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PM Modi deserves some credit for birthday restraint. At least he didn’t rename a month after himself

For most 76-year-olds, a birthday means cake, a call from the grandchildren and perhaps a gentle argument about sugar. For Prime Minister Narendra Modi, it now means a month-long national exercise in seva.

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UPSC aspirant on suing Sudhir Chaudhary, holding Godi media accountable

On July 27, Sudhir Chaudhary’s primetime DD News show ‘Decode’ identified UPSC aspirant and student activist Vijay Sherawat as the man who allegedly said Parliament should be “uprooted” and India should be turned into Nepal.

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Saharanpur mosque, Satya Niketan PG are monuments to the same politics of violence and neglect

Two ruins have featured prominently in the news recently. The collapse of a student PG in Delhi’s Satya Niketan, and the demolition of a 100-year-old mosque in Saharanpur. In one case, the state failed to enforce building regulations – resulting in seven deaths – and in the other, it invoked…

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Let UPI be! Why fix a payment system that isn’t broken?

S.N.A.F.U. = Situation normal all fouled up.

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A Rs 5,000 spending cap. A fleet of Defenders, Thars. Welcome to the DUSU election

Walking out of Gate Number 4 of the Vishwavidyalaya metro station, students are met with a familiar sight during Delhi University’s election season: pamphlets and posters carrying the names and ballot numbers of ABVP, NSUI and other candidates.

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Modi turns 76: Same ad, five papers, and the advertorial that wasn’t labelled one

Narendra Modi turns 76 today, and the machinery around the occasion, including the Union government, a clutch of BJP-run states, and the party organisation, has already lined up a month’s worth of events. Thursday’s newspapers got the opening act: front pages replaced by paid jacket advertisements, wishing the prime minister…

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Rs 14 cr in 9 days in just 1 state: The ever-expanding Modi celebration machine

It’s birthday season for the prime minister again. PM Narendra Modi turns a year older today, and right on cue, his government, an assortment of BJP-run states, and the party itself are gearing up to stretch the celebrations into a full month of inaugurations, foundation-stone ceremonies and publicity blitzes.

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Private players should not replicate ISRO’s efforts: G Madhavan Nair writes

India is at an important transition point in its space programme.

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‘We are scared to sit inside’: MP govt spends crores on ads, this school waits years for repairs

The Madhya Pradesh government has spent nearly Rs 2 crore every day on publicity and promotion over the last two years. Yet schools in rural areas of the state such as Barbatpura Primary School in Ashok Nagar district have been waiting years for repairs costing barely anything between Rs 1.5…

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Doctored ‘bikini in Ganga’ video goes viral; News18 runs it without verification

The story uses screenshots and not the actual viral video in view of its sensitive nature.

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In seat Kejriwal lost by thin margin, nearly 40% names added before 2025 polls missing in SIR draft

An analysis of the New Delhi constituency shows that voters added to the rolls in the two months before the February 2025 elections have been disproportionately removed in this year’s SIR draft.

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Was MK Stalin arrested under MISA? Here’s what the official record shows

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”

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Forget newspaper ads, DKS takes govt messaging into Kannada serials

A father who works as an autorickshaw driver walks into his home carrying a box of sweets. His daughter asks what the occasion is. The answer is not a birthday, a festival or a family celebration. It is that the Karnataka government has completed 100 days in office.

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G4S security guards in India face long hours, no contracts, fear of unionising: Survey

UNI Global Union has released a report on the working conditions at G4S, an Allied Universal company, in India. Based on interviews with security guards, the report documents allegations of unpaid overtime, the absence of written contracts and efforts to discourage unionisation among guards deployed at malls, factories, offices and…

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South Central 92: Justice Madan Lokur on SIR, fear in judiciary | Meta’s CSAM problem

In this week’s South Central, hosts Dhanya Rajendran and Pooja Prasanna are joined by former Supreme Court judge Madan Lokur to discuss a wide range of issues - from the cancellation of law school convocations following student protests against the CJI to mass voter roll discrepancies and the judiciary's hesitation…

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A thumbnail assignment, Rs 3.87 cr, and no work order: The questions around Prasar Bharati’s Waves

In November 2024, India’s public broadcaster, Prasar Bharati, launched its OTT platform, Waves. To prepare thumbnails and metadata for the platform’s content, Prasar Bharati arrived at a figure of Rs 3.87 crore, payable to five multimedia agencies empanelled with the Central Bureau of Communication (CBC), picked out of a list…

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‘Wanted to ask about potholes, waterlogging’: UP journalist targeted after Yogi press conference video

Journalist Divya Srivastava, who pressed Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath for answers to her questions, has faced online threats and harassment. At a press conference recently held in Lucknow, she had objected to the chief minister leaving without answering questions. Her video of the exchange went viral on social media, after…

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Rs 2 lakh fine for Zee News over inflammatory coverage of AMU protest, Palestine slogans

The News Broadcasting & Digital Standards Authority has imposed a fine of Rs 2 lakh on Zee News for violating the broadcasting code of conduct in the channel’s coverage of Palestine solidarity slogans during a student protest at Aligarh Muslim University, LiveLaw reported.

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In BRICS, India’s quiet triumph in how it passed the test of cohesion

In what can be seen as a diplomatic success for both the grouping and its host, the consensus reached at the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi brought to the fore the continuing relevance of the multilateral forum in an international system grappling with competing power interests and geopolitical conflicts.…

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‘A win for diplomacy…gaps’: How editorials read BRICS and the Delhi declaration

Somewhere between the mushroom kebabs and the millet pulao, Indian coverage of the 18th BRICS summit developed a parallel track. On one, there were several heads of government and a 45-page declaration. On the other, there was a tote bag and a menu card.

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Nature didn’t act alone in Nepal’s flash flood disaster

Nepal, like the rest of the world, has already experienced a disproportionate share of the fallout from rising global temperatures and related ecological disruption. The disaster that hit Nepal was merely the tip of the iceberg; if not today, the inevitability of it happening at some point in the future…

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Why labour codes offer little climate protection for women in manufacturing

Rama Devi (name changed), a 33-year-old garment worker in Gurugram’s Udyog Vihar, has a packed schedule six days a week. She wakes up at 6 a.m., gets her three children ready for school, packs lunch for her family and manages to reach the factory at 9 a.m. Her work station…

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What the RSS didn’t tell its New York guests

We all saw the images from Madison Square Garden. Thousands of people. An aarti. A packed hall. And RSS Sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat at the centre of it all.

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‘Once they see the money, they keep building’: Inside Delhi’s PG ecosystem built on a hostel shortage

On the first floor of a building in the main market of Satya Niketan is a restaurant. The second floor houses a hotel. The third floor is locked. The fourth floor is a boys’ paying guest accommodation with five rooms, let out on double and triple occupancy. On the fifth,…

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एनएल चर्चा 440: ब्रिक्स के मंच पर वैश्विक नेता, मणिपुरी संगीतकार चांगथम विक्रम की हत्या और दिल्ली में दर्दनाक पीजी हादसा

एनएल चर्चा के इस अंक में दिल्ली में आयोजित हो रहे BRICS सम्मेलन और सुरक्षा इंतजामों, दिल्ली के सत्या निकेतन में पांच मंजिला पीजी इमारत गिरने से हुई मौतों, नोएडा में श्रमिकों के प्रदर्शन से जुड़ी समर्थ ग्रोवर की डॉक्यूमेंट्री और उत्तर प्रदेश सरकार द्वारा एक्टिविस्ट पर रासुका हटाने के…

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