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Sources : A litigant named Dr. M. Geethanjali, approached the Madras HC, to redress her grievance wherein, she was denied an MD Opthalmology seat in PSG medical college whereas a candidate who got lesser rank than her was given the same seat. 1/n

 The petitioner also alleged that while the initial fee fixed by government at the time of admission was Rs.3 lakhs, PSG college demanded 35 lakhs.

Justice Anand Venkatesh of Madras HC in an elaborate and detailed order, 2/n
went in-depth into the issue and found that, private medical colleges are making a killing in PG medical admissions using the pandemic. 3/n
The Court observed, _“The governments are grappling with the situation and the normal functioning of the society virtually came to a standstill and slowly attempts are being made to restore essential functions with sufficient safeguards. 4/n
Unfortunately, attempts are also being made to take advantage of this situation to justify certain actions. There is an attempt to put every blame on the Corona Virus even where it did not have a direct nexus to the action performed by an institution or any 5/n
instrumentality of the State. There cannot be a greater sin than to make use of the present situation and gain advantage for one’s own self-aggrandizement. Again, this prelude has a lot of significance in the present case since an apparently 6/n
questionable action is sought to be justified by taking advantage of the pandemic.”_
Finding serious infirmities in the admission process, Hon’ble Justice Anand Venkatesh, directed a CB CID probe into the happenings during this year’s medical admission. 7/n
Court also ordered that, the investigation should be done by an officer not below the rank of a DSP.
CB CID Pradheep Phillip, for reasons that are not clear, chose a DSP named Gunavarman who was caught into allegations of IPL 8/n
betting when he was Inspector as the Investigating Officer for this case.
The CB CID probe is on. As part of the probe, one Dr. G. Selvarajan, MS, DLO, Secretary / Addl Director of Medical Education Selection Committee 9/n
was called by the CB. CID for being examined as a witness.
He was examined by one Maheswari, an Addl SP in CB CID. The said Selvarajan played ‘dalit card’. Addl SP Maheswari, was firm and said, the probe is nothing to do with caste. 10/n
After Dr Selvarajan left CB CID premises, there was a call from CM Secretary II Dr.S.Vijayakumar, IAS, a direct IAS officer of 1993 batch. He directed Addl SP Maheswari to meet him and she did meet him confirm sources. What transpired in the meeting is not clear. 11/n
Apart from this, Vijayakumar IAS called CB CID IG Shankar and instructed him that Dr Selvarajan, should not be made an accused in this case.
Highly placed sources say, the said Vijayakumar IAS, as Secretary II to CM does all the dirty works of EPS. 12/n
In fact he has been misguiding EPS which may lead to EPS’s arrest. He is not an IAS officer but a fixer and a tout say a senior IAS officer.

The said Vijayakumar is a dalit and using this dalit card, he has formed a closed group of Dalits among 13/n
IAS & IPS officers of TN cadre. Dalit officers, fearing his close proximity with Edappadi Palanisamy are falling prey to this Vijayakumar and carrying out his illegal instructions. The dalit officers’ proximity and nexus with Vijayakumar IAS 14/n
is at their own peril, as the said Vijayakumar will not sign in any files but will issue illegal oral instructions carefully over WhatsApp call.
Long back, Junior Vikatan, published a cover story, describing a power broker, “Delhi Murali” 15/n
as the next Governor of Tamil Nadu. The story also said, the said Delhi Murali was offered a cabinet post both by Sonia Gandhi and Modi. The story was a clear plant by Vijayakumar IAS and Junior Vikatan’s News Editor R.Balakrishnan, 16/n
who is working there for more than 25 years received a huge amount to do this cover story.
This façade was exposed by us, following which, Junior Vikatan, did a balancing story against this Delhi Murali. 17/n
https://t.co/nBDzBq03zd
Sources further add, the said Dr. Vijayakumar is poking his nose in every issue where there is money involved and he is the main reason for the bad reputation of TN CM Edappadi Palanisamy. 18/n
With problems mounting multifold for Edappadi Palanisamy, it is time, he shunts out this ‘Dalit Champion’ Dr Vijayakumar IAS (TN 1993) out of his office. 19/19
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Thread #Hathras

Sources : The charge sheet filed by CBI in the #HathrasCase is filled with flaws and three innocents have been roped in as accused, in spite of them having strong alibis.

While the prime accused did commit the act and there is strong evidence against him, 1/n

the remaining three were implicated only based on their ‘tower location’ of their cell phones. Two of the accused who are implicated were employees of a dairy located a kilometre away from the scene of crime (SoC) and witnesses working in the dairy, 2/n

had given statements that the two accused were working in the dairy at the time of crime. The other innocent accused was present in a place away from SoC and witnesses had deposed that he too was not in the SoC.

CBI comprises fine officers with investigating skills. 3/n

They always do their job with due diligence keeping in mind the reputation of India’s premiere investigating agency. But, superiors, who are IPS officers on deputation to CBI always toe the line of the ruling regime and act as mercenaries. 4/n

Highly placed sources in CBI say, the Director of Prosecution of CBI, one Ms Sudha Rani concurred with the findings of the investigating officers that only one accused need to be charge sheeted. Ajay Bhatnagar, a 1989 batch officer of Jharkhand cadre, 5/n
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Sources : TN CM Edappadi Palanisamy, who claims to run “Amma’s government” has decided to accord the ceremonious farewell parade to disgraced police officer Jaffar Sait, who retires on 31.12.2020. While all DG level officers are eligible 1/n

for this parade on their retirement, no such honour was accorded to the DGPs who had retired in the recent past. A few of them are Ashok Kumar, SR Jangid, S. George, Ashish Bhengra, Asuthosh Shukla, Sri Lakshmi Prasad, RC Kudawla etc. 2/n

Rehearsal for Jaffar Sait’s ceremonious farewell parade is being held from 21.12.2020 at Avadi TSP Battalion grounds till date and the rehearsal would continue till 30.12.2020 say sources.

Edappadi Palanisamy should remember that Jayalalitha, 3/n


in 2011, immediately on assumption of her charge as CM in 2011, transferred Jaffar Sait to a post in the rank of Sub-Inspector of Police – Special Officer Mandapam Special Camp for Sri Lankan Refugees. 4/n

DVAC registered two criminal cases against Jaffar Sait on 23 July 2011 and he was suspended on 1st August 2011 and his headquarters was fixed as Ramanathapuram. Jayalalitha didn’t even allow him to come to Chennai. 5/n
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Sources : DMK’s Minority Wing Secretary Dr Masthan issues a statement that, news reports about invitation being extended by DMK to All-India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen AIMIM Chief Asaduddin Owaisi for its convention to be held on 6th of January at YMCA, Royapettah. 1/n

He says, news reports that appear in certain TV Channels to this effect are untrue.

DMK is a party filled with liars. Invitation was extended to Owaisi and this invitation was extended in person by the same Dr Masthan who denied the news. 2/n

Apart from this, sources say, DMK LS leader TR Balu spoke on phone with Owaisi.

Even a person with basic knowledge knows Owaisi is a vote splitter and all his forays always help BJP. By inviting him to DMK conference, 3/n

Stalin has antagonised DMK’s long term trustable and reliable partners like MMK and IUML. They are reliable partners. Manithaneya Makkal Katchi is quite popular among Muslims and it has trustworthy leaders. 4/n

Owaisi is a Urudhu speaking Muslim and he won’t get a single vote from Tamil speaking Muslims.

If Stalin thinks, a Bihari Brahmin Prasanth Kishore and his dumb and useless son Udhay, can ensure victory, doomsday is nearing not only for DMK, but to MK Stalin also. 5/n
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DMK President MK Stalin after presenting a detailed complaint to Governor Banwarilal Purohit, speaking to media said, the complaints that have been given to the governor had already been given to DVAC, but to no avail. Since the DVAC failed to take action, 1/n

the DMK had moved court and Madras HC had ordered a CBI investigation against CM Edappadi Palanisamy, which was subsequently stayed by HC. The Governor has the power to order a probe, and told the media that Governor said “he will take appropriate action”. 2/n

Stalin also said, DMK will take these charges to people’s court.

However, Stalin should be aware that, Banwarlial Purohit’s only interests in Tamil Nadu is to protect the interest of Brahminical forces. 3/n

Sources say, apart from, supporting Anna University VC Soorappa, an RSS stooge, to protect him from a Commission of Inquiry, Banwarilal has been pressurizing EPS, to convey the land encroached by SASTRA University, for more than three decades. 4/n

In a detailed order, Madras HC has categorically rejected SASTRA’s request to re-convey and regularize the encroachment of more than 50 acres of government land and the appeal of SASTRA to Supreme Court has also turned down. 5/n
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Thread on the missing 100 Kgs gold from CBI

In an unusual order, perhaps for the first time in history, the Madras HC has ordered a state Crime Branch CID probe into 100 Kgs of gold which went missing from the custody of CBI. 1/n

State CB CID officials will now probe the role of the elite CBI agency in the missing ingots weighing more than 100 Kgs.

When the CBI probed this case, the role of several IAS & ITS (Indian Trade Service) came to light. The role of Dr. Swarna, IAS, then Joint Development Commissioner, Special Economic Zone, Chennai also came to light. 3/n

Dr. Swarna is now the Secretary to government, P&AR, Government of Tamil Nadu. When an Addl SP went to examine Dr. Swarna with regard to this case, she threw a tantrum as to how an ordinary Addl SP can examine her and rang up TN Home Secretary to suspend the Addl. SP. 4/n

All the All India Service Officers involved in this case, using their bureaucratic clout in Delhi, ensured that this case never saw the light of the day.
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Why do B12 and folate deficiencies lead to HUGE red blood cells?

And, if the issue is DNA synthesis, why are red blood cells (which don't have DNA) the key cell line affected?

For answers, we'll have to go back a few billion years.


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RNA came first. Then, ~3-4 billion years ago, DNA emerged.

Among their differences:
🔹RNA contains uracil
🔹DNA contains thymine

But why does DNA contains thymine (T) instead of uracil (U)?

https://t.co/XlxT6cLLXg


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🔑Cytosine (C) can undergo spontaneous deamination to uracil (U).

In the RNA world, this meant that U could appear intensionally or unintentionally. This is clearly problematic. How can you repair RNA when you can't tell if something is an error?

https://t.co/bIZGviHBUc


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DNA's use of T instead of U means that spontaneous C → U deamination can be corrected without worry that an intentional U is being removed.

DNA requires greater stability than RNA so the transition to a thymine-based structure was beneficial.

https://t.co/bIZGviHBUc


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Let's return to megaloblastic anemia secondary to B12 or folate deficiency.

When either is severely deficient deoxythymidine monophosphate (dTMP*) production is hindered. With less dTMP, DNA synthesis is abnormal.

[*Note: thymine is the base in dTMP]

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purely on the basis that the medical workup was unable to explain my food intolerance. My psych eval only found mild anxiety and depression. 2/

They have put me on a 72hr psych hold while they work to get the county courts to commit me to a psych ward. This is a nightmare. They have taken away most of my belongings, put me in a new uniform, and are keeping me under 24/7 video surveillance. 3/

In the middle of the night last night when I sat up to use the urinal loud alarms sounded, as though I was trying to escape. I can’t even walk and hadn’t even left my bed. 4/

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Before we get too far into 2021, I thought I’d write a thread recapping some of the research that came out of my lab in 2020. Most of this work was led by my talented team of graduate students, Kerrianne Morrison, @kmdebrabander, and @DesiRJones.

Back in January, a news story was published about Kerrianne’s study showing improved social interaction outcomes for autistic adults when paired with another autistic partner.

A detailed thread about the study and a link to the paper can be found here (feel free to DM me your email address if you’d like a copy of the full paper for this study or any of our studies):


Another paper published early in 2020 (it appeared a few months earlier online) showed that traditional standalone tasks of social cognition are less predictive of functional and social skills among autistic adults than commonly assumed in autism research.


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This one is for the real stats folks.

Let's deal with some objections to the deaths after flu vax/deaths after Covid vax comparison.

1) I agree Covid vaccine deaths are probably more likely to be reported than flu vaccine deaths. Are they 900 times more likely? Very doubtful...

2) Here's one good reason to think the gap may be small. The ratio of non-serious to serious Vaers reports is far HIGHER for the flu vax than for Covid. In other words, people have basically STOPPED filing non-serious event reports after Covid shots, because they are so common...

3) If people were clogging VAERS with Covid vaccine side effects reports because they are so sensitized to them, we'd see the opposite - tons of reports in every category. We aren't, though.

4) Children aside (and children do receive a lot of flu shots), the idea that the Covid vaccine is going to a meaningfully different population than the flu vaccine is nonsense. Flu campaigns are targeted at the elderly and healthcare workers, just like the Covid vaccine...

5) The correct area under the curve at risk post-Covid vaccinations is not 41 million doses x 8 weeks of followup. It's more like 41 million doses x 3 days. READ THE VAERS REPORTS YOURSELF. I have. The "he was hit by a bus a week after being vaccinated" isn't what's in there...
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Spoke with my neighbour. A type 2 diabetic on medications and realized even now there is so much ignorance on this subject. I have done extensive research on this subject (was forced 2 after being diagnosed)

Here sharing it with you all. retweet it, it may save someone's life.

My Neighbour said his hba1c is 7. Everything is fine, he just needs to bring it below 6.9 and he would be fine.
That is just baloney! anything more than 5.6 will result in all kind of complications (Kidney failure,retina failure (blindness) amputations& heart attack etc etc

When i told him the benifits of intermittent fasting and fasting, My neighbour Nitin said, I cannot fast as doctor said i need to eat 5 -6 times a day.

FACT: If you are NOT on any insulin enhancing drugs. you can fast as much as you want. (metformin is OK)

to which he said These drugs r permanent & progressive, you can never stop using them.
FACT: if you can change your diet, you can change your sugar and insulin levels and no longer need these drugs. (advise not aplicable to type 1 diabetics, they wud always need insulin injection

Diet, I am on diet precribed by WHO.
FACT: Fuck WHO, and don't eat carbohydrates. infact another name of diabetes is carb intolerance. You can never acheive 5.6 or lower while eating your rice and roti.
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