International media in the last 30 days: "India Hunger strike", "protests in India", "Floods in India." 🇮🇳India in the last 30 days: July 19, 2026: Indian Gen-Z team wins 4 gold medals (top rank) at International Chemistry Olympiad and medals at the International Biology Olympiad. July 18, 2026: Young Indians working at Skyroot Aerospace successfully launch Vikram-1, India’s first privately developed orbital-class rocket, from Sriharikota, placing payloads into Low Earth Orbit. July 17, 2026: PM Modi flags off India’s first indigenous hydrogen-powered passenger train (10-coach set) from Jind station, Haryana, on the Jind-Sonipat route as an inaugural service. July 14, 2026: DRDO completes successful military field trials of an indigenous scalable fiber-based Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) system for secure strategic communications. July 13, 2026: Lucknow-Kanpur Expressway (63 km), India’s first barrier-free expressway with satellite-based tolling, opens to traffic. July 12, 2026: Young Indian team wins 5 gold medals at the 56th International Physics Olympiad (IPhO 2026) in Colombia, securing joint world #1 rank. July 11, 2026: RM Rajnath commissions INS Mahendragiri, the sixth Project 17A stealth frigate, in Visakhapatnam (~75% indigenous content). Early–mid July 2026: Vimag Labs (Bengaluru) secures its 5th Indian patent for the Virtual Magnet Synchronous Motor (VMSM), a software-defined rare-earth-free electric motor platform. Early July 2026: ISRO announces plans for a new Satellite Earth Station campus near Ledo in Assam to strengthen space communication in the Northeast. Early July 2026: IIT Gandhinagar team wins a grant for developing indigenous liquid cooling plates for AI data centres, EVs, and high-performance electronics. June 26, 2026: Nuclear heat-based hydrogen production facility (copper-chlorine thermochemical cycle) commissioned at Kalpakkam using Fast Breeder Reactor process heat. June 24, 2026: ISRO successfully conducts hot test of semi-cryogenic engine power head at 175 tonnes thrust level. June 24, 2026: RDSO (with ARAI) successfully conducts full-scale crashworthiness testing of LHB coaches for enhanced passenger safety. June 21, 2026: PM Modi commissions three indigenously built warships in Kolkata: INS Dunagiri (Project 17A stealth frigate), INS Sanshodhak (hydrographic survey vessel), and INS Agray (ASW shallow water craft). June 15, 2026: DRDO successfully flight-tests the indigenous Long Range Land Attack Cruise Missile (LRLACM) from Odisha; all objectives met. June 10–11, 2026: DRDO conducts successful Phase-2 Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) trials and anti-ship missile tests, demonstrating capabilities against long-range ballistic threats including ICBM-class. Mid-June 2026: India’s defence production reaches a record ₹1.78 lakh crore in FY 2025-26. Mid-June 2026: Maiden flight of the indigenous C-295 military transport aircraft highlighted as a major self-reliance milestone in aviation (with 40 aircraft under production in India). June 13, 2026: First batch of women cadets trained at NDA commissioned into the defence forces. Marking the start of an women empowered era in defence.

I'm fed up with this slogan "In 2014 only 2.5L was tax free and now no tax on 12L" Let's break it with some calculation. Case A: Suppose you were earning 14L in 2014, Let's calculate how much tax you were paying after common exemption and deductions. Salary - 14L 80C - 1.5L Medical and transport - 25K Home loan interest or HRA - 2L 80D - 35K Total tax paid - around 1.3L Case B: Now just adjust old tax regime slabs, exemption, deductions to inflation and salary also adjusted to inflation in 2026. I'm taking only 6% average inflation, but you know actual inflation is higher, Rent, school, medical fees usually increase around 10%. Inflation adjusted Salary - 28L Inflation Adjusted 80C - 3L Inflation Medical and transport - 1L Inflation adjusted Home loan interest or HRA - 4L Inflation adjusted 80D - 70K Total taxable income around 20L and tax paid in inflation adjust old regime slab is ~ 2.5L Case C: Someone earning 28L in 2026 and paying under new tax regime with no exemption and deductions available. Total tax paid is ~4.1L In summary, on same salary in 2026 Tax paid in Case B which is inflation adjusted old tax regime is ~ 2.5L Tax paid in Case C which is new tax regime is ~4.1L So basically you're paying 50% more tax in new tax regime than you would have paid if Govt had given us no so called relief but just adjusted old regime tax slabs to inflation. This Govt is only good at marketing a bad product well and they're doing this marketing at our cost. Don't fall for it.

This 40-looking, 140-kg Gen Z whale has the audacity to throw the “hamare tax se inko salary milti hai” line at an Army Commanding Officer whose entry into the cordoned-off zone she was blocking. The Army isn't a private service being provided to individual taxpayers. Defence is a sovereign function of the state, funded from the consolidated public budget. A taxpayer doesn't personally employ a soldier and therefore doesn't acquire the right to order, obstruct or demean him. The soldier serves the Republic through the chain of command and the law. Army personnel pay taxes too. They are salaried employees, so tax is deducted at source. They pay taxes on their interest, investments and other taxable income as well. They neither evade taxes by default nor steal a single rupee from the public exchequer. Yet somehow, they are supposed to stand there and listen to entitled, loudmouthed, uncouth people lecture them about “taxpayers’ money.” And ironically, according to social media reports, her family is into property dealing. We all know what a spotless reputation the property-dealing business has when it comes to tax compliance. But since it’s apparently cool, the “taxpayers’ money pays your salary” taunt can always be thrown at the armed forces.

Modi govt destroyed the ISI-backed terror group Shahzad Bhatti Network ahead of Independence Day and thwarted its plans for subversive attacks by arresting more than 200 operatives. Indian security forces ripped apart the network by launching coordinated operations across different locations in 14 states upholding a brilliant example of India's zero-tolerance towards terrorism. Substantial recoveries, including IEDs, grenades bearing Pakistan Ordnance Factory markings, pistols, live cartridges, and CCTV cameras used for espionage, were made from the ISI-funded group. The network was involved in several terrorist activities.

Kids are now pausing their street games so I can pass.

कैग के मुताबिक देश के 28 राज्य वित्तीय घाटे में चल रहे है राज्य सरकारें जितना कमा रही हैं, उससे बहुत ज्यादा खर्च कर रही हैं और अपना बजट संभालने के लिए लगातार कर्ज के दलदल में धंसती जा रही हैं। इसका असर देश की अर्थव्यवस्था पर पड़ेगा।