Shahid Abdulla

academic, husband, father, insight-hunter

[Shahid Abdulla @TheDailyBunkum]

@gautambhatia88 BBC reported ‘Lady Chief Justice’ Baroness Carr writing in the verdict that “Palestine Action overly promotes unlawful violence that amounts to terrorism… It is not like the Suffragettes”
https://t.co/ZkudhNbYF9

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@vdsatheesan @sanjayuvacha Of these, CR Prasad was claimed by the press (in Jan 2025) to be one of the LDF’s nominees for the Malayalam University VC job - and that Kerala Guv Rajendra Arlekar had offered the LDF a reconciliatory approach through such an appointment. https://t.co/ok0eEsCQ2S

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@sanjayuvacha As regards @sanjg2k1’s claim of current Principal-Secy Arvind Sharma’s (likely) “expectations of a post-retirement plum assignment”: Sharma might already be an employee dependent on frequent contract renewals, as he was over-60 even at the time of appointment as Principal-Secy

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@sanjayuvacha The earlier Principal-Secy of MP Vidhan Sabha got 2 post-retirement extensions enabling him to serve till 62, and was appointed to MP Human Rights commission in 2025 after a 10-year term. https://t.co/DTmpVYAZt0

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@manaman_chhina A shooter was hired to scare the Punjabi singer AP Dhillon (by firing at his empty residence in Canada). This, in turn, was to extort from another person who had appeared in a Dhillon video (bit like the ‘reason’ given for Sidhu Moosewala being bumped off) https://t.co/TjOmhysCyp

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@OrevaZSN It is thought that 40% of the US stockmarket is anyways made of 401(K) funds, i.e. the pension pots of the salaried (presumably "the skilled"). The median figure in a 401K is at $170K, whilst the average exceeds $400K.

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@tikalteacall On one hand, peers in a professional society try and give the best hearing to each others contributions (incl. apprentices) so that the field advances. On the other, a key ballast for the field’s advance is the funding which comes with its own culture that has long-term effects.

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@nooreshtech Saat FIREn

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@Apoorvanand__ Reg. "tasked with the job of ensuring public sanity", the SP is a state police service promotee to IPS rank of 2018, an elevation likely cleared within the 1st few months of Yogi's 1st term as CM.

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@marlene4719 His logic maybe that anyways the C130 is flying, plus in the usual course multiple members of the same family might be separated and placed in different aircraft to avoid the ill-hand of luck (but Hegseth offered the brave alternative to his logisticians).

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@sanjayuvacha The HC might have felt that courts’ reputation needs to be guarded in light of MEA Secy-West Sibi George’s statement in that Norway press conference: “If anyone whose rights are violated, they have the right to go to court” https://t.co/5OwMO1Fuew

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@DrAMSinghvi @sanjayuvacha It’s a bit like Mankading in cricket. The experts are split, but the fanbase is certainly ga-ga over the thin victories it can conjure https://t.co/hX1M6GwKgj

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@wittysiddharth If it is Japanese precision engg we’re (quietly) proud of in our cars, metro trains etc. then the after-work booze party ‘nomikai’ gets _some_ credit. The confidence to signal a stop to the assembly line in Toyota-style ‘total quality management’ might just be nomikai bonding.

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@nkk_123 Wondering if this 90s photograph is of Bengaluru's Kumara Krupa Road, where Rajesh Jewels' 1st store was. Modi also had a famous visit to B'luru in Jan '92, though this photo doesn't suggest winter dressing. Rajesh Jewels was later renamed to Shubh Jewellers and became a chain.

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@kaul_vivek The dismal science is meant to help people cope and live with (allegedly) dismal circumstances.

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@sanjayuvacha plan for "AMOLED display plant has, however, come under scrutiny. 'The key question is the technology is held by a few players — Samsung, apart from LG, .... All of them have spent billions of dollars and are unlikely to licence production to third-party'" https://t.co/mVpjICEPSg

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@sanjayuvacha This is from Govt's 2022 Rs 18K Cr Production-Linked Incentive scheme. Rajesh Exports figures at the top (with even Reliance's New Energy arm being wait-listed). Within weeks, the 'Hyundai' in this list was discovered to be a fake.

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@Moneylifers @suchetadalal @BalakrishnanR Rajesh Exports' $400M acquisition in Switzerland, the gold refiner Valcambi, kept purchasing gold via Dubai right through its takeover in 2014. Valcambi even left the Swiss Gold association recently over claims it processed Dubai-origin 'dirty gold'
https://t.co/8sgNTmLMt0

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@YourAnonNews Could it be that the dystopia-wanted-badly is robo soccer ? https://t.co/cLdcZz78DC

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@ArvindKejriwal Just like CEC Gyanesh Kumar came from the Amit Shah -run Home Ministry's Post-A370 Kashmir cell, new CBSE Chairman Prashant Lokhande was till recently the MHA pointsman for the under-wraps draft agreement with Ladakh agitators
https://t.co/wN9FioOsdp