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3 years

If you were the headline writer, would you have said last month or last week..?

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My investment portfolio is fairly diversified: 20% is out of the window, 65% is down the drain and 15% is gone with the wind. (From a friend)

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If I buy $100 worth of stuff on or take a Uber overseas for $10 or spend $20 in a restaurant, the credit card company will keep an additional 20% for each transaction to be refunded at the end of the year ? How did we end up here ?

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4 years

Early MIT study says only 6% of #COVID19 cases from regions with temperatures higher than 18 C:

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3 years

Dont Allow Indian Business Houses To Enter Banking: Raghuram Rajan

Don't Allow Indian Business Houses To Enter Banking: Raghuram Rajan | BOOM

Raghuram Rajan and Viral Acharya have opposed the entry of corporates in banking, as suggested internally by the RBI

www.boomlive.in

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2 years

Parents attend mask-free weddings, political rallies, go to office, get-togethers with friends and family, salons, gyms, parlours, shop in bustling markets and malls but will NOT send their children to school though science says it's safe and damage higher if they don't..

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3 years

Reverse jugaad: fake medicines have same outcome as real ones, without the side effects.. PS: Not a medical observation

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1 year

Does this mean India's kids will lose that magical opportunity of becoming world-beating, tech n coding geniuses before they turn 10 ?

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1 year

India set to be the only country in the world where citizens pay advance taxes to the Government for the privilege of `credit' card (international) transactions, to the tune of 20%

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6 years

Telegraph, Calcutta front page this morning..

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2 years

L&T Chairman AM Naik's statements are worrying: 1. L&T lost 14 of 14 contracts to low value bids incl from incompetent players who later struggled. 2. The Rs 4.3 Lakh crore, 5-year delay is on taxpayers. 3. 60% of L&T business is from outside India now.

L&T losing to ill-equipped cos in India; isn't it a pity: A M Naik

Engineering major lost large domestic orders as technical-deficient rivals won tenders

www.business-standard.com

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3 years

I avoid sharing investment tips on social media but making an exception here.. Buy Petrol @100 -102/- Target 125/- via WA !

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4 years

Pensions in India's army now exceeds salary bills, both much higher than modernisation & maintenance budgets Pensions 1,13,257 38.1% Salaries 1,11,294 37.5% Modernise 26,069 8.8% Maintenance 18,328 6.2% (Rs Crore) via @PRSLegislative

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5 years

The real cost of doing business in India...maybe he did something wrong, maybe not..but no business can escape harassment, some more, some less..

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5 years

There was a lot of harassment from the previous DG-Income Tax in the form of attaching our shares on two separate occasions to block our Mindtree deal and then taking position of our Coffee Day shares, says VG Siddhartha in his letter to CCD Board

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4 years

Does everyone feel the same way, tears & despair for this young boy's future, frustration at how we have lost our way...and wonder when & where this will all end..

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7 years

Don't say that, CBI took brave & pioneering steps like going after a Rs 6.15 lakh fraud in a Chinese wallet company

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7 years

The govt is shameless in the way it is using CBI against political opponents but not pursuing cases against their own.CBI image rock bottom.

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3 years

Air-India privatisation will be completed in 2021-22 since it could not be completed in 2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17, 2017-18, 2018-19, 2019-20 and of course 2020-21 #Budget2021

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6 years

You are not first victim and may not be the last ! Same fake `site' also said "Modi 7th most corrupted PM in world": via @boomlive_in

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Fake site or not, most of the political parties there are over 50 years, their history is known, their corruption is also known

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3 years

7 calls between 12:20 am and 04:29 am this morning from my credit card co asking me to authorise a legitimate $12.99 monthly auto debit...thank you @RBI for such well thought through regulation..

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4 years

Why the menu will be samosas and chai at the next big meeting of Fortune CEOs..

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2 years

There are bright spots but if the full 5-year period 2019-24 is taken together, India's economic growth will have averaged just 3.6%, the slowest 5-yr period since the 1970s: TN Ninan

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3 years

For reasons of personal wellbeing will refer to Mumbai petrol prices only in USD from now on... So today it is just $1.47 per litre..if you are dying to know, that equals Rs 110.75 in local currency.

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1 year

"If you are saying this medicine is good, you must be qualified and disclose that you are qualified to say that.. " Timely and welcome move by Dept of Consumer Affairs

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5 years

Amazon & Flipkart have denied or are silent on this $3 billion festival sales number claimed by a consulting firm and yet it is headlined like a verified fact.. media self manipulation at it's saddest level..

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4 years

Country Cases Recovery Dead USA 104661 890 1702 Italy 86498 10950 9134 India 873 78 19 At this point, more people are recovering in India than dying, in contrast to countries like USA. #COVID19

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4 years

Toll booth collections at record high again, at Rs 86 crore per day, no of electronic transactions up from 0.8 to 3 million in 6 months. Roads minister @nitin_gadkari should find out who was siphoning off earlier ?

NHAI records highest daily toll collection as FASTag sales double in Dec

FASTags-based toll collection system has been rolled out across over 527 national highways

www.business-standard.com

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3 years

Did you know ? Rate reversal: West Bengal contributes most to National Small Saving Fund

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4 years

India is testing only 3% positive #COVID19 cases, against Italy's 23% and US 58%.. If accurate & sample sets are representative, this means India is behaving differently

Health Check

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Testing data show that India is detecting 3% positive #COVID19 cases among the samples tested, the same as South Korea but lower than the US's 58%, China's 25% and Italy's 23%

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4 years

In Times Of Job Loss And Insecurity, Malegaon Emerges A Successful Outlier via @parthpunter

In Times Of Job Loss And Insecurity, Malegaon Emerges A Successful Outlier

Malegaon: Mushtaq Shaikh has done something consistently over the past three months that not many in India have been able to: He has been going to work. A worker at a power loom in Malegaon--250

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@govindethiraj

5 years

Parle employs over 100,000 people, would not have guessed..

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5 years

There is a slowdown when someone who sells Parle G says his biscuits are not selling. Parle G is the most affordable food across categories.

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5 years

Indian Passport Drops A Rank, Ends Up At 82nd Position

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This is what cities are doing with their flyover pillars, it's not too far to travel to learn @mybmc this is Delhi

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@govindethiraj

3 years

We are happy and proud to announce that @IndiaSpend has completed 10 years in data-led, public interest journalism this month. Your support helps us shine the light on the most important issues of our day: #IndiaSpendAt10

Support IndiaSpend’s award-winning investigative journalism.

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5 years

Why can't SBI take over Air-India and manage the process of finding a new owner with a 60-90 day deadline...if it can do so with Jet Airways ?

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5 years

An Armenian Uber driver in San Francisco week before spoke to me in Hindi, said he had watched over 100 Bollywood films, tasted gulab jamuns (because one character ate it) and wanted to know more about the various sweets in the plate always served to visitors - in the movies..

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6 years

We have launched IndiaSpend Tamil, after English and Hindi !

IndiaSpend

@IndiaSpend

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Every week, we release at least 6 special reports on issues of national interest. Follow IndiaSpend Tamil today. Visit us at

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4 years

Those ridiculing the dire predictions by some epidemiologists forget that the Modi Government's steps - including the never imagined shut down of Indian Railways - are a response to precisely these predictions..which now have a lesser chance of coming true.. #covidindia

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4 years

144,500 Jobs Affected As Tourism Takes A Hit In Kashmir via @IndiaSpend

144,500 Jobs Affected As Tourism Takes A Hit In Kashmir

Srinagar: This spring if tourists do not arrive in Kashmir in large numbers, Ghulam Jeelani, 52 could well lose his job. The manager of a hotel in Srinagar’s tourist hub, Boulevard Road bordering...

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2 years

Maharashtra state mandate of 7-day institutional quarantine for all `at-risk' international arrivals (which includes all Europe) is utter insanity. Demonstrates you learnt NOTHING since April 2020 and have zero confidence in your own people, health professionals & infrastructure

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2 years

Congratulations @prempanicker on taking over as @IndiaSpend Consulting Editor, look forward to an impactful blend of on-ground public interest reporting in key areas like health & environment and editorial leadership in traditional and new-generation news environments !

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5 years

Couldn't say it better...he was on a Goa flight behind me (in economy) few years ago & that too booked on a middle seat ! Two passengers from Business Class came and pleaded with him to take their seats ..he declined and finally agreed to move one seat to the aisle..

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4 years

Google announces Rs 75,000 crore India Digitisation Fund, to invest in combination of equity and partnerships over next 5-6 years @GoogleIndia

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6 years

Dainik Jagran Quietly Deletes Story That Claimed Kathua Victim Not Raped via @boomlive_in

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1 year

The day you thank your regulators for not getting swayed by crypto and other VC funded bros

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1 year

Why us Mumbai folks can't make sense of the goings-on in Delhi's corridors of power..

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1 year

Ad for Reserve Bank's Dy Governor position in latest issue of British weekly newspaper The Economist. More importantly, last date to apply is day after..

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2 years

Ford is pulling out of India, selling its two plants in Gujarat & Tamil Nadu and investing $900 million afresh in Thailand...any lessons ?

Reuters Asia

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Ford to invest $900 mln in Thailand plants

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5 years

Dear @ECISVEEP appears you have rejected my application for voter id (post ejecting me from my previous constituency) saying invalid photo and not present at hearing...after accepting all documents online...when or what was the hearing ?

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6 years

You may disagree with his methods but read this to understand where @rssharma3 passion for Aadhaar comes from & why he sounds more right than his critics:

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3 years

The UK says fully vaccinated visitors from India are now welcome (Amber list) but neither Covishield or Covaxin are accepted...so figure how you can be a visitor from India with a UK made & administered vaccine

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6 years

Republic TV Edits Arrested Postcard News Founder Mahesh Hegde's Tweet via @boomlive_in

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4 years

GDP Growth Nos Projections Region 2020/21 World -2% USA -6% Eurozone -9% India 1.6% * Goldman Sachs via @dugalira #COVID19

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7 years

We counted more than 100 tweets that warned about an impending #Elphinstoneroad bridge tragedy, no one did anything

100 Old Tweets Warning About A Stampede Show Why Mumbai Is Angry | BOOM

One keyword that stood out in all these tweets was ‘stampede’. Most tweets warned of a disaster waiting to happen.

www.boomlive.in

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Govindraj Ethiraj

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2 years

The many businessmen rightly praising the late Rahul Bajaj for his candour & spine are effectively thanking him for speaking up for them, over generations.. #HamaraBajaj

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2 years

Against US Dollar in the 1st half of 2022 1. Euro (-) 11.6% 2. Yen (-) 19.2% 3. Pound (-) 13.2% 4. Rupee (-) 6% Shouldn't headline be rupee has moved up against almost all currencies ? via TN Ninan

The rupee's 'new lows': Why it's not necessarily a cause for concern

The framers of a 'strong currency' policy ignore that almost every country with a successful long-term record of development has pursued a 'weak currency' policy, writes T N Ninan

www.business-standard.com

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3 years

Covisheild at Rs 600 per dose after freeing up pricing; things could change but right now clearly demonstrates that free pricing does not mean indiscriminate pricing as some fear and is incentivising more production..

SerumInstituteIndia

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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

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1 year

India's print industry advertises it's influence & reach and also the inequality in the country..

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6 years

Mind boggling ET report says it is @ICICIBank CEO's choice whether to step down or not...did ownership of ICICI Bank transfer to her family at some point, as I don't recall seeing it:

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5 years

Is the question I have been searching for an answer for a long time ..the most draconian state structures and laws, destruction of private capital and enterprise, throttling of free spirits and yet...

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5 years

Isn’t it curious that most of BJP’s attacks in the Dynasty are confined to Nehru, and now Rajiv. Indira Gandhi is mostly overlooked despite her Emergency and destructive state-socialism

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3 years

If an aircraft has to be chartered to fly out, lets say 50 mobile Covid19 patients from Delhi, to Chennai or Mumbai, where O2 + bed scene may be little better: 1. Does it make medical sense ? 2. Can it be done logistically ? 3. Will the 2 cities be ok ? 4. Who could drive this ?

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6 years

We are collecting footwear in Lower Parel, Mum, for protestors in Mumbai who have worn them out in the march from Nashik...pref new, hawaii/flip flop ideal, mid size..you can hook up with @KaleKrutika . Deadline is tomorrow noon: @b50 @ShankkarAiyar

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2 years

The Income Tax Tribunal is effectively saying: 1. Cricket still has to be `promoted' in India 2. Adding `entertainment value' to cricket is innovation. 3. A sports body structure will be tax friendlier for some businesses, like betting ?

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3 years

Over a decade, we have shone the light on the essentials that affect our lives: public health, education, gender equity, social justice, climate change & environment. We have focused on interpreting facts through rigorous research & boots-on-the-ground reportage #IndiaSpendAt10

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@govindethiraj

5 years

You know it comes from the heart, we should compile her best responses, a small book of its own - in leadership and humility

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Even if you are stuck on the Mars, Indian Embassy there will help you.

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2 years

Betteridge's Law: Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word No. (The Economist letters, Sept 24)

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3 years

"Madam, you didn't write Ivermectin, my neighbour was given that, my cousin was given.." Indian doctors fight pressure to prescribe drugs that don't work

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4 years

Hong Kong 1. Visitors = 3 million a day (check) 2. Residents = 7.5 million 3. No of Covid-19 deaths = 6 4. Lockdown = NO 5. Masks compliance rate = 97% at rush hour 6. 3% Non compliance = mostly Europeans/Americans #COVID19

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2 years

Three headlines from ET newspaper this afternoon: 1. Majority of India's 900 million workforce stop looking for jobs. 2. Formal job creation remains uneven for 2nd month in a row. 3. A perfect storm is about to rock middle-class India's budgets.

Majority of India’s 900 million workforce stop looking for jobs

With India betting on young workers to drive growth in one of the worlds fastest-expanding economies, the latest numbers are an ominous harbinger. Between 2017 and 2022, the overall labor participa...

economictimes.indiatimes.com

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@govindethiraj

7 years

Unless @IndiGo6E comes up with a clear explanation, I would conclude this shocking video is similar to @united one:

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5 years

25 fake stories around #PulwamaAttack and counting...debunked by @boomlive_in

BOOM Live

@boomlive_in

5 years

Do follow this important thread for 25 stories on #PulwamaAttack . Some important lessons for everyone - fact checkers, platforms like @GoogleIndia , @Facebook and @TwitterIndia , policy makers, researchers - on the depths of #fakenews

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"Railways focussing on higher speeds, track renewal & cutting costs," Railway Minister @sureshpprabhu tells me:

Safety Track Record Of Railways Improved By 50% In Last Two Years: Suresh Prabhu | BOOM

Union Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu says overall safety has improved and the few unfortunate cases can be attributed to sabotage

www.boomlive.in

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@govindethiraj

4 years

Dear @ICMRDELHI It would help (and reduce anxiety) if you released this info daily: 1. No of patients tested so far, as opposed to samples 2. Stages of testing for each. 3. Demographics of positives. 4. No of recoveries, deaths + demographics 5. No of pneumonia deaths #COVID19

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6 years

This is crazy...the banks knew in May 2017 that Kanishk Gold was not going to repay because the promoters TOLD them...but the banks declared them as defaulters to RBI only in November 2017:

Jewellery chain Kanishk Gold defrauds 14 banks to tune of Rs 824.15 crore - Times of India

India Business News: CHENNAI: In yet another bank fraud , State Bank of India has requested the help of the CBI in January to investigate jewellery chain Kanishk Gold Pvt .

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

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9 years

I asked a room with over 40 investors, fund managers & analysts yesterday if they believed India's new GDP numbers. Not one said yes.

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4 years

We are heading for a 4,000-point drop in the BSE Sensex, fondly remembering the days the Sensex WAS 4,000 points..

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6 years

Minister, this gives a feeling that hawai chappal buyer is somehow paying similar quantum of tax as BMW buyer...regardless of rate, one is paying a few rupees & the other few lakhs..

Arun Jaitley

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What Rahul Gandhi suggested was single GST rate of 18 %. This is different from suggesting a cap of 18 %. This was the grand stupid idea. Can a Hawai chappal and a BMW car be taxed at the same rate?

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Country Tests Positives % US 2,079,943 395,784 19 Italy 807,125 139,422 17 India 127,919 5,114 4 India still holding at low positives to tests ratio..slight rise from early days but broadly consistent pattern

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6 years

Fake News Websites Active During Karnataka Polls Vanish via @boomlive_in

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6 years

As always wit flows best when the end is near..

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1 year

Shakti just out rendered one of their biggest almost 50-yr-old original hits, Bridge of Sighs, led here by the legendary Viku Vinayakram on stage just now in Mumbai. If such a thing was possible.. #Shakti50

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Video Of Vajpayee's Funeral Procession Shared As PM Modi Filing His Nomination via @boomlive_in

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5 years

Delighted to welcome @hrvenkatesh as Director (Training & Research) into the @boomlive_in team. Venkatesh, just back from @JSKstanford will lead our efforts in building coalitions & knowledge networks for greater media literacy

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4 years

What's next minister, the stupendous box office collections this weekend :)

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Some leading indicators about the economy. In fact, ALL 5 of this morning’s front-page reports in this paper dedicated to it...

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7 years

"Give me a platform that is not your agenda." Actor Shah Rukh Khan says what many in public life hesitate to:

Why no Indian Meryl Streep, by Shah Rukh Khan

Shah Rukh Khan: 'Give me a platform where you present my point of view, not as part of your agenda. I will speak'

indianexpress.com

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8 years

So @sureshpprabhu achieves as Minister of Railways what he started as Head of National River Linking Project

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Secret training camps in north Gujarat where people train to scale 15ft high walls, slide through barbed fences and run with children & heavy bags..all to enter the United States illegally:

In Gujarat, training camps for illegal US crossovers | Ahmedabad News - Times of India

: Illegal immigration rackets, which help hundreds from Gujarat to settle in foreign countries, especially the US, are professionally run entities tha

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

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5 years

Confirmed, only 4% of Mumbai roads are actually motorable...

DataBaaz

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5 years

96% of #MumbaiRoads failed an inspection by the Vigilance department of the Mumbai’s municipal corporation. 187 of the 194 roads checked had cracks, potholes or were simply uneven. Worse, all these roads were just 1-3 years old. @PotholeWarriors @MushtaqAnsari80

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6 years

. @ICICIBank is sitting on public deposits, has to be far more pro-active than any normal co in handling negative reports on its CEO. For e.g, call a press conference & answer Qs rather than stay silent, hide behind board citations and friendly media

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Govindraj Ethiraj

@govindethiraj

4 years

Doing business in India: 1. Pharma co imports inputs for drugs from China. 2. Drugs stuck at port. 3. Co pays customs duty, GST, Govt gets revenue 4. Co pays demurrage at several thousand $ per day 5. Chinese co has likely been paid. 6. Who suffers most ?

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@govindethiraj

5 years

Way to go Akash !

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@govindethiraj

5 years

The use of anecdotal evidence like sales of high-end mobiles or discount-driven e-commerce bump-ups to convince ourselves that all is actually well in the economy is laughable and self-delusionary - let's accept data for what it is and work towards solutions

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@govindethiraj

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BMC Chief I S Chahal on impact of data gaps on lives: "A neighbouring state had 6,000 cases when we had 60,000. But Im sure if they had tested properly, they would also have 60,000 cases. Now, how does Centre allocate them equal amount of oxygen like us?"

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Govindraj Ethiraj

@govindethiraj

5 years

Interesting, percentage of Indians migrating/moving to Sweden, Norway & Netherlands higher than even USA in last 7 years:

As India Becomes Wealthier, More Indians Leave Its Shores

Mumbai: As India has become wealthier, more of its citizens are leaving its shores. An estimated 17 million Indians were living abroad in 2017, making India the largest source country for...

www.indiaspend.com

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Govindraj Ethiraj

@govindethiraj

3 years

India's new health minister says he got hit by a security guard while visiting a Delhi Govt hospital incognito...when asked if the guard had been suspended, he said he would rather improve the system than one person:

Plain-clothed health minister hit by security guard during surprise visit to Safdarjung hospital

Mansukh Mandaviya said that he dawned the disguise to find out the real condition of the hospital

www.firstpost.com

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Govindraj Ethiraj

@govindethiraj

7 years

10 instances of BJP functionaries spreading fake images on various social media platforms:

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@govindethiraj

5 years

I felt sad for Parrikar on seeing the picture but the context is what struck a chord, the Mandovi bridge being a pet project of his & wanting to inspect it even in current condition...

Yashwant Deshmukh 🇮🇳

@YRDeshmukh

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Completely disagree @OmarAbdullah . If anything, these photos can only inspire all of us that you must live your life just the way you wish to, till the very last. Why should any cancer patient be asked to just give up, accept his/her fate and wait for painful death on the bed?

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Only 1 In 50 #COVID19 Tests In India Are Showing Positive, Compared With 1 In 4 In Italy, 1 In 10 In The UK

1 In 50 COVID-19 Tests In India Are Coming Out Positive, Compared With 1 In 4 In Italy, 1 In 10 In...

Mumbai: About one in every 50 tests conducted for COVID-19 in India as of March 25, 2020, have returned positive. In comparison, about a quarter of all tests in Italy, about a sixth in Austria and...

www.indiaspend.com

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Govindraj Ethiraj

@govindethiraj

6 years

I return to Biz TV with a new show talking to young entrepreneurs on specific phases of their journey, challenges & learnings: On @BloombergQuint debut on Aug 10

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@govindethiraj

6 years

How some 400,000 women volunteers helped clean 200,000 homes across Kerala after devastating floods:

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@govindethiraj

1 year

To my potential lunch companion if and when I travel overseas next; can you please pick up the tab because if I swipe my card, my Govt will take away 20% of our lunch bill and adjust it against my tax dues if any or refund me a year later..I know, doesn't that sound amazing..

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