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सड़कों पर कचरा, शहर में जाम: दिल्ली की ग्राउंड रियलिटी

जब हम दिल्ली के बाहर बैठ कर दिल्ली के बारे में सोचते हैं, तो हमें चौड़ी सड़कें और बड़ी-बड़ी इमारतें ही ख्याल में आती हैं लेकिन दिल्ली की हकीकत सिर्फ इतनी नहीं है. दिल्ली का एक दूसरा पहलू ये है कि यहां सड़कों पर कचरे के ढेर हैं और इसके…

Newslaundry · Mar 2

Garbage on the streets, congestion in the city: Decoding Delhi’s grim ground reality

By December 2024, all landfills and dhalaos – the three-sided open enclosures where sanitation workers consolidate daily waste before it is hauled away to landfills – were supposed to be closed down in Delhi.

Newslaundry · Mar 2

Govt claims it is blood-sufficient. But is it?

On August 19, 2025, the government claimed that the annual blood requirement for the county was met the previous year. This, despite several reports and studies on shortage of blood in various parts of the country and significant state, and intra-state variations in the availability of blood.

Newslaundry · Mar 2

Should the CBI investigate election campaigns? 4 takeaways from the Delhi liquor policy judgement

A Delhi court discharged AAP leaders Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia, and 21 others in the CBI’s liquor policy scam case yesterday. The judge didn’t mince words when it came to the central probe agency — he basically said their investigation was a mess, with a massive chargesheet that didn’t actually…

Newslaundry · Feb 28

The story behind the viral video that exposed a TV newsroom’s internal war

A widely circulated video from News India 24x7 has exposed a dispute between the management and editorial leadership over hiring, document verification and payslips for dozens of journalists.

Newslaundry · Feb 27

From BBC to kachori shop: Sanjeev Srivastava on a ‘destroyed’ media

From the corridors of the BBC to the kadhais of Jaipur, Sanjeev Srivastava’s 40-year career has taken a savoury turn. 

Newslaundry · Feb 27

Why overspeeding is India’s most ‘privileged’ crime

In less than three weeks, three cities have produced three variations of the same headline: a young man at the wheel of a powerful car, ordinary people in his path, and a legal process that becomes complicated inversely proportional to your spending capacity.

Newslaundry · Feb 27

Tried on TV, cleared in court: CBI’s liquor policy case against Kejriwal, 22 others ends in discharge

All 23 accused in the Delhi excise policy case, including former Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia and Telangana Jagruthi president K Kavitha, have been discharged – bringing a judicial end to a case that had played out as much in television studios as in courtrooms.

Newslaundry · Feb 27

Media can’t kill India’s colonial mindset if it bows before VIPs

The coverage of the recently concluded India AI Summit 2026 in New Delhi tells you more about the status of mainstream media in India than any study or survey. It is also a commentary on how much ordinary Indians accept inconvenience as the norm when international summits are held. 

Newslaundry · Feb 27

Plot twist! The ‘Real Kerala Story’: Keralites converting to Hinduism more than Islam

The plot of the upcoming film The Kerala Story 2 revolves around the two-decade-old conspiracy theory about a Jihadist scheme to marry Hindu women and convert them to Islam. The first film in 2023, which claimed that 32,000 women had been converted by Jihadists in Kerala, was hauled up by the Supreme…

Newslaundry · Feb 26