Rahul Thakare

An 🇮🇳 💻 Enthusiast!

[Rahul Thakare @rkkth]

@towernter When you are around, everything is 200.
When not, everything is 404.
Please do not 301,
Else I'm 500.

[Tukaram Mundhe @Tukaram_IndIAS]

The most expensive part of a hospital bill may never touch the hospital at all.

A patient admitted for care has no way of knowing whether the price on a medical consumable reflects its actual cost or a markup fixed long before it ever reached the ward. That gap in information is, at its core, a public health issue.

A survey of hospital consumables in Maharashtra found an IV infusion set with a trade price of ₹11.05 carrying a printed MRP of ₹325 ; a markup of 2,841%. A syringe procured at ₹6.75 carried an MRP of ₹57.20. A catheter procured at ₹29.41 carried an MRP of ₹310.

These are not elective purchases. Patients cannot compare prices, seek alternatives, or question a number printed on a box while receiving care and the MRP itself is often fixed upstream by manufacturers and distributors, disconnected from the trade price by a wide, unexplained margin. The result is a system where the party bearing the cost has the least information to evaluate it.

The regulatory gap is structural: scheduled medicines are capped under the Drugs (Prices Control) Order, 2013. Most medical devices and consumables are not leaving both the pricing and the information around it almost entirely unmonitored.

A review of these findings and clear guidelines on the permissible gap between trade procurement price and declared MRP have been recommended to the Department of Pharmaceuticals and the NPPA ; a step toward closing not just a pricing gap, but the information gap patients are left to bear alone.

#PublicHealth #GoodGovernance #Leadership #TukaramMundhe

https://t.co/Ye9CVzr8qU

[Aditya Raj Kaul @AdityaRajKaul]

Hindu Monk Chinmay Krishna Das Prabhu touched the feet of Radha-Krishna in Pundarik Dham temple of #Chattragram before being taken to jail yet again. He was given merely few hours of parole to see mortal remains of his mother for one last time.

[India First Post @ifpost47]

This Nepali man calls out the disdain foreign missionaries have for indigenous cultures.

Religious hate is not religious freedom.

[nixCraft 🐧 @nixcraft]

The actual GOAT of our IT industry who co-created the C programming lang and helped develop the Unix OS. Happy birthday to a true legend whose work shaped modern computing.

[Saavni Srivastva 🍁 @IntrovertSaavni]

Bittu tabahi inspired india but this 40-member team has quietly protected ancient heritage for two years.

[Rakshith santosh @Rakshithsantos1]

Reliance is getting into ₹10 ice creams.

The Birlas are entering wires and cables.

Meanwhile, startups in Bengaluru are building tokamak reactors, quantum computers, and other deep-tech technologies.

[Nityānanda Miśra (मिश्रोपाख्यो नित्यानन्दः) @MisraNityanand]

Is Rakshabandhan patriarchal, misogynist and sexist?

Can only sisters tie Rakhis around their brother’s wrist? Is a Rakhi tied for the protection of the sister or the brother? Watch this video to find out.

[Śrīrām 🇮🇳 (Modi's Family) @Vadicwarrior]

Hands down, the cutest thing I’ve seen today 🥰✨

[John B. Holbein @JohnHolbein1]

lol

[Rakesh Krishnan Simha @ByRakeshSimha]

They have the first right to the resources of the country. So smuggling a mobile phone into an exam hall is no big deal.

[The Jaipur Dialogues @JaipurDialogues]

Hello Giva!

[Revant Himatsingka “Food Pharmer” @foodpharmer2]

BIGGEST WIN FOR INDIA’S HEALTH REVOLUTION! 🇮🇳

Imagine picking up a Coca-Cola and seeing “HIGH SUGAR” clearly on the front.

Imagine picking up Lays and seeing “HIGH FAT” clearly on the front.

Imagine picking up Maggi and seeing “HIGH SALT” before you decide to buy them.

Now, you don’t need to imagine because FSSAI has proposed warning labels on Indian packaged foods. Companies will be asked to put a “high sugar”, “high salt”, “high fat” sign in a big red font in the front.

A massive thank you to all the doctors and public health experts who have fought for this reform, especially @Moveribfan and @dr_sivaranjani

My message to food companies is very simple. Improve your products before warning labels expose them.

HEALTH REVOLUTION IS HERE!!!

[lolflix @lolflix_]

It’s really disheartening to see young kids from the Northeast having to make videos pleading with people not to call them Chinese. No Indian should have to prove that they belong in their own country. We need more awareness, empathy, and respect for our fellow citizens.

[` @Outside_edge01]

This is what real feminism means.🔥

[Anu Satheesh 🇮🇳 @AnuSatheesh5]

Traditions that carry a deeper meaning

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

This 40-looking, 140-kg Gen Z whale has the audacity to throw the “hamare tax se inko salary milti hai” line at an Army Commanding Officer whose entry into the cordoned-off zone she was blocking.

The Army isn't a private service being provided to individual taxpayers. Defence is a sovereign function of the state, funded from the consolidated public budget. A taxpayer doesn't personally employ a soldier and therefore doesn't acquire the right to order, obstruct or demean him. The soldier serves the Republic through the chain of command and the law.

Army personnel pay taxes too. They are salaried employees, so tax is deducted at source. They pay taxes on their interest, investments and other taxable income as well. They neither evade taxes by default nor steal a single rupee from the public exchequer.

Yet somehow, they are supposed to stand there and listen to entitled, loudmouthed, uncouth people lecture them about “taxpayers’ money.”

And ironically, according to social media reports, her family is into property dealing. We all know what a spotless reputation the property-dealing business has when it comes to tax compliance. But since it’s apparently cool, the “taxpayers’ money pays your salary” taunt can always be thrown at the armed forces.

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

After hearing young Yato Wangnao sing the National Anthem on our 80th Independence Day, how could Nagaland not be on top of the travel bucket list today?

#SundayWanderer

(Video courtesy @nehaGurung1692 )

[Shambhav Sharma @shambhav15]

Bro’s govt just filed FIRs against 600 students

[Abhi and Niyu @abhiandniyu]

Vande mataram. Full. Undivided. Unbroken. 🇮🇳

[se7en 🇮🇳 @Tabbys_Str]

Happy 80th Independence Day 🇮🇳