Good morning, Jaya Tiwari here from Scroll’s social media team. If you read just one story from Scroll today, make it our investigation into how adulterated fairness creams are causing a surge in mercury poisoning cases in rural Maharashtra. Elsewhere, we look at why the UGC-NET is being retested for three subjects, ask whether India should be worried about the AI bubble, and revisit Shillong in the 1980s through video cassettes, melancholy music and Hindi films.
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The state government has cracked down on stores and distributors, but there is little information about how the products entered the market in the first place.
Misspelt names of scholars, unclear book titles, errors in question wording and non-standard terms for established concepts were found in the papers.
A note purportedly recovered near his body said that false allegations of corruption had been made against him.
India’s exposure is high with retail investments, startups, tech infrastructure projects and jobs that depend on US corporations.
The video revolution came late to Meghalaya. On the small screen, films showed us a world of heroism and love and injustice, where so much was possible.
An excerpt from ‘The Man Who Made Plants Write: Essays by Jagadish Chandra Bose’, translated from the Bengali by Sumana Roy.
Hugh Jackman leads Michael Sarnoski’s period drama.
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