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TV media sinks lower as independent media offers glimmer of hope in 2025

As we come to the end of 2025, how do we assess the state of our mainstream media? Can it sink lower than it already has, given that it stands at 151 out of 180 countries in the World Press Freedom Index?

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How India’s Rs 34,000 crore CSR spending is distributed

Indian firms spend about Rs 34,000 crore on corporate social responsibility (CSR), but most of this flows into low-poverty areas, and larger firms are leaving funds unspent. Many large companies are using their own foundations to take up activities, which gives them better control.

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Let Me Explain: Kerala actor assault – Why proving conspiracy is hard in Indian law

Not every citizen in this country is treated equally before the law.

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South Central 55: Census, Delimitation & MGNREGA Pushback

In this year-ender episode of South Central, hosts Dhanya Rajendran and Pooja Prasanna discuss federalism and how it has fared in India. They are joined by economist and scholar Rathin Roy, and TNM’s Associate Editor Nandini Chandrasekhar.

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What happened to Arnab? Questioning govt on Aravallis, taking shots at ‘Rs 15 cr anchor’

In a curious turn, Arnab Goswami, primetime anchor and Republic TV editor-in-chief, went on air last night criticising the Centre and the Supreme Court for their inability to protect the Aravalli range from “big billionaire companies”. He even took a clean shot at “the [Rs] 15 crore anchor paid by…

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TV Newsance 326 | A very curly tale, or how taxpayers’ money was used for govt PR

Food, travel, vlogs… and now government promotion? This episode of TV Newsance breaks down how Curly Tales became the face of a ₹6 crore Doordarshan documentary promoting the Modi government — and how the same content quietly appeared on private, monetised YouTube channels.

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Hafta letters: Air pollution, collabs, Jayashree rant, offensive emails

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Smog is unavoidable. Unsafe food isn’t. That’s why there’s little outrage over food adulteration

Earlier this week, India’s central food regulator launched a nationwide enforcement drive against adulteration in milk and related products such as paneer. The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India asked states and Union Territories to step up inspections of milk, paneer and khoya. Around the same time, egg quality…

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Bollywood after #MeToo: What changed – and what didn’t

Seven years after the global #MeToo movement reshaped conversations around power, consent, and accountability, where does the Hindi film industry stand today?

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2 dailies unable to print as mobs torch Dhaka newsrooms, assault journalist after India critic’s death

Hours after the leader of an anti-India group from Bangladesh succumbed to gunshot injuries, the offices of Bangladesh dailies Prothom Alo and The Daily Star were set ablaze by violent protesters, who also assaulted New Age editor Nurul Kabir.

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‘They find our faces disturbing’: Acid attack survivor’s 16-year quest for justice and a home

Earlier this month, the Supreme Court, while hearing acid attack survivor Shaheen Malik’s petition, asked all High Courts to furnish data about pending trials in acid attack cases. Noting that Malik's case has been stuck in a Delhi court since 2009, the court also asked Solicitor General Tushar Mehta to…

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From J&K statehood to BHU polls: 699 Parliamentary assurances the government never delivered

In 2016, the petroleum ministry was asked in the Rajya Sabha if it would act against officials from the government-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation and its regulator Directorate General of Hydrocarbons for “inaction”. This was a case of alleged gas flow from an ONGC block to a Reliance Industries…

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If you’re living in Delhi, you’re drinking uranium – and the government knows it

While Delhi’s smog dominates the winter headlines, an invisible poison is surging beneath the streets of a city that discusses its water crisis every year in familiar terms, from supply shortage to frothing.

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‘Air pollution, public safety’: The big issues Delhi thinks Parliament missed out on

The Winter Session of Parliament concludes on December 19. During this nearly three-week session, there were heated debates on several issues ranging from Vande Mataram to the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) and voter roll manipulation.

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‘Systematic harassment’: J&K Police seizes phone from The Wire journalist

Last evening, officers from the Jammu and Kashmir Police seized The Wire’s Jehangir Ali’s phone from his home in Charar-i-Sharief town in Budgam district. The Wire called this action an “attempt by the Jammu and Kashmir police and administration to intimidate its correspondent, which is emblematic of the systematic harassment…

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WhatsApp university blames foreign investors for the rupee’s slide – like blaming fever on a thermometer

On December 16, the rupee crossed the 91-per-dollar mark to touch an all-time low of 91.09. As soon as this happened a joke started going around on WhatsApp: USD (+1) = INR (+91). Finally ISD Codes and Exchange rate matched.

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Dec 18, 2025: Construction in the heart of Delhi amid ‘severe’ AQI

For this episode of AQI, Newslaundry stood outside Kartavya Bhavan on Mansingh Road to document the air quality index (AQI) at 8 pm last night.

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SEBI accuses Pranav Adani, relatives of insider trading in Adani Group’s open offer for NDTV: Report

The Securities and Exchange Board of India has alleged that Pranav Adani, the nephew of billionaire Gautam Adani and a senior executive on the boards of multiple Adani Group companies, had “shared price sensitive information about Adani Group’s open offer to acquire shares of NDTV with his brothers-in-law, violating insider…

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Kerala actor assault case: Survivor moves police over identity leak, online abuse

A week after the verdict in the 2017 Kerala actor assault case, the survivor has lodged a complaint with the Kerala Police alleging cyber harassment and the circulation of a video linked to one of the convicts. Police sources said a case is likely to be registered soon based on…

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Dec 17, 2025: ‘Severe’ AQI’s impact on DU North Campus

Today’s Aaj Ka AQI is from Delhi University’s North Campus, home to some of India’s most prestigious colleges.

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Bondi Beach shooter’s family in Hyderabad say they are shocked, cut ties years ago

The family of Sajid Akram – one of the gunmen involved in the shooting at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia – said they were shocked by the news and had not been in touch with him for many years. Sajid Akram’s brother, who lives in Hyderabad, told TNM that Sajid…

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Why we still don’t know who the rich are in India

India knows how to count the poor. From ration cards to multi-decade surveys such as the National Sample Survey , there are sophisticated systems to track deprivation – who’s getting by, who’s falling behind, who needs support.

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Palestine, century-old classic, Santosh: Centre blocks 19 films at Kerala film festival

The Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has refused screening permission for 19 films at the 2025 International Film Festival of Kerala. Several of the blocked titles deal with Palestine-related themes and a movie called Beef, (and deals with a completely unrelated topic)

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Bad air, big crowd: Fans say seeing Messi was unmissable in a city used to breathing poison

Amid GRAP-4 restrictions and worsened air quality, thousands waited at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi to catch a glimpse of Lionel Messi at the concluding event of the footballer’s ‘GOAT India Tour’.

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In ‘the land of abundant water’, Jal Jeevan has a cruel truth

Anita Tripura wakes up at 3.30 a.m., pulls out her teesing – – a large bamboo basket with aluminium pots stacked up inside it – and marches downhill in darkness. The teesing is attached to a long cloth-band that hangs from her forehead. A flickering kerosene lamp that she holds…

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