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गोवा नाइट क्लब: 3 बहनों और पति को खोने वाली भावना ने बताई हादसे की पूरी कहानी

शनिवार की रात गोवा के एक नाइट क्लब में लगी भीषण आग में 25 लोगों की मौत हो गई, जबकि 6 घायलों का इलाज अस्पताल में जारी है. मृतकों में अधिकांश क्लब के कर्मचारी थे. गोवा के अर्पोरा में हुए इस हादसे के पीड़ितों के लिए प्रधानमंत्री राष्ट्रीय राहत कोष…

Newslaundry · Dec 11, 2025

‘Nobody helped us’: The sole survivor of Goa club fire who lost husband, sisters

Among the 25 people who died in the massive fire at the Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub in Arpora, Goa, were four members of 40-year-old Bhavna Joshi’s family. Joshi, the sole survivor, was visiting Goa with her family when she lost her husband and three sisters that night.

Newslaundry · Dec 11, 2025

SC’s bail verdict pending, Delhi court grants Khalid interim bail for sister’s wedding

A Delhi court on Thursday granted interim bail to Umar Khalid, the former JNU scholar and political activist who has been incarcerated under the draconian Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), among other charges, for his alleged role in a larger conspiracy related to the 2020 Delhi riots, according to LiveLaw. 

Newslaundry · Dec 11, 2025

Vishwaguru delusions: India lacks the clout to shape a world in flux

At the end of a year of many setbacks for the Modi government’s foreign policies, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent visit aptly captured the Indian effort to find its centre of gravity in an era of massive geopolitical upheavals. 

Newslaundry · Dec 10, 2025

Dec 9, 2025: ‘Very poor’ air during evening rush-hour in Yusuf Sarai

For this episode of Aaj Ka AQI, Newslaundry visited the Yusuf Sarai market to document the air quality index (AQI) during the evening rush hour on Tuesday. 

Newslaundry · Dec 10, 2025

Dileep verdict: Editorials question ‘patriarchal elements’, decision to welcome back actor

Earlier this week, the Additional Special Sessions Court in Ernakulam delivered its verdict in a case that became one of Kerala’s most closely watched trials in recent memory. After a five-year trial, actor Dileep, accused of masterminding the abduction and sexual assault of an actor, was found not guilty in…

Newslaundry · Dec 10, 2025

Dhurandhar review on The Hollywood Reporter vanishes

If you went looking for Anupama Chopra’s Dhurandhar review on The Hollywood Reporter India and couldn’t find it – that’s because the video has quietly gone private. No explanation, no note, just poof.

Newslaundry · Dec 9, 2025

You can rebook an Indigo flight. You can’t rebook your lungs

A reiteration of the obvious is never wasted on the oblivious – Percival Everett, Erasure.I'm a man of contradictions, I'm a man of many moodsI contain multitudes– Bob Dylan, I contain multitudes. On December 6, I wrote a piece for Newslaundry explaining why India has been held hostage by a single airline: IndiGo. It went viral…

Newslaundry · Dec 9, 2025

Photographer files Rs 18 cr copyright suit against Zee

A filmmaker and photographer has filed a Rs 18.11-crore infringement suit against Zee Media Corporation Ltd in a West Bengal court for using his footage of cheetahs and branding it as “super exclusive”. 

Newslaundry · Dec 9, 2025

Delhi CM rewrites pollution science at media summit. The follow-ups? Missing like the data

At the HT Leadership Summit, NDTV’s Padmaja Joshi sat down with Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, and then spent the next several minutes watching Gupta bench-press the limits of logic. What followed was a live demonstration of how confidently stated nonsense can still aspire to be policy.

Newslaundry · Dec 8, 2025