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Welcome to this week’s Powertrip, a political newsletter exclusively curated for TNM and NL subscribers. This week’s edition is by Shabbir Ahmed and Pooja Prasanna.

ओडिशा में वायु प्रदूषण लगातार बढ़ता जा रहा है. प्रदेश के कई शहरों में हवा की गुणवत्ता चिंताजनक स्तर तक पहुंच चुकी है. भुवनेश्वर और कटक, जिसे ट्विन सिटी भी कहा जाता है, बीते कुछ वक्त से खराब हवा का सामना कर रहे हैं. 

Air pollution levels are steadily rising across several cities in Odisha, particularly in the ‘Twin Cities’ of Bhubaneswar and Cuttack. According to Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) data, the air quality index (AQI) in the Twin Cities has ranged between 230 and 300 since December 2025, oscillating between the ‘poor’…

पूरे देश में उत्साह और धूमधाम से 77वां गणतंत्र दिवस मनाया गया. तो हमने सोचा क्यों न इस मौके पर थोड़ी सी बात अपने संविधान के बारे में की जाय, वो बातें जो कम लोगों को पता है. मसलन आपको पता है कि भारत की संविधान सभा बनाने का विचार…

For today’s episode of Aaj Ka AQI, we stood outside the Gopaldas building on Barakhamba Road, one of the city’s bustling economic hubs. The nearest official CPCB monitoring station at ITO recorded an AQI of 262, placing it in the ‘poor’ category. Our independent air quality monitor, however, recorded an…

Vishal Jadhav’s voice breaks as he tries to find words. The NCP worker stands in Baramati on what should have been a day of political rallies and jostling crowds – four sabhas scheduled across the constituency for the Zilla Parishad elections. Instead, there is only silence. The party chief who…

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and NCP chief Ajit Pawar reportedly died in an aircraft accident on Tuesday morning while en route from Mumbai to Baramati. The crash also claimed the lives of four others travelling with him, including two pilots and members of his security detail.

Despite a 2023 Supreme Court order directing all states to take suo motu action against hate speech, such incidents have only surged in recent years. According to a 2025 report by the Centre for the Study of Organised Hate (CSOH), the number of hate speech incidents reached 1,318, surpassing the…

Staffers at the Washington Post have begun a public campaign urging owner Jeff Bezos to reconsider potential layoffs that they say could significantly shrink the paper’s international reporting network.

For today’s episode of Aaj Ka AQI, we stood outside Hauz Khas metro station, one of the city’s busiest commuter points with heavy passenger footfall.The nearest official DPCC monitoring station at Aurobindo Marg recorded an AQI of 190, placing it in the ‘moderate’ category. Our independent air quality monitor, however,…

As India looks ahead to its next Union Budget on February 1, global factors are shaping the broader context which its economy must navigate in the coming year. Developments in the world’s two largest economies – the United States and China – will shape that context.