He's Tukaram Mundhe, a 2005-batch IAS from Maharashtra.
Over the last few weeks, you might have heard his name. That is because he was recently appointed Commissioner of State’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Since taking charge, the FDA has been on an absolute warpath, raiding illegal, fake, synthetic, and adulterated products. From synthetic milk networks and adulterated paneer to illegal gutkha and unhygienic eateries, nothing has escaped his radar.
Mundhe has made it clear that even the most famous names will not get a free pass. His department shocked Mumbai by suspending the food licenses of iconic establishments, such as the 73-year-old Marine Drive ice cream parlor K. Rustom & Co., alongside famous eateries like Shalimar Hospitality, Noor Mohammadi Hotel, and Rahmaniya Restaurant, after surprise inspections uncovered severe hygiene violations, including live pests and expired ingredients.
Such is the fear of his crackdowns that, just two days ago, dairy farmers were caught on video spilling hundreds of liters of synthetic milk after rumors of an impending FDA raid spread.
This is his 25th transfer in a 21-year career, a testament to his refusal to bend to political pressure. It makes you wonder: if just one IAS officer can bring about so much change, where would our country be if every bureaucrat were as uncompromising and proactive as him?
In a shocking and chilling murder mystery that has rocked Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad's business community, Ketan Agarwal, son of prominent industrialist Vishal Agarwal, did not accidentally fall from Lohagad Fort police suspect he was deliberately pushed into a deep gorge by his bride-to-be Siya Goyal and her friend. The two families had planned an extravagant royal wedding at a luxury palace in Jaipur, with two aircraft booked to transport guests. However, Siya allegedly did not want to marry Ketan and, despite outwardly agreeing to the wedding under family pressure, allegedly hatched a cold-blooded plan to eliminate him. Luring him to the dangerous edge of Lohagad Fort on the pretext of taking photographs, police suspect she and her friend pushed him into the deep valley below, killing him instantly. The incident has sent shockwaves through the families and the business world, turning what was meant to be a celebration into a house of grief.
#LohagadMurder #KetanAgarwal #PuneCrime #HighProfileMurder #PimpriChinchwad
Today, as on every single day, remembering Dr Darshan Ranganathan, my mother, my inspiration. She authored 16 @J_A_C_S papers from India, when just 1 can make a career; never received a single Indian award, never cared.
She died of cancer on her sixtieth birthday, June 4, 2001.
India is secular only because it is a Hindu majority country. This is the greatness of Hinduism. If Rama and Krishna are not your Itihasā purushā, your national heroes, you are not a perfect Muslim. - Dr KK Muhammed, suspended for discovering the Ram temple under Babri Mosque.
Ambedkar’s feminism 101:
Falling sick, Amby needed constant care from a servant. So he chose to remarry.
His criteria for a wife:
– educated
– could cook for him
– doctor
Sc women don't have these qualities so he chose a Brahmin.
This is their “roti-beti” politics.
In Bengaluru, a man spent three months and 25 visits trying to get his eKhata.
After multiple rejections, the ARO finally told him in Kannada, 'give something.' He refused.
By then his exhausted father had quietly paid ₹90,000 to an agent. The eKhata had not arrived. 🧵
IMPORTANT: PM Modi calls for revival of COVID era practises: Work From Home, reduce consumption of petroleum products, cut foreign travel. The TIMING is significant. Political roadshows done, Elections over and won in Bengal and Assam , REALITY BITES! Brace up for OIL SHOCKS and more. 🙏 (by the way, as a first step, will our Mantris stop using their cavalcades?)
Vijay Joseph came dressed like a saviour.
But political messiahs are rarely self-made.
The posters sold a hero of the poor.
The money trail tells a darker story.
Some are elected.
Some are installed.
A 26-month-old party suddenly built a machine.
108 seats.
70,000 booth agents.
Digital warfare.
Mega rallies.
Constituency saturation.
BJP took decades to build booth infrastructure.
TVK did it in months.
Money was flowing like monsoon water.
Estimated TVK Campaign burn rate?
~₹1,500 crore.
No declared donor trail.
No transparent funding map.
Just advertisements.
Volunteers.
Ground networks.
Everywhere.
So, I dug deeper.
One face kept appearing beside Vijay.
Every rally.
Every frame.
Every campaign trail.
Aadhav Arjuna.
TVK’s General Secretary.
The Number Two.
Aadhav is the son-in-law of Santiago Martin.
India’s Lottery King.
The same Santiago Martin.
Who became the single largest buyer of electoral bonds.
₹1,368 crore.
ED cases followed.
Money laundering allegations followed.
Assets attached.
Raids happened.
Yet the network kept expanding.
One family.
Inside multiple parties.
Winning from multiple directions.
No matter who governs…
The Martin Family is inside.
But Santiago Martin is not just a businessman.
Pope Benedict XVI personally issued,
an apostolic blessing to Martin and his family.
One of the highest symbolic honours in Catholic circles.
And then another layer appeared.
Martin also served as Consul General for Liberia.
Diplomatic access.
Diplomatic corridors.
Diplomatic insulation.
Then I moved further back.
Vijay’s father.
S. A. Chandrasekhar.
Born into a Catholic family.
From Thangachimadam.
A region shaped for centuries by missionaries.
Then came Loyola.
Vijay’s uncle Xavier Alphonse led Loyola College.
A powerful Jesuit institution.
Another uncle,
Xavier Britto,
Produced Vijay’s early films.
After TVK launched,
Loyola’s international alumni activity exploded globally.
Fundraisers.
Events.
Networking.
But Jesuit do not operate like normal organisations.
They operate across continents.
Across institutions.
Across generations.
Then came polling week.
Catholic Bishops reportedly circulated pamphlets.
Through churches.
During Sunday Mass.
The messaging was clear.
Vote strategically against BJP.
Then came the TVK poll promise.
SC reservation for Dalit Christians.
Now pause there.
Because this is where ideology meets economics.
Government jobs.
Scholarships.
Reservation benefits.
Attached to religious identity.
That changes the conversion equation permanently.
And Delhi knows this.
IB knows this.
RAW knows this.
The real question is whether anyone wants to confront it openly.
Because Tamil Nadu is not just another state.
It was always a centre of Catholic Missionaries.
And now a new power structure stands there.
Unexplained money.
Transnational Lottery empire.
Generational and Powerful Jesuits influence.
This is not a rags-to-riches political story.
This feels far more organised than that.
Her name was Shehla Masood.
She was 38 years old, lived in Bhopal, and ran an event management company.
Then in 2009, she discovered the RTI Act.
She filed over 200 RTI applications in two years. She exposed illegal construction happening in plain sight. She fought to save tigers being poached by the very forest officers meant to protect them. She took on Rio Tinto, a global mining giant sitting on 27.4 million carats of diamonds inside a protected forest in Chhattarpur. Two district collectors were transferred to make that mining happen. She filed RTIs, went to parliament, and stopped it.
A month before she died, she gave an interview. She said she feared for her life but would not stop, because the nexus between politicians and babus was slowly poisoning this country.
On August 16, 2011, she sat in her car outside her home, about to leave for an Anna Hazare rally.
A hired gunman shot her once through the throat.
The CBI said the motive was a love triangle. Four people were convicted and sentenced to life. The mining angle was never investigated.
Her father told investigators that high profile people had conspired to kill his daughter.
Nobody listened.
She was posthumously given the SR Jindal Crusade Against Corruption Award, an honour shared with APJ Abdul Kalam.
India rewarded her with a bullet, then gave her an award, then forgot her name.
Follow for real stories India never makes headlines about.
Restaurant releases Ad showing baal roop of Krishna Bhagwan with meat biryani
Restaurant name - Meher Mandi & Grills
Restaurant owner - Mohammed Shemir, son of Muslim League leader
See how they are pushing the boundaries everyday
They are well aware there would be hardly any consequences. At most, case will be filed for hurting religious sentiments and bail will be easy. Too little a sacrifice for serving the cause of Jihad
Meanwhile internet is inundated with misinformation that Krishna and Ram are not just meat but beef
They will make a grand show of being targeted over the ad and might even earn sympathy of spineless Hindus in the process
Most disgusting community. 🤮Their atrocities on Kashmiri women are deplorable.
They are not leaving goats or donkeys, why would they leave women?
Check the slide on Burhan Wani, whom Barkha Dutt showed as a victim.🤯😳
Her name is Rohini Sindhuri.
She is a 2009 batch IAS officer posted in Karnataka.
In 2018, she was the District Collector of Hassan. She discovered illegal sand mining happening every night from the rivers in her district. She stopped it.
Local politicians were furious. They went to the Chief Minister.
Within days, she was transferred out of Hassan.
She fought it in the Karnataka High Court. The court ruled her transfer was illegal and ordered the government to reinstate her.
The government reinstated her.
Then transferred her again.
She went back to court. She kept going back to court every single time the system tried to silence her.
Between 2018 and 2023, she was transferred seven times. Each transfer came within weeks of her exposing something.
She never stopped working. She never stopped filing cases. She never stopped showing up.
India has a system where honesty is punished with transfers. Rohini Sindhuri refused to accept that as her final answer.
She is still in service today.
Follow for real stories about people who refused to quit.
Congratulations to all scientists and engineers who have worked for over two decades to achieve this milestone. The fast breeder reactor is critical to securing long-term clean & affordable energy for a surging Bharat. Most important to prioritize safe disposal of waste. Best wishes & blessings. -Sg
"Uncle, please save me." 😥
"Retd. Army man became a monster." 😡
This man tied a baby girl to an iron railing
and beat her MERCILESSLY just because she took a guava from his garden in Una, HP.
I'm speechless about the pain she must have felt. This man must be arrested ASAP.