{"podcast":{"title":"3 Things","slug":"3-things-69930","podcast_index_feed_id":69930,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/5008053/episodes/feed","website_url":"http://www.indianexpress.com/audio/","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/18099ab0c9fbecbaffd70725b164d186.jpg","author":"Express Audio","episode_count":1000,"summary":"Our flagship daily news show, where we talk to in-house experts about what is going on and why you need to care about it.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-13T06:19:43.174240+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/3-things-69930"},"episode":{"title":"Bengal mid-day meal row, Karnataka farmers protest, and a mass poisoning plot","slug":"bengal-mid-day-meal-row-karnataka-farmers-protest-and-a-mass-poisoning-plot","published_at":"2026-06-29T00:30:06+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/3-things-69930/bengal-mid-day-meal-row-karnataka-farmers-protest-and-a-mass-poisoning-plot","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/3-things-69930","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/bengal-mid-day-meal-row-karnataka-farmers-protest-and-a-mass-poisoning-plot--72731553","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72731553/3_things_2026_june_29_v2.mp3","summary":"First, we speak to The Indian Express’ Rinku Ghosh and Sweety Kumari about West Bengal’s decision to remove eggs from mid-day meals in Kolkata under a new pilot project with ISKCON, the nutritional importance of eggs for children, and the political backlash surrounding the move. Next, we talk to The Indian Express’ Akram M about Karnataka’s proposed Greater Bengaluru Integrated Township Project, why farmers are divided over it, and why it has emerged as one of Chief Minister D K Shivakumar’s biggest political challenges. (22:50) And in the end, we look at the alleged attempt to carry out mass poisoning at a Muharram procession in Mumbai, where police arrested a Pune man accused of distributing capsules allegedly filled with zinc phosphide to participants in the procession. (30:45) Hosted by Ichha Sharma Produced and written by Shashank Bhargava and Ichha Sharma Edited and mixed by Suresh Pawar","meta_description":"First, we speak to The Indian Express’ Rinku Ghosh and Sweety Kumari about West Bengal’s decision to remove eggs from mid-day meals in Kolkata under a new…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2011,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/3-things-69930/episodes/bengal-mid-day-meal-row-karnataka-farmers-protest-and-a-mass-poisoning-plot/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/3-things-69930/bengal-mid-day-meal-row-karnataka-farmers-protest-and-a-mass-poisoning-plot.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}