Gentle reminder...
E25 is still in the testing phase, and there is no clear roadmap yet.
Think practically, not emotionally. Don’t overspend; settle for a mid-level variant. If possible, consider getting a well-maintained BS4 diesel car from a relative or friend.
Ask yourself how much financial loss you can comfortably absorb if you need to sell or exchange the car after eight years at a dirt-cheap valuation.
If your existing car is running fine, don’t sell it. Maintain it properly and continue using it until it gives up.
For 10 years of ownership, diesel and EVs appear to be safer choices than petrol cars today.
The era of keeping cars stress-free for 15 years is probably over.
A 16 crores bridge didn't last even 16 days. No one will take accountability.
Meanwhile there is only few days left to file ITR, please do it on time else you'll be fined. Also don't forget to pay tax on that Rs. 450 dividend or Bank interest you got otherwise you'll get notice
You will see 0 revolutions:-
1) When Rupee falls to 200, you will lose your existing wealth.
2) When adulterated petrol damages your car, you will still pay EMIs. But, can't use your car.
3) When Home Loan rates are silently jacked up, you will pay more EMIs. And, it will destroy household budget.
4) When wage growth rate << inflation growth rate, your income won't grow
5) When AI eats more jobs, labour will be displaced. And, India will become #1 nation on job displacements.
None of these things will create a revolution.
But, these will silently bankrupt you.
Hope you have not forgotten that your non E20 cars are still given E20 petrol which is reducing your mileage without reducing the price of petrol, and Modi ji has still not spoken or made a vlog about it sitting in his car.
My unsolicited suggestion to anyone planning to buy a car:
Don't decide after a 15-minute showroom test drive.
Rent your shortlisted model from a self-drive service for a weekend. Live with it.
Drive it in traffic, park it at home, take your family along and use it exactly the way you normally would.
Spending a few thousand rupees on a rental is far cheaper than regretting a ₹10 lakh purchase later. 😎
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So #LTCG made Rs 129000 Crores for the Government last year
Many are surprised by these figures given that #StockMarket's have gone nowhere
It's simple FPIs have been heavy sellers. They have legacy holdings of Indian Stocks are prices much much lower than current prices. For some cost of HDFC Bank could be lower than Rs 50 and Infosys lower than Rs 100.
When they sell huge Capital Gains is booked.
That's why the Government doens't bother about FPI selling.
The brains of @FinMinIndia don't realize that continued Foreign Capital outflows have significanct negatives i.e. pressure on INR, pressure on domestic liquidity and slower growth.
> Students are protesting against failed education system
> Vehcile owners are protesting against ethanol adulteration
> Humans are protesting against cutting trees in Rishikesh
Why are stock market traders and investors not protesting against STT, LTCG & STCG?
This is the perfect time to aware the entire world on how we are being looted through double taxation.
Government basically has 2 jobs (1) give you hope (2) and, take your money.
This is basically first principles way of thinking.
Helping you retire is probably 99th on a government's priority list of things to do for you. 😂
They don't give a shit about adulterated food. Or broken roads, where you can fall and die.
So, you gotta be really dumb if you think that they will somehow help you retire by running some golden schemes.
The only reason why PF/EPF type schemes exist is to give you the "hope" that one day you will retire "happy".
And, hope is a wonderful thing.
This is probably the reason why vehicles are breaking down
Government back to back claims that no issues with e20 even after so much backlash
Manufacturer claims - Vehicle are well tested and are fully e20 complaint
Real world issues on road is this - The mixing of water at the fuel pump in their underground storage as they are not fully compatible with E20 storage handling
Her name is Sonia Meena.
She is a young officer, still in the early years of her career. She seized the trucks of one of the most feared mining mafias in her state. In return, she got a death threat. She kept going to court to give evidence against him anyway.
She came from Rajasthan, cleared the civil services examination in her early twenties, and was posted into the Madhya Pradesh cadre.
She was handed the kind of postings that break people, districts where the sand and mining mafia runs a parallel government, where trucks strip the riverbeds through the night and everyone, from the local strongman to the officials meant to stop him, has quietly agreed to look away.
She did not look away.
As a sub divisional magistrate, she went after the illegal sand mining directly. She impounded the loaded trucks of a powerful mining operator, a man used to being untouchable.
She did not accept the usual arrangement where the raid happens, the fine is paid, and the trucks quietly return to the river the next night.
So the threats began. The mafia boss she had taken on was reported to have threatened her openly. A formal death threat followed, serious enough that the state had to increase her security.
Here is the part that tells you who she is. Even under threat, she kept travelling to the other district to submit her evidence in court, in person, so the case against him would not collapse. The easy thing was to fall ill, to be busy, to let the file go cold. She refused.
She is not a famous name. She has no film about her. She is simply one of those officers who took the oath seriously, in a system that often punishes exactly that.
They thought a young woman in her first postings would be easy to frighten. They were wrong.
I haven’t been able to stop thinking about her.
Thirteen years old. A child. Brutalised by 32 men. She fought for her life… and today, she lost that battle.
How do you even process this? What kind of monsters do this? What kind of society allows it to happen?
These men deserve nothing less than capital punishment. Crimes of this brutality against a child demand the strongest punishment our justice system provides.
She should have been worrying about school, friends, and dreams—not fighting for her life.
I’m angry. I’m heartbroken. And I’m ashamed that we keep failing our daughters.