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Manoj Kumar Anant and his wife Shakuntala Bai were rescued from bonded labour at a brick kiln in Uttar Pradesh’s Kushinagar in 2022. He had told IndiaSpend in September 2023 that he was waiting for rehabilitation assistance under the Union government’s Central Sector Scheme for Rehabilitation of Bonded Labour, 2021.…

India wants to be a sporting powerhouse. And the Union government’s flagship Khelo India scheme is supposed to help make that happen.

In this episode of South Central, hosts Dhanya Rajendran, Pooja Prasanna, and Leena Reghunath discuss RCB's long-awaited IPL victory and the tragic deaths that followed in the stampede at the franchise’s success meet in Bengaluru. Sports journalist Venkat Ananth weighs in on the discussion with important pointers about fandom, the…

Bengaluru was ready. WhatsApp groups were buzzing with potential plans, and not the kinds that get washed down by lethargy and red lines on Google Maps. These were serious plans. Someone fetched a list of screenings, someone else a list of bars with projector screens. A matrix of experience versus…

This week on TV Newsance, we take a trip down memory lane. We look back to 2018 — back when Navika tried to ask tough questions to Yogi Adityanath on women’s safety in Uttar Pradesh. Then we move on to the 2023 promotions of the iconic movie — The Vaccine…

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पिछले हफ्ते मीडिया में भारत की अर्थव्यवस्था के आकार को लेकर काफी चर्चा हुई. यह चर्चा अंतर्राष्ट्रीय मुद्रा कोष (आईएमएफ) द्वारा जारी सकल घरेलू उत्पाद (जीडीपी) अनुमानों और 2025 से 2030 तक की भविष्यवाणियों पर आधारित थी. 

The International Monetary Fund recently stated that India is set to surpass Japan to become the fourth-largest economy in the world in 2025. While the projection masked the underlying realities of the average Indian, it was enough for the mainstream Indian media to rush to celebrate.

The BJP government and its supporters see the uptick in encounters in Uttar Pradesh as part of a ruthless crackdown on crime, but families are turning to the courts to seek justice against what they say have been extrajudicial measures by the police. 

Once close political allies, US President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk have turned on each other in a spectacular public feud. The fallout, triggered by a dispute over Trump’s flagship tax bill, has spiraled into a barrage of personal attacks, with Musk calling for Trump’s impeachment and accusing him…

In this episode of What’s Your Ism?, human rights activist Degree Prasad Chouhan discusses how Adivasi identities have been appropriated by Maoist movements. He delves into the symbolic use of figures like Hidma, highlighting the lack of genuine representation and decision-making power for Adivasis within these movements.