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[Rustam @NotAnotherParsi]

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[Vijaita Singh @vijaita]

An enumerator from Rajasthan told The Hindu on condition of anonymity, “In the mobile app, if we enter that a household has a tin roof, we are asked by our superiors to change it to concrete. Are we supposed to lie? Similarly, if the house does not have a toilet and occupants are defecating in the open, we are told to check if there is a toilet nearby, even that of a neighbour or a relative, which they may be using occasionally or even a public urinal. Then the entry can be changed from ‘open defecation’ to having access to a toilet.”

[Debashis Basu @Moneylifers]

My first tweet on #RajeshExports was in 2014. The suspicion started much earlier. There is something called a smell test. It decades to develop - if you keep your ears and eyes open.

@suchetadalal @BalakrishnanR

[Zafar Shaikh @InvesysCapital]

Corruption by Neta, Contractor, Babu, Judiciary, Police .. basically all branches of governance has kept us back from becoming first world.

Parties will keep changing but until someone punishes corruption in governance & fixes the system, there is no hope.

[Shreenidhi P @nid_rockz]

When taxation is the only thing govt cares for

Results are self explanatory

India vs global mkts for last 2 years

Looks like so called "Shock Absorbers" need a special shock treatment

Japan,Korea, Taiwan are up between 100-200% over the last 1 year

Nasdaq up 38%
Dow up 26%

DAX almost nearing life highs

All we do is:
Keep taxing middle class every year and burden them
Increasing taxation on equity markets and make sure FIis run out of India
Give freebies to the ones who don't want to work
Periodically, do farm loan waivers for the ones who never pay tax
On top of it, govt is doing OFS in such kind of mkt 🙏🙏

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

Believing you slept well can boost your cognitive performance even after a bad night.

Mind over matter.

[Jaidev Jamwal @JaidevJamwal]

List one over hyped and under-performing Indian organisation since past 10 years.

My pick: ISRO.

>Very poor launch frequency.

>Failed too many vital national security missions like NAVIC, IRNSS-1H, Multiple EOS and GSATs.

>Decades gone and no reliable heavy lift rocket. Reuseable launcher project seems dead too.

>Bhuvan is a dumpster fire even after all this time.

>Extremely slow satellite replenishment capability and even weaker commercial launch ecosystem despite decades of operations.

>All PR around sastaa maal, instead of focus on actual scientific and strategic work.

>Spending too many resources on prestige projects like Chandrayaan, MOM, manned flight. This is done after you do the basic satellites.

I acknowledge that failures are unaviodable part of any endeavour. Every single project of value has to go through multiple failures. But ISRO has been coasting along on low budget excuse for far too long.

It's more like a prestige institution meant to massage national ego rather than a serious scientific organisation meant for furthering national interests in a world where space is a vital part of military operations.

On top of that, I still remember their moronic PR showing piles of trash and stagnant water puddles at their live rocket launch site.

DRDO, BEL, BSNL, HAL and almost all other PSUs are like this too, perhaps worse, but they get their asses spanked almost daily. ISRO escapes scrutiny because of its holy cow status. If HAL gets flak due to delay with LCA, DRDO for Arjun etc., why spare ISRO for similar failures listed above?

[Bull Theory @BullTheoryio]

BREAKING: Google is planning to release 32 million mosquitoes across Florida and California.

The company has asked the EPA for permission to proceed, with the public given until June 5 to respond.

The mosquitoes are infected with Wolbachia bacteria, which stops them from reproducing and slowly collapses the wild population from within.

Google's previous Debug Project trial in California's Central Valley nearly eliminated mosquitoes from three test sites entirely. A separate trial in Singapore cut dengue cases by 70% within 12 months.

Google has now released over 1 billion mosquitoes across four continents. This new proposal is the largest deployment in US history.

[Why U @vayunandini]

Correction. Blinkit didn't create 1,85,000 jobs. It created 1,85,000 people who own their own vehicles, pay for their own fuel, have no fixed salary, no PF, no ESI, no sick leave, no job security and are one algorithm update away from losing their entire income.

These men work 12-14 hours a day across three apps simultaneously just to clear twenty thousand a month. No company bears the cost of their health, their accident, their family. They are not employees but infrastructure. Invisible, replaceable and deliberately kept contractor coded so the balance sheet stays clean.

The 'jobs created' number is a marketing figure. It counts every delivery partner who ever downloaded the app. It does not count how many quit. How many were injured with zero compensation. How many are still waiting for their incentive payout.

And yes this entire ecosystem exists because people are too comfortable to walk to a market. That comfort is being subsidized by men who cannot afford the same comfort themselves.

And I don't give a shit about kunal kamra or raghav chaddha.

First learn the difference between a job and a gig before you make a PowerPoint about it.

[Mihir Vasavda @mihirsv]

This isn’t about Vinesh. No one could've dared doing what she did in the last few days.
But it's an Indian wrestling story. Different athletes. Same administrators. Same chaos.
If you can count the smooth selection trials of last decade on one hand, problem isn’t the wrestlers.

[José Morgado @josemorgado]

Alcaraz out injured

Sinner loses in R2 from two sets up

Djokovic loses in R3 from two sets up

One of the craziest and more open Grand Slams in tennis' history.

[Mihir Vasavda @mihirsv]

After many hassles and arguments with the WFI Vinesh has been allowed to give her weight to compete in 53kg category.
Antim Panghal has done it too. Wait for the draw begins, no clarity when they'll do it, or what the procedure would be.

[Rustam @NotAnotherParsi]

@NationalEclipse bhutan?

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

Read this story. Carefully.

CBSE called for OSM tenders thrice. Zero bids the first time. No qualified bidder the second time. And finally, the technical bar was lowered until COEMPT could clear it.

Scanning resolution cut. Robotic scanner requirement dropped. CMMI certification lowered from Level 5 to Level 3. Penalties for errors in answer sheets removed.

TCS, India’s biggest IT services company, qualified in the third round too. TCS lost. COEMPT - a company with a spectacular track record of failure - won.

And what are CBSE students complaining about today? Badly scanned answer sheets. Missing pages. A broken evaluation portal.

Teachers had warned CBSE that the OSM system needed at least a year or two for further preparation before nationwide implementation, yet it was rushed through.

So I ask again - who wanted COEMPT to win? Who lowered the bar, step by step, until this company could clear it?

Pradhan ji and CBSE say “due process was followed.” That is not an answer, that is not accountability. The question is whether the contract was honestly awarded to the best company which could do the job correctly.

The futures of 18.5 lakh children were handed to a company that could only qualify after the rules were bent for it.

To the BJP Ministers attacking me for asking questions - I have, from day one, demanded an independent judicial probe. Expand it from CBSE to every contract awarded to COEMPT. Our youth deserve the truth.

And Modi ji, your silence on the CBSE debacle and inaction against the Education Minister tells the country what you actually care about - not the futures of lakhs of students, only the survival of your own government.

[Mihir Vasavda @mihirsv]

Just WFI things:
▪️Vinesh Phogat says she'll compete @ Ranking Tournament in Gonda
▪️ WFI says tourney won't be considered for Asian Games trials
▪️Bars her from competing
▪️ Announces medallists from Ranking tournament will be allowed for Asiad trials

https://t.co/bVkzltx1HO

[Nehr_who? @Nher_who]

Modi is selling us petrol at Rs. 115 mixed with Ethanol

Here is the condition of the scooter silencer after usage of ethanol.

This is what is being sold to us in the name of Nationalism, the vehicle can't even survive a few thousand km on Ethanol

[Ritu Choudhary @RituChoudhryINC]

क्या आपको पता है धुएँ कि भी जाति होती है 👇

मध्य प्रदेश में एक दलित की चिता जलने से केवल इसलिए रोक दी गई क्योंकि उसका धुआं “ब्राह्मणों के श्मशान” तक चला जाता…

उस पर भी शर्मनाक ये कि पुलिस भी दलित परिवार पर ही दवाब डाल रही है क्यूं की पुलिस प्रशासन खुद जातिवाद से अंदर तक सड़ा हुआ हैं।

शर्म आनी चाहिए ऐसे समाज पर, जहां मौत के बाद भी दलित को सम्मान नहीं मिलता।

ज़िंदा था तब दलित होने नाम पर भेदभाव, नफ़रत, ज़लालत, छुआछूत,
और जब मर गया तो उसकी चिता का धुंआ भी "अछूत" हो गया जो ब्राह्मणों के शमशान तक नहीं पहुंचना चाहिए वरना बेचारे मरे हुए ब्राह्मण भी अशुद्ध हो जाएंगे।

ये सिर्फ भेदभाव नहीं, ये इंसानियत की लाश पर खड़ा ब्राह्मणवाद है।

जिस समाज में मृतक की चिता का धुआं भी जाति देखकर स्वीकार किया जाए, उस समाज को सभ्य कहलाने का कोई अधिकार नहीं।

[Sarang Sood @SarangSood]

Inflation is best delivered candle by candle

[Rustam @NotAnotherParsi]

@nid_rockz pe of 7 is crazy.. cash from operations is 49, price/cfo is 6.5 ish, dnt know too many such cos.. also company is legit, makes banking software

[Chanakya @ChanakyaShah]

Chocolate brand Paul & Mike filed a complaint with FSSAI against The Whole Truth over its no added sugar claims on products sweetened with dates.

The Whole Truth argued that date-sweetened products are globally accepted under the “no added sugar” category. They also claimed that date powder has a lower glycemic index of 43 compared to sugar’s GI of 65.

Later, TWT agreed to change the labeling to “sweetened with dates” instead.

This is a good step. Marketing claims should be truthful, unambiguous, and non-misleading. “No added sugar” can easily make consumers assume a product is sugar-free or significantly healthier, even when it still contains high amounts of natural sugars. We need to standardise Zero Sugar claims to be “Total Sugar = 0gm”

Consumer transparency should always come first.