Gvt declared him a shooting champion & granted him admission through a sports quota.
The family has always treated India as their colony—no wonder he doesn't want MERIT.
chetak wrote: ↑26 Mar 2025 21:34 1989 : Rahul Gandhi wasn't eligible for admission to St. Stephen's College, Delhi due to poor marks.
Gvt declared him a shooting champion & granted him admission through a sports quota.
The family has always treated India as their colony—no wonder he doesn't want MERIT.
Rahul Gandhi now says "Merit is completely flawed and unfair idea.
This entire narrative is an UPPER CASTE Narrative"
There will be millions of such examples happening all over Bharat, every day. People have to factor in such inescapable corruption as one of the items of cost of doing business and get on with it.A friend owns a small sporting goods store in Bangalore. Regardless of the government in place, he and other businesses around him are forced to pay lakhs in bribes. Lakhs.
Someone from the Department of Metrology will come in one day. Go through EVERY item in stock so they can find something where the label has fallen off or is less visible. They ask that it’s okay for them to give him a court date so he can resolve it. Or he can pay a “fine”.
In a few days, the Department of Labour comes in. They will come with several people and go through every book and registration. Find something to blackmail him about. Then ask for a fine. Mind you, this is a person that is a stickler for transparency and is very organised.
Then there is the GST audit. The slabs are very weird here. It goes from 2.5% to 18% even though everything is sports. They will find one entry in a thousand within the inventory and repeat threat of courts.
A businessman close by to his store told them no, they couldn’t do this and even he had political reach. They gave him a date to resolve it in court where he spent months trying to respond to the summons. Unsure which department it was for.
Then there is the trade licence. They need an NOC from everyone about the business. They can go and ask people in the neighbourhood if they are okay with the footfall or if it gets too noisy. If they can frame anything as a complaint, they do.
There are well-known characters in the process. A man, well-dressed, well-known to businesses across town, makes lakhs in a day. He sits at the store and does not budge until he finds something. Keeps conversation light. Finds something. Asks to be paid.
Add here the random drop-ins by the cops who tale away goods worth thousands for 200 because “if something happens, like the lock on your shutter door is broken or your store is vandalised, you will need us. Help us out for now.” That is a hardly veiled threat.
This is understood to be normal. This needs to change.
Amit Shah blames West Bengal govt for India-Bangladesh border fencing delays, says 'TMC workers indulge in hooliganism'
“The fencing work of 450 km is pending because the West Bengal government is not giving land for it,” Shah said, adding that the ruling party in the state has repeatedly hindered security efforts. He further alleged that whenever authorities attempt to proceed with fencing, “ruling party workers indulge in hooliganism and religious sloganeering.”
TMC demands completion of fencing
Rajya Sabha Trinamool Congress MP Sukhendu Sekhar Ray on Thursday called on the central government to expedite the fencing of the India-Bangladesh border on a war footing. Raising the issue during Zero Hour in the Rajya Sabha, Ray highlighted that 865 km of the 4,096.7 km border remains unfenced, posing security concerns.
Consumer Wins!
The CCPA guidelines prohibiting mandatory imposition of service charges by hotels and restaurants has been upheld by the Delhi HC.
The service charge on food & beverage bills are only voluntary in nature.
judiciary decide and appoint themselves, investigate themselves, punish themselves and also decides to govern the nation.
Why the heck do we waste money on elections
+ anything where lawyers get involved. The PoA business is just a part of how lawyers do rent seeking and make their money (also deliver it to other public servants involved). They make sure the process on the ground is convoluted beyond the process that you'll find online. They then seek their fees to smoothen out the process. They would even make you run in circles after getting the money.
The high court, on July 10, 2023, set aside the government's order, saying it did not give reasons and "hardly gave any indication of application of mind".
The high court had directed the Centre to pass a detailed order within three weeks giving reasons for exercising its powers under the Citizenship Act, 1955.
But if this stands, the OCI program itself needs to be looked at afresh with language added to the law to clarify matters.The petition said despite such specific and unequivocal directions of the high court to pass a detailed order, authorities padded the July 30, 2023 order in a callous manner by merely paraphrasing the provisions of law.
Binayak Sen (Hindi: बिनायक सेन, Bengali: বিনায়ক সেন) is a paediatrician, and public health specialist.[2] He is the national Vice-President of the People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL).[3] He is the recipient of several awards including the Jonathan Mann Award, the Gwangju Prize for Human Rights, and the Gandhi International Peace Award.[4]
Binayak Sen originally started working as a paediatrician extending health care to poor people in the rural-tribal areas of the Chhattisgarh state, doubling up as a human rights activist. While Sen has worked with the state government on health sector reform[5] he has also strongly criticised the government on human rights violations during the anti-Naxalite operations, while advocating non-violent political engagement.[6]
In May 2007, he was detained for allegedly supporting the outlawed Naxalites which would violate the provisions of the Chhattisgarh Special Public Security Act 2005 (CSPSA) and the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act 1967.[7][8] Sen first applied for bail before the Raipur Sessions Court and then the Chhattisgarh High Court in July 2007, soon after his arrest.[9] Sen spent over two years in jail on charges of acting as a courier between Naxal leader Sanyal and businessman Piyush Guha. He was also accused of having associations with the CPI (Maoist), a group linked to the Naxal movement.[10] but was granted bail by the Supreme Court of India on 25 May 2009.[11]
In 2010, he was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment by Raipur Sessions Court, Chhattisgarh, for sedition and helping Naxalites to set up a network to fight the State.[12] He was granted bail on 15 April 2011 by the Supreme Court of India which gave no reason for the order.[13] Sen has filed an appeal before the Chhattisgarh High Court and the case is pending.
Not sure if this is a good move. To attract and keep service staff, restaurants will have to increase their pay to compensate for the uncertainty and probable loss of tips revenue, and of course recover the same from customers in the form of increased prices. Or reduce staff and increase work load on employees, who will end up struggling to serve customers like before and will end up getting less tips which are now optional. Overall service quality will take a hit and the restaurant business will be impacted.
Cyrano wrote: ↑29 Mar 2025 13:36Not sure if this is a good move. To attract and keep service staff, restaurants will have to increase their pay to compensate for the uncertainty and probable loss of tips revenue, and of course recover the same from customers in the form of increased prices. Or reduce staff and increase work load on employees, who will end up struggling to serve customers like before and will end up getting less tips which are now optional. Overall service quality will take a hit and the restaurant business will be impacted.
If restaurant owners don't increase pay, the service staff who make meager earnings in most cases will be hit.
A better solution would be to include say 10% service charge as mandatory and ensure the money is paid to staff and this should be audited.
The customers can always tip if they feel they got great service.
Cyrano wrote: ↑29 Mar 2025 16:30 Let's see... There is no easy solution for this. In any product + service business the challenge is the same.
Like you pointed out, hygiene and food quality is a huge risk when eating out in India.
Remember the recent expose of dog meat being supplied to big hotels and restaurants in Bangalore? Quelle horreur !!
When in India I rarely eat out now, and when I do it's only pure veg places.
Pic 1- Judge Yashwant Varma. Allegedly, crores of rupees found at his residence. SC merely transfers him & set up in-house inquiry. No FIR.
Pic 2- Justice Chinnaswamy Karnan, after serving 6-mth jail term for writing letter to PM #Modi Ji alleging corruption against 20 Judges. SC charged him with contempt of court & gave 6 months imprisonment.
Corruption isn't a problem, Alleging or Exposing Corruption is the real problem in 'Indian' Judiciary System.
BIG REVELATION by Sanjeev Sanyal:
During Covid deep state tried to force BHARAT to sign right to determine where the Covid vaccines went
This was happening through an entity called CEPI which is a private NGO type entity funded by USAID, SOROS
@mayank2030
Sanyal is referring to Indian CEPI board member is Gagandeep (cherry) Kang from christian medical college vellore...she is based out of Seattle involved in bill and melinda gates foundation
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Tamil Nadu CM Thiru @mkstalin should answer the following questions.
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We have given one sample village for the people to understand the magnitude of this corruption.
2)Are you aware that the states with three times or five times more rural populations have received lesser funds than Tamil Nadu under the MGNREGA scheme?
3)When do you plan to fulfill the poll promise of increasing the MGNREGA workdays from 100 to 150?
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MGNREGA irregularity in one panchayat in Erode District in Tamil Nadu. (2/4)
Among the 13 blocks are three blocks for mining construction sand in the coast of Kollam - and three blocks for polymetallic nodules off the coast of the Great Nicobar Islands-
The Sterlite Copper plant in Thoothukudi, Tamil Nadu, was shut down in 2018 due to environmental concerns and protests. The cheeni funded and instigated this economic attack on India, helped by anti India locals in the state ruling party
The amrikis/frogs were behind the koodankulam protests to slow/stop the building of nuclear power plants