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A parent whose child is of the marriageable age tells me that in this day and age its best for the child to find a spouse for himself/herself. It's so difficult for parents to search a potential spouse for their kids nowadays. Also, atleast in Hyd, the parent has noticed that children are getting married with all pomp and show spending lakhs of rupees and getting divorced for simple reasons in a span of few months...

The WSJ just ran the most depressing headline in human history. The piece is a first-person column from two retirees. They say that without bosses, deadlines, or meetings, there's nothing to interrupt zombie doomscrolling. "We retirees have a particular vulnerability," writes one of the co-authors, Stephen Kreider Yoder, a retired WSJ editor. "We have time on our hands and no external authority telling us to snap out of it." "Let's have a show of hands: "How many retirees have ended a day looking up from the phone, wondering where the time went and feeling the mental equivalent of having finished off a family-size bag of potato chips?" "Yeah," he writes. "That's what I thought." We spend decades trying to buy back our time ... and then spend it staring at our screens.

you have to be severely out of touch to think this is ‘naxalism’. she’s saying something most economists know: incomes have simply not caught on with the relentless cost of living in big cities

An alternative perspective on low salaries of workers in NCR: When consumers walks into the market, price is often the only deciding factor. Many are willing to accept a “kaccha bill” if it saves money. They don’t mind buying from unethical companies. They don't care if the product is imported products from China, Taiwan, or Bangladesh if it’s cheaper. This mindset flows through the entire value chain. When distributors approach shopkeepers, the response is similar. Quality, intellectual property, and ethics take a back seat. Cost and service are what matter most. In such an ecosystem, ethical companies that pay taxes, invest in R&D, build IP, and focus on engineering struggle to compete. They are up against players who bypass regulations, cut corners, influence decisions through informal means, and rely heavily on low-cost imports. On top of that, large OEMs often push these companies to operate on extremely thin margins. The challenge doesn’t end there. Productivity is further impacted by absenteeism and lack of professionalism in the blue-collar workforce. During elections, harvest seasons, festivals, and family functions, workforce availability can drop to nearly 50%, leaving companies with little control and mounting losses. The reality is far more complex than the narrative often portrayed in films featuring icons like Amitabh Bachchan or Dilip Kumar, where business owners are depicted as exploitative Seths and workers as helpless victims. In truth, many companies are simply trying to survive in a system where low-ethics, low-IP, trading-driven businesses have a structural advantage. In such conditions, limiting salaries is often not a choice, but a compulsion.

So the Nasik cops worked as undercover housekeepers at a TCS BPO to see if the Muslim managers there were influencing Hindu staffers towards Islam? Aren’t the cops supposed to manage law & order instead of eavesdropping on coworkers’ conversations in a private office? Priorities!

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On the alleged incident of assault on a serving Officer in Delhi, Delhi Police says, "Cognisance in the matter has been taken, and FIR has been registered. The accused persons are being traced. During preliminary enquiry, a lapse was found on the part of Insp/Investigation, and he has been sent to District Lines." FIR under sections 115(2), 126(2), 351(2), 79/191(2), 190 BNS has been registered on the complaint of the wife of the Army officer, and an investigation has been taken up.

This guy shud be teaching in a school or college but here he is working in a factory. This is bad luck of our nation..