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Delhi’s airpocalypse needs more than band-aid solutions

As I sat down to write this piece from my home nestled in the hills of the Western Ghats in Kerala, I had to try hard to summon a memory of the sharp sting of Delhi’s air on a bad air day.

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गिद्ध और सुअरों की खोजबीन के बीच टीआरपी का मसाला बने IIT वाले बाबा

देश ने तय कर लिया है कि मोदीजी के नेतृत्व में वो विश्वगुरू भी बना रहेगा और 80 करोड़ लोगों को मुफ्त राशन बांटता रहेगा. इसका सबूत बीते दिनों दो अलग-अलग अवसरों पर मिला. पहला अवसर था मध्य प्रदेश की महाप्रतापी सरकार द्वारा आयोजित ग्लोबल इन्वेस्टर समिट के दौरान बंट…

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In Sambhal, cops hunt for man already in jail over ‘photo that wasn’t his’

Over three months after the communal violence in Uttar Pradesh’s Sambhal, the police have arrested 89 people so far. Yet they’re still searching for 160 others, 74 of whom haven’t even been identified yet, according to posters the police have put up in Sambhal city.

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Delhi’s drainage crisis deepens as NGT deadline looms

As the latest desilting deadline approaches in Delhi, two drains – Sonia Vihar and Shastri Park – exemplify the paralysis within the capital’s drainage management system.

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Ganga purity study was shady from the start. But media amplified it unquestioned

On February 20, the Uttar Pradesh government issued a statement which quoted a Padma Shri awardee scientist to “debunk doubts” about the purity of Ganga water amid the Mahakumbh. This came days after the Central Pollution Control Board had pointed out that faecal coliform levels in the river were 13…

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साफ हवा को लेकर भारत की जरूरत और उसकी करनी में अंतर

राष्ट्रीय स्वच्छ वायु कार्यक्रम के ज़रिए वायु प्रदूषण को कम करने में देश की प्रगति के दावों के बावजूद भारत लक्ष्य से बहुत पीछे है, और पिछले साल दुनिया के 10 सबसे ज्यादा प्रदूषित देशों में से एक था. लेकिन यह समस्या पिछले कुछ वर्षों में सरकारी समितियों, गैर-सरकारी संगठनों…

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High-fives with lions, walks with zebras. Is it Tarzan? No, it’s PM Modi in Vantara

He walks with zebras, watches lions get MRIs, comes face to face with chimpanzees. Is there anything this man, who as a teenager did battle with a crocodile, cannot do?

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Reporters Without Borders campaigns for 2025 include ‘mass harassment of journalists in India’

The “mass harassment of journalists in India” is one of three “thematic campaigns” that Reporters Without Borders will focus on in 2025.

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Available tech, affordability, drawbacks: All you need to know about India’s accessibility gap

I remember my childhood, a time when the radio was our only window to the world. For a visually impaired person like me, the news bulletins, cricket commentaries and entertainment programmes broadcast over the airwaves weren’t just pastimes – they were our sole source of information.

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महेश लांगा केस: सुप्रीम कोर्ट ने गुजरात सरकार को जारी किया नोटिस

द हिंदू के पत्रकार महेश लांगा ने उनके खिलाफ चल रही कानूनी कार्यवाही पर सुप्रीम कोर्ट का दरवाज़ा खटखटाया था, जिस पर सुप्रीम कोर्ट ने गुजरात हाई कोर्ट को नोटिस जारी किया है. सुप्रीम कोर्ट ने गुजरात सरकार से मामले में जवाब मांगा है, साथ ही आगामी सुनवाई के लिए…

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Tweet on Yati Narsinghanad: HC reserves judgement in Zubair’s plea to quash FIR

The Allahabad High Court today reserved its judgement on a plea moved by Alt News cofounder Mohammed Zubair to quash an FIR against him. While reserving its verdict, the bench of Justices Siddhartha Varma and Yogendra Kumar Srivastava also extended Zubair’s interim protection from arrest.

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March 3, 2025: How toxic air affects the Red Fort and tourists

Red Fort is one of the busiest sites of historical significance in the national capital. But toxic air impacts both tourists as well as the Mughal era monument. In 2018, the Archaeological Survey of India had removed a two-metre-thick layer that had been formed over a century due to dust…

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Trump-Zelenskyy showdown: In the age of e-lafda, politics and everything else is just performance

Something happened in the White House that felt strangely familiar to Goregaon West, Mumbai. The difference, of course, is that the White House is the office of the most powerful president in the world, while Goregaon West is home to the Bigg Boss set. But in our times, that distinction…

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How weather patterns and faraway mountains make Delhi the world’s most polluted megacity

Delhi is perhaps the most polluted of the world’s megacities. Every winter, the city’s 30 million residents breathe air so toxic that visibility drops to mere metres. If you stand on top of one of Delhi’s monuments you can barely make out buildings across the street as the thick, acrid…

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Let Me Explain: Tamil Nadu's century-long struggle against Hindi 'imposition'

Tamil Nadu is once again at loggerheads with the BJP-led union government over the perceived imposition of Hindi in southern states. The DMK-led Tamil Nadu government has accused the Modi government of withholding over Rs 2,000 crores meant for the state after it rejected the three-language formula proposed in the…

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High pendency in fast-track special courts set up for child sexual abuse cases

In 2022, as many as 239,188 cases out of 268,038 cases filed under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (POCSO, 2012), were awaiting trial, a pendency rate of 89.2 percent, according to data from the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB).

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South Central Ep 16: Delimitation’s impact on South India, Karnataka now ‘Naxal-free’

In this episode of South Central, hosts Dhanya Rajendran, Pooja Prasanna and Leena Reghunath are joined by activist and journalist Shivasundar and retired bureaucrat PV Ramesh to discuss India’s looming delimitation exercise and Naxalism’s journey in Karnataka.

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Reporters Without Orders Ep 359: Truth behind locals ‘fleeing’ Sambhal, cash for Delhi stampede victims

This week, host Anmol Pritam is joined by Newslaundry’s Avdhesh Kumar and Shivnarayan Rajpurohit.

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एनएल चर्चा 360 : परिसीमन, भाषा और शिक्षा नीति पर दक्षिणी राज्यों की चिंता और दिल्ली विधानसभा में कैग रिपोर्ट प्रस्तुत

इस हफ्ते परिसीमन को लेकर तमिलनाडु और केंद्र सरकार के बीच हुई तनातनी और दिल्ली विधानसभा में आबकारी नीति मामले पर कैग रिपोर्ट प्रस्तुत करने को लेकर विस्तृत बातचीत हुई.

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Hafta 526: Elon Musk’s DOGE, Tamil Nadu-Centre clash over three-language formula

This week on Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, Jayashree Arunachalam, and Shardool Katyayan are joined by Nitin Pai, director of Takshashila Institution, and The News Minute’s Shabbir Ahmed.

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TV Newsance 288: India’s economy is sinking and TV anchors are distracting us again

This week, we look at a shocking report that should have been at the centre of primetime debates but wasn’t. Turns out, a billion Indians have no money to spend on non-basic items! But TV news continues to avoid talking about growing inequality like the plague as the rich get…

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Hafta letters: Sources of news, ways to unwind, anti-colonialist views

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Making sense of ‘middlebrow’ Hindi publications in post-independence India

Exercises in redrawing the contours of the ‘public sphere’, to borrow from German theorist Jurgen Habermas, come with as many possibilities as with risks. This is more often the case when the frames are historical and the gaze is directed at examining the public sphere of an era through a…

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US tariffs, impact on economy: USAID row helps bury the big questions

Can the media avoid falling for the politics of distraction? Apparently not, as far as the media in India is concerned.

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What to do if your device is seized? SFLC.in offers a guide

What should you do when officials seize your electronic device during a raid? The Software Freedom Law Center, India, has now released a guide to educate Indians on how they can safeguard their personal security, privacy and rights in such instances.

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