| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-28 |
India's pulse imports rose from about 25 lakh tonnes in 2020-21 (demand 277 lakh tonnes vs production 254 lakh tonnes) to 73 lakh tonnes by 2024-25, with import spending nearly quadrupling from ₹11,937 crore to ₹46,428 crore, even though India is the world's largest producer of pulses.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-28 |
India imports 56% of the edible oil it consumes.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-28 |
The forensic report Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann used to deny involvement in an objectionable viral video is now alleged to be fake and fixed: Punjab Police officers allegedly struck a secret paid deal at the Crowne Plaza hotel in Gurugram to procure it from unlicensed cyber labs, and Haryana Police have arrested two men, Ankit and Arun, who are on 8-day police remand.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-28 |
Only three countries in the world — the US, New Zealand and Australia — legally treat a passport as equivalent to proof of citizenship; even top-ranked Singapore does not, so India is not unique in this regard.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-28 |
India ranks 80th on the Henley Passport Index with visa-free or visa-on-arrival access to only 56 countries, a fall of six places from its 74th rank before the Modi government.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-28 |
As of 2023 only 9.26 crore Indians — about 6.5% of the population — held a passport, 93% of the population has none, and only 35% of passport holders (with around 6 crore never travelling abroad) have actually used theirs.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-28 |
Last year 1.39 crore passports were issued in India and about 1.5 crore people received passport services.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-28 |
Section 20 of the Passports Act 1967 allows the central government to issue Indian passports even to non-citizens in special circumstances, which is why a passport cannot be conclusive proof of citizenship.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-28 |
On 24 June, Indian Passport Day, the Ministry of External Affairs stated that a passport is a travel document and cannot be treated as proof of citizenship in any form.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-28 |
The Ram Mandir was built not with trust or government money but with donations from ordinary Hindu devotees.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-28 |
The SIT investigation has found major security lapses at Ram Mandir: employees were not frisked after duty, dress codes were not enforced, CCTV monitoring was not properly reviewed, and some employees blocked cameras while thefts took place behind them.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-28 |
According to information received by the channel, SBI outsourced donation-counting at Ram Mandir to a Varanasi security agency, which — at the urging of temple trust insiders — hired relatives and acquaintances of trust-linked employees; this group hid offerings and stashed them in a bathroom about 50 metres from the counting hall, from where trust-linked people carried the money out without being checked.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-28 |
After the theft allegations, daily donations at the Ram Mandir have fallen from ₹8-12 lakh earlier to around ₹82,000-95,000 per day, even though the number of devotees visiting has not decreased.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-28 |
The Mathura Shri Krishna Janmabhoomi temple receives offerings of about ₹1 crore per month and roughly ₹8 lakh per day.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-28 |
Sant Dinesh Sharma alias Dinesh Falahari Maharaj, president of the Shri Krishna Janmabhoomi Sangharsh Nyas, has written a letter in his own blood to CM Yogi Adityanath alleging theft of thousands of crores worth of jewellery and donations from the Mathura temple treasury, that CCTV cameras are switched off when donation boxes are opened, and demanding a CBI inquiry.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-28 |
Every day 30-40 crore Indians take some medicine; average annual spending on medicines and treatment is ₹12,400 in cities and ₹10,500 in villages; and the share of people falling ill every 15 days has risen from 7.5% earlier to over 13% today.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-28 |
Cipla, whose drugs failed quality tests, donated ₹39.2 crore through electoral bonds — ₹37 crore of it to the BJP and about ₹2.2 crore to Congress — and holds a 5% share of India's medicine market; another failing company donated ₹31.5 crore in electoral bonds, all to the BJP.
pharma electoral bonds
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-28 |
Medicines failing quality tests month by month in 2026: 218 in January, around 217 in February, 190 in March, 121 in April, and 157 in May.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-28 |
India has the world's third-largest pharmaceutical industry after the US and China, with 3,000 companies, a current size of ₹5,67,000 crore, and exports to 200 countries.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-28 |
More than 60 companies in India manufacture 400 crore (4 billion) paracetamol tablets every day.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-28 |
Indians consume 2,500 crore (25 billion) acidity tablets every year.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-28 |
Even ORS rehydration solution, surgical spirit, hand sanitizer, gauze bandages and cotton wool failed the government quality tests.
medical supplies failures
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-28 |
Medicines for chronic conditions also failed quality tests, including diabetes drugs metformin and glimepiride, blood-pressure and heart drugs telmisartan, amlodipine and ramipril, blood thinners aspirin 75mg and clopidogrel, and the cholesterol drug rosuvastatin.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-28 |
Samples of various batches of acidity and stomach medicines — rabeprazole, pantoprazole, omeprazole and esomeprazole — failed the quality tests.
acidity drug failures
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-28 |
The failed list includes paracetamol fever tablets, diclofenac pain-relief gel, dextromethorphan cough syrup, and tiotropium inhalers used for serious respiratory illnesses.
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