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[Prashant Bhushan @pbhushan1]

An astounding Badminton tournament between Indian Judges & Lawyers is being sponsored in London today by the Law Ministry! Other sponsors are various corporates. Inaugurated by the CJI & Law Minister!~150 judges & lawyers are participating!
What happened to PM’s call for austerity?
What of the code of conduct for Judges?
What of the Independence of the judiciary?
Abominable!

[Nithin Kamath @Nithin0dha]

In a landmark judgment on May 22, 2026, the Delhi High Court held Google liable for trademark infringement.

The case was between Hindware and Google. The court held that, by allowing competitors of Hindware to purchase the keyword “Hindware” (a trademarked name) through Google Ads, Google enabled trademark infringement. The court said that “Hindware” is not a generic English word but a specific brand trademark. By allowing competitors to place ads on that keyword, Google is enabling competitors to divert traffic that should have legitimately gone to Hindware.

This has been a big challenge for companies, both big and small. Even today, if you search for Zerodha, you will see search results from competitors. This has been happening for well over a decade.

Although it is hard to quantify, we have lost a lot of business to this. Think about what happens. Whenever someone searches for "Zerodha", the traffic should rightfully come to Zerodha. But what often happens is that the first couple of results on Google Search are ads, leading the customer to a competitor's website. In the process, we lose business that should have come to us.

This is made worse by the fact that we do not advertise.

There is also an even more ironic thing here. A lot of brands, just to capture the traffic that should have come to them organically, end up bidding on their own keywords. Think about it. If you own a business and have a trademarked name for your business, you still have to pay Google just to hopefully make your name too expensive for your competition to run ads on it.

But now, thanks to the Delhi High Court judgment, we have the option of taking legal action whenever we come across instances of other companies squatting on our keyword.

The other brilliant part about this judgment is that it levels the playing field. And this matters even more for startups, who are already starved for resources and have the odds stacked against them. The last thing they need is for competitors to bid on their brand keywords and steal their traffic.

This judgment now opens up a route for legal recourse whenever such deceptive practices occur.

While keyword squatting is most visible in Google web results, it is an even bigger problem when it comes to app stores. Whenever someone searches for your brand, the first couple of results, both above and below your app listing, often tend to be those of your competitors. And in the case of app stores, I think the ads are even more problematic. When a user clicks on an app-store ad, they often end up installing an app. That is a much higher-commitment action than clicking on a competitor’s web search result and then just closing the page. Because the user has installed an application, the conversions, at least anecdotally, tend to be much higher.

Again, brands that do not advertise are at the receiving end of this. So I welcome this ruling and hope this changes the unfair norms we've been living by for so long.

[Jayaprakash Narayan @JP_LOKSATTA]

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was an extraordinary leader who unified India and ensured stability and order in the perilous early days of our Independence.
Italy in 1848 had nine states - all white, Catholic Christian, and Italian-speaking with identical culture, history and shared memories. It took 23 years of relentless efforts of Mazzini, the ideologue, Garibaldi, the soldier, Cavour, the statesman and King Emmanuel-2 to unify the country by 1871.
Germany had 39 German-speaking states in 1862, all sharing common language, skin colour, culture, history and religion (Protestant Christian, except Catholic Bavaria). And it took nine years of 'blood and iron' with great loss of life, and the genius of Bismarck and the will of William-1.
Patel unified 550 princely states of extraordinary diversity in caste, region, religion, history and language in under 400 days, with not a bullet fired except in Hyderabad (six lives were lost)! This was an unprecedented feat in human history, and will never be repeated.
Patel's iron will, sagacity and wisdom ensured order and stability in a period of tremendous strife. And yet he found time to amicably divide the assets between the two nations that emerged (it all happened in his office, with Patel trusted as the impartial arbiter whenever officials on both sides quarelled!).
And he was the first to warn the new Republic of the potential dangers posed by China. And his work paved way for the eventual linguistic reorganization of states, and unmatched harmony across peoples who spoke 22 different languages.
His role, along with Dr Ambedkar and Nehru, in shaping our noble Constitution, and building the great institutions that preserved unity, harmony, liberty and peaceful transfer of power despite all the challenges was seminal.
Our great nation and the most unlikely Republic forever owes a great debt of gratitude to Sardar Patel.
On this day marking the 150th Birthday of Sardar Patel, my humble tribute to the great stalwart who shaped our nation. May we be worthy of the dreams, sacrifices and vision of all the great men and women who built our nation.

[We Dravidians @WeDravidians]

"My grandfather had 200 acres of land, granted by the kings solely because of his caste. 🏞️
That land shaped the comfort of my life today.
Your merit isn't just merit — it's mainly built on caste privilege. 🤔✊
#CastePrivilege #SavarnaPrivilege #MeritMyth #AntiCaste #LandAndPrivilege #KnowYourHistory"

[TaxBuddy @TaxBuddy1]

Income-tax allows capital gains exemption on buying a property [Section 54/54F]

But what if you purchase it in your WIFE's name?🤔

Will exemption be allowed?

This matter went to the courts (CIT v. Kamal Wahal). Read here to know🧵👇

[Bala Kiran Kolaganti @balakirank]

@DrSanjay277 Instead she is an example of the rampant corruption in civil services..they also have a backdoor like most govt jobs .. ..father and daughter are equally guilty, both should get exemplary punishment to stop others from following these practices

[Bala Kiran Kolaganti @balakirank]

@satyaagrahindia She is an example of the rampant corruption in civil services..they also have a backdoor like most govt jobs .. ..father and daughter are equally guilty in this offence, both should get exemplary punishment to stop others from following these practices

[Bala Kiran Kolaganti @balakirank]

@talk2anuradha She is an example of the rampant corruption in civil services..they also have a backdoor like most govt jobs .. ..father and daughter are equally guilty in this offence, both should get exemplary punishment to stop others from following these practices

[Bala Kiran Kolaganti @balakirank]

Think about it when you do your next impulse shopping. https://t.co/gtEH94iA2a

[Bala Kiran Kolaganti @balakirank]

Parents asking me to get rid of my college time CD stash 🤗

[Madhu Menon @madmanweb]

If you're trying to lose weight, the most important thing you should do is stop ordering food from outside. As a former chef and restaurant owner, and also someone trying to lose weight, let me tell you why.

A short 🧵

[Pluralsight @pluralsight]

You’ve got big career dreams. We’ve got a big course library we’re unlocking for free for an entire week.

[Bala Kiran Kolaganti @balakirank]

@BahlKanan Following similar approach to what they have done with milk basket. In the beginning it was free. Once they got some of the share of bigbasket customers, they have introduced 150 per month delivery charge.

[Bala Kiran Kolaganti @balakirank]

I lost the dividend as well as the 5% appreciation

[Bala Kiran Kolaganti @balakirank]

For a dividend giving stock and especially PSUs,typically on the ex DIV date the stock price goes down by the dividend amount or more. Based on this, I sold my small position to really check how selling works in ZD. To my surprise the stock rose more than 5% 🙃

[Bala Kiran Kolaganti @balakirank]

Someone said "you will be the same person five years from now except for the people you meet and the books you read".. sounds right to me

[Bala Kiran Kolaganti @balakirank]

Sunder Genomal's brief history of success https://t.co/oVWEPLvVna

[Bala Kiran Kolaganti @balakirank]

@ESPNcricinfo Unfair decision for Kohli

[Bala Kiran Kolaganti @balakirank]

@ESPNcricinfo That's a scary lineup

[Bala Kiran Kolaganti @balakirank]

How Marico fought an aggressive giant https://t.co/aF3Lrv5ew5