Paying ₹3,600 a year just to receive a bank OTP, is this really a Mobile Service or an "OTP Tax"?
Today, a Mobile Number is required for almost everything important
Banking
UPI
KYC
Credit Cards
Insurance
Government Services
2FA / OTPs
If your SIM becomes inactive,
access to several essential financial and digital services can become difficult.
But if someone does not need Mobile Data, already has Wi Fi at home,
and uses the SIM only for OTPs, SMS and incoming calls,
why should they still have to pay for expensive bundled recharge plans ?
Imagine a family of 6
₹3,600 × 6 = ₹21,600 per year.
Just to keep their mobile numbers active.
If people already have Wi Fi at home,
why should not there be a ₹500/year basic plan that provides only essential services like incoming calls and OTP or SMS ?
Telecom companies have every right to make money by selling data
that’s fair.
But here’s the bigger question
In Digital India, should people really have to spend thousands of rupees
every year just to maintain access to essential services like Banking,
KYC and 2FA ?
If a Mobile Number has effectively become part of our Digital Identity,
should not there also be an affordable basic plan simply to keep the SIM active ?
Maybe it’s time for TRAI to seriously consider this.
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Google's parent company, Alphabet invested in spacex at 15B$ valuation (7.5% stake) in 2015
That's 100x gain on paper as of June2026
Invested at 1 $ per share in 2015
Current Price 110$ in July2026
Peaked at 225$ post IPO
Current Mcap 1.48T$
Have you noticed something strange?
Why does every major NTA paper leak seem to lead back to NEET?
NTA conducts dozens of national examinations.
JEE Main.
CUET-UG.
CUET-PG.
UGC-NET.
CSIR-NET.
CMAT.
GPAT.
AIAPGET.
NCHM JEE.
ICAR.
NEET-UG.
Millions of students appear.
Year after year.
Yet one name keeps returning.
NEET.
Why?
That question haunted me.
So I stopped looking at protest.
I started following files.
Then history.
Then institutions.
The story became stranger.
In 2018, the Government announced a plan.
Move NEET towards computer-based testing.
Reduce physical handling.
Reduce human touchpoints.
Then came another decision.
The proposal was rolled back.
Health Ministry rejected the idea.
Why?
That is the question.
Medical education is no small industry.
It is a multi-lakh-crore ecosystem.
Medical colleges.
Hospitals.
Coaching institutes.
Universities.
Admissions.
Counselling.
Thousands of careers.
Billions in economic activity.
There are many big fishes.
Some are known.
Some are hidden.
Some are inside.
Some are outside.
NEET sits where two worlds collide.
One ministry conducts.
Another regulates.
One builds the examination.
Another shapes the rules.
Responsibility is shared.
So is accountability.
That is where complexity begins.
Every physical paper travels through people.
Experts.
Reviewers.
Translators.
Moderators.
Printing.
Packing.
Transport.
Storage.
Centres.
Every extra hand is another risk.
Computer-based testing changes many of those risks.
Not all.
But many.
So why did the transition take so long?
Because loopholes suits some of those big fishes.
An independent inquiry should answer that.
Not social media.
Then came the scandal.
The nation demanded accountability.
A minister resigned.
47 Staff were terminated.
The headlines moved on.
But one question refused to leave.
Did we examine the entire decision chain?
Or only the people standing in front of the cameras?
Every system has visible faces.
Every system also has invisible files.
Justice demands that both be examined.
There is another uncomfortable truth.
Paper leaks survive because buyers exist.
Some parents will pay anything.
Some middlemen will sell anything.
A stolen question paper is impossible without corruption.
A market for it is impossible without demand.
If we only punish the courier...
And never investigate the system...
The next leak is already waiting.
Democracy needs outrage.
But it also needs analysis.
Otherwise we keep confusing accountability with convenience.
History has a habit of doing that.
It often punishes the hero.
While the system escapes unnoticed.
The lesson is simple.
Don't outsource your thinking.
Follow the evidence.
Question every narrative.
Especially the one everyone agrees on.
I got two missed calls and a SMS to call courier with a 15 digit no
*21*89698 49428#
There was a call after some time to dial the number
I checked in google to see what fraud this was
This is the reply
Dialing *21*8969849428# will immediately activate unconditional call forwarding from your phone line to the scammer's number.
This is a well-known USSD-based call forwarding scam. Once activated, fraudsters will silently intercept all your incoming calls, allowing them to steal voice OTPs, hijack your WhatsApp or Telegram accounts, and compromise your bank details.
If you or someone else accidentally dialed this code, open your phone's dialer right away and dial ##002# to completely deactivate all call forwarding services. You can also verify your line's current forwarding status at any time by dialing *#21#.
Always be careful.
Never dial such numbers .
This young man is an uncut diamond that deserves a future.
The Cockroach Janata Party should enlist diamonds like him as members if they really want to go far with their movement and change India’s destiny.
If not, some rich NGO or a corporate CSR department should rehabilitate him by providing an interest-free loan and helping him set up a small business.
His name is Mohammad Irfan. He lives in a broken 12 sq yd 1-room slum (with tarpaulin roof) with his parents and two sisters in Delhi’s Laxmi Nagar.
For his livelihood, along with his father, he sells ice slabs as a roadside vendor.
He cannot write, he never went to school, and all his education is acquired by asking questions to Google several hours a day.
From the Preamble to the Indian Constitution (Hindi version) to Urdu Shayar Ahmed Faraz and Kavi Gopal Das Neeraj’s poetry to legal rights of workers and minimum wage & hour laws in India, his knowledge is 10x more than the average brainwashed WhatsApp University uncles of India.
In the video, Irfan emphasizes on “garima” (dignity). The Preamble to the Constitution explicitly states: “assuring the dignity of the individual,” irrespective of their caste, religion, education, or economic status.
Irfan was discovered by The Lallantop’s brilliant journalist Rajat Pandey @RajatpandeyJF during recent student protests at Jantar Mantar. That’s real journalism India needs instead of the shameless mainstream media that is digging India’s grave.
Rajat can provide the phone number and address of Irfan to anyone interested in supporting him.
Spare 20 minutes of your time this Sunday to watch this YouTube video:
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Sonam Wangchuk as a teenager!! The clarity of thought, the wisdom is unparalleled.
He is fasting. He is doing Satyagrah against the evil people who are waiting for his death
It was not even his battle, but he is here anyway!! Please protect him🙏🏻🙏🏻
Every voice matters!!
REMEMBER WHO SONAM WANGCHUK IS 🚨
Made India proud on KBC. Built schools for Ladakh’s children. Fought to save glaciers.
Today he is on day 16 of hunger strike for students while BJP govt refuses to listen.
How is Dharmendra Pradhan eating tonight?
Couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw this news.
Of course, India is a global force in shooting, but most of our success has come in rifle & pistol events.
Trap and skeet have always been much tougher to crack, demanding a very different ecosystem of ranges, coaching and competition.
That’s what makes Neeru Dhanda’s victory so special.
To win an ISSF World Cup gold in trap is one thing. To do it at Lonato, which is one of the sport’s most iconic venues and a place every shotgun shooter reveres, is another.
Clay target shooting has long been a European stronghold and is a discipline many Americans proudly regard as their own. Which is why Neeru’s gold feels like such a breakthrough.
Congratulations, Neeru. May this be the first of many more podiums. 🇮🇳
Worth studying past move in IT sector (2007-2009)
Observation:
It generally made Top or Bottom around Jan-Feb-Mar
It takes 12M to 18M to touch previous High
It takes 18M to 24M to make bottom from Top
We've spent 50 years trying to kill cancer cells. What if the answer was never to kill them but to remind them who they are?
Cancer cells aren't foreign invaders. They're your own cells that lost their identity. They stopped differentiating, stopped maturing, and started growing without limits. Cancer doesn't create anything new. It hijacks normal biology.
Researchers at KAIST in South Korea identified three master regulators, MYB, HDAC2, and FOXA2, keeping colon cancer cells locked in a malignant state. When they silenced all three? The cancer cells differentiated back into normal, healthy tissue. MYC and WNT pathways shut down. In mice, tumors shrank significantly.
No chemo. No radiation. Just reprogramming.
Here's what most people will miss: HDAC2 is a histone deacetylase. It compacts DNA and silences tumor suppressor genes. We already use HDAC inhibitors in our protocols. This isn't new to us. But it's powerful validation.
Cancer and aging are the same problem. Cells that no longer serve the body but learned to hijack the immune system to survive. The answer isn't bigger bombs. It's restoration.
Still preclinical. But the direction is exactly right. Kudos to the @kaistpr team. 👏
Every major country in the world including the UK are trillions in debt.
A few families control all central banks(debt) including the Rothschilds & Rockefeller.
This video explains how the never ending debt entrapment works & the special power it includes.