Krishna S Chaudhury

Journalist. Assistant Editor @ackodrive | Past: @ians_india @CNNNews18 @Tehelka @abplive @TimesNow | RTs no endorsement.

[IndiaToday @IndiaToday]

Government paid crores in #cattlesubsidies for cattle that didn't exist.

A #Rajasthan audit has exposed a massive cow shelter subsidy scam — shelters allegedly used dead and unregistered cattle to pocket government funds.

One shelter alone: #BrajKamadSurabhiVanShodh Sanstha — allegedly used nearly 20,000 fake cattle tags to claim ₹16+ crore. Another shelter claimed ₹1.43 crore wrongfully.

#NewsToday | @sardesairajdeep @sharatjpr Suresh Kumar

[Ajay Dubey @Ajaydubey9]

ABSOLUTE FAILURE OF PROTECTION IN PANNA TIGER RESERVE!
Poachers breached the Chandranagar CORE area, brutally shot a spotted deer, and butchered it right under the forest department’s nose.
Zero intelligence and complete systemic collapse. Adding fuel to the fire,illegal construction is rampant inside the core area of Chandranagar,posing a serious threat—yet absolutely NO action has been taken to date despite my official complaint.This is nothing short of criminal negligence!
The root cause is clear: The ACTING FIELD DIRECTOR NEVER goes for night patrolling! He has practically rolled out the red carpet for poachers and encroachers to act with total impunity. If a deer can be slaughtered and illegal structures can stand in the core zone, how many tigers are actually surviving?!
The Acting Field Director's gross negligence must be punished severely. He, the irresponsible Ranger, and the entire negligent staff should be TERMINATED . No more excuses! @minforestmp @moefcc @ntca_india #PannaTigerReserve @CMMadhyaPradesh @WCCBHQ @PMOIndia

[Krishna S Chaudhury @Krishnaa_tweets]

@amazonIN As I mentioned above, the refunded amount is less than what I had paid. I didn’t mention I didn’t get the refund. Where’s the confusion?

[Krishna S Chaudhury @Krishnaa_tweets]

Finally, returned the product after complaining via chat, SM, call and email. It was not delivered on time and had unsealed packaging but @amazonIN didn’t refund full amount. Care to explain why? @jagograhakjago

[Krishna S Chaudhury @Krishnaa_tweets]

.@amazonIN Your delivery partners do not deliver at doorstep & threaten us. When raising complaints, the customer support disconnects calls. It’s a recurrent issue. Customer care replies with a “sorry” & nothing changes. Why the prime membership and why the marketplace fee?

[Rajdeep Sardesai @sardesairajdeep]

Another day, another mandir GHOTALA, this time in Rajasthan exposed by @DainikBhaskar ? Misusing public faith yet again! Do places of ‘worship’ have no accountability? 😡 (does ED ever file PMLA cases here?)

[The Indian Express @IndianExpress]

MLAs, Mayor; relatives of Commissioner, SDM, DIG, officials buy land in Ayodhya after SC cleared Ram temple https://t.co/lWBM07Mgjh

[ANI @ANI]

#WATCH | Bhubaneswar, Odisha | Petroleum Dealers Association President Sasanka Sekhar Sahu says, "We are urging the government to reconsider the introduction of E20 fuel... Dealers are facing significant difficulties with the current E20 rollout. While the blend is capped at 10% in most countries worldwide, India has implemented a 20% blend. Consequently, the vehicles currently available in India are not fully compatible with this fuel. BS6 vehicles in India were not originally designed to handle this specific blend. This leads to issues like clogged carburettors and other mechanical failures. Customers then come to the petrol pumps and create a ruckus, even though the pump owners have no control over the situation. The government introduced the fuel, and we simply sell it. These problems, which were non-existent before, have only surfaced since the introduction of E20..."

[Krishna S Chaudhury @Krishnaa_tweets]

@amazonIN My concern hasn’t been addressed. I kept requesting the chat support executive to transfer me to their supervisor. They said they’re doing & then said they can’t. The person was not able to understand the urgency of my concern and kept offering resolution that isn’t satisfactory.

[Krishna S Chaudhury @Krishnaa_tweets]

.@amazonIN Your delivery partners do not deliver at doorstep & threaten us. When raising complaints, the customer support disconnects calls. It’s a recurrent issue. Customer care replies with a “sorry” & nothing changes. Why the prime membership and why the marketplace fee?

[Ajay Dubey @Ajaydubey9]

In Panna Tiger Reserve,the Deputy Director has created a junior Deputy Director position, and their actions are going to get everyone caught in the clutches of the law very soon PMO India CM Madhya Pradesh #tigers @ntca_india @PMOIndia @moefcc

[Ajay Dubey @Ajaydubey9]

😡 SHAME. An adult tiger poached in Satna's Sarbhanga forest over a month ago.Buried by poachers, its SKELETON was just discovered surfacing. This makes FORTY (40) TIGER DEATHS in MP.
​NO INTELLIGENCE, NO ACCOUNTABILITY, low conviction rate of poachers. The entire system has been compromised,a direct legacy of the previous CWLW.
​#TigerPoaching @CMMadhyaPradesh @PMOIndia @moefcc @ntca_india @WCCBHQ @byadavbjp

[Tenzing Lamsang @TenzingLamsang]

Bhutan has politely declined offers by Indian Oil Marketing Companies to buy E 20 petrol as Bhutan does not have the storage facilities for such a hygroscopic (water absorbing) fuel.
This is especially tricky in a Himalayan terrain with seepage in tanks.
https://t.co/MTB09mp7oy

[sanjoy ghose @advsanjoy]

The dangers of virtual hearings. One lawyer takes a call from his junior or client during an on going hearing and says in gujrati that “my father’s open heart surgery is on and i cannot join..tell the judge to pass whatever order he wants and I will get it changed from the Supreme Court!” 😂🥱

[Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) @internetfreedom]

Statement : Shutting down Telegram is a band aid solution and is a disproportionate answer to exam fraud

The Internet Freedom Foundation objects to the directions announced today in the National Testing Agency's press release on action against the Telegram platform. On the NTA's recommendation, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has, under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act, 2000, restricted access to the whole of Telegram in India until 22 June 2026, and has separately ordered the platform to switch off message-editing for every Indian user until 30 June 2026. This is a blunt, nationwide measure aimed at the conduct of rampant fraud rackets, and on the Government's own admission is constitutionally incompatible.

At the outset it is important to note that Section 69A and the Blocking Rules of 2009 framed under it allow the Government to block access to specific “information” on a computer resource. They do not extend to switching off an entire intermediary, still less to ordering a company to redesign its product by removing a feature for a whole country. In Shreya Singhal v Union of India, the Supreme Court upheld Section 69A because it is narrow and hedged with procedural safeguards. Reading it to authorise shutting down a platform that lakhs use is an overbroad restriction by the NTAs own admission. For the message-editing direction the release identifies no source of power at all. If one exists, the order must say so.

The release argues against itself

A restriction on access has to be the least intrusive measure that achieves its aim as per the constitutional test of proportionality laid down in Justice K.S. Puttaswamy v. Union of India (2017) and applied in Anuradha Bhasin v. Union of India (2020). The NTA's own narration shows the block fails its nodal agency, the release says, “has secured the prompt take-down of a substantial number of Telegram channels, groups and bots”, and this targeted work “is the reason the harm caused by these rackets has been contained to the extent it has”. If channel level takedown contained the harm, the case for a blanket block collapses and hence the Government has reached for a heavier tool while conceding that a lighter one was working. The collateral cost sits on the record too as noted in the press release. The block, the NTA accepts, “affects lakhs of citizens who use the Telegram platform for legitimate personal, educational, professional and informational purposes”. The release also says there is "no such paper available outside the secured examination chain" and that “the security of the examination is unaffected by the action taken”. If the exam is secure and no leak exists, what is being suppressed is rumour, and rumour cannot justify closing a platform when specific blocking and criminal prosecution remain available.

Students use of Telegram

The block of telegram is reactive and ineffective and will punish ordinary users instead of addressing the systemic source of exam leaks. This blocking comes in the final days of NEET preparation, when thousands of students depend on Telegram for study groups, doubt-clearing, and shared resources. Also, it is important to consider that the source of exam papers leak will occur from inside the system, among insiders and across the printing and logistics chain, with the platform being the most downstream channel for distribution. Hence, switching off Telegram, is merely a deflection from the repeated failures that will continue while media attention is directed towards this Telegram ban.

Lack of transparency

At present only a press release from the NTA has been provided, which recommended the block but the reasoned order of MeitY, the authority that issued it, has not been released. The Anuradha Bhasin decision requires that orders restricting access be published so they can be tested in court. Here the order, and the reasoning of the committee behind it, stay out of view, and we do not know whether Telegram was heard at all. An announcement of a block is no substitute for an order the affected party can challenge.
Blunt to enforce and very easy to evade
Usually, app-level blocks run through IS-level DNS and IP filtering. They are over inclusive, sweeping in lawful use, yet simple to evade as a determined exam leak racket moves to a VPN or a mirror within minutes while ordinary users lose the service for a week.

We ask the Government to:

1) Publish the MeitY Section 69A order and the NTA recommendation behind it, with reasons;
2) State the legal basis for the message editing direction, or withdraw it;
3) Confirm whether Telegram was given a hearing under the Blocking Rules, and place the committee's record before any court that hears a challenge; and
4) Lift the platform-wide restriction and rely on the targeted takedowns the NTA itself credits with containing the harm.

We emphasise that the NEET (UG) 2026 re-examination is worth protecting and it concerns the future of lakhs of aspirants. It requires securing the entire process of examination rather than reaching for purported band aid solutions that instead cause more harm. The State cannot switch off a service used by lakhs to answer the wrongdoing of a few, and cannot do it through an order no one affected is allowed to read. On its own facts, the Government has done both.

New Delhi, 16 June 2026.

[Business Today @business_today]

E20 fu​​​​​​​el use in older cars can be treated as ‘improper use’ or ‘negligence’: ICICI Lombard https://t.co/kSRHnIwXmH

[The Times Of India @timesofindia]

A #Delhi consumer court has directed Fujitsu General India to refund Rs 1.14 lakh to a customer who bought a defective air conditioner that failed to provide sufficient cooling soon after installation. The court also awarded Rs 25,000 as compensation and Rs 10,000 towards litigation costs.

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[The Wire @thewire_in]

'Disease Did Not Kill Lions, Heat Did': Gujarat Forest Minister

https://t.co/CRHzVuXjEd

[Krishna S Chaudhury @Krishnaa_tweets]

Take note @MCD_Delhi and learn

[Greater Bengaluru Authority @GBA_office]

📢Public Awareness of Community Dogs

The Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA) is committed to implementing the directions issued by the Hon'ble Supreme Court in Suo Moto Writ Petition (Civil) No. 5 of 2025 concerning the management of stray animals and wishes to clarify the following.

1. FEEDING OF COMMUNITY DOGS IS ALLOWED
Feed only at designated feeding spots. Additional feeding spots are being designated across all five city corporations based on the number of community dogs in each ward.

2. DO NOT RELOCATE OR REMOVE STRAY DOGS
Relocation or removal of community dogs by individuals, groups, or associations is prohibited and constitutes an offence under applicable laws

3. DESIGNATED RELOCATION PROCESS
As per the directions of the Hon'ble Supreme Court, stray dogs in the identified areas will be shifted to designated shelters by 05 Municipal Corporations through designated officers.

4. CRUELTY TOWARDS ANIMALS IS PUNISHABLE
It is illegal to harass, assault, injure or inflict cruelty on stray animals. Appropriate legal action will be taken against such acts.

5. NEED INFORMATION ON FEEDING SPOTS?
Residents can contact the Greater Bengaluru Authority Helpline 1533 to request for the identification of a designated feeding place in their area.

6. APPEAL TO CITIZENS
The Greater Bengaluru Authority appeals to citizens, Apartment owner associations and Residents Welfare Associations (RWAs) to behave with mutual respect and cooperation to promote community harmony and animal welfare.

7. FOR FURTHER ASSISTANCE
Contact the Greater Bengaluru Authority helpline 1533 or the Animal Husbandry Department officials.

Let's care for our community dogs with compassion, responsibility and respect.

COMMUNITY DOGS ARE PART OF OUR COMMUNITY

[Ramya/Divya Spandana @divyaspandana]

GBA leading with compassion! @GBA_office @GBAChiefComm Thank you Sir 🙌🏽

[Kaushik Raj @kaushikrj6]

NewsClick founder Prabir Purkayastha spent 6 months in jail. Now Delhi HC quashed ED's case against him and called it an attack on free press.

Court said,"Not only are present proceedings mala fide, but also an arbitrary attack and abuse of power on free & impartial journalism."