"The draft Bill makes no mention of a 50% across-the-board increase. All we have is the government’s word for it" vs. "Clause to allow administrative head have a say in posting of bureaucrats omitted from minutes of meeting" —BJP behaving like thoroughly devious and deceptive charlatans, as always.

Whoa! Amul's challenger for Naturals Ice Cream? To me, Naturals is the first and last word when it comes to fruit-based ice creams (even though several knock-offs have proliferated the market recently). But I trust Amul's quality too and will definitely give some of these yummy flavors a try. 1/4

'Key omissions' not included by Home Ministry, and they casually say, 'not all fine details' are included. See how diabolical and devious BJP is, as a powerful entity willing to completely steamroll over, and so removed from, anyone and everyone!

After missing last year, made it to our family diety this year - at Puthucode Bhagavathy Amman temple (near Palakkad). The temple and the tiny agraharam around it remains beautifully and serenely frozen in time.

"What is the Price of a Life in India? Zero."

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"Karnataka's excise reform draft report, recently made public, is perhaps the first document in the history of independent India to take a rational approach to alcohol. It is a unicorn of a policy: sensible, remunerative and politically feasible."

Totally hilarious idea: A modern alternative to the famous dummy 'Lorem ipsum' text where, in most cases, you don't need to replace this with actual text at all. Try reading it once and you will know why 😁

Running the mouth is easier.

"India must not tolerate" —ET. "India must speak for Indian seafarers more" —TOI. Indian ruling party leaders, meanwhile...

Can't US and Manipur respect the ongoing 12 year completion celebrations (aka Longest Continuously Serving Democratically Elected Prime Minister After India's First General Election... phew!) and pause their "negative" actions for a bit? Can't a man celebrate in peace?

Probably the most effective demonstration of 'मख्खन लगाना' (makkhan lagana), made even more impactful because the product being sold is butter too 😁

Clever ad, with framing in service of fans (for all the right reasons) even though it is asking something from the organizers (who may not grant this at all, because they have sponsors selling stuff inside the venue).

TIL there's an American track & field coach named 'Diljeet Dosanjh Taylor' (no relation to Diljit Dosanjh)!

A new low even when he is already scraping the lowest bottom of the barrel: "Trump asks Kenya, a country that has never recorded a case of Ebola to admit at-risk American patients rather than bring them home. U.S. government officials say Kenyans would be excluded from receiving treatment there"

Hahahahaha... long overdue feature :)

Robots taking over manual (blue collar) labor, and AI taking over (white collar) IT work.

Good to see Balu's calm response against Lalit Modi's trolling.

"I had just made a request being a mother whose son is also preparing for competitive exams"

"Sebi, in its 109-page interim order, alleged that..." —TOI "Sebi has not made any allegations" —Rajesh Mehta

Well done, Zomato! If you had no clue about this 'Biryani 370' controversy, read: tinyurl.com/biryani370 Subsequently, people seemed to have created their own 'memes' on a Zomato notification referring to 'Rs. 370', which Zomato is now disowning and calling out categorically.

Truly groundbreaking. Because nothing says marketing innovation like noticing two names start with "Hein-" and running with it like you invented sliced bread. The bar for brand collabs has officially hit the condiment aisle 🙄

People paying tribute to Twitter/X's automated Tamil-to-English translation.

"In India, there is no such concept of Gen Z. My mother could scold me till the day she was alive" —BJP Minister.

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"What does it mean when a major State’s voice in the Upper House is routed entirely through a single party, with no effective counterweight from within?"

Technically...

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"Communications professionals, previously relegated to the periphery, are now front and center in the C-suite, partly emboldened by chief executives’ fears that even the smallest misstep can swiftly balloon into a corporate disaster."

"In the India of 2086, what will people be writing and speaking of Mr Modi as we speak and write of Nehru today, 62 years after his passing?"

Ship's SOS message: "Fire on board. Vessel is sinking. U.S. Navy attacked with missile our engine room. We have a hole at the bottom." India MEA: "fire incident disabled the ship" India has zero autonomy to call out US's excesses, eh? From allegations of "MaunMohan" to this 🤷‍♂️

Point.

If BJP comes back to power in Karnataka, would "fringe-but-mainstream-enough-because-BJP-is-now-ruling-party" groups force Meghana to rename their Paneer Biryani to Paneer Pulao?

I wonder if this "news" has been generated by the production team of the film itself, in the hope that 'any publicity is good publicity'.

"Students should at most be allowed to bring eggs to school. Fish, meat should not be allowed".

BJP's double-engine out at full force to smother and choke Delhi by removing green spaces. I guess this is mentioned somewhere in Sanatana Dharma that we common cockroach people are not privy to. After all, Modi ji jo karte hai, woh soch samajhkar hi karte hai.

" ‘Securing’ NEET paper-setters like MLAs being kept in resor­ts before horse-trading is jugaad optics" —What else can one expect from BJP, the baap of "optics"? Everything from BJP's so-called devotion to Gods, to Sanatana Dharma, to nari shakti is at a surface level, for just optics - दिखावे के लिए.

"The probe has not concluded, yet the Gujarat government has announced a Rs 105-crore redevelopment plan at the site—part of the evidence pool".

"On June 14th, Switzerland will vote on whether to become the only country in the world to officially cap its population, with a limit of ten million people until 2050. (The current population is 9.1 million.)" www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Mahindra's first ad pitching electric cars, in May, seemed like a well-timed response to PM Modi's call for austerity. But the 2nd ad, today? By saying, 'Electric is The car' and worse, 'Not the other car', doesn't it seem to be talking down to people wanting to buy a Thar or a Scorpio? 1/4

"There comes a time in the life of governments, especially the long running ones, when after a great run they suddenly appear helpless, incompetent, bumbling. We must now seriously confront this problem in respect of the 12-year-old Modi government".

"What is the point of India spending billions on its image, like raising swanky airports? Is the idea that someone would land at such an airport, be blown away by it, and then when he is stuck in the chaos of the city, inhaling poisonous air, he is going to think how fine the airport was?"

"Indian society has become dangerously accepting of poor standards in the name of development. Projects that should be halted and redesigned get cleared because the political pressure to show development overrides every professional instinct to get it right".

Why not 'house' the NEET paper setters in the Aadhaar Data complex which has 13-feet high and 5-feet thick walls?

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Look at the arrogant language of the BJP President - seeking greater political accountability for a BJP-led fiasco is 'negative politics', it seems. There would come one day when such anti-Indian, anti-people leaders will be made to eat their own words till they cry.

"The most striking aspect of the CBSE-OSM controversy was that it was not uncovered by a formal audit, parliamentary oversight, or an internal security review, but by teenagers and young independent researchers who took the time to examine the system"

"Technology deployed in haste, at this scale, on students this young, with stakes this high, is not modernisation. It is recklessness dressed as reform." —BJP can afford to be reckless in anything because we/Courts allow it to engineer elections and keep on winning.

"India’s economy is haunted by unanswered questions. Margaret Heffernan famously said, “Silence is the language of inertia.” In India’s political economy, the inertia is nurtured by the politics of complicity."