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Happy to share my article for Vice about censorship. It is based on my own experiance of getting banned by LinkedIn for absolutely no fault of mine. 5 months later LinkedIn restored my account with an apology. How did this happen? Read here. vice.com/en/article/dy8…

According to an investigation by The Indian Express, HDFC Bank allegedly routed around ₹45 crore as “marketing/sponsorship spend” to Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation in order to effectively provide higher interest on deposits than permitted under RBI norms.

#StoryAlert🚨 In a Gujarat port case, the National Green Tribunal, in a REMARKABLY SHOCKING order, copy-pasted page after page, excerpts from the very reports commissioned by the very same port, to finally give a one-paragraph “finding” that the Environment Clearance granted to it was without fault! From page 5 to page 43 (of the total 44 pages), the order copies and pastes parts of the project proponent’s (the port’s) own Environmental Impact Assessment and other studies it commissioned—the very documents whose findings the appellant had come to the Tribunal to challenge—and then treats those very reproductions as the basis on which to dismiss the very grave questions raised against them, including violation of laws, threat to endangered species, falsities in the studies, and lack of several important studies like impact on local livelihood and climate analysis. The NGT order runs into 44 pages but is absolutely DEVOID of any reasoning! Then, when challenged in the Supreme Court, a bench of Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi declined to set this order aside on May 11 this year. Instead, they chose to send the appellant back to the NGT. The NGT order violated at least four precedents that have clearly held that the NGT ought to undertake a merits-review of the challenged clearance, defined what “merits-review” is, pressed for detailed reasoning, called reasoning “the heartbeat” of a judgment, and barred it from resting its conclusions on what the project proponent (the port) says. The most concerning failure of the Supreme Court, however, is that it did not even bother to take judicial note of the conduct that was highlighted before it. Instead, Chief Justice Kant on that day, went on an intemperate rant against “alleged environmentalists and activists”. During the hearing, Chief Justice Kant stated: “Show us even a single project in this country where these alleged environmentalists and activists say we welcome this project… Everything you drag to the court… In this country, this kind of litigation is filed only to stall all development projects. That is the problem,” and so on. The Supreme Court’s own failure to engage scientifically with the case when it came before it, and the Chief Justice of India’s intemperate remarks from the Bench against those who have given much of their lives in the service of the environment, coupled with the fact that the NGT failed remarkably to undertake a merits-review of the Environmental Clearance as mandated by law, is a perverse inversion of their appellate duties. Can an environmental tribunal reproduce the project proponent’s documents as its own findings and call its one-para decision a “judgment”? The issue of both quality of judgments and discipline, finally, lies in WHO is being appointed to the NGT, keeping in mind the larger ecosystem of questionable appointments across institutions within which those appointments are made. Precedent then holds little significance. Surely, the judicial member on the NGT Bench, former Allahabad High Court judge Justice Dinesh Kumar Singh would be well versed with the plethora of precedents his bench ought to have followed in the case. More on this shocking order in my 31st fortnightly 'Case In Point' column for @frontline_india—frontline.thehindu.com/columns/ngt-pi… Support independent journalism! {The End}

@GBarca_ Cubarsi single handedly ruined his team's genuine UCL title chances two seasons in a row, why does he get no chance to take accountability?

Do Madrid players ever take any sort of accountability for being bad ?

@swaroopkaimal Manichitrathazhu scene she is supposed to dance poorly, the plot asks for that specifically. The character is a bipolar patient in the culminating stage of her mental breakdown episode 😂.

OG? Really? She never was. Sorry if am being harsh. If you’re someone who happened to see her paired with certain men in dance sequences, you’d think twice. Kaanamarayathth. See how artificial and amateurish she was in that ‘oru madhurakkinavin’ song, compared to Rahman. Two three songs from that underrated flick by Shri Fazil, called Maanathe Vellitheru. See how elegantly Vineeth overpowered her in all those songs. Manichithrathaazhu also. That Kannada guy Sridhar (who played Ramanathan) simply outdid her in dance-combo scenes here also. Sobhana is tall, fair, looks good, dances well, but that’s it. Nothing more. Touché.

Psychiatric patient suffering bipolar disorder and who never learned to dance isn't going to dance well obviously.

No Swaroop you misread that scene in Manichitrathazhu. In that final dance Ganga/Nagavalli is supposed to dance sloppily. The bad dancing is by design, that even in that slop there is an element of wonder and beauty maybe the reason why people don't think of it as bad.

I like thw new Chunnari song. I wasn't a fan of the older one at all. Ofcourse it did have a dope base track or tune. But everything they did in top of that was shit. But Salman Khan is Salman Khan, even if his dance is shit also fee looks better, and Susmita is lovely as well.

@binu_asish37679 @RishiJoeSanu You are wrong. There are signs that it was a bad deal from the start but that is kind of risk that is normal in deals like this. He isn't sophisticated technocratic lender, he deals with his gut feeling which is what works since he lending to the lowest denominator of the society

@RishiJoeSanu Ajesh is bad business men. Their was signs this was bad deal from start and he still proceeded with it. Also with the risks involved he should have earned well and retired his mother from work.

The character of Bruno from this movie is a good archetype of a blind loyalist of communist party in Kerala -unemployed, hot-tempered, ignores family obligations etc. Otoh Basil Joseph's character, P.P. Ajesh, is the archetypal oppressed Malayali entrepreneur underdog hero.

I know people who have claimed to be classmates of Kerala's brand new CM from within my own family in less than a month since inauguration.

12 years of Premiership and we are yet to see one person come forward claiming to be this classmate either in college or school. Or even one person who can claim to have drunk the tea he claimed to have served in that railway station.

@NeetuGarg6 Have you ever asked Mr Narendra Modi about his school and college experiences? 12 years as PM and we are yet to meet one classmate of his.

Recently I spoke with several Class 12 students and their parents regarding the ongoing CBSE OSM evaluation discussion. Interestingly, their perspective is very different from the narrative being circulated online. Many students shared that this year’s checking was stricter and more balanced, with teachers not being pushed for overly lenient marking. Honestly, that is how a fair examination system should function. Inflated scores and artificial high percentages over the years were never a healthy benchmark for students or education standards. What stood out most was that even students scoring 88% or 92% said they were satisfied because they felt the evaluation was genuine and merit-based. We should support a transparent and credible system that values real learning over unrealistic mark inflation. @dpradhanbjp @EduMinOfIndia @blsanthosh

On Indian poverty reduction: New paper from Pete Lanjouw & coauthors, who pioneered methods for linking poverty measures across messy data series: "All estimates indicate a significant slowing of poverty decline between 2011/12 and 2022/23 compared to the preceding decade"

After wrongly declaring an Indian student as a 'Pakistani'. The Anchor is still doubting his Country of origin just because the region on his X profile shows 'South Asia'. The News Anchor @AshokShrivasta6 thinks India is not part of 'South Asia. Su h Godi Anchors will declare their family members as Pakistanis just to defend Modi/BJP.

@AshokShrivasta6 @vineetJindal19 South Asia is a region that includes India you idiot.

अभी जानकारी मिली है कि वेदांत नाम का स्टूडेंट वास्तव में एक छात्र है। हालांकि उसके ट्वीट की लोकेशन भारत से बाहर की क्यों दिखाई जा रही है इसकी पर्याय जानकारी अभी भी नहीं मिली है। लेकिन @vineetJindal19 जी मेरे मित्र हैं और विश्वसनीय व्यक्ति हैं इसलिए उनकी जानकारी गलत नहीं होगी। सही जानकारी मिलते ही मै अपना पुराना ट्वीट डिलीट कर रहा हूं और वेदांत और उनके परिवार के बारे में जो गलत जानकारी फैलाई गई उसके लिए मै उनसे माफी भी मांगता हूं। लेकिन अभी भी उम्मीद करता हूं कि अकाउंट के लोकेशन की सही जानकारी मिले तो मामला और ज्यादा स्पष्ट होगा।

High IQ Boomer Arun Rao harassing a child who even ABP confirmed is an Indian. These piths will sell anyone and anything tagging the HMO in his typical RWA association bully uncle type of behaviour 🤣

Man stands up for a defenceless shopkeeper, and the Hindoo samaj rewards him with a boycott. For the stupid goyim, one elderly Muslim man with Parkinsons running a shop is the biggest threat they could think of.

If the IT cell can brand: - The Shankaracharya as an anti-Hindu - The Foreign Secretary as an anti-national - A leader of the freedom struggle as a traitor What makes you think they won't brand you as a Pakistani just for raising a valid issue?

@americakaran Okay I don't want to see this film now 😂

Okay I disagreed with this, but then I saw Drishyam 3. And it’s basically very Guilt culture ethics. Biggest movie of year that meditates over the feeling of overwhelming guilt that a father feels about protecting his daughter from being arrested for killing her rapist? Whaaaat.

This level of hate is not even seen in fringe in other countries. But in India, even a major ruling party politician can arbitrarily ruin the lives of children just based on identity. What India is going through right now is not normal even benchmarking to very low standards.

>state = Rajasthan >party in power = BJP >city = Jaisalmer, MLA = BJP More than 500 cows laid for decay at a garbage dump site.