5 pages of pledged gold on auction.
33,000 homes despair of redeeming their 'dhan'.
I don't know whether this is a normal level for India, but given our love of gold, it is 33,000 individual tragedies.
I support & celebrate this action of welcome solidarity by
@anuragkashyap72
. I too resolve not to travel by Indigo until
@kunalkamra88
is allowed to do so
BJP proponents on TV: "Why so much talk about Manipur? Why not WB, or Rajasthan?"
Ans.:
- 4500 weapons and 500,000 bullets taken from state armouries
- 350 places of worship burned
- 35,000 internal refugees
- "100s of such videos", as per CM.
- Ignored for 2 months.
Wheat export banned with immediate effect.
3 weeks ago, Our Dear Leader was bragging about feeding the world.
Policy is a serious, reflective process, not a series of PR announcements.
2-wheeler sales in India peaked at 21.2 mn in FY19.
Dropped to 17.4 mn. in FY 20,
15.1 mn. in FY 21, and to
13.5 mn. in FY 22.
What does this tell us about recovery in middle India?
Sadly, a few parties, guided by Modi hatred have started hating India.
No wonder, while the entire nation supports our armed forces, they suspect the armed forces.
The world is supporting India’s fight against terror but a few parties suspect our fight against terror: PM
Vaccine shortage is Econ 101:
The Vaccine Guru offered Poonawala an unremunerative price, so he decided not to invest in more capacity.
He decided to invest in finance firm, Magma instead.
Israel faces 2 questions:
How did its intelligence fail so dramatically?
How long can you abuse and oppress a people before they explode?
The second is more vital, less likely to be answered.
Indians bought 4.3 bn dollars worth of real estate in the UAE last year*, roughly 35,000 crore.
For context, the top 5 Indian developers had a turnover of 15,000 cr in FY 22
*The Economist
@mohitsatyanand
Chances are you haven't visited that temple
The floor is very cold
It's normal to lay carpet for visitors and normally red in colour
Interesting how these sudo Hindus all came out the woodwork once Modi came to power
Where was you all before
TCS - 20% tax collection on foreign credit card expenditure is getting people really angry.
I don't get the logic of this collection - our FX reserves are high, the government trumpets high GST collections.
What is the objective of this collection drive?
#COVIDVaccine
The math is simple - Serum Institute produces 2 mn vaccines a day. BB 0.3 mn. If we continue to vaccinate 3 mn people a day, we will need to import.
Core inflation calculated by excluding the transient component of CPI viz. “food and beverages” and “fuel and light” was recorded at 5.9 percent in August 2022, remaining below the tolerance limit of 6 percent for the fourth consecutive month. (2/7)
Vaccine Guru, meanwhile had other financial priorities, a new house on Rajpath, for example.
Money, remember, is fungible - you can use it where you want.
#Jobs
The swimming pool attendant wakes at 3 a.m., motor-cycles to Sonepat, train to Sabzi Mandi, metro to Lok Kalyan Marg, walk 1 km to hand out fresh towels at 7 a.m.
In our streets, Corona is being treated like a law and order problem. When police enforce, it becomes me vs. the system rather than me vs. COVID.
This is hugely sub-optimal.
Can someone translate this sentence from the RBI bulletin for me:
"India’s G20 Presidency and its outcomes with the ethos of Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam as the vision of global progress assume significance in an environment where global economic activity is experiencing...
My family has experienced the inconsolable loss of a daughter. I dredge my heart, but cannot find the bottom of despair for parents denied the closure of last rites.
#Aadhar
: My 63 year-old fingerprints don't register. The enrolment clerk says this is common for seniors. So I don't get an Aadhar. This is going to be pure Kafka, especially with the Income Tax department.
My parents were both refugees from West Punjab.
When they built their first home, in 1970, our first tenants were Pakistani. We became close friends.
This is healing, this is what we need.
Shuddh vegetarians:
Does it offend you that Covaxin uses calf serum in the production process?
Do you think this information should have been made public by manufacturers?
In any democracy where lying carried the price of banishment from public life & office the Election Commission would already have disqualified serial liar Irani. And, Shah would have sacked her from Bjp. Why have affidavits & oaths?
PSU banks get 15 days to get their act together. Will this deadline help clean-up the banking system? Join Primetime Debate with VG Kannan,
@CapitalMind_in
's
@deepakshenoy
.
Core principles of Crisis Management:
- Ignore the problem
- Deny the problem
- Suppress the data
- Manipulate the data
- What about...?
- Find someone else to blame.
Indian diplomatic success this year:
Not naming Russia as the aggressor in Ukraine.
Not backing humanitarian aid to Gaza.
Not securing release of ex-naval officers in Qatar.
"Each one, Vaccinate one"
How does this work?
You go up to someone in the street, and jab them in the arm?
With a vial in an ice pack you have in your backpocket?
No, seriously?
Indians smuggle sand, boss.
Truckloads of sand, dug from riverbanks by shovels.
And you want to ban crypto, which is electrons zipping through the ether.
Good Luck.
#NDTVExclusive
| "In a democracy there is always debate, discussions and dissent. But they are all missing today in our country because of a weak opposition," says Deepak Parekh, Chairman, HDFC on
#ExecutiveDecision
Social media, not the so-called 'free press', pressured the Karnataka govt into providing trains for migrant workers.
By toeing the line, a pliant media is making itself irrelevant.
@nsitharaman
You are a Cabinet Minister, Mrs. Sitharaman. Get in your car and make your presence felt at JNU, instead of mouthing these pious niceties.
Voice from US: Rights of Kashmiris must be respected:
Amit Shah had last Sunday claimed that India had successfully convinced the world about Article 370
"I want to tell the 130 crore citizens of India that since my government has come to power, since 2014, there has been no discussion on NRC anywhere...," the PM said at
#RamLilaMaidan
. "Lies are being spread."
Yes, they are.
In a Kumaon village, a 55 year old woman gets a fever, some breathlessness. But she has a history of asthma. The nearest RTPCR test is an hour away. A few days later, she dies.
We will never know whether it was COVID.
India’s online-education startup Byju’s is raising about $1 billion from new investors including B Capital Group, founded by former Facebook cofounder Eduardo Saverin, Baron Funds and XN
"China's economy is so successful bcos people don't think about religion and politics", a business friend observed.
India is charting the opposite direction on all counts.
I have childhood memories of Mahashay Dharampal Gulati &his shop in Khari Baoli, where I used to go with my mother to buy the grocery Even than my mother had faith in the quality of Mahashay Di Hatti&his smiling welcome.He was an icon of post partition Dilli. May he rest in peace
Dear Liberals,
Due to Ram Mandir hearing, Section 144 imposed in Ayodhya. Not for 1 day or 2 days,but straight until Dec 10.
Will you cry for Ayodhya now the way you cried for Kashmir? Or will you accept that India needs few temporary tough measures now & then to prevent riots?
Good leaders stand out in a crisis.
They own the crisis; They admit they screwed up, and tell you what they're going to do about it.
They don't send their minions out to say that you, or the 'System', are the problem.
@shaig
The Palestinian Arabs, whose land it was, rejected a proposal for someone else to decide on what to do with their land.
Does this sound unreasonable to you?
If you had 1 lakh in Nifty on Jul 1st 2019, it would be worth
93,750 on Jul 1st 2020.
If you had switched to Nasdaq: 1.47 lakh
And in gold: 1.60 lakh.
Indian equities are not the only game in town.