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Telegraph front page calls out EC ‘obfuscation’, ToI has NDA’s V-P pick as lead story

In a rare press conference on Sunday, the Election Commission of India sought to counter Rahul Gandhi’s charge of “vote fraud,” calling such language an insult to the Constitution. Flanked by his colleagues, Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar insisted that the poll body stood with voters and was above partisan…

Newslaundry · Aug 18, 2025

The swagger’s gone: What the last two decades taught me about India’s fading growth dream

Because something is happening here but you don't know what it is Do you, Mr. Jones?– Bob Dylan, Ballad of a Thin Man, Highway 61 Revisited, 1965. I was offered my first job in Mumbai on a very rainy day in September 2005, a few weeks after we had celebrated the…

Newslaundry · Aug 14, 2025

Inside Dharali’s disaster zone: The full story of destruction, ‘100 missing’, and official apathy

The flood in Dharali, Uttarkashi, is among the most devastating disasters to hit India in the past decade. On August 5, a sudden surge in the Khirganga river unleashed torrents of water, rocks, trees, and mud, destroying over 80 hotels, the local market, and a large stretch of the Gangotri…

Newslaundry · Aug 14, 2025

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Independence Day is a reminder to ask the questions EC isn’t answering

As the week leading up to India’s 79th Independence Day dawned, the condition of stray dogs in the country’s national capital made the top headlines following a ruling by the Supreme Court. While the fact of the highest court in the land addressing this issue is certainly unusual, one can…

Newslaundry · Aug 13, 2025

Dharali, 8 days on: Buried homes, ‘60 missing’, roads gone

Eight days after disaster struck, Dharali remains cut off. Road connectivity is still not restored, and according to locals, around 60 people are still missing – most of them labourers from Bihar, Jharkhand, and Nepal. Rescue work continues, but with no success in finding survivors or the dead. Only one…

Newslaundry · Aug 12, 2025

India’s opposition protests against electoral roll revision

Police briefly detain some lawmakers at the demonstration, including opposition leader Rahul Gandhi.

Al Jazeera · Aug 11, 2025

After Bihar’s SIR clean-up, some voters have dots as names. Will they press the EVM button too?

In Bihar’s Kaupa village in Rohtas district lives a family of dots.

Newslaundry · Aug 11, 2025

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India’s election body faces scrutiny as voter list anomalies prompt allegations of ‘vote theft’

Opposition leader accuses election commission of aiding Narendra Modi’s ruling party through mass voter deletion

The Independent UK · Aug 11, 2025

‘Phussi bomb’: Rahul Gandhi’s presser buried under TV studio spectacle

Spin over scrutiny. Ridicule over reportage.

Newslaundry · Aug 9, 2025

Exclusive: Bihar SIR rolls reveal 2,92,048 voters with house number ‘0’

As many as 2,92,048 voters in Bihar have their house number as ‘0’, ‘00’, and ‘000’, shows an analysis of Bihar’s draft voter list prepared after the controversial special intensive revision by the Election Commission of India. The draft rolls were published and uploaded on the ECI’s website on August…

Newslaundry · Aug 9, 2025

4 years, 170 collapses, 202 deaths: What’s ailing India’s bridges?

On a scorching June afternoon in Bihar, a tractor laden with maize approached what seemed like a sturdy three-span bridge in Saharsa district. Within moments, the structure crumbled beneath the vehicle’s weight. Just weeks later, 1,200 kilometres away in Gujarat, the Mujpur-Gambhira bridge in Vadodara claimed 20 lives when it…

Newslaundry · Jul 29, 2025

Ahead of Bihar polls: Nitish ups media pensions, BJP uses it to revive ‘sootr-mootr’ jibe

With Bihar elections around the corner, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has turned generous for journalists. On Saturday, he announced that the monthly pension for retired journalists would more than double, from Rs 6,000 to Rs Rs 15,000.

Newslaundry · Jul 26, 2025

Hafta letters: Air India crash, Bihar SIR, speaking slower

A node in the network

Newslaundry · Jul 26, 2025

India’s unregulated bidis harm workers, consumers

On a busy street near Patna’s Rajendra Path, 11-year-old Sanjay* watches his elder brother roll up tendu leaves stuffed with tobacco flakes. Within minutes, a fresh bundle of bidis is ready to be sold for one rupee (Re 1) to eager customers that have lined up outside his paan shop.…

Newslaundry · Jul 21, 2025

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Newslaundry · Jul 19, 2025

Reporters Without Orders Ep 377: Bihar voter roll revision, vandalism by Kanwariyas

This week, host Basant Kumar is joined by journalist Umesh Kumar Ray and Anmol Pritam.

Newslaundry · Jul 19, 2025

TV Newsance 306: Labubu, Love Jihad & Bihar’s lost voter list

This week on TV Newsance, Anjana was back on primetime, tackling the nation’s most urgent crisis – Labubu, a sharp-toothed Chinese toy, apparently more terrifying than inflation or unemployment. But fear not, because Labubu wasn’t alone. Her evil cousin Annabelle also made a cameo, and just to keep things educational,…

Newslaundry · Jul 17, 2025

‘Bihar voter roll revision unclear’: Ex-EC points at gaps in the exercise

On June 24, ECI announced that it will hold a special intensive revision of voter rolls in Bihar, which will require voters in Bihar to prove their citizenship, an eligibility criterion to be a voter in India under Section 23 of the Representation of People’s Act.

Newslaundry · Jul 16, 2025

Meet BJP’s ‘Bihar ke yuvaon ki aawaaz’: Misogynistic posts, vulgar remarks, ‘black magic’ claims

Last week, a man from Bihar was booked in three separate FIRs – for morphing Rahul Gandhi’s face onto a sanitary pad in a video mocking a Congress campaign to distribute pads across the state.

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Newslaundry · Jul 14, 2025

‘BLO used as scapegoat’: Ajit Anjum booked after video on Bihar voter roll revision gaps

An FIR has been registered against independent journalist Ajit Anjum in Bihar’s Begusarai district for allegedly spreading misinformation about the voter roll revision exercise in Bihar.

Newslaundry · Jul 14, 2025

Latest in Delhi’s ‘Bangladeshi’ crackdown: 8-month-old, 18-month-old among 6 detained

Six members of a family, including an eight-month-old, 18-month-old, and a 17-year-old, are the latest to be detained in the Delhi Police crackdown on illegal Bangladeshi and Rohingya migrants in the national capital.

Newslaundry · Jul 13, 2025

Bihar voter list revision: RJD leader Manoj Jha asks if ECI is a ‘facilitator’ or a ‘filter’

The controversy over the special intensive revision (SIR) process initiated by the Election Commission in Bihar has reached the Supreme Court. Responding to objections raised by the Opposition, the apex court issued several significant directions. Among them is the recommendation that documents such as Aadhaar cards, voter IDs, and ration…

Newslaundry · Jul 11, 2025

What Bihar voter roll row reveals about journalism and India

If you are a newspaper reader in India, you would not have missed the biggest story that has dominated news space at least in one major national newspaper. The Indian Express has led the way by doing a special series “What will NOT count in Bihar” by taking a close…

Al Jazeera · Jul 10, 2025

Why is India forcing 80 million people to justify their right to vote?

Amid raids targeting Muslims, an electoral roll revision in India’s poorest state has become a political flashpoint.

International Business Times · Jul 10, 2025

India Electoral Roll Revision Sparks Fear And Fury

Indian election officials have given voters in Bihar state just weeks to prove their citizenship, requiring documents few possess in a registration revamp set to be applied nationwide, triggering disenfranchisement fears.

The Independent UK · Jul 8, 2025

Fears new ID rules could deny millions right to vote in key Indian election

Voters must prove their citizenship by providing documents – but in rural Bihar, one of the poorest states in India, a lack of record-keeping could see millions taken off the electoral roll. Namita Singh reports

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