https://www.businesstoday.in/personal-finance/tax/story/indias-direct-tax-collection-for-fy2025-fiscal-hits-target-with-17-growth-473701-2025-04-25  Direct tax collection for FY2025 fiscal hits target with 17% growth
India's provisional net direct tax collections for 2024-25 reached Rs 11,82,875 crore, marking a 17% growth over the previous year, and achieving 100.78% of the budget target. 

'A 40% IPL tax could build 10 IITs': Bengaluru professor questions India’s vision priorities https://www.businesstoday.in/latest/economy/story/a-40-ipl-tax-could-build-10-iits-bengaluru-professor-questions-indias-vision-priorities-473764-2025-04-27 In IPL 2023 alone, BCCI reported a ₹5,120 crore surplus, with revenues touching ₹11,770 crore, mainly powered by media rights. With projected revenues for 2024 and 2025 reaching ₹12,000–₹13,500 crore annually, the scale is only growing.   Professor Mayank Shrivastava from IISc Bengaluru points out that if a simple 40% tax were applied just on BCCI’s IPL profits, nearly ₹15,000 crores could have been raised over three years—enough to fund 10 new IITs or create a national deep-tech innovation corpus. "Add franchise profits (₹800–₹1,200 crore/year), and another ₹320–₹480 crores could be collected annually. In total, nearly ₹6,000 crores per year could be redirected into research, just from the IPL ecosystem," he writes.

 Dinesh Dalmia’s New Trial Exposes System’s Same Old Weaknesses https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cQCA310Sio  Moneylife News Bites  
Apr 25, 2025 Despite multiple convictions, prison time, and a well-documented history of financial fraud, Dinesh Dalmia is back—allegedly duping banks of nearly ₹200 crore through a new web of shell companies and forged documents. In this video, Sucheta Dalal breaks down how India’s broken banking and KYC systems have once again failed to prevent a repeat offender from exploiting the cracks.

Why did banks lend him money despite his history? Why is there no accountability? And how can someone like Dalmia still dance through the system?

ल्मशहूर वैज्ञानिक सोनम वांगचुक की अगुवाई में लद्दाख के लोगों ने पहलगाम आतंकी हमले के खिलाफ एकजुट होकर विरोध जताया।  पूरे इलाके में बाजार बंद रखे गए और लोगों ने मोमबत्तियां जलाकर शांति व एकता की मिसाल पेश की।  ये साफ दिखाता है कि आतंकवाद के खिलाफ पूरा भारत एक साथ खड़ा है  "C:\Users\John\Pictures\6655a.mp4"

 Leh holds candle march in solidarity with victims of Pahalgam terror attack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi2PCd9QFYw Reach Ladakh 

And I must speak, not softly but starkly:
I am no confessor for a stranger’s sins.
No tribunal sits above my brow.
I owe no one the hippodrome of guilt.
The sun rises without my bidding,
and so too do the madmen fall—without my nod.

I am Indian. Not as an addendum.

https://www.farahdeen.com/2025/04/i-am-not-your-apology.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ah5y5P9_dR4 

20th April 2025

Dharti Aaba Birsa Munda - a biographical documentary on Bhagwan Birsa Munda

Birsa Munda was an Indian tribal independence activist, andfwho belonged to Munda tribe. He spearheaded a tribal religious millenarian movement that arose in the Bengal Presidency in the late 19th century, during the British Raj.

Sanjay Singhvi is a founding member of CED. Centre for Education & Documentation in 1978.  Barely out of the Xaverian Union Agitation, where he finally went on a fast unto death for 13 days..  He spent hours on the typewriter and cyclostyling machine preparing handouts on the issues of the day.    It is too much to ask him to Rest. We therefore wish him "Amar Rahe"

Indira Jaisingh's tribute https://theleaflet.in/miscellaneous/an-ode-to-sanjay-singhvi-for-whom-life-was-an-unwavering-commitment-to-labour-justice  Sanjay, too, belonged to a disappearing class of labour lawyers who did not represent management for ideological reasons. Today it is fashionable to say: “I will take any case that comes my way.”  It is the cab rank rule but some of us make choices and he made his choices regarding which side of the line he wanted to be on. A friend, who is also a lawyer for management, told me, “He made life hell for employers, but that is what is needed. These people will never change when it comes to the rights of workers.“

The Price of Dissent (NewsLaundry Originals): A documentary on the criminalisation of anti-CAA protestors under FIR 59.
Watch here: https://youtu.be/S6JsoxsY2Eg?si=stacMoXl0l2kH1qa 

Behind Spike in Hate Content on YouTube (ICFJ + NewsLaundry): Investigating how hate is manufactured and disguised as public opinion.
Watch here: https://youtu.be/lMh9NGiL0sA?si=oSwNtbT7-zl3HymI 

Saurabh Kumar is a documentary filmmaker, multimedia journalist and film educator with a background in grassroots media and narrative strategy. He has worked across research-driven films, public interest reporting, and media training. He is the founder of Opia Films, a production house dedicated to socially engaged storytelling, and co-founder of Public Bolti, a citizen journalism platform launched during the pandemic.

The U.S. dollar is losing its status as a safe haven | Fall in Bond Prices https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8904I_WpKs | By Ankit Agrawal  For decades, the U.S. dollar has been considered the world's most reliable safe-haven asset—but that status may now be under threat. In this eye-opening analysis, Ankit Agrawal explains the shifting dynamics in the global economy, the fall in U.S. bond prices, and what it means for investors, countries, and emerging markets like India.

 ट्रंप का यूनिवर्सिटी पर हमला | The Great HARVARD Debate & what's in it for INDIAN UNIVERSITIES https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVOdFw1sJRc   Apr 16, 2025
हार्वर्ड ख़त्म हुआ तो इसका असर भारत पर भी पड़ेगा। ट्रंप अमरीका की यूनिवर्सिटी को क्यों कंट्रोल करना चाहते हैं? वहां की यूनिवर्सिटी अमरीका का ब्रांड हैं। भारत सहित दुनिया भर के छात्र पढ़ने का सपना देखते हैं। अमरीका में एक युद्ध छिड़ गया है। एक यूनिवर्सिटी ने कह दिया है कि वो अपनी सरकार के आदेशों के सामने नहीं झुकेगी। अमरीका की हार्वर्ड यूनिवर्सिटी में जो हो रहा है उस पर हर जगह चर्चा होनी चाहिए और ख़ास तौर पर भारत में। दस सालों में भारत के बेहतरीन विश्वविद्यालयों पर लगातार हमला किया गया, झुका दिया गया। इंस्टीट्यूट ऑफ़ एमिनेन्स के दावे ध्वस्त हो चुके हैं। हार्वर्ड, कोलंबिया और येल जैसे विश्व विद्यालयों पर सरकार का पहरा बढ़ेगा तो वहां पढ़ाने और पढ़ने का माहौल भी ख़त्म होता जाएगा। आप इस वीडियो को पूरा देखिए। 

 China’s DeepTech Vs India’s CowTech | Did BJP Unlock Any Ancient Secrets? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCB4gpW8heA | Akash Banerjee & Rishi
 Apr 16, 2025 The prestigious Delhi University saw some serious research this week - involving cow dung being used to cool down classrooms ... but while Minister Piyush Goel scolds Indian startups for failing to keep up with Chinese deep tech companies - what has the Govt done in its core focus area of Cow-Tech over the last 10 years .... after a decade of money / incentives and focus - what does the Govt have to show????