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With Tuticorin on edge after 13 deaths during anti-Sterlite protests, superstar-turned-politician Kamal Haasan has hit out at the state government. He says the AIADMK government has failed on many counts and people want it to go.

The Centre has suspended operations against terrorists in Kashmir during Ramzan but violence levels have gone up three-fold in the valley since then.

13 people are dead in police firing and violence in Tuticorin and 102 others injured. That's what senior state officials have said. After three days of silence, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister E Palaniswamy finally spoke on Thursday. He strongly defended the police action and accused the Opposition of instigating people. This on a day another video emerged of cops surrounding a dying protester and telling him to stop acting. But the larger question remains, were environmental norms bypassed so that the Sterlite plant could operate?

How did six young Navy officers on a tiny sail boat confront thundering waves taller than buildings? Whats it like to not see another ship for 40 days? What happened when their rudder broke out on the high seas? Meet the six bravehearts who circumnavigated the globe.

Its being called Tamil Nadu's Jallianwala Bagh tragedy. 11 people shot dead by the police in Tamil Nadu including another person today, all citizens protesting the expansion of a Sterlite copper plant in Tuticorin. Why did the police have to use such brutal force on protestors? Why weren't rubber bullets used? Is it just OK for the state government to say that the circumstances were unavoidable and get away from scrutiny?

The government promises some moves to help bear the brunt of the fuel hike in a few days. But in an era of de-centralised fuel prices what exactly can the government do?

There is outrage after the Archbishop of Delhi Anil Couto writes a letter to Delhi churches and refers to the "turbulent political atmosphere" threatening democracy and secularism and urges all priests to "pray for the country" ahead of the 2019 national election. The BJP and RSS say the Archbishop was playing communal politics. He says he was not targeting any leader or any government.

Fuel prices across India reach record highs and that means a cascading impact - inflation goes up, the rate of GDP growth could be affected and add to that the falling value of the Rupee and you have more than a spot of bother for the Indian economy and millions in the country. What's the way out at a time when the government has said that subsidising our oil companies is an absolute no no?