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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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केंद्रीय मंत्री अश्वनी वैष्णव बोले- डिजिटल मीडिया को मिले अपनी उचित हिस्सेदारी

डिजिटल न्यूज़ पब्लिशर्स एसोसिएशन द्वारा गुरुवार को दिल्ली में आयोजित कॉन्क्लेव में केंद्रीय सूचना और प्रसारण मंत्री अश्विनी वैष्णण ने कहा कि मीडिया इन दिनों पारंपरिक तौर तरीकों से डिजिटल की ओर बढ़ रहा है.

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Miles to go before we sleep: The long road to leadership for LGBTQIA+ professionals

In the mid-20th century, India saw a great influx of women into the workforce in the white-collared jobs of the public sector, challenging societal norms. By breaking glass ceilings in male-dominated offices, these women transcended the traditional identities to establish themselves as individuals; in turn allowing future generations of women…

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Should discuss how media can get fair compensation: I&B minister

Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw has urged the media industry and stakeholders to discuss challenges linked to the transition to new media and said the government was “fully prepared” to provide any “necessary support”.

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Vikatan ‘pursuing all legal avenues’ as its website continues to be blocked after Modi cartoon

Tamil media organisation Vikatan is mulling legal action as its website continues to be blocked after it published a cartoon online that criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s meeting with US President Donald Trump.

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Modi’s trips last year to Abu Dhabi, Kazan and Moscow cost around Rs 20 cr: RTI

From Bhutan and Kuwait to Ukraine and the US, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s whirlwind diplomatic tours in 2024 dominated headlines. Replies to RTI queries by transparency activist Commodore Lokesh Batra (retd) now provide a glimpse into the cost of this 16-nation outreach.

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‘Scant regard for accuracy, lust for clickbait’: Shashi Tharoor slams Indian Express, state of journalism

In a thread on X, formerly Twitter, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor called out The Indian Express for doing “two somewhat shameless things”.

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