + Digitally manipulated remarks + False attribution + Fabricated territorial claims = Misleading military disinformation.
⚠️ Verify the original speech before amplifying manipulated videos.
#FactCheck #DetectTheDeepfake #IndianArmy #ArunachalPradesh #FakeNews
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@SpokespersonMoD
#WATCH | Kupwara, J&K: GoC 28 Infantry Division Major General Girish Kalia says, "There has been a constant endeavour from across the Line of Control to disturb the peace and vitiate the security environment in Jammu and Kashmir. You all have been witness to the continuous attempts of infiltration being made from across the Line of Control. In the last 8 months, we've had 10 such attempts in our divisional area of responsibility which have resulted in the elimination of 27 terrorists and recovery of large quantity of warlike stores. In addition, we've also recovered a huge quantity of narcotics which establishes a deep nexus between the defence establishments in Pakistan and the terrorist groups...Yesterday's operation in a way is a befitting tribute to our infantrymen who have worked tirelessly for the last many decades to ensure that peace continues to prevail in the valley. The security forces are working in complete synergy today. We are committed to defeat any attempt of the enemy to disrupt the security situation in Kashmir Valley with firm resoluteness and steadfast commitment..."
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BIG BREAKING: Gyanesh Kumar and EC goes on the front foot.
ECI FILES AFFIDAVIT BEFORE SUPREME COURT
ECI SAYS ALL DECISIONS PERTAINING TO SIR UNANIMOUS
Election Commission of India files counter affidavit in Supreme Court on plea against CEC's functioning; says petition built entirely on a single news report
What ECI says:
Affidavit approved unanimously by all three members: the CEC and both Election Commissioners
All three SIR orders (June 2025, October 2025, May 2026) were unanimous decisions of the Commission
Notes, queries or suggestions by the CEC or ECs while a file moves are not decisions of the Commission
Files go to one EC, then the other EC, then the CEC. In urgent cases, approval is taken electronically and recorded on file later
Any officer issuing orders beyond delegated powers will face action
July 28 work allocation order was issued by an Additional Secretary on deputation. Both ECs wrote to the Cabinet Secretary the next day. The order was never implemented after the ECs' joint direction of July 30
Form 6 has not been amended. Only the Centre can amend it. The SIR declaration is a separate document
Admits the online display could be read as an amendment. From October 21, the online application will be split into Form 6 and the declaration, as in the physical form
Unmapped voters need not attend hearings. BLOs will collect documents from their homes. Hearings only in exceptional cases, preferably online
ECINet: no name is added or deleted except by order of the ERO. A committee with experts from IIT and IISc has been set up to check compliance
Goa: of 97 "left out" voters, 88 had already been enrolled, 6 were abroad and 3 held Portuguese passports
West Bengal appeals against inclusion of voters were filed by officers of the CEO, West Bengal, under Supreme Court orders. "These matters were not brought to the Commission"
Plea to restrain the CEC is not maintainable. CEC can be removed only like a Supreme Court judge
Commission never released or authorised the release of any internal note or file to the media
Repeated challenges to EVMs already rejected by the Supreme Court
Short reply filed due to Dussehra vacation. ECI seeks liberty to file a detailed para-wise response
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Zero Proof?
Answer these 7 questions with a Yes or No.
If your answer to even one question is “No,” I will accept that there is zero proof.
1. Is Neville Roy Singham connected to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)?
Yes or No
2. In April 2018, did Singham’s WWM purchase 8,333 shares in loss-making NewsClick at Rs 11,520 per share, comprising a face value of Rs 10 and a premium of Rs 11,510 per share, for a total investment of Rs 9.59 crore?
Rs 10 shares at Rs 11,520
Yes or No
3. Between March 2018 and 2021, did NewsClick receive over Rs 76.84 crore in payments for services from foreign entities, including organisations linked to Neville Roy Singham?
Yes or No
4. Did NewsClick pay Rs 97.32 lakh to Bappaditya Sinha, who is reportedly a member of the CPI(M) IT cell and manages the social media accounts of several CPI(M) leaders?
Yes or No
5. Has Prabir Purkayastha, the founder of NewsClick, been a member of the CPI(M) for over 50 years?
Yes or No
6. Did NewsClick publish material during 2020–23 that could reasonably be described as favourable to China’s political or ideological narrative?
Yes or No
7. Did the May 2026 judgment address the EOW case and the ED’s money-laundering proceedings arising from the 2018 foreign-investment transaction without adjudicating whether NewsClick published pro-China propaganda, whether foreign actors influenced its editorial decisions, or whether a coordinated information operation existed?
Was the separate UAPA case, involving allegations of Chinese propaganda and foreign influence, outside the scope of that judgment and still ongoing?
Yes or No
Let me know if your answer to any one of these questions is “No.”
How shameless can you get @Akshita_N . Your former Tihar return Journalist ran an entire show targetting me and Newsclick. Your hindi and English news channels targetted us for more than a month. You did the same with Riya चक्रवर्ती. The entire battery of Godi media Journos made and cast aspersions on me and Newsclick. But zero proof of either China agenda shows or tampering with the Indian Map. All if which was a part of the bjp driven propaganda . Allegedly बोलने गुनाह पर पर्दा डल जाता है? इतनी बेशर्मी आती कहाँ से है? किसी ने कहा Newsclick should sue this Govt ? You destroyed a platform based on lies . You froze their accounts . 100 plus people dependent for their livelihood on Newsclick had no jobs . Maximum still don't. ये बकवास आप कैसे बोल सकते हो? Journalist या BJP IT cell की कर्मचारी.
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1/5 Sharjeel Imam has given an interview detailing his Islamist manifesto. Surprisingly, no storm has been kicked up over pronouncements that are so unapologetically anti-liberal, anti-secular, anti-democracy, anti-Constitution—in a word, anti-national.
2/5 He openly calls the Constitution fascist, labels secularism a trap, and denounces democracy as a contrivance to deny Muslims their political rights.
3/5 The piece is a litany of indictments against the liberal class. Imam rejects any difference between liberals and Hindutvadis. In his essentialist worldview, all Hindus are the same, unanimous in denying Muslims political power they claim as a divine right.
4/5 Inadvertently, Sharjeel has recognised something that liberals have been fighting shy of acknowledging: that Hindutva’s idea of India is anchored in the same “overarching nationalist framework”— that Muslims are Indians above all else.
5/5 For more, read this Opinion article by Ibn Khaldun Bharati, who looks at Islam from an Indian perspective:
Sharjeel Imam’s Islamist manifesto will be forgotten. The silence of liberals will not
theprint.in/opinion/sharjeel…
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Look forward to a riveting session today with @VishnuNDTV on his book ‘The Sky Warriors’ @kslitfest -
1630 hrs, Kasauli Club.
Vishnu has spoken to several pilots and soldiers involved in #OpSindoor and the book is ample proof of the conversations that bring out stories of the men and women who were involved on the frontlines!
Took me less than 88 hours to read this exhilarating account of Op Sindoor.
Join us if you are in Chandigarh or Kasauli today!
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SMPP Ltd, at the centre of an alleged bribery scandal, is missing from the govt's latest blacklist, issued days after the arrest of its CEO & two others. The list names 22 firms—none new. It is periodically reviewed, leaving SMPP in line for a possible listing in the next update.
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Oleg Gordievsky (1938-2025) was a high-ranking Soviet KGB colonel who secretly acted as a double agent for Britain's MI6 during the Cold War. Recruited by MI6 in Denmark in 1972 (codenamed SUNBEAM), he passed vital secrets to the West for over a decade without asking for money, driven purely by ideology. He later rose to become the KGB Rezident (station chief) in London. During the tense 1983 Able Archer 83 NATO exercise, Gordievsky reassured Western leaders (including Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan) that the Soviets genuinely feared a preemptive nuclear strike, helping defuse a catastrophic miscalculation. He also vouched for Mikhail Gorbachev early on as a true reformer. He was unmasked in 1985 due to the betrayal of CIA mole Aldrich Ames, recalled to Moscow, and placed under interrogation and house arrest. British intelligence orchestrated a dramatic rescue (Operation Pimlico), sneaking him across the Soviet-Finnish border hidden in the boot of a diplomatic car...
One of Britain's most valuable spies escaped the Soviet Union concealed in a car boot. In July 1985, senior KGB officer Oleg Gordievsky was hiding from the intelligence service he had served for decades. His secret work for British intelligence had placed him in mortal danger, and Soviet authorities had recalled him from London under increasingly suspicious circumstances. With surveillance closing around him, MI6 activated a carefully prepared escape plan. Gordievsky had to reach the Finnish border without being discovered by the organization that had trained him to hunt spies.
Gordievsky had joined the KGB in the early 1960s and served in Soviet intelligence posts abroad, including Copenhagen and London. His political outlook changed as he witnessed Soviet actions in Eastern Europe, particularly the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. During the 1970s, he established a clandestine relationship with British intelligence. From inside the KGB, he supplied information about Soviet espionage, diplomatic operations and the Kremlin's understanding of Western intentions. His position became increasingly valuable as he rose through the Soviet intelligence establishment. By the mid-1980s, he was the KGB's most senior representative in London.
Among Gordievsky's most significant contributions was intelligence concerning Soviet fears during the 1983 NATO exercise Able Archer. Western governments initially underestimated the extent to which some Soviet officials interpreted the exercise as a possible preparation for nuclear attack. Gordievsky's reporting helped British officials understand the anxiety inside the Soviet security establishment. His information also gave Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher insight into Soviet political thinking during the early years of Mikhail Gorbachev's leadership. The danger for Gordievsky was that every promotion increased both his value as a source and the consequences if Moscow discovered his deception.
In May 1985, he was unexpectedly ordered back to the Soviet Union. He suspected that the KGB had begun questioning his loyalty. Later evidence pointed toward American CIA officer Aldrich Ames, who was secretly supplying information to Moscow, as a major source of the compromise. Once back in Moscow, Gordievsky was subjected to questioning and surveillance. He later described being drugged during an interrogation attempt, although some details of that experience rest on his own recollections. Soviet officials did not immediately arrest him, leaving him in the agonizing position of knowing that his freedom might be temporary. Escape required activating a plan prepared years earlier.
#archaeohistories
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ARDE, DRDO shortlists SSS Defence & Kalyani Group to develop indigenous 20mm gun for Rudra, LCH helicopters.
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India to launch Indian Army's GSAT-7B by Mid-2028, IAF's GSAT-7C by ~2030 and 52 SBS-3 Satellites by 2029
ISRO will launch the Army’s dedicated GSAT-7B by mid-2028 under a ₹3,000-cr deal, ending reliance on IAF’s GSAT-7A for border operations. This follows MoD’s ₹2,563-cr pact for IAF’s GSAT-7C and the rollout of 52 SBS-3 surveillance satellites by 2029.
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Aerolloy Technologies Selected by Safran
Aircraft Engines for Critical Titanium
Castings for the LEAP Engine Programme
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During the emergency we organised a reception for Shanti Bhushan in the Congress grounds in Teynampet in Chennai. We all celebrated him for fighting for Rajnarayan and Indira
See how he became utterly corrupt later
The father and son Bhushan duo grabbed with BJP govt support 4.7 acres of Tea garden to set up a high class education business but that attempt failed as Govt resumed possession
Two points.
They shamelessly got land from their ideological enemy BJP
Had they retained it, the land would be worth Rs 35 cr today
But they were more lucky with Mayavati largesse than with BJP largesse
See here
They for 20000 sq meter land allotted by Mayavati in Noida for defending her in Noida land scam
They paid for that land Rs 3cr. Today's it is worth believe it
Rs 1300-1400 cr
They also evaded stamp duty of Rs 1.35 cr while buying land in Allahabad Civil lines. The court directed them to pay it
Prashant Bhushan who has got this illgotten wealth is the man fighting for democracy and against Corruption
What a shame? How shameless he is ?
Read on for more details
The public and legal controversies surrounding Shanti Bhushan and Prashant Bhushan involve specific land transactions and legal actions that became subjects of intense political and legal scrutiny, particularly during their involvement with the anti-corruption movement (India Against Corruption).
1. Land and Property Controversies
• The Palampur Tea Garden Land Case (Himachal Pradesh):
In 2010, the Kumud Bhushan Education Society (a trust run by the Bhushan family) was granted permission by the then-BJP government to purchase 4.66 hectares of tea garden land in Palampur for setting up an educational institution.
Political opponents later alleged that the land was acquired at highly discounted prices. Under Section 118 of the Himachal Pradesh Tenancy and Land Reforms Act, land-use for tea gardens cannot easily be modified.
In September 2014, following a probe initiated under the Congress state administration, the local administration ordered the vesting of the land and its buildings back to the state government, citing a failure to utilize the land for its designated educational purpose within the stipulated timeframe.
Noida Farmhouse Allotments (Uttar Pradesh):
In 2011, it emerged that Shanti Bhushan and his other son, Jayant Bhushan, were allotted two 10,000-square-meter plots of land in Noida by the Mayawati-led Uttar Pradesh government under a discretionary farmhouse development scheme in 2009. Critics flagged a potential conflict of interest, noting that Jayant Bhushan had been appearing as a lawyer against the Mayawati government in a high-profile local park case. The Bhushans maintained that the application followed standard regulations and denied any wrongdoing.
Indian Express reported on 14.12.2011 that the CAG audit found rules were flouted for allotment of 20000 sq meter land to Bhushans and excheque lost Rs 145.8 cr
They paid a subsidised price of Rs 3 cr for the land.
In Today's value AI says the loss to the exchequer represents atleast Rs 1300-1400.cr
• Allahabad Property Stamp Duty Case:
In 2011, civil authorities in Allahabad ruled that Shanti Bhushan had evaded ₹1.35 crore in stamp duty during his purchase of a historical property in Civil Lines, Allahabad.
The Assistant Stamp Commissioner ordered him to pay the outstanding duty along with a monetary penalty. Shanti Bhushan contested the ruling, labeling it a legally flawed order driven by political pressure.
प्रशांत भूषण के बाप थे शांति भूषण। शांति भूषण एक नामी वकील थे और उन्होंने आपात काल के पहले इंदिरा गाँधी के खिलाफ राजनारायण का केस लड़ा था और इंदिरा गाँधी केस हार गयी थी।
उनको उसका ईनाम तब मिला जब केंद्र में मोरार जी देसाई की सरकार बनी और इन्हे लाॅ मिनिस्टर बनाया गया।
२०१२ में जब अन्ना आंदोलन हुआ तो बाप- बेटे उसमे सक्रिय रूप से शामिल हुए और और बाद में आम आदमी पार्टी के फाउंडर मेंबर भी बने।
तब शांति भूषण ने आम आदमी पार्टी को एक करोड़ रुपये का चन्दा दिया था।
बाद में कई मुद्दों को लेकर केजरीवाल से इन बाप- बेटे का मतभेद हुआ, खासकर कश्मीर में रेफरेंडम के अधिकार के बयान पर आम आदमी पार्टी ने इनसे दूरी बनानी शुरू कर दिया। रेफरेंडम वाले बयान के बाद ये अपने दफ्तर में ही लात खाया था।
उसके बाद कुछ मुद्दों पर मतभेद इतना बढ़ा कि एक मीटिंग के दौरान ही केजरीवाल और उसके समर्थकों ने प्रशांत भूषण, उसके बाप शांति भूषण और योगेंद्र यादव को जमकर माँ- बहन की गालियाँ दी और इन्हें पार्टी से बेईज्जत करके बाहर निकाल दिया। कुछ लोग तो यह भी दावा करते हैं कि इसके बुजुर्ग बाप को कूटा भी गया था।
तो जो बंदा एक करोड़ देने के बाद भी अपने ९० साल के बुजुर्ग बाप को लात खिलवा कर, माँ- बहन की गालियाँ सुनवा कर, खुद लात खाकर और गाली सुनकर केजरीवाल जैसे खजुहे का एक बाल भी नहीं उखाड़ पाया, वह नरेंद्र मोदी की सत्ता उखाड़ने चला है।
मरने के पहले यह कई बार लात खायेगा, क्योंकि यह आदतन लतखोर है। जल्द ही कोई इसको रिचार्ज करो रे।
साभार
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The Sundarji Story goes to the hills.
Join me on 25 Oct at @kslitfest Kasauli for a crackling session on India’s most unconventional and influential military chief !
Is Sundarji most ‘Celebrated or Debated’ ? Come and find out.
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Kasauli ! 22-25 Oct.
‘The Sundarji Story’ travels to the hills.
Join us for a rollicking ride with General Brasstacks!
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The best Japanese admiral of WW2 wasn't Yamamoto. It was a destroyer commander the Americans nicknamed "Tenacious Tanaka."
Rear Admiral Raizo Tanaka.
No carriers. No battleships. Just a squadron of destroyers, a stack of the best torpedoes in the world, and a nearly impossible job.
August 1942. US Marines have landed on Guadalcanal and grabbed the airfield. Japan needs to land troops and supplies on the island to take it back. But American planes from that airfield own the skies during the day. Any Japanese transport caught in daylight gets sunk.
So Tanaka moves at night.
His destroyers race down "the Slot," the channel through the Solomon Islands, arrive off Guadalcanal after dark, unload, and are gone before dawn. Over and over. Night after night. The Marines started calling it the "Tokyo Express." It ran so regularly you could almost set a watch by it.
Destroyers aren't cargo ships, though. So Tanaka's men got creative. They packed supplies into steel drums, roped the drums together, and pushed them overboard near shore so troops could swim out and haul them in. Destroyers built to fight were now delivering groceries under fire.
Then came the night of November 30, 1942.
Tanaka is heading for Guadalcanal with eight destroyers. Six of them are loaded down with supply drums, decks cluttered, not ready for a fight. He's told to expect trouble.
Trouble is waiting. An American task force of five cruisers and six destroyers under Rear Admiral Carleton Wright. The Americans have radar. The Japanese don't. Wright detects Tanaka first. On paper, this should be a massacre.
But the Americans hesitate before firing torpedoes. When they do open fire, they pour almost everything into one Japanese destroyer, Takanami, and quickly sink it.
The muzzle flashes give the American cruisers away.
Tanaka doesn't panic. His crews have trained for exactly this. Within minutes, his destroyers fire spreads of Type 93 torpedoes, the weapon the Americans would later call the "Long Lance." Huge, fast, running on pure oxygen so they left almost no wake, and with a range far beyond anything the US Navy thought was possible.
The torpedoes come out of the dark.
USS Minneapolis is hit and loses her bow. USS New Orleans takes a hit that sets off a magazine and blows off her entire bow, nearly 150 feet of ship. USS Pensacola is hit and burns. USS Northampton takes two torpedoes and sinks.
In about half an hour, a force of half-loaded destroyers had crippled or sunk four heavy cruisers. Around 400 Americans were killed. Japan lost one destroyer.
The Battle of Tassafaronga is still considered one of the worst US Navy defeats of the war. Even the official American naval historian later praised Tanaka for it.
And here's the twist.
Tanaka understood something his bosses refused to accept. Guadalcanal was lost. Feeding an island by throwing drums off destroyers wasn't a strategy. It was a slow bleed of ships and men Japan couldn't replace. He said so.
In December 1942, after his flagship was sunk and he was wounded, he was removed from command. He never commanded at sea again. He spent the rest of the war in shore assignments, sidelined.
Two months later, Japan evacuated Guadalcanal.
Tanaka survived the war and lived until 1969. The man the Americans respected most was the one his own navy didn't want to listen to.
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Rolls-Royce may be slowly moving beyond the Safran conundrum.
1. Strategic partnership with reliance.
2. Offer of IP & Entire engine complex
So, the ambition is no longer just to manufacture an AMCA engine in India, but to build a sovereign aero-gas-turbine ecosystem with Indian ownership of design and IP.
If realised, this could fundamentally decouple fighter procurement from engine dependence. India could eventually choose its fighters & engines independently.
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Well, these guys are creating XLUUV under 1000cr :)
Order is for 12 units, plus they have MPUAV, USVs too.
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Marine robotics startup Rekise Marine has raised $9.7 Mn (₹92.5 Cr) in a seed funding round led by Accel and NKSquared, Zerodha cofounder Nikhil Kamath’s investment firm👇
The round also saw participation from angel investor Sameer Brij Verma, Sandeep Singhal, Industrial47, Singularity AMC, among others.
Founded in 2017 by naval architect Maitrai Maka and Rear Admiral Shekhar Mital (Retd), Rekise Marine develops autonomous surface and underwater vessels for defence and commercial maritime applications. It builds and integrates its vessels in-house, working with India’s premier shipyards, including Goa Shipyard Limited and GRSE Limited.
🔗Read the full article here- 4-2.co/4uv0vmQ
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Congratulations team @NS_FutureReady and @joe_sameer
A new chapter for Indian deep-strike capability takes off at @NS_FutureReady
We congratulate our #GryphonWorks team on successfully conducting the test trial of a RATO booster on the Sheshnag-150 #OWA drone, a first for an #IDDM long range strike asset!🇮🇳
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Legends like him are so rare!
In June 1942, the most famous admiral in the US Navy was lying in a hospital bed in Pearl Harbor, covered in a skin disease so bad he couldn't sleep.
Bill Halsey was supposed to lead America's carriers into the biggest gamble of the Pacific War. Instead, he told Nimitz to give the job to Raymond Spruance.
Spruance was a cruiser admiral. Not a pilot. He had never commanded a carrier, never led an air battle, and now he was being handed two of the three flattops America had left in the Pacific, with Japan coming for Midway.
On the morning of June 4, he made the call that decided the war. Instead of waiting to close the distance, he launched nearly everything he had at long range, as early as he could, before the Japanese could hit him first. It was a huge risk. Planes would run low on fuel. Some never made it back.
By the end of the day, four Japanese carriers were burning. Akagi, Kaga, Soryu, Hiryu. Four of the six that attacked Pearl Harbor, gone in a single day.
Then came the part almost nobody talks about.
That night, every instinct said chase them. Finish it. But Spruance knew Yamamoto's battleships were out there, and in the dark his carriers would be sitting ducks against big guns. So he turned east and pulled back. Yamamoto was in fact steaming toward him hoping for a night fight. He never got it.
Spruance won the battle and then refused to lose it.
After Midway, Nimitz made him his chief of staff. The two men lived in the same quarters at Pearl and went on long walks together almost every day. Spruance was famous for those walks. Miles a day, rain or shine, thinking through the war.
Then Nimitz gave him the Fifth Fleet, and Spruance ran the Central Pacific drive. Tarawa. Kwajalein. Saipan. Iwo Jima. Okinawa.
Here's a detail most people don't know. The Navy used the same ships for two fleets. When Halsey was in command, it was Third Fleet. When Spruance took over, the exact same ships became Fifth Fleet. One admiral fought while the other planned the next campaign.
In June 1944 at the Philippine Sea, Japan threw its rebuilt carrier air force at him. American pilots shot down so many planes it got nicknamed the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot. Japanese naval aviation never recovered. Three more enemy carriers went to the bottom.
And he still got criticized. Aviators were furious he didn't charge west to chase the Japanese fleet. But his orders were to protect the Saipan landings, and he would not leave thousands of Marines exposed for a chance at glory.
Four months later at Leyte Gulf, Halsey did exactly what Spruance refused to do. He took the bait, chased a decoy force of Japanese carriers, and left an entire landing force nearly undefended. A handful of destroyers and escort carriers had to fight off Japanese battleships on their own.
Suddenly Spruance's caution didn't look so cautious anymore.
Off Okinawa in 1945, a kamikaze slammed into his flagship, USS Indianapolis. He moved to the battleship New Mexico. A few weeks later, kamikazes hit that one too. He kept commanding.
After the war, Congress had a limited number of five-star slots. Halsey got the fifth star. Spruance didn't. Congress later passed a law giving him full admiral's pay for life, which was basically an admission that he'd been shorted.
He never wrote a memoir. Never did the press tour. Never fought for his own legacy. He ran the Naval War College, served as ambassador to the Philippines, and went home.
When he died in 1969, he was buried at Golden Gate National Cemetery. Right next to him are Chester Nimitz, Kelly Turner, and Charles Lockwood. The four of them arranged it years earlier so they could rest together.
The quietest admiral of the war won its most important battle and then spent the rest of his life letting other people take the credit.
His name was Raymond Spruance. Remember it.
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Independent journalists are being widely praised for their coverage of the ongoing protests in Delhi. But what lies behind this carefully cultivated image of independence?
These journalists openly give protesters a platform, take their side during confrontations, and even obstruct police action. Their conduct during protests is there for everyone to see.
I decided to put some of these self-proclaimed independent journalists to the test. Using a fake email ID, I approached several of them with a proposal to create Instagram videos for the SP ahead of the 2027 UP elections.
What happened next? They responded with work samples and quoted their prices for producing political content. I’m sharing screenshots of the email replies I received from each of them as evidence.
Meet journalist Mamta Singh. You may have frequently seen her videos on the media outlet News Capsule. Mamta Singh quoted ₹40,000 for a single reel. 1/
