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“Houses have developed cracks because of mining. School buildings are damaged. We will certainly be buried alive under these unsafe houses. It’s safer to live under a tent,” Netram, a sarpanch representative at Ajeetpura village in Kotputli-Behror district of Rajasthan, said while protesting at a dharna against National Limestone Company…

Zakka Jacob is set to leave CNN-News18 to join Times Now as managing editor, Newslaundry has learnt. He currently serves as senior anchor and group foreign affairs editor at CNN-News18.

In October 1962, at one of the most precarious moments of India’s early nationhood, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru wrote to Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion requesting military assistance as Chinese forces advanced across the Himalayan frontier.

For today’s Aaj Ka AQI, Newslaundry visited the Supreme Court. The nearest CPCB monitoring station reported an AQI of 282, while our own monitor recorded 230. Both readings place the air quality firmly in the ‘poor’ category (201–300).

Chaotic scenes unfolded at Azim Premji University on Tuesday, February 24, after members of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) – the student wing of the RSS, barged into the campus and vandalised property over an event on state violence in Kashmir. Later in the evening, the police removed the…

Presiding over the case concerning the Netflix film title “Ghooskhor Pandat”, the Supreme Court has observed that it is “constitutionally impermissible” for any person or entity, including state and non-state actors, to "vilify or denigrate any community” through “speeches, memes, cartoons or visual arts”. 

दुनिया सोशल मीडिया पर बदायूं जिले का एक वायरल वीडियो देख रही है. हिंदुवादी संगठन का एक मनबढ़ गुंडा खुलेआम तीन मुस्लिम पुरुषों को थप्पड़ मार रहा है, गालियां दे रहा है. तीनों पीड़ितों का अपराध बस इतना था कि उन्होंने उस मनबढ़ गुंडे की स्कूटी को रास्ता नहीं दिया.…

On the night of February 22, the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union (JNUSU) organised a rally against “casteist remarks” made by JNU Vice Chancellor Prof. Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit in a podcast.

Today, the Delhi Police produced Youth Congress National President Uday Bhanu Chib and seven others in the Patiala House Court amid tight security in connection with their shirtless protest during the recent AI Impact Summit.

The Kerala High Court on Tuesday, February 24, questioned the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) over the certification granted to The Kerala Story 2: Goes Beyond, which has triggered outrage with its provocative portrayal of the Muslim community. The film's trailer shows the community as intending to turn India into an…

The 2022 clashes between Hindus and Muslims in the city of Leicester, England, were heavily fueled by “disinformation and misinformation”, an independent inquiry into the violence has found. The inquiry was carried out by researchers from the School of Oriental and African Studies and the London School of Economics.