The US have never stopped funding Pakistan. During the Soviet-Afghan War, the US, in a bid to counter Soviet expansion, carried a covert CIA initiative that funneled billions of dollar through Pakistan's ISI to arm & train Afghan mujahideen fighters to repel the Soviet forces.
1/ By channeling billions in funds and arms through Pak’s ISI—Washington enabled the unchecked empowerment of radical Islamist factions. One of the primary beneficiaries was Gulbuddin Hekmatyar’s Hezb-e Islami, a group known for its extremist leanings and internecine violence.
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In a bombshell revelation, The Reporter's Collective exposed how the GOI tweaked rules for Adani's power deal.

It's been over 24 hrs, yet not a word of denial from the Power Ministry, Renewable Energy Ministry, or SECI.

Has GoI silently accepted these allegations?

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1/ This is the first time allegations on the ₹2000 CR bribe gate have crawled upto the doorsteps of the govt.

The SECI acts as intermediary to buy power from power companies and sell it to states for a commission. Along with Renewable Energy Min, it sets the auction specifics.
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Mumbai has been 'half sold' to Adani. If you think it's a rhetoric, the joke is on you.

Here are key facts:
Adani took over Mumbai airport after agencies raided GVK. Astonishingly, the CBI court later found no corruption by GVK but Adani acquired 74% stakes in Mumbai Airport.
1/ Adani controls Mumbai's electricity supply, impacting over 3 million suburban people with arbitrary tariff hikes. Just before elections, the Maha govt quietly handed Adani a lucrative 6,600 MW contract for the next 25 yrs—effectively tying the state’s power future to the grp.
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A mountain of blistering accusations has piled up against Madhavi Puri Buch.

1)The current SEBI Chairperson & her husband, Dhaval Buch, had hidden stakes in the exact same obscure offshore Bermuda & Mauritius funds, found in the same complex nested structure, used by Vinod Adani 2) Inspite of clear conflict of interest, she did not recuse herself & gave a clean chit to Adani.

3) That's not all, she had several conflict of interest. She promoted REIT as an asset class as SEBI chair & it is alleged that Blackstone in which her husband works gained frm it.

India has been quietly demoted in Russia's geopolitical playbook. Russian oil imports has been decreasing. NDA propagandists will be burning midnight oil to assure everyone that God in his Heaven and all's right with the world. They will hide hard facts.

Here are some facts:
1/ 1) Crude Oil Imports: Since November of last yr, crude oil imports have seen a significant decline till April. And, this downturn wasn’t solely New Delhi’s decision. The stark drop in Russian oil imports begs a critical question : Is Moscow losing interest in India’s oil market?

"It can't happen here" thought millions of Germans in 1933 as they handed power to Hitler. They thought were safe from the rage of the masses until death & tragedy razed their nation.

Today India is edging towards fascism,but many dismiss it with disbelief. This one for them.
1/ After the Reichstag Fire, Hitler wielded the Reichstag Fire Decree as a weapon to strip away civil liberties. Mass incarcerations of communists followed. Today, India echoes this authoritarian playbook with the UAPA, a law used to imprison individuals indefinitely without reason.

NEET is a calamitous embodiment of systemic failure; millions of students have been SCAMMED for 8 interminable yrs. The paper leak scam is just the tip of the iceberg. Beneath lies a sinister apparatus that goes against principles of social, economic & political justice.
A thread It blatantly favors the affluent. Back in 2015-16, over half of the admissions (51.38%) into govt colleges were by students from families < 2.5 lakhs annually. In 2020-21, and that number plummeted to a mere 41%, exposing a decline in opportunities for those on the lower rung.
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Allow me to share my unfiltered thoughts on the G7 meet:

No amount of hugging, kissing, and selfies can obscure the grim reality that Modi has driven India into a vassal state. He has eviscerated the country's democratic foundations, shredded it by his autocratic scissors.
1/ The economy is teetering on the brink of collapse. India's per capita income is the lowest among G7 nations. Around a decade and a half ago, India was hailed as the "Bird of Gold"; today, it is known for her "Billionaire Raj" dominated by unabated crony capitalism & poverty.
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Sweden is one of the most "equal" countries in the world. It's also one of most developed nation post industrialisation. How did it get there?

Through "wealth redistribution".

How did it redistributed wealth? Through progressive taxation and enforcing a strong welfare state.
1/ Norway is one of the most inclusive economies in the world. It's per capita income is $$89,741.

How did it achieved this feat?

Ans: Wealth Redistribution.

How did it redistributed wealth? With its extensive social welfare programs funded by high taxes on oil & gas production.

The clandestine extortion scheme concealed within Electoral Bonds has been ruthlessly unmasked. Countless corporate titans have faced intimidation, with several incarcerated and coerced into becoming approvers in high-stakes corruption probes.

Here are just 5 CHILLING instances: DLF, a prominent donor to the BJP, has been embroiled in controversy for its alleged ties to Robert Vadra in a Haryana land grab case. Additionally, the BJP has accused DLF of bribing Lalu Prasad Yadav.

Was DLF coerced into making these donations? Were they victims of extortion?

There are 10 overarching rationales to vehemently oppose the CAA:

1. The religion classification in CAA is arbitrary, and in contravention of Article 14 of the Constitution.

2. Country specific classification: exclusion of Sri Lanka & Myanmar is unreasonable and arbitrary
1/ 3. Reducing the citizenship application eligibility to 6 yrs for certain individuals under the CAA lacks justification compared to the usual 11 yrs required for legitimate foreigners.

4.The choice of cut-off date is arbitrary with no rational nexus with stated object.
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In 2019, Nobel Laureate Abhijit Bannerjee fervently advocated for mandatory apprenticeships within government roles spanning a duration of five years. Embracing his recommendations, the Congress party has now broadened this initiative to encompass the private sector as well.
1/ An impediment India grapples with is the absence of robust networking between educational institutions and industries. With government involvement, there's optimism for seamless collaboration between industrial stakeholders and Tier 2 & 3 universities to emerge.
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Not many know this grim reality: UP's per capita income at current prices is ₹70,797 which is half the level of Sub Saharan Africa. Excluding NOIDA, UP's per capita further plummets, comparable to the likes of Afghanistan.

UP has devolved into an economic WASTELAND
1/ A sector wise break up of growth in the last five years:

-Manufacturing: -1.3%
-Industry: 0.6%
-Construction: 3.1%
-Services: 4.1%

2 out of every 5, is multi dimensionally poor in UP. Three districts in UP has nearly 70% population which is multi dimensionally poor.

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The voters of Maharastra, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra, Karnataka, Telangana and WB should ask themselves this question: Why should we vote for a system that gobbles up our taxes and give the fruits of labor to other states?

Can there be greator FISCAL APARTHEID than this?

1/ For WB, Punjab and the South Indian states, the Central govt is a tax eating machine.

The poor of these states don't get any benefit from the rich working class of that state. In other words, an income tax payer of TN is working to fund the ration of the poor in UP & not TN.
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#Exclusive
The WIRE's investigative report could unleash another round of political EARTHQUAKE.

@MahuaMoitra unearthed a massive corruption in Dhamra Port. Adani was trying to acquire Gangavaram Port through the same route that is why she was expelled to get her Qs blocked.
1/ Here how the deal unfolded:

-First, GAIL withdrew from Paradip port which it entered with Odisha govt and took a 11% share in Dhamra.

-Next, IOCL took a 38% in Dhamra.

-The rest 51% was given to an "unspecified partner" which turned out to be Adani.

2 yrs later........

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ALERT: INSIGHTFUL & LONG THREAD

Social Media sites like FB/Twitter were a great place to gauge sentiment for Indian political system in the early 2013s. Some would remember the huge furore that sparked after Cambridge Analytica allegedly took data from FB to do psychoanalysis
1/ Post 2014, things quickly changed. Today social media is a fiercely contested area with organized SM teams fighting each other. Eventually, the so called 'natural sentiment' has vanished and a preponderance of (mis)information has polarized the sentiment largely.

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Damning evidence in former Finance Secretary Subhash Garg's book. In what could potentially stir a huge political UPHEAVAL, Garg in his book discloses the differences between Urjit Patel and PM over electoral bonds among other things.Garg says Modi personally attacked Patel
1/ PM Modi called ex Guv "a SNAKE who sits over money"

In Garg's book, he revealed that Modi govt's ‘frustration’ with Patel had grown as early as Feb 2018 and escalated a month later when he accused the govt of its inability to shed regulatory authority over nationalized banks

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Arvind Subhramanian, the former CEA of Modi govt has once again kicked a FIRESTORM by weighing into the debate of false growth story.

The spectre of SUSPICION over the 7.8% growth figure is really hanging low. In a revealing column, he has pointed major problems with the GDP no:

He says that the real GDP data could portray a rising economy only if the inflation was measured properly which isn't the case. The GDP deflator isn't a hard data, its a derivative of number calculated through a methodology that has well know problems.

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This is BIG. A leading professor from Princeton Univ has made a damning claim which can unleash a earthquake in the political circles. Indian authorities misreported macroeconomic data to hide it's failure before the G20 summit.

He says the growth rate was 4.5% and not 7.8%.
1/ "NSO shows that while income from production increased at an annual 7.8% rate in April-June, expenditure rose by only 1.4%. Both measures clearly have many errors. The NSO nonetheless treats income as the right one. This is an obvious violation of international best practice."
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This decade has been the WORST decade for the Indian Economy. You may ask why?

Here are the 10 reasons:

1) The Manufacturing sector was cruelly battered by this regime.

2) Rupee fell to an unprecedented historic low.

3) Inspite of a weakening ₹, exports was at all time low. 4) The economy got shackled by debt. Every citizen today owes a debt of ₹1.16 lakhs.

5) Far from achieving strategic autonomy,today India is flooded with imports from China.

6) During the decade, Bangladesh surpassed India in percapita terms.

7) Little to no investment

Sit down @amitmalviya .
You neither have intellectual capability nor the eptitude to debate with him. Here is a reality check for you:

UPA inherited an economy which grew at mere 5.9% ( real GDP) while you inherited an economy that was growing at more than 7%
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https://twitter.com/amitmalviya/status/1690018273130156032

In the 10 years UPA have been in power, the GDP almost quadrupled, a feat unheard and unachieved by any advanced economy then.

Japan was the first country which doubled its GDP in a decade while China broke it by tripling its GDP in a decade. India quadrupled in 2004-14.

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