ANOTHER DOGFIGHT

On August 11, a two-judge bench of the Supreme Court ordered all stray dogs in Delhi-NCR to be confined to shelter homes.

- Kaushik Deka with Avaneesh Mishra, Dhaval S. Kulkarni and Kavitha Muralidharan

The ruling drew sharp criticism from leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi and his sister, Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi, who called the 'blanket removals' cruel and shortsighted. Yet, while one Congress family opposed the move, another was endorsing it-former Union minister and Rajya Sabha MP P. Chidambaram and his son, Lok Sabha MP Karti Chidambaram, who has long campaigned for removing stray dogs from city streets. With the SC now reviewing its own order, it remains to be seen which family's stand prevails.

SAMOSA SERMONS

The BJP's leaders have of late developed a fixation with the deep-fried samosa. In Parliament last month, party MP and actor Ravi Kishan demanded a law to regulate food prices and portions across eateries, asking why samosas are of different sizes but cost the same. A week later in Assam, state health minister