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Everyone knows the Uphaar cinema fire. Fifty nine people who went to watch a war film in Delhi and never came home. Almost nobody knows that the safest man in that hall, the one person trained and calm enough to walk straight out, chose to stay inside until it killed him. His name was Captain Manjinder Singh Bhinder. On the thirteenth of June 1997, he was at the Uphaar cinema in Green Park watching Border, the film about the soldiers of Longewala. He was a real one. An officer of the 61st Cavalry, a national level horseman who had just won gold at the National Games and was being talked about for the next Asian Games. He was there with his wife and his four year old son. Partway through the film, a transformer in the building caught fire. Thick black smoke began filling the balcony. The exits were few, badly lit, and some were blocked. People had minutes, and most of them did not know which way to move. He got his own family up and moving toward the way out, the way any man would. And then he turned around and went back in. He understood what a panicking crowd in the dark does. It bunches at the wrong doors, it freezes, it tramples itself. So he put himself in that stairwell and did the job he was trained to do. He took charge. He steadied people. He guided women and children through the smoke toward the narrow passage that led out, group after group, breathing that air the whole time. More than a hundred and fifty people got out of that cinema alive because a soldier stood in the dark and refused to leave until they did. He did not get out. Neither did his wife. Neither did his little boy. There is a Netflix series about the Uphaar fire. It is told, rightly, through the eyes of two parents who lost their children and spent decades fighting for justice. His name is not in it. And there is one more thing the country should be made to sit with. After he died saving over a hundred and fifty of its citizens, his elderly parents had to fight the defence ministry for years for his pension, because a clerk's rule said he had not died fighting an enemy. He walked out of that fire once, with his family, and he was safe. Then he heard the people still screaming inside, and he went back.

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His name is Ranjitsinh Disale. He wanted to be an engineer. When that did not work out, his father suggested he train as a teacher instead. In 2009, he was posted to a government primary school in Paritewadi, a small village in Solapur district, Maharashtra. The school was a crumbling building wedged between two storerooms, one of which had been used as a cattle shed. What he found there troubled him. Girls were being married off young instead of being sent to class. Attendance was poor. The textbooks were written in a language many of the children, who spoke Kannada at home, could not properly read. He decided to fix all of it, starting with the books. He learned the children’s mother tongue and rewrote their textbooks in a language they could actually understand. Then he did something no one in India was doing at the time. He printed unique QR codes inside the textbooks, allowing students with access to a phone to scan a page and instantly access audio poems, video lessons and practice questions. A village school in Solapur had built a digital classroom out of paper and printed squares. The results changed the village. Girls’ attendance reached nearly one hundred percent. Teenage marriages in the area stopped. His QR code idea worked so well that the Maharashtra government adopted it across the state. The following year, the national education body embedded QR codes in textbooks across the country. In 2020, Ranjitsinh Disale won the Global Teacher Prize. He was chosen from more than twelve thousand nominations across roughly one hundred and forty countries and was the only Indian in the top ten. The award carried one million dollars, around seven crore rupees. Then he did something no winner had ever done before. He announced that he would give away half the prize money, dividing it equally among the other nine finalists so that their work could continue as well. He said teachers are the real change makers. He meant all of them, not just himself. A man who became a teacher only because engineering did not work out changed how an entire country learns, and then gave half his fortune to the people he had competed against. Follow for stories India deserves to remember.

A 22-year-old graduate student in Kazakhstan got so angry at journal paywalls in 2011 that she built a pirate website holding 88 million scientific papers, and last month she turned the whole thing into an AI that lets you ask one question and get the actual research as the answer. Her name is Alexandra Elbakyan, and the website is called Sci-Hub. The AI she just launched is called Sci-Bot. It lives at sci-bot.ru and almost nobody outside academia knows it exists yet. Here is the story, because it is one of the strangest things to happen in science publishing in the last 50 years. Elbakyan was born in Almaty in 1988, the year the Soviet Union started to collapse. She taught herself programming at 12. She read Soviet science books that explained things her family used to call miracles. She got into computer security at university and graduated in 2009 with a degree she barely needed because by then she was already a serious hacker. Alexandra moved to Moscow that fall. Then Germany. Then a research internship in the United States. She was working on brain-computer interfaces, the kind of research that requires you to read hundreds of papers a year just to keep up with the field. And every single one of those papers was locked behind a journal paywall that cost between 30 and 50 dollars to read once. She did the math. A graduate student in Kazakhstan could not afford to read science. The first thing she did was learn how to get around the paywalls one paper at a time. She passed the trick around to other students. They asked her for papers constantly. She got tired of doing it manually. So in September 2011, in three days, she wrote a script that automated the whole thing. A user pastes a DOI. The script logs in through a donated institutional credential. The paper comes back free. The website caches it. The next person who asks for that paper gets it instantly because the previous request already saved a copy. That was Sci-Hub. Three days of code. One graduate student. Done. 15 years later, the cache holds 88 million scientific papers. Almost every piece of scholarly literature published before 2020 is sitting on her servers. Researchers in 190 countries use it. Studies in Nature have shown that roughly half of all academic paper downloads worldwide now go through Sci-Hub, not the publishers who actually own the copyrights. Elsevier sued her in 2015 and won a 15 million dollar judgment. She did not pay. The American Chemical Society sued her and won an injunction. She did not comply. Courts in India, France, Russia, and the UK have tried to block the domain. She just moves it. Sci-hub.se. Sci-hub.ru. Sci-hub.ee. The site has had over 20 domains and is still up. Nature put her on its list of the 10 people who mattered most to science in 2016. The New York Times compared her to Edward Snowden. The Verge called her the pirate queen of science. She has not been to the United States in over a decade because she would be arrested at the airport. The Sci-Bot launch in April 2026 is the part that nobody is talking about. She took the 88 million paper database and put a small language model on top of it. You ask a question in plain English. The model searches the entire shadow library, pulls the relevant papers, synthesizes an answer grounded in real citations, and links you to the full text of every source. Free. No login. No institutional credential. No paywall. Three real scientists tested it for a Chemical and Engineering News article last month. They asked it medical and chemistry questions. The radiologist said the answer he got was usable. The chemist said the gaps in recent literature were obvious but the older science was solid. The publisher community is furious. What she built is what the paid academic AI tools are trying to build. Except the paid ones are limited to what their parent publisher legally owns. Hers is limited to almost nothing. Alexandra still lives somewhere in Russia. She does not give her address. She does not do video interviews. She gives talks over Skype with the camera off. She runs the largest illegal library in human history from a laptop and a donation page. A graduate student who could not afford to read science built the system the entire scientific community now quietly depends on. The publishers have spent a decade trying to shut her down. She just shipped an AI that makes their entire business model outdated.

After his mother passed away because no ambulance reached their West Bengal village, tea-garden worker Karimul Haque vowed it would never happen again; in 1998 he turned his motorbike into a free “ambulance,” and has since transported about 5,000–5,500 people from over 20 villages, always refusing payment.

Tragedies like this often occur due to a "window of vulnerability" or Cold Chain Failure. If the vaccine isn't stored at 2°C-8°C constantly, it loses potency. ​4 ways to prevent this from happening to you 1️⃣ The 15-Minute Flush: Immediately wash the wound with soap and RUNNING water for 15 mins. This is the single most effective way to kill the virus at the entry point. 2️⃣ Demand the RIG: For broken skin (Category III), you need RIG (Rabies Immunoglobulin) inside the wound, not just the vaccine in your arm. RIG provides instant antibodies while the vaccine takes 7-14 days to work. 3️⃣ Choose the Right Hospital: Avoid small, local clinics that might have frequent power cuts or poor refrigeration. Go to a major government hospital where cold chain protocols (backup generators/medical fridges) are strictly monitored. 4️⃣ Zero Delay: If the bite is near the face/neck, the virus reaches the brain faster. Start the treatment within hours, not days.

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In his Chief Guest address today, former Chief of R&AW @Vikram_Sood Sir said "I was abroad when Kargil peaks were occupied by the enemy. My Pakistani counterpart said - 'ab toh aapka Kargil gaya'. This was in May 1999. I said wait till July. They will be taken back. That is the confidence I have in the Indian Armed Forces". Pride soared... A full house of 600+ students, veterans, serving officers, teachers, families and individuals full of appreciation at this year's Vijay Diwas Commemoration and Felicitation Event was special for all of us at Major Akshay Trust. Jai Hind Ki Sena! 🇮🇳

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Today marks one year since Atul Subhash’s death: Wife got bail within 30 days and is still with Accenture. Wife got custody of their son. Court rejected Atul’s mother’s custody plea, calling her “a stranger to the child.” No inquiry against Judge Rita Kaushik; she was promoted to District Judge instead. The abetment case is adjourned for a year, showing the system’s priority. The system he hoped would change after his death stayed exactly the same. So far, none of the last wishes he expressed in his video have materialised. And this is precisely why men facing similar harassment must hear this: do not take the step Atul took. His absence has not eased the burden on his father, mother, or brother. His son will grow up entirely shaped by the environment of his mother’s family, with their narrative becoming the only version he knows. The legal system has not shifted, the laws have not changed, and the machinery he hoped would respond has remained unmoved. So stay alive and fight.

Did you know that Bibha Chaudhary, from Kolkata, A PhD holder in Physics (before independence) discovered subatomic particles but still her name got wiped out from our history books ? Hear on!!

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The person to whom I transferred money has become incommunicado. Can anyone suggest what to do next?

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I mistakenly tx-ed 50K from @bandhanbank_in to someone's account in @pnbindia. I'd mailed to @bandhanbank_in. They'd taken up matter with @pnbindia, but now PNB isn't doing anything; PNB says to go to Bandhan. I'd mailed to [email protected] too, but didn't get any response.

Another finest example of “Men Are Brave”🙌

Dearest @AshwiniVaishnaw ji, Why should a RAC passenger bear full charge for 50% of a side lower seat? Isn't it unfair? Once the chart is prepared, Railways must refund 50% of the fare with interest for RAC passengers. The same source of payment can be used for the refund. Pls implement this immediately. I see many ladies and senior citizens who travel by RAC, without sleep and they pay full charge. If any of you reading this feel that this should be implemented immediately, comment with your thoughts and share until Railways makes it a fair deal for passengers. This is long long overdue. On behalf of Indian Passengers, #FI

Sir, @narendramodi and @jpnaddaoffice @fssai @mohfw, it's a national shame that FSSAI has consented to the request by JNTL(the Indian subsidiary of Kenvue which is a spin off of Johnson and Johnson) for a stay order to dispose of it's stock of high sugar ORSL! Sir, not only now, in future also, except WHO recommended formula ORS, no sachet or tetrapack should be allowed in the pharmacies(including online), hospitals, and schools, as far as rehydrating medicines are concerned. ORS should never be allowed to be used on the labels except for WHO Recommended Formula ORS even if these liquids are being sold in the supermarkets and quick commerce platforms only! Trusting that you will ensure the October 15th order is implemented with urgency!

Beautiful moment of the little baby girl with cerebral palsy after 2 weeks of practice. Look at her happiness. ❤️❤️

A serbian guy on a mission to clean one Indian street each day.

All gave some,Some gave all. Jai Hind 🇮🇳🇮🇳🙏🙏🙏 #KargilVijayDiwas

The man who shared rotis with Sam Manekshaw… and retired at 108 after helping India win two wars 🐪🇮🇳

Sitting next to the Prime Minister are Pune-based Yogesh Siddhartha and his wife Sumita Siddhartha. Prime Minister Modi has invited them both to his home to congratulate them. What have they done to deserve the Prime Minister's invitation to his home? Yogesh Siddhartha is a retired Indian Air Force officer. Our soldiers in the Siachen glacier were suffering from oxygen shortage from time to time. Wanting to find a solution to this, Yogesh Siddhartha sold all his savings and all the jewellery from his house and set up an oxygen production plant in Siachen, the highest battlefield in the world, with the total amount of ₹ 1.25 crore. As a result, the oxygen shortage there has disappeared and now our 20,000 soldiers are getting the oxygen they need. There are many who talk about problems. There are few who solve problems. Yogesh Siddhartha and his wife Sumeetha Siddhartha, who have remained silent after performing a rare act, are both worthy of praise. 🫡🫡 Salute to you sir 🫡🫡