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'No force on earth can stop an idea whose time has come' - Manmohan Singh
'Where the Mind is without fear and the Head is held high' - Rabindra Nath Tagore

[Deepak @Deepakps]

My #12000th tweet to honour #DrManMohanSingh - a awesome #HumanBeing and brilliant #Scholar. #HappyTeachersDay

[the reporters' collective @reporters_co]

Instagram restricted our story on the ECI’s internal records of 2024 elections within two hours, citing the IT Rules. And when we posted about the restriction, that post was removed too.

Watch and share this video to see what @TweetSumedha & @VenkateshNSS reported on.

[Amit Shah @AmitShah]

PM @narendramodi ji's decision to discontinue Rs. 500 & Rs.1000 rupee note will immensely help eliminating the corruption.

[Seema Chishti @seemay]

Here is the FARA filing of the lobbyist 👇🏾 https://t.co/YBooiY5rqA

[Mahua Moitra @MahuaMoitra]

Dear @INCKerala this is NOT contempt of court. This false prosecution is itself a travesty of justice. I hope you have strong legal team to fight this tooth and nail. Enough is enough. Sending you strength.

[Kunal Kamra @kunalkamra88]

Here’s a breakdown of nobody discussing anything important about a scientific revelation by a tech bro…

Point no 1 - We will not prove ourselves right, please use your time & recourses to prove us wrong. Anyway we will not accept when proved wrong.

Point no 2 - Give me Bharat Ratna & Nobel Prize as I’ve put 2/3 of my money behind my idea. Who even does that?

Point no 3 - I’ll buy science if needed. I’ve money. Lots of money.

4. Our Employees are in on the Pyramid Scheme. Just like the guys who work at a scam call center are in on the scam.

5. If others can take 10 to 12years then we will at-least take 8 t0 10 years until then SHUT UP.

6. We have “our science”. Our science will find our claims to be correct.

7. I’m confident so that’s a great start for me & that is all that matters.

8. We will share more feature & call them ground breaking with our fraudcasters & other paid PR.

PS - I haven’t responded to any scientific or medical concerns but FU I’m RICH & very confident.

[Srinivas BV @srinivasiyc]

हां भाई पूनम...ये क्या है..?

[The Arunachal Times @arunachaltimes_]

Anti-Siang hydro dam activist Katon Moyong (#Aborman), who was recently detained by the Delhi Police for #protesting against the project, has outright rejected the government’s invitation for talks on the #SUMP. Asserting that the time for discussion has passed, he stated, "No dam means no dam." Moyong also dismantled the government’s national security narrative, terming it a false narrative.

[Topó Jon Pêbi Paksók @jonpebipaksok]

First time after being detained in New Delhi , Moyong Katon gave an impeccable press briefing to Eastern Journal, a local media .
Listen to this…

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

24 घंटे हो गए मोदी जी। मैंने आपको चैलेंज दिया है।

आप कहते हो कि opposition देशद्रोही है। किसी भी स्टेज पे आप जगह चुनिए, डिबेट कीजिए मेरे साथ।

देशद्रोही कौन है? विदेशी फोर्सेस का कनेक्शन किसका है? और किस प्रकार का कनेक्शन है? जल्दी से जल्दी कीजिए, डरिए मत।

दोनों मिलेंगे, मीडिया होगी, देश के युवा होंगे, टेबल होगी, एक साइड आप बैठोगे, एक साइड मैं बैठूंगा। जिसको आप जज बनाना चाहते हो, बना दो। मोहन भागवत जी को बिठा दो, चलो। और फिर डिबेट करते हैं।

सवाल उठेंगे फाइनेंशियल सिस्टम पर, फाइनेंशियल स्ट्रक्चर पर, US डील कैसे हुई, क्यों हुई, इतनी जल्दी क्यों हुई, सिर्फ आपने क्यों की, कैबिनेट को क्यों नहीं बताया, अडानी का केस बंद क्यों हुआ, Epstein - ऐसी बहुत सारी चीजें हैं जिसपे खुलकर डिस्कशन होगा।

आ जाइए, डरिए मत।
दूध का दूध, पानी का पानी कीजिए।

आप एलिगेशन लगाते हैं ना मेरे ऊपर, आ जाइए, सब साफ हो जाएगा।

बाकी चीजों पे आपने defamation केस लगा रखा है, शायद 45 defamation केस मेरे ऊपर हैं।

मगर इस डिबेट मामले पे, foreign कनेक्शन पे आप defamation नहीं लगा रहे हो। लगाइए ना, वहाँ भी डिस्कस करेंगे, खुल के। ये सब डिस्कस करते हैं, आइए।

हैप्पी दिवाली, मोदी जी।

It’s been 24 hours since I challenged you, Modi ji.

You say the Opposition is anti-national. Choose any stage, any venue, and debate me on this - Who is anti-national? Who has connections with foreign forces? And what is the nature of those connections?

Let’s do this as soon as possible. Daro mat!

We’ll both be there. The media will be there. The youth of this country will be there. There will be a table. You’ll sit on one side, I’ll sit on the other. You can appoint whoever you want as the judge. You can even make Mohan Bhagwat ji the judge.

There will be questions about the financial system, the financial structure, how the US deal happened, why it happened and why so quickly, why you made the deal alone and didn’t inform the Cabinet, why the Adani case was closed, Epstein - and many other issues. We’ll discuss all of them openly.

Let the truth come out. Let everything be crystal clear.

You make allegations against me, don’t you? Come forward. Everything will become clear.

You’ve filed defamation cases against me over other matters. I think there are around 45 defamation cases against me.

But on this issue of the debate, on the question of foreign connections, you haven’t filed a defamation case. Go ahead, file one. We’ll discuss that openly too.

Happy Diwali, Modi ji.

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

Mr Modi, stop lying to this nation.

You became PM because of foreign help. You remain PM because of foreign help.

Your financial system is fully controlled and supported by foreigners. Foreign social media fully backs you.

I challenge you to an open debate about this. Any stage, any time. Come if you have the guts.

You won't dare, because you are terrified of what I know about you.

मोदी जी, इस देश से झूठ बोलना बंद कीजिए।

आप विदेशी मदद से प्रधानमंत्री बने। और विदेशी मदद से ही प्रधानमंत्री बने हुए हैं।

आपकी आर्थिक व्यवस्था पूरी तरह विदेशियों के नियंत्रण में और समर्थन से है। विदेशी सोशल मीडिया पूरी तरह आपके साथ खड़ा है।

मैं आपको इस मुद्दे पर खुली बहस की चुनौती देता हूं। कोई भी मंच, किसी भी समय। हिम्मत है तो आइए।

आप नहीं आएंगे, क्योंकि जो मैं आपके बारे में जानता हूं आप उससे डरते हैं।

[Palak Shah @palakshahjourno]

🚨IS FAIRFAX BUYING IDBI WITH IDBI'S OWN MONEY?

Buyer is buying the bank. Bank is expected to buy the buyer's businesses. And money from 2nd deal is part of funding plan for the first. Remarkable way to finance bank takeover.

Full Stry @BWBusinessworld
https://t.co/A0WUi3Nnzn

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

India’s prime minister could learn a lesson from Xi Jinping’s China: countries must work fast to grow rich before they get old. Unfortunately, the structure of India’s economy is changing too slowly https://t.co/HhkWzMtlKL

[Neha @neha_aisa]

At
The Public Impeachment of Gyanesh Kumar today.

Halt SIR!
Repeal 2023 Act!

[Prashant Bhushan @pbhushan1]

जरूर सुनिए: गणेश कुमार के मौक महा अभियोग में नेहा बोरा का शानदार भाषण!

[Amock_ @Amockx2022]

BREAKING 🚨

This is full 3-mint speech by Neha Bora

She has taken Gyanesh Kumar to cleaners in her speech at mock parliament

One of the finest ever speeches with argument on SIR issue 🔥🔥

[R. K. Singh @RajKSinghIndia]

The question Finance Minister is this- Why are you selling a profit making asset? After you have spent 25000 crores of the taxpayers money to make the asset profitable you hand it over to a private party to reap the profits?

[John Brittas @JohnBrittas]

My warning about the sale of IDBI Bank to Canada’s Fairfax now takes on an even more disturbing dimension.

Businessworld’s explosive report reveals a bizarre turn: after Fairfax’s initial bid of Rs. 75 per share fell short of the original reserve price of Rs. 94.42 fixed by Govt, the methodology was revisited and Fairfax’s revised bid of Rs. 81 was accepted - after reducing the reserve price to Rs. 75.99!. This time, Govt also agreed to indemnify IDBI's disputed income tax liability, with potential additional exposure alone amounting to hundreds of crores.

To justify accepting less than the original minimum price, the Government reportedly invoked an unusual precedent: the Railway Stores Code for auctioning scrap which states "Bids lower than the reserve prices may, however, be accepted by the Depot Officer where found expedient provided the Depot Officer doing so records his reasons in writing" - to help justify the sale of a strategic public bank!!

Since when is a national banking asset to be treated like railway scrap? Who changed the rules, why, and in whose interest - and at what cost to the public?

Worse, the internal note reportedly cited weak FDI inflows, currency pressures and treasury strain to justify the sale on reduced rates - even as the Finance Minister publicly defends India’s economic fundamentals and official figures report record gross FDI inflows.

@palakshahjourno @BWBusinessworld @IdbiFor

#IDBIBank #IDBISaleScam

https://t.co/kSlQEhRqLz

[Palak Shah @palakshahjourno]

IDBI Sale: Finance Ministry Doesn't Deny the Note In Businessworld Story

Late-night clarification from DIPAM fails to dispute the order of events, the dropped private-bank comparables, or Fairfax’s ultimatum.

read only in @BWBusinessworld
https://t.co/IecRM6rjYh

[M K Venu @mkvenu1]

Business World magazine has a sensational scoop based on the internal minutes of a Committee of Secretaries on Disinvestment showing how rules were changed for the controversial privatisation of IDBI Bank which was sold to Canada based Fairfax Financial Holdings at Rs 52,878 crore ($5.55 billion) at Rs 81 per share.
The internal minutes state that the initial sealed bids from Fairfax and another entity came well below the confidentially set minimum reserve price of Rs 94.42. The Fairfax bids came at Rs 75. So what do the babus do? They pull off something unprecedented but do it openly and transparently. They move to another valuation method and ask Fairfax and another bidder (strangely not named because it was later rejected by Home Ministry for security reasons!) to give new bids. This time Fairfax bids Rs 81 per share , still well below the original reserve price of Rs. 94.42. Then Fairfax says this is the final offer and it would withdraw if not accepted. The government accepts it and also gives some relief on disputed tax claims on IDBI Bank. Tax payer also makes a hefty contribution here!
The deal goes through at Rs 81 per share(the original reserve price was Rs 94.42) and the internal note strangely gives reasons why this sale was necessary for the government at this juncture- Fiscal stress on Centre due to high energy prices, lack of FDI inflows and the currency under strain because of the global energy crises!

As per Business World report the justification for change of rules and methodology for the sale of IDBI Bank came from the General Financial Rules for sale of government physical assets but not shares. Then it cites the Railway Stores Code on auctioning scrap:

"Bids lower than the reserve prices may, however, be accepted by the Depot Officer where found expedient provided the Depot Officer doing so records his reasons in writing."
In my 40 years of journalism I have not come across such justification for privatisation.
Business World's Palak Shah must be commended for this investigation.

[Sabeer Bhatia @sabeer]

We’ve made it increasingly difficult for the next generation, across the globe, to imagine a normal life - owning a home, earning a decent living, and not being displaced by AI and robots. This is a global phenomenon. When an entire generation loses hope in the future, revolution becomes inevitable. I sense a global revolution is coming.