According to World Bank's latest report, India's extreme poverty has fallen from 27.6% to just under 2.6%.
And for Indians living under Rs. 400 a day (lower middle income), it has come down from 57.7% of the population to 16.1%.
Remarkable achievement by India given the rupee depreciated and the inflationary pressure of a fast growing economy.
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Rathee organized a protest to save Indian democracy in LONDON where there are more Pakistani flags than Indian flags🤡🤡🤡
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Unbelievable scenes of France burning across cities as students, workers & other groups riot against cost of living and more. Mass looting and arson in different cities including Paris, Marseilles, Lyon.
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Nothing says “foreign funded” louder than a protest in London, stuffed with Mirpuris bussed in by the Pakistani Embassy - who refuse to say “Bharat mata ki jai”
This kind of "journalistic" hate against Hindu temple gives intellectuall justification for recent planned mass shooting.
Mr. Mohammed Saif, a humble man who was called in to protest, clearly explains and accepts the importance of SIR - A constitutional requirement that GoI has to do regularly to purge voters who died, changed address, or left India etc. Something that was done many times before.
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Bill Maher nails it. When it’s staring at you in the face and yet you don’t want to report it because of your ideological leanings then you are not a reporter.
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Captain Smit Machchhar is a HERO.
In the face of the gravest danger and despite being seriously injured, he showed immense courage and an unwavering resolve to protect the lives of others.
His valour helped save hundreds of lives and avert a great tragedy.
India is proud of Captain Machchhar.
Praying for his speedy recovery, renewed strength and good health.
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Hardly any mention that the pilot is Indian. Instead, he is being described as “Emirati.”
Emirates does not confer Emirati citizenship simply because someone works for the airline. The UAE has a very limited naturalisation system, and the overwhelming majority of its workforce consists of expatriates.
If the pilot is Indian, why not simply call him an Indian pilot?
This is precisely where Western media often displays a curious double standard.
Facts should matter more than the label.
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Forget de-JNUising JNU and like institutions. The IITs are being JNUised. Let's light a diya for IIT Bombay.
This middle class madam you see here pulling her own luggage, always dressed humbly, with a no-nonsense attitude?
She needs a big applause for what India has pulled with a 7.8% growth during one of the toughest global economic climate year.
She has delivered consistent growth for India, maneuvering India through multiple crises, while keeping inflation low and reducing deficit.
She just doesn't get enough credit for what she has done. In fact, she gets hate and mockery mostly. I think just because she's a woman.
> She has cleared 10 lakh crore NPA from banks
> Delivered 7.6%+ avg GDP growth for past six years (after Covid, Ukraine war, Gulf war and trade war with USA)
> And cut income tax up to 13 lakhs and indirect tax to 9% at its lowest
> Done so many things for India better than all those Oxford, Cambridge economists before
But most people are being constantly blackpilled about the economy by foreign adversarial and political propaganda.
They keep parroting "high tax" "high inflation" as if everything was lower before. But the truth is, they were much higher and she has brought all down (taxes, deficit, NPAs, and inflation) while keeping growth good.
Even under this post we will find people complaining because that's how powerful the propaganda is. It is easy to blackpill and make people feel miserable when actually things are better now than before in so many ways.
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I will give it to the FM @nsitharaman. She has been a super performer in govt. She has taken India through multiple crises with tight control on deficit, inflation, with good GDP growth. Of course PM needs credit for the vision and former RBI governer too. nitter.cf/aravind/status/1800169…
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🚨 Delhi's forgotten Yamuna riverfront is getting a stunning makeover. 🌿
197 acres restored with 30,000 native trees and over 33 lakh river grasses. This transformation is hard to believe.
(📹 Brothers Enfield)
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International media in the last 30 days: "India Hunger strike", "protests in India", "Floods in India."
🇮🇳India in the last 30 days:
July 19, 2026: Indian Gen-Z team wins 4 gold medals (top rank) at International Chemistry Olympiad and medals at the International Biology Olympiad.
July 18, 2026: Young Indians working at Skyroot Aerospace successfully launch Vikram-1, India’s first privately developed orbital-class rocket, from Sriharikota, placing payloads into Low Earth Orbit.
July 17, 2026: PM Modi flags off India’s first indigenous hydrogen-powered passenger train (10-coach set) from Jind station, Haryana, on the Jind-Sonipat route as an inaugural service.
July 14, 2026: DRDO completes successful military field trials of an indigenous scalable fiber-based Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) system for secure strategic communications.
July 13, 2026: Lucknow-Kanpur Expressway (63 km), India’s first barrier-free expressway with satellite-based tolling, opens to traffic.
July 12, 2026: Young Indian team wins 5 gold medals at the 56th International Physics Olympiad (IPhO 2026) in Colombia, securing joint world #1 rank.
July 11, 2026: RM Rajnath commissions INS Mahendragiri, the sixth Project 17A stealth frigate, in Visakhapatnam (~75% indigenous content).
Early–mid July 2026: Vimag Labs (Bengaluru) secures its 5th Indian patent for the Virtual Magnet Synchronous Motor (VMSM), a software-defined rare-earth-free electric motor platform.
Early July 2026: ISRO announces plans for a new Satellite Earth Station campus near Ledo in Assam to strengthen space communication in the Northeast.
Early July 2026: IIT Gandhinagar team wins a grant for developing indigenous liquid cooling plates for AI data centres, EVs, and high-performance electronics.
June 26, 2026: Nuclear heat-based hydrogen production facility (copper-chlorine thermochemical cycle) commissioned at Kalpakkam using Fast Breeder Reactor process heat.
June 24, 2026: ISRO successfully conducts hot test of semi-cryogenic engine power head at 175 tonnes thrust level.
June 24, 2026: RDSO (with ARAI) successfully conducts full-scale crashworthiness testing of LHB coaches for enhanced passenger safety.
June 21, 2026: PM Modi commissions three indigenously built warships in Kolkata: INS Dunagiri (Project 17A stealth frigate), INS Sanshodhak (hydrographic survey vessel), and INS Agray (ASW shallow water craft).
June 15, 2026: DRDO successfully flight-tests the indigenous Long Range Land Attack Cruise Missile (LRLACM) from Odisha; all objectives met.
June 10–11, 2026: DRDO conducts successful Phase-2 Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) trials and anti-ship missile tests, demonstrating capabilities against long-range ballistic threats including ICBM-class.
Mid-June 2026: India’s defence production reaches a record ₹1.78 lakh crore in FY 2025-26.
Mid-June 2026: Maiden flight of the indigenous C-295 military transport aircraft highlighted as a major self-reliance milestone in aviation (with 40 aircraft under production in India).
June 13, 2026: First batch of women cadets trained at NDA commissioned into the defence forces. Marking the start of an women empowered era in defence.
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Indian-American couple Brij Agarwal and Sunita Agarwal have donated $5.5 million to expand healthcare services in Texas, including support for St. Luke's Health–Sugar Land Hospital and a new primary care clinic.
Funny how stories like this rarely go viral. The same people obsessed with pushing anti-India narratives won't be making podcasts or headlines about Indian-Americans funding hospitals, improving healthcare access, and giving back to the communities that helped them succeed.
The donation is the largest single gift in the hospital's history, with its main patient tower and pavilion now being named in the Agrawals' honour.
Peaceful rural life in India. Tourists must visit such areas of India, like this in the foothill of Himalayas. Indian railways connect well, people are very kind, stays are so cheap and cultured, you can still get internet, even 5G, unlike the US or EU.
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Japan suspended batches of Indian mangoes because of fruit flies. Because the Indian fruit flies are non-native to Japan. If fruit flies are eating a fruit, then the fruit is actually good, not poisonous as many have claimed.
In fact, there's a food movement that eats vegetables and fruits that are affected by insects as they seem to have more beneficial nutrients for humans.
Anyway, the point is, Japan has banned American fruit imports too over pesticides (due to more stringent requirements in Japan).
But Americans aren't making thousands of videos claiming their fruits are poisonous. Indians do it. Indians themselves do hit jobs against their own country's products due to politics and programming.
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Congratulations to Praggnanandhaa for this remarkable feat!
This is indeed an incredible milestone that highlights his continued excellence.
My best wishes to him for his future endeavours.
@rpraggnachess
🇮🇳 PRAGGNANANDHAA IS THE NORWAY CHESS CHAMPION 2026 👏👏👏
#NorwayChess
📷 Norway Chess / Tor Nilssen & Kjetil V. Tveito
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Breaking: Shrey Parikh, 14, of California, won the 2026 Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday in a spell-off. Parikh spelled 32 words correctly during the spell-off, more than Ishaan Gupta’s 25 words.
More on this year's dramatic finish and slew of prizes: wapo.st/4vhVhMd























