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India is nowhere near ready for a nationwide SIR. A passport scare showed me why

Are you a citizen of India? And can you prove it?

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More grain, less protein behind India’s rising obesity

A decade ago, in March 2016, Prime Minister Narendra Modi first mentioned obesity in his 18th Mann Ki Baat address. Since then, Modi has spoken about the issue on at least 18 occasions, including during his last Independence Day speech.

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India’s E20 - Ethanol gamble explained

Some people say their cars and bikes have suffered after using ethanol-blended petrol. For months now, falling mileage and concerns about vehicle performance have become a national political flashpoint.

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‘One more interview and you’ve recorded the audiobook’

Buried among hundreds of comments below yet another podcast featuring a recently published author was one line that seemed amusingly true. “One more interview,” someone wrote, “and you’ll have recorded the audiobook.”

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एनएल चर्चा 431: बारुईपुर दुष्कर्म-हत्या मामला और दिलजीत दोसांझ की फिल्म 'सतलुज' पर सेंसरशिप का साया

एनएल चर्चा के इस अंक में पश्चिम बंगाल के बारुईपुर दुष्कर्म-हत्या मामले और दिलजीत दोसांझ की फिल्म 'सतलुज' को केंद्र सरकार द्वारा समीक्षा के लिए अंतर-विभागीय समिति के पास भेजे जाने को लेकर विस्तार से बात हुई.

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GK to Gurugram: A field guide to encroach like the rich (and never be called encroachers)

A few months ago, I was walking through a part of Delhi whose two letters, if said without context, still haunt unsuccessful UPSC aspirants. GK. Thankfully not General Knowledge, but Greater Kailash, one of the city's richest addresses.

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Hafta letters: Respecting NL’s old subscribers, story ideas, and a letter to Abhinandan

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TV Newsance 347 | Modi does math and your car pays the price for E20

This week on TV Newsance, everything is under water! Monsoon has finally arrived and you know what that means. From Mumbai, Gurugram, Delhi, Surat, Kashi, to Wayanad, cities are drowning, infrastructure is collapsing. Pick a city, any city, and there's a decent chance it's drowning. Same story, different year.

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Diplomatic sound of silence: What the US indictment leaves unsaid about Delhi, Ottawa, and Nijjar

The Bishnoi gang’s indictment by a US court in California for the June 2023 killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada, is covered in four crisp paragraphs of a 38-page chargesheet, which also contains extortion and drug-running activities by the gang.

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‘The film will make you Rs 100 cr, look at Kashmir Files’: Inside the quiet capture of Bollywood

His social media reads like a saffron scrapbook. A picture with Yogi Adityanath. A Modi birthday wish. His new film marks the Sangh centenary. His character declares his RSS faith: “Swayamsewak ke dil mein shunka nahi, Shankar baste hain.” Both in reel and real life, Sanjay Dutt is blending fine…

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‘No notice, no response sheets’: Disquiet among foreign medical grads over ‘opaque’ licensing exam

When the results of the June 2026 Foreign Medical Graduate Examination (FMGE) were declared earlier this week, many headlines focused on one statistic: only about 12.3 percent of 37,448 candidates qualified – lowest among the last six sessions.

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40 hours on, 8 workers trapped: Garbage heap collapses at Pune plant inaugurated by Modi in 2023

More than 40 hours after a towering garbage heap at Pune’s Moshi waste-to-energy plant buried the administrative building of the company operating the facility, rescue teams are still searching for eight employees believed to be trapped beneath the debris.

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Why India has 300 million football fans but no World Cup team | Let’s Talk About Indian Football

This episode of Let's Talk About: Indian Football cuts through the lazy excuse that India is strictly a cricket nation. The domestic game has massive pockets of fierce fan devotion, yet remains trapped by its own failings.

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Awful and Awesome Ep 411: Main Vaapas Aunga and Project Hail Mary

While discussing Main Vaapas Aaunga:

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Be it NEET or Ayodhya, BJP’s accountability problem is getting harder to hide. Media must keep asking

Accountability and corruption. These two words are now haunting the Modi government. Not just because of the ongoing protests by the Cockroach Janta Party and its followers in New Delhi demanding the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan over the leak of the NEET examination papers. The bigger story…

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A German import wrapped in Desi pride: India’s expensive defiance of medical science

In February this year, a performance audit of Uttar Pradesh’s AYUSH department by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) highlighted that Rs 2,717.79 crore was provisioned for homoeopathy services alone between 2018 and 2023.

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When PSUs, fertiliser shops, and flour mills became Uttarakhand’s ‘investors’ after global summit

Inaugurating the Uttarakhand Global Investors Summit on December 8, 2023, Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared the state a “new hub for investment”, crediting the “double engine” government’s push on tourism, connectivity and investment.

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4 years on, MSP committee has no report to show, but Rs 53 lakh spent

Nearly four years after Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised a committee to make the Minimum Support Price (MSP) more effective and transparent, the panel has not submitted a single report — even as it has spent almost Rs 54 lakh and held dozens of meetings whose proceedings have not been…

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Pilot dreams, few fire exits: Delhi’s private aviation training hubs flout safety norms

Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta has given coaching institutes one month to fix fire safety or face action. But a ground visit to the city’s clusters of flying academies, where students pay lakhs to chase a pilot’s licence, suggests many still ignore the rules.

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Cockroach Janta Party: 15 days later, bigger protest or bigger hype?

The Cockroach Janta Party protest at Jantar Mantar has entered its second week. Sonam Wangchuk remains on an indefinite hunger strike, while several students fasting alongside him have reportedly fallen ill after days without food.

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Mob attack, broken official promises, then boycott: Life for 11 Muslim families in Maharashtra village

For several weeks now, some Muslim-owned shops in Aarla have opened to empty streets, say their owners. Longtime customers have stopped coming. At least one shopkeeper says he is preparing to down his shutters for good and leave in search of work.

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One of Kerala’s lowest paid professionals: The private school teacher

Kerala has long been known for offering the country’s highest wages for manual labour, attracting lakhs of interstate migrant workers every year. A construction worker earns around Rs 1,200 a day, agricultural labourers often make more than Rs 1,000, and domestic workers earn at least Rs 500 a day.

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South Central 82: Losing your vote and passport | PE in Kerala hospitals

In this week's South Central, hosts Dhanya Rajendran and Pooja Prasanna first discuss senior journalist R Rajagopal’s letter regarding the removal of his name from the electoral rolls, denying him renewal of his passport. The hosts are joined by R Rajagopal himself and Shivasundar, a senior activist and researcher who…

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‘Pakistani’ flag claim, contested DDA park: Anatomy of the Sagarpur communal violence

In East Sagarpur, southwest Delhi, a narrow lane has become a widening fault line. On one side of Gali No. 8 sits a largely Muslim-populated jhuggi; on the other, a colony of mostly Hindu homes. Between them lies a small DDA park – and, over 10 days in late June…

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Bhutan editor stands by E20 report after Modi govt denial

Last week, Bhutanese newspaper The Bhutanese reported that Bhutan had declined an offer from Indian Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) to supply E20 petrol.

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