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Bihar 2025: Women trust Nitish’s delivery over Mahagathbandhan’s promises

In Patna, the offices of all three major parties – the Rashtriya Janata Dal, the BJP and JD(U) – are located on the same road, within a short distance of each other. On Friday afternoon, BJP and JD(U) workers were celebrating their stupendous victory in the Bihar assembly elections.

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Delhi’s pollution hotspots: The gap between government claims and ground reality

Another week, another shroud of smog over the national capital. GRAP-3 is now in place, classes for schoolchildren are moving online, and citizens gasp for breath as the air pollution reaches the ‘severe’ level.

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पाल्यूशन हॉटस्पॉट: सरकारी दावा और ग्राउंड रियलिटी में जमीन आसमान का अंतर

दिल्ली में वायु प्रदूषण गंभीर श्रेणी में पहुंच चुका है जिसको देखते हुए ग्रैप-3 लागू कर दिया गया है. वहीं कक्षा एक से लेकर पांच तक के बच्चों की क्लासेज़ हाइब्रिड मोड में चल रही हैं. वहीं दिल्ली सरकार वायु प्रदूषण को कंट्रोल करने के दावे कर रही है. सरकार…

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Bihar’s verdict: Why people chose familiar failures over unknown risks

Bihar’s election results leave very little room for interpretation.

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बिहार चुनाव : महागठबंधन का वादा बनाम नीतीश कुमार की डिलीवरी

पटना में तीनों प्रमुख पार्टियों- राष्ट्रीय जनता दल, भाजपा और जदयू के कार्यालय एक ही सड़क पर थोड़ी-थोड़ी दूरी पर स्थित हैं. शुक्रवार दोपहर भाजपा और जदयू के कार्यकर्ता जश्न मनाते हुए एक कार्यालय से दूसरे कार्यालय के बीच आते-जाते दिखाई दे रहे थे. इसी दौरान मिले बीजेपी कार्यकर्ता संजय…

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TV Newsance 321: Delhi blast and how media lost the plot

This week on TV Newsance, we break down the Delhi bomb blast tragedy that claimed 13 lives and injured dozens near the Red Fort, one of the busiest, most crowded pockets of Old Delhi. Newslaundry reporters hit the ground an hour later to talk to eyewitnesses and assess the situation…

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Axis fails once again. This time in Bihar

The trends have solidified and they’ve blown past what almost every exit pollster dared to predict in Bihar. The NDA is cruising to an easy majority, tracking 201 seats at the time of writing this report. The Mahagathbandhan is marooned at 36. Exit polls broadly called an NDA win, but…

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Landslide for NDA, highest vote share for RJD, Cong blames ‘vote chori’

Bihar is barrelling toward one of its most emphatic mandates in years. The NDA has opened up an unassailable lead, ahead on 205 of 243 seats, while the Mahagathbandhan is left clinging to just 31, with independents and smaller outfits leading on seven.

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In Bihar, mixed fortunes for strongmen and their families this election

Bihar’s romance with strongman politics took shape in the post-Mandal 1990s, when hardened caste loyalties and weakened state institutions created space for bahubalis to rise as parallel centres of power. They stepped into the vacuum, becoming both feared and admired, a dynamic reflected in their electoral successes.

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Bihar deputy CMs set to win big. UC-OBC formula strikes again?

The NDA’s strategy of pairing an influential OBC leader with a prominent upper-caste face appears to have paid off in Bihar. As counting day unfolds, both of the state’s deputy chief ministers, Samrat Choudhary and Vijay Kumar Sinha, seem to have secured decisive wins.

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Hafta 563: Decoding Bihar’s mandate

In this special NL Hafta Live episode, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Anand Vardhan and Raman Kirpal were joined by The Hindu’s Sobhana K Nair and senior journalist Neerja Chowdhury to decode the Bihar poll results.

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एनएल चर्चा 397 : एनडीए की प्रचंड बहुमत के साथ सत्ता में वापसी और महागठबंधन की हार

इस हफ्ते की चर्चा में बिहार के चुनावी नतीजों पर विस्तार से बात की गई. यूट्यूब पर लाइव हुई इस बातचीत में नतीजों से पहले उठने वाले सवालों जैसे दो दशकों से ज़्यादा और सबसे लंबे वक्त तक बिहार के मुख्यमंत्री का रिकॉर्ड बनाने वाले नीतीश कुमार का भविष्य क्या…

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From one WhatsApp to every frontpage: How ‘sources’ dictated the Delhi blast coverage

Every time a suspected terror attack takes place in India, you can be certain about how it will play out in the Indian media.

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631 deaths, 4 years: Inside Odisha’s elephant conflict zone

Odisha has around 912 elephants, fewer than states like Karnataka, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu. But it has recorded more deaths attributed to the human-elephant conflict in comparison. By October this year alone, 75 people had died in elephant attacks. That’s beside the extensive damage caused to crops and farmland.

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At Faridabad institute under terror cloud, an uneasy calm

At Al Falah University in Faridabad, classes continue amid an uneasy calm. Security personnel stand guard near the entrance, television crews linger outside the gates, and students refuse to speak on camera about the arrests that have drawn the private medical institution into the national spotlight.

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Nov 13, 2025: AQI ‘severe’, but many students without GRAP relief

In view of the worsening air quality in the national capital, the Delhi government earlier this week directed schools to conduct classes in hybrid mode for students up to class 5 amid GRAP restrictions. Other classrooms still insist on physical attendance.

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The journey from vanity metrics to value metrics: Unlocking audience growth

In today’s digital media landscape, tracking page views alone no longer guarantees sustainability. Publishers must look beyond vanity metrics to understand what truly drives loyalty, subscriptions, and long-term revenue.

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Axis predicts NDA lead, but fewer seats for BJP this time

A day after several exit polls projected a clear victory for the NDA in Bihar, two of the most-watched pollsters – Axis My India and Today’s Chanakya – have both estimated a nearly similar trend.

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In Pulwama’s ‘village of doctors’, shock over terror probe, ‘Doctor Doom’ headlines

As news channels camp outside Pulwama’s Koil village, locals struggle to reconcile the picture being painted – of medical professionals turned “white collar terrorists” – with what they say they know of their own.

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Missed red flags, approvals: In Maharashtra’s Rs 1,800 crore land scam, a tale of power and impunity

In the 19th century, in the quiet village of Mundhwa on the outskirts of colonial Pune, the British granted 44 acres of land to 26 families from the Mahar community. These land grants, known as Watan land, were in return for their hereditary service as village watchmen, messengers, field measurers,…

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चुनाव आयोग की प्योरतम वोटर लिस्ट और दम घोंटू राजधानी में जारी सनातन हिंदू यात्रा

मुख्य चुनाव आयुक्त ज्ञानेश कुमार ने कहा था कि एसआईआर के बाद बिहार के पास देश का सबसे शुद्ध बोले तो प्योरतम मतदाता सूची है. लेकिन ज्ञानेश कुमार की यह प्योरतम मतदाता सूची भाजपा के उन अगणित नेताओं कार्यकर्ताओं की शरणस्थली बन गई है जो देश के अलग-अलग हिस्सों में…

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Exit polls predict clear majority for NDA. Can they be correct this time?

Although two major pollsters – Axis My India and Today’s Chanakya – are scheduled to post the results of their exit polls tomorrow, the others have predicted an overwhelming majority for the governing NDA.

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Friends on a bike, pharmacist who left early: Those who never came home after Red Fort blast

A printing press worker from a village in Uttar Pradesh’s Shravasti. Two friends from UP’s Amroha who met for the last time near the Red Fort. A 19-year-old shopkeeper from Shamli carrying the weight of six lives on his shoulders. A young cab driver on his tenth day at work.…

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‘They all wear Islamic topis…beard’: When reporting turns into profiling

Delhi is reeling from a deadly blast outside Gate No. 1 of the Red Fort Metro Station, which has claimed at least 13 lives and injured several others.

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Minutes after the blast: Inside the chaos at Delhi’s Red Fort

The blast near Red Fort has claimed at least 12 lives so far and left over 20 injured. The Delhi Police have invoked UAPA and agencies are investigating all angles. The cause of the blast is yet to be ascertained.

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