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Galgotia university. “Ranked globally” 😂

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On behalf of @icggoa, I am delighted to announce the 2026 Scholars-in-Residence awardees. Congratulations to @aampannaa and @Rituparna37!

The United States has spent EIGHT TRILLION DOLLARS fighting and policing in the Middle East. Thousands of our Great Soldiers have died or been badly wounded. Millions of people have died on the other side. GOING INTO THE MIDDLE EAST IS THE WORST DECISION EVER MADE.....

🚨Ground report: I spent 3 days as a gig worker for Zomato, Blinkit & Swiggy in Delhi. 23 deliveries. 15.5 hours. 105 km. Total earnings: Rs 782 (Rs 34/hour) After fuel: ₹532 This is India's convenience economy. A thread on what I learned @IndianExpress

This is not about UP, Bihar and other dusty places PENINSULAR India which, according to @arvindsubraman and Devesh Kapur, grew as fast as China in that period, does not have A SINGLE major state (meaning other than Goa) whose per capita income is greater than/equal to Vietnam!

If Google wants you to pay for Gmail storage, do this first. I went from 14.9/15GB to 6GB in one afternoon. I hope this helps you as it has helped me:

My latest for @the_hindu - thehindu.com/sci-tech/scien…

“Social sciences” are predominantly studies of Western behavior rather than human behavior. Example? With the exception of Likud, the strongest far-right parties are outside the West: the AKP in Turkey, BJP in India, etc. But theorizations of the far right largely ignore them. +

Desperation is not consent: Why Deepinder Goyal gets it royally wrong Deepinder Goyal’s defence of the gig economy follows a familiar corporate script: selective statistics, convenient averages, and a steady shifting of responsibility – from platform to partner, from company to consumer, and finally to society itself. By continuing to live in The Camellias, one might hallucinate that the air in Gurugram is clean. But anyone who has looked out of their window knows that it isn’t, and is choking those on the street below. India’s gig economy undoubtedly delivers speed, scale, and convenience. But it also systematically transfers risk – unstable incomes, capital costs, safety hazards, and job insecurity – onto workers with the least bargaining power. History is unambiguous on this point. From factories in industrial England to the cotton plantations of the US to platform companies of today, markets and capitalists rarely correct power imbalances on their own. They require scrutiny, regulation, and pressure from outside their system. Treating desperation as choice and churn as flexibility may work in investor presentation decks, but it does not make the system fair. The real question is not whether the gig economy creates work, but whether it creates work that is economically viable once risk, costs, and churn, are honestly accounted for. That’s the long story cut very long. newslaundry.com/2026/01/03/whe… My essay in @newslaundry. The best piece I have written this year 🤣

Update - HDFC has transferred the money in less than 24 hours of this tweet going viral. While I am glad my problem has been sorted, it is unfortunate that it took public shaming for the bank to do what should have been a routine transaction. Many thanks to all of you for your retweets, likes and advice. Much appreciated. @HDFC_Bank @HDFCBank_Cares

RTI reply just received - and it exposes the clean-air farce of the government. Under NCAP, meagre ₹81.36 crore was allocated to Delhi over five years and just 17% was spent. In the last two years alone, ₹38 crore was allocated, and just ₹1.35 crore utilised, which is under 3.5%. In FY21–22, ₹11.25 crore was allocated and ₹0 spent. FY25–26 had no fresh allocation, only delayed money repackaged as action, none spent. This is how air pollution is governed: noise every winter, excuses all year, and a conscious refusal to spend while people breathe poison.

How long do you think HDFC Bank will take to transfer the money from your account to your nominee's after you die? Public sector banks get a bad rap, but it's been more than a year and we have not been able to get funds transferred from my now deceased husband's account in the country's largest private bank. The nominee is our adult daughter, there are no conflicting claims, the paperwork is clear, and yet for more than a year now HDFC has been giving us the run around. Get this paper, get that paper. Each time my daughter comes home for holidays, we have to take 2 days out to go and wait at the bank branch. Today, more than a year after the first application, they said a) we can't find the paperwork including the death certificate you submitted because the employee you submitted to is not here b) you have to get a stamp paper and notarise it for the auto debits that hit his account between the date of his death and the date the account was frozen (on the basis of the paperwork in point a, now non-traceable) c) you have to get HDFC Standard life to sign off because there is an auto debit for an investment from his account. (ME: they are the payee, he is the payer, why does the payee need to approve stopping a standing instruction? Bank: Hamare main aise hi hai). If you wait for 30 minutes, we'll get you the form. d) after 30 minutes. Sorry, we can't get the form, you have to go to their office and do it. By now it is 2.45 PM, HDFC Standard life office is at least 35 minutes away. They are open only till 3.30 PM. We are not sure we'll make it there on time. I call their number to ask if the branch is open tomorrow. Person: Sorry, I can't give you the information today, you will have to call and check tomorrow. (To repeat: HDFC Standard Life's call centre cannot tell you if a branch is working or not the following day) In all, we have spent many hours over many months trying to get this money in a case the bank officials themselves say "should not be complicated". What is worse is for my 20-year-old daughter to relive the trauma of losing her father each time we have to go and explain the case. Just today, we had to speak to three different people and start the story from the beginning. This is not just the bank's inefficiency, it is its utter callousness. (My husband also had money in Indusind Bank. It took one visit and two weeks for that to be transferred). The other, more important point, is that I have a job, we have the money to continue to pay for our needs without having to immediately access these funds. But I am certain that is not the case for many others. What about them? How can this be the system of a bank whose customers are dependent on it for giving them access to their own money?! It beggars belief. @HDFC_Bank @HDFCBank_Cares

This Tin Shed was constructed at a cost of ₹4,96,093.

This Tin Shed was constructed at a cost of ₹4,40,999.

Allocated Limit - ₹9.80 Crore 00 Expenditure 00 Work Recommended 00 Total Works Completed This data is for 18th Lok Sabha.

I was so shocked that I could be assaulted in an Uber in broad daylight, that the @DelhiPolice did not pick up my call and with #Uber 's horrible response, that I began deep-diving. Amazingly, various people from the #Police reached out in their personal capacity w insights that should worry us a lot. So @Uber_India pls help women in Delhi understand : 1)Your India license by @MORTHIndia was on condition to doing police verification and background checks on all drivers. Till this day, how many have you done? 2)What % of Uber cabs have a safety button? 3)How do you guarantee our #Uber cabs are not driven by 'hardened criminals or terrorists?' 4) Do you avoid de-platforming drivers when women complain against them because they will join your competitors? @nitin_gadkari ji : Please help women stay be safe in #Uber