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Dr Arvind Virmani (Phd)

3 years

"Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas, Sabka Vishwas and Sabka Prayaas" (says PM of India). Equality of opportunity, sustained fast growth, #Digital Economy and #Green economy shows,

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Dr Arvind Virmani (Phd)

@dravirmani

2 years

Chinese Communist colony Hong Kong, is ranked at 148. If you😵‍💫 believe this ranking, I have a Taj Mahal I can sell you cheap!🤡

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@RSF_inter

2 years

#RSFIndex : RSF unveils its 2022 World #PressFreedom Index 1: Norway🇳🇴 2: Denmark🇩🇰 3: Sweden🇸🇪 16: Germany🇩🇪 24: UK🇬🇧 26: France🇫🇷 42: USA🇺🇸 58: Italy🇮🇹 71: Japan🇯🇵 110: Brazil🇧🇷 134: Algeria🇩🇿 150: India🇮🇳 178: Iran🇮🇷 179: Eritrea🇪🇷 180: North Korea🇰🇵

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@dravirmani

2 years

Note that’s there’s no data for 2013-14, 2014-15 & 2015-16. Guess why? 🥸

Kaushik Basu

@kaushikcbasu

2 years

2016-17: 8.2% 2017-18: 7.2% 2018-19: 6.1% 2019-20: 4.2% 2020-21: -7.3% These are India’s growth rates. 5 years, with each year’s growth less than previous has never happened after 1947. Sad. Let us not live in data denial, reducing everything to politics.

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@dravirmani

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15yrs ago I discovered, that West Bengal had highest % of hungry in cntry (3x UP, Bihar), & Kerala had worst income distribution! Th leftists who controlled Plan Comm/Govt vetoed publication of these facts, eliminated hunger Ques frm NSS surveys & stopped calc of Incm distributn

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@dravirmani

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“ #Pew discovered that 98% of India's Muslims say they are free to practice their religion in India. The remaining 2% said they were "not too free" to practice their religion, with virtually no one answering "not at all free".”

Should America condemn Modi’s India? Let the pertinent facts decide - Washington Examiner

India's prime minister, Narendra Modi, is famous for his bear-hug embraces of world leaders he wants to court. And so when Mr. Modi makes his first state visit to Washington on June 21-24, we should...

www.washingtonexaminer.com

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@dravirmani

2 years

#Farm #Laws The saddest part is that the intellectuals, experts, media who supported this abomination, will never be named and shamed; eventually, their mis-deeds forgotten, they will come back to do more damage to the public and the nation! 😪😭

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@dravirmani

2 years

Why does every 🤡in the West think he knows India’s interests better than 1.4 billion Indians. Why do they think that they know better how to achieve India’s National interest better than our democratically chosen leaders and the million Indian experts they have access to?

The Times Of India

@timesofindia

2 years

Tell Putin to stop war, it’s in India’s interest: Ukraine READ:

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@dravirmani

3 years

#TruthHurts 😩

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@dravirmani

5 years

Another economist will soon become an Expert on Everything?

NDTV Profit

@NDTVProfitIndia

5 years

Former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan hopes for 'de-escalation' of India-Pakistan tension. He also discusses the escalation of violence in Kashmir, India's upcoming election, and the need to grow the nation's economy.

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@dravirmani

4 years

These talks should have been held 30-40 years ago, in the interest of the Indian economy, NOT with an eye on China 😢

Mint

@livemint

4 years

With an eye on China, India considers trade talks with Taiwan

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@dravirmani

3 years

I have never in my life believed in conspiracy theories, but when foreign Govts and multilateral institutions, who pussyfoot around #genocide in #Pakistan & #China , start supporting #vested #interests , #opposing #economic #reforms in a #democracy , one is forced to rethink!

Geeta Mohan گیتا موہن गीता मोहन

@Geeta_Mohan

3 years

#Breaking UN says people have a right to demonstrate peacefully on farmers’ protests in India. “people have a right to demonstrate peacefully, and authorities need to let them do so,” @UN_Spokesperson @IndiaUNNewYork @ambtstirumurti #FarmerProtest #India

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@dravirmani

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Sorry, I disagree. At start of pandemic, with little info about contagion, a national approach was critical. From June 2020, GOI gave increasing flexibility to States! But neither States felt any responsibility nor did #LIMPs hold them accountable for Health, a State subject!

Shekhar Gupta

@ShekharGupta

3 years

Our #50WordEdit on how India dropped the ball on the Covid 2nd wave

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@dravirmani

3 years

#FACTcheck : I was personally involved in almost all aspects of economic reforms(~90%), from 1988 to 2004. There was little/no public discussion, prior to introduction, and criticism by 90% of Indian experts, after each specific reform! 90% appreciated after success demonstrated

Bhairavi Jani

@Bhairavi_Jani

3 years

3. In a democracy to pass reforms without public debate is hazardous & unnecessary. The process takes time but not doing it paralyses the functioning of it. The 1991 reforms were given much room for debate. Those who opposed it eventually became its ambassadors & benefited 3/5

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@dravirmani

2 years

Sorry I disagree: India needs a professional, multispecialist, multidisciplinary, multi-dimensional organization for fighting Information Warfare, not another ministry 🙏🏽

Mohandas Pai

@TVMohandasPai

2 years

Why India urgently needs a Ministry of Counter-Propaganda-India News , Firstpost. Very thought provoking ⁦ @HardeepSPuri ⁩ ⁦ @narendramodi ⁩ ⁦ @sanjeevsanyal ⁩ ⁦ @amitmalviya ⁩ ⁦ @RShivshankar ⁩ ⁦ @republic ⁩ @wion

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@dravirmani

7 years

🤓last month India produced 500 million economic experts, this month India will produce 500 million cyber experts😏😉😎

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@dravirmani

1 year

It was only 3-4 years ago that many renowned economists of that time, criticised the Govt of India @PMOIndia , for appointing a former bureaucrat, without an advanced degree in economics or finance, as Governor @RBI , to replace a renowned NRI professor/scholar.

Kaushik Basu

@kaushikcbasu

1 year

Good to see India’s CPI inflation drop below 6%. A large part of the credit goes to RBI’s monetary policy. Maybe it’s time to put fiscal & industrial policy too under RBI’s charge.

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@dravirmani

2 years

Sorry I disagree. What modern India needs is a constitution that ensures identical laws for all Indians, & strict, equal & fair application of laws to every citizen w/o reference to their gender, religion, creed. The social system will take care of itself, as it has 5000 years

Priyanka Chaturvedi🇮🇳

@priyankac19

2 years

This selective protest before every movie release has become an industry& a lobby, if not collectively pushed back we are fast heading into an abyss of hate,fear& silence. The entertainment industry is an employment generator, lakhs depend on it. Speak up.

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@dravirmani

2 years

This is 🐂💩: This person would have been in jail in China, long before this interview, and in jail in Russia immediately after this interview.

Richard Walker

@rbsw

2 years

Prominent journalist and Modi critic @HartoshSinghBal : “India is coming to resemble Russia and China far more than it resembles Western democracies.” 4/

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@dravirmani

2 years

Andhra & Orissa are a surprise, the interior areas of the country less so

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@dravirmani

4 years

What puzzles me is why folks who have been pleading for labor reform for yrs, first attack the proposal and then give (better) alternatives! Why not first welcome the intent & boldness, then suggest a better, more sustainable approach to labor reform?🧐🤔

COVID-19: Yogi Adityanath attempts reforms, delivers regulatory chaos in Uttar Pradesh

www.orfonline.org

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@dravirmani

5 years

In my personal experience Twitter trolls are the best mind readers- they can divine motives which never existed. But intellectuals are the greatest - They can even read the minds of the long dead 🤡

Shekhar Gupta

@ShekharGupta

5 years

Sardar Patel would be appalled by the vulgarity of his own statue: Ramachandra Guha @Ram_Guha tells @jomalhotra #OTC via @YouTube

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@dravirmani

3 years

The Pakistan Army has a pan India, #Grey #war strategy. Our intellectuals & academic experts don't even understand the nature of the enemy, so question of suggesting a strategy to counter theirs, doesn't even arise?

Aarti Tikoo

@AartiTikoo

3 years

Small pockets of Pakistan sponsored hate have been allowed to grow in all big cities & towns of India, in the last 50 years. They burst crackers at India’s loss in the cricket match last night. But some arm-chair journos will project this as Kashmir-specific. No, it’s pan-India.

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@dravirmani

4 years

1/cuckoo 🤡This gentlemen deserves a free, fully paid, trip to #Xinjiang ; longer the trip the better, and the more people who he can enlist to accompany him on free trip, the better! 🤓

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@dravirmani

3 years

#USA is a free democracy, #India is a "partly free" democracy

The New York Times

@nytimes

3 years

Park Cannon, a Democratic state representative in Georgia, was arrested on Thursday for knocking on Gov. Brian Kemp’s door, as the Republican governor signed a new law restricting voting access in Georgia.

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@dravirmani

2 years

In my first year in a US college, CalTech, I learnt about & participated in a grape boycott of California super-markets. Did the protest make California or USA anti-farmer or anti free market? No, It enhanced US reputation for democracy. In India its always the opposite-😪

Tanvi Madan

@tanvi_madan

2 years

Not sure this is what the PM means when he says in speeches to attract foreign companies that India has "demography" and "talent"

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@dravirmani

4 years

#Ignorance is #Bliss : Economists still don't get #Lockdown #Economics . As long as 60% of economy is in #Lockdown conventional fiscal stimulus has zero effect, 0. So anyone still talking about it, is either dumb, living in cloud cucko land or deliberately trying to fool th public

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@dravirmani

4 years

👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 An inter religous marriage is one in which each person retains his/her religion. A marriage in which the women changes her religion before/after marriage is Not an inter-faith marriage, its patriarchal hypocrisy.

Suhasini Haidar

@suhasinih

4 years

In fact, between all our families we have many inter-faith marriages: Hindu, Muslim, Parsi, Sikh, Jain, Jewish and Christian. Not one has seen a conversion,nor has there been any request for one. This is the India we belong to, and one we live in with pride.🇮🇳 #SaareJahanSeAchcha

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@dravirmani

3 years

There is no evidence( #data ) that #farmers are suffering from the economic effects of the pandemic . Please note I am talking of actual farmers who earn their living from producing crops/milk, not politician-landlords recycling black money or Arithiyas whose black income is cut!

Kaushik Basu

@kaushikcbasu

3 years

Contrary to what some critics say, not everything is downhill with India's economy. There's evidence that the rich are becoming richer & stock markets are booming. The segment suffering are farmers, small businesses & the working class. Poverty is rising like rarely seen before.

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@dravirmani

3 years

In how many countries have US auto makers been able to compete with Japanese & Korean companies, since 1990?

Shekhar Gupta

@ShekharGupta

3 years

First GM, now Ford — why India is becoming a graveyard for world’s auto giants TN Ninan writes

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@dravirmani

5 years

When my research in Planning Commission(~2006-7)showed Communist West Bengal had 3x the Hungry people in BIMARU states, Commie Fellow Travlers suppressed th research & forced NSSO to drop Hunger question from future surveys(Power of left in academia, intellectual elites).Facism?

Dhanya Rajendran

@dhanyarajendran

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Starved by husband and in-laws, Kerala woman was only 20 kgs when she died. @Sreedevi_Jay reports on a case that has shocked Kerala.

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@dravirmani

4 years

"Socialist & Secular" were added to preamble in 1976 during PM Indira Gandhi's Emergency(42nd amend)without due process, to appease the Communists! No World renowned Intelectual ( #GLIE , #ULIE , #ILIE ) objected or Questioned why it was needed after 25yrs of 😍🥰Nehruvian Socialism?

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@dravirmani

4 years

This is a #revolutionary #reform of the #agriculture #sector , which will help farmers and hurt middle men & their political partners who share in monopoly rents. I have observed hints of this rent seeking in decision process of the Committee of Secretaries on prices!

Nirmala Sitharaman (Modi Ka Parivar)

@nsitharaman

4 years

Parliament has cleared bills to reform agriculture sector. Farmers are now free to choose where and at what price they would sell their products. Farmers were demanding this for decades. MSP shall continue. APMCs remain. #JaiKisan #KisanWithPMModi

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@dravirmani

2 years

India’s per capita GDP growth rate averaged 1.3% per year, during period of Bureaucratic Socialism (1950-79), which put India in lowest 1/4 th of all cntrys. The poverty rate increased during this period(instead of declining). See my address to Indian Economic Asoc. 26/12/21.

Mohandas Pai

@TVMohandasPai

2 years

IIT Kharagpur: We should have stood on our feet long ago: Narendra Modi - Telegraph India. Silly article! There is truth in what PM Modi said! India missed a great opportunity after we got free, the license quota Raj destroyed our growth

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@dravirmani

2 years

Its incomprehensible that in 21st century, there are #intellectuals who believe that a 7th century dress code based on treating women as commercial chattel, sex objects & booty of conquest, represents freedom of expression by women & not antediluvian beliefs of male chauvinists😳

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@dravirmani

4 years

"you ain't seen nothing yet" #BigBang reform is here Congratulations @narendramodi @PMOIndia 👏👏👏 (only a few more polices to go, and we are set for a resurgence of growth as soon as they are fully in place)

Geeta Mohan گیتا موہن गीता मोहन

@Geeta_Mohan

4 years

Modi’s ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat’ important initiative: IMF "The economic package under this self-reliant India initiative, which was announced in the aftermath of the coronavirus shock, has supported the Indian economy and mitigated significant downside risks," an IMF official said.

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@dravirmani

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Reminds one of the bureaucratic (🐂) Socialism (💩) propagated by the Oxbridge educated Indian, Fabian Socialists, of the 1960s & 1970s

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@dravirmani

3 years

Agni 5 : Minimum Credible Deterrent

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@dravirmani

3 years

According to the constitution it's the parliament's job to make, amend & repeal laws, and its government's job to propose new laws or amend/repeal of existing laws to Parlmt. The SC only comes into the picture if a law violets the fundamental rights/structure of constitution

Live Law

@LiveLawIndia

3 years

Governments will come and go, It is not the government's business to start amending or repealing laws. It is important that the court use its power to strike down Section 124A and the offending provisions of #UAPA to ensure that the citizens can breathe more freely:JusticeNariman

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@dravirmani

4 years

Assam #NRC applies only to Assam. All those #Intellectuals who deliberately linked it either to #CAA or to Rest of India #NPR or both, bear equal if not greater responsibility as the most rabid BJP members!

Shekhar Gupta

@ShekharGupta

4 years

Northeast Delhi’s riots were not the result of sudden clashes between 2 groups... The root cause lies in the Supreme Court’s NRC order in Assam, incl detention centres... My #NationalInterest on camera

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@dravirmani

2 years

This is wrong. India’s policy changed a decade or so ago, to Reciprocity ie “There can no one China policy for India, without a One India policy from China.” In the absence of the latter, the former is implicitly suspended!

Reuters

@Reuters

2 years

India sticks to 'one-China' policy stance but seeks restraint on Taiwan

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@dravirmani

4 years

PM @narendramodi 's speech hints at #BigBang reforms. My probability estimate jumps back to 2/3rd, as it was before the budget. If hinted these reforms happen, @PMOIndia will put his name on the economic history of India. 🙏🙏🙏

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@dravirmani

2 years

#Boycott #Hyundai till they apologise and make amends!

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@CestMoiz

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Well Played, @HyundaiIndia ! I'm sure the higher ups of @Hyundai_Global must be mighty impressed at your prowess in going into hiding! Atleast one thing I know for sure as far as my next car goes - It will NOT be a Hyundai! Cheers!

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@dravirmani

5 years

#LFLo The great Woodstock festival in USA & other rock music festivals, were motivated by unemployment and employment generation ?🤡

Business Standard

@bsindia

5 years

#KumbhMela2019 : If everyone had decent jobs, rally maidans would be largely empty and, save for babas and curious foreigners and devout senior citizens, not very many would spare time for Kumbh Can #KumbhMela help alleviate UP's unemployment problems?

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@dravirmani

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In 2006, I found data that showed West Bengal had the highest % of Hungry in the country, 3x the % in Bihar. It’s publication in PlanCom was vetoed by leftist PlanCom member. Wonder what will be unearthed about Tripura (now that dictatorship of proletariat is overthrown)?

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@dravirmani

3 years

Next step: Reform subsidy regime to stop paying for air pollution & water depletion

Regime of subsidies is the main reason why there is stubble in the first place

The irony of agricultural pollution is that taxpayers are essentially paying for it through a system of subsidies that actually motivates the very behaviours that drive the agricultural emissions...

indianexpress.com

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@dravirmani

3 years

India's 1965-66 drought trauma led to building of a wheat-rice agriculture economy which is now a big drain on growth(high, wasteful/rotting FCI stocks). Other states have moved on, but Punjab refuses to do so, as it remains th major beneficiary of subsidies & FCI corruption😭

Sunil Jain

@thesuniljain

3 years

. @narendramodi be fair to ALL states, DIVIDE annual FCI-spend equally Why should Punjab get so much FCI money when UP or other states produce more? This is not a farmers' agitation, it is a Punjab agitation, critical to @INCIndia survival @capt_amarinder can be next Cong chief✋

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@dravirmani

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One of the most important recommendations of tax economists, implemented. This will apply to new companies moving #SupplyChains to India. Three cheers 👏👏👏to @nsitharaman and @pmo 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

ANI

@ANI

5 years

FM Sitharaman: To promote growth, a new provision has been inserted in the income tax act with effect from fiscal year 2019-20, which allows any domestic company to pay income tax at the rate of 22% subject to condition they will not avail any incentive or exemptions

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@dravirmani

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I don't know honorable Supreme court's definition of "poor", but my middle class, professional,"father in law", died while his case was still in courts 30 yrs after being filed! It was settled 10 years after his death! Judicial-legal-police reform any1 (vs econ policy & admin)?

Alien ✋

@Alien_GoodOne

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Early morning H O P E

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@dravirmani

3 years

India has created a library/data base of Indigenous knowledge (Dr Mashelkar's initiative) . The best way to register & acknowledge her contribution is to put all her knowledge into this data base cc @ARanganathan72

Anand Ranganathan

@ARanganathan72

4 years

One day, American scientists would isolate drug molecules from Lakshmikutty's 500 herbal preparations. Like the discoverer of Artemisinin, they will get the Nobel. At the award ceremony, they will thank Lakshmikutty. And when they do, India will give Lakshmikutty a Padmabhushan.

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A JNU student from a poor family, who receives financial support of Rs 40,000/month is poor, middle income or rich? Ans: With Rs 4,80,000 income, tax exemption of 2,50, 000, he has to pay 5% tax on 2,30,000 +cess. He is a middle income earner, defined by Indi communists as poor!

Sunanda Vashisht

@sunandavashisht

4 years

This is shameful @ARanganathan72 is one of our foremost scientists and a well regarded public intellectual. What are these hooligans doing? Why are they stopping him from doing his job? Full support to Anand as he takes on hooligans who are preventing him from doing his job.

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@dravirmani

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#PIP : "Secular, muslim majority, democracy, Malaysia has a #Misogyny law which makes it illegal for #Muslims to marry Non-Muslims (Their proposed solution is for non-muslims to convert to Islam before they can marry a muslim: Freedom of expression or forced conversion?)"

IndiaToday

@IndiaToday

4 years

The Malaysian Prime Minister had criticised India's new citizenship law while speaking on the sidelines of the Kuala Lumpur Summit 2019 on Friday. ( @Geeta_Mohan )

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@dravirmani

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#SupplyChains If Union Govt is unable to grab this once in a generation opportunity, Progresive States must grab the opportunity & transform State. They can do land, labor, electricity, agriculture, education-skilling #Reform at State level. A crisis is a terrible thing to waste

Mohandas Pai

@TVMohandasPai

4 years

Japan Will Pay Its Firms to Leave China, Relocate Production as Part of Coronavirus Stimulus Package. ⁦ @CMofKarnataka ⁩ ⁦⁦ @drashwathcn ⁩ Sir pl set up a group under ⁦ @rk_misra ⁩ to get Japanese investment to Karnataka

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@dravirmani

4 years

#PCP : "My motives are noble, but the motives of all the others are suspect"🤡

IndiaToday

@IndiaToday

4 years

'India Against Corruption' movement was propped up by BJP-RSS for their own political purposes, says @pbhushan1 #IndiaTodayIndiaTomorrow Watch full show with @sardesairajdeep at

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4 years

Legal reform was the 1 major new institutional reform in BJP manifesto for 2019 election. It's good news that Govt @AmitShah is initiating action on it. 👍🏼Pls 🙏🏼take account of previous Law Commission reports on Criminal law reform & criminal justice. 🙏🏼

Government sets in motion process to revamp criminal laws

The new structure and content of criminal laws will be citizen centric, reflect the aspirations of a modern democracy and provide for speedy justice, especially to the weaker sections of society,...

economictimes.indiatimes.com

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@dravirmani

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If fertilizer subsidy is converted to #Direct #Cash #transfer to farmers, manufacturing trade balance will improve, #Water #pollution will decline, public health will improve, demand for organic fertilizer & Gobar gas plants will rise, rural jobs and value of cows will increase.

CNBC-TV18

@CNBCTV18News

3 years

India imports 39% of its fertiliser requirement & is the 2nd biggest consumer in the world. What will be the implications for fertiliser cos if direct benefit transfer is made to the farmers & revival of 5 fertiliser plants? @sonalbhutra #CNBCTV18ClutterBreakers #Trendspotting

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@dravirmani

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Met a person from Allahabad region yesterday: He saw crops being damaged by non-milk yielding calf’s that have been let loose as strays, bcs no benefit from feeding them & the option of selling them no longer exists. Rural Economics of 80% will eventually trump emotions of 20%

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@dravirmani

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Please 🙏modernise the entire managemnt and administration system of courts and justice, along with the introduction of IT and AI 🙏🙏🙏

CJI mulls AI-system to avoid undue delay in justice delivery

Justice Bobde also pitched for pre-litigation mediation against the backdrop of large number of pending cases in courts, observing that it is the need of the hour.

economictimes.indiatimes.com

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@dravirmani

6 years

Q: Is this the first time in our history that an Indian PM has said this so emphatically (& publicly)? If so, then 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Narendra Modi

@narendramodi

6 years

India is proud of our industry and industrialists. They contribute greatly to national growth. Some people publicly abuse industrialists but privately expect industrialists to kowtow in front of them. I am happy to engage with industry and work with them for India’s prosperity.

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@dravirmani

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A powerful aggressor can only be deterrred by building counter power. Diplomacy is an instrument for building it, not a substitute for it

Nirupama Menon Rao 🇮🇳

@NMenonRao

7 years

There's no doubt that we live in an age of Chinese overreach and vaulting ambition. But we need Kautilya not cannon power to outflank them.

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@dravirmani

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A Communist acknowledging the superiority of Capitalist hospitals in USA over the Communist ones in China, Cuba and (former Communist) Russia should be celebrated. 🥂& good health comrade

Hindustan Times

@htTweets

6 years

Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan heads to US for medical treatment

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@dravirmani

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Q: How do U communicate Nuclear Deterrence Doctrine ( #NDD )& No first use( #NFU ), to hindi speaking villagers? Ans: Not through translation by english speaking nuclear experts & Non-Proliferation #Ayotollahs who criticized Indian nukes, & justified China proliferation to Pak& NK🤡

Shekhar Gupta

@ShekharGupta

5 years

Credit to Modi govt for calling Pakistan’s nuclear bluf post-Pulwama... But it serves India poorly to flaunt it in partisan poll rhetoric.. Why a nuclear power is expected to talk responsibly... #CutTheClutter Episode 147 via @YouTube

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#SciMe 👍🏼👏👏👏

31-yr-old in top 2% of world scientists’ list teaches kids in remote J&K town | India News - Times...

India News: NEW DELHI: Of the 2,313 Indians in Stanford University’s list of top 2% scientists in the world, a major chunk is from well-known institutes like the .

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

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@dravirmani

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#Legal reform was included in the BJP manifesto for 2019 National election. Its apparently the first time that any political party has included legal reform in its manifesto; Several #judicial #reforms have been stymied by the Supreme Court.

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@dravirmani

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It's sad 😢😭 that Punjab is still stuck in the 20th C Wheat-Rice agriculture of India, when many States have moved into the 21st century market economy of exotic vegetables, fruits, seeds & grains, the digital economy(e-mrkts) & international markets(organic food). Result👇🏼

Prof. Shamika Ravi

@ShamikaRavi

3 years

Beyond politics of #FarmBill : Punjab has been missing out on rapid economic growth across India. The richest state of the union for years, is now significantly behind HR, GJ, KA, MH, KL, TN & HP-all poorer in comparison 20 yrs back. Punjab economy needs basic structural reforms.

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#India #Agriculture : Facts, data, hurts ideologues, politicians, intellectual hypocrites, and corrupt vested interests; but it's the only basis for good analysis and effective policy.

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@dravirmani

2 years

Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, eventually got rid of every US diplomat, who objected to Pakistan Army genocide in East Pakistan

Maj Gen Harsha Kakar

@kakar_harsha

2 years

The US ambassador writes to Gen Manekshaw. He praises the Indian army and criticizes conduct of Pak forces. Remember US was a Pak ally then

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@dravirmani

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#PIP : "I tweeted months ago, that (il) #Liberals will come to regret th deliberate effort to mislead Public by mixing #CAA with ( #Assam version of) #NRC , so that valid criticism of latter would be associated with Invalid criticism of former( #WhiteLies )":

Anti-CAA protests gave us poetry to resist, but hard plumbing of alternative politics yet to be...

Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: There are reasons why the foisting of the communal narrative around the anti-CAA protests has gained the upper hand. Communal propaganda now so seamlessly works within...

indianexpress.com

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@dravirmani

5 years

Such Abuse of an Indian PM is a good indicator that India’s enemies are hurting deeply. Keep on Trucking 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

Taha Siddiqui

@TahaSSiddiqui

5 years

#Wtf !!! Is this for real?! A headline in an Urdu newspaper in Pakistan refers to @narendramodi as the son of a prostitute. The govt must stop such hate mongering and take action.

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@dravirmani

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A PM who doesn't have the guts to condemn #genocide in #China (or erstwhile East #Pakistan ) will defend right to protest in a constitutional democracy. When did Human rights crusaders ( #HRCs ) become such 🤡🤡🤡?

Geeta Mohan گیتا موہن गीता मोहन

@Geeta_Mohan

3 years

‘Canada Will Defend Right to Protest’: PM @JustinTrudeau Backs Indian Farmers He spoke on #Gurpurab where he mentioned protests by farmers in India against @narendramodi govt's new farm laws. #FarmerProtest @PMOIndia @HCI_Ottawa @CanadianPM @CanadainIndia @Ajaybis @nadirypatel

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Truth hurts 🫥

My Value Picks

@myvaluepicks

1 year

“Forgive me. India’s intellectual class is anti-India, as a class and not as an individual.” @sbabones

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@dravirmani

3 years

2/hhrcs #Beware Th Indian commies & their leftists fellow travelers, who suppressed ☝🏼information, now write/speak in USA & UK media, about freedom of speech being suppressed (2014-2021) for the first time in India! (Note: Good data analysis must separate shocks, cycles & trends)

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@dravirmani

2 years

Human Rights in #USA (1/hrus)

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@dravirmani

5 years

If I recall correctly, it was the combine of leftists and bureaucrats who were so upset at the result that they banned PISA. Congratulations to Govt for taking India's head out of the sand and preferring transparency 👏

Prasanna Viswanathan

@prasannavishy

5 years

India all set to rejoin PISA in 2021 (it tests performance of 15 yr old school kids on maths,science, reading). HRD signs an agreement with OECD. India last participated in PISA in 2009 and achieved a low rank of 72 out of 74 nations.UPA then pulled out

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@dravirmani

2 years

Serious Question to Intellectuals: Is this a #peaceful protest or a #violent protest? (Would like to know so non-intellectuals like us, can apply a uniform benchmark)

Kanchan Gupta (Hindu Bengali Refugee)🇮🇳

@KanchanGupta

2 years

Headmaster of a school in Murshidabad, #WestBengal has been transferred and forced to apologise to a large mob of women in #hijab (as seen in this video) for disallowing a student in hijab to attend school. ‘Patriarchy’ placardists hiding under their beds.

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#SupplyChains #India needs to work indipendently with #USA and #China to separate the supply chains headed in the two directions and try to shift as much of them as possible to India

Indo-Pacific News - Geo-Politics & Defense

@IndoPac_Info

5 years

Beijing will increase tariffs on more than 5,000 products to as high as 25%. Duties on some other goods will increase to 20%. Those rates will rise from either 10% or 5% previously.

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@dravirmani

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2/gdp Ans: Because the GDP growth rate peaked in 2016-17 and was above that in 2013-14,till 20..-..! 🧐

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@dravirmani

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Believe it or not: #Taiwan cases up >10 times previous daily peak. #India 's second wave peak was 4 times first wave peak in daily cases. #Complacency and #hubris were neither invented in India, nor does India hold a patent on them! 🧐🤔

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@dravirmani

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During the 1990s reforms 90-99% of economists and leftist-socialist politicians(>75% in 1990) opposed every single reform, but once it was implemented & working, they often claimed indirect authorship! So i have mixed feelings about this👇🏼 complaint

Jairam Ramesh

@Jairam_Ramesh

3 years

Tomorrow the Bill to privatise the GIC is being taken up in the Rajya Sabha. All Opposition parties including those friendly to the BJP want it referred to a Select Committee. But the Govt. is adamantly refusing.

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The big ones that come to mind are, (1) Bankruptcy Law, (2) GST (though incomplete), (3) Corporate Tax reform , (4) Agricultural Trade (5) Private sector (including FDI) in Defence, (6) Intro of Aadhar linked DBT(incomplete=>DCT), (7) ...

Mohandas Pai

@TVMohandasPai

4 years

Maan you are a Joke @ShekharGupta You make the list and then ask what Modi did for reforms You are so biased, one sided and a Modi Hater. Ask @APanagariya or @RajivKumar1 about the reforms the Modi Govt has done, he can educate you! @rsprasad

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#India : Riots(lhs) & Murder(rhs) cases per mi, have been on declining trend since 1991 economic reforms; There was temporary setback to former(ie riots) from 2004 to 2013. #Hypothesis : Riots are driven by lack of hope in economic future (which flagged under NAC socialism/LPQ raj)

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@dravirmani

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"My request for #Twitter #verification of @dravirmani has been denied" RT if you don't agree with this decision. ["Indian Social media law and regulations must protect Indian citizens from foreign censorship and information warfare" RT if you agree with this suggestion] 🙏

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@dravirmani

6 years

Intellectuals are so much smarter than a former President with 80 yrs of constitutional & political experience and the latter must be told by former what’s the wise thing to do, as he can’t think of it himself? 😏😉🧐

Ramachandra Guha

@Ram_Guha

6 years

Pranab Mukherjee is free to accept or reject any invitation he gets. However, in this age of fake news he should make the full and authorised text of his lecture to RSS cadres at Nagpur available to the public as soon as it is delivered.

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Western liberal defn of peaceful protest in USA/Canada/UK : Walking to a park in capital on an approved route, making speeches for a few hours & going home. Western liberal defn of peaceful protest in India: Blocking all traffic on major highway(s) into capital for >60days!😎

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@dravirmani

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No one in India, except the Commies👎🏼, would agree with this statement in article that "Many Indians want .. within limits, a strong China precisely to help guard against the kind of world order President Biden and many of his advisers want to build."👎🏼

Opinion | Handle the India-U.S. Relationship With Care

The world’s largest democracy often sees things very differently than America.

www.wsj.com

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@dravirmani

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@kaushikcbasu Prof @kaushikcbasu I would greatly appreciate a copy of data (time series) on which this conclusion is based. This data is critical for devising effective policy solutions after 70 years of failure(?) of our constitutional/legal policies relating to caste!

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@dravirmani

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@DerekJGrossman Prof @DerekJGrossman which #QUAD member, or which #ally of a #Quad member, has been attacked by Russia? 🙏🏽 Or did I miss something about the objectives of QUAD, or of the bilateral and trilateral agreements that QUAD members have signed among themselves? Pls enlighten🙏🏽.

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@dravirmani

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#TaxTerrorism and #Bureaucratic #Socialism ( #BS 🐂💩) is worse than a #Cancer . It neither lets you die in peace, nor does it let you live in peace. 😱 (Hint: 100 years of facts, data and analysis has no effect on it)

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@dravirmani

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Islamic Republic of Pakistan #IRP "We ❤️all Muslims, except Ahamadis, Hazra, Shias, Sufis, Uyighyrs, Baloch, Pashtuns (PTM)..."

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@dravirmani

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#Tibet , #Xinjiang #HongKong and #Taiwan issues must be resolved peacefully in accordance with the UN charter 👍🏼

Global Times

@globaltimesnews

5 years

The #Kashmir issue should be resolved properly through peaceful means in accordance with the United Nations Charter, relevant Security Council resolutions and bilateral agreement: Chinese envoy

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@dravirmani

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If U read budget analysis in newspapers today, you'l find that many intellectuals have become economic experts and many economists have become political experts. Earlier only former used to happen, now the economists have also decided to become "experts on everything" 😏😉🤡

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@dravirmani

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@Ram_Guha @washingtonpost Professor @Ram_Guha Can you give us an example of a 50-50 democracy? Without a benchmark, it's not possible to provide numerical grades to any democracy. (If possible Prof) I would also be most grateful for your grading of Indonesian or Malaysian Democracy as a Comparator!

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@dravirmani

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Believe it or not: Statistically speaking that’s an achievement of #Zero #electricity #deficit (in my living memory of India)

Economic Times

@EconomicTimes

5 years

#India has again missed the target of becoming an #electricity -surplus nation by a whisker as its peak #power deficit stood at 0.8 per cent and the overall #energy deficit remained 0.6 per cent in 2018-19

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@dravirmani

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#FM @nsitharaman already had a Pre-Budget meeting with #Economists (and other stake holders), about a month ago(but who cares about history which doesn't fit ones ideological/political narrative)

The Quint

@TheQuint

4 years

A number of people took to Twitter to express their surprise after Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman gave a pre-budget meeting with economists and sector experts a miss.

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@dravirmani

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We did a comprehensive analysis of the Goods & Services Tax, GST @EgrowFoundation , including its distributive impact, and showed that the #GST was a #progressive tax (). This 👇🏼 is a pathetic excuse for a think tank ……..

TheNewsMinute

@thenewsminute

1 year

India's poorest half pays two-thirds of GST, while top richest pay only 3%: #Oxfam

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@dravirmani

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Western experts laughed at Indian national security analysts who talked of "String of Pearls" Strategy 20 years ago! They laughed at us when we exposed Pakistani lies and double dealing 30 years ago. They laughed at us when we talked about Communist Chinese Coercion 35 years ago

Jeremy Page 裴杰

@JNBPage

5 years

Exclusive: China signed secret deal to use a Cambodian naval base, U.S. officials say. Early draft was for 30 years, allowing China to berth ships, post armed personnel and store weapons/ammunition. w/ @glubold @WSJRobTaylor

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@dravirmani

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"Actions speak louder than words" "Speak softly and acquire a bigger stick" Ignore the #DumbExperts who can't even interpret govt policy from its actions and keep asking govt to spell it out for them in words😢:

India invites Israeli companies to meet $130 billion weapons need

Defence ministry sets target of 70 per cent self-reliance in weaponry by 2027

www.business-standard.com

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@dravirmani

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🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 @PMOIndia Lay out the red carpet for Taiwanese electronic, semi conductor, telecom, manufacturing supply chains ( cc @arunjaitley @nsitharaman @SushmaSwaraj @rsprasad @sureshpprabhu ) Don't miss this golden opportunity, please🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

jude jin

@judejinjin

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@WarrenRothman Dis-engaging is ongoing behind trade talks. Taiwanese media is reporting that many US buyers have told Taiwanese suppliers that US cannot accept any semiconductor /electronic components sourced from China. So many manufacturers have been exiting China.

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India, in Nov. 2018, was paying Iran $65/b for oil extracted from Iraqi, Lebanese, Israeli blood and in July 2022, paying $112/b for Russian oil extracted from Ukrainian blood. Sanctions on Russian & Iranian oil effectively sucked $50/b out of stomach of poor Indians

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@dravirmani

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Sincere question: “Does the “free world” include the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, whose Army committed #Genocide in East Pakistan in 1971 (1-3 mi murdered, 250,000 raped, 10 mi refugees) and whose Govt has carried out religious cleansing for 50 yrs? “

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@dravirmani

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Corrupt wheat-rice-sugar economy has kept Indian agricultural productivity at 50% of global average & > 60% of workers tied to the land, though agricultural GDP is <20% of total. FCI was in my list of top 3 corrupt Govt orgs. Every1 except farmers & consumers benefit frm crpt sys

Business Standard

@bsindia

4 years

32% of FCI's FY21 wheat procurement cost to be mandi taxes, middlemen fee @sanjeebm77 reports

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I predict that @nsitharaman will prove renowned economists equally wrong in managing the fisc(fiscal policy) in the next 3-4 years.

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