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🔓@Evening: 'True Indology' Is Back On Twitter After Account Was Wrongly Suspended In 2019
The Supreme Court affirmed the Modi government's demonetisation decision of 2016 that took Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes out of circulation.
Six people were killed in two separate terrorist attacks in Jammu and Kashmir in the last two days.
Fifty centrally protected monuments are ‘missing’, according to a submission made in the Parliament by the Ministry of Culture.
A third of the global economy will be in recession this year, the IMF chief has said.
The BCCI has shortlisted 20 players who will be part of the 2023 World Cup, which will be held in India.
Twitter account True Indology has got his profile back after over three and a half years.
Who is True Indology? In his own words, the handle is "a project to explore, research, revisit and appreciate all aspects of the historical past of Indian subcontinent."
The social media company reinstated the suspended account after sending "a mail acknowledging that... (the) suspension was a mistake," True Indology tweeted on the night of 31 December 2022.
Author Amish Tripathi, filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri, and Professor Anand Ranganathan were among those who tweeted out a welcome.
"Endgame for quack Leftists and Velcro Historians has commenced," Ranganathan said in a tweet.
"The purpose of the handle," he wrote, "is sharing historical information and not exchanging private pleasantries." Which is why he remains anonymous.
The account was subjected to hate, bigotry, and mass reporting on Twitter, sparked by a debate around the consumption of beef now in South India as well as earlier in the Vedic times.
"I hope that with facts being out in the open, Twitter would be forced to revoke the suspension of my account and apologize to me for unleashing cruelty against me at multiple levels," True Indology said in his article.
It has finally happened, at least to an extent, at the close of 2022. Better later than never?
Actor Anupam Kher announced the film — his 534th! — in a tweet today.
The film is titled The Vaccine War.
Vivek Agnihotri and Pallavi Joshi are the director and producer of the film respectively.
"Fascinating and Inspirational! Jai Hind!" Kher tweeted.
The Vaccine War is, in the words of Agnihotri, "an incredible true story of a war that you didn’t know India fought. And won with its science, courage & great Indian values."
It will be out in theatres on Independence Day, 2023.
The film will be released in 11 languages, apparently the first time ever for an Indian film.
Mails come via motor vehicles, the internet, and what not these days. But things were a bit more interesting back in the day.
Say hello to the camel post office.
More accurately, a mobile post office on a camel.
The Government of India's Amrit Mahotsav account on Twitter posted the picture today with the caption "You've got mail📬!"
Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav is an initiative of the Government of India to celebrate and commemorate 75 years of Indian independence.
The Indian Navy had a momentous outing at sea eight years ago today.
After INS Vikramaditya was commissioned just two and a half weeks earlier in Russia, India's then newest aircraft carrier had a special meeting at sea on 2 January 2014.
As it entered the Indian Navy’s area of operation in north western Arabian Sea, INS Vikramaditya met with the Western Fleet.
The Western Fleet had gone all the way from Mumbai to receive the recently commissioned aircraft carrier, itself accompanied by three other vessels.
The Western Fleet included the aircraft carrier INS Viraat.
Thus, it was for the first time in two decades that the Indian Navy operated two aircraft carriers simultaneously.
The warship was commissioned on 16 November 2013 at the Russian shipyard of Sevmash at Severodvinsk.
From there, it set sail for its home port at Karwar in Karnataka — a journey of close to 8,500 nautical miles — where it arrived on 7 January 2014.
INS Vikramaditya was formally inducted into the Indian Navy on 14 June 2014.
India and Russia had signed the deal for the aircraft carrier in 2004.
