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Hafta 536: War drums and fake news with India-Pakistan tensions

This week on Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, Manisha Pande, Jayashree Arunachalam and Shardool Katyayan are joined by retired Brigadier Kuldip Singh. In this tense news week, we begin by dissecting India’s Operation Sindoor and strikes on terror camps in Pakistan on May 7. “Neither side, particularly India, wants…

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TV Newsance 298: Operation Sindoor and how TV made a joke of war

Early Wednesday morning, India launched Operation Sindoor, targeting terror camps in Pakistan. As Pakistan responded with cross-border shelling and drone attacks – intercepted by the military – Indian TV channels gave a whole new meaning to the "fog of war".

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Hafta letters: India and Pakistan, diplomatic games, journalist designations

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EXCLUSIVE: Masood Azhar attends kin funeral, Pak army in attendance

Earlier this week, India’s Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri displayed a photograph that showed Pakistan Army’s presence at funeral prayers for those killed in the Indian strikes on the Lashkar-e-Toiba headquarters in Muridke. Videos purportedly showed Abdul Rauf, a US designated terrorist and leader of Falah-i-Insaniyat – a proxy of the…

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Pak used Turkish drones to target India: Govt

Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri, Colonel Sophia Qureshi, and Wing Commander Vyomika Singh shared details about Pakistan’s drone attacks and Indian response at a press briefing in New Delhi on Friday.

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भारत का दावा: पाकिस्तान का 36 जगहों पर हमला, तुर्की के ड्रोन का इस्तेमाल

भारत ने प्रेस कॉन्फ्रेंस कर 8 मई की रात पाकिस्तान द्वारा देश में अलग-अलग स्थानों पर किए गए ड्रोन हमलों की जानकारी दी. एक बार फिर प्रेस कॉन्फ्रेंस में विदेश सचिव विक्रम मिस्री, कर्नल सोफिया कुरैशी और विंग कमांडर व्योमिका सिंह मौजूद रहे.

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‘Why no action against fake media industry?’: Behind the ‘blocks’ of media accounts in India

In India, most visitors attempting to access the website of news portal The Wire are met with a blank page and a notice that says, “The website has been blocked as per the order of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology under the IT Act, 2000.”

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भारत-पाकिस्तान के बीच बढ़ते संघर्ष में मीडिया की फर्जी रिपोर्टिंग

8 और 9 मई की दरम्यानी रात भारत और पाकिस्तान के बीच सैन्य झड़प हुईं. लेकिन जिस तरीके से भारतीय मीडिया के कई चैनलों ने इस स्थिति को पेश किया. वह बेहद गैर-जिम्मेदाराना और भ्रामक था. ज़मीन पर जो हुआ, उसे तोड़-मरोड़ कर प्रस्तुत किया गया. कई फर्जी वीडियो, पुराने…

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Another soldier killed in action in cross-border firing in J&K

Another army soldier has been killed in action during cross-border firing by Pakistani forces along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir.

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Explaining Operation Sindoor to my teenager, or why misinformation helps nobody

All of last evening, my 14-year-old, ridden with anxiety, pestered me for information on what was going on.

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Congress files complaint against DD journalist for portraying Kharge as ‘traitor’

The Indian Youth Congress has filed a police complaint against Ashok Shrivastav, a journalist with Doordarshan, for portraying Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge as a “gaddaar” (traitor).

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India’s fog of war: Print media treads cautiously, TV media loses the plot

India today is enveloped in a fog, the fog of war. It is so thick that we can neither see nor hear what is going on. We must wait patiently for someone in “authority” to tell us what is happening.

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TV channels air unverified claims on ‘fidayeen attack’, ‘massive devastation’ in Islamabad

Last night, as the general public struggled to make sense of developments between India and Pakistan, there was a slew of misinformation on media and social media.

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विकीपीडिया पेज हटाने का मामला: सुप्रीम कोर्ट ने खारिज किया दिल्ली हाईकोर्ट का आदेश

सुप्रीम कोर्ट ने शुक्रवार को दिल्ली हाईकोर्ट के उस आदेश को खारिज कर दिया जिसमें विकीपीडिया को एक पेज को हटाने के लिए कहा गया था. यह पेज एएनआई द्वारा विकीमीडिया फाउंडेशन के खिलाफ दायर किए गए एक मानहानि मुकदमे की जानकारी देता है.

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From patron to prey: The rise and fragmentation of Pak’s terror landscape

Pakistan Defence Minister Khawaja Asif’s remarks during a live news interview, that his country has been doing “dirty work” for the West for the last three decades, was a stunning admission on Islamabad’s long history of supporting, training and funding terrorist organisations. A decade ago, former army chief and president…

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‘Not court’s duty to tell media to take down this or that’: SC rejects ANI’s plea to remove Wikipedia page

The Supreme Court of India on Friday set aside a Delhi High Court order requiring the removal of a Wikipedia page detailing a defamation lawsuit filed by ANI against Wikimedia Foundation, LiveLaw reported.

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‘Fulfilled his duties as son, son of the nation’: Haryana village bids farewell to jawan killed in J&K

Seema stepped out of her small, dimly-lit room. The last time her husband had been home was in March, when the couple learned she was pregnant. They had celebrated. And he had promised to return soon.

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भारत के लड़ाकू विमान और पाकिस्तान में मारे गए लोगों पर क्या बोले विक्रम मिस्री

भारत के विदेश सचिव विक्रम मिस्री, कर्नल सोफिया कुरैशी और विंग कमांडर व्योमिका सिंह ने जवाहर भवन स्थित विदेश मंत्रालय में गुरुवार को प्रेस कॉन्फ्रेंस की. उन्होंने बताया कि 7 मई की रात में पाकिस्तान ने भारत के कई इलाकों में हमले किए.

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‘Giving terrorists state funerals’: India responds to Pak claims

The Indian government on Thursday evening held another press conference with the same set of officials — foreign secretary Vikram Misri, Colonel Sofia Qureshi and Wing Commander Vyomika Singh — in Delhi.

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Godi media is having its worst time: Confused by caste census, stunned by Col Qureshi

It is not easy being a legacy media TV journalist today. One day you are upping the ante on traitors within the nation, along with baying for Pakistan’s blood. The next day, you have to say that starving Pakistan of water is a much better form of revenge than any…

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Killed by Pak shelling, branded Pak terrorist on TV: Godi media kills an Indian twice

In its usual sprint to serve up high-decibel patriotism and prime-time body counts, India’s legacy TV media has outdone itself – again. This time, several channels declared Qari Mohammad Iqbal, a madrassa teacher, as a Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist killed during Operation Sindoor. The only problem? Iqbal wasn’t a terrorist. He wasn’t…

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Pakistan’s terror subterfuge is a case for global sanctions

The international shame and opprobrium that Pakistan has incurred over the years for employing terrorism as state policy has not deterred that failing state from compulsively resorting to the worst form of inhuman and savage warfare, even as its existence teeters on the brink.

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May 8, 2025: After rain, air quality goes back to being unhealthy

While unseasonal showers in Delhi provided momentary relief to residents from the heat and pollution in the past few days, pollution levels went back to the unhealthy category on Thursday.

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ऑपरेशन सिंदूर: कूटनीतिक संदेश लेकिन आतंकवाद पर आखिरी चोट नहीं

पाकिस्तान और पाक अधिकृत जम्मू- कश्मीर (पीओके) में स्थित 9 आतंकी ठिकानों पर एक के बाद एक 24 सटीक हमले. 25 मिनट के इस हाई-प्रोफाइल सैन्य मिशन को ‘ऑपरेशन सिंदूर’ का नाम दिया गया. इसे बीते 22 अप्रैल को पहलगाम में हुए आतंकी हमले की जवाबी कार्रवाई कहा जा रहा…

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अखबारों में छाया ‘ऑपरेशन सिंदूर’, 31 से 100 पाकिस्तानियों की मौत के दावे

6-7 मई की दरम्यानी रात में भारत ने पाकिस्तान और पाकिस्तान के कब्जे वाले जम्मू-कश्मीर में कई आतंकी ठिकानों को निशाना बनाया. इसे ऑपरेशन सिंदूर का नाम दिया गया. बुधवार की सुबह हुई प्रेस कॉन्फ्रेंस में सरकार ने इस ऑपरेशन की पूरा जानकारी दी.

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