Journalist - Chennai, IND. My interests are in linkages between environment, health & development. I focus on mobility, urbanisation & climate. @straphanger_in
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Amidst all confusion new threat to lakhs of ordinary Indians who work/worked abroad but missed filing declarations on paltry foreign assets under FAST DS 2026. Researchers, professionals caught in India during COVID too asked to pay penalty of 1 lakh! Some filed IT as resident🧵
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"Gyanesh Kumar is the Chief Election Culprit, not Commissioner": Yogendra Yadav (@_YogendraYadav)
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Bangalore residents crowd funded the initiative and cleaned the park with volunteer effort…
BJ party scumbag MLA tried to take credit and put up his banners
Residents kicked out the banners and loaded them on kachra ka truck
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I recently learned about the staggering gap in surgical pricing across Mumbai:
100-bed suburban hospital: ₹1.3 lakh
Corporate hospital (e.g., Hinduja): ₹6.5 lakh for laparoscopic Hysterectomy ( Packages by Insurance company )
Ayushman Bharat scheme: ~₹50,000
Same surgery, identical clinical procedure—a 5x ro 10x price difference.
Why are insurance companies willing to clear inflated corporate bills worth ₹6.5 lakh without hesitation, but aggressively scrutinize and delay a genuine ₹1 lakh claim from a smaller nursing home?
The end victim is the regular consumer. Massive payouts to corporate hospitals drive up overall claim expenditure, which insurance companies directly pass on to you through surging annual premiums.
If mid-sized hospitals are squeezed out, corporate monopolies will be the only option left. Corporate hospitals certainly deserve a premium for infrastructure, but unchecked billing requires regulatory limits.
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Man arrested by Navsari police’s Special Operations Group (SOG) for practising as a fake doctor was conferred ‘Ayurveda Seva Ratna Award’ at 'Vande Ayucon-3’ programme in Surat, attended by health minister Praful Pansheriya
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/…
Good, although every day should be zero tolerance day @ChennaiTraffic
But when will you stop tolerating dangerous infrastructure built by @chennaicorp @Tambaram_Corp @Avadi_Corp @Mangadu122 ? When will they obey Supreme Court orders on pedestrian rights?
thehindu.com/news/cities/che…
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An 85-year-old retired IAS officer, MG Devasahayam, has issued a legal notice to Bengaluru Police Commissioner Seemant Kumar Singh, Banaswadi police & Karnataka DGP over alleged failure to curb nighttime noise pollution.
Citing repeated firecracker blasts & loud music after 10pm in Lingarajapuram, the notice alleges inaction despite multiple complaints since August.
It seeks strict enforcement of Supreme Court directions within three days, failing which legal proceedings may follow. @DgpKarnataka @CPBlr @BlrCityPolice
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Boarding on AI 882 AMD-DEL is delayed by 20 minutes because Supreme Court Judge Vipul Pancholi & wife had to be VIP boarded first. They walk in with a posse of 6 guards + 3 AI staffers. Is this the VIP culture that India’s judiciary advocates? @MLJ_GoI ?
#VIPculture 🚨#lalbatti
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A blanket ban on reuse of single use devices in Indian healthcare will increase costs & produce large amounts of waste. The cost of reused products is split between patients. As in many countries a standardized resterilization protocol & facility is the need. Not a ban.
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- Active Face-offs With #PLA In #Arunachal
- Sena And #BJP At Loggerheads Again
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New Keralam Governor Om Prakash Mathur inadvertently sparks debate on ‘food purity’ politics - The Hindu share.google/TNDbLD6dwzh1IMu… But why 'inadvertently'? He might have perfectly intended to do it.
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Today protests were held in 90 cities across the country to demand:
-Scrapping of the SIR
-Resignation of Gyanesh Kumar
SIR is an assault on people’s right to vote - 13 crore names have been deleted from the draft voter lists under SIR.
The government is wrong if it thinks it can scare people and silence them by detaining them, arresting them and making them sign peace bonds. We will continue to rise against the unjust SIR. ✊🏽
#ScrapSIR
#GyaneshKumarResign
#PeopleAgainstSIR
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NEW | Giant forest trees threatened by Great Nicobar mega project
Satellite data reveals the existence of thousands of tall trees in the earmarked area of the Great Nicobar Island Development Project. It is unclear how many of them will be safeguarded.
T. Ramachandran writes.
frontline.thehindu.com/envir…
This is an important article giving a scientific basis to alarm that Great Nicobar's old growth forests are facing destruction, not to mention fears for tribal survival in a pristine land @RahulGandhi @Jairam_Ramesh @UNEP @UNFCCC @IPCC_CH @UNDP @Survival @MongabayIndia @moefcc
A satellite dataset has revealed that the tallest trees in the Great Nicobar project area are in the 50 to 64 metre range. How many of them will escape the axe? My article for @frontline_india
Frontline: #Nicobar #environment #deforestation #remotesensing
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Delhi | ’People Against SIR' march towards EC office to demand CEC Gyanesh Kumar's resignation stopped by Delhi Police near Bangla Sahib Gurudwara.
@jahnavi_sen reports for @thewire_in
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పతాక స్థాయికి చేరిన పోలీసు నిర్భంధాలు.
మూడు రోజులుగా విడదల రజనీని ఇంటి నుంచి బయటకు రానివ్వని పోలీసులు. ఇంటిలో నుంచి బయటకు వచ్చే ప్రయత్నం చేయగా.. మాజీ మంత్రిని కిందకు తోసేసిన ఎస్ఐ ప్రియాంక. నామినేషన్ వేయడానికి వెళ్లకుండా ఎక్కడిక్కడ అడ్డుకుంటున్నపోలీసులు.
చంపేయడానికి వచ్చారా అని మాజీ మంత్రి ప్రశ్నించగా.. మీరు ఏమైనా అనుకోండి అంటూ మాట్లాడిన ఎస్ఐ ప్రియాంక.
AP police restrictions have reached a peak.
For the past three days, the police have not allowed YSRCP leader and former minister Vidadala Rajini to step out of her house. When she attempted to leave her residence, Sub-Inspector Priyanka pushed her down. The police are preventing her at every step from going to nomination.
When the former minister questioned whether they had come to kill her, SI Priyanka responded, saying, "You can think whatever you want."