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@NalinisKitchen Government may term it as illegal construction and doze it Whom does the land belong to ?

People in a village in Manipur had to walk sometimes up to 2 days to reach a hospital. Villagers requested a road many times, but the government had ignored the demand for over 30 years. Then a newly appointed IAS officer, Armstrong Pame, promised to help and build a road. He asked the government for funds → No response. Instead of waiting on hope, he created a Facebook campaign and raised ~₹40 lakh through crowdfunding. Donations came from contributors across ~25 countries. He himself contributed ₹5 lakh from his own savings. He and the villagers themselves built a 100 km road in ~210 days. The road is named “People’s Road”. The government has crores for freebies, but no money for remote villages, because it is never urgent for them.

@HardeepSPuri @FinMinIndia It will be sucked out of tax payers eventually Will the government, state or central, have courage to cancel all freebies to ensure the deficit created is not burdened over to tax payers ?

International crude prices have gone through the roof in the last 1 month from around 70 dollars/barrel to around 122 dollars/barrel. Consequently, petrol and diesel prices for consumers have gone up all over the world. Prices have increased by around 30%-50% in South East Asian countries, 30% in North American countries, 20% in Europe and 50% in African countries. The Modi Government had two choices- either increase prices drastically for citizens of Bharat as all other nations have done or bear the brunt on its finances so that Indian citizen is insulated from international volatility. Hon’ble Prime Minister @narendramodi Ji, in keeping with his Government’s commitment of last 4 years since the conflict in Russia-Ukraine started, decided to take a hit on its own finances again to safeguard the Indian citizen. Government has taken a huge hit on it taxation revenues to ensure very high losses of oil companies (approximately 24 Rs/litre for petrol and 30 Rs/litre for diesel) at this time of sky high international prices are reduced. At the same time, export tax has been levied as international prices of petrol and diesel have skyrocketed and any refinery exporting to foreign nations will have to pay export tax. My gratitude to Hon’ble PM Narendra Modi Ji and Hon’ble FM @nsitharaman Ji for this very timely, bold and visionary decision!

@nsitharamanoffc @FinMinIndia Even when the law itself lacks empathy, fairness and efficiency ? How could executioners be kind when rules set out to them do not exhibit the same. The divide between rich and poor and the burden on taxpayers has risen exponentially.

I want to convey a message to the Income Tax Department. You're not just tax collectors. You're the face of the government's relationship with the taxpayer. Since you're the face of the government's relationship with the taxpayer, this new law gives you a clearer and leaner framework to make it simple, to make it simpler for people who want to understand it better. It must be administered with empathy, fairness and efficiency. I expect every officer to internalise the spirit of this new law. The taxpayer is not your adversary. The taxpayer is your partner in nation building. - Smt @nsitharaman in New Delhi (1/2)

@theskindoctor13 Looting to poison themselves for free 😂😂

A lorry overturned in Nellore, Andhra Pradesh, and people looted cold drink bottles despite the injured driver pleading with them not to. Such incidents are not uncommon in India. What explains this mass behaviour? Such insensitivity, for what? A few hundred rupees?

Dhurandar shifted to India 😂

How many of you have heard the terms “sarpanch pati” or “panchayat pati” ? In many places, a Panchayat seat reserved for women ends up being contested by the wife, daughter, sister or daughter in law of a male politician , while real authority continues to be exercised by him. This is why these terms have become so common. The 73rd Constitutional Amendment mandated 33% reservation for women in Panchayati Raj institutions so that women’s voices are part of local governance. Out of roughly 31 lakh elected Panchayat representatives, about one third are women. But when an elected woman representative is only the face while authority is exercised by a male relative, it creates a parallel unelected authority. A form of proxy governance the Constitution never intended. This is exactly why I raised the issue through a supplementary question in Parliament last week. Does the government acknowledge that this practice exists? And what steps are being taken to ensure that women elected to Panchayats exercise real authority, not merely hold the seat in name?

@iamufohunter Violence is their trump card

What's stopping humans to just live in peace together ?

₹19,000 crore. That is what Banks collected in last 3 years just for not maintaining ‘Minimum Account Balance.’ Not from the rich. Not from big borrowers. From the poorest accounts in the system. Their crime? They didn’t have enough money. A farmer misses the minimum balance - Penalty. A pensioner withdraws money for medicine - Penalty. A daily wage worker falls short by a few hundred rupees - Penalty. The poor keep money in banks for safety. Not to be quietly fined for being poor. Financial inclusion should protect small savings, not punish small balances. In Parliament today I proposed ending minimum balance penalties so the banking system stops charging people for their poverty.

When a soldier guards our borders, he does not calculate his sacrifice in tax slabs. He spends Diwali in a bunker. Eid on the border. Misses family milestones. And sometimes he loses a part of his body in service of the nation. That disability pension is not income. It is compensation for a wound carried for life. Yet under the Budget 2026 provisions, whether that pension is taxed or not depends on when the soldier retired. Not on the injury he suffered or the sacrifice he made. Two soldiers. One wound. Two tax rules. Soldier A gets injured and leaves the Army — his disability pension is tax-free. Soldier B gets injured but continues serving the nation — his disability pension will be taxed Same injury. Same sacrifice. But the one who served longer is punished more. A soldier doesn’t calculate sacrifice in tax slabs. You can tax income. You cannot tax sacrifice.

@Cricsam01 Very few women know how to carry themselves .. she is pretty !

Meet Preity Zinta. ❤️ - Never do Cringe behavior during Auction. - Not behavior bad when Team losing. - Donates 1.10 Cr to Support Army Wives & After Operation Sindoor. Preity Zinta will always remain the best owner in ipl history. Beauty with brain ❤️

👏👏👏👏 ‘pothole’ever happens is for good

@Iyervval Courts failure or police or lawyers representing the evidence ??

“Supreme Court stays death penalty of man CONVICTED FOR THE RAPE & MURDER of a 5 YEAR OLD GIRL” Let that sink in.

@bhaumikgowande recollect in my young days we used to travel to my Naanis place in state transport bus. Hot, humid, cramped buses. The highways were covered with eucalyptus trees all along the stretch providing cooling shade along the usual noisy bus drives. Yet Those were pollution free times.

Street tree canopies can cut road surface temperatures by 10–25°C and reduce ambient air temperatures by 2–5°C. For pedestrians and bus commuters in hot cities, shade isn’t cosmetic urbanism; it’s critical climate infrastructure🌳🚌. 📍Rohini, Delhi

South African AD using #Bollywood.. This is so well made.. 😅

@rsrobin1 @SandhuTaranjitS Hain

Delhi’s new LG Taranjit Singh Sandhu arrived in style for his oath at Lok Niwas blue “Khalsa” turban & bandhgala suit, exuding Punjabi pride. Diplomat’s swagger owns the stage today! 🇮🇳 #DelhiLG @SandhuTaranjitS

@IndianGems_ Moot question - who delivers good administration - politically elected representatives or government selected bureaucrats? One truly responsible needs to be fixed immediately in India.

Even urban planning in a country 4 times poorer than us, like Indonesia, looks more advanced and cleaner. Just tell me how?

@Viv_Krishnan Summarising, in this war the American administration seems to have betrayed the Middle East nations, Europe, Britain, India, Ukraine, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, South East Asian nations, Australia, Turkey, Cyprus, UN, alliances like G7, WEF, WTO, Venezuelans, Canada….

In defence, dependance to an uber powerful ally/allies comes with its compulsions. And this applies to every area, not just high end hardware. We’ve got 1000’s of MP5’s languishing without spares for years. A certain high end pistol was supplied to a force and has not received replacement during warranty. A very famous assault weapon still doesn’t have anything remotely close to an Indian supply chain for components. A crew served weapon was delivered with ToT but no key parts get produced in India. In all these cases, the forces were not always at fault. They assumed that legal agreements were sacrosanct & trusted too much. In the future, a simple dislocation of global logistics in conflict can cause us more harm than what we’re ready for. It’s a risk, we have to be ready with options

@timesofindia We want to beat 75 years of legacy with 12 years of impetus These things take time To create base for manufacture To create base for tech development To create ideology for tech To create IPR and ownership To create redundancy

Despite a slight dip in imports due to govt’s impetus on ‘Make-in-India’ weapons, India remains the world’s second-largest importer of major #arms, accounting for 8.2% of the global share between 2021 and 2025, according to a new report. Read here 🔗toi.in/pvbjhZ49

@chakranewz Sense

Speaking at the Rising Sun Conclave, Sushant Sareen delivered a blunt reality check on India’s defence industry. Stop expecting technology transfer. No country gives away cutting-edge tech. At best, they pass what’s already obsolete. If India wants real capability, it must build, co-develop, or strategically acquire it, while fixing inefficiencies in PSUs like Hindustan Aeronautics Limited and the old Ordnance Factory Board model. Watch the full conversation here: youtube.com/watch?v=NkDmW4… @sushantsareen @awasthi_bob @SandeepUnnithan @i_DeepakBhadana #chakranewz

@ShivAroor India bound is different from Indian ship !

In Iran, there are 3 main combatants. But in the Strait of Hormuz, the entire WORLD is at war. And Iran’s bombing of a ship bound for ‘friendly’ India shows that all bets are off. India cannot watch from the sidelines. My take: