India can't shift from Russian oil 'overnight': Marco Rubio

Raghav Chadha posted on X, " Good news for Prepaid Mobile Users in India  The Govt just introduced Telecom Consumer Protection (Thirteenth Amendment) Regulations, 2026, consumers will now have:  • 30-day recharge plans, reducing the need for 13 monthly recharges to 12 in a year • Voice and SMS-only plans for those who do not need data • More suitable options for low-budget consumers who primarily need basic voice calls  Many of you had shared your concerns with me about limited and inflexible recharge options. I raised this issue in Parliament on 11th March, seeking greater choice and more affordable options for consumers.  I am grateful to the Government of India and TRAI for resolving these concerns in the interest of greater consumer choice and convenience." 

 Union Minister Chirag Paswan says, "We certainly had concerns as well, and I have always prioritized the concerns of the public. I am satisfied with the way the Election Commission responded yesterday, addressing every single issue we had raised point-by-point. However, the opposition repeatedly spreads confusion. They certainly notice the states where the NDA or the BJP has formed govts, but they do not see the states where their own govts are in power... How did your govt come to power in Kerala? How is your govt functioning in Himachal Pradesh? It cannot be that the process is considered wrong in one place and right in another. When engaging in such selective criticism, if you want to raise questions, then do so properly. Ask how Priyanka Gandhi won. If the SIR issue was such a major one, how did these people manage to win elections there? The opposition remains silent wherever they win."  

 On Lovely Professional University row, BJP National Spokesperson & National Media Co-Convener Pradeep Bhandari says, "If you look closely at this image, you will see how a Punjab Police official—acting on Arvind Kejriwal's orders—grabs female students by the collar. The Congress party and the opposition are trying to vitiate the atmosphere across the country. We witnessed a small example of this 'toolkit' in Punjab, where the Aam Aadmi Party ordered a lathi-charge against the state's youth and female students. All of what has happened is not merely an organic event; it is part of a 'toolkit' where the Aam Aadmi Party—through its police force—has lathi-charged the youth of Punjab, including female college students. They are not just trying to incite the country's youth; their objective is to launch an attack on the nation's democracy. This also highlights the hypocrisy regarding the lectures Rahul Gandhi and Arvind Kejriwal deliver to the world. 

 AAP National Convenor Arvind Kejriwal says, "Just now we saw that this road was built a few days ago. This road is peeling off by hand. We have never seen such a road being built in Delhi. Delhi is the capital of the country, and such a road was never built during AAP's time. There has been a lot of corruption in this. Yesterday, when the minister (Parvesh Verma) came here to inspect the road, he slapped Saheb Singh. This is not your father's country; you cannot slap someone like this... This country belongs to 140 crore people..." 

 Mumbai Police posted on X about the denial of permission to Cockroach Janta Party for holding a protest in Mumbai, "Permission has been denied because Mumbai Police is not empowered to grant permission for any gathering at Shivaji Park in accordance with the judgement of Hon. High Court in PIL 116/2009  dated 04/01/2013 and subsequent order of Government of Maharashtra dated 20/01/16. It has been explained to applicant Mr. Ajinkya Shinde and he has also been advised to look for alternate venues in Mumbai City for the protest and ask for permission, which will be considered in an appropriate manner."  

 Former Chief Election Commissioner SY Quraishi says, "The press note the Election Commission issued actually works against them. In it, they have admitted to various errors that were occurring. They state that, moving forward, they will hold agenda meetings—implying they didn't do so before; they will issue agendas—implying they didn't do so before; they will issue minutes—implying they didn't do so before; and they will actually hear matters—implying they didn't do so before... What kind of absurd talk is this? Can there be two sets of laws in India? One version of Form 6 will be used for you. A different version of Form 6 will be used for me..."  

 Elon Musk is warning about an “exponentially increasing risk” from artificial intelligence and calling on major tech competitors to test and peer-review one another’s security models.  Speaking at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO echoed growing concerns about AI safety. He’s urging leading AI companies to strengthen their safeguards before the technology gets out of control.  “What I think would be wise to do as soon as possible, if not immediately, would be to have the major AI competitors test each other’s models so that you'd have everyone's security test harness testing everyone's models.” 

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 Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, speaking on conducting elections in India, says, "India is the largest democracy in the world. It is not from today; it has been so since India became independent, conducting each and every election flawlessly and making the world believe that these numbers can be converted into elections. How? I will tell you now. Do you know how many electors there are in India? Ninety crore...Ninety crore is equal to the entire electorate of the United States of America, Canada, the entire North America, the entire South America, the entire Europe, and still 8 crore counted."  

 Anthropic India MD Irina Ghose says, “…India's complexity lies in the diversity of the population it serves, the scale, the multilingual language that we really have to solve for… Now Claude is being built across, and we are getting better every day by ensuring that the largest spoken languages- more than 10 of them- how do we get better at that and even building proficiency on the training systems that it is kind of getting built for… The minute you kind of try to solve population-scale problems by making it available to the last mile, that's where the real difference lies. NCPI, which is our host, when they are building across AiNxt, their platform on Claude, that’s a great kind of ensuring that we are solving larger ecosystems, making it centrally available for people to build things which are connectors and getting them a lot more pervasive.”