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Book excerpt: How Vajpayee family courted journalists, PMO hounded magazines

These are excerpts from Abhishek Choudhary’s book ‘Believer’s Dilemma: Vajpayee and the Hindu right’s path to power (1977-2018)’.

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India’s unregulated bidis harm workers, consumers

On a busy street near Patna’s Rajendra Path, 11-year-old Sanjay* watches his elder brother roll up tendu leaves stuffed with tobacco flakes. Within minutes, a fresh bundle of bidis is ready to be sold for one rupee (Re 1) to eager customers that have lined up outside his paan shop.…

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South Central 36: Vijay in TN politics, pilots question Air India crash cockpit report

In this episode of South Central, hosts Dhanya Rajendran and Leena Raghunath first discuss actor Vijay’s entry into Tamil Nadu politics. They are joined by senior journalist Kavitha Muralidharan and TNM’s Tamil Nadu bureau chief Shabbir Ahamed, who speak at length about whether Vijay will impact the state’s politics and…

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Reporters Without Orders Ep 377: Bihar voter roll revision, vandalism by Kanwariyas

This week, host Basant Kumar is joined by journalist Umesh Kumar Ray and Anmol Pritam.

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TV Newsance 306: Labubu, Love Jihad & Bihar’s lost voter list

This week on TV Newsance, Anjana was back on primetime, tackling the nation’s most urgent crisis – Labubu, a sharp-toothed Chinese toy, apparently more terrifying than inflation or unemployment. But fear not, because Labubu wasn’t alone. Her evil cousin Annabelle also made a cameo, and just to keep things educational,…

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Hafta letters: Public transport, electoral rolls, Air India probe report

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South Delhi elites are encroaching on public land, one driveway at a time

“There appears to be a concerted effort to regularise illegal constructions by the affluent.”

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डिफेंस कॉलोनी के सिकुड़ते फुटपाथों पर सरकारी काहिली के निशान

यह रिपोर्ट सार्वजनिक स्थानों पर प्रभावशाली वर्गों द्वारा किए जा रहे अतिक्रमण और उनके प्रति सिस्टम की अनदेखी पर आधारित हमारी श्रृंखला का हिस्सा है। इस शृंखला की पिछली रिपोर्ट्स पढ़ने के लिए यहां क्लिक करें.

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Indian pilots’ bodies reject WSJ report suggesting senior pilot’s error in Air India crash

Indian pilot associations have slammed speculative reporting around the preliminary probe into the Air India AI171 crash, after a Wall Street Journal report suggested that the Captain of the flight deliberately turned off the fuel control switches of the plane’s two engines. The Federation of Indian Pilots (FIP) stressed that…

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‘Bihar voter roll revision unclear’: Ex-EC points at gaps in the exercise

On June 24, ECI announced that it will hold a special intensive revision of voter rolls in Bihar, which will require voters in Bihar to prove their citizenship, an eligibility criterion to be a voter in India under Section 23 of the Representation of People’s Act.

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Years after ‘Corona Jihad’ vilification: Delhi HC quashes 16 Tablighi Jamaat FIRs

The Delhi High Court has quashed 16 FIRs filed against 70 Indians accused of sheltering foreigners who attended a Tablighi Jamaat gathering amid the pandemic in 2020.

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History must be taught through many lenses

In the early months of 2010, I had a brief stint with the editorial team of a Delhi-based private publishing house, which brought out school textbooks. Working in the social science section of the company, I found that a part of the job’s brief was to avoid references to what…

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PIL in Madras HC seeks to curb ‘speculation blaming pilots’ in Air India crash

Citing speculative media coverage and the unchecked spread of conspiracy theories online in the wake of the Air India crash probe’s preliminary report, a Public Interest Litigation has been filed in the Madras High Court seeking judicial intervention against defamatory coverage targeting the flight’s cockpit crew.

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Who picks India’s judges? Inside a hidden battle between the courts and Modi’s government

This story was originally published by Global Press Journal.

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July 17: Aaj Ka AQI outside the new Parliament building

The Parliament had passed a slew of measures in its winter session last year to tackle air pollution in the country, including the capital, Delhi.

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Nimisha Priya’s execution in Yemen delayed, fate still uncertain

Although the postponement of Indian nurse Nimisha Priya’s execution has brought some relief to her family, numerous challenges remain in the effort to commute her death sentence. Mediation efforts held at various levels resulted in the indefinite postponement of the execution, which had been expected to be held on July…

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Why a 2.1 percent inflation doesn’t feel low

In June 2025, consumer price inflation – or retail inflation as it is more commonly referred to as – was at a 77-month low of 2.1 percent. The last time retail inflation was lower than 2.1 percent was in January 2019, when it had stood at 2 percent.

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In Defence Colony’s shrinking footpaths, signs of official inaction

White potted plants glare in Delhi’s summer sun outside a white bungalow. A security guard sits in a booth. Both of these on what was once a public footpath – now absorbed into the aesthetics of elite living.

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Meet BJP’s ‘Bihar ke yuvaon ki aawaaz’: Misogynistic posts, vulgar remarks, ‘black magic’ claims

Last week, a man from Bihar was booked in three separate FIRs – for morphing Rahul Gandhi’s face onto a sanitary pad in a video mocking a Congress campaign to distribute pads across the state.

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स्मृति ईरानी, कंगना रनौत, कांवड़िए और शर्माजी की बटर चिकन पत्रकारिता

गुड़गांव उर्फ गुरुग्राम उर्फ मिलेनियम सिटी. इतना भारी भरकम नाम और टाइटल सिर पर लाद कर चलने वाला यह शहर महज चालीस पचास साल पहले बसा है. और आज इसकी सच्चाई ये है कि पहली ही बरसात में यह दम तोड़ देता है.दूसरी ओर कांवड़िए हैं जिनकी हिंसा साल दर…

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Devbhoomi’s descent: ‘State complicity’ in Uttarakhand’s siege on Muslims

This report is part of our Hindu Rashtra Project. Watch the other installments here.

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उत्तराखंड: हिंदू राष्ट्र की टेस्ट लैब बनती देवभूमि

यह रिपोर्ट हमारे एनएल सेना 'हिंदू राष्ट्र प्रोजेक्ट' का हिस्सा है. इस प्रोजेक्ट के तहत की गईं बाकी रिपोर्ट्स पढ़ने के लिए यहां क्लिक करें.

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SC grants interim protection to MP cartoonist booked over ‘objectionable’ cartoon

The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted cartoonist Hemant Malviya interim protection from arrest in a case over his allegedly objectionable cartoon of PM Narendra Modi and the RSS, LiveLaw reported. The apex court, however, came down heavily on Malviya, calling the post “inflammatory”.

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Did global media rush to blame pilots in Air India crash?

Conspiracy theories are swirling around the preliminary report into the Air India crash, after some of its findings were published by The Wall Street Journal hours before the report’s official release by the Indian government.

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UP teacher booked for ‘public mischief’. The crime? Poem promoting education over Kanwar Yatra

A government school teacher in Bareilly has been booked for the offence of reciting a poem that seemingly dared to promote education over religious pilgrimage and “blind faith”.

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