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@soham1651 @trainwalebhaiya It is not as easy as that to buy residence in south Bombay

@QuestioningBird @trainwalebhaiya Yes before buying ticket have to show income certificate

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@madmanweb ‘Their life choices have zero impact on you’ This statement is questionable Countries with inverse population pyramid have it tough, even affluent ones. Imagine a poor country (us) with inverse pyramid! DINKs in old age and unmarried old people will ruin it for everyone

I'm reading dumbass takes all over Twitter on people choosing to not have kids. Do what makes you happy, boss. Why insist on it being the only option for everyone? Their life choices have zero impact on you. Imagine if I say you will not be happy unless you love karela.

@hellonehha What makes you think you are right? If you are not emotionally mature or financially stable in life, that is your fault. That does not give you right to deny life. Nothing wrong in struggling to survive. All life does it everyday.

Repeat after me: Kids are not your retirement plan. Kids are not the solution of your loneliness. Kids are not the answer of your - how we will live in old days financially. Bring a new life in the world only if you are emotionally mature, financially stable, can provide a good and independent life to your offspring not debts, responsibilities , trauma etc.

@anishmoonka It will work if the 80 hippos are male and the rest 120 are female!

Part 3. Colombia has 200 wild hippos in the Magdalena River. Africa has about 130,000 left, listed as vulnerable to extinction on the IUCN Red List. African numbers are falling 7 to 20% per decade. Colombian numbers are growing nearly 10% a year. The IUCN, the global body that tracks endangered species, monitors 34 African countries with hippos. Populations are falling in 18 of them, stable in 6, and growing in only 2 (Zambia and Congo). The continent's total dropped from about 157,000 in 2004 to around 130,000 today. The Democratic Republic of Congo alone lost 95% of its hippos in the early 2000s. The smaller pygmy hippo, a separate species, is down to 2,000-3,000 globally and classified as endangered. Meanwhile in Colombia, the population is exploding. A 2023 paper in Nature's Scientific Reports tracked the Magdalena River herd growing 9.6% a year. Over a third are juveniles. They're already the largest invasive animal population on Earth, and the only wild hippo group reliably growing outside Africa. A 2020 paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences led by ecologist John Rowan at UMass compared the Colombian hippos to species that went extinct in South America 12,000 years ago. The closest match: Neochoerus pinckneyi, an 880-lb giant capybara that grazed grasses, dug river channels, and fertilized wetlands. The body plan and ecological role were nearly identical. Some scientists now describe Colombia's hippos as Pleistocene rewilding by accident, a vacant ecological role being filled 12,000 years late. Other ecologists push back. The hippos are squeezing out endangered native species right now. The Magdalena River turtle, the Dahl's toad-headed turtle, and the West Indian manatee are all in trouble. Whether something analogous existed 12,000 years ago doesn't change that. Colombia's plan: cull 80 of the 200. Anant Ambani wants those 80 alive in India. Either way, the surviving herd is at the same time an invasive threat to native wildlife, a growing population of a vulnerable species, and possibly the closest stand-in for an extinct giant capybara the planet has had in 12,000 years.

Colombia has 200 wild hippos right now. They all came from 4 that Pablo Escobar smuggled in for his private zoo in 1981. Three females, one male. After he was killed in 1993, officials left the hippos behind. They escaped into the river. That was 45 years ago. 16 hippos by 2007. 40 by 2014. 120 by 2019. Around 200 today. Colombia is the only country outside Africa with wild hippos. And these hippos hit breeding age earlier than African ones, so they multiply faster. Each one eats 110 lbs of plants a night. They also dump 13 lbs of waste a day, almost all of it into the water. The waste feeds tiny organisms that suck the oxygen out and kill fish. It's pushing out 3 native species running out of space: the West Indian manatee, the Dahl's toad-headed turtle, and the Magdalena River turtle. Colombia spent 12 years across 3 governments trying to sterilize the hippos. It didn't work. Sterilizing one hippo needs a crane. The surgery is dangerous for the vets. A 2023 study said it would cost $1 to $2 million just to slow the breeding, and even then hippos would still be around for another 50 to 100 years. The government asked 7 countries and 2 international zoo groups to take some. Zero said yes. Then Anant Ambani made his offer. He runs Vantara, a 3,500-acre wildlife center in Gujarat that holds 47,000+ animals (200+ elephants, 160 tigers, 200 lions, 900 crocodiles). His proposal: take the 80 hippos Colombia plans to cull, fly them to India, cover their care for life. But the math has a catch. The cull was for 80 of the estimated 200. If Vantara takes those 80 alive instead of dead, it's a humane trade. The other 120 stay in the river. They breed faster than African hippos. The original 4 became 200 in 45 years.

@SadhuMaharaj16 They saw Karnataka BJP leaders and decided to go after TN and Kerala instead That is how irredeemable Karnataka BJP is.

If Mudi and shah give Karnataka half of the time they waste on simping Tamilnadu they can construct indestructible fortress in Karnataka for BJP much like Gujarat

@ragiiing_bull They should split Bengal at least Liberate Gorkhaland may be

@RahulChels We are already spending the money They keep making footpaths Unfortunately the quality is poor Attention to detail is zero Then there is encroachment None of this has anything to do with lack of money

This is cope imo. We have metros, Atal Setu, Missing Link etc today. And we cant get footpaths till some point in future? Gimme a break.

@dmuthuk Did he mean 40 crs now or 40 crs 40 years later? 😅

I don't know why people are so disconnected from reality. Saw a post saying Rs 40 crores must for retirement in India. Do you know how big is Rs.40 crores? In India, only 0.04% of households have it In the richest country of the world, USA, only 4% of households have it If you take the entire world consisting of both rich and poor countries, just 0.13% of households have it. Even Rs 4 crores is difficult for 99% of the population. Saying Rs.40 crores is required for retirement only demotivate people because they can never reach there. These kind of posts at best serve as irritants.

@26ers_bp115 Is this the Great Wall of Japan?

何故コイツら移民は、 わざわざ他国の遺産や歴史的建造物を破壊するのか？ 住まわせて貰っている地で、何故こういう事をするのか？ だから煙たがられる、嫌われる。 自分で自分の首を絞めている事に気付けない低知能。 破壊しか生み出せないなら来るなよ。

@s_r_khandelwal Building 4 lane bridges near metros and suburbs is like planning to fail

The New 4 Lane Ulhas River Bridge near Kharegaon section is now operational🎉 Major relief for commuters between Thane-Mankoli✅

@RushikesH27027 I just checked few random roads on Google earth Baramati is just same as any other town in India Few glamorous spots here and there That is all

Baramati, once a small village in Maharashtra, now boasts some of the best road infrastructure and riverfront development🔥

@dsa_kenneth @RahulGandhi What are you smoking?

I travelled through Great Nicobar today. These are the most extraordinary forests I have ever seen in my life. Trees older than memory. Forests that took generations to grow. The people on this island are equally beautiful - both the adivasi communities and the settlers - but they are being robbed of what is rightfully theirs. The government calls what it is doing here a “Project.” What I have seen is not a project. It is millions of trees marked for the axe. It is 160 square kilometres of rainforest condemned to die. It is communities that have been ignored while their homes have been snatched away. This is not development. This is destruction dressed in development’s language. So I will say it plainly, and I will keep saying it: what is being done in Great Nicobar is one of the biggest scams and gravest crimes against this country’s natural and tribal heritage in our lifetime. It must be stopped. And it can be stopped - if Indians choose to see what I have seen.

@drishtadyumn Muted

It's time for Narinder Mudi ji to channel his inner Dashrath Manjhi and carve out the Himalayas, so the cold air from Tibet can start flowing

@NsNitinsinha How will we get monsoon without the hot summer? India being hotter than other places at same latitude during this time of the year is what saves us. Few projects here, few expressways there are welcome. They are not the reason for hot summers. Summers are hot by design.

India is hotter than middle eastern countries where there’s no water and vegetation. It seems, we have burnt our own house with unchecked development and deforestation. This project here and that expressway there.

@suritalreja We are not there yet At least one more decade if hard work required before dreaming about such comforts

All the sleeper coaches with No AC in Indian Railways should be replaced with AC coaches. It doesn't make sense to have train without AC in 21st century. We can not afford to be poor. Everyone deserves quality of life.

@ihailmyindia However, in my experience, it is true that India became dirtier after Swach Bharat Abhiyan Local governments used it for corruption. At times dismantling functioning civic services from before SBA. Also, cleanliness became Modi’s problem. Not something individuals need to act on.

When I was with my office colleagues, they finished their drinks & casually threw the cans on the road. I kept mine with me coz I was searching for a dustbin. They started laughing and mocking me & one of them said, “Oh, she is Modi supporter doing Swachh Bharat.” Imagine being so conditioned that basic civic sense like not littering is seen as a political thing. I had many responses in mind then, but one thing was clear, the same people who litter everywhere would later blame Modi for the filth.

@Brahamvakya In Indian railways, you do not get bare minimum service even if you are willing to pay for it The biotoilet will be clogged AC will have poor temperature control The blankets are same as 3AC Speed is almost same as super fast express (super slow in reality) List goes on…

Money.... Pay the fares of Finland and get the same service here..

@devika7408 @theepicmap This heat is what brings in monsoon showers that stop India from turning into a desert This heat is gods gift for good karma our ancestors. People like you are result of bad karma or current generation.

@theepicmap Why only India?!? Have Indians not earned enough karma?!? Look at the level of corruption, scams, disrespect to women and unemployment of youth. We pray to goddesses and disrespect women.

Why only India?