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Know Your Turncoats, Part 16: Bengal’s party hopper, 2 in Shinde camp, Bihar hot seat

Of the 15 turncoats contesting in phase five of the Lok Sabha polls, eight are in the BJP-led NDA and six in the INDIA bloc.

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Grand rallies at Mumbai: What are Mahayuti and MVA supporters saying?

Mumbai saw its two biggest poll rallies of the ongoing Lok Sabha elections on Friday. In the final showdown ahead of polling on May 20, the Mahayuti camp held a rally at Dadar’s Shivaji Park, whereas, at the same time, the Maha Vikas Aghadi or the INDIA bloc’s public meeting…

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Reporters Without Orders Ep 322: Bansuri Swaraj’s debut, Sambhal violence

This week, host Anmol Pritam is joined by Newslaundry’s Avdhesh Kumar and Sumedha Mittal.

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In Delhi, why are BJP workers ‘helping’ EC officials with election work?

M Narayanan, 81, was relieved to hear he’d be able to vote in the general elections this year. A resident of Green Park in New Delhi, he was diagnosed with cancer a few years ago and finds it difficult to leave the house.

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Doordarshan and AIR censor opposition leaders, but Modi gets a pass

Yesterday, The Indian Express reported that CPIM general secretary Sitaram Yechury and All India Forward Bloc leader G Devarajan were asked by public broadcasters Doordarshan and All India Radio to drop the phrases “communal authoritarian regime”, “Muslim”, and “draconian laws” from their speeches during broadcast time allotted to them.

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Road to Mumbai North: Piyush Goyal’s election debut from BJP’s safest seat

“Look, he’s the man on the truck wearing spectacles!” said a woman to another as a truck trundled through Mumbai’s Kandivali.

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Trouble in AAP: Party blames BJP in Swati Maliwal case, Kejriwal named in ED chargesheet

The cracks within the Aam Aadmi Party are only growing worse after its Rajya Sabha MP, Swati Maliwal, accused a fellow partyman of assault.

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एनएल चर्चा 319: मुंबई होर्डिंग हादसा, स्वाति मालीवाल विवाद और मोदी का हिंदू-मुस्लिम संकट

इस हफ्ते चर्चा के प्रमुख विषय प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी द्वारा इंटरव्यू में दावा करना कि वो कभी हिन्दू-मुसलमान यानि सांप्रदायिक बातें नहीं करते, आम आदमी पार्टी की राज्यसभा सांसद स्वाति मालीवाल का आरोप कि मुख्यमंत्री अरविंद केजरीवाल के आवास पर उनके साथ हुई अभद्रता आदि रहे. इसके अलावा मुंबई में…

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Hafta 485: Political ads, Amethi-Rae Bareli fight, Kejriwal’s return

This week, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Jayashree Arunachalam and Anand Vardhan are joined by advertising guru and columnist Santosh Desai and multimedia artist Anurag Minus Verma.

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TV Newsance 253: A meeting with News18’s Bhaiyaji, News24’s Rajeev Ranjan in Lucknow

This week, we bring you TV Newsance from ground zero. In this special episode, we meet locals and TV journalists on the field at Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh.

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Know Your Turncoats, Part 15: NDA has 53% defectors in phase 5; 2 in Shinde camp after ED whip

A total of 15 turncoats populate the fifth phase Lok Sabha candidates list – eight in the BJP-led NDA, six in the INDIA bloc, including one in the Trinamool Congress. The Biju Janata Dal has also fielded one defector.

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Uttarakhand: Forests across 1,500 hectares burned in a year. Were fire lines drawn to prevent it?

About 1,500 hectares of forests got burned in forest fires in Uttarakhand this year, as per government data. Taking cognisance of the damage, the Supreme Court asked tough questions to the state and central governments.

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Hafta letters: Modi, Congress and voting systems

On Hafta 478, Manisha suggested that the BJP is stronger than the Congress and that’s why they keep winning. I would like to differ on this.

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उत्तराखंड के कई जंगलों में नहीं है कोई फायर लाइन?

उत्तराखंड में फॉरेस्ट फायर को लेकर सुप्रीम कोर्ट ने राज्य और केंद्र सरकार से कड़े सवाल पूछे और मुख्य सचिव से जवाब तलब किया. सरकारी आंकड़ों के मुताबिक, इस साल करीब 1500 हेक्टेयर में जंगल जल गए और आग से निपटने की तैयारियों में कमी उजागर हुई. न्यूज़लॉन्ड्री को पता…

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What do Mumbai’s women want? Catch the conversations in local trains’ ladies compartment

Be it the BJP, the Congress, or either of the Shiv Senas, all political parties have heavily focused on women this election season. But what lies beyond manifesto promises and speeches?

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बिहार: हेलिकॉप्टर को ट्रैक्टर बनाकर मोदी-नीतीश को शिकस्त दे पाएंगे तेजस्वी यादव?

लोकसभा चुनाव के चार चरणों का मतदान हो चुका है. पांचवें के लिए चुनाव प्रचार जारी है. बिहार की बात करें तो यहां एनडीए गठबंधन की ओर से प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी और बिहार के मुख्यमंत्री नीतीश कुमार जैसे दिग्गज नेता चुनाव प्रचार कर रहे हैं. वहीं, इंडिया गठबंधन की तरफ…

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100 rallies, fund crunch, promise of jobs: Inside Bihar’s Tejashwi Yadav ‘wave’

The high stakes battle for Bihar has brought the NDA top brass to ground zero, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. On the contrary, RJD’s Tejashwi Yadav is the lone soldier from the INDIA alliance.

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Prices, bills, and booze ban: What matters to Haryana’s women workers

Working in the onion fields around Mathana village of Haryana’s Kurukshetra district, many women labourers say they don’t know who their Lok Sabha poll candidates are. For them, all that matters is how they will be able to earn enough wages to ensure their children don’t sleep on an empty…

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कुरुक्षेत्र की महिला मजदूरों के चुनावी मुद्दे: शराब के ठेके बंद और महंगाई कम हो

हरियाणा के कुरुक्षेत्र जिला मुख्यालय से करीब 15 किलोमीटर दूर मथाना गांव के बाहर खेतों में काम कर रही महिलाएं लोकतंत्र के उत्सव चुनाव से दूर हैं. न्यूज़लॉन्ड्री से बातचीत में कहती हैं कि अगर दिहाड़ी नहीं करेंगी तो घर में चूल्हा नहीं जलेगा. बच्चों को खाली पेट सोना पड़ेगा.

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No press conference? No problem. Modi explains his ‘new culture’ of avoiding press meets

Narendra Modi has been prime minister for 10 years and part of his legacy is that he’s never held a press conference.

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Swati Maliwal ‘assault’ FIR: Here’s everything we know so far

From the mainstream media to BJP leaders, the knives are out for the Aam Aadmi Party and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal ahead of the fifth phase of the Lok Sabha polls, with his party colleague making serious allegations about an assault on her at his residence.

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Another Election Show: What’s the pulse of Bengal’s youth? On Modi, corruption, development

In West Bengal’s Hooghly, the BJP’s Locket Chatterjee and Trinamool Congress candidate Rachna Banerjee are locking horns in a fierce poll battle. The constituency is one of the seven Lok Sabha seats in the state that are set to vote on May 20.

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ऐतिहासिक चंदन नगर कॉलेज से मॉर्निंग शो: “विकास तो हुआ पर भ्रष्टाचार भी बढ़ा”

पश्चिम बंगाल में 20 मई को 7 सीटों पर मतदान होना है. इनमें हुगली लोकसभा सीट भी शामिल है. हुगली लोकसभा सीट से भाजपा की लॉकेट चटर्जी और तृणमूल कांग्रेस की प्रत्याशी रचना बनर्जी के बीच मुख्य मुकाबला है.

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Case ‘seems fictional’, ‘perils of alternate justice system’: Editorials laud Prabir Purkayastha’s release

NewsClick editor Prabir Purkayastha walked out of Tihar Jail on Wednesday night, hours after the Supreme Court said his arrest was illegal and ordered his immediate release.

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मुंबई: ईडी नोटिस, हिंदुत्व, दो फाड़ हुई शिवसेना पर क्या बोले अमोल कीर्तिकर

मुंबई में इस बार चुनावी लड़ाई काफी दिलचस्प हो चली है. 6 में से 3 लोकसभा सीटों पर सीधे-सीधे दो फाड़ हुई शिवसेना के बीच मुकाबला है. शिवसेना (शिंदे गुट) और शिवसेना (उद्धव गुट) के बीच इन सीटों पर सीधा मुकाबला देखने को मिल रहा है.

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