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Government finances are fascinating.. Unlimited budget for election freebies.. But innovation & R&D: ‘File waiting for approval’ ⏳

If you grow male brain neurones and female brain neurones on a plate, then subject them to injury via stretching, the female neurones "break" earlier and the male neurones recover quicker, because they activate a stronger and more efficient inflammatory response. Female brains are more fragile under injury conditions, and they don't recover as well.

The speed of sound is a funny thing. Your parents tell you something when you're 20, and you only hear it when you are 40... #Lifefact 💐🤠💐

The longevity supplement industry is a $70+ billion scam. Here's what decades of published data actually show extends human life. and what doesn't. The "anti-aging" supplement market is built on mouse data, not human data. The global anti-aging and longevity wellness industry was valued at over $77 billion in 2024 (Global Market Insights). Not a single pill sold in it has been shown to extend human lifespan in a randomized controlled trial. NMN: promising in mice, unproven in people. Animal studies show NMN raises NAD+ and extends lifespan. The best human trial so far (Yi et al., GeroScience 2023) showed NMN safely raised blood NAD+ levels but did not produce a statistically significant improvement on the 6-minute walk test versus placebo. No human trial has tested whether NMN extends life, prevents disease, or slows aging. Resveratrol is the cautionary tale of modern longevity science. GSK bought Sirtris (by David Sinclair) the company built around resveratrol and sirtuin activation, for $720 million in 2008. Independent labs at Pfizer and Amgen later challenged the original in vitro assays (from David Sinclair) that launched the field. GSK shut the program down in 2013. No resveratrol-based drug has ever been approved. "NAD+ boosters" sell a half-truth. Yes, NAD+ declines with age. No, artificially raising blood NAD+ has not been shown in any rigorous human trial to extend life, prevent major disease, or slow biological aging. The marketing skipped the hard part. Collagen, multivitamins, turmeric, ashwagandha, sea moss, apple-cider-vinegar gummies: no mortality data. No randomized trial has shown any of these reduce death, dementia, heart disease, or cancer. Supplements survive regulatory scrutiny only because in India and the US, they are treated as food, not medicine, and require no efficacy proof. Every "longevity influencer" has something to sell. Check who owns stock, who endorses which brand, who profits from the supplement they just recommended. Skepticism of the person is as important as skepticism of the product. 🫀 Now, what actually extends human lifespan, with hard data: Your aerobic fitness (VO2max) is the strongest modifiable predictor of longevity known. In 122,007 adults (Mandsager et al., JAMA Network Open 2018), low cardiorespiratory fitness carried death risk comparable to or greater than smoking, coronary artery disease, or diabetes. Each 1 ml/kg/min gain in VO2max translated to roughly 45 additional days of life in a 46-year follow-up (Clausen et al., JACC 2018). Muscle strength independently predicts survival. The PURE study of ~140,000 adults across 17 countries (Leong et al., Lancet 2015) found every 5 kg drop in grip strength = 16% higher all-cause death. Grip strength was a stronger predictor of mortality than systolic blood pressure. Resistance training 2–3×/week is not optional after 40. The Mediterranean diet has the strongest trial evidence of any eating pattern. The "revived" PREDIMED trial (Estruch et al., NEJM 2018, n=7,447) showed a Mediterranean diet with extra-virgin olive oil or nuts cut major cardiovascular events by ~30% compared with a low-fat diet. No supplement has ever matched this in a trial. Sleep 7–9 hours. Get snoring evaluated. In the Wisconsin Sleep Cohort (Young et al., Sleep 2008), untreated severe obstructive sleep apnea tripled all-cause mortality, rising to 3.8× when CPAP users were excluded. A CPAP machine has more mortality evidence behind it than every bottle in your supplement cabinet combined. Social connection is a medical variable, not a mood. A meta-analysis of 148 studies and 308,849 people (Holt-Lunstad et al.) found strong social ties were associated with 50% higher odds of survival - an effect size comparable to established mortality risk factors. The 2023 US Surgeon General's Advisory called loneliness a public health threat. Don't smoke. Lose the alcohol. Keep blood pressure, LDL/ApoB, and HbA1c under control. Unglamorous, unpatentable, and responsible for almost all of the life-expectancy gains of the past century. No longevity clinic will ever market these to you because there is no margin in them. The one newer intervention with genuinely surprising data: the shingles vaccine. A natural-experiment study in Wales (Eyting et al., Nature 2025) found the live shingles vaccine was associated with a ~20% reduction in 7-year dementia risk. A separate analysis of the recombinant vaccine (Taquet et al., Nature Medicine 2024) showed a 17% increase in dementia-free time. If you are 50+, ask your doctor. The honest summary. A multi-billion-dollar industry is selling hope in capsule form. The real longevity protocol is boring, mostly free, and unpatentable: move hard, lift heavy, eat real food, sleep well, stay connected, skip the bottle, take your vaccines. If someone tells you otherwise, check what they're selling.

The bigger issue is that a huge chunk of these "interior designers" in India are running on autopilot - lifting the same Pinterest-ready references and repackaging them. So even though every client begins convinced their brief is one-of-a-kind, the end result is that every home starts looking the same. There’s no voice, no soul, no lived-in identity. A home should be an extension of one's personality. Most spaces feel more like boutique hotels than homes, and the “luxury” comes across as more like a glossy showroom. The kind of place where you hesitate to shift a cushion because it might ruin the entire "aesthetic". Just another damn stage.

I've been using Claude Code exclusively for 6 months and I'm still not convinced on this whole AI thing. There are some *seriously* insidious problems that worry me, and I don't see them being fixed any time soon. Every release of a new model, I see hundreds of posts where people think because they one-shotted X or Y, software jobs are cooked (I've probably made one or two of these posts myself). But none of those examples are actually representative of real-world software. If I set it to work on an ambiguous or highly complex problem that has a lot of branching in the solution space, I've noticed the following: - It can often generate a working solution in one-shot, which gives me a false sense of confidence that the AI knows exactly what it's doing. - As I continue to work the problem, I've noticed the AI will start to narrow its focus more and more, not considering how a fix or solution plays into the big picture. - The quality of a solution depends on *how* I prompt it, which is really, really bad. Software engineering should be deterministic, not a dice roll. - It will often ignore instructions I have explicitly stated in the rules file, which removes any confidence I have in the code it generates. - It consistently overstates its confidence in a solution. I literally just got this response from Claude: "I overstated that. Honest answer: it depends on the scene and implementation; the 2–4× figure was too confident." If I had never pushed back, I would have been operating on incorrect information. - It is far too agreeable. If I'm not careful in my wording, the AI will blindly follow my instructions, even if they are suboptimal. I want a real coding partner that challenges my ideas, not an ass-kisser. Don't get me wrong—AI has helped me build some amazing things faster than I ever could without it. But the more I use it, the more I begin to question the direction things are headed. If the AI was more direct about what it (not) capable of, it'd be a lot easier to work with. But being gaslit every step of the way makes the process stressful as hell. Going back to manual coding isn't even an option since the value of having AI *potentially* generating the correct code in 1/10 or 1/100 of the time is literally too good to pass up on. Sorry for the rant, drank way too much cold brew this morning.

Great for the builders but not so for the customers tbh. Ahmedabad, as a market is absolutely over valued. We are sitting on atleast 60 % of empty residential inventory. Commercial is slowing too and it only gets harder there. Every sq ft rate quoted rn is pricing in this event. Once official, the rates will rise soon. It's the aftermath of Olympics that matters, as we have seen what happened across China, Russia with a sea of empty buildings running down on maintenance cost.

Crazy story out of Qatar: A British couple honeymooned in Doha, where the wife was harassed at the Ritz-Carlton pool by two men who told her she'd "fall in love" after he slept with her. The hotel gaslit her, with management denying the CCTV backed her story despite their own WhatsApp messages saying the opposite. Her husband posted a TripAdvisor review calling the hotel "unsafe for women." The hotel got it pulled, then a hotel employee filed a defamation complaint against him under Qatar's cybercrime laws. Nearly a year later, when he returned to Qatar for work, he was detained, informed he'd been tried in absentia and fined, and then held for four nights in a deportation centre. The deportation order lasts five years, which severely hurts his career as a Middle East healthcare consultant. In other words, Marriott International, an American company, used Qatari law to silence a complaint about a woman being sexually harassed at their property.

🚨 SHOCKING: INDIA’S ARMY BEING PRIVATIZED? ADANI’S OWN “SAINIK SCHOOL” IS HERE — NEXT STOP, ADANI ARMED FORCES? The picture you just saw isn’t a joke. “Adani Sainik School” in Krishnapatnam, Nellore is REAL — and it’s one of the new Sainik Schools handed over under the Modi government’s PPP model. While the Agniveer scheme trained our youth with public tax money for just 4 years… corporate giants like Adani now get ready-made, disciplined, battle-ready talent at throwaway prices for their “security” needs. This isn’t education. This is the blueprint for a private army. When public anger boils over the loot of national wealth, who will protect the corporates? Their own trained Sainik cadets? 62% of the new Sainik Schools have already gone to RSS affiliates, BJP leaders, and their friends — including Adani. No minority institutions. Zero transparency. Just crony control over the pipeline that feeds our armed forces. Is this democracy… or a full-blown conspiracy to turn India into a corporate fiefdom where the country’s army eventually answers to boardrooms instead of the Constitution? Wake up, Bharat. Our jawans bleed for the nation — not for Adani-Ambanis. Share if you still believe the Indian Army belongs to 140 crore Indians… not to a handful of billionaires. #AdaniSainikSchool #AgniveerExposed #CorporateArmy #SaveSainikSchools #IndiaUnderCorporateRule

Yuvraj Singh on Sachin Tendulkar and his music taste following his ODI retirement in 2012. “In the changing room, he would play this utterly horrible music. He told us it was from the 1980s, but who knows - it could have belonged to the ’60s or earlier, when pop music was just being invented. Whenever we begged him to change it, he would say to us, most seriously, “This, guys, is real music. Not that stuff that you listen to nowadays.” We put it down to the generation gap and gritted our teeth. Maybe the only positive of his retirement is that we can play our own music. When he played his, we had to just endure it. It could not be changed. Not ever. But paaji, never mind the faces we made as your music played on. The fact that we didn’t change it was our funny way of telling you how much we loved you.” @sachin_rt | @YUVSTRONG12

Dear Ryan...Important to keep this in proportion: NOAA says we’re currently ENSO-neutral. El Niño is only likely to develop later in 2026, and a very strong event is still roughly a 1-in-4 possibility, not a done deal. Also, the 1876–78 catastrophe reflected not just climate, but huge societal vulnerability, famine and disease. Science first, panic last.

Coffee is one of the only drinks with strong evidence that benefits the liver. Here's what decades of research actually says about how to drink it right: Coffee genuinely lowers liver disease risk. Meta-analyses show regular drinkers have about 35% lower risk of significant liver fibrosis and nearly 50% lower risk of liver cancer compared with non-drinkers. Aim for 2–3 cups a day, minimum. The effect is dose-dependent. The Hepatology socities such as AASLD and EASL says 3 or more cups daily is reasonable for liver benefit, if you tolerate it. Caffeinated works better than decaf. But decaf still helps. Caffeine blocks adenosine receptors that drive liver scarring. Decaf lowers chronic liver disease risk too, just by a smaller margin (UK Biobank, n=494,585). The target dose: ~300 mg caffeine/day, or 3 cups. Fibrosis protection kicks in around the 75th percentile of intake, roughly 308 mg caffeine, or 2.25 cup equivalents, per day - the AASLD 2023 advises 3+ cups for liver benefit. What a "cup" actually means One standard cup = 240 ml (8 oz), not a 60 ml tiny Indian "cup." A 240 ml filter coffee has ~95–165 mg caffeine. A single espresso shot (30 ml) has only ~60–75 mg. Coffee-to-water ratio: 1:15 to 1:17. For filter/drip/pour-over: 15 g of ground coffee to 250 ml water. This is the standard brewing ratio and gives clean extraction of chlorogenic acids and caffeine. Choose medium roast, not dark. Medium roast has significantly higher chlorogenic acid (CGAs) content than dark roast. Dark roasting thermally degrades CGAs, the main antioxidant doing liver work. Arabica beats Robusta. Arabica beans are richer in CGAs and polyphenols, the antioxidants doing most of the liver-protective work. A note here: Arabica for polyphenols, Robusta for caffeine. Arabica (1.5% caffeine) has more CGAs and polyphenols. Robusta (2.7% caffeine) has more caffeine but a cruder phenolic profile. A 70:30 Arabica-Robusta blend is a reasonable compromise. Water temperature: 92–96°C. Just off a rolling boil. Too hot (>96°C) burns the grounds and extracts bitter compounds; too cool (<90°C) under-extracts CGAs and caffeine. Grind size matters. Medium grind (table-salt texture) for filter/drip. Coarse for French press. Fine for espresso. Brew time: 3–4 minutes for pour-over, 4 minutes for French press, 25–30 seconds for espresso. Filtered coffee is the safest daily choice. Paper filters trap cafestol and kahweol, naturally present plant diterpenes that raise LDL cholesterol if consumed daily in large amounts. Pour-over (V60, Kalita, Melitta) or drip machines with paper filters give you CGAs and caffeine without the cholesterol penalty. Espresso and French press: fine, but not unlimited. They retain more polyphenols but also more diterpenes (so more chances of increased lipids). Great occasionally; don't make them your 5-cups-a-day default if you have high cholesterol or heart disease. South Indian filter coffee: acceptable, with caveats. The metal filter does not remove diterpenes as well as paper, so limit to 1–2 cups/day if you have dyslipidemia. The decoction itself is rich in CGAs. Use less sugar. Skip condensed milk. BUT ULTIMATE: Drink it black. Or close to it. Sugar, syrups, flavored creamers and whipped cream cancel the liver benefit, especially if you already have fatty liver, diabetes, or obesity. Skim milk or unsweetened plant milk is fine. Instant coffee: still works. UK Biobank (n=494,585) showed instant coffee drinkers had similar reductions in chronic liver disease as ground coffee drinkers. Not as potent, but far better than no coffee. Cold brew: underrated for the liver. Medium roast + coarse grind + 6–7 hours at room temperature extracts CGAs and caffeine efficiently with lower bitterness. pH and CGA content are comparable to hot brew. Timing. Spread across the day. one at breakfast, one mid-morning, one early afternoon. Stop by 2 pm if you have insomnia. It helps across almost every major liver disease. Evidence supports benefit in fatty liver (MASLD), alcohol-related liver disease, hepatitis B and C, cirrhosis, and liver cancer. The mechanism isn't magic, it's chemistry. Chlorogenic acid cuts oxidative stress and liver fat. Caffeine inhibits stellate cell activation (that promotes scarring or fibrosis). Melanoidins and polyphenols reduce inflammation. Who should go easy. Pregnancy, children, those with uncontrolled heart rate and rhythmn issues (arrhythmias), panic disorder, or insomnia. And no, coffee does not undo a bad diet or bad choice - such as alcohol, herbal supplement or that Ayurvedic "liver tonic." Sources: Modi et al., Hepatology 2010; Kennedy et al., BMC Public Health 2021 (UK Biobank); Fuller & Rao, Sci Rep 2017; AASLD MASLD Clinical Care Pathway 2023; EASL 2016 CPG, Frontiers in Nutrition 2026 (Italian coffee cohort).

Danil Medvedev dresses up as John McEnroe.. McEnroe: “How do you feel” Medvedev: “I feel ridiculous 🤣”

White towels are a legacy of British era, when there were few roads, fewer cars and no ACs. Officer toured on horses and towels were an integral part of hygiene routine. British left, horses were sent away, but towels stayed! It’s not just towels, the size of tables and colour of ink are also defined by hierarchy. When I was working at Joint Secretary level with the Vice President of India, I had to fight a stiff battle of sorts to order a smaller table that would fit better in my office. The system would not approve of a smaller table! Regarding the colour of ink to be used for noting and signature, Sh. Arun Shourie has written a hilarious, if not ridiculous, memoir as minister. In 1999, two officers in the Ministry of Steel made notings on files using red and green ink. This raised a furore as they were junior officers. The seniors were scandalised and an enquiry was initiated. India’s bureaucracy spent 13 months debating which colour ink officers could use on files. The enquiry was routed through several ministries and departments: Ministry of Steel wrote to Dept of Administrative Reforms It referred to Directorate of Printing (ink experts) Printing referred to Dept of Personnel & Training (DoPT) DoPT threw the ball back: “it’s your Manual, you decide” National Archives was consulted for longevity of ink colours Ministry of Defence consulted for Army ink hierarchy Conclusion after 13 months: juniors wrote in blue-black or blue ink, because that has the longest life of impression. In British era, the files had to travel to Britain, so juniors would write in ink that would stay for the longest. The top brass would sign in green and red. Ruling: Two new paras were added to the manual of office procedure: Para 32(9) says that only officers of Joint Secretary level and above may use red or green ink, and that too only in rare cases. Para 68(5), on the other hand, does not limit the use of these colours to any particular rank (as modern ball pen ink have no issues of shelf life for any colour!) The white towel on the officer’s chair. The red telephone on the desk. The peon standing at the door. The green ink reserved for the senior sahib. These are not accidents of history. They are architecture, the physical grammar of a bureaucratic culture that worships hierarchy.

The liver's best friend is the muscle. Your liver listens to your muscles. Every type of movement has a different dose and a different benefit, all backed by trials. Here's the playbook, for you to include in your routine, whichever helps you maintain consistency. Brisk walking The most accessible liver medicine there is. 150 min/week cuts liver fat by ≥30% on MRI, and every extra 1,000 daily steps lowers your risk of developing fatty liver by ~12% (UK Biobank Study, 91,000 people). Moderate-intensity cardio (MICT) Steady jogging, cycling, or swimming at a "can talk, can't sing" pace. 30–45 min, 3–5 days a week for 12 weeks reduces liver fat by 2–4% (absolute) and drops liver inflammation (enzyme levels) significantly - even without weight loss. High-intensity interval training (HIIT) Short hard bursts - e.g., 4 minutes at 85–95% max heart rate, 3 min easy, repeated 4 times. In 12 weeks it cuts liver fat by 16–37%, improves heart function, and matches steady cardio in half the time. Sprint interval training (SIT) Even shorter, even harder - sessions under 15 minutes. 6 weeks reduces intrahepatic triglycerides by 12% and visceral fat by 17% in men with fatty liver (MASLD). Biggest liver benefit for the smallest time spent. Resistance / strength training Weights or bodyweight - squats, presses, rows, pulldowns. 3 sets, 3 times a week, 40–45 min. Reduces liver fat independent of weight loss, uniquely lowers liver enzyme, and is the single most important exercise for cirrhosis patients to prevent muscle loss (sarcopenia). Combined aerobic + resistance The gold standard. Network meta-analyses rank this combination as #1 for improving triglycerides, LDL, and total cholesterol in patients with fatty liver (MASLD) - better than either alone. If you only pick one strategy, pick this one. Yoga (Hatha / Surya Namaskar) - these are not classical Yoga, but modernized versions. For example: Surya Namaskar was developed into its current 12-posture sequence in the early 20th century, largely by the Raja of Aundh and later popularized by T. Krishnamacharya. T. Krishnamacharya also modernized classical Hatha Yoga into its globally known "dynamic" form. Classical Yoga is not useful for liver health as it is not aerobic. Plus classical Yoga is pseudoscientific in its principles of practice. That said, 8-12 weeks of Asanas like Surya Namaskar, Ardha Matsyendrasana, Paschimottanasana, Naukasana - 3 sessions/week improves liver tests, insulin resistance, and fatty liver grade - especially in patients with type 2 diabetes plus fatty liver disease. Pilates and core work 8 weeks of Pilates reduces body weight, body fat, liver enzymes, and liver fat on ultrasound. A joint-friendly option for people who can't run or lift heavy. Tai Chi / Qigong Low-impact mind-body movement, 30–60 min, 3 times a week. Improves glucose control, insulin sensitivity, and balance/ stability, muscle tone. Gentle enough for older patients, those with early decompensated cirrhosis, or people with poor cardiorespiratory fitness. Exercise in cirrhosis Even advanced liver disease responds well to exercise treatment! Combined aerobic + resistance training cuts serious events (death, major complications) from 12.3% to 5.6% in randomized trials, and prevents the muscle wasting that drives death events in cirrhosis patients. So make physical activity your number one preference to maintain liver health and reduce liver disease.

3-Year-Old Girl Mauled to Death by Stray Dogs in Peddapalli The child, identified as Divya Behra, was playing outside her home when a pack of dogs suddenly pounced on her. In a deeply disturbing turn, the animals grabbed her by the neck and dragged her into nearby fields. By the time anyone could reach her, she had suffered fatal injuries and succumbed to the attack. This is extremely disturbing. Govt will do nothing, courts will do nothing and stray dog lovers might celebrate or give gyan "to wash off the injuries with water". Un-commonsense is growing at rapid pace in our country.

Nitish Reddy used to bowl 120, how’s is he bowling 135-140 now? - Nitish Reddy started ipl with new ball, But something changed, suddenly he’s clocking 139 kmph, almost 10 kmph quicker than before. - This didn’t just happen… it came from pure frustration of being stuck in the mid-120s despite being a top athlete. - One comment from Matthew Hayden during BGT about his lack of pace clearly hit a nerve. - Instead of ignoring it, he acted, reached out to Steffan Jones after seeing his work online. - What they found: his run-up was angled, energy going sideways, not towards the batter. - His body alignment and back-foot contact were slowing him down at the key moment. - So they rebuilt the basics, straighter run-up, better hip-shoulder separation, stronger last 4 strides (the real power zone). - Early signs are already visible, more pace, more intent, more presence. - He’s still not taking a lot of wickets yet, but now batters can’t just line him up easily. - If this progress holds, India might quietly be developing another genuine 135+ kmph allrounder option.

Kapil Dev's legacy in terms of number - He remains the only man in the history of Test cricket to claim 400 wickets and score 5,000 runs. No one else has even managed the 400-wicket and 4,000-run double. From 1988 to 1994, he was the leading wicket-taker in the world in ODIs, finishing ahead of legends like Imran Khan, Richard Hadlee, and Malcolm Marshall. He was the first bowler ever to reach both 200 and 250 ODI wickets. He is the only captain in the 140-year history of Test cricket to take 9 wickets in a single innings. He is also still the youngest captain to ever win a World Cup, lifting the trophy at just 24 years old. If you want to talk about sheer aggression, his ODI batting strike rate was 95, and his Test strike rate was over 80. He hit four consecutive sixes in a Test match to avoid a follow-on. He still holds the record for the fastest Test fifty at Lord's off just 35 balls. Add in the fact that he batted 184 times in Test cricket and was never run out a single time.

@theliverdoc thank you.. any advice for reduction of ldl and triglycerides?

Today is World Liver Day 2026. Here are 8 things your liver actually wants you to know. 1 There is no such thing as a "liver detox." Your liver runs phase I and II detoxification 24/7 on its own. No juice cleanse, no milk thistle, no herbal detox speeds this up. In fact several have caused liver injury - the opposite of the claim. 2 Alcohol has no safe dose. Liver harm begins from the first drink. The old "moderate drinking is protective" myth came from flawed studies contaminated by abstainer bias - now debunked by Mendelian randomization. Zero ml is best. 3 "Natural" supplements are now a leading cause of acute liver failure. Ashwagandha. Green tea extract. Garcinia. Kratom. High-dose turmeric. Giloy/Tinospora. They dominate drug-induced liver injury registries across India, the US, and Europe. Natural ≠ safe. 4 Coffee is genuinely liver-protective. 2–3 cups/day (caffeinated or decaf) lowers the risk of fibrosis, cirrhosis, and liver cancer. One of the very few dietary interventions with real, replicated evidence. 5 Fatty liver (MASLD) now affects ~1 in 3 adults worldwide. A 7–10% body-weight loss: • clears Liver fat • reduces inflammation • can regress early fibrosis No approved drug currently beats this. Your plate and feet are the first-line therapy. 6 Sugar-sweetened drinks independently cause fatty liver. Fructose is metabolized almost entirely by the liver - straight into fat. One daily soda raises MASLD risk even after adjusting for total calories. Lesser is better. 7 Get vaccinated against hepatitis B. Get screened for HBV and HCV at least once in your lifetime. HBV vaccine prevents >95% of chronic infection, cirrhosis, and liver cancer. Hepatitis C is curable in 8-12 weeks with >95% success - but most carriers don't know they have it. 8 Exercise protects the liver independent of weight loss. 150 min/week moderate OR 75 min vigorous activity reduces liver fat and stiffness - even when the scale doesn't move. Movement is "medicine". 🫂 PS: we also need a liver emoji

> This is Jitendra Shelke, a businessman from Shirdi > Yesterday, he and his wife died in a road accident on the Mumbai-Nagpur Samruddhi Expressway > Shelke was VP of Ashok Kharat's Shivnika Trust > He was a close business aide of the self-styled godman who is currently in jail for sexually exploiting women > After Ashok Kharat's arrest, Shelke had resigned from Shivnika Trust and become a key witness in the case > SIT has questioned him multiple times on Ashok Kharat's finances and links with politicians/bureaucrats And now he is no more. Strange coincidence.