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[Saran Shanmugam @saranstm]

There is a new trend among Indians and Indian Americans in US. They have started to buy 100, 200 acres of lands, mostly farm lands in Belize. My friend (Indian American) informed me that his couple of friends bought lands and wanted him to buy too. A 200 acre land costs around 150,000 to 200,00 USD, (about 1.47 crores to 1.94 crores INR roughly)

[Griffin @6ESinger157593]

In 2006, an Air India captain earned about ₹5 lakh per month. At the exchange rate of roughly ₹45 per USD, that was approximately $11,100 per month.

In 2026, the salary is around ₹6.5 lakh per month. At today’s exchange rate of about ₹96.8 per USD, that is approximately $6,700 per month.

So although the salary increased by about 30% in rupee terms over 20 years, the dollar value of the salary actually fell by roughly 40% because of rupee depreciation.

At the same time, Air India’s revenue grew massively.

In 2006, Air India’s annual revenue was roughly ₹8,000 crore, or about $1.8 billion.

By 2025–26, Air India Group revenue is around ₹78,000 crore, which is about $8.5 billion.

So over the same period:

Air India revenue increased roughly 10× in INR terms and nearly 5× in USD terms.
Captain salary increased only modestly in INR terms and declined substantially in USD terms.

In short, the airline became much larger globally, while pilot compensation lost significant international purchasing power.

[OneTen Mafia @__Mafia110__]

Rudyard Kipling was born and raised in india.
He's indian.

[Netflix @netflix]

DHURANDHAR THE REVENGE (Raw & Undekha) is coming to Netflix in the US tomorrow.

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

As per media reports, industrialist Sunjay Kapoor died of cardiac failure after accidentally swallowing a bee while playing polo.

It sounds bizarre, but it's not impossible. This can happen either due to a severe, life-threatening reaction called anaphylaxis leading to cardiac failure, or due to a bee sting in the throat causing swelling, airway obstruction, hypoxia, and subsequent cardiac failure. Other possible mechanisms include Kounis syndrome (allergic reaction causing coronary spasm) and exaggerated vagal response.

Bottom line: If you ever accidentally swallow a bee, rush to the emergency room for monitoring. In most cases, you'll be fine, but for that once-in-a-blue-moon scenario, it's better to be safe than sorry.

[Ege @egeberkina]

Recently these super realistic live TV broadcast shots have been going viral everywhere

Tried making one myself using GPT Image 2 + Kling 3.0

Prompt: A screenshot from a live Wimbledon TV broadcast during a packed Centre Court match. The camera cuts to the audience, an unbelievably attractive woman in her 20s with long black hair, flawless skin, elegant makeup, and a luxurious aura, seated in the VIP section wearing a sophisticated cream-white low-cut summer outfit with subtle jewelry. She smiles naturally while reacting to the match, unaware she's on camera. Wealthy spectators and champagne glasses around her, old-money tennis atmosphere, shallow depth of field. Full live tennis broadcast overlay: scoreboard, network watermark, broadcast graphics, 16:9 aspect ratio. The image looks exactly like a real TV screenshot, telephoto broadcast lens, realistic live color grading, slight compression artifacts, interlacing grain, subtle motion blur, imperfect live-camera framing.

[Shiv Aroor @ShivAroor]

Is there anything Pakistan has ever done in its history that isn’t devious, underhanded & doesn’t involve double-dealing?

@CBSNews reports Pakistan quietly allowed Iran to park military aircraft on its soil while ‘mediating’ peace with Washington. https://t.co/iqqlO8AmUA

[Yashwant Deshmukh 🇮🇳 @YRDeshmukh]

What TN has shown today, rest of India has been doing for decades. Hindu majority states of Rajasthan, Bihar, Assam, Maharashtra and even Manipur have had Muslim Chief Ministers. Hindu majority Andhra Pradesh, Goa and Kerala have given many Christian Chief ministers. TN is just a new entry to that old club.

But the real question worth probing is: how many Muslim majority or Christian majority states have given any Hindu Chief Minister? Zero.

Forget Chief Minister, how many Hindu MPs or MLAs have ever been elected from a Muslim majority or Christian majority lok sabha or vidhan sabha seats?? Next to Zero.

[David Keyes @DavidMKeyes]

I'm writing a romantic comedy about Field Marshal Asim Munir. Which actor should I get to play him?

[Shikhar Sagar @crazy__shikhu]

Hijacked a plane and killed her in cold blood

[Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid]

Today my son told me he doesn't want to go to school, at the request of Pakistan.

[Pubity @pubity]

A man in India walked himself to the E.R. with a machete lodged in his skull after being attacked by 3 teenagers.

He calmly waited for help from doctors while scrolling on his phone in the waiting room, and he's expected to make a full recovery.

[David Keyes @DavidMKeyes]

The request of Pakistan

[David Keyes @DavidMKeyes]

At the request of Pakistan

[Abdulla Shahid @abdulla_shahid]

On this day last year, Indian armed forces executed #OperationSindoor in response to terrorist attacks against innocent civilians.

We thank India for its continued leadership and actions in addressing cross-border terrorism, and its commitment to regional security.

[John Spencer @SpencerGuard]

"‘In 72 hours, India had air superiority, Pakistan was unable to operate’: US military expert on Op Sindoor," @firstpost https://t.co/XbN54nXqcV

[Gabbar @GabbbarSingh]

This Durga Puja in Kolkata. Let’s go :)

[Gabbar @GabbbarSingh]

For every seat BJP has won, they should feature one BJP worker who was killed/molested/maimed in the 2021 post poll violence. Do a full page story. 206 stories of atrocities. Please document this. Let people not forget.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Carvana made about $6,800 in profit on every car they sold last quarter. The typical used car dealer makes around $1,500. Carvana makes four times as much because the car is just the start of what they sell you.

About 85 out of every 100 Carvana buyers finance the car through Carvana. At CarMax, their biggest competitor, the same number is closer to 40. When you click "finance" on Carvana's website, they write the loan at one interest rate, then sell that loan to a bank or pension fund within days. They keep the gap between what you pay and what the bank pays them. That gap, multiplied across hundreds of thousands of buyers, is how they print money.

Then come the add-ons. An extended warranty. Coverage that pays off your loan if the car gets totaled. An insurance referral to Root, a digital car insurance company Carvana owns a piece of. Each one stacks on top of the same checkout. The car is the bait. The loan is the meal. Everything else is dessert.

This is why selling them your car at a price that felt too generous still works for them. The money they make on that trade-in shows up later, after the next buyer signs. They clean it up, sell it to someone else, and that someone else signs another Carvana loan.

This is also why they aren't going anywhere. In May 2022 they bought ADESA, a used car auction company, for $2.2 billion. ADESA came with 56 auction yards across the US. Now Carvana owns the auction yard, the body shop that fixes the car up, the trucks that deliver it, and the lender that funds the next buyer. Every step of that car's journey happens inside something Carvana owns.

Three years ago none of this looked like it would survive. Carvana's stock hit $3.55 in December 2022. They had over $5.7 billion in debt. The market thought they were going bankrupt. Then Apollo, a giant private equity firm, led a deal with their lenders that cut $1.2 billion of debt and pushed the deadlines out to 2028.

Last quarter they sold 187,000 cars and made $405 million in profit in 90 days. They joined the S&P 500 in December. Their market cap sits near $84 billion. Bigger than Ford.

The whole business looks confusing if you think of Carvana as a car company. The math gets simple once you see them as a lender that happens to deliver cars.

[Erika @emesola]

We sold our 1 year old Bronco to them for $2000 more than what we bought it for and they didn’t even inspect it.