Pallab De
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I'm a Techie turned Foodie. Find my experiences around Hyderabad at https://t.co/uCupHr4kfE
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Joined June 2008
How is @zomato allowed to sell Rs. 10 water bottles for Rs. 100 at concert venues where no one is allowed to bring their own bottles? @VijayGopal_
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🚨 HDFC Infinia Devaluation From 16 Jan ’26, SmartBuy (Gyftr) voucher rewards drop from ~16.67% → ~10%. With up to 4% convenience fees on brands like Amazon, real value slips to ~6%. Meanwhile, Diners Club Black (10% + 10k quarterly milestone) looks strongest in HDFC’s
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India started buying Mirage-2000s from France in 1982. Bought more in 2004. Then bought the ones phased out by French Air Force in 2021. But despite phasing them out from their own Air Force, French have not shared the source code with India even after 40 years. No indigenous
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Modi govt just announced ₹3.25L CRORE deal for 114 Rafales; same script as 2016: • 40% costlier than original 2012 bid • Negotiating officers’ objections BURIED • Only 30% Indian manufacturing (violates Make in India) • No source codes, total dependence on France Rahul
30% localisation in a ₹3.25 lakh crore ($35–39 Bn) #Rafale deal is not #MakeInIndia. It is Make-in-France with Indian money, effectively funding #France’s #RafaleF5 program. With only 30% localisation, far below the usual 60%, India will remain heavily dependent on France for
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$36 f*cking billion for that 4.5 gen Rafale with no source code and laughable 30% IC. BLACK DAY for India and farce of indigenization They will try to sell us by saying that atleast it's screws will be tightened on Indian soil
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This single headline demolishes the entire “Make in India” myth. 🚨 If India’s biggest corporate house can’t manufacture lithium-ion cells without Chinese technology, it proves how deeply our manufacturing still depends on China. We assemble, we don’t truly manufacture. A
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Are we saying that "Atmanirbhar Bharat" is powered by Chinese source code? Lithium-ion cells aren’t magic. They’re chemistry, materials science, process engineering, and 10–15 years of boring lab work. China didn’t wake up one day and “negotiate technology.” They funded labs
From Bloomberg Reliance has paused plans to make lithium-ion battery cells in India after failing to secure Chinese technology, sources say
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In 2006, my brother was doing his PhD. Topic: Bovine AIDS. Institute: a university in Mathura. Coursework: HSADL, Bhopal, India’s top animal disease lab. Then bird flu happened. Suddenly, HSADL became the lab. And suddenly, my brother was told to drop 1.5 years of research and
Last night I spoke to a friend who left India years ago. We reconnected recently. She studied at BITS, got a scholarship for her master’s in Germany, and later on the German government funded her research on animal behaviour using computer science. Today, she has a full-time job
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It's now 2 years that this Gov has been in power. And it's absolutely criminal that they've not made any tangible progress towards expanding the metro density in Hyderabad. The current routes just don't cut it.
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Imagine hating a Prime Minister because he didn’t do temple optics; while he built IITs, AIIMS, ISRO, PSUs, democratic institutions and gave India scientific temper. Today we get temple selfies, collapsing universities, jobless youth, captured agencies, crony capitalism and
Nehru never ever visited Somnath Temple. This is enough for me to hate him forever. #SomnathSwabhimanParv
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And I was hosting friends. This meant that, all of a sudden, at dinner time, I was left without dinner by Swiggy. What I can't figure out is why this agent isn't scared of being banned by Swiggy and losing his means of income. What drove him to steal one food parcel? (5/5)
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Why isn't the automated agent able to diagnose that the agent left the building and his phone is switched off, and auto-escalate? Swiggy support took about 15-mins to verify and then cancel the order. But by this time, 100+ mins had passed. (4/5)
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The thing is that I had noticed the delay in pickup and had initiated chat with help. But the bot assured me everything was all right and that the delivery guy was at the restaurant. (3/5)
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- Apparently, the delivery guy was abusive and confrontational. - He picked up the order, but didn't mark it as picked up on the app. - He switched off his phone right after that. (2/5)
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The manner in which the Supreme Court is giving such a long rope to the centre in Wangchuk’s case is concerning. Does it take so many months to assess the legality of the detention, especially when so many hearings have taken place? Liberty dies because such judges fail to
Sonam Wangchuk Case Hearing Update The Supreme Court courtroom turned tense as a key question emerged: Can a peace-loving activist be accused of violence, and can the State detain someone without sharing complete documents? Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal argued that Wangchuk’s NSA
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India does not have a single University among the top 500 universities in the world! This is the reality of the claim of becoming Vishwaguru! In the Modi years, our universities have been systematically degraded by forcing them to have RSS VCs, who have destroyed critical
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BREAKING: Wife of Renee Good, Becca Good, has just released a statement. : “First, I want to extend my gratitude to all the people who have reached out from across the country and around the world to support our family. This kindness of strangers is the most fitting tribute
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Likely raped to death. A doctor. A stellar surgeon. The embodiment of Palestinian ethics. Likely raped to death. The racism of Western media who are not covering this, and Western politicians who are not denouncing this, together with the thousand other testimonies and
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China helped Pakistan, during Operation Sindoor, against India with information and tech support. So, the BJP Govt has decided to reward the Chinese by giving them access to govt contracts. Poisonous mocktail of farzi nationalism and failed foreign policy.
India's finance ministry plans to scrap five-year-old restrictions on Chinese firms bidding for government contracts, two sources said, as New Delhi seeks to revive commercial ties in an environment of eased diplomatic and border tensions https://t.co/vuGu1q0fpM
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Terrible. This is exactly why the “food at your seat” model is unsafe at short-halt or crowded stations. It forces delivery workers to run inside trains, push through boarding passengers, and take life-threatening risks against a departing train. This needs immediate reform.
⚠️Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh: a Swiggy delivery guy fell while getting down from a moving train due to a 1–2 minute halt. Passenger was in 1st AC; train started before the handover was completed. He could have lost his life. 18464 (Prashanti Express)
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