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Before Atal Bihari Vajpayee resigned as the prime minister in 2004, a deputy secretary in his office is rumoured to have told him that he didn’t want to work under a Congress prime minister. This bureaucrat would stay on as Vajpayee’s private secretary until 2006. And later go on to…

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Jan 13, 2025: Aaj Ka AQI from BJP MP Manoj Tiwari’s home

Aaj Ka AQI is a new show aimed at fixing accountability for a solution to India’s air crisis. For episode 14, Newslaundry visited BJP Northeast Delhi MP Manoj Tiwari’s home on Monday.

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‘Campus unfreedom, demonstrates Centre’s penchant’: Editorials on UGC draft rules

The controversy over the University Grants Commission’s recent draft regulations refuses to die down with criticism from states such as Tamil Nadu and Kerala, and allegations that it is a bid to “centralise and corporatise” higher education.

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More than a quarter of India’s forest cover is fire-prone, 9 out of 10 forest fires caused by humans

Bhagetu, a tiny village in Hamirpur district, Himachal Pradesh, saw one death during the summer of 2024, the season when forests in India are most vulnerable to fires. A 75-year-old woman was caught in a blaze while tending to her fields. The district as a whole reported 239 outbreaks of…

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Let Me Explain: What’s behind the Modi government’s data blackout?

Data is essential for effective governance – it helps make informed decisions, tracks progress, and holds authorities accountable. But what happens when the government stops sharing data? From census delays since 2011 to missing statistics on crime, education, health, and more, an IndiaSpend investigation reveals that at least 16 critical…

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South Central Ep 9: Communal violence in Karnataka, Revanth Reddy vs KTR

In episode nine, hosts Dhanya Rajendran, Pooja Prasanna, and Leena Reghunath are joined by TNM’s senior journalist Anisha Sheth and journalist Yunus Lasania.

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AAP की 10 गारंटी और 28 वादों का क्या हुआ?

2025 दिल्ली विधानसभा चुनाव की घोषणा हो चुकी है. तीनों प्रमुख दल, बीजेपी, कांग्रेस और आप वादों की झड़ी लगा रही है. खासकर आम आदमी पार्टी के प्रमुख और दिल्ली के पूर्व मुख्यमंत्री अरविंद केजरीवाल आए दिन प्रेस कॉन्फ्रेंस कर योजनाओं की घोषणा कर रहे हैं.

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Delhi assembly polls: Tracking AAP’s 2020 unfulfilled poll guarantees

It’s the season of manifestoes and promises again in Delhi. The Aam Aadmi Party, eyeing another term in power, is trying to assure voters with several programmes, including a controversial announcement about paying a stipend to women under the Mukhya Mantri Mahila Samman Yojana scheme.

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Reporters Without Orders Ep 354: How NL cracked the voter deletion series

This week, host Shivnarayan Rajpurohit is joined by Sumedha Mittal.

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#FightToBreathe: Love in the time of dystopia

There’s so much to consider when starting a family. Is this what you both want? Can you afford it? Do you have support? Are you at the stage of life where the arrival of a baby can spark joy?

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Hafta 519: Meta and fact-checking, the role of journaling, social media as source of news

This week on Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Jayashree Arunachalam, and Manisha Pande are joined by author Amitava Kumar and academic Joyojeet Pal.

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Explained: Are votes really being illegally deleted from the electoral rolls?

In the past few weeks, you’ve likely heard a lot – and will continue to hear a lot – about votes being “deleted” and “added” from the electoral rolls, allegedly favouring one political party over another.

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‘A rudderless ship, if not a sinking one’: Editorials are grim on future of INDIA bloc

All is not well with the INDIA alliance as Delhi goes to the polls, where supposed partners Congress and Aam Aadmi Party will contest separately.

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TV Newsance 281: There’s a new (anti) Godi media candidate in town

The new year is here and yet here we are, worrying about the same old rot in the world of news.

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Hafta letters: Right-wing scholarship, length of subscriber emails, panel pessimism

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What’s Your Ism feat. Gauley Bhai: Music, resistance, and identity from Kalimpong to Bengaluru

Sudipto Mondal features Gauley Bhai in this What’s Your Ism? special. Their journey from Kalimpong to Bengaluru isn’t just about music – it’s about survival, resistance, and reclaiming identity. Their sound is a weapon, their songs a protest, and their stage a place of hope.

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Gauri Lankesh murder case: Last accused in custody granted relief, all 17 facing trial out on bail

A Bengaluru court granted bail to yet another accused in the murder of journalist Gauri Lankesh, reported Bar and Bench.

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Awful and Awesome Ep 377: All We Imagine As Light, Juror #2, Golden Globes

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दिल्ली पुलिस के 23 अधिकारियों को उपराज्यपाल से मिले निष्कासन के विशेष अधिकार

दिल्ली के उपराज्यपाल, विनय कुमार सक्सेना ने दिल्ली पुलिस के 23 अधिकारियों को प्रौद्योगिकी अधिनियम (आईटी एक्ट) के तहत सोशल मीडिया एवं अन्य मध्यस्थ (इंटरमीडियरी) प्लेटफॉर्म से “अवैध सामग्री” हटाने के लिए “नोटिस जारी करने विशेष अधिकार” दिए हैं.

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Jan 10, 2025: Aaj Ka AQI from the National Green Tribunal

Aaj Ka AQI is a new show aimed at fixing accountability for a solution to India’s air crisis. For episode 13, Newslaundry went to the National Green Tribunal on Friday.

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दिलीप मंडल ने फातिमा शेख के अस्तित्व पर सवाल उठाकर फिर से विवाद खड़ा कर दिया

लेखक और पत्रकार दिलीप मंडल ने गुरुवार को यह दावा करके विवाद खड़ा कर दिया कि भारत की पहली मुस्लिम महिला स्कूल शिक्षिका के रूप में प्रसिद्ध फातिमा शेख कोई असल इंसान नहीं थीं बल्कि एक “मनगढ़ंत चरित्र” थीं, जिसे उन्होंने बनाया था.

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Dilip Mandal triggers row with claims about Fatima Sheikh’s legacy

Author, activist Dilip Mandal stoked controversy on Thursday when he claimed that Fatima Sheikh, celebrated as one of India’s first Muslim women school teachers, never existed and was a “fabricated character” he had created.

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After Meta pullout, fact-checking partners anticipate job cuts, editorials point to global ripples

Meta’s decision this week to abandon its fact-checking programme, starting from the US, has reportedly triggered alarm bells among several fact-checking organisations. That the move comes as a response to the politics of the new regime in the US has also been apparent.

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NL-TNM Townhall: Sreenivasan Jain on US poll coverage

Last year, we visited the US amid a heated poll campaign, days after reporting on the Israel-Hamas war. At the Townhall on December 5 last year, award-winning journalist Sreenivasan Jain and Newslaundry producer Priyali Dhingra responded to a wide range of questions from contributors who had supported this coverage.

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L-G empowers 23 Delhi cops to issue takedown orders: Report

Delhi Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena has empowered at least 23 Delhi Police officers to issue “takedown orders” to social media platforms and other intermediaries to remove “illegal content” under the Information Technology Act, Hindustan Times reported.

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