Y R Sunil Kumar

Admire leadership. Redefining and pursuing productivity. Retweets to express attention, not endorsement.

[Shashi Tharoor @ShashiTharoor]

A curious data point, and what it might mean : According to the latest NFHS-6 data, while institutional deliveries in our country have soared to an impressive 90.6%, exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) rates for infants under six months have sharply declined from 63.7% to 55.8%. This alarming drop is steepest in rural areas and major states like Uttar Pradesh and Haryana. This decline exposes a tragic disconnect between public policy and ground reality. Over 16 crore women toil in India's unorganised sector. Without paid maternity leave or job security, thousands of working mothers are forced back into informal labour within weeks of delivery just to survive, making the recommended six months of exclusive breastfeeding an economic impossibility.

This crisis is further exacerbated by a sharp rise in C-section deliveries and the aggressive marketing of infant formula substitutes. Breast milk is a child’s ultimate shield against malnutrition and infant mortality. The answer lies in the Government and employers extending robust financial maternity benefits to the informal sector, strictly enforcing the Infant Milk Substitutes (IMS) Act, and strengthening postnatal lactation counselling across all health centres.
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Is anyone planning any such action?
@JPNadda @Annapurna4BJP

[Namrata Prabhudesai @Prabhud1Namrata]

What could be a more wonderful gathering than this.???
Pandit Jasraj is singing, accompanied by Sadhana Sargam and Bela Shende. Present in the audience are Naushad, O.P. Nayyar, Khayyam, Kalyanji-Anandji, Begum Akhtar, Parveen Sultana, Sonu Nigam, and even Jagjit Singh!
A 5-minute segment featuring a Satsang dedicated to Bhagwan Krishna

Do enjoy this rare clip.
A Priceless Offering.

[Gaurav Pradhan 🇮🇳 @OfficeOfDGP]

One fundamental question remains:

Are we building world-class citizens along with world-class infrastructure?

Pls make them famous

@OfficialDMRC

[Y R Sunil Kumar @R_S_Kumar]

I have updated my bank KYC at member portal which remains as pending for verification . The customer care number 14470 gets disconnected after 20 sec and the email link is broken. How do I reach for support?
@officialepfo @socialepfo

[Y R Sunil Kumar @R_S_Kumar]

Bank KYC at EPFO Member portal is pending. Unable to connect for support on helpline at 14470. Email link is not functional. Kindly help
@LabourMinistry

[Y R Sunil Kumar @R_S_Kumar]

Bank KYC at EPFO Member portal is pending. Unable to connect for support on helpline at 14470. Email link is not functional. Kindly help
@epfobandra

[Y R Sunil Kumar @R_S_Kumar]

I have updated my bank KYC at member portal which remains as pending for verification . The customer care number 14470 gets disconnected after 20 sec and the email link is broken. How do I reach for support?
@officialepfo @epfoaindia @CentreEpfo28735 @epfo_services

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I am the VP of Workforce Economics at Oracle. We are worth $420 billion.

On Tuesday, we sent 30,000 employees a termination email at 6 AM.

Not 9. Not business hours. Six in the morning. They woke up to the word "eliminated."

The email came from "Oracle Leadership." Not a manager. Not a name. Oracle Leadership.

It said: "We are grateful for your dedication, hard work, and the impact you have made."

By the time they read the word "grateful," their access to email, files, and Slack had already been revoked. The gratitude was the last Oracle communication they received.

We did not eliminate the roles. We eliminated the salaries.

In the same fiscal year, we filed 3,126 H-1B petitions to hire foreign workers. 436 this year alone. The roles are identical. The pay is not.

An H-1B software engineer earns $87,000. The domestic median for the same work is $106,000. Eighty-three percent of H-1B workers are classified at entry-level wages for senior positions.

The industry calls this a skills gap. It is a pay cut that requires a passport.

The visa is tied to the employer. If the worker leaves, they lose their legal right to remain in the country. If they negotiate, they risk the same. If they organize, the sponsor declines to renew.

That is retention.

Our revenue this quarter is $17.2 billion. Up 22%. Net income up 95%. We have $553 billion in committed future contracts. Up 325%.

These are not the numbers of a company that needs to lay anyone off.

We took a $2.1 billion restructuring charge. That is the cost of the gratitude. It frees up $8 to $10 billion in annual cash flow. That cash services $156 billion in AI data centers we are building. Starting 2028, OpenAI pays us $82 million per day.

Larry Ellison is worth $189 billion. He pledged $51 billion in Oracle shares as collateral for the Stargate AI venture. Announced at the White House.

The stock rose 4% on Tuesday. The day of the 6 AM emails. Wall Street did not see 30,000 people. They saw the margin.

Amazon laid off 30,000 since October. Filed thousands of H-1B petitions in the same window. This is not one company. This is the operating model.

Fire the salary. Keep the role. Fill it with someone whose legal right to remain in the country depends on your continued sponsorship. Pay them less. They will not complain. They cannot.

One employee's father worked at Oracle for 20 years. No phone call. No meeting. An email at 6 AM and a locked laptop.

The role is still open.

The people we fired are free. The people we hired are not.

[Fundamental Investor ™ 🇮🇳 @FI_InvestIndia]

One of my close friends was admitted in a hospital for a small procedure on his finger (got injured while playing cricket with a leather ball). He was admitted for a night.

His personal insurance is amazing & has Non Consumables cover also. His bill of around ₹40000 was completely paid off by Insurance company (cashless).

During discharge, my friend was asked to pay for Non Consumables ₹3200. He immediately told the hospital that Non Consumables is covered. He showed them the list of items covered under Non Consumables (from the policy).

But friends. Their list had items which were not present in the Insurance Non Consumables List 😀😀😭😭

The hospital asked my friend to pay for the following non-consumables:

Surgeon Gown
Betadine
Drapes
Gloves (this was paid by insurance company since it was part of their list, after we showed them the policy list)
Mops

He ended up paying ₹2800, after deducting Gloves 🔔

Why are Mops even in the list? Isn't basic cleaning something we pay for?

Shouldn't Gown be a part of the procedure? Betadine is used for wound cleaning, it can be put under procedure charges. What are Drapes?

My learning is that hospitals will squeeze us, either way. We need to have an awesome insurance policy. Even though this policy is top notch with amazing cover, hospitals can always have some items which are simply ridiculous in the non-consumables section. A comprehensive cover is key. With non consumables included, he still had to pay ₹2800. Imagine if he didn't have the cover, it would have been far far higher.

In my opinion, Hospitals have become a Pure Business 😀😀😀

I had no intention of shaming any Institution or Profession, but this is simply ridiculous & enlightening.

Sharing this for everyone to learn something from this...

#FI

[Anuradha Tiwari @talk2anuradha]

People get fined for overspending, wrong parking, or what not.

Yet not a single government official is ever fined when we are robbed of basic dignity while on the road.

[The Market Mind @Market_Mind_]

EPF vs PPF vs NPS – Which retirement option is best for you? 🧵

Credit - @ActusDei @thefynprint

[Kayezad E Adajania @kayezad]

Most retirement planning still relies on plugging current expenses into Excel, forecasting 30-year returns based on historical averages, and applying the 4% withdrawal rule.

This approach ignores sequence-of-returns risk—when markets crash early in retirement, even perfect long-term averages won't save you.

New research shows that dynamic withdrawals, according to market conditions, are more effective, unlike rigid formulas that assume markets move in a straight line.

Financial planner @ravisaraogi's extensive research on safe withdrawal rates, combined with @SanketD_ET's deep dive into the new retirement math, forms this week's @ET_Wealth cover story.

Do not miss this one.

[Satyajeet Mishra @Unreservedsatya]

We have RESERVATION in Air Traffic control team!😡😡
In the name of social equality, we are putting human lives in danger..

Just so that they want votes, they are allow less competent people in such crucial roles.
This nothing less than a sin.
#planecrash

[Mr Sinha @Mrsinha]

Take a pledge that you'll never spend extra money on weddings; keep it simple - Kejriwal (2012-13)

In 2025, he organized his daughter's engagement/wedding ceremony at one of the most expensive hotels in Delhi, spending crores.

What a fraud...

[Garvit Sethi @garvit_sethii]

93.1 vs 47.9 — Is this what "equality" looks like in modern India?

Welcome to JEE 2025, where your caste decides your future more than your hard work.
If you're a General category student, you're expected to score 93.1 marks.
But if you belong to the ST category, you're eligible with just 47.9 marks.

Same exam. Same syllabus. Same competition.
But different cutoffs. Different rules. Different realities.

How is it fair that a student scoring almost half of what a general category student scores gets the same seat, the same college, the same branch?

This isn’t social justice — this is systematic discrimination.

Lakhs of deserving students are being punished every year for the "crime" of being born in a so-called forward caste.
No matter how talented or hardworking they are, the system is rigged against us.

Stop using caste as a tool for vote-bank politics.
End this 75-year-old injustice.
We need economic-based reservations, not caste-based favoritism.

Speak up. It's time to fight for real equality.
#JEE2025
#MeritMatters

[Y R Sunil Kumar @R_S_Kumar]

@BlueDartCares Hello. While I have received both email and sms that my Passport has been dispatched by vfsgermany on 23rd Feb, Bluedart support center is unable to locate it. I have a flight tomorrow early morning. Please help how to collect the same

[Y R Sunil Kumar @R_S_Kumar]

So true, so simple and yet so difficult for the politicians to imbibe

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

“You cannot kill your way to victory over a foreign, occupied people.”

My @MehdiHasanShow commentary on how Israel's killing of innocents in Gaza only strengthens Hamas and its recruiting efforts - as America discovered the hard way in Iraq & Afghanistan.

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

10 @TedLasso leadership lessons:

1 believe in yourself 
2 winning is an attitude
3 all people are different people
4 see good in others
5 forgive first
6 stay teachable
7 be curious
8 optimists do more
9 be honest
10 doing right thing is never wrong thing

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

Read to improve your writing.
Write to improve your thinking.
Build to improve your understanding.

Teach to improve storytelling.
Rest to improve mental toughness.
Exercise to improve your energy.

Listen to improve relationships.
Give to improve network.
Forgive to be happier.

[Y R Sunil Kumar @R_S_Kumar]

@rpomumbai @passportsevamea File Number BO05C4083726623 for passport reissue competed police verification on 25th July. Passport yet to be received. Unable to record grievance on portal. Kindly help.