Eagerly watching what PopVax does next! For the uninitiated- they’ve gone clinical with their fridge-stable Covid mRNA vaccine. The vaccine can stay stable at fridge temps for 9 months, easing distribution for countries with limited cold chain infra (like India).

PopVax's initiation of our first clinical trial has been covered in the Mint by @_jesthetic! livemint.com/companies/start…

#MintPrimer | The Kerala high court on 28 September gave the Centre a legal route to intervene when patented life-saving medicines become unaffordable, holding that the government can invoke Section 100 of the Patents Act, 1970, to use a patented drug for public health purposes. Mint explains how the ruling could help improve access to expensive remedies. Read more: livemint.com/news/mint-expla… Trust our hard work, subscribe to #MintPremium: livemint.com/premium⚡️ (@krishna__65, @_jesthetic report )

Water stocks in the seven reservoirs supplying to Mumbai’s daily needs sufficient only till May 17,2027 says @mybmc to house of Corporators today. 10% water cut likely to stay for the rest of the year.

A Kerala HC order opens a legal route for the govt to make lifesaving drugs accessible to people who can’t afford them, on a non-commercial basis. The caveat - high prices alone don’t open this provision and there’s a lot more data needed. livemint.com/news/mint-expla…

Us - "Lock them up" Indian institutions - "Cool we're locking up all the women for their own safety"

💉The peptide party opened up the floodgates for discourse but the grey market has been growing for a while. Here’s a deep dive into this highly unregulated market, and what’s driving it, with @samikshagoel20 Link: livemint.com/news/inside-ind…

#MIntLongStory | Gut health, weight loss, anti-ageing—India’s grey market is bubbling with “miracle shots” promising quick fixes. The catch is, most of these products haven’t got regulatory approval. But that’s not stopping buyers. livemint.com/news/inside-ind… Trust our hard work, subscribe to #MintPremium: livemint.com/premium⚡️ @samikshagoel20, @_jesthetic ✍️

There was a party in Bengaluru where the main attraction was supposed to be peptides. Around 50 people were expected, but the party never happened. It was cancelled after doctors and others raised concerns about promoting these compounds this way. But the cancelled party revealed something bigger. Peptides are moving from niche biohacking circles into India’s wellness market. @samikshagoel20 , @_jesthetic report

Our actual public parks are either shut for half the day or have a bizarre list of things you can’t do there. End-stage capitalism is paying 2000rs to be allowed to picnic in a park.

Read my story for Mint Longform on Assam's flood control measures that have failed to make a dent in lives of people who were taken aback by floods this year and ones for them floods were just routine through their claim to livestock lives.

3 deaths at Metro sites, one injured in 10 days. One, a plumber, died while passing by on motorcycle as a barricade fell on him. Two were construction workers. Now, a 23-year-old is in hospital after cement slab fell on him. All just six months after the Mulund slab collapse

NEW: An AI-assisted intel report sent the military scrambling to intercept a Chinese ship in the Middle East it believed was transporting components of a nuclear weapons program. It turned out to be a hallucination. And it "almost started a war." cnn.com/2026/09/18/politics/…

Why is PTI interviewing this guy is my question

I am supposed to verify Carboplatin when the guidelines for patients relatives are... Do not share a room with a chemo patient at home Clothes & bedding washed separately Separate toilet No skin contact with patient sweat, vomit, urine or fecal matter Separate cutlery if possible .... It was bizarre and dystopian, though scientifically valid. This is is the part of cancer treatment no one talks about.

What does it mean to have only 5-minute phone calls a week to speak to your friends and family? In this video, we bring you Umar Khalid’s first-person account, as narrated to his friends and family and published first on The Quint, of what these five-minute phone calls mean to him inside Tihar Jail. Khalid says that he is “allowed to make three 5 minute phone calls in a week” – and that prison has taught him that “every second is precious”. “After lunch, I make notes for my next phone call,” he says. “How long is five minutes!” he asks, before describing what the lack of time to speak to friends and family does to a person: “The sheer lack of time to speak to your friends, something that is out of your hands, pushes you into isolation.” “The privilege to take time to ease out the knots of a difficult conversation with a loved one is simply something that is not afforded to me in prison.” Umar Khalid has remained in custody for six years while legal proceedings continue. His supporters have described his incarceration as an example of the challenges faced by dissenters and political prisoners in India, while authorities have maintained their allegations against him. Watch his account as narrated by @hey_eshwar on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/NVYlwvnOqeo?si=z5yT…

Crazy to think that in 2026 we've had: • Anthropic's head of safeguards quit, warning "the world is in peril" (Feb) • OpenAI dissolved its own mission alignment team (Feb) • Unrestricted AI usage for the Pentagon (causing several researchers to quit) • Several AI models escaping sandbox testing (Since ~Q2) • 1,100+ frontier-lab employees signing a letter begging the government to pace AI development (Jul-Aug) And today yet another top researcher saying this.

Delhi, India. A music teacher from Manipur beaten to death at Kilokari under Sunlight colony police station, South Delhi. Chongtham Vikram has been residing in the area for atleast 10years in the area. He objected to loud noises and nuisance created in front of his house. What happened was around 7/8 people beaten him brutally. Vikram was living with his son and wife. His son rushed him to nearby hospital but he succumbed. #Murder #DelhiSecurity

Let people write man. Share your shitty writing with the world! It is imperative in the age of AI