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Tears On The Plate Rising onion prices, touching Rs 150/kg in some places, turns into a major political issue as the government rushes to douse the fire

The NCP has written to Maharashtra CM  Uddhav Thackeray seeking withdrawal of cases filed against Dalits, especially students, in last year’s Bhima Koregaon violence. Police had filed 58 cases against 162 people, including five well-known activists.

Chennai-Based engineer Shanmuga Subramanian helped NASA find the debris of Chandrayaan-2’s Vikram lander on the Moon’s surface, where it crashed in September. The US agency credited Subramanian by marking the spot S.

Rajya Sabha passed a bill amending the law governing the Special Protection Group (SPG), restricting security cover by the eilte agency to only the PM, ex-PM, and his/her “immediate family”. The bill’s passage coincided with a “security breach” at Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s home. The changes make the Gandhi family ineligible for SPG cover.

5,00,00,000 Rs Crore Assam spent since 2009 to feed 988 suspected foreigners in six detention centres. Post-NRC, more detainees are likely. At least 935 people detained as illegal immigrants—susp­ected Bangladeshis—were freed after courts cleared them

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Kids play in a toxin-filled froth that covered Chennai’s Marina beach; rain carried untreated sewage and phosphate down to the sea. Similar pollution in 2017 killed thousands of fish

By The Tweeple