Pegasus Snoop Gate: On the surveillance list include the Dalai Lama’s close aides, Anil Ambani, Dassault’s Representative, and the India Head of French Energy Firm EDF

Pegasus Snoop Gate: Hours after PM Modi acted to oust Alok Verma from his post as head of the CBI at midnight on October 23, 2018, three telephone numbers registered in his name were added to a list of possible targets for surveillance

Putting money to questionable use: In 2017-18, security council secretariat got a budget of Rs. 333 crore, a tenfold hike from previous budgets; this is around the time when the Pegasus software started getting purchased to snoop on citizens and opposition parties

Climate change: Floods in Maharashtra as 31 of its total 36 districts received large excess rainfall in the past 24 hours; Sangli recorded rainfall departure of 900%

Targeting the poor through misinformed legislation: Four bills on population control in Lok Sabha today; 168 out of 540 MPs have more than two children; out of them, 105 are from the BJP; India has already reached replacement level of population growth, meaning India’s population growth has plateaued on accounts of economic growth; punishing the poor with more than 2 children will only slow down progress; India’s already declining fertility rate is on track to shrink India’s population by 300 million in 80 years