#  @soutikBBC Soutik Biswas Soutik Biswas posts on X about india, bangladesh, murder, bbc the most. They currently have [------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [------] engagements in the last [--] hours. ### Engagements: [------] [#](/creator/twitter::21565678/interactions)  - [--] Week [------] +53% - [--] Month [-------] +1,543% - [--] Months [-------] +49% - [--] Year [-------] -44% ### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/twitter::21565678/posts_active)  - [--] Week [--] +225% - [--] Month [--] +38% - [--] Months [--] +42% - [--] Year [---] -27% ### Followers: [------] [#](/creator/twitter::21565678/followers)  - [--] Week [------] +0.20% - [--] Month [------] +0.27% - [--] Months [------] +0.39% - [--] Year [------] +1.50% ### CreatorRank: [-------] [#](/creator/twitter::21565678/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [countries](/list/countries) [finance](/list/finance) [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) [celebrities](/list/celebrities) [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) [us election](/list/us-election) [social networks](/list/social-networks) [stocks](/list/stocks) [musicians](/list/musicians) [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands) **Social topic influence** [india](/topic/india), [bangladesh](/topic/bangladesh), [murder](/topic/murder), [bbc](/topic/bbc), [in the](/topic/in-the), [china](/topic/china), [pakistan](/topic/pakistan), [israel](/topic/israel), [prime minister](/topic/prime-minister), [piece](/topic/piece) **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@pbmehta](/creator/undefined) [@nytimes](/creator/undefined) [@theeconomist](/creator/undefined) [@lokniticsds](/creator/undefined) [@mukulkesavan](/creator/undefined) [@thehindu](/creator/undefined) [@paliwalavi](/creator/undefined) [@sandipr](/creator/undefined) [@prasanto](/creator/undefined) [@nikinamdar](/creator/undefined) [@httweets](/creator/undefined) [@anitbluetick](/creator/undefined) [@mihirssharma](/creator/undefined) [@athersmike](/creator/undefined) [@kaulvivek](/creator/undefined) [@pranavdixit](/creator/undefined) [@shekhargupta](/creator/undefined) [@bbcworld](/creator/undefined) [@roshanjnu](/creator/undefined) [@aiyaryamini](/creator/undefined) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours "Bangladesh election: Can India reset ties with a BNP-led government - BBC News A reset of the frayed relationship is possible say analysts. But it will require restraint - and reciprocity" [X Link](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd6z007wgg6o) 2026-02-15T11:08Z 29K followers, [----] engagements ".@mihirssharma: India is getting richer but its cities dont seem to be getting any more livable. Not because the country is too poor or because leaders lack ambition but because urban citizens are starved of funds and deprived of representation. https://theprint.in/india/india-is-wealthier-but-its-cities-are-unliveable/2852661/ https://theprint.in/india/india-is-wealthier-but-its-cities-are-unliveable/2852661/" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/2021868946060906999) 2026-02-12T08:48Z 29K followers, 11.3K engagements "So Jamaat picked up a third of the popular vote. #BangladeshElection2026" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/2022933905951830450) 2026-02-15T07:20Z 29K followers, [----] engagements "Musk's Tesla pay deal - worth up to $56bn (44bn) depending on the firm's share price - and backed by shareholders is 75% of the entire spending for schools in England in 2024-25 (60bn) and around a quarter of the budget for the NHS (192bn). https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9rre6nwnpwo https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9rre6nwnpwo" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1801608137696493813) 2024-06-14T13:30Z 29K followers, [---] engagements "One of the things that was strange about Naipaul was that when he first started going to India when it actually was in much better shape politically and culturally he didnt like it at all. And the more Hindu it got the more he bought into it. https://granta.com/reclaiming-the-territory/ https://granta.com/reclaiming-the-territory/" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1986794806450979294) 2025-11-07T13:56Z 29K followers, 122.2K engagements "I believed that people not immersed in the news were bad citizens. I now see that in fact a kind of genius is at work. Not thinking about things is the real mental feat. https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/8f80d60a-582b-494b-96c8-b1ab56cb8eed https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/8f80d60a-582b-494b-96c8-b1ab56cb8eed" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/2002441606562041888) 2025-12-20T18:10Z 29K followers, [----] engagements "Coco Gauff was 2025s highest-paid female athlete according to Sportico with $31mn earnings. But that would not have put her in the most recent top [---] ranking where the lowest-paid man made more than $37mn. (via @FinancialTimes)" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/2006420904071541105) 2025-12-31T17:43Z 29K followers, [---] engagements "Few foreign correspondents belonged to India like Mark Tully did. Arguably our most recognised foreign correspondent ever. Generous humble always curious. He crossed the Anglophone divide became a heartland figure. Left us with [--] classics: Amritsar and No Full Stops in India" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/2015374767520698554) 2026-01-25T10:42Z 29K followers, 19.6K engagements "He was expelled from India at [--] hours' notice in [----] after the then prime minister Indira Gandhi ordered a state of emergency. But he headed back [--] months later and had been based in Delhi ever since. @john_pether on Mark Tully. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4nnp4d064do https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4nnp4d064do" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/2015386417120309310) 2026-01-25T11:29Z 29K followers, 15.7K engagements "The sports desk shuttered in its current form. Metro down to [--] from [--]. Foreign bureaus cut to [--] from 20+. Books section and Post Reports podcast end. Even the international editor asked to be laid off. Grim. #WashingtonPost https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-communications/how-jeff-bezos-brought-down-the-washington-post https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-communications/how-jeff-bezos-brought-down-the-washington-post" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/2019101236042297844) 2026-02-04T17:30Z 29K followers, [----] engagements "Online search traffic partly because of the rise of generative A.I. had fallen by nearly half in the last three #WaPo https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/business/media/washington-post-layoffs.htmlsmid=nytcore-ios-share https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/business/media/washington-post-layoffs.htmlsmid=nytcore-ios-share" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/2019107176346972543) 2026-02-04T17:53Z 29K followers, [---] engagements "A buried line in a cricket annual report flags a 30% ICC revenue drop in [----] media renewals. Some insiders fear a 50% hit- $1.5bn over four years. Seismic for world cricket writes @timwig in this piece on how cricket is being killed by geopolitics. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2026/02/06/cricket-killed-geopolitics-franchises-benefit/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2026/02/06/cricket-killed-geopolitics-franchises-benefit/" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/2019712459616223634) 2026-02-06T09:59Z 29K followers, 31.4K engagements ".@pbmehta: The new tariff regime is worse for India than what existed before Trump came to power. the tariff structure favours the United States: India cuts tariffs to zero while the US imposes rates as high as 18%. https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/pratap-bhanu-mehta-writes-india-us-deal-is-one-sided-it-creates-vulnerabilities-10523347/ https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/pratap-bhanu-mehta-writes-india-us-deal-is-one-sided-it-creates-vulnerabilities-10523347/" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/2021068497321853300) 2026-02-10T03:47Z 29K followers, [----] engagements "Ashutosh Varshney: The trade deal was bound to be more favorable to the US than to India. To expect equal benefits is to be entirely unmindful of power realities.The trade deal is a reflection of the great power differentials between India and the US. https://theprint.in/opinion/between-political-lines/indians-india-us-trade-deal-power-realities/2850464/ https://theprint.in/opinion/between-political-lines/indians-india-us-trade-deal-power-realities/2850464/" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/2021226429376086146) 2026-02-10T14:15Z 29K followers, [----] engagements "Bangladesh today. #BangladeshElections" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/2021797303817056446) 2026-02-12T04:03Z 29K followers, [----] engagements "Two ballots one day. Will votes be confused about Bangladesh's referendum Ali Riaz and @shafqatmunir weigh in. #BangladeshElections2026" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/2021857473557299679) 2026-02-12T08:02Z 29K followers, [----] engagements ".@Athersmike doesnt mince his words. #INDvsPAK" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/2022941095400030693) 2026-02-15T07:48Z 29K followers, 39.9K engagements "Nikhil Gupta Worked at the Direction of an Indian Government Employee to Arrange the Murder of U.S.-Based Leader of Sikh Separatist Movement: United States Department of Justice https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/indian-national-pleads-guilty-plotting-assassinate-us-citizen-new-york-city https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/indian-national-pleads-guilty-plotting-assassinate-us-citizen-new-york-city" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/2022394962109960522) 2026-02-13T19:38Z 29K followers, [----] engagements "Decembers lynching of a Hindu factory worker in Bangladesh shocked the world and exposed the fraught reality for minorities. I went to Mymensingh to piece together Dipu Dass final hours - and how a mob turned fatal. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj3vve6v17xo https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj3vve6v17xo" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/2023222494870769859) 2026-02-16T02:26Z 29K followers, [----] engagements "Bangladesh: There is no law and order. And Hindus are being targeted again - BBC News Hindu properties and shrines have been attacked after ex-PM Sheikh Hasina fled Bangladesh" [X Link](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy77vgmjlzo.amp) 2024-08-06T20:57Z 28.5K followers, [--] engagements "Why caste plays a role in childhood stunting in India - BBC News A new study finds that caste plays a vital role in high rates of stunting in children in India" [X Link](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj9n0420w8go) 2024-11-15T00:46Z 28.4K followers, [--] engagements "Why more Indians are crossing borders illegally to enter the US A surge in illegal border crossings by Indians into the US has left many puzzled -whats going on" [X Link](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2ld7r4432o) 2024-11-25T00:11Z 28.5K followers, [--] engagements "Manmohan Singh: Former Indian Prime Minister dies at [--] Manmohan Singh was instrumental in bringing India out of economic and nuclear isolation" [X Link](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cyrrd4nlr0yo) 2024-12-26T17:19Z 28.5K followers, [----] engagements "Gautam Adani: How US fraud charges against him impact Indias economy and politics - BBC News The charges could jeopardise the ambitions of one of the worlds richest men both at home and abroad" [X Link](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c748y8e4093o.amp) 2024-11-22T00:59Z 28.5K followers, [--] engagements "Why Pakistan-Saudi Arabia defence pact is unsettling India - BBC News A Pakistan-Saudi defence agreement pledging a mutual response to any aggression raises concerns in India" [X Link](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c147gkxyyrmo) 2025-09-23T12:30Z 28.9K followers, [---] engagements "Bangladesh: There is no law and order. And Hindus are being targeted again Hindu properties and shrines have been attacked after ex-PM Sheikh Hasina fled Bangladesh" [X Link](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy77vgmjlzo) 2024-08-06T20:57Z 228.6M followers, 25.8K engagements "Gautam Adani: How US fraud charges against him impact Indias economy and politics The charges could jeopardise the ambitions of one of the worlds richest men both at home and abroad" [X Link](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c748y8e4093o) 2024-11-22T00:59Z 28.5K followers, [---] engagements "Kolkata doctors rape and murder in hospital alarm India The rape and murder of a female doctor in India highlight the violence against healthcare workers" [X Link](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93pqq9r5n4o) 2024-08-14T06:20Z 28.5K followers, [---] engagements "You are under digital arrest: Inside a scam looting millions from Indians Indians are being stripped of their life savings by savvy scammers putting them under digital arrest" [X Link](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdrdyxk4k4ro) 2024-11-18T00:13Z 28.5K followers, [---] engagements "Kolkata: Massive night protests after doctors rape and murder Tens of thousands of women march through Kolkata in protest against the rape and murder of a doctor" [X Link](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crmwj4z1xpko) 2024-08-15T04:04Z 28.5K followers, 35.5K engagements "Indias schoolgirls are leading a silent cycling revolution The most notable rise in cycling in India has occurred among rural schoolgirls a study finds" [X Link](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3g98lgyj38o) 2024-08-18T23:06Z 28.4K followers, [--] engagements "Elon Musk battles Mukesh Ambani over Indias satellite internet Musks Starlink and Mukesh Ambani are preparing to face off in Indias satellite broadband market" [X Link](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce3z3ydwdppo) 2024-10-22T23:01Z 28.5K followers, [---] engagements "Bangladesh: There is no law and order. And Hindus are being targeted again - BBC News Hindu properties and shrines have been attacked after ex-PM Sheikh Hasina fled Bangladesh" [X Link](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy77vgmjlzo.amp) 2024-08-06T00:00Z 28.5K followers, [---] engagements "Can India become rich before its population grows old - BBC News At current rates India needs [--] years to reach a quarter of US's per capita income a report says" [X Link](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c87r7kp55e3o.amp) 2025-09-26T18:37Z 208.1M followers, [--] engagements "Gautam Adani: How US fraud charges against him impact Indias economy and politics - BBC News The charges could jeopardise the ambitions of one of the worlds richest men both at home and abroad" [X Link](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c748y8e4093o.amp) 2024-11-22T00:59Z 28.5K followers, [--] engagements "Kolkata: Massive night protests after doctors rape and murder - BBC News Tens of thousands of women march through Kolkata in protest against the rape and murder of a doctor" [X Link](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crmwj4z1xpko) 2024-08-15T04:04Z 28.5K followers, [--] engagements "Nepal turmoil drives migrants back home from India - BBC News Nepalis rush home from India as deadly protests have engulfed the Himalayan nation" [X Link](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c15kzx99qevo.amp) 2025-09-15T01:35Z 208.1M followers, [--] engagements "The deadly dose: Inside India's cough syrup obsession - BBC News Indias booming cough syrup market faces scrutiny after contaminated syrups kill multiple children" [X Link](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ceq28jey1xwo.amp) 2025-10-10T02:30Z 208.1M followers, [---] engagements "Why more Indians are crossing borders illegally to enter the US - BBC News A surge in illegal border crossings by Indians into the US has left many puzzled -whats going on" [X Link](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2ld7r4432o.amp) 2024-11-25T00:00Z 28.5K followers, [---] engagements "Kolkata doctors rape and murder in hospital alarm India - BBC News The rape and murder of a female doctor in India highlight the violence against healthcare workers" [X Link](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93pqq9r5n4o) 2024-08-14T06:20Z 28.5K followers, [--] engagements "Trump's tariff rebuke Xi's handshake and Putin's oil are India's latest foreign policy test - BBC News Indias foreign policy sits uneasily in the Trump-led order caught between Russia and strained US relations" [X Link](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c80d2nvzg72o.amp) 2025-09-03T23:30Z 28.9K followers, [---] engagements "Earliest iron use found in India Tamil Nadu digs spark debate - BBC News Tamil Nadus iron artefacts may predate Turkey's Anatolia reshaping early Iron Age history" [X Link](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62e36jm4jro.amp) 2025-04-18T21:08Z 28.9K followers, [--] engagements "Elevated exit poll coverage on India news TV #IndiaElections2019" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1130091503160766469) 2019-05-19T12:43Z 28.5K followers, [--] engagements ".@kaul_vivek: With $428bn in reserves a $10bn foreign borrowing shouldn't lead to any worries of currency risk. But the government shouldn't get used to the idea of borrowing from abroad. #India #foreigndebt #debt #Budget2019 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-48960315 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-48960315" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1151325218993926144) 2019-07-17T02:58Z 28.9K followers, [--] engagements "Supreme Court: Are any of Lord Rams descendants living in Ayodhya Lawyer: We will try to find out. #AyodhyaHearing #Ayodhya #India" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1160091484995014657) 2019-08-10T07:32Z 28.5K followers, [---] engagements "India GDP growth slowest in more than six years #GDP #India #EconomicSlowdown" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1200396675514171393) 2019-11-29T12:50Z 28.5K followers, [--] engagements "This is a terrific report on the Mumbai hospital crisis #COVID19 #Mumbai In Mumbai's Private Hospitals there are [-----] beds in Govt Hospitals [----]. For [-----] Active cases roughly [----] beds needed. So why Is Mumbai running short One reason is Staff not showing up. My ground report: The Story of Sonu & Narmada. Two Women Outside a Covid Hospital https://t.co/KthH1IJ0RP In Mumbai's Private Hospitals there are [-----] beds in Govt Hospitals [----]. For [-----] Active cases roughly [----] beds needed. So why Is Mumbai running short One reason is Staff not showing up. My ground report: The Story of Sonu &" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1268975494181146631) 2020-06-05T18:38Z 28.5K followers, [---] engagements "@BDUTT When did the first wave end We are still climbing the ladder" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1302646945597411331) 2020-09-06T16:36Z 28.5K followers, [--] engagements "Delhi recorded [----] Covid-19 cases on Tuesday the highest single-day spike for any Indian city so far. (Pune recorded [----] cases on September 10). 44% of the Covid beds in hospitals occupied say reports. Stay safe folks. #COVID19 #Delhi #COVID__19" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1323872763203866624) 2020-11-04T06:20Z 28.9K followers, [--] engagements "The thriving black market in oxygen and drugs in India #CovidIndia #RemdesivirBlackMarketing #Tocilizumab #COVID19" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1386572497076641792) 2021-04-26T06:46Z 28.5K followers, [---] engagements "@PranavDixit @Harvard congratulations pranav so fully deserved" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1397212847294328837) 2021-05-25T15:27Z 28.9K followers, [--] engagements "Neeraj Chopra. Gold. #NeerajChopra #Tokyo2020 #JavelinDC #JavelinThrowFinal" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1423980676945121283) 2021-08-07T12:13Z 28.5K followers, [---] engagements "Dont Look Up is such a monumentally unfunny satire stuffed with subpar Hollywood gags. A waste of a star-studded ensemble cast and a topical story. #DontLookUp" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1476474137052803072) 2021-12-30T08:44Z 28.9K followers, [--] engagements "Argentine supporters claimed one of Brazil supporters had misbehaved with an elderly Argentine fan. In retaliation Argentine supporters allegedly barged inside the houses of two Brazilian supporters and a free-for-all ensued" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1605057385415860226) 2022-12-20T04:27Z 28.6K followers, 13.3K engagements "5.1 million people watching @isro Chandrayaan [--] live feed on @YouTube. Is this a record live viewership on the platform #Chandrayaan3" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1694329619070271707) 2023-08-23T12:43Z 27.4K followers, [----] engagements "Morning papers. #Chandrayaan3" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1694552458134245834) 2023-08-24T03:29Z 27.4K followers, [----] engagements "Canisters of film taken by the early spy satellites from space in 1960s would be ejected under parachutes. They would have heat shields to stop them from burning up during reentry. And they would be grabbed in midair by planes that flew a hook on its belly into the parachutes" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1695027860724220182) 2023-08-25T10:58Z 27.4K followers, [---] engagements "This is such a cool picture. #Chandrayaan3Landing" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1697167385000804815) 2023-08-31T08:40Z 27.4K followers, [----] engagements "Mukul Kesavan: If a private liberal arts university isnt a hothouse where free inquiry flourishes it devolves into a high end teaching shop: a finishing school for rich students and a gated refuge for credentialed teachers" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1698293183204237702) 2023-09-03T11:13Z 27.4K followers, [----] engagements "People are holding on to their devices longer - not only because they are expensive both financially and environmentally - but also because there's no longer the same burning justification to treat yourself to an upgrade. #Iphone15" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1701513947126648941) 2023-09-12T08:31Z 27.4K followers, [----] engagements "The worst sleepers are in Asia where on a typical weeknight people snooze for less than six and a half hours. The best sleepers are in Estonia Finland Ireland Netherlands and in Australia and New Zealand where users log a solid seven hours on average" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1701617213688721819) 2023-09-12T15:22Z 27.4K followers, [----] engagements "I finally spotted a proper zebra crossing Kenya" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1702356426876678590) 2023-09-14T16:19Z 29K followers, 151.9K engagements "One afternoon I met a Masaai boy performing the traditional leaping dance called adumu to see who can jump the highest and to decide who gets to marry who" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1702886895728898518) 2023-09-16T03:27Z 27.4K followers, [----] engagements ""Right now we're seeing a hard power moment. That is not the environment where Canada shines. The decisive stuff is all force power and money which Canada doesn't have." #Canada" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1705804349656723527) 2023-09-24T04:40Z 27.4K followers, [--] engagements "@vijivenkatesh My deepest condolences" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1709397014902133127) 2023-10-04T02:36Z 27.4K followers, [---] engagements "World Bank chief Ajay Banga says if Israel-Gaza war expands into a regional conflict it could pose a threat to global economy. If this were to spread in any way then it becomes dangerous he told @nytimes. Such a developmnent would be a crisis of unimaginable proportion" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1711428622777803005) 2023-10-09T17:09Z 27.4K followers, [---] engagements "A blackmail scam is using instant loan apps to entrap people across India. At least [--] Indians have killed themselves after being abused and threatened. A BBC undercover investigation has exposed those profiting from this deadly scam in India and China" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1711940739318579271) 2023-10-11T03:04Z 27.4K followers, [----] engagements "Match day Ahmedabad" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1713060385106882855) 2023-10-14T05:13Z 29K followers, 70K engagements ".@pbmehta: The court proclaim values with the high-mindedness of philosophers thread fine lines on process with the ingenuity of lawyers give history lessons with an erudition that shames historians. But the directions cause the executive no discomfort" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1714511846491996670) 2023-10-18T05:20Z 27.2K followers, [----] engagements "Bedi flighted the ball higher than any bowler in international cricket; if he could challenge quick-footed batsmen thus it was only because his command was so complete that he would make the ball descend far quicker than it went up @Ram_Guha wrote on the guileful Bishan Bedi" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1716417062707626182) 2023-10-23T11:31Z 28.5K followers, [----] engagements "He bowled to deceive but frank and big-hearted was the least deceptive of men. To face him must have been like having your pocket picked then being given your wallet back. Gideon Haigh on Bishan Singh Bedi. Must-read piece" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1716779297015488661) 2023-10-24T11:30Z 27.2K followers, [---] engagements "Intikhab Alam recounts how he and Bishan Singh Bedi shared a love for jazz" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1717055994080158108) 2023-10-25T05:50Z 27.2K followers, [---] engagements "Vasbert Drakes was timed out because he was "still flying from the West Indies". Timed out dismissals in cricket via @BBCSport #AngeloMathews" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1721512954846499118) 2023-11-06T13:00Z 27.2K followers, [----] engagements "Some doctors remain a whole week in the hospital. Some of their families are brought to the hospital killed or injured. And some doctors go home and are killed there and then the bodies are brought back to the hospital. #Gaza" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1722666697046524339) 2023-11-09T17:25Z 27.2K followers, [---] engagements "@ShekharGupta: Its been a long time since we saw a true selection controversy. Whoever might run the Board they know that if they mess up selections and the team performance declines the market will punish them" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1726113377595060591) 2023-11-19T05:41Z 27.2K followers, [---] engagements "@pranjulb: Going back into history shows that one of India's best periods of fiscal consolidation was between [----] and [----]. That is also the period when growth averaged a strong 7%. Higher GDP growth helps raise tax revenues faster" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1728018465217450347) 2023-11-24T11:51Z 27.4K followers, [--] engagements "In a profanity-laced outburst Elon Musk has slammed advertisers that have left X warning they will kill the social media platform. he accused companies that have joined an ad boycott of the site formerly known as Twitter of trying to blackmail him" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1730082518022648028) 2023-11-30T04:33Z 27.2K followers, [----] engagements "This ability to successfully pull off the appearance of indispensability made him larger than life and overshadowed any assessment of his actions. @pbmehta on Henry Kissinger" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1730190710224347514) 2023-11-30T11:43Z 27.2K followers, [---] engagements "Top oil producers. #COP28" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1730795520422248741) 2023-12-02T03:46Z 27.2K followers, [---] engagements "Regaining control of Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh from the Congress and retaining Madhya Pradesh for a record fifth term means that the BJP is looking virtually unassailable in the "Hindi heartland" of northern and central India" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1731274292112089243) 2023-12-03T11:28Z 27.2K followers, [----] engagements "@rahul_tverma: Hopefully Congress will not overread its victory in Telangana and extrapolate it to the [----] campaign. Similarly it may do well to refrain from creating a false binary between the voters of northern and southern India" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1732284731772027303) 2023-12-06T06:23Z 27.2K followers, [--] engagements "@ShekharGupta: BJP all-conquering though it looks still doesnt reach anywhere near the pan-Indian pre-eminence the Congress had during Indira Gandhi erafrom [----] on the Cong got seats from across India and remained in the 350-seat ballpark" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1733390953216639440) 2023-12-09T07:39Z 27.3K followers, [---] engagements "There were direct @airindia flights from Paris to Chennai and Kolkata in the 1970s" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1736006854801850386) 2023-12-16T12:54Z 27.3K followers, 24.8K engagements "Tamil heroes are outrageously productive. Rajinikanth has been in [---] films in [--] years; Vijay has done [--] in [--]. By comparison Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise have acted in a mere [--] films each. TN has 5% of Indias population but 12% of its screens" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1737831517920039069) 2023-12-21T13:44Z 27.3K followers, [---] engagements "A plane carrying [---] Indian passengers has been grounded at an airport in north-eastern France on suspicion of human trafficking French media report. The Airbus A340 was flying from the United Arab Emirates to the Nicaraguan capital Managua" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1738247466020188311) 2023-12-22T17:17Z 27.3K followers, [---] engagements "Most people naturally have good vitamin D levels. Overhyped claims that the compound helps to fight diseases from cancer to depression arent borne out by recent research" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1739632010178744784) 2023-12-26T12:59Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "Killers of the Flower Moon is a slow burn masterpiece a gritty tale of greed deceit and murder. Helped by De Niro DiCaprio and Gladstone Scorsese blends the elements deftly. An epic police procedural A doomed love story A history lesson Its all this and much more" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1743852821852864917) 2024-01-07T04:31Z [--] followers, [----] engagements "Musks X has faced an advertiser exodus negative cash flow heavy debt burden and in one investors case a 71.5% devaluation. Plans to monetise users and expand into e-commerce have stalled. But user resilience could yet convince advertisers to return" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1746873743463608466) 2024-01-15T12:35Z [--] followers, [----] engagements "Insurgents in Myanmar say they have captured an important town on a main route to India. The Arakan Army (AA) - one of three armed groups that launched a major new offensive against the military - says it has taken control of Paletwa in Chin" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1747114266468200849) 2024-01-16T04:31Z 27.4K followers, [----] engagements "Why thousands of workers in India are queuing up for jobs in war-affected Israel. My story. #Jobs" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1750367563056620002) 2024-01-25T03:58Z 27.4K followers, 35.7K engagements "Alabama has executed convicted murderer Kenneth Eugene Smith [--] with nitrogen gas. He is the first person to be put to death using the pure gas in the world. Breathing nitrogen without oxygen causes cells in the body to break down and leads to death" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1750736916713271486) 2024-01-26T04:26Z 27.4K followers, [---] engagements "Experts say the problem of foreign meddling in Canada is much more complex and widespread. Solving it they say demands a restructuring of the political and social DNA of the country which has long-failed to prioritise matters of national security" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1751873283707052190) 2024-01-29T07:41Z 27.4K followers, [---] engagements "India plans to fence the open border with neighbouring Myanmar. But the move would be fraught with many challenges. My piece" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1752201848927498711) 2024-01-30T05:27Z 27.4K followers, [----] engagements "More than half of Gaza's buildings have been damaged or destroyed since Israel launched its retaliation for the Hamas attacks of [--] October new analysis seen by the BBC reveals" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1752374234506998281) 2024-01-30T16:52Z 27.4K followers, [---] engagements "The incredible story of a teenagers fatal fall in London prominently featuring a tycoon whose company website had a photograph of him shaking hands with Prime Minister Narendra Modi" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1757400426889064662) 2024-02-13T13:44Z 27.4K followers, [---] engagements "Virat Kohli Mohammed Shami and Rishabh Pant missed out entirely KL Rahul has played only one Test and Jasprit Bumrah was rested for this match. In their place Jurel Gill and Jaiswal have stood up. #ENGvIND" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1762044783025877248) 2024-02-26T09:19Z 27.4K followers, [---] engagements "India Q3 GDP data may overstate growth trends economists say Reuters" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1763461645802610803) 2024-03-01T07:09Z 27.4K followers, [---] engagements "Malaysia MH370 mystery: missing flight could get new search AP News" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1764354713900753046) 2024-03-03T18:18Z 27.4K followers, [---] engagements "@pbmehta writes on why the Anant Ambani-Radhika Merchant pre-wedding is a perfect embodiment of our age" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1764724122246918458) 2024-03-04T18:46Z 27.4K followers, 17.1K engagements "Future Gaming and Hotel Services Private Limited the largest electoral bonds donor to political parties purchased electoral bonds worth Rs [----] crore since [----]. And in a single year it gave six times its profit as donation to political parties" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1768481671244914958) 2024-03-15T03:37Z 27.4K followers, [----] engagements "Top [--] purchasers of electoral bonds via @Howindialives" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1768498221511299437) 2024-03-15T04:43Z 27.4K followers, [----] engagements "At least [--] people have been killed after gunmen attacked a packed concert venue on the outskirts of Moscow. More than [---] were wounded at the Crocus City Hall according to the FSB Federal Security Service The Islamic State has claimed it carried out the attack. via @BBCWorld" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1771376436664041790) 2024-03-23T03:20Z 27.4K followers, [----] engagements "Currently Maharashtra has two Shiv Senas two NCPs half of MNS another Vidarbha only outfit led by Prakash Ambedkar Asaduddin Owaisi's All India Majlis-E Ittchadul Muslimeen (MIM) one Congres (with many ready-to-flee Congressmen) and the BJP" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1774859190558921107) 2024-04-01T17:59Z 27.4K followers, [----] engagements "Solar eclipse: Stunning images as darkness descends on North America. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-30cbf852-1282-4ed9-9ec9-c9144ed9c8fb https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-30cbf852-1282-4ed9-9ec9-c9144ed9c8fb" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1777528147921211398) 2024-04-09T02:45Z 27.4K followers, [---] engagements "About a tenth of the worlds residential property by value is under threat from global warmingincluding many houses that are nowhere near the coast. Climate change could wipe out 9% of the value of the worlds housing by 2050which amounts to $25trn. https://www.economist.com/leaders/2024/04/11/global-warming-is-coming-for-your-home https://www.economist.com/leaders/2024/04/11/global-warming-is-coming-for-your-home" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1778469351383052318) 2024-04-11T17:05Z 28.9K followers, [---] engagements "Findings reveal 79% of respondents support the idea that India belongs to all religions equally and not just Hindus; that it must remain a country where people following different religions can live and practice their faith freely. @LoknitiCSDS https://www.thehindu.com/elections/lok-sabha/csds-lokniti-2024-pre-poll-survey-remarkable-support-for-religious-pluralism/article68055497.ece https://www.thehindu.com/elections/lok-sabha/csds-lokniti-2024-pre-poll-survey-remarkable-support-for-religious-pluralism/article68055497.ece" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1778612787755041014) 2024-04-12T02:35Z 27.4K followers, [---] engagements "@Roshanjnu: To attribute BJP victory to progressive south being outnumbered by reactionary north rather than consider oppositions self-goals and political challenges is akin to a Brecht poem where opposition would find it simpler to elect a new people. http://bit.ly/3Ue64Hp http://bit.ly/3Ue64Hp" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1778739235257975108) 2024-04-12T10:57Z 27.4K followers, [---] engagements "✅Israel says it and its allies have intercepted majority of 200+ drones and missiles launched by Iran. ✅ It says there were a small number of hits on its territory including at an IDF while one person has been injured. ✅ US shot down Iranian drones headed towards Israel" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1779347987992604779) 2024-04-14T03:16Z 27.4K followers, [----] engagements "✅65% of Indias elite footballers come from [--] states - Manipur Mizoram Bengal Punjab and Goa ✅90% hailed from nine states and one city including Kerala Meghalaya Sikkim TN Greater Mumbai. ✅20% of population contributes 90% of best footballers https://indianexpress.com/article/sports/football/65-percent-india-elite-footballers-5-states-new-study-9268673/ https://indianexpress.com/article/sports/football/65-percent-india-elite-footballers-5-states-new-study-9268673/" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1779369021357662295) 2024-04-14T04:40Z 27.4K followers, [---] engagements "@mukulkesavan: The moment the middle class feels it has no access to a public good it does everything it can to subvert or devalue it. We can see this happening in real time to Indias public universities. https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/in-memoriam-delhi-university-is-no-longer-the-place-academia-aspires-to-be-due-to-upa-nda-governments/cid/2013208 https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/in-memoriam-delhi-university-is-no-longer-the-place-academia-aspires-to-be-due-to-upa-nda-governments/cid/2013208" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1779418806240309467) 2024-04-14T07:57Z 27.4K followers, [----] engagements "Community elder Lotomau Fiafia [--] stands with his grandson John in Salia bay Kioa island Fiji at the point where he remembers the shoreline used to be when he was a boy. This picture by Eddie Jim for The Age and Sydney Morning Herald has won a World Press Photo award" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1781344767676412214) 2024-04-19T15:31Z 27.4K followers, [----] engagements "This is true face of Indias Millennium City not far from some of the countrys richest gated communities. In more than two decades the place hasnt been able to sort out its problems of unpicked garbage debris mountains and disposing waste. Truly a city of delusions. This is the millenium city The #Gurgaon #Gurugram where multi crore houses are filled smoke of burning waste and garbage . Despite being a cosmopolitan we still don't know how to deal with our waste. This fire is on since two days and residents of sector [--] are choking. Video by https://t.co/SYCm3A9XGR This is the millenium city" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1782060823927791626) 2024-04-21T14:56Z 27.4K followers, [----] engagements "@cricketwallah: Consider Yuvraj Singh's six sixes off Stuart Broad in the inaugural T20 World Cup in [----] where India totalled [---] - a monumental achievement at the time. However [--] years later team scores of [---] have become routine. #IPL https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-68872429 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-68872429" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1783319447438340493) 2024-04-25T02:17Z 27.4K followers, [---] engagements "Scenes of dissent and defiance at Columbia University where scores of students have been arrested for participating in pro-Palestine protests. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/05/13/columbias-campus-in-crisis https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/05/13/columbias-campus-in-crisis" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1786078988630216862) 2024-05-02T17:03Z 27.5K followers, [---] engagements "Nine months after a coup in Niger Mohamed Bazoum remains locked in the presidential residence cut off from contact with anyone but his doctor. He spends his days exercising on an indoor bike and reading Marxist theory Hamlet and War and Peace. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/04/world/africa/niger-bazoum-captivity.htmlsmid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/04/world/africa/niger-bazoum-captivity.htmlsmid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1786801119382974635) 2024-05-04T16:52Z 27.5K followers, [---] engagements "None of us are so straightforwardly terrible as Elon Musks critics would have him; nor are we as heroic as his fans think he isBy creating a taxonomy of heroes and villains we are in fact tied up in the same moral framework as Musk himself. https://on.ft.com/4a8YpPB https://on.ft.com/4a8YpPB" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1787150579774415288) 2024-05-05T16:01Z 27.5K followers, [---] engagements "@BihariBritish Nah on the way of Jehanabad" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1787688882374648251) 2024-05-07T03:40Z 27.5K followers, [--] engagements ""Oxygen oxygen can you get me oxygen" This time three years ago. When breathing became a luxury. Memories of a nightmare. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-56872266 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-56872266" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1788084477874278448) 2024-05-08T05:52Z 28.3K followers, 13.5K engagements "Sunil Chhetri served Indian football for close to two decades inspiring a generation of players. He was the third highest scorer of international goals among active footballers - the top two positions belonging to Ronaldo and Messi. #SunilChhetri https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-66106345 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-66106345" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1790967173961453584) 2024-05-16T04:47Z 27.5K followers, [----] engagements "Many said it was easier to get the true picture of India through social media. Paradoxically the traditional media's shift to more provocative biased content for survival may have ensured its death. Excellent piece by @AiyarYamini and @NeelanjanSircar #IndiaElections" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1791072820904231115) 2024-05-16T11:46Z 27.5K followers, [----] engagements "Nearly [--] years after it was made a pristinely restored Manthan Indias first crowdsourced film received a red-carpet world premiere at Cannes alongside classics from Godard and Kurosawa. This is the story of its 4K restoration. #cannes2024 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-69014789 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-69014789" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1791650195060461661) 2024-05-18T02:01Z 29K followers, 27.2K engagements "Modi Operandi: The Politicisation Of Indian Cricket - Almanack Sharda Ugra https://wisden.com/stories/wisden-almanack-2024/modi-operandi-the-politicisation-of-indian-cricket-almanack https://wisden.com/stories/wisden-almanack-2024/modi-operandi-the-politicisation-of-indian-cricket-almanack" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1791870584642810192) 2024-05-18T16:36Z 27.5K followers, [----] engagements "Common sense has become the rights favourite way of asserting the obvious correctness of their position and of thus shutting down the argumentIf something is common sense then it is a self-evident truth and cannot be debated. https://on.ft.com/4bM7Ci3 https://on.ft.com/4bM7Ci3" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1792127641299927313) 2024-05-19T09:38Z 27.5K followers, [---] engagements "✅Helicopter carrying Iran President Raisi and Iranian FM Amir-Abdollahian involved in an accident ✅Helicopter made a "hard landing" after it getting into in heavy fog in north Iran ✅Rescuers still trying to reach the site due to the difficult weather conditions" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1792252742116995182) 2024-05-19T17:55Z 27.5K followers, [---] engagements "Ruchir Sharma: We heard no backlash against PM. Just a return to an India before Modi mania focussed on local issues and leaders .The urban middle-class stir with pride at Modis case for a third term. But many rural voters don't. #IndiaElections2024 https://www.ft.com/content/c832e0cf-9fbd-43b5-a8b7-2685634f1454 https://www.ft.com/content/c832e0cf-9fbd-43b5-a8b7-2685634f1454" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1792571535326171542) 2024-05-20T15:02Z 27.5K followers, [---] engagements "@pbmehta: We need a Palestinian cause that is not reliant on and tethered to the barbarism of Hamas; and a defence of Israel that does not give it licence to such extraordinary violence or such a whole-scale denial of the right of Palestinians. https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/benjamin-netanyahu-arrest-israel-gaza-war-9343084/ https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/benjamin-netanyahu-arrest-israel-gaza-war-9343084/" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1793111045759742137) 2024-05-22T02:46Z 27.5K followers, [----] engagements "Happy birthday Herge. Throwback to [----] - Indias love affair with Tintin. https://www.bbc.com/news/15680397 https://www.bbc.com/news/15680397" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1793249077267698006) 2024-05-22T11:54Z 27.5K followers, [---] engagements "Cannes Film Festival: All We Imagine As Light scripts history becomes first Indian film to win Grand Prix For News on the go Download HT app. Click https://www.hindustantimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/cannes-film-festival-all-we-imagine-as-light-scripts-history-becomes-first-indian-film-to-win-grand-prix-101716656194342.html https://htiphoneenglish.page.link/download https://www.hindustantimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/cannes-film-festival-all-we-imagine-as-light-scripts-history-becomes-first-indian-film-to-win-grand-prix-101716656194342.html" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1794425004983238771) 2024-05-25T17:47Z 27.5K followers, [----] engagements "Few tough questions no fact checks: What we found listening to [--] Modi election season interviews. Important deep dive by @Urban_Inquilabi https://scroll.in/article/1068040/listening-to-41-modi-election-season-interviews-few-tough-questions-no-rebuttals-no-fact-checks https://scroll.in/article/1068040/listening-to-41-modi-election-season-interviews-few-tough-questions-no-rebuttals-no-fact-checks" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1794441264500547942) 2024-05-25T18:51Z 27.5K followers, [---] engagements "Fake applicants for the head coach of the Indian men's cricket team include names like Narendra Modi Amit Shah Sachin Tendulkar and MS Dhoni. The BCCI has received over [----] applications many are from fake names. https://indianexpress.com/article/sports/cricket/narendra-modi-amit-shah-sachin-tendulkar-ms-dhoni-fake-india-coach-applicants-use-famous-names-9355934/ https://indianexpress.com/article/sports/cricket/narendra-modi-amit-shah-sachin-tendulkar-ms-dhoni-fake-india-coach-applicants-use-famous-names-9355934/" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1795328967869940032) 2024-05-28T05:39Z 27.5K followers, [---] engagements "Preliminary findings reveal that severe turbulence hit the Singapore Airlines flight last Tuesday causing it to drop 178ft - equivalent to Leaning Tower of Pisa height - in [---] seconds. Rapid changes in gravitational force and altitude drop injured those not wearing seatbelts" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1795802402375016464) 2024-05-29T13:00Z 28.3K followers, [----] engagements "A worrying sign continues to be tepid private consumption growth. In fact the lower middle class are not consuming much as good jobs are scarce and incomes have stagnated. A lot of the growth is being driven by the government's impressive capital expenditure. India has just recorded an impressive [---] percent growth rate for the financial year. Interpreting GDP numbers correctly is important otherwise we can prescribe misdirected policies. What is behind the headline number Short 🧵 https://t.co/yb37tafASC India has just recorded an impressive [---] percent growth rate for the financial year." [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1796756136458408307) 2024-06-01T04:10Z 27.5K followers, [----] engagements "@sanjaycsds: There have been similarities between the contest of [----] and [----] at the moment its difficult for me to say if [----] will be repeated in [----] as far as exit polls are concerned but it is an extremely distinct possibility. https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/opinion/lok-sabha-elections-how-do-we-predict-the-exit-poll-numbers-12738930.html https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/opinion/lok-sabha-elections-how-do-we-predict-the-exit-poll-numbers-12738930.html" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1797300103591735552) 2024-06-02T16:11Z 27.5K followers, [----] engagements ""Leaders have benefited politically from the welfare programmes. But over time there are diminishing returns. Governance and other things begin to matter more." The limits of New Welfarism. My piece from April. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-68236697 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-68236697" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1797957478396960856) 2024-06-04T11:44Z 27.6K followers, [----] engagements "Why BJP may have lost Ayodhya. From my travels in January. #IndiaDecides2024" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1798042826628067595) 2024-06-04T17:23Z 27.6K followers, 17.2K engagements "In February I found voters sceptical of Jagan Reddys prospects in Andhra Pradesh despite his impressive welfare programmes. #IndiaElections2024" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1798191421125460011) 2024-06-05T03:13Z 27.6K followers, [---] engagements "@AiyarYamini: Away from the bluster of the fastest growing economy the third largest economy the shiny physical infrastructure and the booming stock market is a story of Indias real economy: A story of rozgar and mehengai (employment and high prices). https://www.hindustantimes.com/opinion/why-and-how-the-bjp-s-tally-fell-short-of-its-target-101717524808510.html https://www.hindustantimes.com/opinion/why-and-how-the-bjp-s-tally-fell-short-of-its-target-101717524808510.html" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1798245865829859824) 2024-06-05T06:49Z 27.6K followers, [---] engagements "In the [---] seats where the BJP and Congress contested directly the BJP won [---]. Congress's strike rate improved to 28.3% from 8.3% in [----] while BJP's fell to 64% from 68.7%. The number of direct contest seats dropped to [---] from over [---] in [----]. (source: @the_hindu )" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1798247740457333019) 2024-06-05T06:57Z 27.6K followers, [----] engagements "@NilanjanUdwin: With BJP opening its account in Kerala probably set to double its score in Telangana and scoring big in Karnataka the tag of Hindi heartland party needs to be taken off. The party is truly nationwide now. #IndianElections2024 https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/opinion/et-commentary/can-modi-sculpt-yet-another-image-of-himself-this-time-that-of-a-consensual-one/articleshow/110713176.cmsutm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1798258693597020250) 2024-06-05T07:40Z 27.6K followers, [--] engagements "@TheJaggi: For Narendra Modi and his party this will be more than a sobering outcome. The message the voter has sent is clear: No leader is bigger than the #IndiaElections2024 https://www.business-standard.com/opinion/columns/how-2024-was-never-a-done-deal-124060401906_1.html https://www.business-standard.com/opinion/columns/how-2024-was-never-a-done-deal-124060401906_1.html" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1798261981612265682) 2024-06-05T07:54Z 27.6K followers, [---] engagements "The general election may well mark the end of a cycle and the beginning of a new chapter. But the rejuvenation of Indias democracy will depend on the role of key players including civil society writes @jaffrelotc in this very sharp piece. https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/the-roads-to-indias-redemocratisation-the-challenges/article68255386.ece https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/the-roads-to-indias-redemocratisation-the-challenges/article68255386.ece" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1798608251715723392) 2024-06-06T06:49Z 27.6K followers, [----] engagements "What numbers tell us about Modi and Varanasi. #IndiaElections2024" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1798632266102669446) 2024-06-06T08:25Z 27.6K followers, [----] engagements "The other side of Ayodhya. Some pictures I took during my travels in early January" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1798640064555102587) 2024-06-06T08:56Z 27.6K followers, 21.1K engagements "Saurabh Netravalkar who bowled the Super Over against Pakistan for US is an eight-year full-time veteran of Oracle Cloud Infrastructureaccording to @ESPNcricinfo. His X bio lists him as a Oracle employee first and professional cricketer for US second. Moved to US in 2015" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1798909506346463602) 2024-06-07T02:47Z 27.6K followers, [---] engagements "BJP retained core voters including upper-caste Hindus OBCs and Adivasis with moderate support fm Dalits. 31% of Dalit voters supported the BJP nationwide though they also backed Congress and allies. Muslims Christians and Sikhs largely did not support the BJP: @LoknitiCSDS" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1798917274084237475) 2024-06-07T03:17Z 27.6K followers, [---] engagements "The BJP maintained youth support though Congress and its allies have gained ground among young voters. The BJP's voter share declines with age suggesting it appeals more to younger voters while Congress and its allies have consistent support across all age groups: @LoknitiCSDS" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1798918491803934911) 2024-06-07T03:22Z 27.6K followers, [---] engagements "We got the results wrong. In this election there was no pan- India undercurrent in favour of Modi @PrashantKishor says. https://www.youtube.com/watchv=mPauwNSvf4s https://www.youtube.com/watchv=mPauwNSvf4s" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1799036322721693939) 2024-06-07T11:10Z 27.6K followers, 28.3K engagements ""I made this film on whether marriage is essential to become a mother. How is it possible It was a flop. I was ahead of my times people told me." I met media baron Ramoji Rao in his lair in [----]. My notes from that trip" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1799448793957732665) 2024-06-08T14:29Z 27.6K followers, [---] engagements "Narendra Modi: Will coalition turn him into a humbler leader My piece. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn00xl6n8ldo https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn00xl6n8ldo" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1799628976408629286) 2024-06-09T02:25Z 27.6K followers, [----] engagements "@swaminomics: Can anyone claim that employment and K-shaped recovery were not problems in MP Chhattisgarh Himachal or Uttarakhand but were serious problems in UP Haryana & Rajasthan BJP gains & losses were due to local issues not all-India one. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/politics/ab-ki-baar-soch-vichar-why-bjp-needs-to-introspect-adjust/articleshow/110824036.cms https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/politics/ab-ki-baar-soch-vichar-why-bjp-needs-to-introspect-adjust/articleshow/110824036.cms" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1799643018724602295) 2024-06-09T03:21Z 27.6K followers, [---] engagements "The BJPs vote share is worse than it looks. Overall the BJPs vote share went down in [---] of the [---] constituencies that it contested both in [----] and [----]. https://theprint.in/opinion/two-different-bjps-competed-in-2024-the-challenger-gained-the-establishment-lost/2126328/ https://theprint.in/opinion/two-different-bjps-competed-in-2024-the-challenger-gained-the-establishment-lost/2126328/" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1800909800391540818) 2024-06-12T15:15Z 27.6K followers, [---] engagements "@sanjayuvacha The number doesnt belong to HDFC Bank" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1802213077976305772) 2024-06-16T05:34Z 27.7K followers, [---] engagements "Facebook still leads for news but is declining. TikTok (13%) overtakes X (10%) for news and hits 23% among 18-24-year-olds. YouTube and WhatsApp remain imp sources. (source: @risj_oxford report)" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1802544942939791513) 2024-06-17T03:32Z 27.6K followers, [---] engagements "The strange journey of John Lennons stolen Patek Philippe watch which records time in eight different ways and could cost anything between $10 to $40 million. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/06/24/the-strange-journey-of-john-lennons-stolen-patek-phillippe-watch https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/06/24/the-strange-journey-of-john-lennons-stolen-patek-phillippe-watch" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1803489581452415340) 2024-06-19T18:06Z 27.7K followers, [---] engagements "Gigantic jets shooting up from a thunderstorm last week toward Himalayas in China and Bhutan. The image shows four jets that occurred only minutes apart. The jets are a type of lightning discharge occurring between some thunderstorms and the Earth's ionosphere high above them" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1803849994128040071) 2024-06-20T17:58Z 27.7K followers, [---] engagements "@BhramarBioStat To think too simply of home brings us nothing but sorrow. The place where I belong is where I dont want to be; the place I love is a place where Ill never belong. We cant mistake home with belonging any more than we confuse attachment with affinity: Pico Iyer" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1804879053054185974) 2024-06-23T14:07Z 28.5K followers, [----] engagements "@TheEconomist analysis of labour-market data from [--] mostly emerging markets finds that only fiveChina Sri Lanka Taiwan Turkey and Vietnamhave 18% or more of their population employed in manufacturing compared with [--] in 1990" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1805654029680161270) 2024-06-25T17:27Z 28.5K followers, [---] engagements "@surmenon: Now Afghanistan have two bowlers in the worlds Top [--] and a batter in the Top [--] as they prepare to take on South Africa in the semifinal of a World Cup. It is the most romantic cricket story of our times. (picture: Getty Images) https://www.thehindu.com/sport/cricket/no-matter-what-happens-now-this-is-afghanistans-world-cup/article68332086.ece https://www.thehindu.com/sport/cricket/no-matter-what-happens-now-this-is-afghanistans-world-cup/article68332086.ece" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1805836100482875557) 2024-06-26T05:30Z 27.7K followers, [---] engagements "@surmenon: The next T20 World Cup is in [----] and the 50-over version in [----]. Kohli is fitter than Tendulkar was but its difficult to see him play white ball cricket at that level again. Rohit Sharma [--] might be playing his last World Cup too. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cxrrrpr11z1o https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cxrrrpr11z1o" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1806158500319383614) 2024-06-27T02:51Z 27.7K followers, [---] engagements ""My mother gave the cops food and tea and they would in turn fetch milk and groceries for her." "One of them even baby sat us during the day while my mother went to teach. My mother was always good at subverting state machinery." What a story about The Emergency. The Emergency was a very important event in my life. I was [--] years old and we were on our way back from Calcutta at the fag end of my parents' summer vacation. Looking back I realise there was something odd about the train journey. Instead of the AC chair car that DU The Emergency was a very important event in my life. I was [--] years" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1806273381500875087) 2024-06-27T10:28Z 27.7K followers, [----] engagements "Elon Musk's SpaceX will bring down the International Space Station at the end of its life. It will build a vehicle capable of pushing the 430-tonne orbiting platform into Pacific Ocean early in the next decade. Contract for the work is valued at $843m. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cnl02jl5pzno https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cnl02jl5pzno" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1806376259854753796) 2024-06-27T17:17Z 27.7K followers, [---] engagements "I'm the nominee of the Democratic Party. No one's pushing me out. I'm not leaving. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crgrwgnvqgvo https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crgrwgnvqgvo" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1808671621164773717) 2024-07-04T01:18Z 27.7K followers, [---] engagements "All the opinion polls appear to have got French election wrong. The major TV channels all project victory for the left-wing alliance and not the National Rally of Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella. This is the projected result from France's state TV:" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1810021235931377878) 2024-07-07T18:41Z 27.7K followers, [----] engagements "To understand a cricketer you must first know where they have come from. @Athersmike takes a boat trip to a remote Guyanese village to find out the story of fast bowling sensation Shamar Joseph. https://www.thetimes.com/article/ec8123aa-5e02-4c3e-bbe8-0b9d964c88f5shareToken=3741a927bc2c5fb25082d57a31b9938b https://www.thetimes.com/article/ec8123aa-5e02-4c3e-bbe8-0b9d964c88f5shareToken=3741a927bc2c5fb25082d57a31b9938b" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1810268235021111650) 2024-07-08T11:02Z 27.7K followers, [---] engagements "In [----] a young Lionel Messi posed for photos with a baby in the dressing room of the Camp Nou in Barcelona for a charity calendar photoshoot. Messi was bathing Lamine Yamal - the 16-year-old who is taking the Euro Championship by storm. Photo by Joan Monfort. #EURO2024" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1811349492970762729) 2024-07-11T10:39Z 27.7K followers, [----] engagements "Some major Democratic donors have told the largest pro-Biden super PAC Future Forward that roughly $90 million in pledged donations is now on hold if President Biden remains atop the ticket two people who have been briefed on the conversations have told @nytimes" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1811777993561481268) 2024-07-12T15:01Z 27.7K followers, [---] engagements "How the Trump shooting unfolded. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx7292y32yjo https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx7292y32yjo" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1812324940588425578) 2024-07-14T03:15Z 27.7K followers, [---] engagements "Thomas Crooks lived miles from the site of the attempted assassination and graduated in [----] from Bethel Park High School with a $500 prize for maths and science. Crooks worked in a local nursing home kitchen just a short drive away from his home. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3gw58wv4e9o https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3gw58wv4e9o" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1812677501585354847) 2024-07-15T02:36Z 27.7K followers, [---] engagements "He was a very good student but some students teased him about his hygiene and awkward solitary bearing. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/15/us/trump-rally-shooting-crooks.htmlsmid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/15/us/trump-rally-shooting-crooks.htmlsmid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1813197770582553043) 2024-07-16T13:03Z 27.8K followers, [---] engagements "✅Almost [----] flights cancelled worldwide ✅There were around [------] commercial flights scheduled across the world today ✅1390 have been cancelled ✅US: [---] flights cancelled so far ✅Germany: [--] ✅India: [--] ✅Italy: [--] ✅Canada: [--] #Crowdstrike" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1814257022478746089) 2024-07-19T11:12Z 27.7K followers, [----] engagements "Sticking out is not bad. This is the message of most childrens books but its easy to lose sight of as an adult. Other peoples perceptions of you real or imagined dont have to influence how you see yourself. Social media erases this perspective. https://on.ft.com/4bR4XmQ https://on.ft.com/4bR4XmQ" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1815071500241957269) 2024-07-21T17:09Z 27.7K followers, [---] engagements "John Mayall influential Blues musician has died at [--] CNN https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/23/entertainment/john-mayall-blues-musician-obit/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/23/entertainment/john-mayall-blues-musician-obit/index.html" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1815937425782480907) 2024-07-24T02:29Z 27.8K followers, [---] engagements "One of the areas driving up the global average is Antarctica. Temperatures around the South Pole are much higher than usual which is also a factor in the record-low sea ice for this time of yearwhen it is winter in the southern hemisphere https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2024/07/25/why-2024-could-become-the-hottest-year-on-record https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2024/07/25/why-2024-could-become-the-hottest-year-on-record" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1818253159657267217) 2024-07-30T11:51Z 27.8K followers, [---] engagements "@Aunindyo2023: Indias middle class is caught between the pincer grip of shrinking incomes and a huge real inflation rate. Except for the top 0.5% of households people in the richest 10% have had very little real income growth in the past few years. https://www.newslaundry.com/2024/07/31/middle-class-rage-trps-why-legacy-media-is-sliding-off-the-govts-godi https://www.newslaundry.com/2024/07/31/middle-class-rage-trps-why-legacy-media-is-sliding-off-the-govts-godi" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1818965674489770215) 2024-08-01T11:03Z 27.8K followers, [---] engagements "Watching surfing at the Paris Olympics is like witnessing an action film infused with poetry - truly spectacular and mesmerising. #Paris2024" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1819075013661831645) 2024-08-01T18:17Z 27.8K followers, [---] engagements "Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has left the country our colleagues at BBC Bangla have confirmed. Reports say her sister is with her. #Bangladesh" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1820388947518005398) 2024-08-05T09:18Z 28.3K followers, 38.5K engagements "Reports are now coming that thousands of protesters are storming Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's official residence in the capital Dhaka. #Bangladesh" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1820389355984408866) 2024-08-05T09:20Z 28.3K followers, 35.2K engagements "Hasina is heading to the city of Agartala in India BBC Bangla is reporting. The prime minister - who has resigned - earlier left the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka on a helicopter with her sister according to reports. #Bangladesh" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1820394066728939938) 2024-08-05T09:39Z 29K followers, 154K engagements "Protesters loot prime minister's official residence. #Bangladesh" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1820401751289381048) 2024-08-05T10:09Z 28.3K followers, [----] engagements "A BBC Dhaka correspondent describes today's events as a "historic moment" for Bangladesh. "We have seen a mass upsurge in Bangladesh: tens of thousands of people took to the streets. and suddenly we received the news that Hasina left official residence" reports Akbar Hossein" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1820407572702363820) 2024-08-05T10:32Z 28.3K followers, 14.5K engagements "Jubilant crowds have taken to the streets in Bangladesh celebrating the departure of Sheikh Hasina. Channel24 broadcast footage of ecstatic protesters breaking into Hasina's official residence in Dhaka with some waving to the camera as they streamed into the compound" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1820408050349441377) 2024-08-05T10:34Z 28.3K followers, [----] engagements "A demonstrator tells BBC that a statue of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in Ganabhaban - the prime minister's official residence - is being demolished by protestors. Sayem Faruk tells the BBC that the scenes are reminiscent of Saddam Hussein's statue being taken down in Iraq in 2003" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1820419091599184318) 2024-08-05T11:18Z 28.3K followers, [----] engagements "A mural of Sheikh Hasina vandalised by protesters in Dhaka. Picture: Reuters" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1820428071612342566) 2024-08-05T11:54Z 28.3K followers, 13.3K engagements "BBC Bangla reports widespread looting in Dhaka. Protesters have damaged Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan's residence and set it on fire. At the PM's official residence people were seen taking furniture from Sheikh Hasina's office. #Bangladesh 1/2" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1820431668286546208) 2024-08-05T12:08Z 28.3K followers, 11K engagements "Sheikh Hasinas son tells BBC that there'll be no political comeback for his mother saying she was "so disappointed that after all her hard work for a minority to rise up against her". 1/2 #Bangladesh" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1820446345163145329) 2024-08-05T13:06Z 29K followers, 210.4K engagements "Sajeeb Wazed Joy - who was an official adviser of the prime minister until today said his mother had been considering resigning since yesterday and had left the country for her own safety after her family insisted. 2/2" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1820446347503558695) 2024-08-05T13:06Z 29K followers, 45.7K engagements "This is "close to a worst-case scenario for India as it has long viewed any alternative to Ms Hasina and her party as a threat to Indian interests" @MichaelKugelman says. My piece on what Sheikh Hasina's departure means for India. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c39kkkdjkzwo https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c39kkkdjkzwo" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1820456467339911593) 2024-08-05T13:46Z 28.4K followers, 33.2K engagements "When India almost intervened militarily in Bangladesh in February [----] and why the non-occurence was a powerful turning point for Sheikh Hasina. @PaliwalAvi tells the thrilling story in in his new book Indias Near East" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1820488792723333333) 2024-08-05T15:55Z 29K followers, 69.8K engagements "A plane belonging to the Bangladesh Air Force has taken off from a military air base in India according to ANI. According to the report which cited unnamed sources the C-130J plane left the air base at [----] local time (0330 GMT) and "is moving towards its next destination"" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1820693912584913193) 2024-08-06T05:30Z 28.3K followers, [----] engagements "Sheikh Hasina is not on board the C-130 J aircraft that took off this morning from the Hindon air base ANI has reported citing unnamed sources. The Bangladesh Air Force flight C-130J is instead flying with seven military personnel in it towards its base in Bangladesh" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1820709155029827801) 2024-08-06T06:31Z 28.3K followers, [----] engagements "Protest leaders are urging Bangladesh's president Mohammed Shahabuddin to dissolve parliament by 15:00 local time today and have warned that they would "take tough steps" if their demands are not met. 1/2" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1820720553646596251) 2024-08-06T07:16Z 28.3K followers, [----] engagements ""We strongly condemn the arson and communal violence taking place in various parts of the country. We need to be prepared to prevent people from hijacking the movement" they said in a video posted on protest coordinator Asif Mahmud's Facebook page external. 2/2" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1820720556318364105) 2024-08-06T07:16Z 28.3K followers, [---] engagements ""The only thing I have told Bajrang and Sakshi is that I will still fight. I will look him Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh in the eye and medal leke aungi main tu dekh bring back a medal and show it to himNo one can stop me." Vinesh Phogat November [----] https://www.espn.in/olympics/story/_/id/40750630/wrestling-how-vinesh-phogat-won-olympics-medal-paris-2024 https://www.espn.in/olympics/story/_/id/40750630/wrestling-how-vinesh-phogat-won-olympics-medal-paris-2024" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1821024787487248882) 2024-08-07T03:25Z 28.3K followers, [---] engagements "Today Vinesh Phogat is India's biggest bravest boldest Olympian. We are lucky to have her. Sharda Ugra on Vinesh Phogat. Dont miss. https://www.espn.in/olympics/story/_/id/40756135/wrestling-vinesh-phogat-world-lucky-part-paris-olympics-2024 https://www.espn.in/olympics/story/_/id/40756135/wrestling-vinesh-phogat-world-lucky-part-paris-olympics-2024" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1821050051294326939) 2024-08-07T05:05Z 28.3K followers, [----] engagements "Vinesh Phogat likely to be disqualified to miss Paris Olympic medal. https://indianexpress.com/article/sports/sport-others/vinesh-phogat-likely-to-be-disqualified-to-miss-paris-olympic-medal-9499953/ https://indianexpress.com/article/sports/sport-others/vinesh-phogat-likely-to-be-disqualified-to-miss-paris-olympic-medal-9499953/" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1821073247506723053) 2024-08-07T06:37Z 28.3K followers, [---] engagements "Hindenburg alleges India market regulator chief held stake in offshore funds used by Adani Group https://www.reuters.com/world/india/hindenburg-research-alleges-india-market-regulator-chief-held-investments-2024-08-10/ https://www.reuters.com/world/india/hindenburg-research-alleges-india-market-regulator-chief-held-investments-2024-08-10/" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1822469396683759630) 2024-08-11T03:05Z 28.5K followers, [---] engagements "Trump promises the largest deportation in history if he becomes president and says he wants to build an iron dome defence system to protect the country from foreign threats. #TrumpOnX" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1823200409244352933) 2024-08-13T03:30Z 28.5K followers, 15.8K engagements "Many of the worlds poor have their Olympic potential crushed before birth by lack of nutrition. And try going around a big Brazilian Indian or African city looking for places to play. The authorities rarely provide them. https://www.ft.com/content/5eb5cfc3-9800-4b72-972d-0fd157ae4766 https://www.ft.com/content/5eb5cfc3-9800-4b72-972d-0fd157ae4766" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1823334665601843485) 2024-08-13T12:23Z 28.5K followers, [----] engagements "A group of young men have stormed into Kolkata's RG Kar Hospital and are damaging property in the emergency reports @abpanandatv amid peaceful Reclaim The Night protests throughout Bengal. 'The police and nurses have run away. We don't how these guys are.' #JusticeForMoumita" [X Link](https://x.com/soutikBBC/status/1823802100515790982) 2024-08-14T19:21Z 28.5K followers, [----] engagements Limited data mode. Full metrics available with subscription: lunarcrush.com/pricing
@soutikBBC Soutik BiswasSoutik Biswas posts on X about india, bangladesh, murder, bbc the most. They currently have [------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [------] engagements in the last [--] hours.
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Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @pbmehta @nytimes @theeconomist @lokniticsds @mukulkesavan @thehindu @paliwalavi @sandipr @prasanto @nikinamdar @httweets @anitbluetick @mihirssharma @athersmike @kaulvivek @pranavdixit @shekhargupta @bbcworld @roshanjnu @aiyaryamini
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours
"Bangladesh election: Can India reset ties with a BNP-led government - BBC News A reset of the frayed relationship is possible say analysts. But it will require restraint - and reciprocity"
X Link 2026-02-15T11:08Z 29K followers, [----] engagements
".@mihirssharma: India is getting richer but its cities dont seem to be getting any more livable. Not because the country is too poor or because leaders lack ambition but because urban citizens are starved of funds and deprived of representation. https://theprint.in/india/india-is-wealthier-but-its-cities-are-unliveable/2852661/ https://theprint.in/india/india-is-wealthier-but-its-cities-are-unliveable/2852661/"
X Link 2026-02-12T08:48Z 29K followers, 11.3K engagements
"So Jamaat picked up a third of the popular vote. #BangladeshElection2026"
X Link 2026-02-15T07:20Z 29K followers, [----] engagements
"Musk's Tesla pay deal - worth up to $56bn (44bn) depending on the firm's share price - and backed by shareholders is 75% of the entire spending for schools in England in 2024-25 (60bn) and around a quarter of the budget for the NHS (192bn). https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9rre6nwnpwo https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9rre6nwnpwo"
X Link 2024-06-14T13:30Z 29K followers, [---] engagements
"One of the things that was strange about Naipaul was that when he first started going to India when it actually was in much better shape politically and culturally he didnt like it at all. And the more Hindu it got the more he bought into it. https://granta.com/reclaiming-the-territory/ https://granta.com/reclaiming-the-territory/"
X Link 2025-11-07T13:56Z 29K followers, 122.2K engagements
"I believed that people not immersed in the news were bad citizens. I now see that in fact a kind of genius is at work. Not thinking about things is the real mental feat. https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/8f80d60a-582b-494b-96c8-b1ab56cb8eed https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/8f80d60a-582b-494b-96c8-b1ab56cb8eed"
X Link 2025-12-20T18:10Z 29K followers, [----] engagements
"Coco Gauff was 2025s highest-paid female athlete according to Sportico with $31mn earnings. But that would not have put her in the most recent top [---] ranking where the lowest-paid man made more than $37mn. (via @FinancialTimes)"
X Link 2025-12-31T17:43Z 29K followers, [---] engagements
"Few foreign correspondents belonged to India like Mark Tully did. Arguably our most recognised foreign correspondent ever. Generous humble always curious. He crossed the Anglophone divide became a heartland figure. Left us with [--] classics: Amritsar and No Full Stops in India"
X Link 2026-01-25T10:42Z 29K followers, 19.6K engagements
"He was expelled from India at [--] hours' notice in [----] after the then prime minister Indira Gandhi ordered a state of emergency. But he headed back [--] months later and had been based in Delhi ever since. @john_pether on Mark Tully. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4nnp4d064do https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4nnp4d064do"
X Link 2026-01-25T11:29Z 29K followers, 15.7K engagements
"The sports desk shuttered in its current form. Metro down to [--] from [--]. Foreign bureaus cut to [--] from 20+. Books section and Post Reports podcast end. Even the international editor asked to be laid off. Grim. #WashingtonPost https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-communications/how-jeff-bezos-brought-down-the-washington-post https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-communications/how-jeff-bezos-brought-down-the-washington-post"
X Link 2026-02-04T17:30Z 29K followers, [----] engagements
"Online search traffic partly because of the rise of generative A.I. had fallen by nearly half in the last three #WaPo https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/business/media/washington-post-layoffs.htmlsmid=nytcore-ios-share https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/business/media/washington-post-layoffs.htmlsmid=nytcore-ios-share"
X Link 2026-02-04T17:53Z 29K followers, [---] engagements
"A buried line in a cricket annual report flags a 30% ICC revenue drop in [----] media renewals. Some insiders fear a 50% hit- $1.5bn over four years. Seismic for world cricket writes @timwig in this piece on how cricket is being killed by geopolitics. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2026/02/06/cricket-killed-geopolitics-franchises-benefit/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2026/02/06/cricket-killed-geopolitics-franchises-benefit/"
X Link 2026-02-06T09:59Z 29K followers, 31.4K engagements
".@pbmehta: The new tariff regime is worse for India than what existed before Trump came to power. the tariff structure favours the United States: India cuts tariffs to zero while the US imposes rates as high as 18%. https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/pratap-bhanu-mehta-writes-india-us-deal-is-one-sided-it-creates-vulnerabilities-10523347/ https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/pratap-bhanu-mehta-writes-india-us-deal-is-one-sided-it-creates-vulnerabilities-10523347/"
X Link 2026-02-10T03:47Z 29K followers, [----] engagements
"Ashutosh Varshney: The trade deal was bound to be more favorable to the US than to India. To expect equal benefits is to be entirely unmindful of power realities.The trade deal is a reflection of the great power differentials between India and the US. https://theprint.in/opinion/between-political-lines/indians-india-us-trade-deal-power-realities/2850464/ https://theprint.in/opinion/between-political-lines/indians-india-us-trade-deal-power-realities/2850464/"
X Link 2026-02-10T14:15Z 29K followers, [----] engagements
"Bangladesh today. #BangladeshElections"
X Link 2026-02-12T04:03Z 29K followers, [----] engagements
"Two ballots one day. Will votes be confused about Bangladesh's referendum Ali Riaz and @shafqatmunir weigh in. #BangladeshElections2026"
X Link 2026-02-12T08:02Z 29K followers, [----] engagements
".@Athersmike doesnt mince his words. #INDvsPAK"
X Link 2026-02-15T07:48Z 29K followers, 39.9K engagements
"Nikhil Gupta Worked at the Direction of an Indian Government Employee to Arrange the Murder of U.S.-Based Leader of Sikh Separatist Movement: United States Department of Justice https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/indian-national-pleads-guilty-plotting-assassinate-us-citizen-new-york-city https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/indian-national-pleads-guilty-plotting-assassinate-us-citizen-new-york-city"
X Link 2026-02-13T19:38Z 29K followers, [----] engagements
"Decembers lynching of a Hindu factory worker in Bangladesh shocked the world and exposed the fraught reality for minorities. I went to Mymensingh to piece together Dipu Dass final hours - and how a mob turned fatal. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj3vve6v17xo https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj3vve6v17xo"
X Link 2026-02-16T02:26Z 29K followers, [----] engagements
"Bangladesh: There is no law and order. And Hindus are being targeted again - BBC News Hindu properties and shrines have been attacked after ex-PM Sheikh Hasina fled Bangladesh"
X Link 2024-08-06T20:57Z 28.5K followers, [--] engagements
"Why caste plays a role in childhood stunting in India - BBC News A new study finds that caste plays a vital role in high rates of stunting in children in India"
X Link 2024-11-15T00:46Z 28.4K followers, [--] engagements
"Why more Indians are crossing borders illegally to enter the US A surge in illegal border crossings by Indians into the US has left many puzzled -whats going on"
X Link 2024-11-25T00:11Z 28.5K followers, [--] engagements
"Manmohan Singh: Former Indian Prime Minister dies at [--] Manmohan Singh was instrumental in bringing India out of economic and nuclear isolation"
X Link 2024-12-26T17:19Z 28.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Gautam Adani: How US fraud charges against him impact Indias economy and politics - BBC News The charges could jeopardise the ambitions of one of the worlds richest men both at home and abroad"
X Link 2024-11-22T00:59Z 28.5K followers, [--] engagements
"Why Pakistan-Saudi Arabia defence pact is unsettling India - BBC News A Pakistan-Saudi defence agreement pledging a mutual response to any aggression raises concerns in India"
X Link 2025-09-23T12:30Z 28.9K followers, [---] engagements
"Bangladesh: There is no law and order. And Hindus are being targeted again Hindu properties and shrines have been attacked after ex-PM Sheikh Hasina fled Bangladesh"
X Link 2024-08-06T20:57Z 228.6M followers, 25.8K engagements
"Gautam Adani: How US fraud charges against him impact Indias economy and politics The charges could jeopardise the ambitions of one of the worlds richest men both at home and abroad"
X Link 2024-11-22T00:59Z 28.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Kolkata doctors rape and murder in hospital alarm India The rape and murder of a female doctor in India highlight the violence against healthcare workers"
X Link 2024-08-14T06:20Z 28.5K followers, [---] engagements
"You are under digital arrest: Inside a scam looting millions from Indians Indians are being stripped of their life savings by savvy scammers putting them under digital arrest"
X Link 2024-11-18T00:13Z 28.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Kolkata: Massive night protests after doctors rape and murder Tens of thousands of women march through Kolkata in protest against the rape and murder of a doctor"
X Link 2024-08-15T04:04Z 28.5K followers, 35.5K engagements
"Indias schoolgirls are leading a silent cycling revolution The most notable rise in cycling in India has occurred among rural schoolgirls a study finds"
X Link 2024-08-18T23:06Z 28.4K followers, [--] engagements
"Elon Musk battles Mukesh Ambani over Indias satellite internet Musks Starlink and Mukesh Ambani are preparing to face off in Indias satellite broadband market"
X Link 2024-10-22T23:01Z 28.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Bangladesh: There is no law and order. And Hindus are being targeted again - BBC News Hindu properties and shrines have been attacked after ex-PM Sheikh Hasina fled Bangladesh"
X Link 2024-08-06T00:00Z 28.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Can India become rich before its population grows old - BBC News At current rates India needs [--] years to reach a quarter of US's per capita income a report says"
X Link 2025-09-26T18:37Z 208.1M followers, [--] engagements
"Gautam Adani: How US fraud charges against him impact Indias economy and politics - BBC News The charges could jeopardise the ambitions of one of the worlds richest men both at home and abroad"
X Link 2024-11-22T00:59Z 28.5K followers, [--] engagements
"Kolkata: Massive night protests after doctors rape and murder - BBC News Tens of thousands of women march through Kolkata in protest against the rape and murder of a doctor"
X Link 2024-08-15T04:04Z 28.5K followers, [--] engagements
"Nepal turmoil drives migrants back home from India - BBC News Nepalis rush home from India as deadly protests have engulfed the Himalayan nation"
X Link 2025-09-15T01:35Z 208.1M followers, [--] engagements
"The deadly dose: Inside India's cough syrup obsession - BBC News Indias booming cough syrup market faces scrutiny after contaminated syrups kill multiple children"
X Link 2025-10-10T02:30Z 208.1M followers, [---] engagements
"Why more Indians are crossing borders illegally to enter the US - BBC News A surge in illegal border crossings by Indians into the US has left many puzzled -whats going on"
X Link 2024-11-25T00:00Z 28.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Kolkata doctors rape and murder in hospital alarm India - BBC News The rape and murder of a female doctor in India highlight the violence against healthcare workers"
X Link 2024-08-14T06:20Z 28.5K followers, [--] engagements
"Trump's tariff rebuke Xi's handshake and Putin's oil are India's latest foreign policy test - BBC News Indias foreign policy sits uneasily in the Trump-led order caught between Russia and strained US relations"
X Link 2025-09-03T23:30Z 28.9K followers, [---] engagements
"Earliest iron use found in India Tamil Nadu digs spark debate - BBC News Tamil Nadus iron artefacts may predate Turkey's Anatolia reshaping early Iron Age history"
X Link 2025-04-18T21:08Z 28.9K followers, [--] engagements
"Elevated exit poll coverage on India news TV #IndiaElections2019"
X Link 2019-05-19T12:43Z 28.5K followers, [--] engagements
".@kaul_vivek: With $428bn in reserves a $10bn foreign borrowing shouldn't lead to any worries of currency risk. But the government shouldn't get used to the idea of borrowing from abroad. #India #foreigndebt #debt #Budget2019 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-48960315 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-48960315"
X Link 2019-07-17T02:58Z 28.9K followers, [--] engagements
"Supreme Court: Are any of Lord Rams descendants living in Ayodhya Lawyer: We will try to find out. #AyodhyaHearing #Ayodhya #India"
X Link 2019-08-10T07:32Z 28.5K followers, [---] engagements
"India GDP growth slowest in more than six years #GDP #India #EconomicSlowdown"
X Link 2019-11-29T12:50Z 28.5K followers, [--] engagements
"This is a terrific report on the Mumbai hospital crisis #COVID19 #Mumbai In Mumbai's Private Hospitals there are [-----] beds in Govt Hospitals [----]. For [-----] Active cases roughly [----] beds needed. So why Is Mumbai running short One reason is Staff not showing up. My ground report: The Story of Sonu & Narmada. Two Women Outside a Covid Hospital https://t.co/KthH1IJ0RP In Mumbai's Private Hospitals there are [-----] beds in Govt Hospitals [----]. For [-----] Active cases roughly [----] beds needed. So why Is Mumbai running short One reason is Staff not showing up. My ground report: The Story of Sonu &"
X Link 2020-06-05T18:38Z 28.5K followers, [---] engagements
"@BDUTT When did the first wave end We are still climbing the ladder"
X Link 2020-09-06T16:36Z 28.5K followers, [--] engagements
"Delhi recorded [----] Covid-19 cases on Tuesday the highest single-day spike for any Indian city so far. (Pune recorded [----] cases on September 10). 44% of the Covid beds in hospitals occupied say reports. Stay safe folks. #COVID19 #Delhi #COVID__19"
X Link 2020-11-04T06:20Z 28.9K followers, [--] engagements
"The thriving black market in oxygen and drugs in India #CovidIndia #RemdesivirBlackMarketing #Tocilizumab #COVID19"
X Link 2021-04-26T06:46Z 28.5K followers, [---] engagements
"@PranavDixit @Harvard congratulations pranav so fully deserved"
X Link 2021-05-25T15:27Z 28.9K followers, [--] engagements
"Neeraj Chopra. Gold. #NeerajChopra #Tokyo2020 #JavelinDC #JavelinThrowFinal"
X Link 2021-08-07T12:13Z 28.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Dont Look Up is such a monumentally unfunny satire stuffed with subpar Hollywood gags. A waste of a star-studded ensemble cast and a topical story. #DontLookUp"
X Link 2021-12-30T08:44Z 28.9K followers, [--] engagements
"Argentine supporters claimed one of Brazil supporters had misbehaved with an elderly Argentine fan. In retaliation Argentine supporters allegedly barged inside the houses of two Brazilian supporters and a free-for-all ensued"
X Link 2022-12-20T04:27Z 28.6K followers, 13.3K engagements
"5.1 million people watching @isro Chandrayaan [--] live feed on @YouTube. Is this a record live viewership on the platform #Chandrayaan3"
X Link 2023-08-23T12:43Z 27.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Morning papers. #Chandrayaan3"
X Link 2023-08-24T03:29Z 27.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Canisters of film taken by the early spy satellites from space in 1960s would be ejected under parachutes. They would have heat shields to stop them from burning up during reentry. And they would be grabbed in midair by planes that flew a hook on its belly into the parachutes"
X Link 2023-08-25T10:58Z 27.4K followers, [---] engagements
"This is such a cool picture. #Chandrayaan3Landing"
X Link 2023-08-31T08:40Z 27.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Mukul Kesavan: If a private liberal arts university isnt a hothouse where free inquiry flourishes it devolves into a high end teaching shop: a finishing school for rich students and a gated refuge for credentialed teachers"
X Link 2023-09-03T11:13Z 27.4K followers, [----] engagements
"People are holding on to their devices longer - not only because they are expensive both financially and environmentally - but also because there's no longer the same burning justification to treat yourself to an upgrade. #Iphone15"
X Link 2023-09-12T08:31Z 27.4K followers, [----] engagements
"The worst sleepers are in Asia where on a typical weeknight people snooze for less than six and a half hours. The best sleepers are in Estonia Finland Ireland Netherlands and in Australia and New Zealand where users log a solid seven hours on average"
X Link 2023-09-12T15:22Z 27.4K followers, [----] engagements
"I finally spotted a proper zebra crossing Kenya"
X Link 2023-09-14T16:19Z 29K followers, 151.9K engagements
"One afternoon I met a Masaai boy performing the traditional leaping dance called adumu to see who can jump the highest and to decide who gets to marry who"
X Link 2023-09-16T03:27Z 27.4K followers, [----] engagements
""Right now we're seeing a hard power moment. That is not the environment where Canada shines. The decisive stuff is all force power and money which Canada doesn't have." #Canada"
X Link 2023-09-24T04:40Z 27.4K followers, [--] engagements
"@vijivenkatesh My deepest condolences"
X Link 2023-10-04T02:36Z 27.4K followers, [---] engagements
"World Bank chief Ajay Banga says if Israel-Gaza war expands into a regional conflict it could pose a threat to global economy. If this were to spread in any way then it becomes dangerous he told @nytimes. Such a developmnent would be a crisis of unimaginable proportion"
X Link 2023-10-09T17:09Z 27.4K followers, [---] engagements
"A blackmail scam is using instant loan apps to entrap people across India. At least [--] Indians have killed themselves after being abused and threatened. A BBC undercover investigation has exposed those profiting from this deadly scam in India and China"
X Link 2023-10-11T03:04Z 27.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Match day Ahmedabad"
X Link 2023-10-14T05:13Z 29K followers, 70K engagements
".@pbmehta: The court proclaim values with the high-mindedness of philosophers thread fine lines on process with the ingenuity of lawyers give history lessons with an erudition that shames historians. But the directions cause the executive no discomfort"
X Link 2023-10-18T05:20Z 27.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Bedi flighted the ball higher than any bowler in international cricket; if he could challenge quick-footed batsmen thus it was only because his command was so complete that he would make the ball descend far quicker than it went up @Ram_Guha wrote on the guileful Bishan Bedi"
X Link 2023-10-23T11:31Z 28.5K followers, [----] engagements
"He bowled to deceive but frank and big-hearted was the least deceptive of men. To face him must have been like having your pocket picked then being given your wallet back. Gideon Haigh on Bishan Singh Bedi. Must-read piece"
X Link 2023-10-24T11:30Z 27.2K followers, [---] engagements
"Intikhab Alam recounts how he and Bishan Singh Bedi shared a love for jazz"
X Link 2023-10-25T05:50Z 27.2K followers, [---] engagements
"Vasbert Drakes was timed out because he was "still flying from the West Indies". Timed out dismissals in cricket via @BBCSport #AngeloMathews"
X Link 2023-11-06T13:00Z 27.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Some doctors remain a whole week in the hospital. Some of their families are brought to the hospital killed or injured. And some doctors go home and are killed there and then the bodies are brought back to the hospital. #Gaza"
X Link 2023-11-09T17:25Z 27.2K followers, [---] engagements
"@ShekharGupta: Its been a long time since we saw a true selection controversy. Whoever might run the Board they know that if they mess up selections and the team performance declines the market will punish them"
X Link 2023-11-19T05:41Z 27.2K followers, [---] engagements
"@pranjulb: Going back into history shows that one of India's best periods of fiscal consolidation was between [----] and [----]. That is also the period when growth averaged a strong 7%. Higher GDP growth helps raise tax revenues faster"
X Link 2023-11-24T11:51Z 27.4K followers, [--] engagements
"In a profanity-laced outburst Elon Musk has slammed advertisers that have left X warning they will kill the social media platform. he accused companies that have joined an ad boycott of the site formerly known as Twitter of trying to blackmail him"
X Link 2023-11-30T04:33Z 27.2K followers, [----] engagements
"This ability to successfully pull off the appearance of indispensability made him larger than life and overshadowed any assessment of his actions. @pbmehta on Henry Kissinger"
X Link 2023-11-30T11:43Z 27.2K followers, [---] engagements
"Top oil producers. #COP28"
X Link 2023-12-02T03:46Z 27.2K followers, [---] engagements
"Regaining control of Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh from the Congress and retaining Madhya Pradesh for a record fifth term means that the BJP is looking virtually unassailable in the "Hindi heartland" of northern and central India"
X Link 2023-12-03T11:28Z 27.2K followers, [----] engagements
"@rahul_tverma: Hopefully Congress will not overread its victory in Telangana and extrapolate it to the [----] campaign. Similarly it may do well to refrain from creating a false binary between the voters of northern and southern India"
X Link 2023-12-06T06:23Z 27.2K followers, [--] engagements
"@ShekharGupta: BJP all-conquering though it looks still doesnt reach anywhere near the pan-Indian pre-eminence the Congress had during Indira Gandhi erafrom [----] on the Cong got seats from across India and remained in the 350-seat ballpark"
X Link 2023-12-09T07:39Z 27.3K followers, [---] engagements
"There were direct @airindia flights from Paris to Chennai and Kolkata in the 1970s"
X Link 2023-12-16T12:54Z 27.3K followers, 24.8K engagements
"Tamil heroes are outrageously productive. Rajinikanth has been in [---] films in [--] years; Vijay has done [--] in [--]. By comparison Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise have acted in a mere [--] films each. TN has 5% of Indias population but 12% of its screens"
X Link 2023-12-21T13:44Z 27.3K followers, [---] engagements
"A plane carrying [---] Indian passengers has been grounded at an airport in north-eastern France on suspicion of human trafficking French media report. The Airbus A340 was flying from the United Arab Emirates to the Nicaraguan capital Managua"
X Link 2023-12-22T17:17Z 27.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Most people naturally have good vitamin D levels. Overhyped claims that the compound helps to fight diseases from cancer to depression arent borne out by recent research"
X Link 2023-12-26T12:59Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"Killers of the Flower Moon is a slow burn masterpiece a gritty tale of greed deceit and murder. Helped by De Niro DiCaprio and Gladstone Scorsese blends the elements deftly. An epic police procedural A doomed love story A history lesson Its all this and much more"
X Link 2024-01-07T04:31Z [--] followers, [----] engagements
"Musks X has faced an advertiser exodus negative cash flow heavy debt burden and in one investors case a 71.5% devaluation. Plans to monetise users and expand into e-commerce have stalled. But user resilience could yet convince advertisers to return"
X Link 2024-01-15T12:35Z [--] followers, [----] engagements
"Insurgents in Myanmar say they have captured an important town on a main route to India. The Arakan Army (AA) - one of three armed groups that launched a major new offensive against the military - says it has taken control of Paletwa in Chin"
X Link 2024-01-16T04:31Z 27.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Why thousands of workers in India are queuing up for jobs in war-affected Israel. My story. #Jobs"
X Link 2024-01-25T03:58Z 27.4K followers, 35.7K engagements
"Alabama has executed convicted murderer Kenneth Eugene Smith [--] with nitrogen gas. He is the first person to be put to death using the pure gas in the world. Breathing nitrogen without oxygen causes cells in the body to break down and leads to death"
X Link 2024-01-26T04:26Z 27.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Experts say the problem of foreign meddling in Canada is much more complex and widespread. Solving it they say demands a restructuring of the political and social DNA of the country which has long-failed to prioritise matters of national security"
X Link 2024-01-29T07:41Z 27.4K followers, [---] engagements
"India plans to fence the open border with neighbouring Myanmar. But the move would be fraught with many challenges. My piece"
X Link 2024-01-30T05:27Z 27.4K followers, [----] engagements
"More than half of Gaza's buildings have been damaged or destroyed since Israel launched its retaliation for the Hamas attacks of [--] October new analysis seen by the BBC reveals"
X Link 2024-01-30T16:52Z 27.4K followers, [---] engagements
"The incredible story of a teenagers fatal fall in London prominently featuring a tycoon whose company website had a photograph of him shaking hands with Prime Minister Narendra Modi"
X Link 2024-02-13T13:44Z 27.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Virat Kohli Mohammed Shami and Rishabh Pant missed out entirely KL Rahul has played only one Test and Jasprit Bumrah was rested for this match. In their place Jurel Gill and Jaiswal have stood up. #ENGvIND"
X Link 2024-02-26T09:19Z 27.4K followers, [---] engagements
"India Q3 GDP data may overstate growth trends economists say Reuters"
X Link 2024-03-01T07:09Z 27.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Malaysia MH370 mystery: missing flight could get new search AP News"
X Link 2024-03-03T18:18Z 27.4K followers, [---] engagements
"@pbmehta writes on why the Anant Ambani-Radhika Merchant pre-wedding is a perfect embodiment of our age"
X Link 2024-03-04T18:46Z 27.4K followers, 17.1K engagements
"Future Gaming and Hotel Services Private Limited the largest electoral bonds donor to political parties purchased electoral bonds worth Rs [----] crore since [----]. And in a single year it gave six times its profit as donation to political parties"
X Link 2024-03-15T03:37Z 27.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Top [--] purchasers of electoral bonds via @Howindialives"
X Link 2024-03-15T04:43Z 27.4K followers, [----] engagements
"At least [--] people have been killed after gunmen attacked a packed concert venue on the outskirts of Moscow. More than [---] were wounded at the Crocus City Hall according to the FSB Federal Security Service The Islamic State has claimed it carried out the attack. via @BBCWorld"
X Link 2024-03-23T03:20Z 27.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Currently Maharashtra has two Shiv Senas two NCPs half of MNS another Vidarbha only outfit led by Prakash Ambedkar Asaduddin Owaisi's All India Majlis-E Ittchadul Muslimeen (MIM) one Congres (with many ready-to-flee Congressmen) and the BJP"
X Link 2024-04-01T17:59Z 27.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Solar eclipse: Stunning images as darkness descends on North America. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-30cbf852-1282-4ed9-9ec9-c9144ed9c8fb https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-30cbf852-1282-4ed9-9ec9-c9144ed9c8fb"
X Link 2024-04-09T02:45Z 27.4K followers, [---] engagements
"About a tenth of the worlds residential property by value is under threat from global warmingincluding many houses that are nowhere near the coast. Climate change could wipe out 9% of the value of the worlds housing by 2050which amounts to $25trn. https://www.economist.com/leaders/2024/04/11/global-warming-is-coming-for-your-home https://www.economist.com/leaders/2024/04/11/global-warming-is-coming-for-your-home"
X Link 2024-04-11T17:05Z 28.9K followers, [---] engagements
"Findings reveal 79% of respondents support the idea that India belongs to all religions equally and not just Hindus; that it must remain a country where people following different religions can live and practice their faith freely. @LoknitiCSDS https://www.thehindu.com/elections/lok-sabha/csds-lokniti-2024-pre-poll-survey-remarkable-support-for-religious-pluralism/article68055497.ece https://www.thehindu.com/elections/lok-sabha/csds-lokniti-2024-pre-poll-survey-remarkable-support-for-religious-pluralism/article68055497.ece"
X Link 2024-04-12T02:35Z 27.4K followers, [---] engagements
"@Roshanjnu: To attribute BJP victory to progressive south being outnumbered by reactionary north rather than consider oppositions self-goals and political challenges is akin to a Brecht poem where opposition would find it simpler to elect a new people. http://bit.ly/3Ue64Hp http://bit.ly/3Ue64Hp"
X Link 2024-04-12T10:57Z 27.4K followers, [---] engagements
"✅Israel says it and its allies have intercepted majority of 200+ drones and missiles launched by Iran. ✅ It says there were a small number of hits on its territory including at an IDF while one person has been injured. ✅ US shot down Iranian drones headed towards Israel"
X Link 2024-04-14T03:16Z 27.4K followers, [----] engagements
"✅65% of Indias elite footballers come from [--] states - Manipur Mizoram Bengal Punjab and Goa ✅90% hailed from nine states and one city including Kerala Meghalaya Sikkim TN Greater Mumbai. ✅20% of population contributes 90% of best footballers https://indianexpress.com/article/sports/football/65-percent-india-elite-footballers-5-states-new-study-9268673/ https://indianexpress.com/article/sports/football/65-percent-india-elite-footballers-5-states-new-study-9268673/"
X Link 2024-04-14T04:40Z 27.4K followers, [---] engagements
"@mukulkesavan: The moment the middle class feels it has no access to a public good it does everything it can to subvert or devalue it. We can see this happening in real time to Indias public universities. https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/in-memoriam-delhi-university-is-no-longer-the-place-academia-aspires-to-be-due-to-upa-nda-governments/cid/2013208 https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/in-memoriam-delhi-university-is-no-longer-the-place-academia-aspires-to-be-due-to-upa-nda-governments/cid/2013208"
X Link 2024-04-14T07:57Z 27.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Community elder Lotomau Fiafia [--] stands with his grandson John in Salia bay Kioa island Fiji at the point where he remembers the shoreline used to be when he was a boy. This picture by Eddie Jim for The Age and Sydney Morning Herald has won a World Press Photo award"
X Link 2024-04-19T15:31Z 27.4K followers, [----] engagements
"This is true face of Indias Millennium City not far from some of the countrys richest gated communities. In more than two decades the place hasnt been able to sort out its problems of unpicked garbage debris mountains and disposing waste. Truly a city of delusions. This is the millenium city The #Gurgaon #Gurugram where multi crore houses are filled smoke of burning waste and garbage . Despite being a cosmopolitan we still don't know how to deal with our waste. This fire is on since two days and residents of sector [--] are choking. Video by https://t.co/SYCm3A9XGR This is the millenium city"
X Link 2024-04-21T14:56Z 27.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@cricketwallah: Consider Yuvraj Singh's six sixes off Stuart Broad in the inaugural T20 World Cup in [----] where India totalled [---] - a monumental achievement at the time. However [--] years later team scores of [---] have become routine. #IPL https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-68872429 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-68872429"
X Link 2024-04-25T02:17Z 27.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Scenes of dissent and defiance at Columbia University where scores of students have been arrested for participating in pro-Palestine protests. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/05/13/columbias-campus-in-crisis https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/05/13/columbias-campus-in-crisis"
X Link 2024-05-02T17:03Z 27.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Nine months after a coup in Niger Mohamed Bazoum remains locked in the presidential residence cut off from contact with anyone but his doctor. He spends his days exercising on an indoor bike and reading Marxist theory Hamlet and War and Peace. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/04/world/africa/niger-bazoum-captivity.htmlsmid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/04/world/africa/niger-bazoum-captivity.htmlsmid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare"
X Link 2024-05-04T16:52Z 27.5K followers, [---] engagements
"None of us are so straightforwardly terrible as Elon Musks critics would have him; nor are we as heroic as his fans think he isBy creating a taxonomy of heroes and villains we are in fact tied up in the same moral framework as Musk himself. https://on.ft.com/4a8YpPB https://on.ft.com/4a8YpPB"
X Link 2024-05-05T16:01Z 27.5K followers, [---] engagements
"@BihariBritish Nah on the way of Jehanabad"
X Link 2024-05-07T03:40Z 27.5K followers, [--] engagements
""Oxygen oxygen can you get me oxygen" This time three years ago. When breathing became a luxury. Memories of a nightmare. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-56872266 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-56872266"
X Link 2024-05-08T05:52Z 28.3K followers, 13.5K engagements
"Sunil Chhetri served Indian football for close to two decades inspiring a generation of players. He was the third highest scorer of international goals among active footballers - the top two positions belonging to Ronaldo and Messi. #SunilChhetri https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-66106345 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-66106345"
X Link 2024-05-16T04:47Z 27.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Many said it was easier to get the true picture of India through social media. Paradoxically the traditional media's shift to more provocative biased content for survival may have ensured its death. Excellent piece by @AiyarYamini and @NeelanjanSircar #IndiaElections"
X Link 2024-05-16T11:46Z 27.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Nearly [--] years after it was made a pristinely restored Manthan Indias first crowdsourced film received a red-carpet world premiere at Cannes alongside classics from Godard and Kurosawa. This is the story of its 4K restoration. #cannes2024 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-69014789 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-69014789"
X Link 2024-05-18T02:01Z 29K followers, 27.2K engagements
"Modi Operandi: The Politicisation Of Indian Cricket - Almanack Sharda Ugra https://wisden.com/stories/wisden-almanack-2024/modi-operandi-the-politicisation-of-indian-cricket-almanack https://wisden.com/stories/wisden-almanack-2024/modi-operandi-the-politicisation-of-indian-cricket-almanack"
X Link 2024-05-18T16:36Z 27.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Common sense has become the rights favourite way of asserting the obvious correctness of their position and of thus shutting down the argumentIf something is common sense then it is a self-evident truth and cannot be debated. https://on.ft.com/4bM7Ci3 https://on.ft.com/4bM7Ci3"
X Link 2024-05-19T09:38Z 27.5K followers, [---] engagements
"✅Helicopter carrying Iran President Raisi and Iranian FM Amir-Abdollahian involved in an accident ✅Helicopter made a "hard landing" after it getting into in heavy fog in north Iran ✅Rescuers still trying to reach the site due to the difficult weather conditions"
X Link 2024-05-19T17:55Z 27.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Ruchir Sharma: We heard no backlash against PM. Just a return to an India before Modi mania focussed on local issues and leaders .The urban middle-class stir with pride at Modis case for a third term. But many rural voters don't. #IndiaElections2024 https://www.ft.com/content/c832e0cf-9fbd-43b5-a8b7-2685634f1454 https://www.ft.com/content/c832e0cf-9fbd-43b5-a8b7-2685634f1454"
X Link 2024-05-20T15:02Z 27.5K followers, [---] engagements
"@pbmehta: We need a Palestinian cause that is not reliant on and tethered to the barbarism of Hamas; and a defence of Israel that does not give it licence to such extraordinary violence or such a whole-scale denial of the right of Palestinians. https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/benjamin-netanyahu-arrest-israel-gaza-war-9343084/ https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/benjamin-netanyahu-arrest-israel-gaza-war-9343084/"
X Link 2024-05-22T02:46Z 27.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Happy birthday Herge. Throwback to [----] - Indias love affair with Tintin. https://www.bbc.com/news/15680397 https://www.bbc.com/news/15680397"
X Link 2024-05-22T11:54Z 27.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Cannes Film Festival: All We Imagine As Light scripts history becomes first Indian film to win Grand Prix For News on the go Download HT app. Click https://www.hindustantimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/cannes-film-festival-all-we-imagine-as-light-scripts-history-becomes-first-indian-film-to-win-grand-prix-101716656194342.html https://htiphoneenglish.page.link/download https://www.hindustantimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/cannes-film-festival-all-we-imagine-as-light-scripts-history-becomes-first-indian-film-to-win-grand-prix-101716656194342.html"
X Link 2024-05-25T17:47Z 27.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Few tough questions no fact checks: What we found listening to [--] Modi election season interviews. Important deep dive by @Urban_Inquilabi https://scroll.in/article/1068040/listening-to-41-modi-election-season-interviews-few-tough-questions-no-rebuttals-no-fact-checks https://scroll.in/article/1068040/listening-to-41-modi-election-season-interviews-few-tough-questions-no-rebuttals-no-fact-checks"
X Link 2024-05-25T18:51Z 27.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Fake applicants for the head coach of the Indian men's cricket team include names like Narendra Modi Amit Shah Sachin Tendulkar and MS Dhoni. The BCCI has received over [----] applications many are from fake names. https://indianexpress.com/article/sports/cricket/narendra-modi-amit-shah-sachin-tendulkar-ms-dhoni-fake-india-coach-applicants-use-famous-names-9355934/ https://indianexpress.com/article/sports/cricket/narendra-modi-amit-shah-sachin-tendulkar-ms-dhoni-fake-india-coach-applicants-use-famous-names-9355934/"
X Link 2024-05-28T05:39Z 27.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Preliminary findings reveal that severe turbulence hit the Singapore Airlines flight last Tuesday causing it to drop 178ft - equivalent to Leaning Tower of Pisa height - in [---] seconds. Rapid changes in gravitational force and altitude drop injured those not wearing seatbelts"
X Link 2024-05-29T13:00Z 28.3K followers, [----] engagements
"A worrying sign continues to be tepid private consumption growth. In fact the lower middle class are not consuming much as good jobs are scarce and incomes have stagnated. A lot of the growth is being driven by the government's impressive capital expenditure. India has just recorded an impressive [---] percent growth rate for the financial year. Interpreting GDP numbers correctly is important otherwise we can prescribe misdirected policies. What is behind the headline number Short 🧵 https://t.co/yb37tafASC India has just recorded an impressive [---] percent growth rate for the financial year."
X Link 2024-06-01T04:10Z 27.5K followers, [----] engagements
"@sanjaycsds: There have been similarities between the contest of [----] and [----] at the moment its difficult for me to say if [----] will be repeated in [----] as far as exit polls are concerned but it is an extremely distinct possibility. https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/opinion/lok-sabha-elections-how-do-we-predict-the-exit-poll-numbers-12738930.html https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/opinion/lok-sabha-elections-how-do-we-predict-the-exit-poll-numbers-12738930.html"
X Link 2024-06-02T16:11Z 27.5K followers, [----] engagements
""Leaders have benefited politically from the welfare programmes. But over time there are diminishing returns. Governance and other things begin to matter more." The limits of New Welfarism. My piece from April. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-68236697 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-68236697"
X Link 2024-06-04T11:44Z 27.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Why BJP may have lost Ayodhya. From my travels in January. #IndiaDecides2024"
X Link 2024-06-04T17:23Z 27.6K followers, 17.2K engagements
"In February I found voters sceptical of Jagan Reddys prospects in Andhra Pradesh despite his impressive welfare programmes. #IndiaElections2024"
X Link 2024-06-05T03:13Z 27.6K followers, [---] engagements
"@AiyarYamini: Away from the bluster of the fastest growing economy the third largest economy the shiny physical infrastructure and the booming stock market is a story of Indias real economy: A story of rozgar and mehengai (employment and high prices). https://www.hindustantimes.com/opinion/why-and-how-the-bjp-s-tally-fell-short-of-its-target-101717524808510.html https://www.hindustantimes.com/opinion/why-and-how-the-bjp-s-tally-fell-short-of-its-target-101717524808510.html"
X Link 2024-06-05T06:49Z 27.6K followers, [---] engagements
"In the [---] seats where the BJP and Congress contested directly the BJP won [---]. Congress's strike rate improved to 28.3% from 8.3% in [----] while BJP's fell to 64% from 68.7%. The number of direct contest seats dropped to [---] from over [---] in [----]. (source: @the_hindu )"
X Link 2024-06-05T06:57Z 27.6K followers, [----] engagements
"@NilanjanUdwin: With BJP opening its account in Kerala probably set to double its score in Telangana and scoring big in Karnataka the tag of Hindi heartland party needs to be taken off. The party is truly nationwide now. #IndianElections2024 https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/opinion/et-commentary/can-modi-sculpt-yet-another-image-of-himself-this-time-that-of-a-consensual-one/articleshow/110713176.cmsutm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst"
X Link 2024-06-05T07:40Z 27.6K followers, [--] engagements
"@TheJaggi: For Narendra Modi and his party this will be more than a sobering outcome. The message the voter has sent is clear: No leader is bigger than the #IndiaElections2024 https://www.business-standard.com/opinion/columns/how-2024-was-never-a-done-deal-124060401906_1.html https://www.business-standard.com/opinion/columns/how-2024-was-never-a-done-deal-124060401906_1.html"
X Link 2024-06-05T07:54Z 27.6K followers, [---] engagements
"The general election may well mark the end of a cycle and the beginning of a new chapter. But the rejuvenation of Indias democracy will depend on the role of key players including civil society writes @jaffrelotc in this very sharp piece. https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/the-roads-to-indias-redemocratisation-the-challenges/article68255386.ece https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/the-roads-to-indias-redemocratisation-the-challenges/article68255386.ece"
X Link 2024-06-06T06:49Z 27.6K followers, [----] engagements
"What numbers tell us about Modi and Varanasi. #IndiaElections2024"
X Link 2024-06-06T08:25Z 27.6K followers, [----] engagements
"The other side of Ayodhya. Some pictures I took during my travels in early January"
X Link 2024-06-06T08:56Z 27.6K followers, 21.1K engagements
"Saurabh Netravalkar who bowled the Super Over against Pakistan for US is an eight-year full-time veteran of Oracle Cloud Infrastructureaccording to @ESPNcricinfo. His X bio lists him as a Oracle employee first and professional cricketer for US second. Moved to US in 2015"
X Link 2024-06-07T02:47Z 27.6K followers, [---] engagements
"BJP retained core voters including upper-caste Hindus OBCs and Adivasis with moderate support fm Dalits. 31% of Dalit voters supported the BJP nationwide though they also backed Congress and allies. Muslims Christians and Sikhs largely did not support the BJP: @LoknitiCSDS"
X Link 2024-06-07T03:17Z 27.6K followers, [---] engagements
"The BJP maintained youth support though Congress and its allies have gained ground among young voters. The BJP's voter share declines with age suggesting it appeals more to younger voters while Congress and its allies have consistent support across all age groups: @LoknitiCSDS"
X Link 2024-06-07T03:22Z 27.6K followers, [---] engagements
"We got the results wrong. In this election there was no pan- India undercurrent in favour of Modi @PrashantKishor says. https://www.youtube.com/watchv=mPauwNSvf4s https://www.youtube.com/watchv=mPauwNSvf4s"
X Link 2024-06-07T11:10Z 27.6K followers, 28.3K engagements
""I made this film on whether marriage is essential to become a mother. How is it possible It was a flop. I was ahead of my times people told me." I met media baron Ramoji Rao in his lair in [----]. My notes from that trip"
X Link 2024-06-08T14:29Z 27.6K followers, [---] engagements
"Narendra Modi: Will coalition turn him into a humbler leader My piece. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn00xl6n8ldo https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn00xl6n8ldo"
X Link 2024-06-09T02:25Z 27.6K followers, [----] engagements
"@swaminomics: Can anyone claim that employment and K-shaped recovery were not problems in MP Chhattisgarh Himachal or Uttarakhand but were serious problems in UP Haryana & Rajasthan BJP gains & losses were due to local issues not all-India one. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/politics/ab-ki-baar-soch-vichar-why-bjp-needs-to-introspect-adjust/articleshow/110824036.cms https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/politics/ab-ki-baar-soch-vichar-why-bjp-needs-to-introspect-adjust/articleshow/110824036.cms"
X Link 2024-06-09T03:21Z 27.6K followers, [---] engagements
"The BJPs vote share is worse than it looks. Overall the BJPs vote share went down in [---] of the [---] constituencies that it contested both in [----] and [----]. https://theprint.in/opinion/two-different-bjps-competed-in-2024-the-challenger-gained-the-establishment-lost/2126328/ https://theprint.in/opinion/two-different-bjps-competed-in-2024-the-challenger-gained-the-establishment-lost/2126328/"
X Link 2024-06-12T15:15Z 27.6K followers, [---] engagements
"@sanjayuvacha The number doesnt belong to HDFC Bank"
X Link 2024-06-16T05:34Z 27.7K followers, [---] engagements
"Facebook still leads for news but is declining. TikTok (13%) overtakes X (10%) for news and hits 23% among 18-24-year-olds. YouTube and WhatsApp remain imp sources. (source: @risj_oxford report)"
X Link 2024-06-17T03:32Z 27.6K followers, [---] engagements
"The strange journey of John Lennons stolen Patek Philippe watch which records time in eight different ways and could cost anything between $10 to $40 million. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/06/24/the-strange-journey-of-john-lennons-stolen-patek-phillippe-watch https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/06/24/the-strange-journey-of-john-lennons-stolen-patek-phillippe-watch"
X Link 2024-06-19T18:06Z 27.7K followers, [---] engagements
"Gigantic jets shooting up from a thunderstorm last week toward Himalayas in China and Bhutan. The image shows four jets that occurred only minutes apart. The jets are a type of lightning discharge occurring between some thunderstorms and the Earth's ionosphere high above them"
X Link 2024-06-20T17:58Z 27.7K followers, [---] engagements
"@BhramarBioStat To think too simply of home brings us nothing but sorrow. The place where I belong is where I dont want to be; the place I love is a place where Ill never belong. We cant mistake home with belonging any more than we confuse attachment with affinity: Pico Iyer"
X Link 2024-06-23T14:07Z 28.5K followers, [----] engagements
"@TheEconomist analysis of labour-market data from [--] mostly emerging markets finds that only fiveChina Sri Lanka Taiwan Turkey and Vietnamhave 18% or more of their population employed in manufacturing compared with [--] in 1990"
X Link 2024-06-25T17:27Z 28.5K followers, [---] engagements
"@surmenon: Now Afghanistan have two bowlers in the worlds Top [--] and a batter in the Top [--] as they prepare to take on South Africa in the semifinal of a World Cup. It is the most romantic cricket story of our times. (picture: Getty Images) https://www.thehindu.com/sport/cricket/no-matter-what-happens-now-this-is-afghanistans-world-cup/article68332086.ece https://www.thehindu.com/sport/cricket/no-matter-what-happens-now-this-is-afghanistans-world-cup/article68332086.ece"
X Link 2024-06-26T05:30Z 27.7K followers, [---] engagements
"@surmenon: The next T20 World Cup is in [----] and the 50-over version in [----]. Kohli is fitter than Tendulkar was but its difficult to see him play white ball cricket at that level again. Rohit Sharma [--] might be playing his last World Cup too. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cxrrrpr11z1o https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cxrrrpr11z1o"
X Link 2024-06-27T02:51Z 27.7K followers, [---] engagements
""My mother gave the cops food and tea and they would in turn fetch milk and groceries for her." "One of them even baby sat us during the day while my mother went to teach. My mother was always good at subverting state machinery." What a story about The Emergency. The Emergency was a very important event in my life. I was [--] years old and we were on our way back from Calcutta at the fag end of my parents' summer vacation. Looking back I realise there was something odd about the train journey. Instead of the AC chair car that DU The Emergency was a very important event in my life. I was [--] years"
X Link 2024-06-27T10:28Z 27.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Elon Musk's SpaceX will bring down the International Space Station at the end of its life. It will build a vehicle capable of pushing the 430-tonne orbiting platform into Pacific Ocean early in the next decade. Contract for the work is valued at $843m. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cnl02jl5pzno https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cnl02jl5pzno"
X Link 2024-06-27T17:17Z 27.7K followers, [---] engagements
"I'm the nominee of the Democratic Party. No one's pushing me out. I'm not leaving. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crgrwgnvqgvo https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crgrwgnvqgvo"
X Link 2024-07-04T01:18Z 27.7K followers, [---] engagements
"All the opinion polls appear to have got French election wrong. The major TV channels all project victory for the left-wing alliance and not the National Rally of Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella. This is the projected result from France's state TV:"
X Link 2024-07-07T18:41Z 27.7K followers, [----] engagements
"To understand a cricketer you must first know where they have come from. @Athersmike takes a boat trip to a remote Guyanese village to find out the story of fast bowling sensation Shamar Joseph. https://www.thetimes.com/article/ec8123aa-5e02-4c3e-bbe8-0b9d964c88f5shareToken=3741a927bc2c5fb25082d57a31b9938b https://www.thetimes.com/article/ec8123aa-5e02-4c3e-bbe8-0b9d964c88f5shareToken=3741a927bc2c5fb25082d57a31b9938b"
X Link 2024-07-08T11:02Z 27.7K followers, [---] engagements
"In [----] a young Lionel Messi posed for photos with a baby in the dressing room of the Camp Nou in Barcelona for a charity calendar photoshoot. Messi was bathing Lamine Yamal - the 16-year-old who is taking the Euro Championship by storm. Photo by Joan Monfort. #EURO2024"
X Link 2024-07-11T10:39Z 27.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Some major Democratic donors have told the largest pro-Biden super PAC Future Forward that roughly $90 million in pledged donations is now on hold if President Biden remains atop the ticket two people who have been briefed on the conversations have told @nytimes"
X Link 2024-07-12T15:01Z 27.7K followers, [---] engagements
"How the Trump shooting unfolded. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx7292y32yjo https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx7292y32yjo"
X Link 2024-07-14T03:15Z 27.7K followers, [---] engagements
"Thomas Crooks lived miles from the site of the attempted assassination and graduated in [----] from Bethel Park High School with a $500 prize for maths and science. Crooks worked in a local nursing home kitchen just a short drive away from his home. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3gw58wv4e9o https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3gw58wv4e9o"
X Link 2024-07-15T02:36Z 27.7K followers, [---] engagements
"He was a very good student but some students teased him about his hygiene and awkward solitary bearing. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/15/us/trump-rally-shooting-crooks.htmlsmid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/15/us/trump-rally-shooting-crooks.htmlsmid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb"
X Link 2024-07-16T13:03Z 27.8K followers, [---] engagements
"✅Almost [----] flights cancelled worldwide ✅There were around [------] commercial flights scheduled across the world today ✅1390 have been cancelled ✅US: [---] flights cancelled so far ✅Germany: [--] ✅India: [--] ✅Italy: [--] ✅Canada: [--] #Crowdstrike"
X Link 2024-07-19T11:12Z 27.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Sticking out is not bad. This is the message of most childrens books but its easy to lose sight of as an adult. Other peoples perceptions of you real or imagined dont have to influence how you see yourself. Social media erases this perspective. https://on.ft.com/4bR4XmQ https://on.ft.com/4bR4XmQ"
X Link 2024-07-21T17:09Z 27.7K followers, [---] engagements
"John Mayall influential Blues musician has died at [--] CNN https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/23/entertainment/john-mayall-blues-musician-obit/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/23/entertainment/john-mayall-blues-musician-obit/index.html"
X Link 2024-07-24T02:29Z 27.8K followers, [---] engagements
"One of the areas driving up the global average is Antarctica. Temperatures around the South Pole are much higher than usual which is also a factor in the record-low sea ice for this time of yearwhen it is winter in the southern hemisphere https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2024/07/25/why-2024-could-become-the-hottest-year-on-record https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2024/07/25/why-2024-could-become-the-hottest-year-on-record"
X Link 2024-07-30T11:51Z 27.8K followers, [---] engagements
"@Aunindyo2023: Indias middle class is caught between the pincer grip of shrinking incomes and a huge real inflation rate. Except for the top 0.5% of households people in the richest 10% have had very little real income growth in the past few years. https://www.newslaundry.com/2024/07/31/middle-class-rage-trps-why-legacy-media-is-sliding-off-the-govts-godi https://www.newslaundry.com/2024/07/31/middle-class-rage-trps-why-legacy-media-is-sliding-off-the-govts-godi"
X Link 2024-08-01T11:03Z 27.8K followers, [---] engagements
"Watching surfing at the Paris Olympics is like witnessing an action film infused with poetry - truly spectacular and mesmerising. #Paris2024"
X Link 2024-08-01T18:17Z 27.8K followers, [---] engagements
"Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has left the country our colleagues at BBC Bangla have confirmed. Reports say her sister is with her. #Bangladesh"
X Link 2024-08-05T09:18Z 28.3K followers, 38.5K engagements
"Reports are now coming that thousands of protesters are storming Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's official residence in the capital Dhaka. #Bangladesh"
X Link 2024-08-05T09:20Z 28.3K followers, 35.2K engagements
"Hasina is heading to the city of Agartala in India BBC Bangla is reporting. The prime minister - who has resigned - earlier left the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka on a helicopter with her sister according to reports. #Bangladesh"
X Link 2024-08-05T09:39Z 29K followers, 154K engagements
"Protesters loot prime minister's official residence. #Bangladesh"
X Link 2024-08-05T10:09Z 28.3K followers, [----] engagements
"A BBC Dhaka correspondent describes today's events as a "historic moment" for Bangladesh. "We have seen a mass upsurge in Bangladesh: tens of thousands of people took to the streets. and suddenly we received the news that Hasina left official residence" reports Akbar Hossein"
X Link 2024-08-05T10:32Z 28.3K followers, 14.5K engagements
"Jubilant crowds have taken to the streets in Bangladesh celebrating the departure of Sheikh Hasina. Channel24 broadcast footage of ecstatic protesters breaking into Hasina's official residence in Dhaka with some waving to the camera as they streamed into the compound"
X Link 2024-08-05T10:34Z 28.3K followers, [----] engagements
"A demonstrator tells BBC that a statue of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in Ganabhaban - the prime minister's official residence - is being demolished by protestors. Sayem Faruk tells the BBC that the scenes are reminiscent of Saddam Hussein's statue being taken down in Iraq in 2003"
X Link 2024-08-05T11:18Z 28.3K followers, [----] engagements
"A mural of Sheikh Hasina vandalised by protesters in Dhaka. Picture: Reuters"
X Link 2024-08-05T11:54Z 28.3K followers, 13.3K engagements
"BBC Bangla reports widespread looting in Dhaka. Protesters have damaged Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan's residence and set it on fire. At the PM's official residence people were seen taking furniture from Sheikh Hasina's office. #Bangladesh 1/2"
X Link 2024-08-05T12:08Z 28.3K followers, 11K engagements
"Sheikh Hasinas son tells BBC that there'll be no political comeback for his mother saying she was "so disappointed that after all her hard work for a minority to rise up against her". 1/2 #Bangladesh"
X Link 2024-08-05T13:06Z 29K followers, 210.4K engagements
"Sajeeb Wazed Joy - who was an official adviser of the prime minister until today said his mother had been considering resigning since yesterday and had left the country for her own safety after her family insisted. 2/2"
X Link 2024-08-05T13:06Z 29K followers, 45.7K engagements
"This is "close to a worst-case scenario for India as it has long viewed any alternative to Ms Hasina and her party as a threat to Indian interests" @MichaelKugelman says. My piece on what Sheikh Hasina's departure means for India. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c39kkkdjkzwo https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c39kkkdjkzwo"
X Link 2024-08-05T13:46Z 28.4K followers, 33.2K engagements
"When India almost intervened militarily in Bangladesh in February [----] and why the non-occurence was a powerful turning point for Sheikh Hasina. @PaliwalAvi tells the thrilling story in in his new book Indias Near East"
X Link 2024-08-05T15:55Z 29K followers, 69.8K engagements
"A plane belonging to the Bangladesh Air Force has taken off from a military air base in India according to ANI. According to the report which cited unnamed sources the C-130J plane left the air base at [----] local time (0330 GMT) and "is moving towards its next destination""
X Link 2024-08-06T05:30Z 28.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Sheikh Hasina is not on board the C-130 J aircraft that took off this morning from the Hindon air base ANI has reported citing unnamed sources. The Bangladesh Air Force flight C-130J is instead flying with seven military personnel in it towards its base in Bangladesh"
X Link 2024-08-06T06:31Z 28.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Protest leaders are urging Bangladesh's president Mohammed Shahabuddin to dissolve parliament by 15:00 local time today and have warned that they would "take tough steps" if their demands are not met. 1/2"
X Link 2024-08-06T07:16Z 28.3K followers, [----] engagements
""We strongly condemn the arson and communal violence taking place in various parts of the country. We need to be prepared to prevent people from hijacking the movement" they said in a video posted on protest coordinator Asif Mahmud's Facebook page external. 2/2"
X Link 2024-08-06T07:16Z 28.3K followers, [---] engagements
""The only thing I have told Bajrang and Sakshi is that I will still fight. I will look him Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh in the eye and medal leke aungi main tu dekh bring back a medal and show it to himNo one can stop me." Vinesh Phogat November [----] https://www.espn.in/olympics/story/_/id/40750630/wrestling-how-vinesh-phogat-won-olympics-medal-paris-2024 https://www.espn.in/olympics/story/_/id/40750630/wrestling-how-vinesh-phogat-won-olympics-medal-paris-2024"
X Link 2024-08-07T03:25Z 28.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Today Vinesh Phogat is India's biggest bravest boldest Olympian. We are lucky to have her. Sharda Ugra on Vinesh Phogat. Dont miss. https://www.espn.in/olympics/story/_/id/40756135/wrestling-vinesh-phogat-world-lucky-part-paris-olympics-2024 https://www.espn.in/olympics/story/_/id/40756135/wrestling-vinesh-phogat-world-lucky-part-paris-olympics-2024"
X Link 2024-08-07T05:05Z 28.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Vinesh Phogat likely to be disqualified to miss Paris Olympic medal. https://indianexpress.com/article/sports/sport-others/vinesh-phogat-likely-to-be-disqualified-to-miss-paris-olympic-medal-9499953/ https://indianexpress.com/article/sports/sport-others/vinesh-phogat-likely-to-be-disqualified-to-miss-paris-olympic-medal-9499953/"
X Link 2024-08-07T06:37Z 28.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Hindenburg alleges India market regulator chief held stake in offshore funds used by Adani Group https://www.reuters.com/world/india/hindenburg-research-alleges-india-market-regulator-chief-held-investments-2024-08-10/ https://www.reuters.com/world/india/hindenburg-research-alleges-india-market-regulator-chief-held-investments-2024-08-10/"
X Link 2024-08-11T03:05Z 28.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Trump promises the largest deportation in history if he becomes president and says he wants to build an iron dome defence system to protect the country from foreign threats. #TrumpOnX"
X Link 2024-08-13T03:30Z 28.5K followers, 15.8K engagements
"Many of the worlds poor have their Olympic potential crushed before birth by lack of nutrition. And try going around a big Brazilian Indian or African city looking for places to play. The authorities rarely provide them. https://www.ft.com/content/5eb5cfc3-9800-4b72-972d-0fd157ae4766 https://www.ft.com/content/5eb5cfc3-9800-4b72-972d-0fd157ae4766"
X Link 2024-08-13T12:23Z 28.5K followers, [----] engagements
"A group of young men have stormed into Kolkata's RG Kar Hospital and are damaging property in the emergency reports @abpanandatv amid peaceful Reclaim The Night protests throughout Bengal. 'The police and nurses have run away. We don't how these guys are.' #JusticeForMoumita"
X Link 2024-08-14T19:21Z 28.5K followers, [----] engagements
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