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Shops shut, vehicles and homes charred, and streets wearing a deserted look. That’s how areas affected by communal violence in UP’s Bahraich looked when Newslaundry visited ground zero to take stock of the situation.

Shiv Sena (Uddhav Thackeray) Rajya Sabha MP Priyanka Chaturvedi has alleged that  India Today news director Rahul Kanwal and the channel misleadingly presented an interview with her in the debate format.

Last week, Ola shares plunged after an online spat between its CEO Bhavish Aggarwal and comedian Kunal Kamra over customer service issues with the company’s electric scooters.

बीते हफ्ते कॉमेडियन कुणाल कामरा और ओला के संस्थापक, सीईओ भाविश अग्रवाल ट्विटर पर अपनी बहसबाजी के लिए सुर्खियों में रहे. मामला तब शुरू हुआ जब कामरा ने ओला इलेक्ट्रिक स्कूटर की सर्विस की आलोचना की. उन्होंने एक ओला डीलरशिप के बाहर धूल फांक रहे स्कूटर्स की तस्वीर शेयर करते…

“On the counting day, results start coming in from 8.05 am, which is nonsense…counting begins at 8.30 am,” said chief election commissioner Rajiv Kumar, hinting at the early trends announced on TV news channels on the election results day. “There is no scientific basis for it.”

Last month, a Comptroller and Auditor General report had pointed to serious lapses on part of the Odisha government which substantially helped 23 private companies deal a loss of Rs 22,392 crore in mining revenue from 2015 to 2022. Newslaundry has now found that eight of these companies, which caused…

Actor-politician Pawan Kalyan has emerged as an ‘angry sanatani Hindu’ after the Tirupati laddu controversy, claiming that sanatana dharma has been under attack for decades and pledging to defend it. Many see this new avatar of Kalyan in sharp contrast to his initial days in politics.

India has withdrawn its envoys from Canada and expelled their Canadian counterparts in New Delhi after Indian diplomats were named as “persons of interest” in the investigation of the killing of pro-Khalistan activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar. The diplomatic ties have tanked, about a year after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau…

Canada’s decision to confront Delhi with the findings of its investigations, pointing to alleged Indian government involvement in the June 2023 Nijjar killing, comes almost exactly one year after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s claims. This is a calculated escalation at a time the shadow of a linked case looms…

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s MLA from Uttar Pradesh’s Deoria, Shalabh Mani Tripathi, has defended himself after being widely criticised for targeting Muslims journalists on X, formerly Twitter.

After last year’s October 7 attack, the Israeli army has justified its brutal offensive in Gaza, which is controlled by Hamas. But the aftermath of October 7 witnessed an escalation of violence in the West Bank, the Palestinian territory not controlled by Hamas.