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Newslaundry’s accessibility journey: An accessible product isn’t just a better product, it’s good business

Earlier this year, we made our website accessible. After almost a year of development, research, testing and iterations, our website and app were finally accessible to everyone, without discriminating against any person with disabilities.

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ईशा फाउंडेशन ने मीडिया आउटलेट नक्खीरन पर किया मानहानि का मुकदमा

ईशा फाउंडेशन ने तमिल मीडिया आउटलेट नक्खीरन के खिलाफ मानहानि का मुकदमा दायर किया है. याचिका में फाउंडेशन ने मीडिया आउटलेट पर कथित रूप से अपमानजनक वीडियो प्रकाशित करने का आरोप लगाया है. फाउंडेशन का नेतृत्व स्वामी जग्गी वासुदेव करते हैं. बीते सोमवार, 2 दिसंबर को दिल्ली उच्च न्यायालय के…

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What’s Your Ism? MG Devasahayam on India’s democratic crisis from the Emergency to Hindutva

In episode 29 of What's Your Ism?, hosts Sudipto Mondal and Dhanya Rajendran speak with former IAS officer and army veteran MG Devasahayam on the critical issues facing India and its contrast with the Emergency era.

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Doubting BJP lead, a village in Maharashtra decides to hold a ‘ballot paper repoll’

In the Malshiras assembly constituency in Maharashtra’s Solapur, NCP-SP candidate Uttamrao Shivdas Jankar had recently defeated the BJP with a margin of over 13,000 votes. But the constituency’s Markarwadi village has decided to hold its own repoll today through “ballot paper”.

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How Adani corruption allegations could hurt the Indian economy

The Adani Group has been accused of bribing Indian officials to secure solar energy contracts at inflated rates. The group was earlier accused of selling low-grade coal at inflated prices, and the Hindenburg Research and OCCRP reports had alleged the use of offshore shell companies to manipulate stock prices.

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Isha Foundation files defamation suit against Tamil media outlet Nakkheeran, seeks Rs 3 crore as damages

The Isha Foundation led by Jaggi Vasudev has filed a defamation suit against the Tamil media outlet Nakkheeran, accusing it of publishing allegedly defamatory videos. In the plea submitted before the Delhi High Court on Monday, December 2, Jaggi Vasudev sought the removal of the videos and demanded Rs 3…

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Adani’s indictment in US: What happens next, ‘political’ motivations, and what Trump might do

Ten days after Gautam Adani and seven others were indicted in New York over charges of alleged bribery and securities fraud, there are far more questions than answers.

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Interview: India could see ‘epidemic of lung cancer from air pollution’, ‘no organ system’ spared

On November 19, as many as 22 of the 35 air quality monitoring stations in Delhi recorded an air quality index (AQI) reading of 500, which is the maximum value that the scale can register. The actual pollution is likely much worse.

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Missed bridges, ecological toll: Is the Kashmir rail link a train in vain?

A profound truth lies in the path of every rail line: As routes are engineered with steel and concrete between different points on a map, or abruptly dismantled, there are stories that unfold of connection and division.

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Director’s Cut with Payal Kapadia: An oral history of All We Imagine As Light

Six months is a long time in anyone’s life. In writer-director Payal Kapadia’s case, it’s the amount of time it took for her to travel from, as she told me this summer, fame “is freaking me out a bit” to, as she said when we spoke recently, “maybe I’m not…

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‘Protest and you’ll be jailed’: Two tribal minor girls held in Bijapur, kin left in dark for 15 days

“Police asked if we were linked to Naxals...warned that if I continued protesting, I would be jailed,” said 17-year-old Madkam Dhanni, one of two minors arrested among 17 others after the Chhattisgarh government’s ban on tribal rights outfit Moolvasi Bachao Manch on November 8.

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Reporters Without Orders Ep 348: Inside Sambhal violence, ‘voter suppression’ in UP

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

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Illegal vehicles, middlemen, the police: Delhi’s traffic is organised crime

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.

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TV Newsance 276: Hindu vs Muslim in Sambhal – who profits from communal tensions

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.

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Hafta letters: Elections, democracy and Delhi pollution

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…

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South Central Ep 3: Adani bribery case, Hema Committee, fear of movie reviews

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

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‘Police shot my son’: What happened during UP’s Sambhal violence?

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.

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संभल हिंसा का पूरा सच: परत दर परत

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…

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‘Instead focus on prosecuting hate mongers’: DIGIPUB condemns ‘sedition-like’ charges against Zubair

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.

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2013 POCSO case: Non-bailable warrant against Chitra Tripathi, Sayed Suhail

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.

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Explosion near PVR in Delhi’s Prashant Vihar, fire engines and police rushed to spot

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.

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India’s history of providing refuge – and why Sheikh Hasina poses a unique challenge

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…

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नाविका लगी अडाणी के घाट अंजना बनी बिटक्वाइन की महारानी

भारत का मीडिया, राजनीति और पॉपुलर कल्चर, सब नैतिकता की चपेट में आ गए. आलम ये है कि सौ करोड़ की उगाही करने वाले तिहाड़ शिरोमणि भी नैतिक हो गए. दिलफरेब गायक और अभिनेता दिलजीत दोसांझ और सुधीर चौधरी के बीच शुरू हुई नैतिकता की होड़ में भारत के मीडिया…

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कुंदरकी उप-चुनाव: मतदान में आई अप्रत्याशित गिरावट ने बटोरी सुर्खियां

मुरादाबाद की मुस्लिम बहुसंख्यक कुंदरकी विधानसभा सीट के उपचुनाव में भाजपा की जीत एक दिलचस्प नतीजा है. यहां पार्टी के उम्मीदवार रामवीर ठाकुर ने 11 मुसलमान उम्मीदवारों को 1.2 लाख से ज्यादा मतों के अंतर से हराया है.

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Gujarat journalist gets anticipatory bail in another FIR for ‘cheating’

A Gujarat sessions court has granted anticipatory bail to The Hindu journalist Mahesh Langa in an FIR lodged against him by an ad agency owner for “cheating” him of Rs 28.68 lakh and threatening “with negative publicity using media influence”, Livelaw reported.

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