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This week, host Pratyush Deep is joined by Newslaundry’s Avdhesh Kumar and Sumedha Mittal.

Around 2 lakh surveillance cameras, 350 automatic number plate detection cameras, and over 500 checkpoints guarded by traffic police. And yet, Delhi is choked each day by traffic snarls caused partly by the plying of illegal vehicles.

This week on TV Newsance, we dissect how TV news channels covered the recent Sambhal riots. Did they try to cool tensions? Nope. Instead, usual suspects added fuel to the fire — shouting louder, polarising further.

Adani is back in the news this week – unsurprisingly, not on NDTV. I’m more interested in the timing of this scam. In the US, the White House has significant influence over foreign affairs. I suspect the indictment’s release aligns with the recent election. The Biden administration may have delayed…

In this episode, hosts Dhanya Rajendran, Pooja Prasanna, and Leena Raghunath are joined by journalist M Rajshekhar and writer Nadika Nadja.

The roads of Uttar Pradesh’s Sambhal are shrouded in silence after violent clashes over an archaeological survey of a Mughal-era mosque on November 19, ordered by a local court in a petition claiming that it was built on a temple site.

सूनी सड़कें, पसरा सन्नाटा और पुलिस की गाड़ियों के सायरनों की आवाज. अभी उत्तर प्रदेश के पश्चिमी जिले संभल की स्थिति कुछ ऐसी ही है. शहर में चप्पे-चप्पे पर पुलिस तैनात है. यहां दो कंपनी आरएएफ और करीब 8 से 9 कंपनी पीएसी समेत आसपास के कई जिलों से भी…

Media association DIGIPUB has condemned the Uttar Pradesh police’s action against Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair, calling the FIR filed over his social media posts an “escalating harassment” and demanding its revocation. 

A special court in Haryana’s Gurugram has issued a non-bailable warrant of arrest against ABP News anchor Chitra Tripathi and Republic Bharat journalist Sayed Suhail in a 2013 POCSO case, according to LiveLaw.

An explosion was reported near the PVR cinema hall in northwest Delhi’s Prashant Vihar area around 11.48 am today, said reports citing the Delhi Fire Services. No casualties have been reported so far. 

On August 5, Sheikh Hasina fled Dhaka and landed at Ghaziabad’s Hindon airbase after her ouster as prime minister of Bangladesh. Dramatic as it was, she was not the first high-profile political leader from India’s neighbourhood to seek safe haven. In 1959, India suffered consequences with China over the arrival…