Sub Swamy questions Modi's Acche Din', threatens to reveal real GDP figures

New Delhi, July 1: BJP's firebrand Rajya Sabha MP Dr Subramanian Swamy continues to express his opinion on issues of utmost concern with his 'I care a damn' attitude.

Despite Prime Minister Narendra Modi's indirect snub to Swamy, the BJP MP has raised questions over the former's much publicised election slogan 'Achche Din' and said that if discloses the real GDP growth figures it will create a furore.

Swamy on Friday took Twitter and claimed that if he discloses real GDP figures then it will certainly not go down well within the party and will be seen as an anti-party activity.

Just two months after entering the Rajya Sabha, Subramanian Swamy has been attacking his critics and has taken swipes at Finance Minister Arun Jaitley over RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan's term.

Swamy's caustic and even derogatory tweets have eroded the support of the top bosses in the ruling dispensation and questions regarding his comments have raised within the RSS.

Swamy's fall from grace was reflected in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's recent remarks about “Vyavastha se upar kisi ko bolne ka haq nahi hai…'' in an interview to a TV news channel.

However, efforts to ensure that he tones down his attacks have not yielded results and the BJP leadership is determined to take disciplinary action if his Twitter diatribe continues.

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So why doesn't Swamy give out the real GDP figures.... Is he scared of Modi? Swamy has been ranting about everyone, why doesn't he come out in the open and expose all the corrupt people.

Why can't the BJP can take him on using authentic data and prove Dr. Swamy wrong? Dr. Swamy must be having very good reasons to suspect the official GDP figures and the Government is scared to challenge him. Dr. Swamy would make a better FM if not the PM.

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Elusive bamboo shrimp resurfaces in Mangaluru estuary after 70 years

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December 7,2025

Mangaluru, Dec 7: A rare bamboo shrimp has been rediscovered on mainland India more than 70 years after it was last reported, confirming for the first time the presence of Atyopsis spinipes in the country. The find was made by researchers from the Centre for Climate Change Studies at Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, during surveys in Karnataka and Odisha.

The team — shrimp expert Dr S Prakash, PhD scholar K Kunjulakshmi, and Mangaluru-based researcher Maclean Antony Santos — combined field surveys, ecological assessments and DNA analysis to identify the elusive species. Their findings, published in Zootaxa, resolve decades of taxonomic confusion stemming from a 1951 report that misidentified the species as Atyopsis moluccensis without strong evidence.

The shrimp has now been confirmed at two locations: the Mulki–Pavanje estuary near Mangaluru and the Kuakhai River in Bhubaneswar. Historical specimens from the Andaman Islands, previously labelled as A. moluccensis, were also found to be misidentified and actually belong to A. spinipes.

The rediscovery began after an aquarium hobbyist in Odisha spotted a shrimp in 2022, prompting systematic surveys across Udupi, Karwar and Mangaluru. Four female specimens were collected in Mulki and one in Odisha, all genetically matching.

Researchers warn the species may exist in very small, vulnerable populations as freshwater habitats face increasing pressure from pollution, sand mining and infrastructure development. All verified specimens have been deposited with the Zoological Survey of India for future reference.

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