BJP’s secret app to manipulate social media: New investigation reveals that BJP has been operating a highly sophisticated app called TekFog to artificially inflate the popularity of the party, spread propaganda at scale, harass its critics and manipulate public perceptions at scale across major social media platforms

Toxic gas in Ahmedabad: Six workers at a dyeing and printing mill in India were killed and more than 20 were taken to hospital after inhaling toxic gas caused by an illegal dump of waste chemicals

The third Covid wave: Over 90,000 new cases in India; 125 passengers of Italy-Amritsar flight test Covid positive on arrival; Days after the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) cleared Molnupiravir as the first anti-viral Covid-19 pill, ICMR said the drug has “major safety concerns”

Displaced for half the legal compensation amount: The government has claimed that land for the Noida International Airport was acquired with ‘complete transparency’; however, evicted farmers live in tents at a resettlement site without many of the law-mandated amenities; hundreds are protesting a land compensation offer that is barely half of what they should receive by law

Polluting power plants: Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu among 5 Indian states with dirtiest coal power stations; between 30-60% of power plants will not be able to comply with new government emission rule deadlines that have already been delayed by several years