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Who owns your hospitals? Private equity’s growing grip on Kerala’s healthcare

When Chazhikattu Hospital was set up in Thodupuzha municipality in Idukki district in 1933, health facilities were rare in the area. What began as a nursing home under Dr CK Stephen grew over the years into a reputed private hospital run by his family. The family’s establishment survived for 91…

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Hafta letters: Wrong about CJP, Anand’s Rahul Gandhi take and viewers forming their own opinions

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Meta pushes child sexual abuse material on Instagram, finds BBC investigation

Videos containing child sexual abuse material (CSAM) are being pushed by the Meta algorithm, and advertisements of child pornography are rampant on social media platforms, a BBC investigation has found. Most advertisements contained links to Telegram that reportedly contained sexually explicit content involving children.

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रामजी का चंदा चोरी और डंकापति की वापसी

अयोध्या के राम मंदिर में चंदा चोरी, भ्रष्टाचार के एक के बाद एक खुलासे के बीच धृतराष्ट्र-संजय संवाद की वापसी हो रही है. धृतराष्ट्र के पहले सवाल पर ही संजय के सब्र का भाखड़ा नांगल टूट कर बिखर गया. उन्होंने कहा- “महाराज, अनर्थ चल रहा है देश में. अवध में…

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Is there any hope for Gaza? An Indian judge’s reality check on Israel, justice, and us

Trigger warning: Contains graphic descriptions of violence against children.

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The Indian judge behind the UN’s scathing Gaza report

More than 20,000 Palestinian children killed. Over 44,000 injured. 97 percent of Gaza's schools damaged or destroyed. And a clear pattern of Palestinian children being deliberately targeted and killed by the Israeli security forces.

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Banned on paper, but coal still fuels NCR’s brick kilns

Coal has been banned for industrial use across Delhi-NCR since January 1, 2023, with only thermal power plants permitted to use low-sulphur coal.

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Killer cough syrups, zero accountability: Investigating three pharma companies

When the news of over 22 child deaths due to contaminated cough syrups came out of Madhya Pradesh in October 2025, there was shock and frustration. This was not the first time Indian syrups had killed kids. But this time we decided, it’s time to remember.

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HC refers Anjana Om Kashyap-Khan Sir defamation matter to mediation

The Delhi High Court has directed journalist Anjana Om Kashyap, educator Khan Sir, and other parties to attempt mediation. Justice Tushar Rao Gedela instructed the lawyers involved to meet with a mediator on Thursday evening, Bar and Bench reported.

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WhatsApp is introducing usernames: What they are and how they work

WhatsApp is introducing usernames, allowing users to chat without sharing their phone numbers. The optional feature marks one of the biggest changes in the messaging app's history, which has relied entirely on phone numbers since its launch.

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From Umar Khalid to Sharjeel Imam: Being Muslim in Modi’s India

Jailed student activist Umar Khalid’s friends and mentor Banojyotsna Lahiri, Anirban Bhattacharya, and Shuddhabrata Sengupta join TNM Executive Editor Sudipto Mondal to discuss their book ‘Umar Khalid and His World’.

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The making of Champat Rai: From trusted organiser to Ayodhya’s most controversial figure

In 1990, when L K Advani set out on his Rath Yatra from Somnath to Ayodhya, the journey didn’t survive contact with Bihar – Lalu Yadav’s government had him arrested in Samastipur. Into that vacuum stepped Ashok Singhal, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad’s then general secretary, who slipped into Ayodhya and…

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Missing in print: The Telegraph ignores its former editor’s ordeal

For four days now, the passport troubles of R Rajagopal, former editor of The Telegraph, have consumed social media and drawn the attention of the Editors Guild of India, the Press Club of India, opposition politicians and a clutch of senior journalists.

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When research money is scarce, should it fund cow urine papers?

Cow urine can fight off the Chikungunya virus.

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As BJP govt ads celebrate Ujjwala, beneficiaries count costlier cylinders

This month, LED hoardings inside several metro stations across Delhi show PM Narendra Modi on one side, CM Rekha Gupta on the other, and beaming Indian women in between. These are advertisements marking 12 years of the Modi government and celebrating the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) for making kitchens…

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Rs 700-cr Delhi medical ‘scam’ ignored by primetime TV

A scam involving alleged siphoning of approximately Rs 700 crore, three arrests, and roughly a dozen government officials under investigation went entirely unmentioned on primetime television on Monday, even as anchors spent their segments on the Ayodhya Ram Mandir donation theft case, a viral video implicating a Tamil Nadu minister…

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Press club flags another passport case after govt adviser tries to shift focus to old headlines

The Press Club of India has waded into the growing controversy over journalists being denied passports on Monday, revealing that it isn’t just R Rajagopal, former editor of The Telegraph, who has faced passport-related hurdles due to an adverse police report.

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Army vs police in Kishtwar: What does it tell us about civil-military balance?

Nothing like a narrow mountain road in a remote district of Jammu and Kashmir to test India’s civil-military relations. Reams have been written on why the supremacy of civilian institutions in India makes it so different from – and need it be said, so much better than – Pakistan. But…

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Review of Gaza journalist deaths: CPJ board votes to affirm definition of journalist

The Committee to Protect Journalists’s Board of Directors has voted to affirm the organisation’s existing definition of who is a journalist and rejected claims it planned to change its definition to exclude particular groups.

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‘Getting threats continuously, fear for our lives’: ‘Kumbh girl’ Monalisa tells TNM

A few months ago, Monalisa Bhosle was one of the most recognisable faces on the internet. Videos of the young woman selling rudraksha beads at the Prayagraj Kumbh Mela had made her a viral sensation. Soon afterwards came modelling assignments, film offers, and then a wedding in Kerala to a…

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South Central 81: Ayodhya Ram temple trust allegations and the politics of defections

Was the lack of structure in the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Trust by design? With allegations of corruption surfacing in the temple’s management, does the buck stop at the Prime Minister’s door?

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Typos, AI claims: The strange story of the award created days before Modi’s Seychelles visit

Just days before Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Seychelles, the island nation created a new presidential distinction – the “Guardian of the Blue Horizon”. It then made Modi its first recipient.

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Why the Delhi Gymkhana eviction should terrify every housing society and hospital in India

Part 1 of this series tracked the chaotic five-year descent of the Delhi Gymkhana Club under state control, where court mandates for corporate democracy were buried under a mountain of unadopted accounts, questionable political appointees, and a literal security crisis at the Prime Minister's doorstep.

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How Mumbai’s poor waste segregation contributes to methane emission spikes

Earlier this year, Mumbai’s Kanjurmarg landfill—a place that takes in most of the city’s waste—was found to be one of the largest emitters of the greenhouse gas (GHG) methane in the world, and one of only two landfills from India to make it to the top 25 list. As global…

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RSS registration row: What history tells us

More than fifty years ago, one man posed a question that Karnataka Home Minister Priyank Kharge is asking today.

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