#AsianGames Ever seen two opponents celebrating together after a tough boxing final? Parveen Hooda and Chen Nien-chin (Taiwan) revel in each other's success. Absolutely fantastic scenes from the boxing ring.

What textbooks in India erased. On the death of Gandhi, Congress party mobs attacked hundreds of Brahmins and killed many, just because Godse was a Brahmin. Someone truly seated in ahimsa cannot have such a violent death and violent aftermath. This not what the shastras teach. Someone apparently inspired by Hindu thought cannot be the cause of the massacre of Brahmins. There was something wrong with this picture. When I learnt of this, the veil in my eyes lifted. We published this book, which documents the atrocities based on eye-witness accounts.

Shankar Balasubramanian is the 2026 Wolf prize Laureates in Chemistry. Huge congratulations to him and a proud moment for all of us. On a warm evening in August 1997, four chemists sat down at a pub in Cambridge. They had no conference room, no funding and no company, only a half-formed idea. Today, the technology that grew from that evening sits beneath more than 90% of the world's DNA sequencing data. Shankar Balasubramanian was born in Madras on 30 September 1966. A year later his parents moved to England, to a rural patch of Cheshire near Runcorn. He spent his summers as a laborer on a neighbouring farm. And he dreamed of something that had nothing to do with chemistry: playing football for Liverpool FC. Instead, his path led to Cambridge, where he took a degree in natural sciences in 1988 and a PhD in enzyme chemistry in 1991. Then came a postdoc at Penn State, and in 1994, a return to Cambridge to start his own research. Just outside Cambridge, the Sanger Institute was busy with one of the largest projects in the history of biology: reading the human genome for the first time. The international effort ran from 1990 to 2003, and took about 13 years and billions of dollars. Balasubramanian and fellow chemist David Klenerman were not thinking about any of that. They were studying DNA polymerase, the enzyme that copies DNA, by watching it work under a laser. Then, on 26 August 1997, Balasubramanian invited Klenerman and two postdocs, Mark Osborne and Colin Barnes, to what he called a "beer summit" at his local, the Panton Arms. He often held meetings there, joking that the Chemistry department had no conference rooms and his office was too small. Over that evening's drinks, an idea came together. What if each of the four building blocks of DNA were tagged with its own colour? Then you could simply watch a strand being built, one coloured flash at a time. And what if you did it not once, but on a chip, for billions of fragments at the same moment? Years later, Balasubramanian looked back through his 1997 diary. Next to the line "meeting Klenerman & Co", he had written three words: "the Solexa idea!" In November 1997 the two went to a firm of venture capitalists. Balasubramanian carried four overhead transparencies. His claim was staggering: this method could make sequencing 10,000-100,000x faster and cheaper. They founded the company Solexa in 1998. Nine years later, in 2007, Illumina acquired it for $650 million. Along the way came the first commercial machine in 2006, and in 2008 the first African genome sequenced with the technology, in a Nature paper with about a hundred authors. The pub's regulars were among them. In 2026, Balasubramanian, Klenerman and the French scientist Pascal Mayer were awarded the Wolf Prize in Chemistry. The citation credits their work with a million-fold improvement in sequencing speed and cost, bringing the price of a human genome to under $200. In a Cambridge University feature on their story, Balasubramanian recalls a promise he once made at the Panton Arms: "I once told the landlord that I'll make him very famous one day."

The Roman Empire paid for Indian goods in gold, and a single hoard in southern India held over 8,000 of the coins. The Kottayam hoard, north of Nelcynda, was probably deposited from a Roman vessel that foundered off the coast, and the latest coins were struck under Nero. More than 20 hoards from the reign of Augustus alone have turned up in the Tamil country, the Coimbatore Gap has produced more Roman coins than the rest of the subcontinent combined, and the Chera, Pandya and Chola kings minted coins imitating Roman portraits. Pliny put the annual outflow at 50 million sesterces. Kottayam, at about 800,000, is a small fraction of a single year.

Η  ίδρυση της Κυπριακής Δημοκρατίας πριν από 66 χρόνια, αποτέλεσμα των διαχρονικών αγώνων του λαού μας, που κορυφώθηκαν με τον εθνικοαπελευθερωτικό και αντιαποικιακό αγώνα της ΕΟΚΑ, ήταν και παραμένει η κορυφαία μεταβολή στην μακραίωνη ιστορία της χώρας μας. Η Κυπριακή Δημοκρατία είναι η σημαντικότερη κατάκτησή μας. Ο σεβασμός και η προστασία της, η συνεχής αναβάθμιση της υπόστασής της και η ενίσχυση όλων των παραγόντων ισχύος της, τόσο στο εσωτερικό όσο και διεθνώς, αποτελούν ύψιστη προτεραιότητά μας.

Greetings to FM @ckombos, the Government and the people of the Republic of Cyprus on their Independence Day. Our time-tested friendship & strategic partnership, rooted in shared values, continues to deepen and diversify. 🇮🇳🇨🇾

When push comes to shove we are most selfless people.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: My salute to the Indian pilot Captain Smit Machchhar for his extraordinary bravery. Despite being stabbed and seriously injured, he fought back, resisted, opened the cockpit door, and enabled passengers and crew to overpower the attacker — preventing a catastrophic mid-air disaster. He saved the lives of 174 people, including Israeli citizens and other nationals. I wish Captain Machchhar a speedy and full recovery. He is a true hero.

The hijacker (and co-pilot) on board FZ1073 stabbed Cpt Smit Machchhar, an Indian national during the flight, but the Captain heroically managed to open the cockpit door before collapsing. His quick thinking saved over 170 lives today and enabled the passengers to subdue the terrorist as he was attempting to crash the plane. Wishing him a full recovery and sending our thanks on behalf of Israel!

Ανάμεσα στις προτεραιότητες που θέσαμε από την πρώτη ημέρα ανάληψης της διακυβέρνησης του τόπου είναι Να εκσυγχρονίσουμε το κράτος, Να διορθώσουμε χρόνιες στρεβλώσεις και Να δημιουργήσουμε θεσμούς που ανταποκρίνονται στις ανάγκες της σημερινής εποχής. Σήμερα, στο Υπουργικό Συμβούλιο, εγκρίνουμε το νομοσχέδιο για την Ειδική Εκπαίδευση. Μετά από δεκαετίες, αλλάζουμε τη φιλοσοφία του συστήματος και θέτουμε στο επίκεντρο το Παιδί. Θεσμοθετούμε πιο εξατομικευμένη στήριξη για παιδιά με αναπηρίες και για όσα έχουν ανάγκη πρόσθετης υποστήριξης, Ενισχύουμε τον ρόλο των γονέων, Θεσπίζουμε πιο διαφανείς και αποτελεσματικές διαδικασίες, και Κατοχυρώνουμε το δικαίωμα σε απολυτήριο για όλα τα παιδιά που φοιτούν στα γενικά σχολεία. Οικοδομούμε ένα πιο Σύγχρονο και Συμπεριληπτικό σχολείο. Ένα σχολείο που προσαρμόζεται στις ανάγκες και στις δυνατότητες κάθε παιδιού. Γιατί ίσες ευκαιρίες στην εκπαίδευση σημαίνει να προσφέρουμε σε κάθε παιδί τη στήριξη που χρειάζεται για να αναπτύξει τις δυνατότητές του. Φίλες και Φίλοι, Το Μεταρρυθμιστικό μας πρόγραμμα προχωρά με συγκεκριμένες αποφάσεις, με θεσμικές τομές, με επίκεντρο πάντα τον πολίτη και τη βελτίωση της καθημερινότητάς του, την ενίσχυση του Κράτος Δικαίου, τη διαφάνεια, τη λογοδοσία και την εμπιστοσύνη προς τους θεσμούς. Μέσα σε αυτό το πλαίσιο, χαιρετίζω, τη συνέχιση σήμερα, της συζήτησης στην Κοινοβουλευτική Επιτροπή Νομικών για τη Μεταρρύθμιση της Νομικής Υπηρεσίας. Η Κυβέρνηση έχει καταθέσει μια ουσιαστική θεσμική τομή: τον διαχωρισμό του συμβουλευτικού από τον διωκτικό ρόλο για τον Γενικό Εισαγγελέα, τη δημιουργία του θεσμού του Γενικού Δημόσιου Κατήγορου και τη θέσπιση αποτελεσματικού ελέγχου των αποφάσεων που αφορούν την άσκηση ή μη άσκηση ποινικής δίωξης. Πρόκειται για αλλαγές που χρειάζεται ένα σύγχρονο ευρωπαϊκό κράτος δικαίου και που ανταποκρίνονται στις συστάσεις ευρωπαϊκών και διεθνών θεσμών. Με αξιοπιστία, θεσμική σοβαρότητα και συγκεκριμένες αποφάσεις, συνεχίζουμε το μεταρρυθμιστικό μας πρόγραμμα. Συνεχίζουμεη να αλλάζουμε την Κύπρο μας, προς όφελος της κοινωνίας και των πολιτών.

While the debate about accepting them continues, Mandhol stands as a story of extraordinary courage and audacity. In 1971, a Pakistani artillery battery deployed at Mandhol was causing considerable discomfort to our troops. A team from 9 SF crossed over, struck the position and destroyed the entire battery. It remains regarded as a unique operation in the recorded history of modern armies, in which an entire artillery battery was destroyed in such a raid. Few decorations were awarded, for different reasons. But medals cannot define the scale of what was achieved at Mandhol. The raid became a case study and continues to be discussed at Special Forces training schools across the globe. A mission of exceptional courage, audacity and professional excellence. Proud of 9 SF. @adgpi

If you are a professor in a univ/school/college, do prescribe @GarudaPrakashan books for your courses and for your library. We have amazing books debunking the Left narrative, we all need to do our part in changing things. Our full catalog is at grpr.in/catalogue

Smt Anuradha Gore, who today, completed 31 years sans her only son CAPTAIN VINAYAK VISHNU GORE 31 MEDIUM #IndianArmy who was immortalised fighting terrorists at Kupwara in Jammu & Kashmir in 1995. When her son was immortalized, she received only INR 3 Lakh in compensation from Mahrashtra government whereas 1993 Bombay roits victims got INR 6 Lakh. Value of a soldier’s life in the eyes of political & bureaucratic class. #FreedomisnotFree a few pay #CostofWar.

Commune Mag published a story on my tweet and I didn’t expect the reception it got. Frankly, someday, I should just go unhinged and talk about everything I know - about so many ppl lol. Maybe when I retire

When Dhanya Rajendran And Chitra Subramaniam Reportedly Pleaded With Nupur Sharma To Stop Shaming Them For Using Hindu Names For Muslim Culprit thecommunemag.com/when-dhany…

India pulls in $12b in FDI (new equity) in July; third-highest monthly total on record. $66b over 12 months; up 12% year-on-year. rbidocs.rbi.org.in/rdocs/Bul…

Finally, end to end encryption for group messages is here. Please update the Arattai app. This took time because we had to redo a lot of the app but finally it is here! We will start a marketing campaign soon.

Training side by side, one terrain feature at a time. U.S. and Indian Army soldiers conducted combined jungle tactical training in Auli during Yudh Abhyas 2026, navigating dense terrain and engaging targets as integrated squads. #YudhAbhyas2026 #YA26 #OperationPathways

🙏🇮🇳 Just 5 Sanskrit Ślokas hold greater value than all the math books ever published by the 🇬🇧 British Empire. They are Brahmagupta’s 628 CE verses on positives, negatives and ZERO. Just 18 Ślokas of symmetry compressed into five verses. The West copied the basic math yet left the logic behind. I’m posting all 5, one by one, with the kid-simple explanations schools never give. Follow @jcrabtree now so you don’t miss the ślokas that finally make math common sense and can download them free. Which one should I drop first? Comment “A” if you want the set for Addition. “S” if you want the first set for Subtraction. “M” if you want the first set for Multiplication. “D” if you want the first set for Division. As soon as there are 10 replies the downloads begin to BOOKMARK this post now!

Himalayan Monal, state bird of Uttarakhand, India and the national bird of Nepal. Found around 2,000-4,500 m in Himalayan forests .