sonal minhas @MinhasSonal

एक घण्टे की बारिश और गुरुग्राम की परिवहन व्यवस्था ठप्प। राष्ट्र की जीवन रेखा राष्ट्रीय राजमार्ग 248 A पर चार किलोमीटर का सफर 4 घंटे में..... भाजपा हटाओ, गुरुग्राम बचाओ

A woman was riding pillion to work, about 3 km from her own house, on a road she must have used hundreds of times. The scooter braked, skidded on a slush covered damaged stretch, and threw her into the path of a goods vehicle. Her name was Medha Akarsh. She was 32, from Kerala, and worked with the Employees Provident Fund Organisation in Bengaluru. She leaves behind her husband and a 3 year old son. This week she was travelling on Ananth Nagar Main Road, near Electronics City Phase 2, riding pillion with a colleague. A pedestrian moved towards the middle of the road. The car in front braked suddenly. The rider braked, and the scooter went out from under them on the broken surface. She was taken to a private hospital and died there. That evening more than 400 residents came out onto the streets of Ananth Nagar holding candles and phone torches. They were not there about the driver. They were there about the road. A case is registered at the Electronic City traffic police station and police are looking for the driver of the goods vehicle. The Karnataka Labour Minister, Santosh Lad, said there was a possibility a pothole contributed, and also said the presence of a pothole did not mean the government had neglected infrastructure. Now the numbers, because they are on record. The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways told the Lok Sabha that potholes killed 9,438 people in India between 2020 and 2024. In 2020 the figure was 1,555. By 2024 it had risen to 2,385. It is going up, not down. Karnataka reported more than 2,700 grievous injuries from potholed roads in that period. In 2018 the Supreme Court called the pothole death toll unacceptable and noted it was higher than the number killed in terror attacks. It said victims should be entitled to compensation. In 2022 the Karnataka High Court said in open court that it felt guilty every time it read about someone dying on a Bengaluru road. None of it worked. A woman still died on a slush covered road this week, 3 km from her house. Here are 3 things worth knowing, because they are the difference between a statistic and a case. First, these deaths are undercounted. Bengaluru Traffic Police have said their pothole death data only includes cases where the first information report explicitly states the road condition caused it. If the FIR does not say it, the death is never counted as a pothole death. One officer told a newspaper that their own people have a soft corner for civic officials, because everyone is part of the same system. So if this happens to a family you know, the FIR must record the condition of the road. In writing. That single line decides whether the death exists in the data at all. Second, the conviction rate for these cases is poor. Deaths get reported. Almost nobody is held responsible. Third, and this is the part most people do not know. In October 2025 the Bombay High Court imposed strict liability on civic bodies for pothole deaths. It fixed compensation at 6 lakh rupees for a death caused by poor road conditions and up to 2.5 lakh rupees for injuries. Strict liability means the family does not have to prove negligence. The condition of the road is enough. That judgment is from another High Court, so it does not bind Karnataka. But it exists, it is on the record, and it can be cited. The roads are not an act of god. They are built by contractors, signed off by officials, and paid for with our money. Somebody approved that stretch of road. Somebody was paid for it.

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What an incredible story. Sad this won’t trend on social media as it isn’t tailor made for it. Absolute legend. 🫡

A 10-minute walk after dinner could be more important than spending an hour at the gym. Watch this video, and you’ll never sit down after dinner the same way again 👇

Bank Credit growth for May 2026: Credit to industry grows at 17%, the highest growth in over decade:

This not what the world expects from Bharat !! India created history by winning its first-ever gold medal at the World Rowing Cup in Lucerne, Switzerland. Indian Army rowers Lakshay and Ujjwal Kumar Singh achieved the historic feat in the lightweight men’s double sculls final. The Indian duo clocked 6:26.09 to finish ahead of Hong Kong and the Netherlands, clinching the gold medal.

"No European country has been attacked with Indian Weapons... So Keep that in Mind"...!!! I think Europe was not expecting that answer from Minister @DrSJaishankar 👏

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@raghavwadhwa Who will talk about their valuations ? :0

We surveyed 77 of India's top CTOs on how they are using AI. What's working, what's not, model choices, org design, and everything in between. Median company size of 500-2,000 employees across new economy companies such as Meesho, upGrad, Dream11, Groww, Pine Labs, CRED, etc.

@WeekendInvestng One day of consumption for India?

@sacheetrivedi Good one Sachee ji. :)

@BillAckman Says the coloniser ..wow

@AdityaD_Shah What do you mean by this?

@TrafficGGM @DC_Gurugram @DGPHaryana @police_haryana @RajeshMohan102 @gurgaonpolice @ipsarpitjain Sir why don't you address and cut challans for wrongly parked vehicles parked all over Gurgaon?

@devinamehra Huge respect ma’am

@TweetManishbh amazing article Manish

In the high-stakes theatre of international diplomacy, silence is rarely just silence. When U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick announced this January that a landmark trade deal with India had stalled because Prime Minister Narendra Modi "did not call" President Trump to finalize the terms, the explanation was as convenient as it was implausible. To the casual observer, it painted a picture of bureaucratic hesitation. But to those watching the flow of global capital, the silence on the phone line masked a thunderous shift in the global economic order. While Washington focused on tariffs and trade deficits, New Delhi quietly engineered a financial mechanism that the United States has historically treated as a red line: the ability to buy oil without the dollar. A rigorous analysis of regulatory filings, central bank data, and geopolitical signalling reveals that the trade impasse of early 2026 is not about almonds or steel. It is the first major casualty of the "Petro-Rupee," a strategy that has placed the world’s oldest democracy and its largest democracy on a collision course over the future of financial sovereignty. The "Red Line" and the Greenback To understand the gravity of the rift, one must look past the current headlines to the foundation of American power. Since 1974, when the Nixon administration struck a pact with Saudi Arabia, the global oil trade has been denominated effectively exclusively in U.S. dollars. This "Petrodollar" system forces nations to hold vast dollar reserves, which are recycled back into U.S. Treasury bonds, financing American deficits and cementing the dollar's global supremacy.   History has been unkind to those who challenge this arrangement. When Saddam Hussein switched Iraqi oil sales to the Euro in 2000, or when Muammar Gaddafi proposed a gold-backed African currency in 2011, the geopolitical consequences were severe. As former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan candidly noted in his memoirs, the Iraq war was "largely about oil"—a resource inseparable from the currency used to buy it.  So is the case with Venenzula and Iran today, which are pricing their oil outside the US dollar system. For decades, this was a line no ally would cross. But in the shifting landscape of 2026, India has done just that. The Smoking Gun: August 2025 Picture tells thousand words. The deterioration of economic relations can be traced precisely to mid-2025. While public attention was fixed on diplomatic pleasantries, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) was dismantling the "Rupee Trap" that had hindered its trade with Russia in Rupee. For months, Moscow had been accumulating billions in Indian Rupees from oil sales that it couldn't spend. Then, on August 12, 2025, the RBI issued a quiet but revolutionary circular. It authorized foreign holders of "Special Rupee Vostro Accounts" (SRVAs) to invest their surplus balances into Indian Government Securities and Treasury Bills.   In a move that alarmed U.S. strategists even more, India and the UAE—two key American partners—began operationalizing a Local Currency Settlement system. The Indian Oil Corporation paid for a million barrels of Abu Dhabi crude in rupees, proving the concept worked. By 2025, this corridor had deepened, with the UAE pumping $22.84 billion in foreign direct investment into India to balance the currency flows, and the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority setting up shop in Gujarat's GIFT City. This was the smoking gun. By allowing Russia to recycle its oil revenue directly into Indian sovereign debt, New Delhi created a closed-loop financial system. Russian oil profits were no longer chasing U.S. Treasuries; they were funding Indian infrastructure. The reaction from Washington was swift. Within weeks, the U.S. imposed tariffs of up to 50 percent on select Indian goods—a punitive strike that signal the partnership was in jeopardy. By late 2025, this alternative financial architecture had expanded far beyond a wartime necessity for Russian oil. The RBI had permitted 123 correspondent banks from 30 countries—including the United Kingdom, Germany, Israel, and Singapore—to open 156 Special Rupee accounts. The Last Straw: India Takes the Wheel at BRICS While the "Petro-Rupee" laid the kindling, the spark that finally burned the bridge was India’s bold assumption of leadership within the BRICS currency project. As the host of the 2026 BRICS Summit, New Delhi has moved beyond passive participation to active architecture. The Reserve Bank of India has formally proposed linking the Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) of member nations—a project dubbed the "BRICS Bridge." Building on the 2025 Rio de Janeiro declaration, India is pushing for a proprietary, interoperable payment rail that would allow Russia, China, India, other BRICS members to settle trade instantly in digital local currencies, completely bypassing the U.S. banking system. This is not merely a theoretical exercise; with the RBI actively pilot-testing the e-Rupee’s cross-border capabilities, India is effectively building a "digital SWIFT" immune to Western sanctions. For the Trump administration, this was the final provocation. It wasn't just evasion; it was replacement. Conclusion: A Monetary Mutiny This aggressive push for a parallel financial system became the veritable last straw on the camel's back for the stalled trade deal. In December 2024, President-elect Trump issued a blunt ultimatum: any move by BRICS nations to create a new currency or back an alternative to the dollar would be met with 100 percent tariffs. Washington views India’s 2026 agenda not as economic modernization, but as a "monetary mutiny." The sages who studied the rise and fall of kingdoms would chuckle today, for the lesson is ancient: money is the hard-earned fruit of labor, while currency is merely the paper promise that it still tastes good. Money—like gold and silver—is the crystallized effort of real work. Currency, however, is its excitable younger cousin: useful for trade, but spoiled the moment rulers discover the printing press. India has chosen to bear the cost of tariffs rather than surrender the sovereignty of its "crystallized effort." The trade deal may be officially "stalled" due to a missed phone call, but in reality, it lies buried under the foundation of the new BRICS financial architecture—a foundation India is now actively pouring concrete for better future. Manish Bhandari, CIIA, founder of Vallum Capital Advisors, a Portfolio Management firm managing equity investments Based in Mumbai. Full Article & Research Document Available Below economictimes.indiatimes.com/markets/us-sto… #Geopolitics #Macroeconomics #USIndiaTrade #BRICS2026 #GlobalEconomy #ForeignPolicy #TradeWar #DeDollarization #InternationalRelations

Proof that bureaucrats are bulletproof. Sanjeev Khirwar, ex-Delhi Principal Secy, famously shunted in 2022 for throwing athletes out of a Delhi stadium so he & his wife could walk their dog, has just been appointed Commissioner of the powerful Municipal Corp of Delhi (MCD).👏🏽🤡

Shiv Aroor @ShivAroor

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Unbelievable. For the last few months, athletes, coaches at Delhi’s Thyagraj Stadium have complained about being forced to wrap up training earlier than usual. Reason: Delhi’s Principal Secretary Sanjeev Khirwar needs the stadium to walk his dog, reports @AndrewAmsan.

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