Please click on the attached post to read (it's a thread), in the context of Indonesia joining a military alliance with Pakistan. Will make sense now.

Reports of booth capturing, snatching of ballots, and other irregularities have been received from UP and Bihar during yesterday’s MLC elections. Electronic voting machines (EVM) were not issued in this election. Voters, mostly graduates and teachers, had to stamp the ballot paper and stuff it inside the ballot box. Those who have been demanding nationwide elections through ballot papers, must have seen visuals of how booths were captured and ballots looted yesterday. However, this was on a scale much low compared to the dark days of Eighties and Nineties. I covered several elections in UP and Bihar as a reporter. I was witness to scenes of 10 to 12 gunmen coming in vehicles, firing in the air to scare away the voters. The polling staff and lathi-carrying policemen used to hide in other rooms. Gunmen used to snatch away ballots, merrily stamp them and stuff those ballots inside boxes. Polling used to be over within an hour. Voters waiting outside were told that polling is over. There were no TV cameras at that time, nor did people have mobile phone cameras to record these acts. Hence, it was very difficult to collect “evidence”. Occasionally, some newspaper camerapersons used to take pictures, and when newspapers published them, there used to be a big hullabaloo. Repolling was held in such booths. For the generation who have only seen the age of EVMs, they can hardly imagine how gangsters used to loot votes in those dark days. Such acts of booth capturing led to the rise of gangsters, mafia and hooligans in Indian politics. Later, gangsters themselves fought elections. Thirty years ago, when EVMs were introduced in elections, the influence of ‘vote mafia’ gradually waned. Today, those who are demanding the return of ballot papers, must realize they will be taking the country back to that dangerous era which still gives goosebumps.

🚨Avadhut Sathe / his Trading Academy got a SEBI final order - Refund ₹546.17 crore + interest of ₹67.87 crore to participants - Barred from the markets for 2 years (or until the refund is made). - Penalty of ₹11.5 crore (₹6 Cr academy + ₹4 Cr Avadhut + ₹1.5 Cr Gouri).

If you had to choose South Indian as Prime Minister, whom would you choose?

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.

In a small Greek restaurant in Cambridge my journey of love began. Rajiv and I created a world filled with love, laughter and memories. On 10th November, I share that world with you.

Inter village ballistic missile

Indonesia begins cutting natural gas exports to Singapore from Oct 24: Reports bit.ly/4z6bRRj

For the first time, we're seeing FPIs invest into indian equity mutual funds - around 10,000 cr. this month already. They've sold around 48,000 cr. in equity holdings though, but at least some of it gets offset with equity MF buying.

What if she is already married?

"Show me one piece of evidence. If you can prove foreign funding, I will give up the argument." @sardesairajdeep challenges the panel to produce concrete proof that the protests under discussion received money from abroad. The debate turns on a fundamental question: should allegations of foreign funding be treated as fact before the evidence is established? In a democracy, suspicion and proof cannot be interchangeable. #NationalSecurity #IndiaChinaFaceoff #NIA #IndianPolitics | @PreetiChoudhry | @gauravcsawant

Just removing BJP and RSS won't achieve anything. We must eradicate Hindutva; we need freedom from Hindutva: SFI

The weapons used by the ITBP are 50-years old and modernisation is required, said ITBP D-G Shatrujeet Kapur, who is set to retire on October 31. Stressing on the need to invest and develop drone and counter-drone technology, the ITBP chief said that it may not be possible to face China through traditional methods as it has invested a lot in the modernisation of its weapons and infrastructure. “Drones are something through which a even a small country can challenge a big country We saw how Ukraine has challenged a superpower like Russia. The war was supposed to be over in few days, but 10,000 to 15,000 Russian soldiers are being killed, they are suffering. Look at Iran, how, without even a Navy, they, with the help of drones, challenged America,” he said. Read the full story in The Hindu- thehindu.com/news/national/f…

If MacBooks are so powerful, why do so many developers still choose Windows ?

Was this mam seriously a diplomat ? Sounds like a pathetic whatapp RWA uncle. Will this coward dare to say a word about Hardip Puri ? कलंक हैं आप विदेश मंत्रालय के इतिहास पर!

All said and done Criticizing #RahulGandhi or Congress or what happened 75 years back is no longer going to get votes.

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Looks like govt will have to spend its way to prosperity in UP. Most of the state still looks, feels, and smells like a gutter, outside of the shiny expressways and few city centers. UP along with Bihar represent probably the most depraved human state in the world right now. And you measure that by how the bottom 25% live.

Until India develops, based on the talents of our own people, we will not find true respect in the world, no matter whether right, left or center is in charge anywhere. The racist shows us a mirror and asks: "if your nation is smart, why do you want to come here". I do not hate him, I want to respond by building. Some Indians agree with the racist and think India will never develop. I do not hate them either, I want to respond by building. Companies and nations are built by people who believe it can be done. The urgent national priority is to build, build and build.