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The climate blindspot in India’s new labour codes

India’s new labour codes, under which the government framed rules for implementation in May this year, do not once mention climate change. This is even as the past 11 years have been the warmest on record, and extreme weather events are becoming more frequent.

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Bengaluru’s parks are under threat

What can you do in 20 minutes? If you are in Bengaluru, it could take longer to cover just one kilometre in a car. It could take longer to get a cup of filter coffee. But that’s all the time it took the Karnataka legislature to introduce a law that…

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‘Everyone sympathises and forgets’: After Satya Niketan collapse, students ask who will fix unsafe PGs

“My parents called me worried when this incident happened. I just moved to Delhi for college and this situation has scared me. I hope we are safe,” a first-year student from Shri Venkateshwara College told Newslaundry, requesting anonymity.

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UN names November 27 as day against child marriage

On September 4, the United Nations passed a resolution declaring November 27 the International Day for the Elimination of Child, Early and Forced Marriage.

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एनएल चर्चा 439: दिल्ली मतदाता सूची में भारी कटौती, 7.8% जीडीपी की हकीकत और सुभाष चंद्रा की क़र्ज़माफ़ी

एनएल चर्चा के इस अंक में चुनाव आयोग द्वारा दिल्ली की मतदाता सूची (SIR) से बड़े पैमाने पर नाम हटाए जाने, भारत की पहली तिमाही की जीडीपी दर में दर्ज हुई बढ़त और सुप्रीम कोर्ट द्वारा नीट-यूजी प्रदर्शनकारियों के खिलाफ दर्ज एफआईआर को रद्द करने जैसे अहम मुद्दों पर विस्तार…

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BJP’s violent meme war: The attacks on opponents and dissenters as ‘Dimagi Naxals’

Following a restructuring of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) digital wing, the party has intensified its social media campaigning, increasingly employing violent memes and videos.

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A POCSO case involving a mining baron that Chennai police tried to close

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Hafta letters: On IITs, reservations and the importance of humanities

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TV Newsance 351 | GDP jumps, Godi brigade loses its mind

This week on TV Newsance, Arnab has a very important announcement to make. He says “buckle up” three times because what follows is HUGE, just beyond our comprehension: the right wing, apparently, is cool now. So cool that an entire primetime hour is spent proving BJP’s meme game is “brilliant,”…

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What happened to journalist Shaheen Khan at Saket police station?

Shaheen Khan, a journalist with 4PM, has levelled serious allegations against the Delhi Police. She says she was detained by the police while recording a video, and was subsequently taken to the Saket police station, where she alleges she was assaulted. But her allegations go beyond physical assault – she…

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After Penguin India controversy, HarperCollins says it will release Sonia Gandhi’s memoir on Nov 10

HarperCollins India will publish Congress leader Sonia Gandhi’s much-anticipated memoir, Belonging: A Journey of Love, in India on November 10, 2026. The announcement comes amid a controversy over the book’s earlier publishing arrangements with Penguin Random House India.

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India is growing at 7.8%. Should you believe it?

Koi khabar aayi na pasand to end badal denge – Gulzar, Vishal Bhardwaj, Sunidhi Chauhan and Clinton Cerejo, Ek Thi Daayan, 2013.

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Picked up for speaking Bengali: Inside Bengaluru’s Operation Mukta

What happened during Operation Mukta in Bengaluru and what did the crackdown miss?

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Poor results, poorer facilities: The schools Nuh’s children are expected to learn in

A country’s future is shaped in its classrooms. But in several government schools in Haryana’s Nuh district, even basic facilities remain out of reach. In some schools, children sit on the floor to study; in others, school buildings are in poor condition. Toilets exist but lack water, while local residents…

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Two women journalists say Delhi cops assaulted them after detaining them at hospital event

Two women journalists in Delhi alleged on Thursday that Delhi Police personnel detained and assaulted them while they were covering a news event in South Delhi. Delhi Police has not responded to the allegations so far. Dinesh Kumar, the Station House Officer (SHO) of Saket Police Station, declined to comment…

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‘Saffron hooliganism’ coverage FIRs: HC asks for no coercive action against Anandabazar Patrika journalists

The Calcutta High Court has asked the West Bengal government to assure that no coercive steps would be taken against Anandabazar Patrika journalists facing FIRs over the newspaper’s use of the phrase “saffron hooliganism”, as long as they cooperate with the notices issued to them, LiveLaw reported.

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Migration is not a crisis or a cure-all. It just needs to be managed

Migration is one of the defining forces of the 21st century. It changes economies, societies, families and individual lives. Yet public debate often reduces it to a deceptively simple question, one which drives division and anger: are you for migration or against it?

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Sylvia Karpagam’s ‘The Meat of the Matter’ calls for freeing India’s plate from prejudice

In modern India, the kitchen has become a battlefield for state-sanctioned majoritarianism. While the right to safe, nutritious food is a fundamental prerequisite for human survival, public policy under the current dispensation has weaponised dietary habits to enforce social hierarchies. From the institutional exclusion of eggs in school midday meals…

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Out on morning walk, ex-bureaucrat picked up, released after 12 hours

Former additional secretary Ashish Joshi was taken away by two policemen in plainclothes from Delhi’s Nehru Park on Wednesday morning and released roughly 12 hours later – a day in which his family and his friends said they never were told who had picked him up or where he had…

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From a school canteen row to street violence: How Ahmedabad’s Malala controversy escalated

“They beat us with iron and wooden rods. They hit my head, back and elbow even though we were trying to have a dialogue with them,” said Savan Zalariya, a theatre artiste and professor of political theatre at Ahmedabad University, about a book-reading session disrupted on August 27.

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Ex-finance secretary questions GDP calculation, NDTV anchor insists on govt data ‘sanctity’

According to the Government of India earlier this week, India’s economy grew 7.8 percent in the April–June quarter of FY27, comfortably beating the Reserve Bank of India’s more conservative 7 percent estimate.

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‘Only a part of the chest was found’: Delhi’s Nepali community tries to count the missing

Sunita Thapa and her son Dinesh were at home in Trishuli Bazaar, in Nepal’s Rasuwa district, when the flood struck on August 26. Within moments, the family’s house and shop were gone, swallowed by the current, and so were Sunita and Dinesh. A search began, and three days later, Dinesh’s…

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‘Got funds for temple, but was kept away from puja’: UP BJP MLA says she faced caste discrimination

BJP MLA Jai Devi Kaushal has alleged that she was stopped from performing a puja at a temple because she belongs to the Pasi Dalit community.

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‘Targeting journalists and their work’: Press bodies condemn Bengal FIR against Anandabazar Patrika journalists

The Indian Women’s Press Corps and Press Association has issued a statement seeking the immediate withdrawal of the case filed against Anandabazar Patrika editor Ishani Dutta Roy, chief reporter Soma Mukherjee and others part of the organisation’s editorial team.

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NCLT larger bench stays Subhash Chandra insolvency verdict

A larger, five-member bench of the National Company Law Tribunal has put the August 25 ruling of a smaller tribunal bench on hold – a decision that had come out of the insolvency proceedings against Zee Group founder Subhash Chandra, according to Bar and Bench.

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