Receiving the #PadmaShri at the Rashtrapati Bhavan from the hands of President Smt Draupadi Murmu.
A very special moment, gratitude to our Gurus, families, Rasikas and Divine grace that led us up to this moment🙏🏼
His name is B Abdul Nasar.
He grew up in Thalassery, in Kerala’s Kannur district.
His father died when he was five years old. His mother was left to raise six children on what she earned as a domestic worker.
There was not enough money to feed everyone.
On the advice of relatives, she sent her youngest son, Abdul, to a local orphanage.
He would spend about thirteen years growing up in orphanages.
From the age of ten, he was already working.
He cleaned tables and supplied goods at hotels. He delivered newspapers. He worked at telephone booths. He took tuition classes.
Anything that brought in a little money.
Sometimes he ran away from the orphanage to find work in Kannur. Then he would return because his family wanted him to finish his education.
By his own account, he was an average student.
He completed school, graduated from the Government College in Thalassery, and went on to earn a postgraduate degree.
In 1994, he joined the Kerala Health Department as a junior government employee.
For many people, that would have been enough.
For Abdul Nasar, it was only the beginning.
He continued studying and cleared the state civil service examination.
In 2006, he became a Deputy Collector.
In 2015, he was named the best Deputy Collector in all of Kerala.
Two years later, in 2017, he was promoted to the Indian Administrative Service.
He never sat the UPSC Civil Services Examination that lakhs of aspirants spend years preparing for.
Instead, he climbed every rung of the ladder himself, rising from a junior government post to the IAS through promotion.
Then, in 2019, the boy who had grown up in an orphanage became the District Collector of Kollam.
A child sent away because his mother could not afford to feed six children grew up to administer an entire district of India.
Follow for stories India deserves to remember.
🚨New Head Coach of RCB🚨
- Virat Kohli wants RCB to bring Ravi Shastri as the head coach for the team.
- As per reports, the RCB management head has agreed for this proposal after a meeting with top stakeholders.
- Ravi Shastri is all set to become the next head coach of the Royal Challenger Bengaluru franchise.
- He will replace Andy Flower as RCB's head coach.
Comment “CLAUDE100” to get access to 100 powerful Claude prompts curated for Chartered Accountants and Finance Professionals.
✅ Taxation & GST
✅ Audit & Compliance
✅ Advisory & Reporting
✅ Client Communication
✅ Productivity with AI
Helping professionals save time and deliver better results with AI.
📩 Comment CLAUDE100 below.
This is truly historic. Under the governor ship of @rajendraarlekar ji, for the first time, the National Anthem has been played in the Tamil Nadu Assembly in almost thirty years during the Governor’s address. At least that is one welcome change under @TVKVijayHQ
HUGE 🚨 French President Macron surprises entire world by speaking Hindi.
"Priy mitra Narendra, mujhe bahut khushi hai, daure ke liye swagat karte, France Bharat ki dosti amar rahe" 💙🔥
Most Indians believe that the person they name as nominee on their bank account will get that money when they die. That belief is wrong, and it has torn families apart.
Here is what the law actually says.
Under Indian law, a nominee is not the owner of your money. A nominee is only a trustee. That means the bank will hand the balance to the nominee after your death, but the nominee is legally required to pass it on to your legal heirs, the people entitled to inherit under succession law. Receiving the money and owning the money are two different things.
This is not a small technical point. It is settled law. The Supreme Court laid it down decades ago and reaffirmed it firmly in a judgment in 2023.
A nomination, the court said, is simply a convenience. It gives the bank a single safe person to release the funds to, so the bank is not caught between fighting relatives. It was never meant to decide who finally owns the money.
The same rule applies almost everywhere. Bank accounts, fixed deposits, shares, mutual funds and provident fund. In all of them, the nominee holds the money in trust for the legal heirs.
There is one real exception. In life insurance, the law allows certain close family nominees, a spouse, parents or children, to keep the proceeds, though even here the High Courts have not fully agreed.
There is one more thing you must know because false claims about it are spreading online. In November 2025, the rules changed to let you name up to four nominees on a bank account instead of one.
Many social media posts claimed this finally lets you pass your money directly to whoever you choose. That is not true. You can now name four nominees instead of one, but all of them still receive the money as trustees for your legal heirs. The doctrine did not change. Only the number did.
So what actually protects your family? One thing above all, a valid Will. A Will overrides a nomination. If you want a specific person to truly own what you leave behind, name them in a properly made Will, not just on a nomination form.
Nomination decides who collects your money. A Will decides who keeps it. Most families learn the difference at the worst possible time.
Follow for verified stories every Indian deserves to know.
He is one of the richest people in India — Anand Deshpande. He recently entered the list of billionaires with billion-dollar wealth. He is the founder of Persistent, a multinational software company. The company, which has 53 offices across 18 countries, recently did a ‘Griha Pravesh’ / housewarming at yet another new location.
When you hear “software company”, what comes to mind is usually ‘Western culture’. But Persistent is an exception. See this photo. They entered the new place by performing a Satyanarayan Puja in the traditional Indian/Hindu way. In this company, holidays are given only for Indian festivals — meaning Hindu festivals, and specifically Marathi ones. So the New Year holiday isn’t on 1st January, but definitely on ‘Gudi Padwa’. No holiday for Christmas, but there _is_ a holiday on both days of Ganesh Murti Sthapana and Visarjan.
In Hinjewadi, Pune, the office has 4 towers named after Rigveda, Samaveda, Yajurveda, and Atharvaveda. The 2 towers of the office near Nal Stop are named after ancient Indian scientists Pingala and Aryabhata. The office building on Senapati Bapat Road is named Bhagirath. And inside the buildings, references from the Vedas are displayed on the walls at various places.
Just saying “Hindu culture is great” doesn’t achieve anything. To uphold its greatness, you have to send that message through action — and this company has done that, time and again. I’ve experienced the work culture here closely (I worked there for 2.5 years). Let me tell you a small thing: even though it’s an IT company, the women members here celebrate traditional customs like ‘Haldi-Kumkum’ with great joy. Even Satyanarayan Puja is performed properly. And despite all this, Persistent stands at a completely different peak in the IT sector. Last quarter, revenue was a whopping ₹1,491 crore.
The people working here aren’t called ‘employees’ but ‘members’ of the Persistent family. With over 15,000 members worldwide, this company’s turnover runs into hundreds of crores. We know Ratan Tata for “simple living, high thinking” — but Marathi Anand Deshpande Sir is an equally inspiring personality. (By Deviprasad, an ex- employee of Persistent)
His name is Rana Kapoor.
He built one of the most admired private banks in India.
In 2003, he co-founded Yes Bank. Over the next sixteen years, he grew it into one of the largest private lenders in the country.
He was celebrated as one of the great bankers of his generation, a man who seemed to embody the rise of new and ambitious Indian finance.
Underneath the success, investigators say, something else was happening.
According to the Enforcement Directorate, Rana Kapoor used his bank as a private machine.
The agency alleges that he approved enormous loans to struggling companies that other banks would not touch, and that in return he received kickbacks routed through a web of companies controlled by members of his own family.
Investigators have said he sanctioned tens of thousands of crores in questionable loans.
The case that brought him down centres on a housing finance company called DHFL.
The agencies allege that Yes Bank invested around three thousand seven hundred crore rupees in DHFL.
Soon after, according to investigators, DHFL extended a loan of around six hundred crore rupees to a company controlled by Kapoor’s daughters.
The agencies describe it not as lending, but as a disguised bribe.
When the bad loans finally caught up with Yes Bank, the damage was so severe that the Reserve Bank of India had to step in.
The bank was temporarily frozen and later restructured to protect ordinary depositors whose money was at risk.
The Supreme Court later described it as a case that rocked the entire banking system.
Kapoor was arrested in 2020 and spent around four years in jail before being granted bail.
Among the assets seized by investigators were dozens of expensive paintings acquired during his years at the top.
The cases against him continue.
He denies wrongdoing.
The man who built a bank on the promise of trust is accused of quietly turning that trust into loans for the failing and paintings for himself.
Follow for verified stories every Indian deserves to know.
@DKShivakumar@thekjgeorge ಭಾಗ್ಯಜ್ಯೋತಿ ಯೋಜನೆ ನಿಲ್ಲಿಸಿ, ಎಲ್ಲಾ ಶ್ರೀಮಂತರು ಇದರ ಉಪಯೋಗ ನಾಚಿಯಿಲ್ಲದೇ ಪಡೆಯುತ್ತಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಒಬ್ಬ delivery ಹುಡುಗ average Rs 40000 ದುಡಿಯೋ ಇವತ್ತಿನ ದಿನದಲ್ಲಿ freebee ಯಾಕೆ ಕೊಟ್ಟು tax ಕಟ್ಟೋ ಜನರಿಗೆ ಅನ್ಯಾಯ ಮಾಡುತ್ತಿದ್ದೀರಿ
@DKShivakumar ನಿಮ್ಮಲ್ಲಿ ಒಂದು ನಿವೇದನೆ : ಬಿಟ್ಟಿ ಭಾಗ್ಯಗಳಿಗೆ ಒಂದು ಅಂತ್ಯ ಕೊಡಿ. ಹುಡುಗರಿಗೆ ಗಟ್ಟಿಯಾಗಿರೋ ಹೆಂಗಸರಿಗೆ ದುಡಿಯೋ ಅವಕಾಶ ಮಾಡಿಕೊಡಿ. ವೃದ್ಧರಿಗೆ ಆಶಕ್ತರಿಗೆ ಅದರಲ್ಲೂ ಆರ್ಥಿಕವಾಗಿ ನಿಜವಾಗಿ ಹಿಂದುಳಿದವರಿಗೆ ಆರೋಗ್ಯದ ವಿಮೆ ಕಾರ್ಡ್ ಕೊಡಿ. ಉಚಿತವಾಗಿ ಕೌಶಲ್ಯ ತರಬೇತಿ ಕೊಡಿ. ಜನರಿಗೆ ಬಿಟ್ಟಿ ಹಣ ಕೊಟ್ಟು ಕೊಬ್ಬಿಸಬೇಡಿ
Sundar Pichai’s powerful message to the Stanford Class of 2026 🔥
“You have thousands of moments ahead of you.
The important thing isn’t to get them all right;
it’s to find a way to keep moving forward.”
This 2-minute clip is pure motivation.
Save it.
Watch it when you feel stuck.
What’s your biggest takeaway from this? 👇
Follow @aishivamx for more AI + mindset + productivity insights.
#OTD in 2018: A historic maiden Test for Afghanistan and a heartwarming gesture from #TeamIndia 🤝
🎥 A special throwback to that beautiful post-match moment as we host them yet again! 🇮🇳🇦🇫
#INDvAFG