India among top 3 countries with private rocket launch capability

Only three countries globally have a private company (not a government space agency) that has actually put a payload into orbit:

1. United States — the original and by far the largest; SpaceX (first private orbital launch, 2008), Rocket Lab, Firefly Aerospace, and others

2. China — several commercial firms have reached orbit, including iSpace (Beijing Interstellar Glory, 2019), Landspace, and Galactic Energy

3. India — joined this list on July 18, 2026, when Skyroot Aerospace's Vikram-1 reached a ~450 km orbit on its first attempt

Countries actively trying, but not yet there:

- Spain — PLD Space is targeting an orbital launch of its Miura-5 rocket from French Guiana

- UK — Virgin Orbit's 2023 attempt failed, and Orbex (developing the Prime rocket) filed for insolvency in February 2026 — a real setback to British private orbital ambitions

- Japan, Germany, Australia — all have private launch startups in development, none has reached orbit yet .. 

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How medical fraternity fools the world

**This is reality, not a joke... 🙏**

**Read it. If you like it, please share it with others!!**

**!!!! Ultra-Modern Medical Science !!!!**  

**Dr. Ananya Sarkar**

For the past two or three days, you had a fever. Even without taking any medicine, you would have recovered naturally within a few days. Your body would have healed itself. But you went to see a doctor.

Right from the start, the doctor ordered a lot of tests. The reports didn't find any specific cause for the fever, but they showed slightly high cholesterol and blood sugar. These small changes are actually quite normal in most people.

The fever went away, but now you were no longer seen as just someone who had a fever. The doctor told you: "Your cholesterol is high and your sugar is a bit high. That means you are **pre-diabetic**." From now on, you would need medicines to control cholesterol and blood sugar. Along with that, many strict rules were given about food and drink.

You may not have followed the diet strictly, but you didn't forget to take the medicines.

Three months passed like this. When you did the next tests, cholesterol had come down a little, but now your blood pressure was found to be slightly high. Another medicine was added for that. Now you were taking **3 medicines**.

Hearing all this, you started feeling more anxious. "What will happen next?" Because of this worry, you began losing sleep. The doctor started giving you sleeping pills too. Now the total number of medicines became **4**.

After taking so many medicines, you developed acidity and heartburn. The doctor said, "You need to take a gas tablet on an empty stomach before food." The medicine count rose to **5**.

Six months passed like this. One day you suddenly felt chest pain and rushed to the hospital emergency. After checking everything, the doctor said, "You came just in time. Otherwise, something very serious could have happened." Several special tests were then advised.

After many expensive tests, the doctor said, "Continue the old medicines. Now we will add two more heart medicines." He also advised you to consult an **Endocrinologist** (hormone specialist). Now you were taking **7 medicines**.

Following the heart specialist's advice, you went to the endocrinologist. He added one more medicine for sugar and another for a slightly enlarged thyroid.

**Now your total number of medicines reached 9.**

In your mind, you started believing you were very sick — a heart patient, diabetic, insomnia patient, gas patient, thyroid patient, kidney patient, and so on.

No one told you that you could stay healthy by improving your willpower, confidence, and lifestyle. Instead, you were repeatedly told that you were a "seriously ill person" — weak, helpless, and broken!

After six more months, due to the side effects of all these medicines, you started having problems with urination. Routine tests then showed some issue with your kidneys. After more tests, the doctor said, "Creatinine level has increased a little, but if you keep taking the medicines regularly, there's nothing to worry about." Two more medicines were added.

**Now you were taking a total of 11 medicines.**

You were now consuming more medicines than food. Slowly, due to the many side effects of these medicines, you were moving towards death!!

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If only the doctor had said this when you first went to him with the fever:

*"Don't worry. This is just a mild fever. You don't need any medicine. Take rest for a few days, drink plenty of water, eat fresh fruits and vegetables, and go for morning walks. That's all. No need for medicines."*

But then how would the doctor and the pharmaceutical companies fill their pockets?

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**The biggest question is:** On what basis do doctors declare people as having high cholesterol, high BP, diabetes, heart disease, kidney disease, etc.?

**Who decides these standards?**

Let us understand this in more detail:

- **In 1979**, blood sugar above 200 mg/dl was considered diabetes. At that time, only **3.5%** of the world's population was considered to have Type-2 diabetes.

- **In 1997**, under pressure from insulin manufacturing companies, this limit was lowered to 126 mg/dl. This increased the number of diabetics from 3.5% to **8%** — meaning **4.5% more people** were suddenly labelled as patients even without symptoms. In 1999, WHO approved this standard.

Insulin companies made huge profits and opened new factories.

- **In 2003**, the American Diabetes Association (ADA) declared **100 mg/dl** fasting blood sugar as the limit for diabetes. This turned **27%** of people into diabetics without any real reason.

- Now, according to ADA, even **140 mg/dl** after eating is considered a sign of diabetes. Because of this, nearly **50%** of the world's population has been declared diabetic — many of whom are not actually sick.

Indian pharmaceutical companies are trying to lower it even further to **5.5% HbA1c**, so more people become "patients" and buy more medicines.

Many experts believe that even up to **11% HbA1c** should not be considered diabetes.

**Another example:**

In 2012, a famous pharmaceutical company was fined **3 billion dollars** by the US Supreme Court. Between 2007–2012, their diabetes drug was accused of increasing the death rate from heart attacks by **43%**. The company knew this but deliberately hid it to make profits. During the same period, they earned **300 billion dollars** in profit.

**This is today's "ultra-modern medical system"!!**

**Think about it... Start thinking...** 🙏

HARI

My top 10 Learnings from IIMB SCMC Climate summit 2026

 

Ten things I learned at the IIMB Climate Summit 2026

Two days, one campus, and a world running out of time, May 30, 2026

I spent May 28 and 29 at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore for their Climate Summit — a dense, energising, occasionally alarming two-day gathering of policy-makers, industry leaders, scientists, lawyers, and one actual astronaut. My notebook is now full of circled facts and underlined questions. Here, distilled, are ten things that genuinely shifted my thinking.

LEARNING 01

The world is headed toward energy surplus, not energy scarcity

Manoj Kumar Singh, CEO of Net Zero Think, opened the summit with what sounded like a provocation but turned out to be a thesis backed by data: by 2030, the world will have more energy generation capacity than it knows what to do with — if we invest correctly. The bottleneck is not physics. It is politics, vested interests, and inertia. His phrase "Energy Surplus World by 2030" deserves to be on more people's desks.

LEARNING 02

Solar panels in orbit are no longer a joke

SpaceX-level launch economics have made Low Earth Orbit solar collection a plausible near-term proposition. The conference noted that 15,000 LEO satellites could harvest solar energy in space — uninterrupted by night, clouds, or seasons — and beam it down. The question is no longer whether the physics works. It is whether the political will and the capital will arrive in time.

LEARNING 03

Our buildings are a hidden climate catastrophe

India's Energy Conservation Building Code (ECBC) remains largely voluntary. Speakers were blunt: compliance is the exception, not the rule. Embedded carbon in construction — from cement to steel — is a massive and systematically under-reported source of emissions. Green certifications like LEED Platinum to Silver benchmarks for new buildings coming up is a real blessing.  The gap is enormous. And we are building at an unprecedented pace.

LEARNING 04

50% of global wars have been fought over energy

This one stopped me cold. Singh's argument: solving energy scarcity is not just a climate intervention, it is a peace intervention. Historically, half of all global armed conflicts have had energy access — oil, gas, coal, water — at their root. An energy-abundant world is, structurally, a more peaceful world. Climate action as conflict prevention: it is an argument that deserves far more airtime in geopolitics discussions.

LEARNING 05

India's sludge problem is actually a goldmine

Only 25% of India's sewage sludge is treated. The rest is dumped — into land, into water, into the future. But the PKC Box / CAMBT session showed that this is also an enormous missed opportunity. The pathway of Sludge → Biogas → Biofertiliser could simultaneously address waste management, energy generation, and agricultural inputs. Toyota is already piloting bio-methane at scale. The technology exists. The will — and the infrastructure — lags.

LEARNING 06

Every death in India costs two trees

At India's mortality scale, cremation using firewood destroys approximately two trees per person who dies. Multiplied across a billion-plus population, this is a significant and rarely discussed driver of deforestation. Bamboo and compressed briquettes are viable alternatives — cheaper, cleaner, and available. Yet cultural habit has kept firewood dominant. This is the kind of problem that policy alone cannot solve.

LEARNING 07

Karnataka's farms are acutely exposed to what is coming

60% of Karnataka's agriculture is rain-fed. Not irrigated. Not buffered. Rain-fed — meaning it is directly, nakedly dependent on monsoon patterns that are growing increasingly erratic. Speakers discussed precision agriculture, automation, and drought-resistant crops as mitigations, but the structural vulnerability is stark. For a state that is simultaneously India's tech capital and a major agricultural producer, this tension is going to define the next decade.

LEARNING 08

India's power math is ambitious but not yet closed

274 GW installed today. 500 GW targeted by 2030. Solar costs ₹3–6 per unit — genuinely cheap. But solar-plus-storage — the dispatchable, 24-hour clean power that actually replaces coal — costs ₹20–30 per unit. That gap is the central unsolved equation of India's energy transition. Until storage economics improve dramatically, we will keep reaching for coal when the sun goes down.

LEARNING 09

Ecocide should be a crime — and the argument is gaining ground

A Supreme Court advocate made a compelling case that the deliberate, large-scale destruction of ecosystems should be codified as Ecocide — a crime against the Earth, prosecutable under international law. The concept has been gaining ground in global legal forums for years. In a country where forests, rivers, and coastlines are routinely sacrificed to "development," placing Ecocide in the same moral category as genocide would be genuinely transformative.

LEARNING 10

AI will cut India's energy intensity — but it will also cut jobs

The summit did not let AI off the hook. Yes, intelligent systems could reduce India's industrial energy intensity by approximately 40% — a significant and achievable gain. But the same automation wave will eliminate millions of "decent jobs," in the summit's own phrasing. The transition cannot be celebrated without also planning for the people it displaces. Energy efficiency and employment justice are not separate problems.

Two days, one notebook, and more questions than answers — which is, I suspect, exactly the point of a good conference. The climate crisis is not waiting for us to be ready. It is asking only whether we are paying attention. I am trying to.

— George, Bengaluru, May 2026

Egyptian mummies

British Museum details..

River Thames Walk ..

Went for a great walk besides the Thames..

River Thames

Silent silver thread,  

From Cotswold green you run,  

Through ancient stone and whispered dream,  

Beneath the golden sun.  

You cradle towers tall and proud,  

Carry echoes of the past—  

Kings and barges, fog and tide,  

In your gentle waters cast.  

Timeless guardian of the city,  

Where history softly flows,  

In your quiet grace we see  

The beauty only London knows.

This is the Thames .. 🙏🙏👍👍 (generous help from Perplexity.. 😀) ..

On London bridge across the Thames..

London city visit after attending church service at St Paul's cathedral..