Jai Dayal

[Lalit Kumar Modi @LalitKModi]

Performance sure has a role to play in @IPL my good friend @hvgoenka . Yes that determines your price. It has its ups and downs. But this case of @RishabhPant17 is not so simple - ITS about
1. Peace of mind. Rishabh wanted that as would any other player globally - more than anything. It’s not always about MONEY.
2. Right Environment. A player to perform needs to be always in A RIGHT ENVIRONMENT. YOU CANNOT expect him to PERFORM - if the management is TOXIC. In this case Rishabh I am sure as HE IS A WORLD CLASS PLAYER- given the right ENVIRONMENT- he will most likely out perform everyone’s expectations. His value in the BIGGEST AUCTION POST 2027 season could fetch him his right price. His endorsement value will likely increase too.

Lastly he has been welcomed with OPEN ARMS by my nephew @ParthJindal11 @DelhiCapitals Team - knowing that he is still a valuable player in his own right. He has a tremendous fan base. And best of all he will be far far away from the @LucknowIPL management and PR MACHINE- that saw him slammed from every side. I wish him all the success. I saw that CHRIS GAYLE - who did not perform in 2010 season - given the opportunity when all teams did not pick him in the 2011 auction - to HAVE A COMEBACK - that allowed him to write his own destiny. Mark my words. I know how THIS WORKS - 🙏🏽🙌🏾

[Virat Kohli @imVkohli]

From an opponent to a friend over the years. It’s been a pleasure watching you bat and compete against you over so many years but more than that I value our friendship and shared perspectives on the game and beyond. I continue to cherish every time we speak or meet. Wishing you nothing but the best always brother. You’ve done your bit, you deserve to enjoy all of it now and put your feet up. Well done mate, life’s only just begun. ❤️ #KaneWilliamson

[Sportskeeda @Sportskeeda]

Shreyas Iyer + Captaincy = Pure gold! ❤️✨

No matter the team, he delivers! 👌

#IPL2026 #PBKS #ShreyasIyer #Sportskeeda

[Civixplorer @Civixplorer]

🛬 Busiest Airports in the World (total passengers in 2025):

1. 🇺🇸 Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson: 106.3 M
2. 🇦🇪 Dubai: 95.2 M
3. 🇯🇵 Tokyo Haneda: 91.4 M
4. 🇺🇸 Dallas/Fort Worth: 85.6 M
5. 🇨🇳 Shanghai Pudong: 84.9 M
6. 🇬🇧 London Heathrow: 84.4 M
7. 🇹🇷 Istanbul: 84.4 M
8. 🇨🇳 Guangzhou Baiyun: 83.5 M
9. 🇺🇸 Denver: 82.4 M
10. 🇺🇸 Chicago O'Hare: 80.0 M
11. 🇮🇳 New Delhi Indira Gandhi: 78.0 M
12. 🇰🇷 Seoul Incheon: 74.0 M
13. 🇺🇸 Los Angeles: 73.7 M
14. 🇫🇷 Paris Charles de Gaulle: 72.0 M
15. 🇨🇳 Beijing Capital: 70.7 M
16. 🇸🇬 Singapore Changi: 69.9 M
17. 🇳🇱 Amsterdam Airport Schiphol: 68.8 M
18. 🇪🇸 Madrid-Barajas: 68.1 M
19. 🇨🇳 Shenzhen Bao'an: 66.4 M
20. 🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur: 63.3 M

🔎 VGraphs via ACI, OAG

[Global Statistics @Globalstats11]

Top 50 Best Cities In The World in 2026

(Factors such as food, nightlife, culture, affordability, happiness, and quality of life were considered)

1. 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Australia
2. 🇨🇳 Shanghai, China
3. 🇬🇧 Edinburgh, United Kingdom
4. 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
5. 🇺🇸 New York, USA
6. 🇿🇦 Cape Town, South Africa
7. 🇲🇽 Mexico City, Mexico
8. 🇹🇭 Bangkok, Thailand
9. 🇰🇷 Seoul, South Korea
10. 🇯🇵 Tokyo, Japan
11. 🇨🇭 Zurich, Switzerland
12. 🇧🇷 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
13. 🇩🇰 Copenhagen, Denmark
14. 🇧🇷 São Paulo, Brazil
15. 🇭🇰 Hong Kong, China
23. 🇸🇬 Singapore, Singapore
25. 🇻🇳 Hanoi, Vietnam
26. 🇬🇧 Bath, United Kingdom
27. 🇪🇸 Bilbao, Spain
28. 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
29. 🇦🇺 Adelaide, Australia
30. 🇨🇳 Beijing, China
31. 🇧🇪 Antwerp, Belgium
32. 🇹🇭 Chiang Mai, Thailand
33. 🇮🇹 Naples, Italy
34. 🇳🇱 Amsterdam, Netherlands
35. 🇨🇴 Medellín, Colombia
36. 🇵🇪 Lima, Peru
37. 🇨🇦 Vancouver, Canada
38. 🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
39. 🇯🇵 Osaka, Japan
40. 🇬🇷 Athens, Greece
48. 🇳🇿 Auckland, New Zealand
50. 🇨🇴 Bogotá, Colombia

According to the Time Out Survey

[Data Of Statistics @DataOfStats]

Best Honeymoon Destinations in Europe (2026)💍

1. 🇮🇹 Amalfi Coast, Italy
2. 🇮🇹 Florence, Italy
3. 🇬🇷 Santorini, Greece
4. 🇮🇹 Tuscany, Italy
5. 🇮🇹 Capri, Italy
6. 🇮🇹 Lake Como, Italy
7. 🇮🇹 Cinque Terre, Italy
8. 🇫🇷 Paris, France
9. 🇬🇷 Mykonos, Greece
10. 🇵🇹 Madeira, Portugal
11. 🇮🇹 Rome, Italy
12. 🇮🇹 Venice, Italy
13. 🇨🇾 Cyprus
14. 🇵🇹 Porto, Portugal
15. 🇬🇷 Corfu, Greece
16. 🇵🇹 Azores, Portugal
17. 🇪🇸 Seville, Spain
18. 🇬🇷 Crete, Greece
19. 🇨🇿 Prague, Czechia
20. 🇲🇹 Malta
21. 🇮🇹 Puglia, Italy
22. 🇫🇷 St. Tropez, France
23. 🇪🇸 Canary Islands, Spain
24. 🇪🇸 Mallorca, Spain
25. 🇨🇭 Lucerne, Switzerland
26. 🇭🇷 Dubrovnik, Croatia

📊 Source: U.S. News & World Report.

[Global Statistics @Globalstats11]

50 Most Beautiful Islands In The World 🏝️

1. 🇵🇫 Bora Bora, French Polynesia
2. 🇬🇷 Santorini, Greece
3. 🇮🇩 Bali, Indonesia
4. 🇮🇸 Iceland, Iceland
5. 🇸🇨 Seychelles, Seychelles
6. 🇵🇭 Palawan, Philippines
7. 🇲🇻 Maldives, Maldives
8. 🇳🇴 Lofoten Islands, Norway
9. 🇹🇭 Koh Phi Phi, Thailand
10. 🇪🇨 Galápagos Islands, Ecuador
11. 🇺🇸 Kauai, United States
12. 🇮🇹 Capri, Italy
13. 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka
14. 🇱🇨 St. Lucia, Saint Lucia
15. 🇨🇰 Aitutaki, Cook Islands
16. 🇪🇸 Mallorca, Spain
17. 🇦🇺 Whitsunday Islands, Australia
18. 🇺🇸 Kodiak Island, United States
19. 🇦🇬 Antigua, Antigua And Barbuda
20. 🇹🇿 Zanzibar, Tanzania
21. 🇭🇷 Hvar, Croatia
22. 🇰🇷 Jeju Island, South Korea
23. 🇾🇪 Socotra, Yemen
24. 🇵🇹 Azores, Portugal
25. 🇲🇾 Perhentian Islands, Malaysia
26. 🇲🇺 Mauritius, Mauritius
27. 🇨🇺 Cuba, Cuba
28. 🇨🇱 Easter Island, Chile
29. 🇩🇰 Faroe Islands, Denmark
30. 🇯🇵 Yakushima, Japan
31. 🇵🇦 San Blas Islands, Panama
32. 🇫🇷 Corsica, France
33. 🇫🇯 Yasawa Islands, Fiji
34. 🇺🇸 Maui, United States
35. 🇯🇲 Jamaica, Jamaica
36. 🇨🇦 Haida Gwaii, Canada
37. 🇮🇩 Raja Ampat Islands, Indonesia
38. 🇳🇱 Curaçao, Netherlands
39. 🇵🇹 Madeira, Portugal
40. 🇺🇸 Key West, United States
41. 🇹🇭 Koh Tao, Thailand
42. 🇧🇧 Barbados, Barbados
43. 🇬🇷 Zakynthos, Greece
44. 🇲🇽 Cozumel, Mexico
45. 🇮🇹 Sicily, Italy
46. 🇧🇷 Fernando De Noronha, Brazil
47. 🇦🇺 Tasmania, Australia
48. 🇺🇸 Mount Desert Island, United States
49. 🇲🇹 Gozo, Malta
50. 🇵🇫 Moorea, French Polynesia

According to Touropia

[Global Statistics @Globalstats11]

50 Most Visited Cities In The World in 2025

1. 🇹🇭 Bangkok, Thailand - 30.3 Million
2. 🇭🇰 Hong Kong, China - 23.2 Million
3. 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom - 22.7 Million
4. 🇲🇴 Macau, China - 20.4 Million
5. 🇹🇷 Istanbul, Turkey - 19.7 Million
6. 🇦🇪 Dubai, UAE - 19.5 Million
7. 🇸🇦 Mecca, Saudi Arabia - 18.7 Million
8. 🇹🇷 Antalya, Turkey - 18.6 Million
9. 🇫🇷 Paris, France - 18.3 Million
10. 🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - 17.3 Million
11. 🇺🇸 New York City, USA - 15.5 Million
12. 🇨🇳 Shenzhen, China - 14.9 Million
13. 🇹🇭 Phuket, Thailand - 14.6 Million
14. 🇸🇬 Singapore, Singapore - 14.5 Million
15. 🇯🇵 Tokyo, Japan - 14.1 Million
16. 🇮🇹 Rome, Italy - 12.8 Million
17. 🇰🇷 Seoul, South Korea - 12.2 Million
18. 🇨🇳 Guangzhou, China - 12.1 Million
19. 🇨🇿 Prague, Czech Republic - 10.4 Million
20. 🇹🇼 Taipei, Taiwan - 10.1 Million
21. 🇹🇭 Pattaya, Thailand - 9.9 Million
22. 🇸🇦 Medina, Saudi Arabia - 9.8 Million
23. 🇳🇱 Amsterdam, Netherlands - 9.5 Million
24. 🇪🇸 Barcelona, Spain - 9.3 Million
25. 🇮🇹 Milan, Italy - 9.1 Million
26. 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany - 9.0 Million
27. 🇦🇹 Vienna, Austria - 8.9 Million
28. 🇪🇸 Madrid, Spain - 8.8 Million
29. 🇨🇳 Shanghai, China - 8.6 Million
30. 🇮🇳 Delhi, India - 8.5 Million
31. 🇮🇳 Mumbai, India - 8.2 Million
32. 🇪🇬 Cairo, Egypt - 8.1 Million
33. 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia - 8.0 Million
34. 🇮🇩 Bali, Indonesia - 7.9 Million
35. 🇯🇵 Osaka, Japan - 7.7 Million
36. 🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam - 7.5 Million
37. 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, USA - 7.4 Million
38. 🇺🇸 Miami, USA - 7.2 Million
39. 🇲🇽 Mexico City, Mexico - 7.1 Million
40. 🇵🇹 Lisbon, Portugal - 7.0 Million
41. 🇮🇹 Venice, Italy - 6.8 Million
42. 🇬🇷 Athens, Greece - 6.7 Million
43. 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland - 6.6 Million
44. 🇮🇹 Florence, Italy - 6.4 Million
45. 🇨🇦 Toronto, Canada - 6.2 Million
46. 🇿🇦 Johannesburg, South Africa - 5.9 Million
47. 🇲🇦 Marrakech, Morocco - 5.8 Million
48. 🇭🇺 Budapest, Hungary - 5.7 Million
49. 🇦🇺 Sydney, Australia - 5.6 Million
50. 🇩🇪 Munich, Germany - 5.4 Million

📌 By International Arrivals

Source: Euromonitor International

[Sameer Allana @HitmanCricket]

Hate him as much as you want, he only has love to offer. MS Dhoni is not only a great cricketer but also a great human being.
https://t.co/FQbRQZtVWR

[Rohan💫 @rohann__45]

Vikrant Gupta: Does it ever hurt you when you hear your father’s interviews?

Yuvraj Singh: Yes and I have told my dad that’s not right and I would like to apologise to Kapil Dev and MS Dhoni.

How can someone hate Yuvi paa?

Yes, his father talks out of line sometimes… but Yuvi paa is a gem of a person.❤️

[Debasis Sen @debasissen]

#OnthisDay: What a night it was at the Wankhede stadium on April 02, 2011 as MS Dhoni led Indian team lifted the ICC Men's ODI World Cup. The following day, the Indian cricket team, led by @msdhoni , met then-President Pratibha Patil at Raj Bhavan in Mumbai. Fortunate to cover the entire campaign (covered each match of the Indian team from Dhaka to Mumbai) including the month-long camp in Bengaluru. It was during the camp got a pic clicked with Mahi bhai. A memory of a lifteime.
#OnThisDay
#TeamIndia
#msdhoni
#sachintendulkar
#memories
#memoriesforlife

[Vikrant Gupta @vikrantgupta73]

15 years to the Day!
April 2, 2011
And 15 World Champions from India 🇮🇳

[Shah @Shahhoon1]

Yuvraj Singh podcast has to be the most controversial by any cricketer he seems even more blunt than his father Yograj Singh

[Hindustan Times @htTweets]

#Crickit | Mohammed Shami seems to have made his peace with the fact that he may have played his last match for India. The backbone of India’s bowling for 12 years, Shami became India’s go-to man during the Virat Kohli-Ravi Shastri era, starring in three ODI World Cups and emerging as India’s leading wicket-taker in the 2023 edition at home.

Shami last played in the final of the 2025 Champions Trophy, which India won after beating New Zealand; however, since then, despite attaining full fitness, the pacer has struggled to return to the Indian team.

Even today, Shami still can’t wrap his head around what more he needs to do to make a comeback. He was first sidelined from T20Is, then ODIs, and now in Tests. Despite picking up 67 wickets in the 2025-26 Indian domestic season, Shami is deemed ineligible by the BCCI chairman of selectors, Ajit Agarkar. After Shami was dropped from India’s T20I set-up after the 2022 T20 World Cup in Australia, he won the Purple Cap a few months later. Still, he was never considered again.

#MohammedShami #IPL #LSG #LSGvsDC

Know more 🔗 https://t.co/mEVfM7DyZy

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I am the SVP of Workforce Planning at Oracle.

I scheduled the email for 6 AM.

Because at 6 AM, people are alone.

They haven't carpooled yet.

They haven't had the conversation in the elevator where someone says "did you get it too" and suddenly forty of them are in a conference room asking questions we'd prefer not to answer.

At 6 AM, a person reads an email alone at their kitchen table. That's organizational design.

We eliminated approximately 18% of the global workforce.

I've been asked to stop giving the range. The board prefers "approximately." Approximately doesn't require counting, and counting requires acknowledging these were individual people.

System access was revoked within minutes. An employee who can still log in feels like an employee. A former employee refreshes their personal email and waits for the severance PDF.

We modeled the timeline. The window between reading the email and attempting to badge into the building is approximately twelve minutes. We revoked access at minute four.

Oracle posted a 95% jump in net income last quarter. We made a $124 billion bet on AI infrastructure, and the fastest source of cash flow is the people who built the products we're now replacing with the infrastructure we went into debt to build.

The workers funded their own obsolescence.

Stock rose 4% on the announcement. The market looked at 30,000 salaries converting into debt service and called it a buy signal.

The people who made the bet will be paid regardless of how it turns out. The people who got the 6 AM email will not.

I scheduled the next one for 6 AM too.

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

JUST IN: At 6am on March 31, Oracle sent identical emails from “Oracle Leadership” to between 20,000 and 30,000 employees. System access was revoked before most of them finished reading. Eighteen percent of the global workforce eliminated in a single morning. TD Cowen estimates $8 to $10 billion in annual cash-flow savings from the cuts. The same morning, Jamie Dimon went on Fox and Friends and said America must “clean up the straits.” He did not mention that the straits are the reason Oracle needs the cash.

Oracle’s five-year credit default swap spread closed at 198 basis points on March 31. An all-time record that exceeds Oracle’s peak during the 2008 global financial crisis. The company that survived the collapse of Lehman Brothers is now registering more credit stress from building AI data centres than it did from the implosion of the banking system. The market is pricing Oracle as a company whose bet is larger than the system’s ability to absorb the risk.

The bet is $124.7 billion in total debt, up from $89 billion a year ago. Fifty billion in capital expenditure this year, directed at AI data centres for the $300 billion OpenAI Stargate partnership requiring 4.5 gigawatts of power and over two million NVIDIA GPUs. And negative free cash flow of $24.7 billion trailing twelve months, meaning Oracle spends $25 billion more than it earns while firing the people who generate the earnings.

Here is the connection that makes this an Iran war story and not just a corporate restructuring. Every one of those NVIDIA GPUs is manufactured by TSMC using extreme ultraviolet lithography cooled by helium from Qatar’s Ras Laffan, which Iranian missiles struck on March 18. The data centres those GPUs power consume electricity generated by natural gas priced at $107 Brent, driven to that level by the Hormuz closure the war created. Oracle is borrowing $124 billion to build infrastructure whose two critical inputs, chips and power, are both priced by the war. The layoffs are not about efficiency. They are about converting human salaries into cash to service debt on machines whose operating costs are rising with every day the strait stays closed.

Oracle’s bondholders have filed a class action lawsuit alleging the company concealed $18 billion in additional borrowing when it issued notes in September 2025 for the Stargate deal. Moody’s rates Oracle Baa2 with a negative outlook. S&P rates it BBB negative. Both are one notch above the threshold where downgrades cascade, borrowing costs spike, and the $553 billion backlog that justifies the entire bet becomes harder to finance.

The backlog is real. $553 billion in remaining performance obligations, up 325 percent year over year, anchored by OpenAI and US defence contracts including an $88 million Air Force Cloud One task order. But backlog is not cash. Cash is what Oracle needs today to service debt priced by a credit market that just recorded the widest spread since the company was founded.

Oracle fired 20,000 people on the same morning the CEO of the world’s largest bank said the strait must be cleaned up. The strait funds the oil that powers the data centres that required the debt that necessitated the layoffs. Follow the chain far enough and every severance email traces back to a chokepoint 39 kilometres wide.

The AI revolution is being financed by the war it cannot afford.

https://t.co/dAOBBMsgDS

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Your alarm goes off at 6 AM. There's an email from "Oracle Leadership." You've never gotten a message from that sender before. It says your job is gone, today is your last day, and severance details will arrive by DocuSign. By the time you finish reading, your company laptop is already locked.

This happened to up to 30,000 Oracle employees this morning. Oracle reported $17.2 billion in revenue last quarter, its best in 15 years. And it still fired nearly 1 in 5 of its people. The stock went up 6% today.

Oracle owes over $108 billion. The company signed a $156 billion deal to build AI data centers over five years, mostly for OpenAI (the company behind ChatGPT). That requires buying roughly 3 million specialized computer chips. Two years ago, Oracle spent $6.9 billion a year on this kind of construction. This year it's $50 billion.

The 30,000 people who got that email are funding the gap. Investment bank TD Cowen estimates the layoffs will free up $8 to $10 billion in cash flow, money going straight into chips and construction. Oracle filed a $2.1 billion restructuring plan with regulators in March, and nearly $1 billion had already been spent before the emails went out.

Lenders are getting nervous. The cost to insure Oracle's debt against default has spiked to levels last seen during the 2009 financial crisis. Barclays downgraded Oracle's debt in November, warning the company is one step from "junk" status, the point where lenders consider you a serious default risk. Some banks have stopped lending to Oracle for these projects altogether.

The gamble gets worse. CNBC reported on March 9 that OpenAI, Oracle's biggest customer for all of this, is already looking at newer, faster chips from Nvidia. Oracle ordered the current generation and spent billions building out a massive Texas facility. OpenAI may not fully expand into it. The chips improve faster than the buildings go up.

Larry Ellison, Oracle's founder, owns 41% of the company. In September 2025, Oracle's stock hit $346, and Ellison briefly became the richest person alive at $393 billion. Today, the stock sits around $146. His fortune has dropped to roughly $201 billion in six months.

Oracle is spending borrowed money to build data centers that could be outdated before they're finished, for a customer already shopping for newer equipment. 30,000 people woke up to a 6 AM email because that's what it costs to fund a $156 billion bet when your lenders are running out of patience.

[Mufaddal Vohra @mufaddal_vohra]

The elegance and wrist game of Virat Kohli. �

[Johns. @CricCrazyJohns]

VIRAT KOHLI IN THE LAST 33 INNINGS IN IPL:

100(63), 101*(61), 21(20), 77(49), 83*(59), 22(16), 113*(72), 3(9), 42(20), 18(7), 51(43), 70*(44), 42(27), 92(47), 27(13), 47(29), 33(24), 59*(36), 31(30), 7(6), 67(42), 22(14), 62*(45), 1(3), 73*(54), 70(42), 51(47), 62(33), 43(25), 54(30), 12(12), 43(35) & 69*(38)

[Aditya Saha @Adityakrsaha]

Kohli played a T20 game after 3rd June 2025, and scored 69*(38) in a run-chase @ 182 Strike Rate with 5 fours and 5 sixes. Now let that thought sink in.