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Indian Express की Ritika Chopra की investigation को आसान भाषा में समझिए: Election Commission में 3 Commissioners हैं—CEC Gyanesh Kumar, Sukhbir Singh Sandhu और Vivek Joshi। कानून के मुताबिक फैसले मिलकर होते हैं। मतभेद हो तो majority से—यानी 2 vs 1 में दो Commissioners की बात majority होगी। लेकिन investigation का दावा है कि Sandhu और Joshi ने 10 महीनों में कम-से-कम 14 बार objection किया कि Election Commission के नाम पर ऐसे फैसले हो रहे हैं जिनकी उन्हें जानकारी तक नहीं थी। ***Voter list का control: दोनों Commissioners ने सवाल उठाया कि voter list में नाम जोड़ने/हटाने का असली control local election officers के बजाय Delhi के IT system में ज्यादा centralise तो नहीं हो रहा। *** Goa के 97 voters: Local officers ने 97 लोगों को eligible पाया और नाम restore करना चाहा। लेकिन software में rollback का option नहीं था। Goa office ने 8 बार option मांगा, फिर भी final roll से पहले नहीं मिला और वे नाम बाहर रह गए। ****** Form 6: नए voter के online form में सवाल जोड़ा गया—क्या आपके parents/grandparents का नाम पिछली SIR voter list में था? Report के मुताबिक बिना जवाब दिए form submit नहीं होता था। Commissioners ने इस बदलाव की legality पर objection किया; Sandhu ने बाद में इसे “unauthorised and illegal” कहा। ****West Bengal: करीब 16.10 लाख appeals उन voters के inclusion के खिलाफ दाखिल हुईं जिन्हें roll में रखा गया था। Sandhu ने पूछा—ECI की तरफ से ये appeals किसने authorise कीं और किसने file कीं? Investigation के मुताबिक Sandhu, Joshi और उस समय के current West Bengal CEO—तीनों को इसकी जानकारी नहीं थी। **** मामला इतना बढ़ा कि दोनों Commissioners ने एक work-allocation order को लेकर Cabinet Secretary को अलग-अलग लिखा और अगले दिन मिलकर उस order को रद्द कर दिया। और एक बहुत interesting detail: May से August तक तीनों Commissioners की full Commission meeting एक बार भी नहीं हुई, report के मुताबिक। EC का पक्ष है कि SIR से जुड़े decisions unanimous थे और इन objections को formal dissent की तरह नहीं देखा जाना चाहिए। लेकिन पूरी controversy का सबसे simple सवाल शायद यही है: अगर Election Commission में 3 Commissioners हैं और उनमें से 2 बार-बार पूछ रहे हैं—“ये फैसला किसने लिया?”—तो transparency और independent audit की मांग गलत कैसे है? लोकतंत्र में voter list सिर्फ सही होनी नहीं चाहिए—उसके सही होने पर भरोसा भी होना चाहिए।
The Election Commission of India is under fire like never before. The SIR has struck 13 crore names off draft rolls, putting the EC at the centre of intense public debate over its role in deciding who gets to vote — and who doesn’t. HOWEVER, what nobody knew: through that same period, some of the sharpest questions were being asked from inside. Out today, after months of work. Our #ExpressInvestigation 🧵 (1/10)
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What if AI becomes so abundant that real human interaction itself becomes a high-value currency? Imagine OTT platforms flooded with AI-generated actors, voices, scripts and movies. At some point, people may willingly pay MORE for content made with real human actors, real voices and real emotions. The same way handmade art became a luxury in the age of machines… “Human-made” may become the next premium label.
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देश में birthday celebration का नया syllabus आ गया है. 😂 पहले: 🎂 Cake 🎈 Balloon 🎁 Gift अब: 🪔 Diya 📸 Photo 🙏 Aashirwad 📢 Public participation बस डर ये है कि अगले साल circular न आ जाए— “Birthday के शुभ अवसर पर सभी नागरिक शाम 6 बजे एक साथ Happy Birthday गुनगुनाएँ। Video proof optional… फिलहाल.” 😭 जिसका birthday है, वो शायद cake काट रहा होगा… बाकी देश practical दे रहा है. 😂
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Any levy on UPI is just tax collection. UPI is India’s greatest scientific achievement that everyone acknowledges, par ab tax ki bali chadhegi! Let’s look at the numbers: • NPCI pre-tax surplus: ₹1,888 Cr • RBI surplus transfer to Govt: ₹2.87 Lakh Cr • Listed banks' profits: ₹4.11 Lakh Cr Question is: Who is actually losing money because of UPI? What subsidy? Meanwhile, India spends ₹30,500 crore annually on ATMs and cash logistics. Instead of slapping MDR on UPI transactions above ₹2,000, optimize costs by shutting down ATMs and protecting our digital public infrastructure! #upi #npci #digitalindia
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CJP was questioned in Punjab for allegedly showing bad schools in BJP states but only showcase schools under AAP. Fair question. Same standards should apply everywhere. Now in Balaghat, after the deaths of 30+ tribal children, Abhijeet Dipke reached the ground. Instead of focusing mainly on the government and administration, some questions turned to him: “Why are you here?” “Why so late?” “Politics over dead bodies?” Question Dipke too. But don’t forget where primary accountability lies. Punjab exposed selective coverage. Balaghat exposed selective questioning. Selective outrage and selective journalism—both deserve scrutiny. #cjp #balaghat
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A teenager’s liver looked almost normal on the outside. Under the microscope almost every cell was gone — massive necrosis driven by cytotoxic CD8 T-cells. Doctors call this indeterminate (or activated T-cell) hepatitis. Many such cases now show signs of a delayed immune reaction after COVID, where the body mistakes liver cells for the virus. He survived only because of an emergency transplant done in under 24 hours.
Good morning. Please take your time to read this. It is important. I worry for my children and yours too. I waited for a while to tell you the story about this liver. I wanted to make sure it ended well. This is was the liver of a teenager we took out a month back. He was flown in from another State because of an unidentifiable jaundice + hepatitis that was making him sick. Hardly a few days in, he went into a coma because of liver failure and we put him on a ventilator. To help him survive, a parent donated part of the liver. This was the quickest emergency liver transplantation we ever did. Everything happened in less than 24 hours. On the outside the liver looks pretty normal, just a bit swollen from the hepatitis (liver inflammation). But when we looked at it under the microscope, there was nothing left. Almost all the liver cells were wiped out (a finding known as massive hepatocellular necrosis) with deep inflammation. The cause remained unknown. We call it indeterminate hepatitis - meaning, something we did not know, caused it. You may remember post Covid-19 era. There were multiple cases of unknown hepatitis among children which either led to them dying or receiving a transplant. At the time, scientists thought it was due to another virus - Adenovirus, that had changed the way it attacked us due to Covid-19 era restrictions and immune changes. But that theory fell apart because not every kid with indeterminate hepatitis had adenovirus positive. In the 1980s, some doctors in few hospitals across the world described a handful of single-center cases that first documented liver cell loss and inflammatory infiltrates in unexplained pediatric liver failure. And they kept seeing such cases, here and there, and forgot about it. Some died. Some lived after a liver transplant. In 1999, with the establishment of the Pediatric Acute Liver Failure (PALF) study group allowed for systematic tracking and larger-scale retrospective and prospective analysis of immune functionand dysfunction in such kids with unknown hepatitis. In 2022, medical scientists were armed with better technology and more impressive analysis methods. And global attention surged, in the post-Covid-19 era on outbreaks of severe acute hepatitis of unknown origin in children. who.int/news-room/questions-… They figured it out. Just like we did. A special stain and a technical advancement known as immunohistochemistry, a lab test that used antibodies to find specific proteins in a tissue sample was deployed. A special type of immune cell, supposed to defend us, was going crazy. Cytotoxic T cells act as the body's security guards to find and destroy cells infected by viruses or those that turned cancerous. There was no cancer in our teenager. And teenagers and children with this disease before him. The most likely culprit was a previous viral infection. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3893… Covid-19 probably increased this. The little fcker wrecks havoc on the immune system like no other. It makes the body go wild and attack itself. It has done this before in other other organs too. It is called molecular mimicry. When you get infected with COVID-19, your immune system creates defenses—like antibodies—to target and destroy the virus. To do this, it memorizes the physical shapes and protein sequences of the virus. However, because some building blocks of the COVID-19 spike protein mimic the shapes of our own healthy human proteins, the immune system can experience "cross-reactivity". Your newly trained antibodies end up attacking both the invading virus and your own healthy organs because they cannot tell the difference. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/article… Large numbers of children with indeterminate hepatitis have cytotoxic T-cell mediated hepatitis. And it can only be diagnosed through a liver biopsy before the kid got really sick or after a liver transplant when the kid was going to die. The liver that you see below, is far from normal. Deep within these tissues was a horde of cytotoxic T-cells that were picking of large areas of liver cells, pushing the child towards death. As a doctor, I was only able to give them a diagnosis, after the liver came out and because they were convinced about this hidden killer of children, we did it in the nick of time. The teenager survived and we found what nearly killed the patient. Any viral infection can lead to this. Not immediately, but even later on in life. It happens mostly in children, teenagers and young adults. Vaccines prevent/ reduce severity of various viral infections. Please make sure you and your children are vaccinated for age. I hope Governments everywhere promote annual vaccinations for Covid-19 too along with the flu-shot. Because there is a strong possibility that this is the one virus that can cause this type of damage on the liver, many months after the initial infection and we may never know - becuase Covid-19 can come and go silently.
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When saurav das visited punjab for school inspection people kept asking why only selective audit but now when abhijeet dipke is in balaghat investigating the deaths of 30 tribal kids and their cremation without parents the ruling party is playing the exact same game trying to silence him through selective outrage and selective journalism
🚨 𝗦𝗘𝗟𝗘𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗩𝗘 𝗢𝗨𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗚𝗘, 𝗦𝗘𝗟𝗘𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗩𝗘 𝗝𝗢𝗨𝗥𝗡𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗦𝗠! 🚨 👉 He does 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗛𝗢𝗟𝗗 𝗔𝗡𝗬 𝗢𝗙𝗙𝗜𝗖𝗜𝗔𝗟 𝗣𝗢𝗦𝗧. 👉 He is 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗖𝗛𝗜𝗘𝗙 𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗥 of the state. 👉 He does 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗛𝗢𝗟𝗗 𝗔𝗡𝗬 𝗚𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗡𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧 post. ❓ Then why don’t you speak against the 𝗚𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗡𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧 𝗜𝗡 𝗣𝗢𝗪𝗘𝗥? ❓ Why don’t you ask the 𝗦𝗔𝗠𝗘 𝗤𝗨𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦 to the present 𝗖𝗠 and the 𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗧𝗘 𝗚𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗡𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧? 👉 Why don’t you question those who are 𝗔𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗬 𝗜𝗡 𝗣𝗢𝗪𝗘𝗥 and responsible for the administration? ⚠️ Why is the 𝗠𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔 silent when it comes to the government, but so vocal when targeting others? 🔹 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗦 𝗜𝗦 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗝𝗢𝗨𝗥𝗡𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗦𝗠. 🔹 This is 𝗦𝗘𝗟𝗘𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗩𝗘 𝗤𝗨𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗜𝗡𝗚 and 𝗦𝗘𝗟𝗘𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗩𝗘 𝗢𝗨𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗚𝗘. 🇮🇳 𝗔𝗦𝗞 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗦𝗔𝗠𝗘 𝗤𝗨𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦 𝗧𝗢 𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗬𝗢𝗡𝗘 — 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗝𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗢𝗦𝗘 𝗪𝗛𝗢 𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗩𝗘𝗡𝗜𝗘𝗡𝗧 𝗧𝗔𝗥𝗚𝗘𝗧𝗦.
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Let’s call a spade a spade. When you go to rural, underfunded schools in BJP states to uncover ground reality, but conveniently land up at plush "Schools of Eminence" in non-BJP states, the agenda becomes pretty transparent. India is predominantly rural. The real struggle for quality education, basic infrastructure, and decent facilities exists in those grassroots villages. That is where school audits actually matter and where the probability of finding glaring issues is highest. If the goal is genuine educational reform, why the selective standards based on who is in power? A lot of us don't align with any political party—we just care about the cause. But when actions become politically convenient, it completely undermines the cause and disappoints everyone who was rooting for real accountability. Keep the standard standard, no matter the state or the party in power.
🚨PUNJAB SCHOOLS SOCIAL AUDIT A Cockroach Janta Party team reached Ludhiana, Punjab to conduct school audit. Watch the video to know our observations. Was impressed with the “Schools of Eminence”. Most of the 20 points were on positive side. Yet, problems were observed. We conveyed them to the Education Minister @harjotbains who readily agreed to meet us. We demanded the problems be resolved immediately. The Minister assured us of swift action. @Cockroachisback @whattalawyer Watch:
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The 3:25 PM candle on Sensex is insane! 📈 We went from floating below VWAP to a massive 273-point vertical spike in the last 5 minutes of trading. Just pure, unadulterated Closing Auction Session magic pushing the index straight to 74,902.59 at the high of the day! Bulls really woke up at 3:25 and said: "Hold my chai, we closing green today." ☕
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लोकतंत्र की सबसे बड़ी खूबसूरती शायद यही है….. यहाँ सवाल पूछना देशद्रोह नहीं और जवाब माँगना बदतमीज़ी नहीं होना चाहिए….. लोकतंत्र में नागरिक समर्थक हो सकता है, भक्त होना उसकी qualification नहीं।
“दिमाग़ी नक्सल ही लोकतंत्र की रीढ़ हैं। तो पूछिये, बोलिए और जवाब माँगिये। और कहिए कि हाँ हम सब दिमाग़ी नक्सल है”: शेखर सुमन
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GDP 7.8% is just the cover story. The debt trap is real. 💸 • Paper SGBs: Unbacked by physical gold Gold went 3x, pushing govt debt to ₹1.5 Lakh Crore. • Leveraged FCNR: Unbacked by physical USD Promising 16% yields with zero dollar reserves = massive currency risk. • $2 TRILLION+ total govt debt pile 📉 Headline GDP doesn't pay for paper promises. TAXPAYERS DO.
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Govt paper promises are getting dangerous: • SGBs: Promised gold returns with no gold backing ... Gold went 3x, govt took a massive loss. • Leveraged FCNR: Promising ~16% USD yields with no dollar backing .. If the rupee drops, taxpayers pay the bill. Same mistake... just a different currency!
To all those who are saying SGB was backed by physical gold, this is from Niti Ayog’s report.
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GDP growth 7.8%….. good news But GDP ≠ common man ki prosperity GDP per capita, PPP per capita, real wages, jobs, savings aur household consumption bhi dekho….. **Big economy ≠ automatically richer citizens***
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GDP grew 7.8%….. good number But GDP growth ≠ your income grew 7.8% Think of it like a company….. Company revenue rises 20% but employee salary rises 0% Company is genuinely growing….. but employees may not feel richer Same with a country GDP tells us how much the whole economy produced….. not who got that growth A big population can create a huge GDP Govt spending can push GDP up Base effect can make growth look stronger Inflation adjustment & methodology also affect real GDP So GDP is not fake….. but using GDP alone to prove common people are prospering is misleading Better questions are….. real GDP per capita? real wages? jobs? household consumption? savings & debt? income distribution? Big economy ≠ automatically richer citizen
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Wondering why Bank Nifty suddenly jumped almost 600 points in the last tick….. and whether CAS is actually good or bad? In simple words 👇 At 3:15 PM, normal cash-market trading stops and orders move into the closing auction. Today, because of MSCI rebalancing, there were huge buy orders in banking stocks. With normal intraday liquidity no longer working in the same way, those large orders pushed the closing prices sharply higher….. and Bank Nifty suddenly spiked around 600 points. But futures barely moved. That’s the interesting part….. futures traders clearly didn’t treat that spike as a normal market move. So is CAS good or bad? For big institutions, it can be useful because they can execute very large orders at one closing price without moving through the order book tick by tick. But for retail traders, especially option sellers, it can be painful….. because one sharp closing print can suddenly change option premiums and MTM even when futures are not confirming the move. That’s why today’s move looked less like normal price discovery and more like a closing-auction distortion. CAS may work well for large institutional execution….. but for active retail traders, this spot-futures disconnect can create a very messy situation.
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SEBI brought CAS to improve price discovery….. But if Spot jumps 600 points while Futures barely react….. is that really price discovery or just an auction-driven price print? Market structure matters….. #BankNifty #CAS #SEBI
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सुभाष चंद्रा का मामला कोई अलग-थलग घटना नहीं है — यह 2016 से चली आ रही एक पैटर्न का हिस्सा है। IBC से पहले भारत में CDR (2001) और SARFAESI (2002) जैसे तरीके इस्तेमाल होते थे। CDR के तहत बैंक तनावग्रस्त कर्ज़ों की ब्याज दर, अवधि और भुगतान शर्तें बदल देते थे। SARFAESI ने बैंकों को गिरवी रखी संपत्ति ज़ब्त करके बेचने की ताकत दी। दोनों का मक़सद एक ही था — जितना वसूल हो सके, वसूलो। IBC ने इस सोच को पलट दिया। इसका तर्क था कि कभी-कभी कंपनी को फिर से खड़ा करना ज़्यादा फ़ायदेमंद होता है, भले ही इसके लिए क्रेडिटर्स को भारी नुक़सान झेलना पड़े। और क्रेडिटर्स ने बार-बार इस तर्क को अपनाया है: - **आलोक इंडस्ट्रीज़ (2019)** — लगभग ₹30,700 करोड़ के दावे ₹5,000 करोड़ में निपटे। यानी 80%+ का हेयरकट। - **वीडियोकॉन इंडस्ट्रीज़ (2021)** — ~₹64,800 करोड़ के दावों के मुक़ाबले सिर्फ़ ~₹2,960 करोड़ की योजना मंज़ूर हुई — लगभग 95% का नुक़सान। (बाद में NCLAT ने इसे रद्द कर दिया, पर इससे पता चलता है कि हेयरकट कितना बड़ा हो सकता है।) - **शिवा इंडस्ट्रीज़ (2022)** — ~₹4,863 करोड़ के बकाये ~₹333 करोड़ में सेटल हुए — 93% का हेयरकट। तो जब लोग चंद्रा के हेयरकट का आकार देखकर चौंकते हैं, तो असली जवाब यह है कि IBC सालों से इसी तरह काम कर रहा है। उनके मामले में बस इतना फ़र्क़ है कि यह एक *पर्सनल गारंटर* रेज़ोल्यूशन है, आम कॉरपोरेट रेज़ोल्यूशन नहीं — तरीक़ा अलग, लेकिन सोच वही। असली सवाल यह बनता है कि.... क्या IBC ने दिवालियापन के निपटारे को सच में ज़्यादा कारगर बनाया है, या इसने सिस्टम को भारी-भरकम हेयरकट्स के साथ बहुत ज़्यादा सहज बना दिया है? वो भी जब आम आदमी लोन के नाम पर इतना humiliation झेलता है।
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