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[MadAxe]

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[mreccentric]

 

[socrates]

The First ‘Selfie’ by an Indian was Taken by a Tripura King

Smartphone companies will never admit it but the smartphone did not create the ‘selfie’. That honour for an Indian goes to a Tripura King. Catch the story of Maharaja Bir Chandra, a self-taught photographer and a pioneer of the art in India

www.livehistoryindia.com

 

[Smh]

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Got this random video in my feed. I could not understand wtf happened in that video.

Civil forfeiture in the United States - Wikipedia

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Turns out cops in America can randomly seize your cash for no reason. Wtf

 

[mhsabir]

Had learnt about it in one of early John Oliver's Last week tonight's episodes & it starred Jeff Goldblum iirc.

 

[Sushubh]

There was a very long article on one of the bigger news sites few months ago.

Not sure if this was the one.

‘Highway robbers’: How a trip to buy farmland ended with police taking all his cash

A Vietnamese immigrant and his business partner are fighting to get back more than $100,000 seized by Oklahoma police who allege that it was drug money.

www.nbcnews.com

 

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[Smh]

Local department and federal department would then divide it in 80-20 share.

How is this legal, they don't even need any proof of drug or any crime. If the money was seized from drug den or something it would make sense to seize money until it's source can be tracked.

Does this happen in any other country at all?

 

[Jonas]

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I don't feel like recharging.

 

[Navjot Singh]

Better.com CEO fires 900 employees over Zoom

Better.com CEO Vishal Garg announced the mortgage company is laying off about 9% of its workforce on a Zoom webinar Wednesday abruptly informing the more than 900 employees on the call they were being terminated just before the holidays.

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Better.com CEO Vishal Garg announced the mortgage company is laying off about 9% of its workforce on a Zoom webinar Wednesday abruptly informing the more than 900 employees on the call they were being terminated just before the holidays.

"If you're on this call, you are part of the unlucky group that is being laid off," Garg said on the call, a recording of which was viewed by CNN Business. "Your employment here is terminated effective immediately."

Fortune later reported Garg accused the employees of "stealing" from their colleagues and customers by being unproductive and only working two hours a day.

Indian origin CEOs are great.

Mortgages, Fraud Claims And ‘Dumb Dolphins’: A Tangled Past Haunts Better.com CEO Vishal Garg

The $4 billion fintech startup is hurtling towards an IPO. But its volatile leader is fighting multiple lawsuits that could complicate his ambitions.

www.forbes.com

He has lawsuits filed against him for fraud practices. Noice.

In 2013, he filed a lawsuit claiming that Garg hadn’t been filing the company’s taxes and that he had improperly moved $3 million to his personal bank accounts.

Sad to find out that he didn't go to IIT or IIM.

 

[Jonas]

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I am surprised the video is still up.

 

[Jonas]

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Didn't know Disney makes robots.

 

[shashankb]

UP Businessman Piyush Jain, Who Hoarded Over Rs 200 Crore, Rides A Scooter

Businessman Piyush Jain travels in Kannauj, his HomeTown, on his old scooter. There are two cars parked outside his house. But the central agencies last week found out that the Kanpur-based perfume maker had hoarded over Rs 200 crore.

www.ndtv.com

NDTV rounded off 194 Crores to 200 Crores🤣🤣

 

[Tejas01]

Read somewhere it's actually ₹250crores.

 

[mikrotik]

284cr. 177 from kanpur and 107 from Kannauj. The search and counting is still underway

 

[Tejas01]

Is all of that hard cash?? How did he manage to save it from the prying eyes of govt.