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Get your Milton Friedman and Ayn Rand right: Zomato and Blinkit aren’t capitalism

Late last week, I wrote a piece responding to Deepinder Goyal’s tweets on how he views India’s gig economy. It went viral – and as is inevitable with anything that does, it brought with it an equal measure of bouquets and brickbats.

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TV Newsance 327 | New Year, old script: ‘Tukde Tukde’ returns

The year began with a glitch in the matrix. Godi anchors briefly discovered what it felt like to question power. BJP leaders were asked uncomfortable questions, ministers looked irritated, and for a brief moment, it felt like accountability had entered the chat

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Hafta letters: Questioning Arnab's ‘opposition’, Venezuela discussion, Instagram tips

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Learning to linger: On longform writing in a time of noise

A large part of my journalistic life has been in Delhi, a strange city full of people trying to find their own space, their own words, their own life. Very early on a senior journalist friend gave me a piece of advice that I held on to – “Be diligent,…

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SC’s baffling bail order rattled the press. Voter rolls exercise should terrify it

It is rare for India’s mainstream media to speak with one voice on an issue that makes the government uncomfortable. It is remarkable, therefore, that almost every major newspaper made strong editorial comments about the recent Supreme Court ruling granting bail to five of those implicated in the 2020 Delhi…

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Vembu’s lawyer claims $1.7 billion bond order ‘invalid’, Pramila’s lawyer says it remains in force

On January 8, 2026, The News Minute published an exclusive story reporting a California court’s order directing Zoho co-founder Sridhar Vembu to post a $1.7 billion bond to protect his ex-wife Pramila Srinivasan’s rights in their ongoing divorce case.

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What does investigative journalism really take? The journalist who exposed Bofors explains

Every journalist dreams of cracking that one big story, whether it’s an investigation that exposes a corrupt official or politician, unearths a dangerous cover-up, or holds a large corporation accountable. The process of doing such work isn't easy. You must find sources willing to talk, verify everything they say, and…

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Behind JNU’s latest ‘media trial’: What happened on the night of January 5?

Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) is once again embroiled in controversy.

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Jan 8, 2026: What changes when you step indoors in Delhi’s pollution?

In Delhi, bad air doesn’t stay outside. Today, at our Sarvodaya Enclave office, the air inside a closed room without an air purifier was already dangerous to breathe. The AQI stood at 309, with PM2.5 at 134 and PM10 at 147 – numbers you would expect from a polluted street,…

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Ankita Bhandari murder: A leaked recording, BJP resignations, and letters written in blood

Young girls in Uttarakhand are writing letters to the President in their own blood. State BJP leaders are resigning from the party. From the mountains to the plains, people are taking to the streets. All demanding justice for Ankita Bhandari, the 19-year-old receptionist at a resort near Rishikesh, who was…

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BJP with Congress, NCP factions against their allies: Welcome to Pune’s political freak show

There is an old political cliché about there being no permanent friends or enemies in politics, only permanent interests. In Pune right now, that line sounds less like wisdom and more like warning.

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GIJN names Newslaundry investigation on Delhi’s cattle crisis among India’s best of 2025

The Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN) has selected a Newslaundry investigation into the growing problem of stray cattle in Delhi as one of the best investigative stories from India in 2025.

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An insider’s account of how Apollo Tyres went global and the ‘graveyards’ of Indian manufacturing

From the Licence Raj to liberalisation, labour unrest to global expansion – how did an Indian tyre company rise, fall, and rise again?

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‘Disastrous’: Modi govt allows commercial plantations in forests, drops safeguards

In a move that further weakens India’s forest conservation laws, the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEFCC) is all set to open up forests for commercial plantations by private and government entities without the requirement of a one-time monetary compensation, called net present value (NPV), and compensatory afforestation.…

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Hostel for SC/ST girls in Ghaziabad now ‘houses only snakes, not students’

While the Union government champions slogans like the ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’, the ground reality is that a UP government hostel built for scheduled caste (SC) and scheduled tribe (ST) girls in Nandgram, Ghaziabad, never properly materialised beyond the paperwork.

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After ED raid, climate activist calls allegations ‘baseless and biased’

Two days after the Enforcement Directorate accused Satat Sampada Private Limited of misusing foreign funds to influence government policies and undermine India’s energy security, its director and climate activist Harjeet Singh has denied all the allegations against him and his outfit.

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637 acres, 125 court cases: The great Dalit-Adivasi land grab in Rajasthan

On the outskirts of Jaipur, in a village named Machwa, an 86-year-old Dalit widow lives in a cluster of makeshift jhuggis. The settlement is built from uneven brick walls and patched with tarpaulin sheets and rusted tin roofs. Inside, her family of nearly 30 – sons, daughters-in-law and grandchildren –…

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IndiGo’s dominance is not about ‘success’. Here’s what Sanjeev Sanyal overlooked in his ANI interview

When Sanjeev Sanyal, Principal Economic Adviser in the Ministry of Finance, argued in a recent ANI interview with Smita Prakash that IndiGo’s dominance is not the real issue because “you can’t tax success” and that policy should instead “ensure churn”, he was appealing to a familiar liberalisation-era instinct in Indian…

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‘Raises deep concerns’ and ‘disturbing questions’: Newspapers on SC decision to deny Umar Khalid bail

After the Supreme Court denied bail to Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam in the 2020 Delhi riots conspiracy case, several activists and legal experts have raised concerns about what the decision means for liberty and justice. While the court did acknowledge that prolonged incarceration, particularly pre-trial detention, seriously infringes the…

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India’s richest civic body, world-class neglect: Why are people still dying on Mumbai’s roads?

In July, 2015, 16-year-old Prakash Bilhore went to fill out a college admission form in Bhandup. But he never made it home. The motorcycle he was travelling on hit a pothole, throwing him off. He died in hospital within an hour.

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Jan 5, 2026: The PM 2.5 problem the environment ministry is pushing downwind

In today’s episode of Aaj Ka AQI, Newslaundry visits the Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change (MoEFCC).

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‘Different footing’: SC denies bail to Umar, Sharjeel, but grants relief to Gulfisha, Meeran, 3 others

The Supreme Court has denied bail to Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam booked under the UAPA in the 2020 Delhi riots larger conspiracy case. Though the court has granted bail to five other accused, including Gulfisha Fatima, Meeran Haider, Shifa ur Rehman, Shadab Ahmed and Mohd Saleem Khan.

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Himachal’s Congress govt spent twice as much on ads as previous BJP govt did in 2 years

Wondering how a change in government can financially affect the media?

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How a potential bird-flu pandemic could play out

The World Health Organization uses the term ‘Pathogen X’ to denote an unknown or unspecified pathogen that could cause a pandemic. Since 2018, the WHO has been steering efforts to detect and contain outbreaks, including ‘Disease X’. And when this disease does infect humans, the impact would depend on how quickly countries…

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Tamil Nadu vs Uttar Pradesh debt: Why the comparison is misleading

After Congress leader Praveen Chakravarthy’s tweet, one economic comparison has gone viral: that Tamil Nadu’s total debt is now higher than Uttar Pradesh’s.

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