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Dharmendra Pradhan’s guide to surviving India’s exam crisis

This May, CBSE’s Class 12 board results arrived like a bad smell in an already scorching summer – hard to ignore, unwelcome, and somehow spreading everywhere.

Newslaundry · May 28

Company behind CBSE evaluation platform says complaints limited to ‘one or two cases’

This copy has been updated to reflect the Coempt CEO’s responses to charges of hacking, multiple complaints and scanning quality

Newslaundry · May 27

Peak irony just dropped. Sudhir Chaudhary slams ‘OG Godi media’

Sudhir Chaudhary, editor-in-chief of DD News, once asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi where he gets his energy from. On a recent episode of Decode, broadcast on a government-owned channel, he had thoughts on the “OG Godi media”.

Newslaundry · May 27

Why the Naidu govt needs to talk to women before offering cash to have more babies

A year ago, a TDP MP in Andhra Pradesh offered Rs 50,000 to women giving birth to a third girl child, provided the first two children are also daughters. He promised a cow if the third child is a boy, spending from his salary as a parliamentarian. The announcement from…

Newslaundry · May 26

DD News anchor’s latest gem: Turning a CBSE student’s grievance into Pak conspiracy

When Vedant Srivastava, a student, received his CBSE physics answer sheets through the re-evaluation process, he found the sheets uploaded by the board were not his.

Newslaundry · May 25

Video on people displaced for Vizag Google data centre blocked by Meta after govt notice

Environmental Reporting Collective (ERC)—an international network of journalists —has issued a statement against Meta, the parent company of Instagram, for reportedly restricting their video story in India, which addressed the forced displacement of Dalits in Andhra Pradesh’s Visakhapatnam to accommodate a Google data centre, without offering any clarification.

Newslaundry · May 25

NDTV enters television’s ‘Thook Jihad’ hall of shame

NDTV, once synonymous with sober television journalism, has been formally cautioned by the News Broadcasting and Digital Standards Authority (NBDSA) for doing what it once prided itself on never doing: turning a roti-maker spitting in food into a story about “Thook Jihad”.

Newslaundry · May 25

Extreme heat imperils chronic disease patients in informal settlements

Within hours of sunrise, the two-room flats in the government-constructed apartment in New Rajarajeshwari Peta in Vijayawada feels like a pot on a stove.

Newslaundry · May 25

Can India blame just war for its economic slowing?

For years, Indians have been told that the economy is booming.

Newslaundry · May 25

‘Heads they won, tails he lost’: How ‘desi consultancies’ prey on Indian grads in America

Manu rushed through the John F. Kennedy International Airport, hoping to reach the college as soon as possible. He had refused the pick-up offer from the Indian Student Association, thinking he’d take a bus. But, outside the airport, New York overwhelmed him, so he asked a middle-aged American about the…

Newslaundry · May 24