Vandana Menon is an independent reporter based out of New Delhi. She writes about politics and culture across South Asia. Her work has won the Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism and the Asian College of Journalism's Award for Social Impact Journalism.
They come in cola and berry flavours, look harmless, and can be ordered online with on-demand prescriptions. Marketed as ayurvedic medicine and used by youth as a narcotic to get a ‘high’, cannabis products are now a booming business built on loopholes the government wrote into law.
A Ghaziabad-based trust bagged the BJP state govt’s nod to run a private university in Tripura. The trust and its promoters had donated Rs 50 lakh to the party