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[Fundoo Professor @Sanjay__Bakshi]

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@RBLBank has debited ₹9,98,059 from my savings account through 210 unauthorised foreign-card-merchant charges between 3 March and 17 April 2026. I never did those transactions. I was not even out of the country when these transactions happened.

[Muthukrishnan Dhandapani @dmuthuk]

It appears that if an engine seizes due to water mixing with ethanol in the fuel, petroleum companies or dealers bear no liability.

I doubt insurance companies will accept this liability either. They may explicitly exclude such cases.

If an engine seizes, how expensive will the repair or replacement be?

For no fault of their own, why should the public bear such a huge financial burden?

[Ryan @ryanalb]

@ShivrattanDhil1 People literally tailgate to overtake when a gap appears even at high speed, like they need the slipstream

[Mumbai Rains @rushikesh_agre_]

Great visuals. Monsoon has taken control over Arabian Sea.. no obstacles observed to disrupt the monsoon winds, Mumbai soon all set to face its onset! ⛈️ #MumbaiRains

[Ryan @ryanalb]

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[Mumbai Rains @rushikesh_agre_]

20 June.. Monsoon is likely to make a strong comeback looking at Arabian Sea & Bay of Bengal playing its role in reviving monsoon!

For building momentum #MumbaiRains will take next 24-36 hours & passing showers will increase giving heavy rains during midweek ⛈️

[Vishal Bhargava @VishalBhargava5]

The next step BMC Commissioner should take is to halt all approvals for new construction projects until we have a plan for water. Otherwise next year may be worse.
Mumbai is on a construction spree that masquerades as "transformation" but is actually "madness."

[Sucheta Dalal @suchetadalal]

Hey @greatgameindia. You have picked up my article in full, used your byline and mentioned Moneylife and my name at the bottom. Surely, you need to show the courtesy of asking for permission? How Deloitte Covered-up IL&FS Scam https://t.co/8SGl2OlIv9

[Mukul Dekhane @dekhane_mukul]

Irrelevance is the new retirement.

Deloitte India with a retirement age of 62 years, gave golden handshake to 35 partners above 55.

They are removing those who have their past behind them and adding those who have their future ahead of them.

Guess who all will follow. Right, everyone!

When I came in, no one took you seriously until you had grey hair. Age got respect, credibility and deference.

Just when I got there, someone changed the rules of the game!

Now I know what Charlie Chaplin meant, “Time is my only enemy”.

So you see people trying to cover up their age.
The hair gets blacker.
Cosmetic procedures, shiny new wheels, trendy lingo.
In short my generation moved from trying to impress those older than us to those younger to us! And we all know the former is probable the latter are near impossible to please.

Ask anyone who has retired. They don’t miss the money. They miss the routine, meetings, travel, ringing phones- what they may have complained about. As humans we struggle for relevance. That our life matters. Without it there is void.

Along this time, you meet more Doctors than DJs. You may be paying heavy cost of your kids higher education and you realise that time is running out on you.

Henry Thoreau said, “Most men live lives of quiet desperation and they go to their graves with the song still in them.”

In your fifties there are three possibilities.
One is disappointment of not getting that S Class Merc or you got it but think about what you missed in its chase and the third is laughing at the stupidity of ever wanting one. 

कभी किसी को मुकम्मल जहाँ नहीं मिलता
कहीं ज़मीन तो कहीं आसमान नहीं मिलता

No one gets everything, sometimes you get success but failed relationships, kids grew up and parents grew old without you and sometimes you get that right but fall short of success.

What’s funny is that growing old is compulsory but growing up seems optional.

I marvel at people’s ability to be childish, egoistic and ready to fight on trivial things. How did they miss the point of life!

Long back I stopped buying tickets to other people’s dramas. I see all around me with the attitude of the Polish adage, “Not my circus, not my monkeys.”
A delayed flight, people venting on counter staff, cutting lines to board an aircraft early. Everything is stressful and everything is funny- depends on our lens.

Ageing well is moving from being a noisy mountain stream in your teens to a deep, calm ocean.

Fifties our ancients called Vanprastha ashram. Facing the forest. I have a different take to it. I think in fifties, one needs to build a Version 2, find our joie di vivre and burn the candle at both ends. Do what you need to do. Sing that song. If not now, when!

The pain of failure is less than the pain of regret. Go for it. Fifties is the new twenties with thirty years of experience! If you are in your twenties or thirties take it from me that time is a thief, it slips away. Buddha was right - The trouble is you think you have time!

Enjoy life to the fullest, as it comes....

😎😍😎😍😎

[copwatchbharat @copwatchbharat]

Talegaon Dabhade, Pune Police !

A college-aged man was stopped by a policeman on a three-seater bike in Talegaon Dabhade, Pune, as he was riding a triple-seater bike.

Stopped and asked him to pay a fine for driving a triple seater. "However, the law student told the police that he would pay the fine only if they gave him a receipt.

After the student gave such a reply, the police got angry and the police literally beat the student inhumanly.

When the young man went to file a complaint at the police station, the police there also threatened to file a case against him. This information has been given by the student's family. It will be important to see what action the police administration will take on this.

While crime is rampant in the state as a whole, the inaction of the police is clearly visible, while on the other hand, it is evident how the police are harassing ordinary people for trivial reasons

[Diva Jain @DivaJain2]

This makes no sense. In this day and age, once a paper leaks, people will find ways to distribute it.
This is tacit admission that there is no confidence in the system's ability to plug leaks.
Education Ministry has gone full retard and is making the Govt look incompetent.

[Nirupama Menon Rao 🇮🇳 @NMenonRao]

For Israel, the Iranian issue has never been only about the nuclear programme. It has also been about the emergence of a large, populous, resource-rich, technologically capable regional rival at the centre of the Middle East.

Iran possesses attributes that no other regional state quite combines: A population of around 90 million.
A highly educated scientific and technical base.
Significant industrial capacity.
Vast oil and gas reserves.
Strategic geography linking the Gulf, Central Asia, the Caucasus and the Indian Ocean.
A deep civilisational identity and state tradition.

Even after decades of sanctions, war, and isolation, Iran has remained consequential.

The counterfactual is striking.

Had Iran not spent much of the last four decades under sanctions and geopolitical pressure, it might today resemble something closer to Turkey on a much larger scale, or perhaps even a Middle Eastern equivalent of a G20 power.

That is why many Israelis have long believed that sanctions were not simply a tool to constrain nuclear ambitions. They were also a means of limiting the emergence of a powerful regional competitor.

Now imagine a different future.

If sanctions are eased, oil exports resume, frozen assets are released, shipping normalises through Hormuz, and foreign investment gradually returns, Iran could regain significant economic momentum. Recent reporting suggests that any emerging US-Iran understanding may include substantial sanctions relief, particularly on oil exports and associated financial services.

For Israel, that prospect is strategically uncomfortable. Which explains the meltdown in Jerusalem.

For India, however, the calculus is different. India has never viewed Iran as a threat.
A stronger Iran does not automatically diminish India’s position.

Indeed, a reintegrated Iran could create opportunities for Indian trade, connectivity, energy security, and regional diplomacy.

That does not mean India would welcome an Iranian nuclear weapon or regional destabilisation. It would not.
But India has no structural interest in keeping Iran permanently weak. This is perhaps where Indian and Israeli interests diverge most clearly.

Israel’s ideal outcome has often been a non-nuclear, economically constrained Iran.

India’s ideal outcome is a non-nuclear, stable, economically integrated Iran.

Those are not the same thing.

[Anand Sankar @saybwala]

Today's Telegram ban is proof of why an indigenous social media or messaging app can never grow in India.

If @durov was Indian, he would be in jail along with his entire team and his entire infrastructure seized because a question paper was supposedly leaked on Telegram. It would have taken a few months to get bail. Line of FIRs stretching to Kanyakumari. Court cases dragging on for a decade or more. TV channels would have gone to town with all kinds of consipracies of how Soros is involved.

We have vaguely written laws, open to the worst interpretation and bureaucratic overreactions. It's not a stable foundation for anyone to build on.

The same applies to now AI. Anyday someone will be offended in this country by anything an indigenous AI generates in text or images and the founders can find themselves in jail and fighting court cases.

[Stanly Johny @johnstanly]

This is the Israeli perspective of what Indian interests are in #WestAsia. But these points can't be farther from the Indian perspective. Indian interests and Israeli interests in the region, though both countries enjoy very good bilat ties, are starkly different. Let's have a relook at each point.

1. Pakistan is not becoming a leader of the Global South at India's expense just because Pakistan brokered a ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran after a failed U.S.-Israel war. India is well aware of Pakistan's capabilities and limitations. Pakistan had been the blue-eyed boy of the U.S. throughout the Cold War. And India dealt with it. It's true that Pakistan today is rebuilding its ties with the US and expanding its diplomatic footprint in West Asia. That space for Pakistan was opened not by the deal trump is reaching with Iran but by the war Israel and the U.S. launched in India's neighbourhood. And that space will be paid close attention in New Delhi.

2. If the deal allows Iran to dominate the Strait of Hormuz, that means the war Israel and the US launched had been a total failure. India has historically enjoyed good bilat ties with Iran. Iran's ballistic missiles or a growing Iranian economy do not pose any threat to India. India has also invested millions in Iran. Iran offers a route to India to Afghanistan bypassing Pakistan; Iran is also a critical link in the North-South Transport Corridor which gives India an alternative route to connect with Europe bypassing the Suez Canal. India looks at IMEC as an important connectivity project, as well. But the missing piece in IMEC is the absence of an Israel-Saudi normalisation. If Israel is ready to settle the Palestine question politically and normalise ties with the Arab world, it would open great opportunities for India's regional engagement.

3. Millions of Indians have been living in the Persian Gulf countries for decades. The first wave of migration started in the 1960s, in the early stage of the oil boom, well before the revolution in Iran. They had never been threatened by Iranian missiles before this war. For the safety of millions of Indians in the Gulf and for remittances to continue to flow to India, what India wants is stability and economic progress in the region. In other words, Israel bringing its wars to the Persian Gulf is a direct threat to India's economic and energy security and the safety of millions of Indians living in the region. India sees itself as one of the pillars of the emerging order; so it's imperative for India to continue to grow economically, and tackle the disturbances that challenge this growth trajectory.

4. India clearly doesn't want another nuclear power in its neighbourhood. But it wants the nuclear question to be resolved diplomatically, not through unwise, less thought-out wars that hurt everyone. Israel wants regime change in Tehran, India doesn't. From an Indian perspective, the JCPOA addressed the nuclear question and Iranian facilities were open for international inspection. It was trump 1.0 that sabotaged the JCPOA, and it was Israel that recklessly, non-strategically took the war directly to Iran, exactly a year ago, after which Iran cut off the IAEA access to its nuclear programme.

So yes, India wants stability in West Asia. And for long-term stability, the Palestine question should be politically addressed; unending wars in the region should be stopped; Iran's nuclear programme should be addressed diplomatically and sovereignty and territorial integrity of all countries in the region should be respected.

[Chirag Barjatya @chiragbarjatya]

I was crossing the road, it was not at a crossing, but at a usual random road intersection. The two-wheeler came very close to me and braked hard. And he said sorry to me with both hands closed. I was surprised why is he being apologetic. The fault was mine, no? But when i went for a run, i realised they just stop for pedestrians.

And then in another instance, the cab I was in, the driver wanted to join the expressway from the lane. He stopped and looked behind. There were cars at high speed. He kept waiting. He waited for 6 minutes. Around 8 cars lined behind us. None of them blew a single horn all this while. All just kept waiting for their turn to join the expressway.

And then on the expressway, i didn’t see a single truck driving in the first fast lane. When we stopped on the midway, our cab driver waited for his turn so that he could park in the white lines, not outside. All this happened in Thailand. I didn’t start this post with Thailand because you could have skipped it out of ego. Huge traffic, long jams, no one breaking lanes or blowing horns. There is a peace in total chaos.

[Sucheta Dalal @suchetadalal]

Dear @CMOMaharashtra @mybmc @AshwiniBhide when is the press conference to announce a Rs5000 fine for this illegal abomination and violation of human rights and child labour laws? @India_NHRC please act suo moto

[Ryan @ryanalb]

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[Ashish Goel @ashish_nujs]

To refresh memory. The slang “Imma bounce,” which roughly means “I am going to leave” featured in one of Rhea Chakraborty's chats. Times Now at the time said on their show that she was talking about a bounced cheque. Sorry Vir, you are a fine comic but Times Now has better jokes

[sushma date @sushmadate]

Someone reported that a stray dog that sits in their building on Karve rd had fleas and hair loss and asked if I could come and check him out.

This is the face and goofy smile that greeted me when I landed up at the location mentioned on Google maps. Made my day! 😍

(As an aside, the people living in this simple, middle class apartment, and the owner of a laundry tapri in the premises look after 2 stray dogs, have got them vaccinated, sterilized and always get them treated by an NGO when they fall sick - such a contrast to the posh society in Madh Island, where a watchman was paid to beat up a gentle stray dog to death #Mikey )

[James Clear @JamesClear]

Be forgiving with your past self. What's done is done. No sense in beating yourself up about it.

Be strict with your present self. Win the moment in front of you right now.

Be flexible with your future self. There are many paths to success. You don't need life to be a certain way to live well.