🇶🇦⚡️ A massive fire has broken out at the Ras Laffan Gas Plant just outside of Doha, the capital of Qatar.

Cause Unknown, more info awaited

#InternationalNews

🇶🇦⚡ Qatar says Technical Incident

🇧🇪 Belgium and 🇮🇷 Iran plays a Fierce Goaless draw.

1 Red Card also seen

#FIFAWC2026

🇨🇻 Cape Verde puts up another phenomenal performance and stops the two time World Champions 🇺🇾Uruguay in their tracks and picks up another point in this FIFA World Cup!!

Final Score  - Uruguay 2⃣ - 2⃣ Cape Verde

#FIFAWC2026

Exactly on this day in 1986 , the greatest world cup goal was scored, also regarded as the goal of the century.

🇦🇷 Argentina's Diego Armando Maradona against England. FIFA World Cup Quarter Final.

#FIFAWC2026 #Sports

🇪🇬 Egypt wins 3️⃣ - 1️⃣ against 🇳🇿 New Zealand #FIFAWC2026

Cape Verde after drawing back to back against World Champions Spain and Uruguay #Sports #Meme

Union Home Minister Amit Shah announced a plan to ensure India’s entire criminal justice process—from FIR to conviction and appeals—is completed within three years, driven by expanded use of AI, technology, and scientific evidence. He launched new NCRB-developed tools like NCRB‑Abhigyan, CrPI, e‑Prosecution 2.0, and e‑Forensics 2.0 to speed up investigations, strengthen fingerprint databases through NAFIS, and support predictive policing using machine learning to identify repeat offenders and prevent crimes. #MHA

To secure digital sovereignty and boost internet speeds for its massive population

the Indian government has requested ICANN to establish a 18-server root cluster in the country. This setup would mirror all 13 global DNS root servers, reducing India's reliance on foreign infrastructure while significantly improving local latency, cybersecurity defenses, and protection against foreign espionage. ICANN is currently evaluating the design to accommodate India’s data traffic. #Internet

IMD announces the advance of #Monsoon after a long break of almost 2 weeks.

Monsoon has moved further in Southern Maharashtra, Northern Telangana, and moved further West in Odisha, Jharkhand and Bihar

Mukesh Ambani announced that Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL) will convert 100% of its refined #oil into chemicals and advanced materials under its new Oil-to-Chemicals & Materials platform.

The long-term O2C strategy involves completely halting traditional transportation fuel production like petrol and diesel, instead using crude oil to produce high-value petrochemicals, green chemicals, and advanced materials such as carbon fiber, specialized plastics, and synthetic rubber to serve domestic manufacturing.

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Mukesh Ambani unveiled Reliance Intelligence, a major AI initiative to build India-focused infrastructure, starting with 120 MW in Jamnagar by 2026.

The first phase will deploy advanced Nvidia GB300 GPUs with compute capacity equivalent to 75,000 H100 GPUs, eventually scaling to over 200,000 H100-equivalent GPUs. The project aims to make AI affordable and accessible for all Indians, offering multilingual services in 22 languages. Akash Ambani highlighted partnerships with Google and Meta. #Ai

WB State Govt proposes to support the revival of the Calcutta Stock Exchange. The revival of the Calcutta Stock Exchange would have multifarious advantages, including easier access to capital for Eastern India, lower costs of listing & trading and creating new jobs.

#Policy #Economy

🇬🇧 UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has resigned. #InternationalNews

India to partner with Russia's Rosneft to study Siberian rare-earth deposits, securing critical #minerals after China tightened exports. india's Nexon Geochem and Russia's Giredmet aim to develop processing technologies. Russia, holding large reserves in Siberia and Murmansk, seeks deeper cooperation with India in #mining and refining to support EV motors and electronics.

Agratas formalised a 7-year battery supply deal with JLR. The ~$530M contract will initially cover NMC cells (LFP later). Sanand could lead early supply, or at least until the Somerset facility comes online, which may overlap. #Batteries #MakeInIndia

Commercial EVs are maturing—Tata bagged 3,400 eCV orders, including 900 e-trucks & 500 e-buses. Heavy-duty uptake is notable, as electrifying mining, steel & cement transport remains challenging due to payload & charging constraints. #EV

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Kerela launches Mission Samudra for ₹400 cr to elevate the state into a port-led economy & a global maritime hub, leveraging 600-km coastline, 2 int'l ports, 2 container trans terminals, 17 non-major ports & inland water resources. #Ports

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India is launching a ₹2,000-crore incentive plan to boost lithium processing and nickel refining, offering production-linked incentives and duty waivers on capital goods to reduce dependence on foreign processors—especially China, which controls over half of global lithium refining.

This aligns with the ₹16,300-crore National Critical Minerals Mission to strengthen India’s critical-minerals ecosystem, as lithium-ion battery demand is projected to reach 210 GWh by 2030. #Batteries

EXCLUSIVE: India in talks to sell supersonic BrahMos missile to UAE, sources say

Delhi govt started preparation for better AQI in winter #Environment