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Newslaundry · Aug 22

TV Newsance 350 | Got a brain? You might be a ‘Dimaagi Naxal’

This week on TV Newsance Gen Z Special, the makers of the Urban Naxal gang, Tukde-Tukde gang, Khan Market gang and Azadi gang have manufactured a shiny new villain: the “Dimaagi Naxal”. Godi anchors from Arnab to Sudhir decode who a “Dimaagi Naxal” is. From writers, professors, economists and artists…

Newslaundry · Aug 21

Exclusive: Inside the bulk objections targeting Muslims in Uttarakhand’s SIR

Five men in five Uttarakhand assembly constituencies filed 6,500 objections to strike voters off the rolls in the ongoing special intensive revision. Every name they targeted is Muslim. Each of the five is linked to the BJP.

Newslaundry · Aug 21

Why ‘Dimaagi Naxal’ is India’s most dangerous label yet

Dimaagi Naxal!

Newslaundry · Aug 20

From Cambridge to Indian campuses, a similar playbook hounds the marginalised

Early this year, we were in Manchester to attend the British Sociological Association’s 75th annual conference. Sitting among hundreds of academics, we were deeply intrigued by the title of Professor Jason Arday, the former Cambridge scholar’s plenary talk – ‘Wanted dead or alive: The playbook’. Arday, with great enthusiasm but…

Newslaundry · Aug 19

Decoding PM CARES Fund audit report: Sitting on thousands of crores, yet only lakhs spent

After a two-year wait, the Government of India has finally released the audit report for the PM CARES Fund. The Prime Minister's Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations Fund (PM CARES Fund) currently holds a corpus of Rs 8,452.06 crore.

Newslaundry · Aug 19

पीएम केयर्स फंड पर उठे सवाल: हजारों करोड़ जमा लेकिन खर्च हुए महज कुछ लाख

भारत सरकार ने दो साल के इंतजार के बाद आखिरकार पीएम केयर्स फंड की ऑडिट रिपोर्ट जारी कर दी है. प्रधानमंत्री आपात स्थिति नागरिक सहायता एवं राहत निधि, जिसे पीएम केयर्स फंड के नाम से जाना जाता है, उस फंड में फिलहाल 8452.06 करोड़ रुपये जमा हैं. इसमें से 7846.6…

Newslaundry · Aug 19

Why the racial order remains invisible: Answer is in the machinery that sustains it

If this racialized world order is so pervasive and structurally embedded, why, one may ask, does it remain largely invisible in the global political consciousness? The answer lies in the epistemic machinery that sustains it.

Newslaundry · Aug 19

PM CARES spent just Rs 88 lakh of its Rs 8,452 crore in 2024-25, put 93% in FD

Rs 20,000 annually to every school-going child orphaned by the COVID-19 pandemic — this was one of the major promises made by the Union government as part of the PM CARES Fund. But in the financial year 2024-2025, only a mere Rs 88 lakh was released for this purpose. The…

Newslaundry · Aug 18

The HT editor who stood by his reporter all the way to jail

A few years after independence, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru offered a journalist the post of ambassador to Moscow. He politely declined because he preferred his profession to a government job.

Newslaundry · Aug 18