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A Gmail ID was used to impersonate a Central PSU. Nobody questioned it. And ₹20,000 crore in govt tenders got rigged. Let me tell you the story of India's most absurd corruption case. Jal Jeevan Mission, PM Modi's flagship scheme to give tap water to every rural home. Rajasthan alone got ₹10,180 crore from the Centre in FY22 and ₹13,328 crore in FY23. Almost 23% of the entire national JJM budget went to one state. Two tubewell companies wanted these tenders. Problem? They had zero experience. Solution? They forged experience certificates of IRCON, a Railways PSU. Fake letterheads, fictitious officer names. And for verification, they created a Gmail ID pretending to be IRCON officials. A Central govt PSU under Ministry of Railways. Replying from @ gmail. com. Not .gov.in. Not .nic.in. Gmail. And nobody in the entire PHED department found this suspicious. Not one officer. Combined, these two firms filed 230+ tenders using these forged documents. But the real Bollywood moment? PHED sent an engineer to Kerala to "physically verify" IRCON's work. The contractors and a forger reached Kochi ONE DAY before him. Checked into Hotel Woodlark. The forger was introduced to the engineer as "Vijay Shankar, CEO, IRCON International." Random photos of pumphouses were submitted as proof. The contractor left his personal phone in Jaipur and used an employee's SIM card to avoid GPS tracking. The engineer came back and submitted a "positive verification report." Now here's the part that makes your blood boil. In June 2023, IRCON's own Vigilance Department wrote DIRECTLY to the Addl Chief Secretary Subodh Agarwal — "These certificates are fake and fabricated." What happened? The warning emails were deleted. Compliant engineers were handpicked to give false positive reports. Three separate legal notices were sent to the department. All ignored. But the scam wasn't just about fake certificates. That was just ₹960 crore. The bigger game was ₹20,000 crore. Agarwal introduced a rule — "Site Visit Certificates" mandatory for tenders above ₹50 crore. Sounds like transparency, right? It actually exposed which companies were bidding BEFORE tender opening. Once everyone knows who else is bidding, you form cartels. You fix prices. Tender premiums were inflated 30-40% across the board. The numbers: ₹20,000 crore in tenders rigged 30-40% inflated premiums, 4% bribery formula ₹47 crore seized by ED so far — 0.2% of the scam The fraud ran from 2021 to 2023 under the Congress govt in Rajasthan. IRCON warned in 2023. CBI filed an FIR in 2024. ED arrested the minister in 2025. Agarwal was finally caught this week — after being on the run for 2 months, evading 40+ ACB teams across 100 locations in 21 cities. JJM 2.0 just got approved. Budget: ₹8.69 lakh crore. The real question — has the system that enabled this actually changed? Or are we just funding the next scam on a bigger scale

A 20 year old Indian Badminton talent Ayush Shetty beats WR7 & Li Shi Feng at Asia Badminton Championship !! 🇮🇳🔥 Look at his confidence !! 🔥🔥

@LeftOf_Normal 😂

I'm at that age where you should eat soaked almonds every morning to sharpen your memory, but you forget to soak them at night.

Marcus Aurelius wrote this over 1800 years ago: “When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.”

Un turista se puso a jugar competencia de figuras con toallas con los empleados de un hotel en su vacaciones y lo registró en un video. Espectacular .

What an incredible English gentleman. He stood up to shake hands at the age of 90.

Waka waka (Dal baati churma remix) 🤘

When I meet my school friends

Haha ye wala mast hai .. Bechare paati 😂😂😂

A businessman discovered that 3 of his employees were studying and working simultaneously to pay for their education. He decided to cover all their university expenses and explained that it wasn't a reward for working, but an investment in people who want to grow. He's not building a company, he's building people. 👏

🚨FREE & FAIR ELECTIONS IN INDIA🚨 A woman from UP reached Assam to cast her vote on someone else's Voter ID. When confronted by a man, she said my husband Vicky Kumar gave me this ID. The man said, "I am Vicky Kumar, when did I marry you?"

In Barmer’s brutal 50°C heat, even birds struggle to survive. That’s when ‘Greenman’ Narpat Singh Rajpurohit stepped in—with something as simple as discarded coconuts. He turns them into nests that stay naturally cool, unlike plastic or metal. They’re sturdy, eco-friendly, and cost nothing to make. Today, these little coconut homes hang on trees, quietly saving lives. It’s a reminder: sometimes, caring for the planet doesn’t need big solutions—just thoughtful ones. Tag someone who’d try this in their city. Credits: greenman_narpat_singh_ on IG #Sustainability #EcoInnovation #WasteToWonder #ClimateAction #Rajasthan [Sustainable Living, Climate Change Solutions, Eco Friendly Practices, Waste Recycling Ideas, Environmental Conservation]

"Justice must not only be done, but must also be seen to be done”. Lord Hewart, the then Lord Chief Justice of England in the case of Rex v. Sussex Justices, [1924] 1 KB 256.

85% of India's police are constables. The clerk is invisible to everyone — except the citizen who needs him. Sociologist Lenski called it Status Inconsistency: high power, low rank. The strain turns outward. Onto you. A 2021 study found low power breeds paranoia — which breeds aggression. That hostile window clerk isn't a bad person. He's a predictable product of a broken system. The Police Act of 1861 still governs how a constable meets a citizen in 2025. When I became DGP Haryana, I didn't start with training. I started with dignity. Wrote to every jawan in Hindi: "You are the most important rank. The citizen at your gate is having a difficult day. Offer them a chair." It worked. Because these are good people inside a broken design. But goodwill has a shelf life. Georgia after Rose Revolution recruited anew, raised salaries, tied promotion to conduct. Within 6 years — per Princeton's research — their police ranked 3rd most trusted institution in the country, after church and army. The lesson isn't training. It's incentives. Reward dignity. Recognise integrity. Link promotion to conduct. Give them something to gain by being good. That's the reform. Everything else is noise. Read my full article in @Dailyworld

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اردلی ڈرافٹ کی ریہرسل کرتے ہوئے

@parulnagpal @garvirawat nahi..shayad Indian Railway has penalised IRCTC, which in turn is owned by the govt of India! So ek haath sey doosrey haath...public khush..taali bajayengey 😅

@garvirawat Caterer will pay the railways. The consumer will just have to deal with it.

@khuchrep Aur hospital mein medicines par no discount, jabki open market mein Acha khaasa discount mil jata hai…isiliyey artificially prices zyada rakhi jaati hai

~50 रुपए दवा 500 MRP में बिक रही है, ~7 रुपए का इंजेक्शन 700 में बिक रहा है, ~कही ब्लड टेस्ट 200 का है, तो कहीं 2000 का, ~कहीं MRI 3500 रुपए की है, तो कहीं 7000 की, ~कहीं CT स्कैन 2000 रुपए का है, तो कंही 4000 का, ~लेकिन सत्ता पक्ष और विपक्ष का ध्यान है कि कौन सी मूवी अच्छी है कौन सी खराब। विडंबना

My mom and her friend were on vacation in Italy and went looking for a place to have lunch in this small village. They found what looked like a cute little café with a patio and sat down. This old man comes out, brings them pasta, coffee, juice, everything they ordered, and then just sits down to chat with them. When they asked for the bill the man looked genuinely confused Turns out it wasn’t a café. They had walked into some random guy’s private home and asked him to feed them 😭 And he just… did it. Italy I love you.

Maya Angelou said it right: “Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn't know before you learned it.”