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‘Delhi became the source of all real knowledge’: How TV newsrooms pushed regional reporters aside

Today, it feels as if the role of the reporter on a TV news channel has shrunk compared to the days when we started out. There are, of course, honourable exceptions, reporters who continue to produce high-quality work that makes an impact. But too many of the new crop of…

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A bigger flu season: In Delhi, H1N1 cases nearly 8 times last year’s count

For many Delhi residents, illness begins this time of the year with symptoms easy to dismiss as seasonal sickness: a cough that refuses to go away, a sore throat, body aches and a high fever that lasts for days. But this year, doctors and hospitals across Delhi are seeing more…

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Gurugram is actually drowning in its own real estate boom

After heavy rain on Monday, Gurugram – Delhi’s neighbour and India’s “millennium city” – was thrown into chaos. Waterlogged roads caused traffic jams that lasted hours, and vehicles, including cars, buses, autos and two-wheelers, were submerged. Social media filled with images of flooded homes, school buses submerged in water and…

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‘He could’ve been saved’: Minor’s body found 3 days after he fell in Delhi drain chasing a kite

A JCB excavator pulled Mithun’s body out of an open drain in Southeast Delhi’s Jasola village at around 1.15 pm on Tuesday. He was 15. He had slipped into that drain on Saturday morning, chasing a kite thread a few steps from his house. The body has now been shifted…

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Bhagwant Mann’s OSD sends notice to media outlets over ‘baseless’ reports on ‘nexus’

Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann’s officer on special duty, Rajbir Singh Ghuman, has sent a notice to several media platforms and tech intermediaries to take down alleged defamatory content against him.

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Who will lead India’s next student movement?

In this episode of What's Your ISM?, TNM Executive Editor Sudipto Mondal sits down with student leaders from the All India Students’ Association (AISA) and Ambedkar Students’ Association (ASA) to discuss the new opportunities to build student politics, the growing anger on Indian campuses, and the possibilities and contradictions within…

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A year after Israeli strikes killed journalists at a hospital, no one has been held accountable

It’s been a year since Israeli soldiers killed 22 Palestinians, including journalists and rescue workers, in a double strike on a hospital in Gaza. No one has been held accountable.

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South Central 89: India’s food safety crisis and BJP’s political reshuffle

In this week’s episode of South Central, hosts Dhanya Rajendran and Pooja Prasanna first discuss raids and inspections across the country at restaurants and the prevalence of contaminated food even at top-end eateries. They are joined by food influencer and author Krish Ashok, and TNM reporter Shivani Kava.

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Public money, govt line: How DD News used pro-Modi govt farmer leaders to push E20

A nationwide debate is raging over ethanol-blended petrol, or E20, with motorists complaining of lower mileage and alleged engine damage. The government, meanwhile, has stuck to a central defence: E20 is good for farmers.

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Jaipur Dialogues – a platform that doxxed 15-year-old protestor – has BJP ties

In late July 2026, an online storm upended the life of a 15-year-old girl. The teenager had joined the student demonstrations that forced the former Education minister Dharmendra Pradhan to resign. Like many young protesters around her, she directed her ire at Prime Minister Narendra Modi. A video clip of…

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HC summons Abhijit Iyer-Mitra, Pamphlet, others after Saurav Das points to disclosure of his address

The Delhi High Court has issued summons to right-wing commentator Abhijit Iyer-Mitra, along with media platform The Pamphlet, legal news outlet Law Beat, and social media accounts The Jaipur Dialogues and The Sunday Guardian, in response to a lawsuit by Cockroach Janta Party spokesperson Saurav Das, Bar and Bench reported.…

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‘The later it gets, the crazier the shows become’: US ambassador Sergio Gor on the chaos of Indian TV news

US Ambassador to India Sergio Gor appears to have discovered a guilty pleasure familiar to many an NRI uncle: watching Indian television news for entertainment.

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Years after NEP spoke of digital literacy, 3 of 4 govt schools still don’t have a functional desktop

In May 2020, as India was preparing to overhaul its education policy, the Narendra Modi government held a review meeting on education that placed technology at the centre, to help build what the government described as a “global knowledge super power”.

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‘Putting data on a server does not make it statistically useful’

India is preparing to revamp parts of its official statistical system, conduct at least 14 surveys under the National Sample Survey Office this year, and make better use of its administrative and digital data. But, the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation’s (MoSPI) budget for 2026-27 is 22 percent below…

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The cost of India’s AI data centre boom

Let’s say an AI data centre is coming to your neighbourhood; it’s easy to feel like you’ve been chosen for the future.

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BJP promises ‘positive content’. Its new social media team’s record tells another story

Days after taking charge as the BJP’s national social media convenor, Deepak Mhaske told a gathering of reporters, “My focus will be to tackle the fake narrative spread by the Opposition, which uses AI in reels to twist facts and mislead people. We have been creating positive content and taking…

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एनएल चर्चा 437: बीजेपी की नई टीम, स्मृति इन, मालवीय आउट और टेक डाउन नोटिसों का रिकॉर्ड उछाल

एनएल चर्चा के इस अंक में भारतीय जनता पार्टी की नई टीम के गठन, स्मृति ईरानी की वापसी और अमित मालवीय के बाहर होने पर विस्तार से बात हुई. इसके साथ सरकार द्वारा जारी 'टेक डाउन' नोटिसों की बढ़ती संख्या पर भी गहन चर्चा की गई.

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Hafta letters: A concerned subscriber, Modiji and singing Vande Mataram

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TV Newsance 350 | Got a brain? You might be a ‘Dimaagi Naxal’

This week on TV Newsance Gen Z Special, the makers of the Urban Naxal gang, Tukde-Tukde gang, Khan Market gang and Azadi gang have manufactured a shiny new villain: the “Dimaagi Naxal”. Godi anchors from Arnab to Sudhir decode who a “Dimaagi Naxal” is. From writers, professors, economists and artists…

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Exclusive: Inside the bulk objections targeting Muslims in Uttarakhand’s SIR

Five men in five Uttarakhand assembly constituencies filed 6,500 objections to strike voters off the rolls in the ongoing special intensive revision. Every name they targeted is Muslim. Each of the five is linked to the BJP.

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‘Staged like a script’: New FIR against journalist Abhishek Upadhyay

Independent journalist Abhishek Upadhyay, who runs the YouTube channel Top Secret and has repeatedly highlighted the Ram Mandir donation scam, has been booked in a case registered at the Indirapuram police station in Ghaziabad.

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PG course in Hindi journalism discontinued at IIMC’s Amravati centre

The Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC) has discontinued its Postgraduate Diploma course in Hindi Journalism at its Amravati centre for the current academic year. This IIMC centre was established four years ago at the initiative of former President Pratibha Patil to provide professional journalism education to the youth of…

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Bills passed in 3 minutes, 9 with no LS MPs speaking: Parliament’s growing scrutiny gap

Parliament is increasingly passing Bills after relatively short periods of discussion. Data compiled from sessions between 2024 and 2026 across both the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha show that while a few politically significant Bills did receive several hours of debate in both Houses, many have been cleared after…

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Assam’s ad spend tripled after Himanta became CM. Media group linked to his wife got Rs 20 cr

In five financial years since Himanta Biswa Sarma became chief minister of Assam, his government spent Rs 460.82 crore on media and advertising. In the five years before he took office on May 10, 2021, the state spent Rs 145.01 crore – less than a third as much.

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