sound1

same here :D

thank you, upvoted!

that is the 2nd immediate thing i noticed about that post and 100% agree with you! :-)

IMHO this is the right answer :)

Cant edit. These are my personal opinions and not medical advice

Blood has a few major metals - Iron, Magnesium, Sodium, Potassium, Calcium and Iron. Reduce heavier metals (sodium, iron) in your diet and you should be okay with blood pressure and anxiety. I have a higher than normal blood pressure (and anxiety) since my 20s.

Bananas are okay, nothing magical, speaking as a pretty good badminton player. Genetics is a big deal in athletics. You have to supplement whatever your parents didn't pass on to you.

Thank you! Probably sodium makes blood heavier and the heart has to work harder to pump it. I've had the same thinking about higher haemoglobin numbers (which I do, i am at too high HB for men) and I do suffer from borderline higher blood pressure since my adolescence (not to mention anxiety). Probably I should start taking more Magnesium to balance the minerals. Read somewhere on the internet that we need to balance the metals in our blood. Sodium, Potassium, Magnesium, Iron and Calcium lead to a healthy CVS system.

Very well explained

Reminds me of Neem Karoli Baba incident: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_pfMKXE0UFo&pp=ygUUbmVlbSBrYXJ...

I use the same trackball and I love it. * can't even imagine going back to a regular mouse.

State government agencies are controlled by the state and central agencies are controlled by the centre. Just because they turned a blind eye for so long doesn't mean they shouldn't now.

Opposition leader means that a leader who sits in the opposition. Sisodia is part of Delhi state government so he can't be an opposition leader in Delhi state assembly. He also can't be an opposition leader in the Centre since he is not a parliamentarian.

Yes, there should be channels and delegation. But PM is also answerable to people and should appear to take questions from press. Giving a statement is not same as answering open questions from press.

People have voted and they are okay with his decisions. He got more votes than his previous elections

United States also have different official channels and they all do their thing on their level. But that does not mean that PM/President gets a free run.

Who decides that? Only elections can. Let's see what happens in the next general elections

"With great power comes great responsibility"

Yes, CBI had to take some unpopular decisions. But they did

Defamation? He called PM names

The government talks through its official channels, such as cabinet ministers, spokespersons and secretaries, and also Prime minister. What makes you think the Foreign/Finance/Defence/Home ministry statement is any less than a statement from PM himself?

Title should read: Delhi Excise minister arrested for liquor scam

I never said "leader of opposition", I said "opposition leader".

He is in the government, not in opposition. Correct the title

Is PM above everyone in a democracy or is Modi a king? So you use a bad name for PM, and PM will send paramilitary forces to arrest you?

Nobody is a king including the pm. it is about the land of the law.

Who has used these words on record for opposition leaders: 'Jersey Cow', 'Congress ki Vidhwa', 'Maunmohan', '50 Crore girlfriend'?

did someone file a case? can you share a reference if there is one?

I don't get it, are you trying to measure the performance of the current indian government by the number of press conferences held? Governments operate in completely different ways. What you read in papers is from the political parties.

India is completely balkanizing right now and the rest of the world is ignoring it.

Ok

The central government is becoming increasingly authoritarian and arresting opposition politicians.

Hmm

In Punjab the Sikh separatists are beginning to make moves.

AAP government is releasing Amritpal (separatist guy) without any charges, whose supporters attacked Punjab police [1] in yesterday's news. I am not saying AAP was trying to bargain with centre but there is a hint of connection.

In South India there is also increasing separatist sentiments with many feeling the central government is forcing them to learn Hindi. The same is happening in West Bengal.

I am in the south and nothing much is happening about 'separatism' here. parties are/were/will be anti hindi but it is business as usual. It definitely isn't a BJP stronghold (except, may be, Karnataka) and that is the card regional parties use to get attention.

[1] https://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2023/feb/25/punjab-c...

Why is that so surprising? Pavan Khera broke the law of the land (by making unacceptable comments). He is a spokesperson of the National party (main opposition) and he should know better. Just because you think something is laughable from where you are sitting is not so laughable anywhere else (ask Pavan). Look what happened to Carlos Ghosn

Do you disagree if I say that the United States is one of the best functioning democracies (may not be perfect )? They have elected the same president consecutively. There may be many others as well, and nobody became Nazi.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

Absolutely. I am saying you are picking and choosing as per your convenience. People get arrested all the time, just because it was a minister it made headlines. I only wish people rotting in jail (in all countires) with no charges against them had a voice, just like AAP government

In any functioning democracy, government should not be able to arrest members of their opposition parties or journalists just based on allegations.

I wanted to know from you what country is a good example of a functioning democracy. Not what is your idea of a functioning democracy.

Exactly! Who says Manish Sisodia did a scam? The BJP government did say, but they are a ruling party who will benefit from keeping their opponents in jail/courts.

CBI did. They are a law enforcing authority in India and they decided that arrest is the correct course of action in this case.

What are you trying to say? Any democracy which voted a majority government into power consecutively is destined to be like Nazi party?

Process is the punishment in India. They can arrest you based on allegations, keep you in jail for months without even filing a charge sheet and no one is liable when a court finally acquits you after months or years of jail time.

Not different than many different than many other democracies, lots of suspects held in custody without conviction: https://www.americasquarterly.org/fulltextarticle/prisons-in...

In any functioning democracy, government should not be able to arrest members of their opposition parties or journalists just based on allegations.

What is your yardstick for a functioning democracy?

If an alleged scam of 100 Crore rupees is really a reason of arrest then why Adani is not arrested yet with an alleged scam and money laundering of thousands of crore rupees?

Who says there was such a scam? The Hindenburg group did say, but they are a short seller who allegedly benefited from falling prices of Adani's stocks. And their word is not a valid authority in Indian law to book a case against anyone.

They are demanding full statehood instead of union territory (not a nation): https://www.deccanherald.com/national/north-and-central/lada...

What Ladakh protests??

How do you explain the fact that the current central government got more parliamentary seats and vote share than the previous election? I think we have quite a healthy democracy. There are always voices that pick only the rough edges but democracy is a tool for continuous improvement, whether the current government supports it or not (data says it does, at least for now).

Delhi state is a union territory. The central government normally controls them and Delhi is not much different just because they have a legislative assembly (in this case AAP government). Cetral government can (in this case did) scrutinize what their ministers in the union territories were actually doing. Let the minister come out clean in the court.